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Book SynopsisShedding light on the innovative uses of participatory mapping emerging from Latin America's marginalized communities, this diverse collection reconceptualizes what maps mean as representations of identity and place.Trade Review[Radical Cartographies] succeeds magnificently...The stories are direct, clear, and well-translated, unfloriated by intellectual language...Community participatory mapping in the global South was first brought to wider academic attention in the 1990s. The 'decolonialised cartographies' in this book develop the vision: they demonstrate the authenticity of local authorship, the cultural authority, and the political framing. They deserve an attentive audience. * Society & Natural Resources *A highly welcomed volume…[Radical Cartographies] addresses participatory mapmaking as a means to preserve and strengthen indigenous knowledge about their past and present by reflecting on their landscapes, ancestral memories as well as ritual and agricultural practices...the book is a lesson on how others relate and interact with the world in a sustainable way by bridging space and time. * Anthropos *This book’s work is a model of how community-based mobilizations can be connected with university spheres and how they can work together to lead necessary research that creates both scholarly and social, political, ethically-engaged contributions to complex issues on the ground...Those who guide each mapping project and share their rich and original insights with us are often under very direct threat. Their risks they face emphasize that consent and control over the research process and outcomes are crucial at every step. This book is a resounding affirmation of those principles and a real beacon for radical participatory mapmaking projects for social justice throughout the world. * Antipode *Timely and necessary...These case studies demonstrate across different countries and communities the intractable and interdependent problems of human rights and environmental rights. This is why [Radical Cartographies] seems so responsive to our moment. While the book is written to explain the maps and the work done there, it seems impossible to not respond from a place of empathy or outrage. Sletto’s work and the work of his colleagues demonstrate that critical scholarship can offer public benefit on these issues, if we are willing to pay attention—for our own landscapes, for marginalized peoples, or indeed for the earth as a whole. * Society & Space *[Radical Cartographies] contains seminal research on how native and Afro-descendant peoples view and understand their geographic condition in several Latin American countries, a topic that remains underresearched in this region. Accordingly, this volume aims to fill this lacuna by providing critical analysis of how locals view their geographies. For the uninitiated, each of the 11 chapters provides unique perspectives of marginalized peoples' conceptual understanding of space. Complemented by several mostly black-and-white photos and maps, as well as a rich bibliography, this publication is a must read. * CHOICE *Several of the volume’s authors are from the communities they write about while others are engaged intellectuals who have worked with the communities for years or decades...[Radical Cartographies] contains abundant samples of maps and photographs from each community mapping project…radical cartography repudiates the authoritarian practice since the colonial period of 'disappearing' indigenous and Black communities from maps. * Journal of Latin American Geography *The case studies [included in Radical Cartographies] showcase a rich variety of Indigenous and Afro-descendant practices that link together cartography and oral traditions and histories via the complex meanings embedded in landscape...each case study becomes a statement of sovereignty for each polity or community represented as they both document that territory in maps and use the maps to negotiate a relationship with the state that is founded in dispossession. * Journal of Latin American and Caribbean Anthropology *Table of Contents Introduction: Radical Social Cartographies (Bjørn Sletto) Part I 1. Oral Narratives in the Rincón Zapoteco: A Cartography of Processes (Melquiades (Kiado) Cruz) 2. Social Polygraphy: Territory as a Living Memorial to Culture and Nature (Álvaro César Velasco Álvarez) 3. Emulating Kuyujani: Boundary Making in the Caura River Basin, Venezuela (Nalúa Rosa Silva Monterrey) Part II 4. Revealing Territorial Illusions and Political Fictions through Participatory Cartography (Wendy Pineda) 5. Mapuche Cartography: Defending Ixofillmogen (Pablo Mansilla Quiñones and Miguel Melin Pehuen) 6. The Ethnocartography of Sumak Allpa: The Kichwa Indigenous Community of Pastaza, Ecuador (Alfredo Vitery and Alexandra Lamiña) 7. Social Cartography and Territorial Planning in Robles, Colombia (Carlos Alberto González) Part III 8. New Social Cartography and Ethnographic Practice (Alfredo Wagner Berno de Almeida) 9. Social Cartography and the Struggle for Multiethnic, Urban Indigenous Lands: The Case of the Beija-Flor Aldeia in Rio Preto da Eva, Brazil (Emmanuel de Almeida Farias Júnior) 10. Participatory Cultural Mapping in Nvwken, Mapuce Territory, Argentina: Exploring Other Forms of Territorial Representation (María Laura Nahuel) 11. Political Appropriation of Social Cartography in Defense of Quilombola Territories in Alcântara, Maranhão, Brazil (Davi Pereira Júnior) Commentary: What Sort of Territory? What Sort of Map? (Joe Bryan) Afterword (Charles R. Hale) Contributors Index

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Book SynopsisOne of the most fascinating books on pre-Columbian and early colonial Peru was written by a Peruvian Indian named Felipe Guaman Poma de Ayala. This book, The First New Chronicle and Good Government, covers pre-Inca times, various aspects of Inca culture, the Spanish conquest, and colonial times up to around 1615 when the manuscript was finished. Now housed in the Royal Library, Copenhagen, Denmark, and viewable online at www.kb.dk/permalink/2006/poma/info/en/frontpage.htm, the original manuscript has 1,189 pages accompanied by 398 full-page drawings that constitute the most accurate graphic depiction of Inca and colonial Peruvian material culture ever done. Working from the original manuscript and consulting with fellow Quechua- and Spanish-language experts, Roland Hamilton here provides the most complete and authoritative English translation of approximately the first third of The First New Chronicle and Good Government. The sections included in this volume (pages 1369 of the manuscript) cover the history of Peru from the earliest times and the lives of each of the Inca rulers and their wives, as well as a wealth of information about ordinances, age grades, the calendar, idols, sorcerers, burials, punishments, jails, songs, palaces, roads, storage houses, and government officials. One hundred forty-six of Guaman Poma's detailed illustrations amplify the text.Table of Contents Foreword by Serafín M. Coronel-Molina Introduction by Roland Hamilton Notes on the Translation and Organization The First New Chronicle Letter to the Holy Trinity Letter to the pope Letter to the king of Spain, attributed to Guaman Poma's father Letter from Guaman Poma to the king Prologue to the Christian reader The beginnings of this chronicle Chapter of the Ages of the World First age of the world, of Adam and Eve Second age of the world, from the ark of Noah Third Age of the world, from Abraham Fourth Age of the world, from King David Fifth Age of the world, from the birth of Christ Papal Rome Discovery of the Indies Chapter of the Ages of the Indians Vari Viracocha Runa Vari Runa Purun Runa Auca Runa The Incas Tocay Capac, the first Inca The second coat of arms Manco Capac Inca Cinche Roca Jesus Christ Miracles of God by the Apostle Saint Bartholomew The third Inca, Lloque Yupanqui Inca The fourth Inca, Mayta Capac The fifth Inca, Capac Yupanqui Inca The sixth Inca, Inca Roca, and his son The seventh Inca, Yahuar Huacac Inca The eighth Inca, Viracocha Inca The ninth Inca, Pachacuti Inca Yupanqui The tenth Inca, Topa Inca Yupanqui The eleventh Inca, Huayna Capac The twelfth Inca, Huascar Inca The Queens The first coya The second coya, Chimbo Urma The third coya, Mama Cora Ocllo The fourth coya, Chimbo Mama Yachi Urma The fifth coya, Chimbo Mama Caua The sixth coya, Cuci Chimbo Mama Micay The seventh coya, Ipa Huaco Mama Machi The eighth coya, Mama Yunto Cayan The ninth coya, Mama Ana Uarque The tenth coya, Mama Ocllo The eleventh coya, Raua Ocllo The twelfth coya, Chuqui Llanto Prologue to the female readers The Captains The first captain, son of Manco Capac The second captain, Topa Amaro Inca The third captain, Cuci Uanan Chire Inca The fourth captain, Apo Mayta Inca, and Vilcac Inca The fifth captain, Auqui Topa Inca Yupanqui The sixth captain, Otoronco The seventh captain, Inca Mayta, [and] Inca Urcon The eighth captain, Apo Camac Inca The ninth captain, Inca Urcon The tenth captain, Chalcochima Inca The eleventh captain, Rumiñaui The twelfth captain, Capac Apo Guaman Chaua The thirteenth captain, Capac Apo Ninarua The fourteenth captain, Mallco Castilla Pari The fifteenth captain, Mallco Mullo The Ladies The first lady, Capac Huarmi Poma Hualca The second lady, Capac Mallquima The third lady, Capac Umita Llama The fourth lady, Mallco Huarmi Timtama Captains paid by Your Majesty Ordinances of the Inca The First General Inspection The first age division The second age division The third age division The fourth age division The fifth age division The sixth age division The seventh age division The eighth age division The ninth age division The tenth age division The first inspection of the ten groups of women The first age division The second age division The third age division The fourth age division The fifth age division The sixth age division The seventh age division The eighth age division The ninth age division The tenth age division First Chapter of the Years [and] Months of the Incas The first month, January, Capac Raymi, Camay Quilla February, Paucar Uaray, Hatun Pucuy March, Pacha Pucuy April, Inca Raymi May, Aymoray Quilla June, Cusqui Quilla July, Chacra Cunacuy August, Chacra Yapuy Quilla September, Coya Raymi October, Uma Raymi Quilla November, Ayamarcay Quilla December, Capac Inti Raymi End of the months Chapter of the Idols Idols and huacas of the Inca Idols and huacas of Chinchaysuyo Idols and huacas of Antisuyo Idols and huacas of Collasuyo Idols and huacas of Cuzco Chapter of the Common Sorcerers High priests, conde uisa Sorcerers who suck Evil omens Curses that they use among themselves Processions, fasts, penitence, and sacrifices Chosen women Burials Burial of the Inca Burial in the Chinchaysuyo quarter Burial in the Antisuyo quarter How the people of Collasuyo quarter were buried How the people of Condesuyo were buried How burials were done by the Indians of the yunca The Nuns First Chapter of Justice The first punishment of this kingdom The second punishment The third punishment The fourth punishment The fifth punishment First Chapter of the Celebrations Easter-like celebrations and dances Music Celebration of the Incas Celebration of the people of Chinchaysuyo quarter Celebration of the people of Antisuyo quarter Celebration of the people of the Collasuyo quarter Celebration of the people of the Condesuyo quarter The Inca Royal palaces The Inca On the Inca Storehouses It was approved that there was no tribute Administrative Officials Most excellent lord viceroy Official of the court, judge Major constable Official, tocricoc, judge, michoc Administrator Runners, hatun chasque, churo mullo chasque Men who mark boundaries Capac ñan uamanin [royal road officials] Governor of the bridges of this kingdom Secretaries of the Incas and their royal council Accountant and treasurer Inspector and judge The royal council of this kingdom Prologue to the Spanish Christian reader Notes Glossary Works Cited Index

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Book SynopsisToby Beauchamp positions surveillance as central to the understanding of transgender politics to show how contemporary security practices extend into everyday gendered lives.Trade Review"[Going Stealth] accomplishes the best of what we imagine theory to be good for—making sense of our everyday experiences, grounding personal interactions with the state in histories of structural oppression, and illuminating the broader context of our banal negotiations between dignity, resilience, convenience, resistance, politics-inpractice, and privilege. . . . Going Stealth is a helpful contribution to multiple literatures, and it demonstrates the ways in which robust interdisciplinarity also requires solidarity in scholarship." -- Lyndsey P. Beutin * Society & Space *"For academics and those with the wherewithal to struggle through it there's a great deal of intellectual value to be found in a book such as this." -- Hans Rollmann * PopMatters *“Going Stealth is … topical and urgent, delving into contemporary hot-button issues of gendered bathrooms and TSA screening practices.” -- Elise Morrison * TDR: The Drama Review *"Going Stealth is written into scholarship that moves transgender studies beyond concentration on identity. Moreover, it is a significant contribution to research at the juncture between gender, sexuality, race, disability and surveillance studies. Going Stealth should appeal to any scholar in cultural studies, sociology and border studies." -- Iwo Nord * European Journal of Women's Studies *"Going Stealth is an enjoyable read, offering timely reflection on security, conformity, fear, citizenship, and difference in our turbulent times." -- Sara L. Crawley * Gender & Society *"Going Stealth will be useful for expanding on and bringing together the works of transgender studies and cultural studies, in particular appealing to sexuality scholars in general. This book will be of interest to those who are interested in the intersections between visibility, security, gender deviance, dis/ability, race, gender, class, sexuality, and nation/citizenship." -- Kerry Scroggie, Amanda Brown & Esther Rothblum * Journal of Homosexuality *“Beauchamp’s Going Stealth is a careful meshwork of historical and political analysis, attentive to the problems of existing critical frames.” -- Tony Wei Ling * Catalyst *“Toby Beauchamp’s Going Stealth is a much-needed analysis into practices of state surveillance and its impact on the regulation of gender in the United States.... Going Stealth asks the reader to question not only notions of visibility but also the very desire of recognition itself.” -- Sy Simms * TSQ *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments vii Introduction. Suspicious Visibility 1 1. Deceptive Documents 24 2. Flying under the Radar 50 3. Bathrooms, Borders, and Biometrics 79 4. Sensitive Information in the Manning Case 107 Conclusion. On Endurance 131 Notes 141 Bibliography 173 Index 185

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Book SynopsisIn The Williamsburg Avant-Garde Cisco Bradley chronicles the rise and fall of the underground music and art scene in the Williamsburg neighborhood of Brooklyn between the late 1980s and the early 2010s. Drawing on interviews, archival collections, musical recordings, videos, photos, and other ephemera, Bradley explores the scene’s social, cultural, and economic dynamics. Building on the neighborhood’s punk DIY approach and aesthetic, Williamsburg''s free jazz, postpunk, and noise musicians and groups---from Mary Halvorson, Zs, and Nate Wooley to Matana Roberts, Peter Evans, and Darius Jones---produced shows in a variety of unlicensed venues as well as in clubs and cafes. At the same time, pirate radio station free103point9 and music festivals made Williamsburg an epicenter of New York’s experimental culture. In 2005, New York’s rezoning act devastated the community as gentrification displaced its participants farther afield in Brooklyn and in Queens. WithTrade Review"The Williamsburg Avant-Garde is the most comprehensive study to date of one of the most important music scenes of the past 30-plus years." -- Dave Mandl * The Wire *"Well-researched. . . . Drawing on these first-hand accounts as well as on his access to the personal archives of some of the artists involved, Bradley provides a lively account of the neighborhood’s vital experimental music movement from its underground beginnings in various squats and abandoned industrial sites to its eventual dissolution in the face of rising rents and gentrification." -- Daniel Barbiero * Point of Departure *"One of the most important strengths of The Williamsburg Avant-Garde is that it elaborates with equal care, regardless of idiom or generation, on the intentions, ideas and aesthetic strategies of the highly diverse range of artists who could find a platform there. . . . What makes Bradley’s archeology at the same time so urgently contemporary is that so many of the artists covered are alive and active right now, even if a good number of them may still be underground." -- Patrick Brennan * Arteidolia *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments ix Introduction. Locating the Williamsburg Avant-Garde 1 Part I. Utopian Spaces for Sound 1. The Emergence of the Williamsburg Scene: Warehouses, Squatter Parties, and Punk Roots, 1988–1994 21 2. Pirate Radio and Jumping the River: The Williamsburg Loft Scene, 1997–2004 55 3. Art Galleries, Clubs, and Bohemian Cafés: The Williamsburg DIY, 2001–2006 100 Part II. Commercial DIY and the Last Underground Venues 4. A Point of Confluence: The Downtown Scene Comes to Zebulon, 2004–2006 145 5. A New Generation Emerges: Zebulon, 2005–2012 189 6. A Fractured Landscape: The Last Avant-Garde Music Spaces of Williamsburg, 2005–2014 228 Afterword. Art, Experiment, and Capital 263 Notes 271 Art Sources for the Williamsburg Avant-Garde 335 Bibliography 343 Index 367

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Book SynopsisTodd Carmody explores how the idea that work is inherently meaningful was reinforced and tasked to those who lived on the margins and needed assistance during nineteenth-century America.Trade Review"Work Requirements is a creative, persuasive, and well-crafted analysis of the representational labor undergirding our “work society”. It is essential reading for anyone seeking to contest this mode of social organization." -- Karen M. Tani * International Journal of Social History *Table of ContentsIntroduction. Signs Taken for Work 1 1. The Pensioner’s Claim 33 2. The Beggar’s Case 74 3. The Work of the Image 119 4. Institutional Rhythms 172 Coda. Remaking Reciprocity 214 Acknowledgments 221 Notes 225 Bibliography 289 Index 315

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Book SynopsisOver the past twenty years, Chinese novelist Yan Lianke has emerged as one of the most important writers in the world. In Discovering Fiction, Yan offers insights into his views on literature and realism, the major works that inspired him, and his theories of writing. He juxtaposes discussions of the high realism of Leo Tolstoy and Lu Xun against Franz Kafka’s modernism and Gabriel García Márquez’s magical realism, charting the relationship between causality, truth, and modes of realism. He also discusses his approach to realism, which he terms “mythorealism”—a way of capturing the world’s underlying truth by relying on the allegories, myths, legends, and dreamscapes that emerge from daily life. Revealing and instructive, Discovering Fiction gives readers an unprecedented look into the mind and art of a literary giant.Trade Review"Yan’s commentaries on the realist canon emerging over the last several hundred years are consistently insightful and often strikingly illuminating, as in his assessments of how the strongest writers, from Defoe to Turgenev and beyond, have continually shifted readers’ understanding of what counts as reality. . . . A sometimes dense but always discerning consideration of how truth emerges across an impressive array of global literature." * Kirkus Reviews *"A thought-provoking look at the state of literature, and how it came to pass." * Publishers Weekly *Table of ContentsTranslator's Introduction. Creating Reality and Surpassing Realism / Carlos Rojas ix 1. Realism's Four Levels of Truth 1 2. Zero Causality 35 3. Full Causality 51 4. Partial Causality 59 5. Inner Causality 83 6. Mythorealism 99 Appendix: Chinese Authors and Works 125 Notes 129 Bibliography 133 Index 137

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Book SynopsisDrawing from archives and cultural productions from the United States, the Caribbean, and Europe, Lorgia García Peña considers Black Latinidad in a global perspective in order to chart colonialism as an ongoing sociopolitical force.Trade Review"García Peña offers an innovative way of thinking about Latinidad and Blackness … Translating Blackness offers significant contributions to the field of Latina/o studies." -- Annaliese Martinez * Latino Studies *"García Peña pushes the reader to consider sites that lie outside the common migratory routes of Black Latinx individuals. Bringing together the fields of Black and Latinx studies, García Peña ... offers a transnational conceptualization of Black Latinidad that goes beyond its academic theorization in the U.S. context." -- Shreya Parikh * Lateral *Table of ContentsNote on Terminology ix Acknowledgments xi Introduction: Race, Colonialism, and Migration in the Global Latinx Diaspora 1 Part I. On Being Black and Citizen: Latinx Colonial Vaivenes 1. A Full Stature of Humanity: Latinx Difference, Colonial Musings, and Black Belonging during Reconstruction 29 2. Arthur Schomburg’s Haiti: Diaspora Archives and the Epistemology of Black Latinidad 79 Part II. Black Feminist Contradictions in Latinx Diasporas 3. Against Death: Black Latina Rebellion in Diasporic Community 113 4. The Afterlife of Colonial Gender Violence: Black Immigrant Women’s Life and Death in Postcolonial Italy 153 5. Second Generation Interruptions: Archives of Black Belonging in Postcolonial Diaspora 193 Conclusion: Confronting Global Anti-immigrant Antiblackness 233 Notes 241 Bibliography 279 Index 303

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Book SynopsisCarol Vernallis examines short form audiovisual mediafrom TikTok mashups to Beyoncé's Lemonadeto offer techniques for understanding digital media.Table of ContentsAcknowledgments xi A Note on the Cover xiii Introduction 1 I. Post-Classical Cinema at the Limit 1. Partying in The Great Gatsby: Baz Luhrmann’s Audovisual Sublime 27 2. Shattered Pleasures: Michael Bay’s Transformers: Age of Extinction 48 II. Music Video and the Art-Video Border 3. Beyoncé’s Overwhelming Opus; or, the Past and Future of Music Video 71 4. Avant-Gardists and the Lure of Pop Music 97 5. Beyoncé’s Lemonade: She Dreams in Both Worlds (Carol Vernallis, Lisa Perrot, and Holly Rogers) 122 6. Tracing the Carters through the Galleries: “APES**T/APESHIT” and the Louvre 138 7. Storytelling on the Ledge: Lady Gaga and Jonas Åkerlund’s “Paparazzi” 154 III. Music Video’s Late Late Style 8. How to Analyze Music Videos: Beyoncé and Melina Matsoukas’s “Pretty Hurts” 175 9. Dave Meyer’s Moments of Audiovisual Bliss 196 10. Janelle Monáe’s “You Make Me Feel” and Anderson.Paak with Kendrick Lamar’s “Tints”: Getting Up in My [Rearview] Mirror 211 IV. Audiovisual Aesthetics Online 11. Who Needs Music Documentaries When There’s TikTok and Carpool Karaoke? 231 12. TikTok and Costume-Drama Mashups on YouTube 247 V. New Modes of Analysis: Industry 13. The Art of Color Grading (Carol Vernallis, Jonathan Leal, Eric Weldt, and Aubrey Woodiwiss) 265 14. Music Video Directors, Production Houses, and the Media Swirl 290 VI. New Modes of Analysis: Neuroscience 15. Music Video’s Multisensory 307 16. Tracing the Asset: Humanistic and Quantitative Approaches to Cybercrime Film Trailers (Snowden and Bourne) 319 VII. New Modes of Analysis: Politics and Vernacular Culture 17. New Technologies, Social Justice, and the Future in Beyoncé’s Audiovisual Albums 335 18. Fox News, COVID-19, Brief Media Aesthetics, and Historical Resonances 356 Afterword 369 Notes 373 Bibliography 403 Index 429

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Book SynopsisLiza Taylor examines how U.S. women of color feminists' coalitional collective politics of the 1960s, 70s, and 80s is an indispensable resource to contemporary political theory, feminist studies, and intersectional social justice activism.Trade Review"This well-written and clearly organized book challenges the reader to explore effective activism over time with directions for the future. Thus, the book would be ideal for undergraduate and graduate courses in sociology, women’s studies, and criminal justice that include contemporary political theory, feminist studies, and intersectional social justice. The 'call to action' structure of the book creates a platform for the facilitator to really engage the student in the option of taking an actual step to make change within the current politically diverse arena. Exercises such as this makes the book unique within this discipline and a must have within the classroom." -- Shauntey James * Ethnic and Racial Studies *"Taylor is a feminist political theorist who offers sophisticated arguments about philosophical principles and feminist practices together with an accessible discussion of core texts from women of color. She writes for multidisciplinary feminist readers already familiar with classics such as position papers from the Combahee River Collective and essays by Audre Lorde but does so with sufficient attention to explaining these and other arguments from the rich field of feminist theorizing. Students just becoming aware of this area of study will get a vibrant introduction, and more knowledgeable readers will find this an innovative and helpful approach. . . . Highly recommended. General readers through faculty; professionals." -- M. M. Ferree * Choice *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments ix Introduction 1 1. From Rosa Luxemburg to the Combahee River Collective: Spontaneous Coalition as a Precursor to Intersectional Marxism and Politico-Ethical Coalition Politics 33 2. Women of Color Feminism and Politico-Ethical Coalition Politics: Recentering the Politics of Coalition with Reagon, Smith, Combahee, and Lorde 67 3. Coalition from the Inside Out: Struggling toward Coalitional Identity and Developing a Coalitional Consciousness with Lode, Anzaldúa, Sandoval, and Pratt 106 4. Writing Feminist Theory, Doing Feminist Politics: Rethinking Collective Feminist Authorship with This Bridge Called My Back 150 5. The Women's March on Washington and Politico-Ethical Coalitional Opportunities in the Age of Trump 189 Conclusion: Lessons for Contemporary and Future Feminist Activists 225 Notes 249 References 259 Index 277

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Book SynopsisIn Death’s Futurity Sampada Aranke examines the importance of representations of death to Black liberation. Aranke analyzes posters, photographs, journalism, and films that focus on the murders of Black Panther Party members Lil’ Bobby Hutton, Fred Hampton, and George Jackson to construct a visual history of the 1960s and 1970s Black Power era. She shows how Black radicals used these murders to engage in political action that imagined Black futurity from the position of death. Photographs of Hutton that appeared on flyers and posters called attention to the condition of his death while the 1971 documentary The Murder of Fred Hampton enabled the consideration of Hampton’s afterlife through visual meditations on his murder. Printmaking and political posters surrounding Jackson’s murder marked the transition from Black Power to the prison abolition movement in ways that highlighted the relationship between surveillance, policing, incarceration, and anTrade Review"The author’s close readings of the role of visual artifacts in generating consciousness, agency, and a sense of futurity about a better future in their audiences is both compelling and original, and her engaging prose makes it a pleasure to read." -- Simon Stow * European Journal of American Studies *"Aranke provides a lyrical and materially nuanced account of how the Black Panther Party for Self-Defense mobilized a range of visual media, objects, and tactics. . . . In the process, Aranke not only reorients our understanding of 'the political' in art of the 1960s, but also puts tremendous pressure on art-historical conceits such as 'the curatorial,' which in the Panthers’ hands does not mean protecting priceless artworks within neoliberal institutions, but rather involves preserving the bloodstained objects left in [Fred] Hampton’s apartment in order to make visible the anti-Black violence that enables the coherence of American 'civil society" and the ongoing expansion of the carceral state undergirding it." * Artforum *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments vii Introduction. The Visual Life of Black Power 1 1. “1,000 Bobby Huttons” 21 2. Fred Hampton and the Political Life of Objects 53 3. George Jackson’s Murder and Fugitive Imaginaries 90 Epilogue. The United States of Attica 135 Notes 147 Bibliography 171 Index 181

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Book SynopsisIn The Briny South Nienke Boer examines the legal and literary narratives of enslaved, indentured, and imprisoned individuals crossing the Indian Ocean to analyze the formation of racialized identities in the imperial world. Drawing on court records, ledgers, pamphlets, censors’ reports, newsletters, folk songs, memoirs, and South African and South Asian works of fiction and autobiography, Boer theorizes the role of sentiment and the depiction of emotions in the construction of identities of displaced peoples across the Indian Ocean. From Dutch East India Company rule in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries to early apartheid South Africa, Boer shows how colonial powers and settler states mediated and manipulated subaltern expressions of emotion as a way to silence racialized subjects and portray them as inarticulately suffering. In this way, sentiment operated in favor of the powerful rather than as an oppositional weapon of the subaltern. By tracing the entwinement oTrade Review"One of the work’s great strengths is its ability to articulate how the context and sources for the Indian Ocean differ from those of the Atlantic world, especially for enslavement and indenture. Enslavement in the Indian Ocean world produced a legal archive unlike that of the Atlantic Ocean, allowing Boer to ask and answer questions about enslaved life that could not be posed in the Atlantic. This has the dual effect of bringing into relief what is unique about each while simultaneously helping to bring Atlantic world scholars into the world of the Indian Ocean." -- Jared Asser * Emotions: History, Culture, Society *"A keen sense of form enables [Boer] to plot a course through a vast array of legal and literary texts that span centuries and include court rulings, legal complaints, testimonies, and political pamphlets alongside poetry, folk songs, fiction, and memoirs. It is no small feat to weave together an archive as expansive and complex as the Indian Ocean itself, and Boer manages to do so with striking clarity and precision. ... The Briny South offers a new paradigm for scholars and readers of Indian Ocean literature, histories of enslavement, indenture, internment, inter-imperialism, or South African apartheid." -- Tyler Scott Ball * ISLE *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments ix Introduction. Enslaved, Indentured, Interned 1 1. Representing Speech in Bondage in the Court Records of the Dutch Cabo de Goede Hoop, 1652–1795 17 2. Silencing the Enslaved: The Aesthetics of Abolitionism in the British Cape Colony, 1795–1834 48 3. “Grievances More Sentimental than Material”: Representing Indentured Labor in Natal, 1860–1915 82 4. A Sentimental Education in Boer War Imprisonment Camps in South Asia, 1899–1902 109 5. Sentiment and the Law in Early South African Indian Writing, 1893–1960 132 Coda. No Human Footprints 154 Notes 161 Bibliography 187 Index 205

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Book SynopsisIn How to Lose the Hounds Celeste Winston explores marronage—the practice of flight from and placemaking beyond slavery—as a guide to police abolition. She examines historically Black maroon communities in the Maryland suburbs of Washington, DC, that have been subjected to violent excesses of police power from slavery until the present day. Tracing the long and ongoing historical geography of Black freedom struggles in the face of anti-Black police violence in these communities, Winston shows how marronage provides critical lessons for reimagining public safety and community well-being. These freedom struggles take place in what Winston calls maroon geographies—sites of flight from slavery and the spaces of freedom produced in multigenerational Black communities. Maroon geographies constitute part of a Black placemaking tradition that asserts life-affirming forms of community. Winston contends that maroon geographies operate as a central method of Black flight,Trade Review“Through Celeste Winston’s examination of early Black communities from the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries as well as her study of late modern Black communities in the twentieth century, we learn vital lessons about the value of marronage for our understandings of slavery, resistance, liberation, freedom, race, capitalism, and geography. Imagining Black futures beyond slavery and a world without the police, Winston offers a wonderful treatise that will reverberate throughout geography, Black studies, American studies, history, political theory, and decolonial politics. How to Lose the Hounds is an absolutely marvelous book and a magnificent achievement!” -- Neil Roberts, author of * Freedom as Marronage *“With its rich account of marronage in Montgomery County, Maryland, and beyond, Celeste Winston’s How to Lose the Hounds is a brilliant addition to the study of black flight, geographic transformations, and abolition. How to Lose the Hounds both succeeds as a rigorous study of maroon geographies, maroon justice and other maroon tactics and, importantly, insists that a careful understanding of ‘radical Black praxis of community’ is essential to the work toward police abolition.” -- Simone Browne, author of * Dark Matters: On the Surveillance of Blackness *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments ix Prologue xiii Introduction 1 1. Maroon Folklore as an Abolition Technology 21 2. The Fugitive Infrastructure of Maroon Geographies 37 3. Maroon Justice 65 4. Community beyond Policing 87 5. Maroon Geographies and the Paradox of Abolition Policy 109 Epilogue: Abolition Future Folklore 129 Notes 133 References 139 Index 159

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Book SynopsisReimagines how race, ethnicity, imperialism, and colonialism can be central to social science researchand methodsThere is a growing consensus that the discipline of sociology and the social sciences broadly need to engage more thoroughly with the legacy and the present day of colonialism, Indigenous/settler colonialism, imperialism, and racial capitalism in the United States and globally. In Disciplinary Futures, a cross-section of scholars comes together to engage sociology and the social sciences by way of these paradigms, particularly from the influence of disciplines of American, Ethnic, and Indigenous Studies. With original essays from scholars such as Y?n Lê Espiritu, Sunaina Maira, Hokulani K. Aikau, Salvador Vidal-Ortiz, Ben Carrington, Yvonne Sherwood, and Gilda L. Ochoa, among others, Disciplinary Futures offers concrete pathways for how the social sciences can expand from the limiting frameworks they traditionally use to study race and racism, namely: the black-white binarTrade ReviewThe margins of sociology are at once its cutting edge. There we find innovative scholarship remaking the discipline through critical engagements with American, cultural, ethnic, gender and women's, Indigenous, postcolonial, and queer studies. A stocktaking and agenda-setting book, Disciplinary Futures brings empire, racial capitalism, settler colonialism, queer of color critique, white supremacy, and intersectionality from the periphery to the core of our concern. May sociology take heed. * Moon-Kie Jung, author of Beneath the Surface of White Supremacy: Denaturalizing U.S. Racisms Past and Present *Much lip service is paid to the significance of engaging in inter- and multidisciplinary research, but surprisingly little or no attention is given to why it is important and how to do it. These issues are central to this volume. A diverse and stellar group of scholars illustrate how the discipline of sociology can be rethought, enriched, and expanded through a deep engagement with other disciplines. Their scholarship reveals the necessity for sociology to revitalize and reinvent itself in order to fully comprehend the positionality, experiences, and voices of racialized and marginalized groups. * Michael Omi, co-author of Racial Formation in the United States *This is a powerful collection that challenges sociologists to confront the epistemic violence that undergirds their discipline. It challenges race-neutral and nation-bound analysis of the experiences of people of color as it calls for a critical sociology that acknowledges the injuries of racism, settler-colonialism, and imperialism in everyday experiences. This is a must-read for anyone committed to dismantling inequality. * Rhacel Salazar Parreñas, author of Servants of Globalization: Migration and Domestic Work *The important essays in this exciting interdisciplinary volume bring valuable insights from studies of race and immigration, disability, gender and sexuality, and Indigeneity to bear upon research and methods in sociology and the social sciences.” * Lisa Lowe, author of The Intimacies of Four Continents *

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Book SynopsisUncovers what Christian seminaries taught about Islam in their formative years Throughout the nineteenth century, Islam appeared regularly in the curricula of American Protestant seminaries. Islam was not only the focus of Christian missions, but was studied as part of the history of the Church as well as in the new field of comparative religions. Moreover, Arabic was taught as a cognate biblical language to help students better understand biblical Hebrew. Passages from the Qur'an were sometimes read as part of language instruction. Christian seminaries were themselves new institutions in the nineteenth century. Though Islam had already been present in the Americas since the beginning of the slave trade, it was only in the nineteenth century that the American public became more aware of Islam and had increasing contact with Muslims. It was during this period that extensive trade with the Ottoman empire emerged and more feasible travel opportunities to the Middle East became available due to the development of the steamship. Providing an in-depth look at the information about Islam that was available in seminaries throughout the nineteenth century, Muhammad in the Seminary examines what Protestant seminaries were teaching about this tradition in the formative years of pastoral education. In charting how American Christian leaders' ideas about Islam were shaped by their seminary experiences, this volume offers new insight into American religious history and the study of Christian-Muslim relations.

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Book SynopsisWritten over a period of more than two decades, Colour Matters is a collection of essays that shows how race informs the aspirational pursuits of Black youth in the Greater Toronto Area.Table of ContentsForeword D. Alissa Trotz Introduction: Exploring the Social and Educational Experiences of Black Canadian Youth Over Time 1. Historical and Social Context of the Schooling and Education of African Canadians Response: Complicating Gender and Racial Identities within the Study of Educational History Funke Aladejebi 2. Generational Differences in Black Students’ School Performance Response: It’s the Same with Black British Caribbean Pupils Shirley Anne Tate 3. “To make a better future”: Narrative of a 1.5 Generation Caribbean-Canadian Response: Using Gender to Think Through Migration, Love, and Student Success Amoaba Gooden 4. Students “at risk”: Stereotypes and the Schooling of Black Boys Response: Black Lives Matter in the USA and Canada Joyce E. King 5. More than Brains and Hard Work: The Aspirations and Career Trajectories of Two Young Black Men Response: What Folks Don’t Get: Race and Class Matter Annette M. Henry 6. Class, Race, and Schooling in the Performance of Black Male Athleticism Response: Basketball’s Black Creative Labour and the Mitigation of Anti-Black Schooling Mark V. Campbell 7. Troubling Role Models: Seeing Racialization in the Discourse Relating to “Corrective Agents” for Black Males Response: Black Role Models and Mentorship Under Racial Capitalism Sam Tecle 8. “Up to No Good”: Black on the Streets and Encountering Police Response: It Could Have Been Written Today: A Montrealer’s Reflection Adelle Blackett 9. “Colour Matters”: Suburban Life as Social Mobility and its High Cost for Black Youth Response: Respectability Politics and the Search for Upward Mobility in Canada Andrea A. Davis 10. Toward Equity in Education for Black Students Response: “I will treat all my students with respect”: The Limits to Good Intentions Leanne Taylor Epilogue Michele A. Johnson Acknowledgements Biographies of Contributors/Respondents

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Book SynopsisIn this revised and updated third edition, one of Canada's leading historians covers the history of the Canadian military to the present day.Trade Review"Granatstein is, without doubt, one of Canada’s pre-eminent military historians ... [Should any] Canadian wish to become functionally knowledgable about our army, this book is an excellent place to start." -- Steven Dieter * The Globe and Mail *"[An] immensely readable tour de force through the political and battlefield swamps of army history." -- Ron Lowman * Toronto Star *"Everyone who cares for and about Canada's army will be pleased with Granatstein’s superb book." -- Major Michael McNorgan * Canadian Military Journal *Table of ContentsPreface Acknowledgments Maps 1. The Militia Myth: Canadian Arms to Confederation 2. Making an Army: Beginnings 3. A Militia under Arms: Sam Hughes’s Army 4. Becoming Professional: Arthur Currie’s Army 5. Losing Professionalism: The Interwar Years 6. McNaughton’s Army: The Long Wait 7. Into Battle: Sicily and Italy, July 1943–June 1944 8. Into Battle: Northwest Europe and Italy, June 1944–May 1945 9. The Professional Army, 1945–1968 10. Professionalism under Siege, 1968–2001 11. Afghanistan and the Remaking of the Army 12. Conclusion Notes A Selected Bibliography of Secondary Sources Illustration Credits Index

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Book SynopsisWhy has Canada been unable to achieve any of its climate-change targets? Part of the reason is that emissions in two provinces, Alberta and Saskatchewan already about half the Canadian total when taken together have been steadily increasing as a result of expanding oil and gas production. Declining emissions in other provinces, such as Ontario, Quebec, Nova Scotia, and New Brunswick, have been cancelled out by those western increases. The ultimate explanation for Canadian failure lies in the differing energy interests of the western and eastern provinces, overlaid on the confederation fault-line of western alienation. Climate, energy, and national unity form a toxic mix. How can Ottawa possibly get all the provinces moving in the same direction of decreasing emissions? To answer this question, Douglas Macdonald explores the five attempts to date to put in place coordinated national policy in the fields of energy and climate change from Pierre Trudeau’s ill-fated NatTrade Review"Macdonald has written a book of transcendent importance for the development of a genuinely effective climate change plan. His formulation of negotiating scenarios, in particular, offers a constructive path forward, one that moves away from federal-provincial stalemates and the easy agreements that avoid actual solu­tions. And his masterful grasp of Canada's so far lame efforts in this arena is a major contribution to understanding where we have been and where we must go." -- Geoff White * Literary Review of Canada *Table of ContentsA Parable of West and East 1. Introduction 1.1 Subject 1.2 Purpose 1.3 Methodology 1.4 Theoretical approach 1.5 Format 2. Energy and climate change intergovernmental relations 2.1 Historical evolution of Canadian intergovernmental relations 2.2 Mechanisms of Canadian intergovernmental relations 2.3 A flawed policy making process 2.4 Intergovernmental policy co-ordination 2.5 Energy and climate change jurisdiction 2.6 Energy and climate-change policy co-ordination 2.7 Federal government energy and climate-change strategy 3. Historical overview: Canadian energy and climate politics 3.1 Energy policy 1867 to 1989 3.2 National climate change policy in the 1990s 3.3 The Martin government 3.4 Public opinion on climate change 3.5 The Harper government 3.6 Provincial climate change policies 3.7 Energy policy 1989 to 2019 3.8 The Justin Trudeau government 3.9 Summary 4. Three underlying challenges 4.1 The West-East divide . Differing fossil fuel energy interests . Differing interests respecting climate change policy . Alberta's planned emission increases undercut reductions elsewhere . Western alienation 4.2 The inherent need to allocate greenhouse gas emission reductions 4.3 The weak intergovernmental process 5. Canadian national energy policy, 1973 - 1981 5.1 Narrative 5.2 Analysis 6. The first national climate change process 1990-1997 6.1 Narrative 6.2 Analysis 7. The second national climate change process 1998 - 2002 7.1 Narrative 7.2 Analysis 8. The Canadian Energy Strategy 2005-2015 8.1 Narrative 8.2 Analysis 9. The Pan-Canadian Framework 2015-2019 9.1 Narrative 9.2 Analysis 10. Drawing lessons 10.1 The three challenges and federal strategy 10.2 Factors affecting case outcomes 11. Putting in place an effective national climate change program

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Book SynopsisThe auto sector is North America’s most iconic of industries. Since the North American Free Trade Agreement came into existence in 1994, the sector has undergone tremendous change: escalating concerns around climate change, advances in electric and automated vehicles, deindustrialization/reindustrialization, and the rise of low-cost locations as hubs for manufacturing. The North American Auto Industry since NAFTA examines the issues that have preoccupied the development of policy associated with the manufacture of automobiles in North America. The collection addresses the punctuations that have afflicted the industry since NAFTA’s implementation as well as the slower, incremental evolutions that have also occurred. Several aspects of automobility and the industry are explored, including but not limited to the Canadian, American, and Mexican automotive sectors and their evolution and interaction under evolving trade regimes. The book analyses issues surr

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Book SynopsisIn Jews, Judaism, and Success, Robert Eisen attempts to solve a long-standing mystery that has fascinated many: How did Jews become such a remarkably successful minority in the modern Western world?Eisen argues that Jews achieved such success because they were unusually well-prepared for it by their religion – in particular, Rabbinic Judaism, or the Judaism of the rabbis. Rooted in the Talmud, this form of Judaism instilled in Jews key values that paved the way for success in modern Western society: autonomy, freedom of thought, worldliness, and education. The book carefully analyses the evolution of these four values over the past two thousand years in order to demonstrate that they had a longer and richer history in Jewish culture than in Western culture. The book thus disputes the common assumption that Rabbinic Judaism was always an obstacle to Jews becoming modernized. It demonstrates that while modern Jews rejected aspects of Rabbinic Judaism, they also reTable of ContentsPreface Acknowledgments Translations of Texts and Transliterations Abbreviations Introduction: The Mystery of Jewish Success Part One. The Cultural Hypothesis Revisited: An Overview 1. Western Culture, Jewish Culture, and Four Key Values 2. Secular Jews (and Other Jews) Part Two. The Cultural Hypothesis Revisited: The Core Argument 3. Human Autonomy I: Sin, Grace, and Salvation 4. Human Autonomy II: Religious Authority 5. Human Autonomy III: Reason and Philosophy 6. Freedom of Thought and Expression 7. Valuing Life in This World I: 100–1000 CE 8. Valuing Life in This World II: 1000–1800 CE 9. Education I: 100–1500 CE 10. Education II: 1500–1950 CE Part Three. Final Matters 11. Conclusions Epilogue: Lessons for Jews, Lessons for Everyone Notes Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisLocalism in Hellenistic Greece explores, in exemplary fashion, how ancient societies positioned themselves in a swiftly expanding world.Table of ContentsPreface Sheila L. Ager and Hans Beck 1. Introduction: Localism in Hellenistic Greece Hans Beck 2. Localism and Environmental History in the Hellenistic Kopaic Basin Ruben Post 3. Healing a Battlefield: The Local World of Hellenistic Chaironeia Chandra Giroux 4. The Other Side of the Stone: Local Proxenia in the Hellenistic Euboian Gulf Alex McAuley 5. Notes on Matrimonial Strategies in Civic Contexts Sara Saba 6. Local Horizons for the Thessalian Eleutheria Denver Graninger 7. The Problematic Localism of the Hellenistic Aitolians Joseph B. Scholten 8. Aligning the Dots: Local Self-Assertion in a Politically Expanding World Peter Funke 9. The Local Voice of Enmity: Kleomenes III, Sparta, and Argos Elena Franchi 10. “Sparta is my country”: Competitive Localism in Hellenistic Sparta Sebastian Scharff 11. Shaping and Reshaping Local Memories in Megalopolis: The Case of the Tyrants Aristodamos and Lydiadas James Roy 12. Global Activities in a Localized Context: Mercenaries, Proxeny, and the Small Local World of Hellenistic Mani Chelsea A.M. Gardner 13. Being Syracusan in the Hellenistic World Mark Thatcher 14. Between the Local and the Global: Intersectional Elites at Antiochia ad Cragum in Roman Rough Cilicia Tim Howe 15. Afterword: Reflections on Hellenistic Localism Sheila L. Ager List of Contributors Index

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Book SynopsisSustainable Communities for a Healthy Planet presents an unconventional collection of ideas, practices, and ways of living together with the potential to enable long-term human and planetary health. Grounded in first-hand accounts from researchers, health practitioners, and social innovators across diverse fields, Katharine Zywert’s book argues that the most promising approaches often depart substantially from the incentive structures, goals, and mindsets that define the status quo and do not necessarily align with mainstream sustainability discourses. The book instead presents promising approaches that disrupt dominant ideas about mental health, ageing, and chronic illness; circumvent exploitative markets for medications, medical technologies, and professionalized care; attend not only to the health of individual human bodies, but to the health of internal ecologies, human populations, nonhuman species, and the planet as a whole; and embody alternative, more

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Book SynopsisStarting in the nineteenth century in Germany, colourful military uniforms became a locus for various queer male fantasies, fostering an underground sexual economy of male prostitution as well as a political project to exploit the army’s prestige for queer emancipation. In the first decade of the twentieth century, however, a series of scandals derailed this emancipatory project. Simultaneously, public debates began to invoke homosexuality, sadism, transvestism, and other sexological concepts to criticize military policies and practices.In pursuing the threads with which queer authors and activists stitched their fantasies about uniforms, Jeffrey Schneider offers fresh perspectives on key debates over military secrecy, disciplinary abuses in the army, and German militarism. Drawing on a vast trove of materials ranging from sexological case studies, trial transcripts, and parliamentary debates to queer activist tracts, autobiographies, and literary texts, Uniform FanTable of ContentsIllustrations Preface Acknowledgments Introduction 1. Outing Officers: Queer Activism, Melodrama, and the Harden-Moltke Trial 2. Disciplinary Abuses: From Military Secrecy to Sadism in the Army 3. The Obscure Object of Desire: Uniform Fetishism, Male Prostitution, and German Soldiers 4. Camping in His Own Private Militarism: Thomas Mann’s Queer Art of Failure and the Fantasies of Military Service 5. Perversions of Fantasy: Parody and the Left-Liberal Critique of German Militarism in Heinrich Mann’s The Loyal Subject Epilogue: The War on Fantasy Bibliography

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Book SynopsisTransformative Politics of Nature examines political barriers to land and wildlife conservation and presents possible transformative pathways forward that address both proximate and fundamental factors from Western and Indigenous perspectives.Table of ContentsList of Tables List of Figures Part A: Ceremony and Introduction Poem shalan joudry 1. From Politics to Transformative Politics: Wildlife and Species at Risk Policy in Canada Beazley, Olive, and Finegan Introducing Disruptions Finegan Part B: Barriers to Conservation in Canada 2. A Pathological Examination of Conservation Failure in Canada Lemieux, Groulx, Swerdfager, and Hagerman 3. Who Should Govern Wildlife? Examining Attitudes across the Country Williamson, Lischka, Olive, Pittman, and Ford 4. In a Rut: Barriers to Caribou Recovery Boan and Plotkin 5. Enacting a Reciprocal Ethic of Care: (Finally) Fulfilling Treaty Obligations McDermott and Roth Disrupting Dominant Narratives for a Mainstream Conservation Issue: A Case Study on “Saving the Bees” Colla The Role of National Parks in Disrupting Heritage Interpretation on Turtle Island Finegan Part C: Transformation through Values 6. Reconciliation or Apiksitaultimik? Indigenous Relationality for Conservation Pictou 7. “Etuaptmumk”/Two-Eyed Seeing and Reconciliation with Earth McGregor, Popp, Reid, Marshall, Miller, and Sritharan 8. Beacons of Teaching Young Indigenous Knowledge as a Disruption to State-Led Conservation Myhal The Misipawistik Cree Nation kanawenihcikew Guardians Program Cook Part D: Transformation through Actions 9. Transforming University Curriculum and Student Experiences through Collaboration and Land-Based Learning Zurba, Hache, Doucette, and Graham 10. Ecological Networks and Corridors in the Context of Global Initiatives Hilty and Woodley 11. The Imperative for Transformative Change to Address Biodiversity Loss in Canada Ray Conservation Bright Spots: Focusing on Solutions Instead of Reacting to Problems Frei Disrupting Current Approaches to Biodiversity Conservation through Innovative Knowledge Mobilization Nguyen Part E: Conclusion and Ceremony 12. Concluding Remarks: Achieving Transformative Change: Conservation in Canada Olive and Beazley Poem shalan joudry Author Biographies

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Book SynopsisToday, we think of Canada as a compassionate, open country to which refugees from other countries have always been welcome. However, between the years 1933 and 1948, when the Jews of Europe were looking for a place of refuge from Nazi persecution, Canada refused to offer aid, let alone sanctuary, to those in fear for their lives.Rigorously documented and brilliantly researched, None Is Too Many tells the story of Canada’s response to the plight of European Jews during the Nazi era and its immediate aftermath, exploring why and how Canada turned its back and hardened its heart against the entry of Jewish refugees. Recounting a shameful period in Canadian history, Irving Abella and Harold Troper trace the origins and results of Canadian immigration policies towards Jews and conclusively demonstrate that the forces against admitting them were pervasive and rooted in antisemitism.First published in 1983, None Is Too Many has become one of the most signTrade Review“A brilliant work of history.” -- Leonard Dinnerstein * The Globe and Mail *“Irving Abella and Harold Troper have done a superb job of unearthing this sorry chapter in our hidden history. The general outlines were dimly known before, but by exhaustively pursuing primary sources they have documented the details with chilling precision.” -- William French * The Globe and Mail *“[A] heart-rending book.” -- Carol Goar * The Toronto Star *“An exceedingly powerful and detailed examination of the application of an illiberal immigration policy by an equally illiberal government so as to exclude from this country the oppressed, persecuted Jews...Abella and Troper have produced an enormously vigorous and diligently prepared description and analysis of what must be the most inhumane period in the history of Canadian immigration policy.” -- Gerald E. Dirks * Canadian Journal of Political Science *“The definitive study of our pre-war treatment of Jews.” -- Bob Harvey * Canadian Journal of Political Science *"If Canada and particularly its immigration policies now indeed live up to its positive image, this book was an important catalyst of the change. It remains as relevant as it was years ago." -- Walter D. Kamphoefner * Society for German-American Studies *Table of ContentsForeword Introduction to New Edition Preface Acknowledgement 1. Where They Could Not Enter 2. The Line Must Be Drawn Somewhere 3. Der Feter Yiuv ist bei uns 4. The Children Who Never Came 5. Ottawa or Bermuda? A Refugee Conference 6. In the Free and Civilized World 7. One Wailing Cry 8. A Pleasant Voyage 9. Conclusion 10. Epilogue Afterword Note on Sources Notes Index

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Book SynopsisSport Public Relations presents an engaging look at the full range of functions conducted by public relations practitioners in sport. Readers will learn the importance of consistent brand communication and how to manage organizational relationships to attain key strategic goals.Table of ContentsChapter 1. Introducing Sport Public Relations Definition of Sport Public Relations Evolution of Sport Public Relations Sport Public Relations in Practice Public Relations ValueChapter 2. Integrating Public Relations With Strategic Management Public Relations as a Strategic Management Driver Organizational Stakeholders and Publics Stakeholder Communication Issues Management Reputation ManagementChapter 3. Engaging Key Publics via Social Media Social Media Use in Public Relations Social Networking Sites Strategic Considerations for Social Media Use Careers in Social Media ManagementChapter 4. Engaging Key Publics via Other Forms of Digital Media Digital Media Use in Sport Public Relations Website Development Websites for Specific Stakeholders Blogs Podcasts New Media Limitations and ProblemsChapter 5. Engaging Key Publics via Legacy Media Media Guides Print Organizational Media Electronic Organizational Media Corporate CommunicationsChapter 6. Managing the Sport Organization–Media Relationship Definition of Mass Media Mass Media and Sport History Today’s MediaSport Environment Serving Media at Organizational Events Reporting Statistics Reporting Play-By-Play InformationChapter 7. Employing News Media Tactics Media Policy Development News Releases Media Pitches Interviews Media Tours News Conferences Media DaysChapter 8. Communicating in Times of Crisis Nature of Crises and the Need to Plan for Them Preparing for a Crisis Managing a Crisis Assessing a Crisis Response Crisis Response Case StudiesChapter 9. Cultivating Positive Relationships in the Community Uniqueness of Sport Corporate Social Responsibility Evolution of Sport Social Responsibility Strategic Sport Social Responsibility Communication of Corporate Social ResponsibilityChapter 10. Advanced Communications With External and Internal Publics Customer and Member Relationships Sponsor Relationships Donor Relationships Government Relationships Employee Relationships Investor Relationships Appendix: Sample Crisis Communication Plan

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Book SynopsisSuccessful Coaching provides sport coaches with the essentials to being an effective coach. Included are key principles for managing a team; developing a coaching philosophy; understanding, communicating with, training, and motivating athletes; teaching sport skills; and minimizing risk.Table of ContentsPart I. Foundational Skills for CoachesChapter 1. Developing Your Coaching Philosophy Why Philosophy? Examples of Coaching Philosophies in Practice Developing Your Coaching Philosophy Wrap-UpChapter 2. Determining Your Coaching Objectives Three Major Objectives of Coaching Athletes First, Winning Second Your Personal Reasons for Coaching Wrap-UpChapter 3. Providing Effective Leadership The Powerful Influence of Coaches Coaching Styles Leadership Strategies for Coaches Leadership Is a Skill You Can Develop Coaching Code of Ethics Wrap-UpChapter 4. Coaching Diverse Athletes Maturational Differences in Young Athletes Cultural Competence Gender Considerations in Coaching Understanding Sexual Orientation Race and Ethnicity in Youth Sport Disability and Youth Sport Mental Health in Athletes Preventing Sexual Harassment and Abuse in Youth Sport Wrap-UpPart II. Understanding and Managing Athletes’ BehaviorChapter 5. Communicating With Your Athletes Communication as a Complex Process Evaluating Your Communication Skills Developing Your Communication Skills Coaching and Social Media Wrap-UpChapter 6. Motivating Your Athletes Basics of Motivation Need for Fun and Stimulation Need for Acceptance and Belonging Need to Feel Competent Need for Autonomy From Motivation to Anxiety and Burnout Is It Wise to Specialize? Wrap-UpChapter 7. Using Discipline and Rewards With Athletes A Positive Discipline Approach Preventive Discipline Corrective Discipline Using Rewards Effectively Wrap-UpChapter 8. Coaching for Character What Character and Sportsmanship Mean Why Is Character Development an Important Coaching Objective? How to Teach Character and Sportsmanship Wrap-UpPart III. Being a Great TeacherChapter 9. The Games Approach Technical and Tactical Skills Traditional Approach Essence of the Games Approach Evaluating the Games Approach Wrap-UpChapter 10. Teaching Technical Skills Learning Technical Skills Three Stages of Learning Teaching Technical Skills Wrap-Up Chapter 11. Teaching Tactical Skills Tactics and Tactical Skills Reading the Situation Tactical Knowledge Decision-Making Skills Teaching Tactical Skills Wrap-UpChapter 12. Planning for Teaching Benefits of Planning Step 1: Identify the Skills Your Athletes Need Step 2: Know Your Athletes Step 3: Analyze Your Situation Step 4: Establish Priorities Step 5: Plan Practices Wrap-UpPart IV. Physical Training and NutritionChapter 13. Training Basics Fitness for Sport and Physical Training Coach’s Role in Physical Training Training Principles Wrap-UpChapter 14. Energy Fitness Training Energy and Energy Fitness Physiology of Energy Systems Energy Demands of Your Sport Measuring Energy Fitness Designing an Energy Fitness Training Program Wrap-UpChapter 15. Muscular Fitness Training Muscular Fitness Defined How Muscles Work Training for Muscular Fitness Muscular Demands of Your Sport Testing Muscular Fitness Designing a Muscular Fitness Program Wrap-UpChapter 16. Fueling Your Athletes Coach’s Role Six Basic Nutrients The Athlete’s Diet Nutrition Supplements Hydration When and What to Eat Wrap-UpChapter 17. Drugs in Sport Drugs 101 Your Role in Education and Prevention When Athletes Have a Drug Problem Wrap-UpPart V. Management Skills for CoachesChapter 18. Managing Your Team Coaches’ Management Responsibilities Policy Manager Information Manager Personnel Manager Instructional Manager Event and Competition Manager Logistics Manager Financial Manager Wrap-UpChapter 19. Managing Relationships Interpersonal Skills Special Relationships Fellow Coaches Administrators Support Staff Officials Parents and Guardians Media Wrap-UpChapter 20. Managing Risk The Legal System Risk Management Process Immunity Coaches’ Legal Duties Other Duties Waivers and Participation Agreements Insurance Wrap-Up Epilogue

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Book SynopsisThe inspiration for the documentary Mission Control: The Unsung Heroes of Apollo At first glance, it looks like just another auditorium in just another government building. But among the talented men (and later women) who worked in mission control, the room located on the third floor of Building 30-at what is now Johnson Space Center-would become known by many as the Cathedral. These members of the space program were the brightest of their generations, making split-second decisions that determined the success or failure of a mission. The flight controllers, each supported by a staff of specialists, were the most visible part of the operation, running the missions, talking to the heavens, troubleshooting issues on board, and, ultimately, attempting to bring everyone safely back home. None of NASA's storied accomplishments would have been possible without these people. Interviews with dozens of individualswho worked in the historic third-floor mission control room bring the compelling storiesto life. Go, Flight! is a real-world reminder of where we have been and where we could go again given the right political and social climate.Trade Review"A great read both for fans for spaceflight and for scholars interested in a social history of Mission Control."—Margaret Weitekamp, Quest“Milt Heflin did it all, from helping recover Apollo crews returning from the moon to overseeing the first make-or-break repair of the Hubble Space Telescope. Heflin’s insight and experience shine in his and coauthor Rick Houston’s Go, Flight!, a firsthand glimpse into the fascinating world of mission control.”—William Harwood, CBS News space reporter“Those of us who worked in the MOCR [Mission Operations Control Room] were privileged to be in the right place at the right time in American history. We didn’t know that sending men to the moon was impossible, so we somehow managed to do just that. We lived in a time when our vision was not limited by how far our eyes could see, but only by what our minds could dream. Authors Rick Houston and Milt Heflin are helping keep that dream alive in Go, Flight!”—Jerry Bostick, chief of the Apollo-era Flight Dynamics Branch“I experienced almost every emotion possible while working in mission control. Authors Rick Houston and Milt Heflin have taken me right back into the heat of battle with their outstanding book.”—Steve Bales, guidance officer during the Apollo 11 lunar descent “This book represents the most detailed account to date of how a group of ordinary men from rural America and smokestack towns became an extraordinary team that built the future. As well as tales of technical achievement, you will find the human stories about the band of brothers that formed Mission Control, and who became the best they could be.”—Keith Haviland, co-executive producer of Last Man on the Moon, a documentary film about Apollo 17 commander Gene CernanTable of ContentsList of Illustrations Foreword Introduction 1. Who Did What 2. Tampa, Tranquility Base Here … 3. Growing Up 4. We’re Going to Make It Right 5. Merry Christmas from the Moon 6. Dress Rehearsals 7. A Bunch of Guys about to Turn Blue 8. "Great Job, Young Man" 9. "We’ve Got More Than a Problem" 10. Living on the Moon 11. The End of an Era 12. Legacy Epilogue SourcesIndex

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Book Synopsis From the late nineteenth century to the middle of the twentieth century, Mexico experienced major transformations influenced by a global progressive movement that thrived during the Mexican Revolution and influenced Mexico’s development during subsequent governments. Engineers and other revolutionary technocrats were the system builders who drew up the blueprints, printed newspapers, implemented reforms, and constructed complexity—people who built modern Mexico with an eye on remedying long-standing problems through social, material, and infrastructural development during a period of revolutionary change. In Apostle of Progress J. Justin Castro examines the life of Modesto C. Rolland, a revolutionary propagandist and a prominent figure in the development of Mexico, to gain a better understanding of the role engineers played in creating revolution-era policies and the reconstruction of the Mexican nation. Rollandinfluenced Mexican land reform, petrTrade Review"[Apostle of Progress] joins our growing corpus of biographical works on the Mexican Revolution, and its focus on an overlooked but important civil engineer adds a new dimension to our knowledge of the process of reconstruction."—Jürgen Buchenau, Hispanic American Historical Review"Through the exploration of the life and work of the ambitious middle-class Mexican engineer Modesto Rolland, Castro (Arkansas State Univ.) explores the new liberal ideas that developed in the period leading up to and following the Mexican Revolution. . . . Thoroughly researched and written in engaging prose, this work promises to be a wonderful addition to Mexican history courses at any level."—M. C. Galván, Choice"Castro's book represents a fine contribution to a recent body of scholarly work that seeks to reassess the roles that engineers, experts, and technocrats played in the development of modern Mexico."—Germán Vergara, Technology and Culture"In this exceptionally well-researched and well-written biography, Castro tells the fascinating life story of this Mexican engineer to shed new light on U.S-Mexican relations, Mexico's place in global Progressivism, and the influence of technocratic ideas in post-revolutionary reconstruction—a period also accompanied by bottom-up mobilization and top-down clientelist political formations."—Matthew Vitz, Journal of Social History“Castro’s Apostle of Progress is a significant achievement. In this compelling biography of the influential engineer Modesto C. Rolland, the author sheds new light on the critical yet poorly understood role of technological experts in the Mexican Revolution and its aftermath.”—J. Brian Freeman, coeditor of Technology and Culture in Twentieth-Century Mexico“Justin Castro has produced an extraordinary examination of Mexican revolutionary and post-revolutionary politics through an intriguing, elucidating life-and-times biography of Modesto Rolland, multifaceted engineer, inventor, builder, and media entrepreneur. . . . This biography will intrigue any student of twentieth-century Mexican history, mirroring numerous qualities found in John W. F. Dulles’s classic Yesterday in Mexico.”—Roderic Ai Camp, author of Intellectuals and the State in Twentieth-Century Mexico Table of Contents List of Illustrations Acknowledgments Introduction: Matters of Perspective 1. Child of the Porfiriato, Child of the Periphery 2. The Reluctant Revolutionary 3. A Mexican Progressive 4. Back to the Periphery 5. War and Peace 6. Transitions 7. Opportunity, Defeat, and the Death of Virginia Garza de Rolland 8. A Stadium for Stridentopolis 9. Mr. Bothersome 10. The Undersecretary 11. Going Big 12. Out of the Ports and into the Hills Conclusion: Final Thoughts about Modesto Rolland’s Life and Legacy Notes Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisTadeusz Lewandowski presents the articles, stories, speeches, dispatches, letters, poems, and statements of Arapaho advocate Sherman Coolidge and his New York City society wife, Grace Wetherbee Coolidge.Trade Review“This is the first time so much personal information about a Native American and his Anglo-American wife has been exposed in such depth and insight. Sherman Coolidge’s bold leadership in the 1910s called attention to the prejudice and abject ignorance of American people. There is no doubt that Lewandowski’s valuable work will be a lasting legacy to the Arapaho Nation, Euro Americans, U.S. history, and other Indian nations. Part of Coolidge’s papers should be incorporated into every American history textbook.”—Rowena McClinton, editor of John Howard Payne Papers: Volumes 7–14 of the Payne-Butrick Papers“Lewandowski’s book serves as an important contribution to the field [in] its singular focus, its author-centrism, and its rigorous deployment of careful archival work and assemblage. This volume reveals Coolidge’s rhetorical tactics and his deft maneuvering of U.S. government policy concerning tribes, the impetus to convert Native people to Christianity that is at the core of his religiosity, and his growing circumspection regarding assimilationism, national pan-tribal organizations, the Indian Bureau, ‘civilization’ versus ‘traditionalism,’ and more.”—Julianne Newmark, author of The Pluralist Imagination from East to West in American LiteratureTable of Contents List of Illustrations Acknowledgments Editorial Policy Sherman and Grace Coolidge: A Biographical Sketch Notes on the Writings of Sherman Coolidge Notes on the Writings of Grace Coolidge Part 1. Sherman Coolidge: Stories, Articles, Speeches, and Statements Scenes from an Arapaho Boyhood Crow and Eagle The Colt A Little Gambler A Horse Race The Death of Big Heart (Brave Heart) Dispatches from a Wind River Missionary 1885 Report to the Spirit of Missions 1886 Report to the Spirit of Missions 1896 Report to the Spirit of Missions 1897 Report to the Spirit of Missions 1898 Report to the Spirit of Missions 1899 Report to the Spirit of Missions Early Articles and Statements Education of Indians Speech at the Seventh Annual Meeting of the Lake Mohonk Conference of the Friends of the Indian The Indian of To-Day Indians in Wyoming Sherman and the Society The Indian American: His Duty to His Race and to His Country, the United States of America American Indians for the Honor of Their Race The American Indian of Today The Function of the Society of American Indians Conference Evening at Haskell Indian School American Indian Day Statement before the Senate Committee on Indian Affairs Opening Address of the President at the Sixth Annual Conference of the Society of American Indians Open Debate on the Loyalty of Indian Employees in the Indian Service Escaped Massacre to Be Taken by White Folk and Educated for Ministry—Story of an Indian Boy Statements for Sunset A Sermon and a Protest Ye Cannot Serve God and Mammon Statements at the Colorado Springs Open Forum on the American Indian Part 2. Grace Coolidge: Writings, Letters, and Poems Articles for the Spirit of Missions An Arapahoe Christmas Tree A Christmas Tree that Bore Souls Writings for the American Indian Magazine Wanted: To Save the Babies, or Capricornus and a Coroner The Carpenter Who Had No One to Set Him Straight The White Plague Justice on a Reservation: A Story of an Actual Happening Letters Dearest Reddy, 1896–1901 Love, Marriage, and Death at Wind River, 1902–5 Later Missives, 1911–32 Poems The Offering of the Goddess On Finishing a Book Notes Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisWinner of the 2020 Peter C. Rollins Book AwardLonglisted for the 2020 Moving Image Book Award by the Kraszna-Krausz FoundationNamed a 2019 Richard Wall Memorial Award Finalist by the Theatre Library Association Herman J. (1897-1953) and Joseph L. Mankiewicz (1909-1993) wrote, produced, and directed over 150 pictures. With Orson Welles, Herman wrote the screenplay for Citizen Kane and shared the picture''s only Academy Award. Joe earned the second pair of his four Oscars for writing and directing All About Eve, which also won Best Picture. Despite triumphs as diverse as Monkey Business and Cleopatra, and Pride of the Yankees and Guys and Dolls, the witty, intellectual brothers spent their Hollywood years deeply discontented and yearning for what they did not have--a career in New York theater. Herman, formerly an Algonquin Round Table habitué, New York Times and New Yorker theater

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Book SynopsisFirst published in France in 1956 and now available in English for the first time, this narratological analysis of Thucydides's "History of the Peloponnesian War" highlights the power and sophistication of the Greek historian's rhetoric.Trade ReviewRawlings has done a great favor to students of Thucydides by making Romilly's work available to an English-speaking audience. With this work Romilly revolutionized how scholars approached and studied Thucydides. Instead of analyzing the accuracy of his narrative on the Peloponnesian War, Romilly examines how Thucydides thought. She treats the history like a piece of intellectual art and Thucydides like an artist. -- Nikolaus Overtoom, Louisiana State University * H-War *Table of ContentsEditors' and Translator’s PrefaceEditors’ IntroductionAuthor’s DedicationIntroduction1. Narrative Methods2. Battle Accounts: Analysis and Narration3. The Antithetical Speeches4. Investigating the Past: The "Archaeology"ConclusionWorks CitedIndex of Thucydidean Passages DiscussedGeneral Index

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Book SynopsisIn The Perraults, Oded Rabinovitch takes the fascinating eponymous literary and scientific family as an entry point into the complex and rapidly changing world of early modern France. Today, the Perraults are best remembered for their canonical fairy tales, such as Cinderella and Puss in Boots, most often attributed to Charles Perrault, one of the brothers. While the writing of fairy tales may seem a frivolous enterprise, it was, in fact, linked to the cultural revolution of the seventeenth century, which paved the way for the scientific revolution, the rise of national literatures, and the early Enlightenment. Rabinovitch argues that kinship networks played a crucial, yet unexamined, role in shaping the cultural and intellectual ferment of the day, which in turn shaped kinship and the social history of the family.Through skillful reconstruction of the Perraults' careers and networks, Rabinovitch portrays the world of letters as a means of social mobility. He complicatTrade Review[Rabinovitch's] Examination of the Perrault family provides the means to gain a deeper understanding of notions of authorship, the role of the royal court, and family power dynamics. * Choice *Watching the progress of the Perraults as it is described here is fascinating. With considerable economy but with much significant detail, the author has rebuilt the web of networks that made a remarkable literary family. The astute use of documents is a strong point of the book, along with Rabinovitch's imaginative use of fairy tales to support his cogent argument about the pervasive importance of kinship. * H-France *Oded Rabinovitch shows here, perhaps better than anyone before him, the complexities and importance of kinship in seventeenth-century France. * H-France Review *This is a remarkable book: beautifully written, deeply learned, extensively researched and documented, it is packed with fresh insights that change our understanding of intellectual production and social history in the early modern world. * European History Quarterly *The Perraults is a dense, subtle, and ambitious book, which should be of interest to all students of 'letters' (in the broadest sense) in ancien régime France. * American Historical Review *One of the marks of an innovative and successful monograph is that not only do we think about a familiar subject in an altogether new way when we put it down, we wonder how its insights had not appeared obvious to us before. Oded Rabinovitch's new book does precisely this, offering a stimulating model for future research into literary and scientific life in the early modern period. * The Journal of Modern History *[A] major study, offering an excellent model of how to combine historical and literary research by situating literary production in precise political and social contexts. * History *An excellent analysis of one family's fortunes that connects Paris with Versailles and the countryside as well as a variety of cultural fields including literature, science, architecture, and finance. * Sixteenth Century Journal *Table of ContentsList of Figures Acknowledgments List of Abbreviations Cast of Characters Introduction 1. Representing a Family of Letters: Images of Authorship (1650–1750) 2. Finance and Mobility: Pierre Ascendant (1600–1660) 3. The Perraults in the Countryside: Viry and Literary Sociability (1650–1680) 4. Failure in Finance and the Rise of Charles Perrault (1660–1680) 5. The Perraults and Versailles: Mediating Grandeur (1660–1700) 6. Claude Perrault and the Mechanics of Animals: Family and Scientific Institutions (1660–1690) Epilogue (1690–1730) Appendix Notes Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisThe evocative and riveting stories of four brothersGershom the Zionist, Werner the Communist, Reinhold the nationalist, and Erich the liberalweave together in The Scholems, a biography of an eminent middle-class Jewish Berlin family and a social history of the Jews in Germany in the decades leading up to World War II.Across four generations, Jay Howard Geller illuminates the transformation of traditional Jews into modern German citizens, the challenges they faced, and the ways that they shaped the German-Jewish century, beginning with Prussia''s emancipation of the Jews in 1812 and ending with exclusion and disenfranchisement under the Nazis. Focusing on the renowned philosopher and Kabbalah scholar Gershom Scholem and his family, their story beautifully draws out the rise and fall of bourgeois life in the unique subculture that was Jewish Berlin. Geller portrays the family within a much larger context of economic advancement, the adoption of German culture and dTrade ReviewExcellent.... Well-researched and engagingly written, this is a fine contribution to German-Jewish biography and history. * Publishers Weekly *Geller sets out a compelling tale of a diverse group of German Jews in the early 20th century who were broadly representative of the culture and class of a long-lost era. * Kirkus Reviews *Compelling.... In writing the biography of the Scholem family, Geller has consulted a breathtaking array of sources on several continents and in several languages. * Times Higher Education *One of the most compelling aspects of Geller's fascinating book is the ease and competence with which he summons historical information * EuropeNow *Jay Howard Geller's book is superb...Geller's narrative comprises the heart and soul of The Scholems. -- Sheldon Kirshner * Sheldonkirshner.com *By relating the history of the Scholems in all its complex dimensions—its drama, achievements, and tragedies—Jay Howard Geller has provided us with a nuanced account of a nevertheless very special, albeit typical, German Jewish family as it faced and responded to the tempestuous challenges of its times. * American Historical Review *Through studying the biographies of the entire [Scholem] family, Geller has presented us with a fascinating, personalized image of the German-Jewish bourgeoisie before and after World War I, both among those who were totally committed to its values and among those, fewer in number, who in revolutionary fashion abandoned their peers either for a hopeful but problematic Jewish nationalism or for a dubious communist future. * Journal of Modern History *

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Book SynopsisTrade ReviewHofmann has produced a readable and exceptionally sensible volume on the global production of fascist ideology, which will be of tremendous value for scholars who teach comparative history... Hofmann’s book opens the door to a debate truly worth having in Japanese history circles. * Journal of Japanese Studies *This book is an important addition to the growing body of literature that examines fascism in a transnational context. The author provides an insightful and highly original exploration of the dialogue between Italian Fascism and Japanese political and sociocultural debates of the period. Throughout the work, Reco Hofmann does especially well in highlighting the ambiguities and contradictions in the debate over fascism's applicability to Japan, in particular the tensions between its nationalist and internationalist impulses. * The Historian *Table of ContentsIntroduction1. Mediator of Fascism: Shimoi Harukichi, 1915–19282. The Mussolini Boom, 1928–19313. The Clash of Fascisms, 1931–19374. Imperial Convergence: The Italo- Ethiopian War and Japa nese World- Order Thinking, 1935–19365. Fascism in World History, 1937–1943Epilogue: Fascism after the New World Order, 1943–1952Notes Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisUsing more than a decade''s worth of fieldwork in South Sudan, Clémence Pinaud here explores the relationship between predatory wealth accumulation, state formation, and a form of racismextreme ethnic group entitlementthat has the potential to result in genocide. War and Genocide in South Sudan traces the rise of a predatory state during civil war in southern Sudan and its transformation into a violent Dinka ethnocracy after the region''s formal independence. That new state, Pinaud argues, waged genocide against non-Dinka civilians in 2013-2017. During a civil war that wrecked the region between 1983 and 2005, the predominantly Dinka Sudan People''s Liberation Army (SPLA) practiced ethnically exclusive and predatory wealth accumulation. Its actions fostered extreme group entitlement and profoundly shaped the rebel state. Ethnic group entitlement eventually grew into an ideology of ethnic supremacy. After that war ended, the semi-autonomous state tuTrade ReviewClemence Pinaud's book, War and Genocide in South Sudan, is one of the few books on South Sudan that attaches importance to oral tradition as a means for reconstructing unwritten history. War and Genocide in South Sudan adds to the historiography on a range of topics relative to the Sudan: war, conflict, the politics of liberation, the economy, and genocide. Future scholars who wish to write about the Second and Third Civil Wars will start from where Pinaud's research stops. * H-Diplo *A deeply researched, arresting, and often brutal account of civil war in South Sudan, the violent events of which Pinaud argues constitute genocide. Based on 550 interviews across a range of locations, it is the detailed, first-person accounts of people's experiences of the war that brings the intimate experience of violence into sharp, and often brutal, relief. Required reading for the many people who care about South Sudan and its future. * Global Responsibility to Protect *Pinaud's approach is clear-eyed and systematic. She walks a careful line, avoiding oversimplifications that would characterize the war as an 'ethnic' conflict while demonstrating the central role that instrumentalized ethnicity played in fomenting and prosecuting events and is nuanced in her analysis of the various factions. Pinaud's book will be essential reading for anyone hoping to understand the roots of the present South Sudanese conflict; it also makes a significant contribution to sociological understanding of the political formation of mass atrocity. * International Affairs *Table of ContentsFrom Predation to Genocide 1. From the Turkiyya to the Second Civil War: 1820–1983 2. The SPLA and the Making of an Ethnic Dinka Army: 1983–2005 3. The War Economy and State-Making in SPLA Areas: 1983–2005 4. SPLA Violence, Group-Making, and Expansion: 1983–2005 5. Nationalism, Predation, and Ethnic Ranking: 2005–13 6. The Making of a Violent Ethnocracy: 2005–13 7. Civil War and the First Genocidal Phase: December 2013 8. The Second Phase of the Genocide in Unity State: 2014–15 9. The Third Phase of the Genocide in Equatoria: 2015–17 Ethnic Supremacy and Genocidal Conquest

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Book SynopsisUnpacking of the dynamics of conflict under conditions of nuclear monopoly, Paul C. Avey argues in Tempting Fate that the costs and benefits of using nuclear weapons create openings that weak nonnuclear actors can exploit. Avey uses four case studies to show the key strategies available to nonnuclear states: Iraqi decision-making under Saddam Hussein in confrontations with the United States; Egyptian leaders'' thinking about the Israeli nuclear arsenal during wars in 196970 and 1973; Chinese confrontations with the United States in 1950, 1954, and 1958; and a dispute that never escalated to war, the Soviet-United States tensions between 1946 and 1948 that culminated in the Berlin Blockade. Strategies employed include limiting the scope of the conflict, holding chemical and biological weapons in reserve, seeking outside support, and leveraging international non-use norms. Avey demonstrates clearly that nuclear weapons cast a definite but limiTrade ReviewIn Tempting Fate, Avey puts forth a simple but meaningful question: Why do states that do not have nuclear weapons pick fights with states that do? Avey's logic is sound and straightforward. This is a cogent and well-researched book. * Choice *Tempting Fate illustrates that, when it comes to challenging the strong, the weak seem to oscillate between faith in the nuclear taboo and fear of nuclear retaliation. This insight will make few theorists happy, but it does mark a step forward in our understanding of how nuclear weapons alter the calculus of risk accepting decision makers. * Perspective on Politics *Tempting Fate makes a meaningful and insightful contribution to security studies and nuclear security. [T]his book is an important and novel contribution. * H-Diplo *Table of ContentsIntroduction 1. The Strategic Logic of Nuclear Monopoly 2. Iraq versus the United States 3. Egypt versus Israel 4. China versus the United States 5. The Soviet Union versus the United States Conclusion

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Book SynopsisTrade ReviewThe collection's concluding essays address methodological questions, frameworks, and terminology, offering many possibilities for approaching trans-centered analysis in medieval and early modern scholarship. Overall, the collection is an important contribution to the premodern era, and the diversity of sources, methodologies, and approaches will appeal to a wide variety of students and scholars. * Choice *Table of ContentsIntroduction: The Benefits of Being Trans Historical, by Greta LaFleur, Masha Raskolnikov, and Anna M. Klosowska Part I: Archives: Revisiting Law and Medicine 1. Mapping the Borders of Sex, by Leah DeVun 2. Elenx de Céspedes: Indeterminate Genders in the Spanish Inquisition, by Igor H. de Souza 3. The Case of Marin le Marcis, by Kathleen Perry Long 4. The Transgender Turn: Eleanor Rykener Speaks Back, by M.W. Bychowski 5. Wojciech of Pozna and the Trans Archive, Poland, 1550–1561, by Anna M. Klosowska Part II: Frameworks: Representing Early Trans Lives 6. Recognizing Wilgefortis, by Robert Mills 7. Performing and Desiring Gender Variance in the Early Modern Ottoman Empire, by Abdulhamit Arvas 8. Without Magic or Miracle: The Romance of Silence and the Prehistory of Genderqueerness, by Masha Raskolnikov 9. Transgender Translation, Humanism, and Periodization: Vasco da Lucena's Deeds of Alexander the Great, by Zrinka Stahuljak Part III: Interventions: Critical Trans Methodologies 10. Visualizing the Trans-Animal Body: The Hyena in Medieval Bestiaries, by Emma Campbell 11. Maimed Limbs and Biosalvation: Rehabilitation Politics in Piers Plowman, by Micah James Goodrich 12. Where Are All the Trans Women in Byzantium?, by Roland Betancourt 13. Performing Reparative Transgender Identities from Stage Beauty to The King and the Clown, by Alexa Alice Joubin 14. Laid Open: Examining Genders in Early America, by Scott Larson 15. Epilogue: Against Consensus, by Greta LaFleur

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Book SynopsisFlying Camelot brings us back to the post-Vietnam era, when the US Air Force launched two new, state-of-the art fighter aircraft: the F-15 Eagle and the F-16 Fighting Falcon.It was an era when debates about aircraft superiority went public—and these were not uncontested discussions. Michael W. Hankins delves deep into the fighter pilot culture that gave rise to both designs, showing how a small but vocal group of pilots, engineers, and analysts in the Department of Defense weaponized their own culture to affect technological development and larger political change.The design and advancement of the F-15 and F-16 reflected this group''s nostalgic desire to recapture the best of World War I air combat. Known as the Fighter Mafia, and later growing into the media savvy political powerhouse Reform Movement, it believed that American weapons systems were too complicated and expensive, and thus vulnerable. The group''s leader was Colonel John Boyd, Trade ReviewIn this lively, absorbing account, Hankins demonstrates the influence of a specific culture that celebrated the fighter pilot as a "knight of the air" who thrilled to aerial combat. * Foreign Affairs *[Dr. Hankins] writes in an engaging and accessible way that makes some occasionally highly-technical discussions quite lucid and illuminating. * Sir Richard Williams Foundation *Flying Camelot, he has written a superlative, accessible, and balanced study of the influence Boyd and his acolytes had on the US Air Force (hereafter "Air Force") and national defense establishment in the last quarter of the twentieth century. * Michigan War Studies Review *Table of ContentsIntroduction 1. The Fighter Pilot with a Thousand Faces 2. You Can Tell a Fighter Pilot (But You Can't Tell Him Much)" 3. What We Mean When We Say "Fighter" 4. "The Right Fighter" 5. "The Lord's Work" 6. Writing Heresy 7. "Zealots of the Classic Variety" 8. Kicking Vietnam Syndrome Conclusion

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Book SynopsisRoma Traversata analyzes pathways to decipher the complexity of Rome''s urban layout. Nearly all of the prehistoric country paths converging on what was to become the Roman Forum (the ancient city center) are still traceable in the modern city. To these were added other major streets in ancient times. Additional Medieval and Renaissance streets developed the city further as its center shifted from the Forum toward the Vatican. Some of these provided the framework for Rome''s late 19th century urban development. Ceen follows nine routes: three prehistoric, three ancient, and three post-classical pathways through the city, showing us that streets are not merely the space left over between buildings but have a formal character of their own and even determine certain aspects of buildings. Rather than insisting upon the greater importance of streets over buildings, Ceen studies the interactions between buildings and public space, something he describes as urbaTable of ContentsI. INTRODUCTION 1. Pathways 2. Maps II. IDENTITY OF THE STREET 1. A Counter-theory to the Street as "Leftover Space" 2. Street Types 3. Street Theory III. URBAN RECIPROCITY: STREET-BUILDING INTERACTIONS 1. Borgo Nuovo 2. Palazzo della Cancelleria Area 3. Palazzo Massimo Area 4. Palazzo Farnese 5. Via Capitolina and the Campidoglio 6. Palazzo Borghese IV. PATHWAYS 1. Pathway Precedents 2. Nine Historic Pathways through Rome V. VIA AURELIA VETUS VI. VIA SALARIA VETUS VII. VIA SUBURRANA VIII. VIA DELLE SETTE SALE IX. MAIOR VIA ARENULAE X. VIA RECTA XI. VIA PAPALE XII. VIA PEREGRINORUM XIII. VIA TRINITATIS XIV. EPILOGUE: ROMA RITROVATA

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Book SynopsisUnpacked offers a critical, novel perspective on the Caribbean''s now taken-for-granted desirability as a tourist''s paradise. Dreams of a tropical vacation have become a quintessential aspect of the modern Caribbean, as millions of tourists travel to the region and spend extravagantly to pursue vacation fantasies. At the beginning of the twentieth century, however, travelers from North America and Europe thought of the Caribbean as diseased, dangerous, and, according to many observers, the white man''s graveyard. How then did a trip to the Caribbean become a supposedly fun and safe experience?Unpacked examines the historical roots of the region''s tourism industry by following a well-traveled sea route linking the US East Coast with the island of Cuba and the Isthmus of Panama. Blake C. Scott describes how the cultural and material history of US imperialism became the heart of modern Caribbean tourism. In addition, he explores how advances in tropTable of ContentsIntroduction: Growing Up in Florida's Vacationland 1. Empire's Lake: Tourism in the Wake of US Expansion 2. Service Sector Republics: Transnational Development in Panama and Cuba 3. Changing Routes from Sea to Air: The Rise of Pan American World Airways 4. The Nature of Tourism: Naturalist Explorers as Scientific Guides 5. Traveling Writers: Literary Dreams of Tropical Escape 6. Burning Privilege: Luxury in the Age of Decolonization Conclusion: Perilously Cruising into the Future Notes Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisFor Putin and for Sharia examines what it means to support sharia in twenty-first-century Dagestan, where calls for an Islamic state coexist with nostalgia for the days of Stalin''s rule and Mecca calendars hang alongside portraits of Putin. Confronting existing narratives about sharia, terrorism, and anti-terrorism through ethnographic fieldwork, Iwona Kaliszewska looks at the beliefs and practices of Dagestani Muslims, revealing that the pursuit of sharia can assume a range of forms from sweeping visions of an Islamic state imposed through violence, to minor acts of everyday resistance against injustice, to attempts to restore the security and stability once afforded by the Soviet state. In For Putin and for Sharia, Kaliszewska challenges the official dichotomy of Muslims as supporting either the political underground or state authorities and deconstructs the Salafi/Sufi division between the so-called reformists and traditional Islam.Trade ReviewFor Putin and for Sharia is a fine ethnographic description of a part of the Caucasus that has received little attention from Western scholars. Throughout the book Kaliszewska takes the perspective of her interlocutors toward the state and its actions against citizens. This is not only brave, as she is confronted with violence and the state security apparatus for doing so, her approach also uncovers the controversial world of Salafi-oriented Muslims. * The Russian Review *Table of ContentsPrologue: Pizza with Shakhidkas Introduction: Sipping Coffee to the Sound of Gunfire 1. Political and Social Instability in Dagestan 2. Torture, Exorcisms, and Checkpoints: Experiencing the "Fight against Terrorism" 3. The Resurgent Importance of Islam in the Everyday Life of Dagestanis 4. Wahhabis, Tariqatists, and "New Muslims" 5. Sharia: Thinking beyond the (Secular) State? Conclusion

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Book Synopsis"The Greater East Asia Co-Prosperity Sphere offers a lucid, dynamic, and highly readable history of Japan's attempt to usher in a new order in Asia during World War II." â Cross-Currents: East Asian History and Culture Review In The Greater East Asia Co-Prosperity Sphere, Jeremy A. Yellen exposes the history, politics, and intrigue that characterized the era when Japan's "total empire" met the total war of World War II. He illuminates the ways in which the imperial center and its individual colonies understood the concept of the Sphere, offering two sometimes competing, sometimes complementary, and always intertwined visions-one from Japan, the other from Burma and the Philippines. Yellen argues that, from 1940 to 1945, the Greater East Asia Co-Prosperity Sphere epitomized two concurrent wars for Asia's future: the first was for a new type of empire in Asia, and the second was a political war, waged by nationalist elites in the colonial capitals of Rangoon and Manila. Exploring Japanese visions for international order in the face of an ever-changing geopolitical situation, The Greater East Asia Co-Prosperity Sphere explores wartime Japan's desire to shape and control its imperial future while its colonies attempted to do the same. At Japan's zenith as an imperial power, the Sphere represented a plan for regional domination; by the end of the war, it had been recast as the epitome of cooperative internationalism. In the end, the Sphere could not survive wartime defeat, and Yellen's lucidly written account reveals much about the desires of Japan as an imperial and colonial power, as well as the ways in which the subdued colonies in Burma and the Philippines jockeyed for agency and a say in the future of the region.Trade ReviewThe author's insights, based on extensive research, add depth to understanding of Japan's wartime decision-making process while also correcting misreadings of the role played by its erstwhile collaborators in Burma and the Philippines * Choice *No English-language monographs have [yet] explored the Greater East Asia Co-Prosperity Sphere—Japan's wartime effort to impose a new regional order—from the vantage point of Japanese high policy. Jeremy Yellen has admirably filled this gap, offering innovative insights into Japan's abortive effort to redefine the international relations of East and Southeast Asia from the late 1930s to 1945. * Global Asia *Yellen offers a useful examination of the changing and contested meaning of Japan's proclaimed 'Co-Prosperity Sphere.' [His] work helps inform about an important but opaque aspect of World War II history that influenced the receding of Asian empires after that war. * Journal of Military History *The Greater East Asia Co-Prosperity Sphere is in fact a truly timely addition to the historiography of modern Japan in general and a fundamental contribution to the study of the Japanese wartime experience. * The Japan Society *In this outstanding new study of the Greater East Asia Co-Prosperity Sphere, Jeremy Yellen challenges the longstanding view that the Sphere was little more than a facade for Japan's predatory imperialism and that Asian leaders who collaborated with Japan were traitors to their countries. [E]ssential reading for anyone interested in the inner workings of the Japanese empire and its enduring legacy in Southeast Asia. * Pacific Historical Review *We had to wait forty-four years, but Yellen's The Greater East Asia Co-Prosperity Sphere: When Total Empire Met Total War was worth the wait. In his masterful account regarding the Co-Prosperity Sphere, Yellen argues that it was nothing more than 'a failed dream'—an incoherent vision that was contested and an idea that never coalesced into a coherent policy that could be enacted. * Journal of Asian Studies *The Greater East Asia Co-Prosperity Sphere offers a lucid, dynamic, and highly readable history of Japan's attempt to usher in a new order in Asia during World War II. * Cross-Currents: East Asian History and Culture Review *With his excellent command of Japanese and use of rich Japanese sources, Yellen reveals the ambivalence evident in Japan's policy making and implementation of the Greater East Asia Co-Prosperity Sphere. * Southeast Asian Studies *Yellen's study is a welcome step toward a fuller understanding of GEACPS led by international scholars on a truly global basis. * Pacific Affairs *Yellen describes in his deep empirical analysis, showing mastery of the archival record in Japan and the long stretch of Japanese secondary scholarship, how Japan was attempting to shape its own new world order. The delicious banquet that [he] serves up is the complex and at times completely incongruous definition of the sphere. * Journal of Japanese Studies *

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Book SynopsisDocumenting Impossible Realities explores the limitations of conventional accounts through which belonging is documented, focusing on the experiences of adoptees, deportees, migrants, and other exilic populations. Susan Bibler Coutin and Barbara Yngvesson speak to the current historical moment in which the dichotomy between an above ground inhabited by dominant groups and an underground to which unauthorized immigrants, political exiles, and transnational adoptees are relegated cannot be sustained. This dichotomy was made possible by the illusion that some people do not belong, that some forms of kin are not real, or that certain ways of knowing do not count. To examine accounts that challenge such illusions, Coutin and Yngvesson focus on the spaces between groups, where difference is constituted and where the potential for new forms of relationship may be realized. By juxtaposing and moving between entangled realities and modes of expression, DocumentTable of ContentsPrologue: "What Lies Back of the Work" 1. Counterfeiting Reality: Legal Fictions and the Construction of Everyday Belongings 2. Fieldsight: Multivalent Ways of Seeing in Ethnography and Law 3. Schrödinger's Cat: The "Missing Middle," Discredited Histories, and Measurement Problems 4. The Search for a "Back": Archivists of Memory 5. Beyond "Spooky Action at a Distance": An Ethnography of the Future

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Book SynopsisThe Starving Empire traces the history of famine in the modern French Empire, showing that hunger is intensely local and sweepingly global, shaped by regional contexts and the transnational interplay of ideas and policies all at once. By integrating food crises in Algeria, West and Equatorial Africa, and Vietnam into a broader story of imperial and transnational care, Yan Slobodkin reveals how the French colonial state and an emerging international community took increasing responsibility for subsistence, but ultimately failed to fulfill this responsibility. Europeans once dismissed colonial famines as acts of god, misfortunes of nature, and the inevitable consequences of backward races living in harsh environments. But as Slobodkin recounts, drawing on archival research from four continents, the twentieth century saw transformations in nutrition, scientific racism, and international humanitarianism that profoundly altered ideas of what colonialism could

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Book SynopsisFounded as an ecclesiastical center, trading hub, and intended capital of a feudal state, Riga was Old Livonia''s greatest city and its indispensable port. Because the city was situated in what was initially remote and inhospitable territory, surrounded by pagans and coveted by regional powers like Poland, Sweden, and Muscovy, it was also a fortress encased by a wall.The House of Hemp and Butter begins in the twelfth century with the arrival to the eastern Baltic of German priests, traders, and knights, who conquered and converted the indigenous tribes and assumed mastery over their lands. It ends in 1710 with an account of the greatest war Livonia had ever seen, one that was accompanied by mass starvation, a terrible epidemic, and a flood of nearly biblical proportions that devastated the city and left its survivors in misery.Readers will learn about Riga''s peoplemerchants and clerics, craftsmen and builders, porters and day laborersabout its structuresTrade ReviewO'Connor's book is a portrait of a city that is no more, a city whose citizens and guests redefined themselves many times, but not along the lines that today's Rigans would recognize. While the author reminds us that the past is a foreign country, he all the same encourages the reader to see societies as ever-changing entities, exposing the claims to Europe's historical homogeneity as myths built on faulty foundations. * The Russian Review *... careful research is combined with a lively and colourful style.... This vivid and readable account is an excellent concise exposition of the early history of a great city. * Journal of European Studies *The House of Hemp and Butter is an impeccably-researched and very engagingly written account of Riga's fascinating social, economic, and political history. * New Books Network *

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