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Book SynopsisFirst published in English in 1995, with an introduction by Robin Kinross, this edition includes a foreword by Rich Hendel, who considers the contemporary thinking about Tschichold's life and work.Trade Review"Probably the most important work on typography and graphic design in the twentieth century." - Carl Zahn, The Museum of Fine Arts, Boston "If you're interested in design and typography, you should buy this book...it's still one of the best typographic how-to books we have." - Adobe Magazine "A comprehensive, practical handbook to guide the typographer.... The tone, here, is that of a master craftsman; practical and informative, it neither avoids detail nor loses sight of broad principles." - Times Literary Supplement "The book is as well worth reading today as it ever was.... Tschichold's lucid writing makes his words timeless." - Photography Annual "An essential text for understanding contemporary trends in visual communication." - Choice "Lucid, logical, impassioned, and challenging." - Journal of Graphic Design"Table of ContentsTranslator's Foreword--Ruari McLean Introduction to the English-Language Edition--Robin Kinross Foreword to the 2006 Edition--Richard Hendel The New Typography

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Book SynopsisThe articles of this comprehensive edited volume offer a multidisciplinary, global and comparative approach to the history of empires. They analyze their ends over a long spectrum of humankind’s history, ranging from Ancient History through Modern Times. As the main guiding question, every author of this volume scrutinizes the reasons for the decline, the erosion, and the implosion of individual empires.All contributions locate and highlight different factors that triggered or at least supported the ending or the implosion of empires. This overall question makes all the contributions to this volume comparable and allows to detect similarities, differences as well as inconsistencies of historical processes.Table of ContentsIntroductionDecline, Collapse, Fall, or just Transformation: Diverging Ends of Empires through Time and SpaceAntiquityDer Zusammenbruch des mesopotamischen Staates von AkkadeThe Decline of the Ur III dynasty – The End of an Empire and its Afterlife in the Collective Memory of Mesopotamian SocietiesThe Collapse of the Hittitie KingdomThe End of New Kingdom EgyptThe End of the Neo-Assyrian EmpireThe “End” of the Achaemenid-Persian Empire: Caesura and Transformation in DialogueThe End of the Roman Empire: Civil Wars, the Imperial Monarchy, and the End of AntiquityThe End of the Parthian Arsacid EmpireThe End of the Ērānšahar: The Decline of the Sasanian EmpireThe End of the Kushan EmpireIslam/Muslim WorldFrom Universalism to RegionalismThe Question of the Break-Up of the Abbasid Empire RevisitedThe End of the Mongol EmpireThe End of the Timurid EmpireAfrica, Asia, ChinaThe Decline and Collapse of the Kingdom of Aksum (6th-7th cent. AD): An Environmental Disaster or the End of a Political Process?What Role did Climate Change Play in the Decline of the Tang Dynasty?Thoughts about The Decentralization of the Mughal EmpireHow do Empires Fall? Two Case Studies from Pre-modern Southeast AsiaThe AmericasThe Decline and Fall of the Inca Empire The Downfall of Aztec Rule, 1519-21Middle Age and Modern HistoryThe Fall of the Napoleonic EmpireDas Ende des Spanischen KolonialreichesThe End of the Portuguese Colonial EmpireDas Ende des polnisch-litauischen Großreichs als DiskussionsfrageThe End of World War IStructural Problems, Personal Failure or just Contingency? The End of the Russian EmpireThe End of the German Empire 1918?The End of the Habsburg MonarchyThe Long Lasting End of the Ottoman EmpireThe End of World War II and the Cold WarDas Ende des faschistischen ImperiumsThe Rise and Fall of Hitler’s Empire (1933–1945)The End of the USSRA Never – Ending Empire? The Decline of the United KingdomAmerica’s Decline on Display: The Presidential Transition

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Book SynopsisTells the story of Christmas - from its pre-Christian roots, through the birth of Jesus, to the holiday's spread across Europe into the Americas and beyond, and to its mind-boggling transformation through modern consumerism. This book explores the historical origins of traditions including Santa, the reindeer, gift giving, and the Christmas tree.Trade Review"Colloquial, straightforward, and colorful... Forbes makes the details delicious." Historian Magazine "Wonderfully perceptive as well as entertaining." Santa Fe New MexicanTable of ContentsAcknowledgments Introduction 1. First There Was Winter 2. Christmas Comes Late 3. Christmas Is Like a Snowball 4. From Saint Nicholas to Santa Claus 5. And Then There Was Money 6. Wrestling with Christmas Notes Annotated Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisInvestigates the matters of state in late 19th and early 20th century Indonesia, particularly the critical role played by sexual arrangements and affective attachments in creating colonial categories and distinguishing the ruler from the ruled. This work argues that social classification is not a benign cultural act but a potent political one.Trade Review"Comprehensive, erudite, and compelling." * Journal of Modern History *Table of ContentsPreface to the 2010 Edition: Zones of the Intimate in Imperial Formations Acknowledgments Note on Illustrations 1. GENEALOGIES OF THE INTIMATE: MOVEMENTS IN COLONIAL STUDIES 2. RETHINKING COLONIAL CATEGORIES: EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES AND THE BOUNDARIES OF THE RULE 3. CARNAL KNOWLEDGE AND IMPERIAL POWER: GENDER AND MORALITY IN THE MAKING OF RACE 4. SEXUAL AFFRONTS AND RACIAL FRONTIERS: CULTURAL COMPETENCE AND THE DANGERS OF METISSAGE 5. A SENTIMENTAL EDUCATION: CHILDREN ON THE IMPERIAL DIVIDE 6. A COLONIAL READING OF FOUCAULT: BOURGEOIS BODIES AND RACIAL SELVES 7. MEMORY-WORK IN JAVA: A CAUTIONARY TALE EPILOGUE. CAVEATS ON COMFORT ZONES AND COMPARATIVE FRAMES Notes Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisFor many centuries, scholars and enthusiasts have been fascinated by Stonehenge, the world’s most famous stone circle. In 2003 a team of archaeologists commenced a long-term fieldwork project for the first time in decades. The Stonehenge Riverside Project (2003-2009) aimed to investigate the purpose of this unique prehistoric monument by considering it within its wider archaeological context.This is the second of four volumes which present the results of that campaign. It includes studies of the lithics from excavations, both from topsoil sampling and from excavated features, as well as of the petrography of the famous bluestones, as identified from chippings recovered during excavations. Other specialist syntheses are those of the land mollusca. The volume provides an overview of Stonehenge in its landscape over millennia from before the monument was built to the last of its five constructional stages. It concludes with a chapter placing Stonehenge in its full context within Britain and western Europe during the third millennium BC.With contributions by:Umberto Albarella, Michael Allen, Richard Bevins, Benjamin Chan, Robert Ixer, Claudia Minniti, Doug Mitcham and Sarah Viner-DanielsTable of ContentsLIST OF FIGURES LIST OF TABLES CONTRIBUTORS PREFACE ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS 1. Introduction M. Parker Pearson et al. 2. Lithic scatters in ploughsoil from the Stonehenge landscape D. Mitcham 3. Investigating traditions of stone working and inhabitation in the Stonehenge landscape: the lithics assemblages of the Stonehenge Riverside Project B. Chan 4. Petrography of bluestones and other lithics R. Ixer and R. Bevins 5. The lived-in landscape – environment, landscape and land-use: the land snail evidence M. Allen 6. Before Stonehenge M. Parker Pearson et al. 7. Stonehenge Stage 1 M. Parker Pearson et al. 8. Stonehenge Stage 2 M. Parker Pearson et al. 9. Stonehenge Stage 3 M. Parker Pearson et al. 10. Stonehenge Stages 4 and 5 M. Parker Pearson et al. 11. Stonehenge in its context M. Parker Pearson et al.

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Book SynopsisWhat makes a place? This title searches out the answer by examining the many layers of meaning in one place, the San Francisco Bay Area. It explores the area thematically - connecting, for example, Eadweard Muybridge's foundation of motion-picture technology with Alfred Hitchcock's filming of "Vertigo".Trade Review"A joyous book." San Francisco Chronicle "Inventive and affectionate." -- Lise Funderburg New York Times Book Review "This nicely designed book offers a collection of essays and subject specific maps anyone who loves San Francisco will enjoy poring over." -- Bob Walch Bookloons.com "Brilliantly disorients our native sense of place." -- Jonathon Keats San Francisco Magazine "This is an amazing and thought-provoking book." Geist "A richly textured graphic book that no electronic format can master yet, Infinite City features Rebecca Solnit as cultural and historical tour guide through the city she calls home." -- Bridget Kinsella Shelf Awareness "A fresh and intriguing spin on mapmaking." -- Elizabeth Ryan Utne "A thrilling new book." -- Nicole Gluckstern San Francisco Bay Guardian "A gorgeously produced collection of maps and essays." -- Nikil Saval Los Angeles Review Of Books "Breathtakingly original." San Francisco Bay Guardian "A treasure of intricate, intimate maps." -- Adam Hartzell SF360Table of ContentsIntroduction: On the Inexhaustibility of a City Map 1. The Names before the Names: The Indigenous Bay Area, 1769 "A Map the Size of the Land," by Lisa Conrad Map 2. Green Women: The Open Spaces and Some Who Saved Them "Great Women and Green Spaces," by Richard Walker Map 3. Cinema City: Muybridge Inventing Movies, Hitchcock Making Vertigo "The Eyes of the Gods," by Rebecca Solnit Map 4. Right Wing of the Dove: The Bay Area as Conservative/Military Brain Trust "The Sinews of War Are Boundless Money," by Rebecca Solnit Map 5. Monarchs and Queens: Butterfly Habitats and Queer Public Spaces "Full Spectrum," by Aaron Shurin Map 6. Truth to Power: Race and Justice in the City's Heart "The City's Tangled Heart," by Rebecca Solnit Map 7. Poison/Palate: The Bay Area in Your Body "What Doesn't Kill You Makes You Gourmet," by Rebecca Solnit Map 8. Shipyards and Sounds: The Black Bay Area since World War II "High Tide, Low Ebb," by Joshua Jelly-Schapiro Map 9. Fillmore: Promenading the Boulevard of Gone "Little Pieces of Many Wars," by Rebecca Solnit Map 10. Third Street Phantom Coast: A Map by Alison Pebworth Map 11. Graveyard Shift: The Lost Industrial City of 1960 and the Remnant 6 AM Bars The Smell of Ten Thousand Gallons of Mayonnaise and a Hundred Tons of Coffee, by Chris Carlsson Map 12. The Lost World: South of Market, 1960, before Redevelopment Piled Up, Scraped Away," by Rebecca Solnit Map 13. The Mission: North of Home, South of Safe "The Geography of the Unseen," by Adriana Camarena Map 14. Tribes of San Francisco: Their Comings and Goings "Who Washed Up on These Shores and Who the Tides Took Away," by Rebecca Solnit Map 15. Who Am I Where? 'Quien soy donde?: A Map of Contingent Identities "Who Am I Where? 'Quien soy donde?" by Rebecca Solnit and Guillermo Gomez-Pena Map 16. Death and Beauty: A Year of Murders, a Noble Species of Tree "Red Sinking, Green Soaring," by Summer Brenner Map 17. Four Hundred Years and Five Hundred Evictions in the City "Dwellers and Drifters in the Shaky City," by Heather Smith Map 18. The World in a Cup: Coffee Economies and Ecologies "How to Get to Ethiopia from Ocean Beach," by Rebecca Solnit Map 19. Phrenological San Francisco "City of Fourteen Bumps," by Paul La Farge Map 20. Dharma Wheels and Fish Ladders: Salmon Migrations, Soto Zen Arrivals "A Way Home," by Genine Lentine Map 21. Treasure Map: The Forty-Nine Jewels of San Francisco "From the Giant Camera Obscura to the Bayview Opera House," by Rebecca Solnit Map 22. Once and Future Waters:Nineteenth-Century Bodies of Water, Twenty-Second-Century Shorelines Acknowledgments Contributors

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Book SynopsisThis book examines the works of four contemporary first-generation Chinese migrant writer-artists in France: François CHENG, GAO Xingjian, DAI Sijie, and SHAN Sa. They were all born in China, moved to France in their adulthood to pursue their literary and artistic ambitions, and have enjoyed the highest French and Western institutional recognitions, from the Grand Prix de la Francophonie to the Nobel Prize in Literature. They have established themselves not only as writers, but also as translators, calligraphers, painters, playwrights, and filmmakers mainly in their host country. French has become their dominant—but not only—language of literary creation (except for Gao); yet, linguistic idioms, poetic imagery, and classical thought from Chinese cultural heritage permeate their French texts and visual artworks, reflecting a strong translingual and transmedial sensibility. The book provides not only distinctive literary and artistic examples beyond existing studies of intercultural encounter, French postcolonial, and Chinese diasporic enquiries; more importantly, it formulates a theoretical model that captures the creative dynamics between the French/francophone and Chinese/sinophone spaces of articulation, thereby contributing to contemporary debates about literary and artistic production, interpretation, and circulation in the global development of comparative/world literature, as well as intermediality studies.Trade Review“The book is overflowing with trendy concepts. … Li’s scintillating monograph is a must read for all those interested in a singular body of non-postcolonial, diasporic literature/ visual arts by a group of authors who straddle the Francophone and the Sinophone, yet stubbornly resist labels of any sort.” (Yunfei Bai, Recherche littéraire - Literary Research, Vol. 38, 2022)Table of ContentsChapter 1: Introduction.- Chapter 2: Diverse Forms of Travel and Translation in Franco-Chinese Fiction.- Chapter 3: Translingual Rewriting and Transhistorical Fabulation.- Chapter 4: Sinograph, Calligraphy, and Novelistic Aesthetics.- Chapter 5: Translational (Anti-)Storytelling and Transmedia Aesthetics.- Chapter 6: Conclusion.

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Book SynopsisZones of social abandonment are emerging everywhere in Brazil's big cities - places like Vita, where the unwanted, the mentally ill, the sick, and the homeless are left to die. This title centers on a young woman named Catarina, increasingly paralyzed and said to be mad, living out her time at Vita.Table of ContentsIntroduction: "Dead Alive, Dead Outside, Alive Inside" PART ONE. VITA A Zone of Social Abandonment Brazil Citizenship PART TWO. CATARINA AND THE ALPHABET The Life of the Mind A Society of Bodies Inequality Ex-Human The House and the Animal "Love is the illusion of the abandoned" Social Psychosis An Illness of Time God, Sex, and Agency PART THREE. THE MEDICAL ARCHIVE Public Psychiatry Her Life as a Typical Patient Democratization and the Right to Health Economic Change and Mental Suffering Medical Science End of a Life Voices Care and Exclusion Migration and Model Policies Women, Poverty, and Social Death "I am like this because of life" The Sense of Symptoms Pharmaceutical Being PART FOUR. THE FAMILY Ties Ataxia Her House Brothers Children, In-Laws, and the Ex-Husband Adoptive Parents "To want my body as a medication, my body" Everyday Violence PART FIVE. BIOLOGY AND ETHICS Pain Human Rights Value Systems Gene Expression and Social Abandonment Family Tree A Genetic Population A Lost Chance PART SIX. THE DICTIONARY "Underneath was this, which I do not attempt to name" Book I Book II Book III Book IV Book V Book VI Book VII Book VIII Book IX Book X Book XI Book XII Book XIII Book XIV Book XV Book XVI Book XVII Book XVIII Book XIX Conclusion: "A way to the words" Postscript: "I am part of the origins, not just of language, but of people" Afterword Return to Vita Acknowledgments Notes Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisThe information presented in this book will startle the world. For centuries, the authenticity of the Holy Shroud has been argued about. Skeptics push their negative opinion based on a few highly questionable clues, while the authenticists continue to detect new facts confirming that the Relic wrapped the corpse of Jesus Christ and that the body image impressed on it was produced by a source of energy generated during the Resurrection.What is world-changing is that to explain this "impossible image" of a tortured and crucified man, the book presents a startling new hypothesis, the "Divine Photograph" taken at the instant of the Resurrection, based on a phenomenon, the "Miracle of the Holy Fire" that manifests on every Holy Saturday at the Holy Sepulcher in Jerusalem. As this amazing relationship becomes more broadly known, the world will be shocked.Table of Contents1. The Miracle of the Holy Fire 2. Miracle of the Holy Fire, History and Religious Significance 3. Science Investigates the Holy Fire 4. The Holy Shroud and the Impossible Image 5. The Divine Photography 6. Conclusion

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Book SynopsisO perigo rondava sob as águas frias e cinzentas do Mar do Norte e as ondas azuis cintilantes do Atlântico tropical durante a Segunda Guerra Mundial, enquanto o Terceiro Reich de Adolf Hitler tentava estrangular as rotas de navegação aliadas com ataques de U-boat. Submarinos alemães e britânicos vasculharam o vasto campo de batalha oceânico em busca de presas, enquanto os cientistas desenvolviam novas tecnologias e contramedidas. A guerra submarina começou provisoriamente durante a Guerra Civil Americana (embora os Países Baixos e a Inglaterra tenham feito pequenos protótipos séculos antes, e o sargento americano Ezra Lee pilotou o Turtle sozinho em vão contra o HMS Eagle perto de Nova York em 1776). A invenção do torpedo pelo britânico Robert Whitehead introduziu a arma mais tarde usada com mais frequência por submarinos. Melhorias constantes no design de Whitehead levaram aos torpedos militares implantados contra a navegação durante as duas guerras mundiais. A Primeira Guerra Mundial testemunhou a Primeira Batalha do Atlântico, quando o Kaiserreich lançou seus U-boats contra a Inglaterra. Durante os 52,5 meses de guerra, os submarinos alemães enviaram grande parte da marinha mercante britânica para o fundo. Na verdade, a dependência alemã dos U-boats tanto na Primeira quanto na Segunda Guerra Mundial derivou em grande parte da geografia de seu país. Os alemães acabaram reconhecendo a primazia da Marinha Real e sua capacidade de bloquear a curta costa da Alemanha em caso de guerra. Embora os britânicos pudessem interditar facilmente os navios de superfície, os submarinos escaparam de suas ancoragens em Kiel ou Hamburgo sem serem vistos, podendo atacar os navios mercantes da Inglaterra. Durante a Primeira Guerra Mundial, os submarinos alemães operaram sozinhos, exceto em uma ocasião. Inicialmente, os britânicos e as nações que abasteciam a Inglaterra com alimentos e material espalharam navios isoladamente pelo oceano, tornando-os vulneráveis aos submarinos solitários. No entanto, a ampla retomada do sistema de comboio no final da guerra derrubou as probabilidades a favor dos navios de superfície, conforme descrito por um capitão de submarino: Os oceanos imediatamente ficaram vazios; por longos períodos de tempo, os U-boats, operando individualmente, não veriam absolutamente nada; e então, de repente, surgia uma enorme multidão de navios, trinta ou cinquenta ou mais deles, cercados por uma forte escolta de navios de guerra de todos os tipos. (Blair, 1996, 55). A Primeira Guerra Mundial provou o valor dos submarinos, garantindo seu emprego generalizado no próximo conflito. Além da Alemanha e da Grã-Bretanha, o Japão e os Estados Unidos também construíram extensas frotas de submarinos antes e / ou durante a guerra. Uma inovação crítica nas operações do submarino atlântico da Segunda Guerra Mundial consistia em táticas de matilha de lobos, nas quais o almirante Karl Dönitz confiava muito: Quanto maior o número de U-boats que pudessem ser trazidos simultaneamente para o ataque , os mais favoráveis seriam as oportunidades oferecidas a cada atacante individual. [...] era óbvio que, por motivos estratégicos e táticos gerais , os ataques a comboios devem ser realizados por uma série de U-boats que atuam em uníssono. (Dönitz, 1990, 4). No entanto, mesmo a matilha se mostrou insuficiente para derrotar os comboios do Atlântico e parar o comércio aliado - o oposto exato do teatro do Pacífico, onde as excelentes forças submarinas da América aniquilaram grande parte da marinha mercante do Japão e infligiram graves danos à Marinha Imperial Japonesa. Os submarinos exerceram um impacto decisivo no desfecho do Teatro do Pacífico na Segunda Guerra Mundial. A frota de submarinos dos Estados Unidos, em grande parte, embora não exclusivamente sob o comando geral do vice-almirante Charles Lockwood, ultrapassou as linhas de abastecimento e o tráfeg

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Book SynopsisTable of ContentsTranslators' Preface Introduction City Walls Capitoline Roman Forum Imperial Fora Palatine Valley of the Colosseum Esquiline Caelian Quirinal, Viminal, and the Via Lata Campus Martius Forum Holitorium, Forum Boarium, Circus Maximus, and the Baths of Caracalla Aventine, Trastevere, and the Vatican Via Appia Eastern Environs: Viae Latina, Praenestina, Labicana, Tiburtina Northern Environs: Viae Salaria, Nomentana, Flaminia, Cassia Western Environs: Viae Aurelia, Campana, Ostiensis Aquaducts Ostia Tivoli and the Tiburtine Territory The Alban Hills and Praeneste Appendix Bibliography Illustration Sources Index

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Book SynopsisRaising the Red Flag is a stirring exploration of the origins of the British Marxist movement, from the creation of the Social Democratic Federation to the foundation of the Communist Party.It tells a story of rising class struggle, the founding of the Labour Party, the fight against World War One, the Russian Revolution, and the explosive year of 1919.The book also uses new archival sources to re-examine Marxist organisations such as the British Socialist Party, the Socialist Labour Party, and Sylvia Parkhurst''s Workers'' Socialist Federation.Above all, this is the story of men and women who fought to liberate the working class from capitalism through socialist revolution.

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Book SynopsisAn eye-opening account of the Great Anthracite Coal Strike of 1902, showing how the strike—and the violent backlash that ensued—reveal the genesis of modern policing.In the early years of the twentieth century, in the coalfields of eastern Pennsylvania, nearly 150,000 miners took part in one of the most critical events in the history of US labor organizing. The brutal response by the state of Pennsylvania—as well as the federal government—inaugurated the structure and power of policing that we know today.In this gripping account of the Great Anthracite Coal Strike of 1902, scholar and activist David Correia takes readers through the story of the United Mine Workers of America, their struggle against systems of private policing—which were present in practically every industry in the US—and the development of public, professionalized, state-sanctioned, and state-serving police.The demands of their strike included shorter work days, higher wages, and safer conditions in the deadly mines. However, their labor was crucial to westward expansion, colonial occupations in the Caribbean and the Philippines, and many burgeoning industries in the US. To keep the fires of capitalism burning, industrialists prodded state and federal governments to intervene. Together, they established the first uniformed police force of its kind—a model soon emulated in other states.

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Book SynopsisA rich, salty, and steaming bowl of noodle soup, ramen Offers an account of geopolitics and industrialization in Japan. It traces the meteoric rise of ramen from humble fuel for the working poor to international icon of Japanese culture.Table of ContentsList of Illustrations Acknowledgments Introduction. National Food 1 1. Street Life: Chinese Noodles for Japanese Workers 2. Not an Easy Road: Black Market Ramen and the U.S. Occupation 3. Move On Up: Fuel for Rapid Growth 4. Like It Is, Like It Was: Rebranding Ramen 5. Flavor of the Month: American Ramen and "Cool Japan" Conclusion. Time Will Tell: A Food of Opposition Notes Works Cited Index

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Book SynopsisUsing a wealth of recently declassified files from the National Archives, oral histories, court cases, press reports, social science writings, and photographs, this book focuses on the relationship between the postwar and the postimperial.

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Book SynopsisThis alternative guidebook for one of the world's most popular tourist destinations explores all five boroughs to reveal a people's New York City. The sites and stories of A People's Guide to New York City shift our perception of what defines New York, placing the passion, determination, defeats, and victories of its people at the core. Delving into the histories of New York's five boroughs, you will encounter enslaved Africans in revolt, women marching for equality, workers on strike, musicians and performers claiming streets for their art, and neighbors organizing against landfills and industrial toxins and in support of affordable housing and public schools. The streetscapes that emerge from these groups' struggles bear the traces, and this book shows you where to look to find them. New York City is a preeminent global city, serving as the headquarters for hundreds of multinational firms and a world-renowned cultural hub for fashion, art, and music. It is among the most multTable of ContentsList of Maps INTRODUCTION 1 BRONX 1.1 Montefiore Hospital/Local 1199 Health and Hospital Workers Union | 1.2 The "Allerton Coops," Amalgamated Housing Cooperative, and Co-op City | 1.3 Arthur Avenue Retail Market | 1.4 Birthplace of Hip-Hop | 1.5 East Tremont | 1.6 Former Home of Richard Colón ("Crazy Legs") | 1.7 Charlotte Gardens/Mid-Bronx Desperadoes | 1.8 Former Home of Leon Trotsky | 1.9 Fania All-Stars at Yankee Stadium | 1.10 Hostos Community College | 1.11 Lincoln Hospital | 1.12 Dominicanos USA | 1.13 Casita Rincón Criollo | 1.14 Bronx Music Hall | 1.15 United Bronx Parents | 1.16 Hunts Point Terminal Food Distribution Center | 1.17 New York Expo Center/Former Site of the New York Organic Fertilizer Company Water 2 MANHATTAN 2.1 Sugar Hill | 2.2 City College–City University of New York | 2.3 Renaissance Ballroom and Casino | 2.4 Abyssinian Baptist Church | 2.5 Manhattanville Campus, Columbia University | 2.6 28th Precinct | 2.7 Hotel Theresa | 2.8 Mabel Hampton's Former Apartment | 2.9 Thomas Jefferson Pool | 2.10 Young Lords' Garbage Offensive | 2.11 Central Park | 2.12 San Juan Hill/Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts | 2.13 7th Regiment Armory | 2.14 Women's Strike for Equality | 2.15 ACT UP Protest at St. Patrick's Cathedral | 2.16 Broadway Unions at Times Square | 2.17 Play Pen | 2.18 Social Service Employees Union Local 371 | 2.19 Colored Orphan's Asylum/Draft Riots | 2.20 High Line Park | 2.21 Gay Men's Health Crisis | 2.22 Union Square Park | 2.23 Tammany Hall | 2.24 The Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender Community Center of NYC | 2.25 St. Vincent's Hospital | 2.26 Christopher Street Pier | 2.27 The Stonewall Inn | 2.28 Women's House of Detention/Jefferson Market Library and Garden | 2.29 The Cage | 2.30 Judson Memorial Church | 2.31 Triangle Shirtwaist Factory | 2.32 Emma Goldman's House | 2.33 Village East Cinema/Yiddish Rialto | 2.34 Astor Place Riot | 2.35 Cooper Union Great Hall | 2.36 Public Theater | 2.37 The Village Voice | 2.38 Third Street Men's Shelter | 2.39 Former Site of CBGB & OMFUG | 2.40 Liz Christy Bowery Houston Community Garden | 2.41 Tompkins Square Park | 2.42 CHARAS/El Bohio | 2.43 C-Squat (See Skwat) and Museum of Reclaimed Urban Space | 2.44 Nuyorican Poets Café  | 2.45 The Forward Building | 2.46 Henry Street Settlement | 2.47 Former Home of David Ruggles | 2.48 Collect Pond Park | 2.49 African Burial Ground | 2.50 Five Points/Columbus Park | 2.51 Former Site of Silver Palace Restaurant | 2.52 One Chase Manhattan Plaza | 2.53 Former Site of New York Slave Market | 2.54 Standard Oil Building | 2.55 National Museum of the American Indian (Fort Amsterdam) | 2.56 Battery Park/Castle Clinton | 2.57 Statue of Liberty New York City Islands 3 QUEENS 3.1 Steinway Piano Factory | 3.2 Queensbridge Houses | 3.3 Taxi Workers Alliance | 3.4 Former Site of 5Pointz: The Institute of Higher Burning | 3.5 Sunnyside Gardens | 3.6 Voice of Taiwan | 3.7 Julio Rivera Corner | 3.8 Louis Armstrong House | 3.9 Flushing Meadows Corona Park | 3.10 Flushing Friends Meeting House and John Bowne House | 3.11 Hindu Temple Society of North America (Ganesh Temple) | 3.12 Lesbian Avengers | 3.13 Store Front Museum | 3.14 Rochdale Village | 3.15 Howard Beach Riots | 3.16 Jamaica Bay Wildlife Refuge | 3.17 The People's Beach at Jacob Riis Park Public Transportation 4 BROOKLYN 4.1 Greenpoint Oil Spill | 4.2 Domino Sugar Factory | 4.3 Mayday Space and Brooklyn Commons; Starr Bar and Café  | 4.4 Brooklyn Bridge | 4.5 Plymouth Church | 4.6 Knights of Labor, District Assembly 75 | 4.7 Fulton Mall | 4.8 The 1964 School Boycott–Board of Education | 4.9 Atlantic Yards | 4.10 Shirley Chisholm's Presidential Launch at Concord Baptist Church of Christ | 4.11 Restoration Plaza | 4.12 Colored School No. 2/P.S. 68/83/243 | 4.13 Weeksville Heritage Center | 4.14 Junior High School 271 | 4.15 Brownsville Labor Lyceum | 4.16 Margaret Sanger's First Birth Control Clinic | 4.17 East New York Farms! | 4.18 Sunny's Bar | 4.19 Gowanus Canal | 4.20 Washington Park | 4.21 Park Slope Food Coop | 4.22 Lesbian Herstory Archives | 4.23 Crown Heights Tenant Union | 4.24 1991 Crown Heights Riots | 4.25 Brooklyn Metropolitan Detention Center | 4.26 Sunset Park | 4.27 Erasmus Hall High School | 4.28 Ebinger Baking Company Boycotts | 4.29 Kings Theatre | 4.30 Arab American Association of New York | 4.31 Mortgage Lending in Bay Ridge | 4.32 Master Theater | 4.33 Coney Island Bridges, Tunnels, and Expressways 5 STATEN ISLAND 5.1 Staten Island Ferry | 5.2 Tompkinsville Park | 5.3 Stapleton Carnegie Library | 5.4 Stapleton Union American Methodist Episcopal Church | 5.5 Verrazzano- Narrows Bridge | 5.6 Willowbrook State School | 5.7 Amazon Warehouse Walkout | 5.8 Freshkills Park | 5.9 Sandy Ground | 5.10 Spanish Camp/Former Site of Dorothy Day's Home | 5.11 Lenape Burial Ridge/Conference House Park 6 THEMATIC TOURS 323 Chinatowns Tour | Environmental Justice Tour | 7 Train Tour: Immigration in Queens | Wall Street: Capitalism and Protest Tour Recommended Reading Acknowledgments Credits Index

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Book SynopsisHow did Gettysburg become the most famous battle of the American Civil War and one of the most consequential in world history? Why is the most visited battlefield, the place where veterans came in the greatest numbers, where Presidents pay homage, and millions of families have vacationed? What was it about this three-day struggle in July 1863 in the rolling hills of Pennsylvania that made it seem the turning point of the war, or the high-water mark of the Confederate rebellion? Gettysburg explains the battle''s place in the Civil War, why two vast armies clashed there, and how, in the century and a half since, it has been re-imagined, re-created and re-enacted. It is the story of a battle which no one planned but which became the bloodiest encounter of the war, and one with dramatically high stakes. The postwar romanticisation of Gettysburg as the place of might-have-beens is based on a kernel of reality. But it also suited the interests of both the winners and the losers for Gettysburg to become the Civil War in miniature: a glorious, storied, tragic tale small enough to comprehend, but large enough to be inspirational. If this was the battle that determined the war, Confederates could tell themselves that if only they had made different tactical choices, they would have won their independence, while Northerners could credit valour for their victory, without the unromantic need to invoke superior resources. Yet there was only a war because of slavery, and Gettysburg''s importance lies in its role in ending it. In the speech Abraham Lincoln gave there, four months after the battle, he expressed the hope that Union victory would inaugurate a new birth of freedom. The history of the battle has been shaped by a contest over what that means.

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Book SynopsisPublished on the fiftieth anniversary of the founding of the Black Panther Party, this book features a new preface by the authors that places the Party in a contemporary political landscape, especially as it relates to Black Lives Matter and other struggles to fight police brutality against black communities.Trade Review"The book offers an opportunity to look to the past to understand contemporary police brutality and the kinds of strategies that emerge from movements against it. Another strength of Black Against Empire is the sheer volume of research that went into producing the book. The breadth and depth of the sources amassed to construct the history of the party are nothing short of impressive." -- Joyce M. Bell Social ForcesTable of ContentsList of Figures Preface to the 2016 Edition Introduction PART ONE. ORGANIZING RAGE 1 Huey and Bobby 2 Policing the Police PART TWO. BAPTISM IN BLOOD 3 The Correct Handling of a Revolution 4 Free Huey! 5 Martyrs 6 National Uprising PART THREE. RESILIENCE 7 Breakfast 8 Law and Order 9 41st and Central 10 Hampton and Clark 11 Bobby and Ericka PART FOUR. REVOLUTION HAS COME! 12 Black Studies and Third World Liberation 13 Vanguard of the New Left 14 International Alliance PART FIVE. CONCESSIONS AND UNRAVELING 15 Rupture 16 The Limits of Heroism Conclusion Notes Acknowledgments Index

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Book SynopsisOver 170 years, Pittsburgh rose from remote outpost to industrial powerhouse. With the formation of the United States, the frontier town located at the confluence of three rivers grew into the linchpin for trade and migration between established eastern cities and the growing settlements of the Ohio Valley. Resources, geography, innovation, and personalities led to successful glass, iron, and eventually steel operations. As Pittsburgh blossomed into one of the largest cities in the country and became a center of industry, it generated great wealth for industrial and banking leaders. But immigrants and African American migrants, who labored under insecure, poorly paid, and dangerous conditions, did not share in the rewards of growth. Pittsburgh Rising traces the lives of individuals and families who lived and worked in this early industrial city, jammed into unhealthy housing in overcrowded neighborhoods near the mills. Although workers organized labor unions to improve conditions and c

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Book SynopsisRichard Rodger is Emeritus Professor of Economic and Social History at the University of Edinburgh, Honorary Visiting Professor at the University of Leicester and a Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences. He has been a Cockburn Council Member and Trustee since 2010.Cliff Hague, OBE, is Emeritus Professor of Planning and Spatial Development at Heriot-Watt University and a Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences. He was Chair of the Cockburn Association 201623.DJ Johnston-Smith, PhD, is Director of Scotland's Churches Trust and was Assistant Director of the Cockburn Association 202022.Terry Levinthal has been the Director of the Cockburn Association since 2017 and was its Secretary 199299.

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Book SynopsisThe Sea in the Middle presents an original and revisionist narrative of the development of the medieval west from late antiquity to the dawn of modernity. This textbook is uniquely centered on the Mediterranean and emphasizes the role played by peoples and cultures of Africa, Asia, and Europe in an age when Christians, Muslims, and Jews of various denominations engaged with each other in both conflict and collaboration. Key features: Fifteen-chapter structure to aid classroom use Sections in each chapter that feature key artifacts relevant to chapter themesDynamic visuals, including 190 photos and 20 mapsThe Sea in the Middle and its sourcebook companion, Texts from the Middle, pair together to provide a framework and materials that guide students through this complex but essential historyone that will appeal to the diverse student bodies of today.Table of ContentsContents Preface Acknowledgments A Note on Conventions Introduction. The Mediterranean: Land, Sea, and People PART I. THE HELLENO-ISLAMIC MEDITERRANEAN (650–1050 CE): THE MAKING OF THE HELLENO-ISLAMIC MEDITERRANEAN 1 The Legacy of Empire The Age of Empires ARTIFACT: Negotiating Conquest: The Pact of ꞌUmar and the Treaty of Tudmir Faith and Power ARTIFACT: Images of Empire: Basil II, Otto III, and ꞌAbd al-Malik 2 Mediterranean Connections Conflict and Integration ARTIFACT: al-Qahira (Cairo): The Evolution of an Imperial Capital Connection and Exchange ARTIFACT: The Ribat-Funduq of Sousse (Susa): Military, Commercial, and Religious Infrastructure in the Islamic Mediterranean 3 Conversion and the Consolidation of Identities Muslim Conquest and Christian Conversion ARTIFACT: The Dome of the Rock in Jerusalem Byzantine Christianity and the Eastern Churches The Imperial Church under Siege ARTIFACT: The Church of Hagia Sophia (Holy Wisdom) in Constantinople The Latin Church in the West An Islamo-Judaic Mediterranean 4 Peoples of the Book Reading Their Books ARTIFACT: Wearing God’s Book in Medieval Egypt God’s Books Holy Books and Scholars Holy Books and Greco-Roman Thinking ARTIFACT: Medieval Readers: Greco-Roman Texts Interpretation, Unity, and Power ARTIFACT: Jewish Responsa and Muslim Fatwas PART II. AN AGE OF CONFLICT AND COLLABORATION (1050–1350 CE): THE MEDITERRANEAN FROM THE EDGES 5 Holy and Unholy War Pilgrims and Predators, ca. 1050–1150 ARTIFACT: Holy War The Contested Mediterranean, ca. 1150–1250 ARTIFACT: Venice’s St. Mark’s Square and the Plundering of the Past 6 A Connected Sea Conflict and Integration, ca. 1250–1350 ARTIFACT: Whose Art? Transregional Sensibilities and Itinerant Objects Mediterranean Connections, ca. 1050–1350 ARTIFACT: To the Sea in Ships Strategies and Structures, ca. 1050–1350 ARTIFACT: Mapping the Mediterranean and the World 7 Mediterranean Societies The Politics of Diversity ARTIFACT: The Many Faces of Roger II Complex Societies ARTIFACT: The Mosque and Hospital at Divriği Cosmopolitan Communities ARTIFACT: The Architecture of Power in the Iberian Peninsula 8 Reading Each Others’ Books Translators and Terrific Stories ARTIFACT: Alexander the Great in Latin, Hebrew, and Arabic Their Scripture, Our Language Talking Religion ARTIFACT: Interreligious Conversations, Real and Imagined 9 A Sea of Technology, Science, and Philosophy Technology ARTIFACT: Qanat and Noria Science ARTIFACT: The Seven Heavens Aristotle: The Master of All Who Know PART III. THE CONTEST FOR THE MEDITERRENEAN (1350–1650 CE): NEW EMPIRES, NEW SECTS, NEW WORLDS 10 Imperial Rivalry and Sectarian Strife The Rise of Frontier Empires, ca. 1350–1500 ARTIFACT: Papal Propaganda in Renaissance Rome The Duel of Empires and the Web of Alliances, ca. 1500–1650 ARTIFACT: Dueling Caesars: Representations of Ottoman and Habsburg Imperial Power 11 Minorities and Diasporas Toward Religious Uniformity in the Catholic Mediterranean ARTIFACT: The Lead Books of Granada Religious Pluralism in the Muslim Mediterranean ARTIFACT: Orthodox Monasteries and the Ottoman Empire Diasporas ARTIFACT: The Jewish Ghetto in Venice 326 12 Slavery and Captivity, 650–1650 Medieval Transformations of an Ancient Institution Life of the Enslaved ARTIFACT: The Ottoman Harem Captives and Ransoming ARTIFACT: Malta Transformed: The Impact of the Order of the Knights of St. John Slavery and Racism ARTIFACT: Black Africans in the Art of Western Mediterranean Christians 13 Mystical Messiahs and Converts, Humanists and Armorers Mediterranean Mystics ARTIFACT: El Greco: Painting the Mystical across the Mediterranean Mediterranean Messiahs ARTIFACT: Mediterranean Predictions of the End, 1450–1650 Converts Humanists and Philosophers, Scientists and Engineers ARTIFACT: Optics and Eyeglasses 14 Family, Gender, and Honor, ca. 650–1650 Honorable Families ARTIFACT: Marriage Issues in the Jewish Diaspora: The Case of the Ottoman Near East Women Inside, Women Outside ARTIFACT: Women and Inquisitors in the Early Modern Mediterranean Men and Violence 15 Mediterranean Economies and Societies in a Widening World Economy and Society after the Black Death ARTIFACT: The Venetian Arsenal and Venetian Galleys Economic and Social Problems in an Age of Empire The Mediterranean and the Atlantic ARTIFACT: Profit, Fear, and Fascination: Elizabethan England and the Muslim World Epilogue: Luís de Torres in Cuba, Ishmael in the South Pacific: A World Grown Larger, a Sea Grown Smaller? 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Book SynopsisDetailing the buildup of Back-of-Town businesses, lynchings in the early 1900s, and national and state legislation repressing Black progress, author Amy Lemco contextualizes the regional atmosphere Dr Gilbert Mason - a resilient civic leader, humanitarian, and lover of the water - and his family encountered in 1955.Trade ReviewThe courageous witness of Dr. Mason and those who worked with him deserves to be more widely known, and Lemco tells the story well." - Joseph Reiff, author of Born of Conviction: White Methodists and Mississippi’s Closed Society

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Book SynopsisThe armed conflict in the east of Ukraine brought about an emergence of a distinctive trend in contemporary Ukrainian poetry: the poetry of war. Directly and indirectly, the poems collected in this volume engage with the events and experiences of war, reflecting on the themes of alienation, loss, dislocation, and disability; as well as justice, heroism, courage, resilience, generosity, and forgiveness. In addressing these themes, the poems also raise questions about art, politics, citizenship, and moral responsibility. The anthology brings together some of the most compelling poetic voices from different regions of Ukraine. Young and old, female and male, somber and ironic, tragic and playful, filled with extraordinary terror and ordinary human delights, the voices recreate the human sounds of war in its tragic complexity.Trade ReviewFeatured in the TLS (June 22 2018)"Maksymchuk and Rosochinsky note in their introduction that poetry has often been used in the service of political power.""...Through their collection, they "sought to patch together the pieces of this disintegrating world".""The kind of poetry included in these collections is the antithesis of propaganda; these poetic dialogues are a valuable reminder that there is nothing immutable about Russian-Ukrainian enmity." "The words and images create an impression of a shimmering landscape that keeps shifting and changing. It is these moments that move us most – the moments when things no longer make sense, but are about to start making sense again. Meanings change, old words acquire new connotations, language itself wrings out of the usual course and meanders. In principle, there is nothing strange about language evolving to describe the changing reality. What’s uncanny is how quickly this happens. It’s like watching a blossom burst out of a bud, open and close rapidly a dozen of times, wilt away, and disappear, all in a matter of seconds. War puts language change in fast-forward." - Poetry International Online“These are poems in which the spirit of creative imagination, free expression, emotional clarity, and ethical courage reigns supreme.” – Stephanie Sandler, Harvard UniversityTable of Contents Preface Oksana Maksymchuk and Max Rosochinsky Introduction: “Barometers” Ilya Kaminsky ANASTASIA AFANASIEVA she says we don’t have the right kind of basement in our building You whose inner void from Cold She Speaks On TV the news showed from The Plain Sense of Things Untitled Can there be poetry after VASYL HOLOBORODKO No Return I Fly Away in the Shape of a Dandelion Seed The Dragon Hillforts I Pick up my Footprints BORYS HUMENYUK Our platoon commander is a strange fellow These seagulls over the battlefield When HAIL rocket launchers are firing Not a poem in forty days An old mulberry tree near Mariupol When you clean your weapon A Testament YURI IZDRYK Darkness Invisible Make Love ALEKSANDR KABANOV This is a post on Facebook, and this, a block post in the East How I love — out of harm’s way A Former Dictator He came first wearing a t-shirt inscribed “Je suis Christ” In the garden of Gethsemane on the Dnieper river A Russian tourist is on vacation Fear is a form of the good Once upon a time, a Jew says to his prisoner, his Hellenic foe KATERYNA KALYTKO They won’t compose any songs, because the children of their children April 6 This loneliness could have a name, an Esther or a Miriam Home is still possible there, where they hang laundry out to dry He Writes Can great things happen to ordinary people? LYUDMYLA KHERSONSKA Did you know that if you hide under a blanket and pull it over your head How to describe a human other than he’s alone The whole soldier doesn’t suffer A country in the shape of a puddle, on the map Buried in a human neck, a bullet looks like a eye, sewn in that’s it: you yourself choose how you live I planted a camellia in the yard One night, a humanitarian convoy arrived in her dream When a country of — overall — nice people Leave me alone, I’m crying. I’m crying, let me be the enemy never ends every seventh child of ten — he’s a shame you really don’t remember Grandpa — but let’s say you do BORIS KHERSONSKY explosions are the new normal, you grow used to them all for the battlefront which doesn’t really exist people carry explosives around the city way too long the artillery and the tanks stayed silent in their hangars when wars are over we just collapse modern warfare is too large for the streets my brother brought war to our crippled home Bessarabia, Galicia, 1913–1939 Pronouncements MARIANNA KIYANOVSKA I believed before in a tent like in a nest we swallowed an air like earth I wake up, sigh, and head off to war The eye, a bulb that maps its own bed Their tissue is coarse, like veins in a petal Things swell closed. It’s delicious to feel how fully Naked agony begets a poison of poisons HALYNA KRUK A Woman Named Hope like a blood clot, something catches him in the rye someone stands between you and death like a bullet, the Lord saves those who save themselves OKSANA LUTSYSHYNA eastern europe is a pit of death and decaying plums don’t touch live flesh he asks — don’t help me I Dream of Explosions VASYL MAKHNO February Elegy War Generation On War On Apollinaire MARJANA SAVKA We wrote poems Forgive me, darling, I’m not a fighter january pulled him apart OSTAP SLYVYNSKY Lovers on a Bicycle Lieutenant Alina 1918 Kicking the Ball in the Dark Story (2) Latifa A Scene from 2014 Orpheus LYUBA YAKIMCHUK Died of Old Age How I Killed Caterpillar Decomposition He Says Everything Will Be Fine Eyebrows Funeral Services Crow, Wheels Knife SERHIY ZHADAN from Stones“We speak of the cities we lived in . . .” “Now we remember: janitors and the night-sellers of bread . . .” from Why I’m not on Social MediaNeedleHeadphonesSectRhinocerosThey buried him last winter Three Years Now We’ve Been Talking about the War“A guy I know volunteered . . .”“Three years now we’ve been talking about the war . . .” “So that’s what their family is like now . . .” “Sun, terrace, lots of green . . .”“The street. A woman zigzags the street . . .” “Village street – gas line’s broken . . .”“At least now, my friend says . . .” Thirty-Two Days Without Alcohol Take Only What Is Most Important A city where she ended up hiding Afterword: “On Decomposition and Rotten Plums: Language of War in Contemporary Ukrainian Poetry” Polina Barskova Authors Translators Glossary Geographical Locations and Places of Significance Notes to Poems Acknowledgements Acknowledgement of Prior Publications

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Book SynopsisEvery academic discipline has an origin story complicit with white supremacy. Racial hierarchy and colonialism structured the very foundations of most disciplines' research and teaching paradigms. In the early twentieth century, the academy faced rising opposition and correction, evident in the intervention of scholars including W. E. B. Du Bois, Zora Neale Hurston, Carter G. Woodson, and others. By the mid-twentieth century, education itself became a center in the struggle for social justice. Scholars mounted insurgent efforts to discredit some of the most odious intellectual defenses of white supremacy in academia, but the disciplines and their keepers remained unwilling to interrogate many of the racist foundations of their fields, instead embracing a framework of racial colorblindness as their default position. This book challenges scholars and students to see race again. Examining the racial histories and colorblindness in fields as diverse as social psychology, the law, musicoTrade Review"Edited by some of the leading race studies scholars—Kimberlé Williams Crenshaw, Luke Charles Harris, Daniel Martinez HoSang, and George Lipsitz—this collection of essays clearly outlines how the history of contemporary knowledge production and scholarship has a foundation in racially biased disciplinary frameworks, research methodologies, and pedagogical strategies. . . . these essays serve as a guide for all academics." * CHOICE *Table of ContentsPreface and Acknowledgments: Praying to the Disciplinary Gods with One Eye OpenKimberlé Williams Crenshaw, Luke Charles Harris, Daniel Martinez HoSang, and George Lipsitz 1 • IntroductionKimberlé Williams Crenshaw, Luke Charles Harris, Daniel Martinez HoSang, and George Lipsitz PART ONE : MASKS 2 • The Sounds of Silence: How Race Neutrality Preserves White SupremacyGeorge Lipsitz 3 • Unmasking Colorblindness in the Law: Lessons from the Formation of Critical Race TheoryKimberlé Williams Crenshaw 4 • Masking Legitimized Racism: Indigeneity, Colorblindness, and the Sociology of RaceDwanna L. McKay 5 • On the Transportability, Malleability, and Longevity of Colorblindness: Reproducing White Supremacy in Brazil and South AfricaMarzia Milazzo 6 • How Colorblindness Flourished in the Age of ObamaKimberlé Williams Crenshaw PART TWO : MOVES 7 • The Possessive Investment in Classical Music: Confronting Legacies of White Supremacy in U.S. Schools and Departments of MusicLoren Kajikawa 8 • Powerblind Intersectionality: Feminist Revanchism and Inclusion as a One-Way StreetBarbara Tomlinson 9 • Colorblind IntersectionalityDevon W. Carbado 10 • Causality, Context, and Colorblindness: Equal Educational Opportunity and the Politics of Racist DisavowalLeah N. Gordon 11 • Affirmative Action as Equalizing Opportunity: Challenging the Myth of “Preferential Treatment”Luke Charles Harris and Uma Narayan PART THREE : RESISTANCE AND TRANSFORMATION 12 • They (Color) Blinded Me with Science: Counteracting Coloniality of Knowledge in Hegemonic PsychologyGlenn Adams and Phia S. Salter 13 • Toward a New Research Agenda? Foucault, Whiteness, and Indigenous SovereigntyAileen Moreton-Robinson 14 • Why Black Lives Matter in the HumanitiesFelice Blake 15 • Negotiating Privileged Students’ Affective Resistances: Why a Pedagogy of Emotional Engagement Is NecessaryPaula Ioanide 16 • Shifting Frames: Pedagogical Interventions in Colorblind Teaching PracticeMilton Reynolds List of Contributors Index

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Book SynopsisHuang Chin-tao was born in 1926, when Taiwan was still part of the Japanese Empire. By the time he died in 2019, Taiwan was a bustling, high-tech democracy--and Huang had lived through every twist and turn along the way. He served as a Japanese soldier in China during World War II; joined an armed uprising against Taiwan''s Chinese Nationalist post-war government; spent twenty-four years imprisoned during the island''s decades of martial law; and finally emerged to help lead the pro-democracy movement of the 1980s in his hometown, Taichung. Drawing upon archives, memoirs, interviews and more, Anna Beth Keim tells the story of Taiwan through the journey of one extraordinary individual. From his childhood scuffling with Japanese children to his transformation into a ''democracy farmer'', Huang''s life vividly reflects contemporary Taiwanese history, and continues to inspire young Taiwanese today who are fighting to keep their home independent. Over roughly a century, the island transitioned from an imperial outpost to an authoritarian state to a democracy--one still at risk of being snuffed out by China. This story is uniquely Taiwanese, yet illuminates experiences shared by countries everywhere: of colonisation and its aftermath, and the ongoing struggle to be free.

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Book SynopsisTrade Review"A gem of a book. . . . Powell, who wears his learning as lightly as seersucker . . . is always sensitive to the Greek, and brings it across into clear, natural English, at the pitch-perfect register for the solemn or the ludic hymn." * Spectator *"An impressive volume that we think lovers of poetry and of classical antiquity will appreciate." * Coffee with the Poets *"This is a useful volume for the study of ancient Greek culture and, with its wealth of mythological and geographical lore, could be an illuminating companion to a tour of Greek sites and museums." * Religious Studies Review *Table of ContentsList of Illustrations List of Maps Introduction Meter and Performance Annotation; the Spelling of Ancient Names and Places; Greek Texts The Homeric Hymns The Hymns of Callimachus The Orphic Hymns The Hymns of Proclus 1. Zeus Homeric Hymn 23: To Zeus Callimachus Hymn 1: To Zeus Orphic Hymn 15: To Zeus Orphic Hymn 19: To Zeus the Thunderbolt Orphic Hymn 20: To Astrapaios Zeus 2. Hera Homeric Hymn 12: To Hera Orphic Hymn 16: To Hera 3. Poseidon Homeric Hymn 22: To Poseidon Orphic Hymn 17: To Poseidon 4. Athena Homeric Hymn 11: To Athena Homeric Hymn 28: To Athena Callimachus Hymn 5: To Athena; On the Baths of Pallas Orphic Hymn 32: To Athena Proclus Hymn 7: To Wise Athena 5. Demeter, Persephone, and Hades Homeric Hymn 2: To Demeter Homeric Hymn 13: To Demeter Callimachus Hymn 6: To Demeter Orphic Hymn 40: To Eleusinian Demeter Orphic Hymn 41: To Mother Antaia Orphic Hymn 29: To Persephone Orphic Hymn 18: To Plouton 6. Aphrodite Homeric Hymn 5: To Aphrodite Homeric Hymn 6: To Aphrodite Homeric Hymn 10: To Aphrodite Orphic Hymn 55: To Aphrodite Proclus Hymn 2: To Aphrodite Proclus Hymn 5: To the Lycian Aphrodite 7. Hephaistos Homeric Hymn 20: To Hephaistos Orphic Hymn 66: To Hephaistos 8. Apollo and the Muses Homeric Hymn 3: To Apollo Homeric Hymn 21: To Apollo Homeric Hymn 25: To The Muses and Apollo Callimachus Hymn 2: To Apollo Callimachus Hymn 4: To Delos Orphic Hymn 34: To Apollo Orphic Hymn 35: To Leto Orphic Hymn 76: To the Muses Proclus Hymn 3: To the Muses 9. Artemis Homeric Hymn 9: To Artemis Homeric Hymn 27: To Artemis Callimachus Hymn 3: To Artemis Orphic Hymn 36: To Artemis 10. Hermes and Pan Homeric Hymn 4: To Hermes Homeric Hymn 18: To Hermes Orphic Hymn 28: To Hermes Orphic Hymn 57: To Chthonic Hermes Homeric Hymn 19: To Pan Orphic Hymn 11: To Pan 11. Dionysos Homeric Hymn 1: To Dionysos Homeric Hymn 7: To Dionysos Homeric Hymn 26: To Dionysos Orphic Hymn 30: To Dionysos Orphic Hymn 45: To Dionysos Bassareus and Triennial Orphic Hymn 46: To Dionysos Liknites Orphic Hymn 47: To Dionysos Perikonios Orphic Hymn 50: To Dionysos Lysios Lenaios Orphic Hymn 52: To Dionysos, God of the Triennial Feasts Orphic Hymn 53: To Dionysos, God of Annual Feasts Orphic Hymn 44: To Semelê 12. Ares Homeric Hymn 8: To Ares Orphic Hymn 65: To Ares 13. Hestia Homeric Hymn 24: To Hestia Homeric Hymn 29: To Hestia Orphic Hymn 84: To Hestia 14. Sun, Moon, Earth, Hekatê, and All the Gods Homeric Hymns 31 and 32: To the Sun and the Moon Orphic Hymn 8: To the Sun Orphic Hymn 9: To the Moon Proclus Hymn 1: To Helios Homeric Hymn 30: To Earth Mother of All Orphic Hymn 26: To Earth Orphic Hymn 1: To Hekatê Proclus Hymn 6: To the Mother of the Gods, Hekatê, and Janus/Zeus Proclus Hymn 4: To All the Gods Bibliography Glossary/Index

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Book SynopsisThe Roman town of Falerii Novi was founded after Rome defeated the Faliscans in 241BC, and features widely in modern discussions of Roman expansion in Italy, with its town walls and defences often illustrated in accounts of architecture. Its site is now largely farmland, with the only buildings within the Roman walls being a Medieval church and associated structures, now used as a farm. The site attracted attention of 19th century antiquarians and was explored in limited excavations during the later 20th century, but its history and development remains only partially understood. In the late 1990s it was the subject of one of the first large-scale geophysical surveys completed in Italy using magnetometry. The publication of that work in 2000 formed the basis for an historical and archaeological interpretation that has subsequently been widely debated. The present volume results from a second innovative large-scale survey which deployed Ground-Penetrating Radar. This book presents the spectacular results of that work combined with evidence from the earlier magnetometry and integrated with information from excavation and past finds. The resulting account provides a full and new discussion of the town and its topographical and historical development, placed in the broader setting of Roman Italy. It includes a new interpretation of the early history of the town, discussions of the evidence of the major buildings as well as a series of accounts of spatial patterning within the city. As well as providing the first comprehensive synthesis of this important Roman town, the book shows how evidence from geophysical surveys can form the basis for new approaches to the understanding of Roman urbanism.

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Book SynopsisThis publication presents the excavations at Rathgall, Rath East, Co. Wicklow, conducted by Barry Raftery, retired Professor of Celtic Archaeology at University College Dublin. Raftery published aspects of the site, primarily in the 1970s (Raftery 1970a; 1970b; 1971; 1972; 1973; 1975; 1976; 2004; Raftery and Henderson 1987), and was working on a comprehensive account but fell ill and passed away before he could finalize the publication or integrate the results of the specialist analysis. The present volume aims to present his work and to integrate it with these new data, augmented and expanded in a final phase of post-excavation analysis conducted between 2010 and 2013.Raftery?s voice is conserved in this as much as possible. In places, editorial comments add new information or clarifications. In other sections, his draft text is presented and juxtaposed with the discussion of alternative scenarios that emerged in the recent phase of post-excavation work. In fact, significant parts of the post-excavation analysis were finalized as part of this last phase of the publication project, including the finalization and integration of site drawings and photographsRaftery?s discussion of aspects of the site is presented as topical discussions where draft text was present in the archive. He also left a list of questions or ?points to ponder?, and it is hoped that the work done as part of this project will provide answers to some of these.

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Book SynopsisReading African art's impact on modernism as an international phenomenon, The Black Art Renaissance tracks a series of twentieth-century engagements with canonical African sculpture by European, African American, and sub-Saharan African artists and theorists. Notwithstanding its occurrence during the benighted colonial period, the Paris avant-garde discovery of African sculptureknown then as art nègre, or black arteventually came to affect nascent Afro-modernisms, whose artists and critics commandeered visual and rhetorical uses of the same sculptural canon and the same term. Within this trajectory, black art evolved as a framework for asserting control over appropriative practices introduced by Europeans, and it helped forge alliances by redefining concepts of humanism, race, and civilization. From the Fauves and Picasso to the Harlem Renaissance, and from the work of South African artist Ernest Mancoba to the imagery of Negritude and the École de Dakar, African sculpture's influence proved transcontinental in scope and significance. Through this extensively researched study, Joshua I. Cohen argues that art history's alleged centers and margins must be conceived as interconnected and mutually informing. The Black Art Renaissance reveals just how much modern art has owed to African art on a global scale.Table of ContentsPrologue Acknowledgments Note on Terms Introduction 1. Rethinking Fauve “Primitivism” 2. Picasso’s African Infl uences 3. Harlem Renaissance and Diaspora 4. Mancoba between Paradigms 5. Art Nègre and the École de Dakar Epilogue: Was Picasso “Black”? Archive Abbreviations Notes Selected Bibliography List of Illustrations Index

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Book SynopsisMonarchs, no less than their subjects, want to impress their guests. This book is about gardens as one aspect of creating favourable impressions soft power in particular through the royal gardens of England in Tudor and Stuart times. It addresses the backdrop of palaces, parks and gardens that were unspoken statements of authority and cultural achievement that gave status and credibility to the country's representatives.Garden history from this perspective has been neglected hitherto; neither have the royal gardens been assessed as a collection in which monarchs favoured chosen sites for indulging their stylistic passions. Research on their forms and designs have in the past been accumulated piecemeal, without any sense of overview.This book contains a new analysis enabled by gathering information from numerous archaeological investigations, historic texts and the available visual material, together with extensive original research in the National Archives and elsewhere. Reconstruction drawings flesh out the narrative in the early years when maps, drawings and prints were so very scarce and are reproduced alongside the available material and the more abundant prints and paintings as the Stuart era draws to a close.Radical new understandings of the medieval garden in England serve as the starting point for a fresh narrative of the history of internationally significant English gardens in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. It will be of interest to architectural, garden design, social and political historians of the period and to a wide readership of those fascinated by how statecraft, foreign influences, and native innovation interwove for two centuries in our royal gardens and parks.

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