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Book SynopsisThis first full-length history of the Jews of Edinburgh chronicles their immigration to Scotland's capital city from Russia during the 1880s in the wake of Tsarist persecution, and examines their reception by native Scots.

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Book SynopsisIn the first half of the nineteenth century, rural New England society underwent a radical transformation as the traditional household economy gave way to an encroaching market culture. Drawing on a wide array of diaries, letters, and published...Trade ReviewKelly pushes the boundaries of labor, social, and women's history to challenge a number of core conclusions about the transformation to a market society in the antebellum North.... Reading letters and diaries, friendship and commonplace books, and published prose and poetry for what they reveal about both experience and representation, Kelly insists that we take women seriously as actors and thinkers, whose daily lives and the meanings they made of them at once signified and effected important changes in gender and class identities, roles, and relations. -- Crista DeLuzio, Southern Methodist University * Modernism/Modernity *This rich written legacy first spelled out the superiority of rural life over urban society as a way of clarifying economic change.... This fine study should stimulate other scholars to pursue and evaluate Kelly's methods and insights. -- Mary H. Blewett, University of Massachusetts * American Historical Review *Kelly's work is concerned, above all, with the place of women in the period. The reader will find fascinating sections of the book dealing with domestic tasks and responsibilities, paid and unpaid work, education, courtship and marriage, the transformation of love, private and public sociability, and fashion and consumption.... This is a well-analyzed, carefully researched study. -- Billie Barnes Jensen, San Jose State University * History: The Review of New Books *With complexity and thoughtfulness the author addresses middle-class formation, rural capitalism, separate spheres ideology, and the contours of the affectionate family.... This provocative book demands consideration for its creative thinking alone. -- Lisa Wilson, Connecticut College, New London, CT * The Journal of American History *

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Book SynopsisSome scholars allege that the Jews' own conduct was the main cause of the hatred directed toward them in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Olaf Blaschke takes up this provocative question by considering the tensions between German Catholicism and Judaism in the period of the Kulturkämpfe.Trade Review"Blaschke's work is as deeply research as it is valuable and suggestive."—William D. Rubinstein, Journal of Jewish StudiesTable of ContentsPreface and AcknowledgementsIntroduction1. Catholic Attitudes toward Jews-Challenging Explanations of Catholic Antisemitism-The Nature of Catholic Antisemitism2. Jewish Attitudes towards Catholics-Explaining Antisemitism with Regard to "Jewish Offenders"-Explaining Catholic Antisemitism without Jews3. Jewish Views of Catholic Antisemitism-Emphasizing Good Relations between Jews and Catholics-Presenting Catholic Antisemites as Exceptions-Referring to Antisemitism DirectlyConclusion: Explaining Antisemitism without Reference to JewsSources and LiteratureIndex

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Book Synopsis Xurt’an (the end of the world) showcases the rich storytelling traditions of the northern Lacandones of Naha’ through acollection of traditional narratives, songs, and ritual speech. Formerly isolated in the dense, tropical rainforest of Chiapas, Mexico, the Lacandon Maya constitute one of the smallest language groups in the world. Although their language remains active and alive, their traditional culture was abandoned after the death of their religious and civic leader in 1996.Lacking the traditional contexts in which the culture was transmitted, the oral traditions are quickly being forgotten. This collection includes creation myths that describe the cycle of destruction and renewal of the world, the structure of the universe, the realms of the gods and their intercessions in the affairs of their mortals, and the journey of the souls after death. Other traditional stories are non-mythic and fictive accounts involving talking animals, supernatural Trade Review"Xurt’an will appeal to students and scholars in the fields of folklore, anthropology, comparative literature, and performance studies. The scope of the oral narratives gathered here is notable, as is Cook’s discussion of some of the selections. . . . Xurt’an will certainly become a landmark in the study of Northern Lacandon Maya oral literature."—Sarah Alice Campbell, Journal of Folklore Research“This is a very valuable piece of work for folklorists and linguists and is a huge contribution to scholarship in this area. I applaud Cook for including oral traditions recorded from Lacandon women. Lacandon women are largely ignored in the Lacandon ethnographic literature and archaeology, and until now I know of no compilation of Lacandon women’s stories. This is an outstanding service to the field.”—R. Jon McGee, professor of anthropology at Texas State University“You will be quickly drawn into this presentation of language texts contributed by skilled Mayan narrators working in multiple literary genres while covering topics ranging from the earthly to the cosmological. The author’s attention to detail is unparalleled. The scope and quality of the narratives will take your breath away.”—Barry Carlson, editor of Northwest Coast Texts: Stealing LightTable of ContentsList of Illustrations List of Tables Preface Acknowledgments Introduction Part 1. The Hach Winik ‘True People’ The Lacandones Northern Lacandon Oral Literature Part 2. Myths Birth of the Gods Bor Maʼax Hachäkyum and Akyantʼoʼ Create Their People and Kisin Creates Their Onen Bor Maʼax Hachäkyum Makes the Ants and Snakes Antonio Martinez Hachäkyum Makes the Sky Bor Maʼax Uluʼubir Baʼarkaʼan Umentik Pethaʼ ‘A Star Falls and Creates the Lagoon’ Antonio Martinez Hachäkyum yeter Tʼuup yeter Kisin ‘Hachäkyum, Tʼuup, and the Devil’ Bor Maʼax Hachäkyum yeter Tʼuup yeter Chäk Xib ‘Hachäkyum, Tʼuup, and Chäk Xib’ Bor Maʼax Hachäkyum Uxatik Ucheʼir Ukaar ‘Hachäkyum Cuts the Mortals’ Throats’ Bor Maʼax Äkicheʼex ‘Our Eyes’ Bor Maʼax Nacimiento ‘Birth’ Bor Maʼax Uyählehir Bah ‘The Mole Trapper’ Bor Maʼax Xurtʼan Uburur ‘The World Ends with the Flood’ Bor Maʼax Akyantʼoʼ No Permite Uxurtʼan ‘Akyantʼoʼ Prevents the End of the World’ Bor MaʼaxʼÄhah Antonio Martinez Kaʼwätsʼäk uhoʼor Barum yeter Kʼakʼ ‘The Two-Headed Jaguar and the Lord of Fire’ Säk Hoʼor Mensäbäk yeter Hach Winik Tukinsah ‘Mensäbäk and the Ancestor He Killed’ Kʼayum Maʼax Kakʼoch yeter Ukʼani(r) Hach Winik ‘Kakʼoch and His Human Assistant’ Bor Maʼax Akʼinchob Takes a Human Wife Antonio Martinez Part 3. Popular Stories Maya Kimin ‘The Mayan Death’ Säk Hoʼor Chäk Xok ‘The Sirens’ Bor Maʼax Nukuch Winik yeter Utiʼaʼar yeter Ahyaʼaxcheʼ ‘The Ancestor, His Son, and the Ceiba Tree’ Bor Maʼax Haayokʼ Bor Maʼax Koʼotir Kaʼan ‘The Celestial Eagle’ Bor Maʼax Uyitber ‘He at the End of the Road’ Bor Maʼax Kakʼoch yeter Uyitber ‘Kakʼoch and the Yitber’ Bor Maʼax Wantʼutʼkʼin Säk Hoʼor Pʼikbir Tsʼon yeter Kisin ‘The Rifle and Kisin’ Säk HoʼorʼAyim yetel Chem ‘The Crocodile and the Canoe’ Säk Hoʼor Ahsaay ‘The Leafcutter Ants’ Bor Maʼax Ahtʼuʼur yeter Barum ‘The Rabbit and the Puma’ Säk Hoʼor Chʼämäk yeter Chäk Barum ‘The Fox and the Puma’ Bor Maʼax Hachäkyum yeter Ahbäb ‘Hachäkyum and the Toad’ Säk Hoʼor Pekʼ yeter ʼAyim ‘The Dog and the Crocodile’ Säk Hoʼor How the Toucan Got His Red Beak Antonio Martinez Part 4. Songs Ukʼaay Barum ‘The Jaguar Song’ Antonio Martinez Ukʼaay Box ‘The Gourd Song’ Antonio Martinez Ukʼaay Käkah ‘The Cacao Song’ Juana Koh Ukʼaay Käy ‘Fish Song’ Antonio Martinez Ukʼaay tiʼ Huuchʼ ‘Song for Grinding’ Juana Koh Ukʼaay tiʼ Kʼuuch ‘Song for Spinning Thread’ Juana Koh Ukʼaay Torok ‘The Iguana Song’ Antonio Martinez Ukʼaayir Maʼax ‘Song of the Monkeys’ Antonio Martinez Ukʼaayir Tokʼ ‘Song of the Flint’ Antonio Martinez Ukʼaayir Xux ‘Song of the Yellow Jacket Wasps’ Säk Hoʼor Part 5. Ritual Speech: Invocations, Chants, and Charms Ahhoochʼ ‘The Hoochʼ’ Juana Koh Ahtsʼin ‘The Manioc’ Juana Koh An Offering Chant during the Preparation of Balcheʼ Antonio Martinez Offering under a Tree Antonio Martinez Utʼanir Baʼcheʼ ‘The Secret of the Balcheʼ’ Antonio Martinez Part 6. Descriptions of Meteorological and Astral PhenomenaʼÄxpʼäriʼ ‘The Solstice’ Antonio Martinez Luʼum Kab ‘The Rainbow Gods’ Bor Maʼax Säkber Akyum ‘Our Lord’s White Road’ Antonio Martinez Appendix 1: Lacandon Onen, Ceremonial Names, and Distribution Appendix 2: Gods and Men in Lacandon Mythology Notes References

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Book SynopsisThis book confronts the question of who and what is a Nikkei, that is, a person of Japanese descent, by presenting 18 case studies from throughout the Americas-including Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Canada, Paraguay, Peru, and the United States.Trade Review"This extremely important book marks a definite'breakthrough' in making a comparative analysis of a single nationality group and its descendants in several new countries. No other book encompasses such a broad, yet very detailed, perspective, and all scholars of Japanese immigrants to the Americas will welcome this new direction in immigration history."—Brian Hayashi, Kyoto University"New Worlds, New Lives does a great job of exploring the complex histories, and changing demographics, of the Japanese diaspora in only 384 pages...The volume is definately worth $24.95."—The Hawaii Herald"Its real strength is its view into the contemporary communities of Nikkei in various host nations, and into Japan as host to its descendants wh have become gaijin."—American Ethnologist

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Long before the indigenous people of southeastern North America first encountered Europeans and Africans, they established communities with clear social and political hierarchies and rich cultural traditions. Gregory Smithers brings this world to life in Native Southerners, a sweeping narrative of American Indian history in the Southeast.

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Book SynopsisIllustrates how aggrandized versions of the past have been used to turn a profit. Examining the imagined frontier town of Fort Smith, Arkansas, Daniel Maher warns that disconnecting cultural heritage tourism from history minimizes the devastating consequences of imperialism, racism, and sexism and relegitimizes the privilege bestowed upon white men.

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Book SynopsisTales of individual courage from men who defied comfort and custom.Table of ContentsNew Journey on an Old Road Prejudice versus Common Sense A Young Man of Substance Organizing Athletics The Faith Plan Janitorial Engineering Inherited Traditions Inherently Unequal With All Deliberate Speed At the Highest Level In Front of the Parade A World Uncertain An Accepted Way of Life A Progressive and Englightened State Homeless Tigers Out of the Ruins Secret Ballot A Whistle from Midcourt Epilogue

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Book SynopsisFeatures an array of scholars of Jewish history, 1929 surveys the Jewish world in one year offering clear examples of the transnational connections which linked Jews to each other-from politics, diplomacy, and philanthropy to literature, culture, and the fate of Yiddish-regardless of where they lived.Trade ReviewAnthologies are notoriously difficult to evaluate because they are disparate. Withal, the interesting material presented in these articles more than compensates for the inability of some contributors to march under the assigned 1929 banner. -- Henry L. Feingold * The Journal of American History *This wide-ranging and innovative collection of essays presents the distinct features of the interwar period in Jewish history throughout the world. Using the year 1929 as a focal point, the volume's essays depict the transition from the tumultuous, yet often hopeful, 1920s to the dire straits of the 1930s. This is a splendid overview of the demographic, political and cultural ferment of the era. -- Derek Penslar,University of Oxford and University of TorontoThe books greatest success lies not only in elevating the importance of 1929 as a turning point in Jewish history, but also in problematizing the very notion of periodization. Furthermore, the collections focus on this particular year manages to successfully upset several paradigms dominating the study of modern Jewish history and literature. This volume will prove a welcome addition to surveys of modern Jewish history * American Historical Review *Table of ContentsIntroduction Hasia R. Diner and Gennady EstraikhPart I: Global Ties 1 Living Locally, Organizing Nationally, and Thinking Globally: The View from the United StatesHasia R. Diner 2 Jewish Diplomacy at a Crossroads David Engel 3 The Stalinist "Great Break" in Yiddishland Gennady Estraikh 4 Permanent Transit 5 Polish Jewry, American Jewish Immigrant Philanthropy, and the Crisis of 1929Rebecca Kobrin 6 Jewish American Philanthropy and the Crisis of 1929Rakefet Zalashik 7 Territorialism and the ICOR "American Commission of Scientists and Experts" to the Soviet Far EastHenry SrebrnikPart II: Local Stories 8 From Universal Values to Cultural Representations Avner Ben-Zaken 9 The Struggle over Yiddish in Postimmigrant America Eric L. Goldstein 10 When the Local Trumps the GlobalJeffrey LesserPart III: Literature 11 Patterning a New LifeGabriella Safran 12 David VogelGlenda Abramson 13 Radical Conservatism Joseph Sherman 14 Desire, Destiny, and DeathMikhail KrutikovIndex Contributors

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Book SynopsisFor some time now, scholars have recognized the archive less as a neutral repository of documents of the past, and rather more as a politically interested representation of it, and recognized that the very act of archiving is accompanied by a process of un-archiving. Michel Foucault pointed to madness as describing one limit of reason, history and the archive. This book draws attention to another boundary, marked not by exile, but by the ordinary and everyday, yet trivialized or trifling. It is the status of being exiled within â by prejudices, procedures, activities and interactions so fundamental as to not even be noticed â that marks the unarchived histories investigated in this volume.Bringing together contributions covering South Asia, North and South America, and North Africa, this innovative analysis presents novel interpretations of unfamiliar sources and insightful reconsiderations of well-known materials that lie at the centre of many current debates on histoTable of Contents1. Unarchived Histories: The "Mad" and the "Trifling" Part 1: The State and its Record(s) 2. Peasant as Alibi: An Itinerary of the Archive of Colonial Panjab 3. A Death Without Cause: Mary E. Hutchinson’s Un-archived Life in Certified Death 4. "Standard Deviations": On Archiving the Awkward Classes in Northern Peru Part 2: Everyday as Archive 5. Feminine Ecriture, Trace Objects and the Death of Braj 6. Brown Privilege, Black Labor: Uncovering the Significance of Creole Women’s Work 7. Unfriendly Thresholds: On Queerness, Capitalism and Misanthropy in 19th Century America Part 3: Signs of Wonder 8. Of Kings and Gods: The Archive of Sovereignty in a Princely State 9. Geography’s Myth: The Many Origins of Calcutta 10. Un-archiving Algeria: Foucault, Derrida, and Spivak

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Book SynopsisTrade Review"Amazing; revelatory: at last, a book that guides scholars and students who have only known humans into care for other beings. Care of the Species walks readers through the steps that allowed John Hartigan Jr. to open his attention to plants. He starts with a meditation on race: what happens to this category when it refers to cultivated plants? Rather than assume readers who already care, Hartigan Jr. shows us how to care. Rather than stereotype science as a way of thought, Care of the Species shows how ethnographers might listen closely to botanists to appreciate what their caring might be about. Reading this book made me realize I had waited for it a long time; it shows humanists why the more-than-human matters. I can’t wait to teach it."—Anna Lowenhaupt Tsing, coeditor of Arts of Living on a Damaged Planet "Care of the Species examines the infrastructures, labs, and gardens that contain the dynamism of botanical life forms. Corn plants—with unruly ‘jumping genes’ and racialized strains—are the stars of John Hartigan Jr.’s multispecies story. Making metaphoric leaps across divisions separating bodies and species, this book is an erudite engagement with model organisms, mutant forms, and molecular techniques. Revealing tips on ‘How to Interview a Plant’ will be useful to multispecies ethnographers who seek to reflexively localize, describe, theorize, and contextualize their subjects of study."—Eben Kirksey, author of Emergent EcologiesTable of ContentsContentsAbbreviationsIntroductionPart I. Species Interiors1. Follow the Species: In and Out of Labs2. Maize: An Ethnohistory3. Racial Thinking: Transgenics versus Razas4. Selfing: The Sexual History of a Species5. Species Thinking: Calibrating Knowledge of Life FormsInterlude: Figure and Ground Part II. Knowing Plants6. Living Ethnographies: Of Plants and Arguments7. Species Don’t Exist: Theorizing Life Forms8. Care and Its Publics: Peopling Botanical Gardens9. How to Interview a Plant: Ethnography of Life FormsEpilogue: An Elegant PlantAcknowledgmentsNotesBibliographyIndex

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Book SynopsisA history of Black struggles for human dignity, equality, and opportunity in Atlanta from the early 1960s through the end of the initial term of Maynard Jackson, the city's first Black mayor, in 1977. It highlights the work of grassroots activists, who take centre stage alongside well-known figures.Trade Review“Challenging U.S. Apartheid is a brilliant and provocative contribution to our understanding of the Black freedom movement in Atlanta in the 1960s and 1970s. While Martin Luther King Jr.’s legacy has long dominated our understanding of the movement in Atlanta, Winston A. Grady-Willis forces us to look again with a wider lens and a new set of sensibilities. With insight and eloquence he demonstrates the pivotal role of women and Atlanta’s Black working class in the fight for racial and economic justice and self-determination. He does not simply give a polite nod to issues of gender and class. Rather, these modes of analysis take center stage in his thinking and in his work. Grady-Willis has done for Atlanta what Charles Payne and John Dittmer did for Mississippi. This book is a must-read for anyone serious about understanding the landmark social justice struggles of the 1960s and 1970s.”—Barbara Ransby, author of Ella Baker and the Black Freedom Movement: A Radical Democratic Vision“By deploying the frames of apartheid and human rights to analyze social struggle in the Black U.S. urban context, Winston A. Grady-Willis’s work asks scholars to rethink the way we characterize Black demands and, therefore, their relationship to a broader activist cadre and global politics.”—Rhonda Y. Williams, author of The Politics of Public Housing: Black Women's Struggles Against Urban Inequality“This book is an important addition to the literary examination of the Civil Rights Movement. Atlanta nurtured the intellectual, intuitive, and creative spirits of Movement leaders because it was a crossroads of progressive thought, merging a morally conscious academic, religious, and business community into a galvanizing force in American history. Winston A. Grady-Willis takes a serious, researched approach to his analysis of a city often called the ‘Little New York’ or the ‘Gateway to the South.’ He helps us understand its contemporary role in modern history as a Gateway to the New America.”—U.S. Representative John Lewis“Challenging U.S. Apartheid is a fascinating read not only of the frontline struggles that brought down Jim Crow, but for its account of how political consciousness took shape and broadened over the course of a generation.” -- Lee Wengraf * International Socialist Review *“[A] comprehensive, penetrating history of black activism in Atlanta. . . . A thoughtful interpretation of vital themes in the black experience that should encourage further discussion and debate. Summing Up: Highly recommended.” -- H. Shapiro * Choice *“Grady-Willis’s analysis of Atlanta movements and their interaction with ‘national’ organizations and personalities makes a major contribution to the study of modern American civil and human rights movements. . . . Grady-Willis’s narrative writing style is accessible enough to sustain the attention of undergraduates . . . . [The book] is among the very best examples of this new generation of civil rights scholarship. It not only adds to what scholars have already written about movements in Atlanta and other communities but also problematizes and reframes the questions scholars should be asking about the civil rights movement in all of its manifestations.” -- J. Todd Moye * American Historical Review *“Winston A. Grady-Willis has made and important contribution to the historiography of the black freedom movement. . . . Challenging U.S. Apartheid is an important read for anyone interested in Black Power, Atlanta history, and the internationalization of the African American human rights struggle.” -- John Matthew Smith * Journal of Social History *Table of ContentsAcknowledgements ix Prologue xiii Abbreviations xxiii PART I: NONVIOLENT DIRECT ACTION 1. The Committee on Appeal for Human Rights and Phase One of the Direct Action Campaign 3 2. Phase Two of the Direct Action Campaign and the Fall of Petty Apartheid in Atlanta 33 PART II: DEMANDING BLACK POWER 3. Bridges 59 4. The Atlanta Project of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee 79 5. Neighborhood Protest and the Voices of the Black Working Poor 114 PART III: THE QUEST FOR SELF-DETERMINATION 6. Black Studies and the Birth of the Institute of the Black World 143 7. The Multi-front Black Struggle for Human Rights 169 Epilogue 206 Notes 213 Bibliography 265 Indez 281

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Book SynopsisA provocative theoretical critique of representations of race in socially engaged films made since the 1960s.Trade Review“Red, White and Black: Cinema and the Structure of U.S. Antagonisms is a provocative and challenging book. Wilderson exposes the darker side of cinematic narrative and the unspoken messages sent through film which reinforce the identities and cultures on all three groups mentioned, despite these identities and cultures being imposed rather than inherent. . . . A truly unique analyses of cinema, race, politics, power, society and identity.” - Danielle Mulholland, M/C Reviews“[An] exceptional and provocative book. . . . [T]he volume is clearly written, persuasively argued and – reflecting a particular strength of the book – immensely detailed.” - Adam Brown, Media International Australia“Wilderson’s style of writing is persuasive while his passionate , uncompromising commitment to every word, passage, idea, in his book is undeniable.” - Säer Maty Bâ, Cultural Studies Review“The work exceeds the typical trajectory of film writing, and Wildersonwrites with a conviction that can incite further thought, discussion, and even action. In a panel on literary activism at the National Black Writers Conference in 2010, Wilderson clarified his intentions: ‘The relationship of literature to struggle is not one of causality, but one of accompaniment.’ As such, Red, White and Black is valuable reading for any filmmaker or theoristinterested in socially engaged cinema.” - Malia Bruker, Journal of Film and Video“Red, White & Black challenges scholars of film, race, ethnicity, American studies, and cultural studies to rethink many of the assumptions that animate our work. Pairing analyses of film representations of U.S. racial antagonisms animated by images of Blacks with those that work through images of Indians provides a new and exciting critical framework. Red, White & Black provokes scholars to reckon with the political implications of Frank B. Wilderson’s call to think structures of Blackness, Whiteness, and Redness in the United States both in conjunction with and in contradistinction to each other.”—Kara Keeling, author of The Witch’s Flight: The Cinematic, the Black Femme, and the Image of Common Sense“Red, White & Black is unique, incisive, and thought-provoking. The analytic frameworks that Frank B. Wilderson III develops surpass the conventional paradigms for exploring theory, race, power, and film in U.S. culture.”—Joy James, editor of Warfare in the American Homeland: Policing and Prison in a Penal Democracy“I have not read anything as striking as Red, White & Black in some time. In this unsettling work, Frank B. Wilderson III theorizes the singularity of anti-Blackness as he refines our understanding of how political economy, popular culture, and law are shot through with identification and desire, pleasure and pain, sexuality and aggression. Anti-Blackness, which is carefully distinguished here from White supremacy, is not only an ideology and an institutional practice; it is also a structure of feeling with pervasive effects. This last, crucial point is glossed over by too many authors in their haste to provide rational analyses of and challenges to racism.”—Jared Sexton, author of Amalgamation Schemes: Antiblackness and the Critique of Multiracialism“Red, White and Black: Cinema and the Structure of U.S. Antagonisms is a provocative and challenging book. Wilderson exposes the darker side of cinematic narrative and the unspoken messages sent through film which reinforce the identities and cultures on all three groups mentioned, despite these identities and cultures being imposed rather than inherent. . . . A truly unique analyses of cinema, race, politics, power, society and identity." -- Danielle Mulholland * M/C Reviews *“[An] exceptional and provocative book. . . . [T]he volume is clearly written, persuasively argued and – reflecting a particular strength of the book – immensely detailed.” -- Adam Brown * Media International Australia *“Wilderson’s style of writing is persuasive while his passionate , uncompromising commitment to every word, passage, idea, in his book is undeniable.” -- Säer Maty Bâ * Cultural Studies Review *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments ix Introduction: Unspeakable Ethics 1 I. The Structure of Antagonisms 1. The Ruse of Analogy 35 2. The Narcissistic Slave 54 II. Antwone Fisher and Bush Mama 3. Fishing for Antwone 95 4. Cinematic Unrest: Bush Mama and the Black Liberation Army 117 III. Skins 5. Absurd Mobility 149 6. The Ethics of Sovereignty 162 7. Excess Slack 189 8. The Pleasures of Parity 200 9. "Savage" Negrophobia 221 IV. Monster's Ball 10. A Crisis in the Commons 247 11. Half-White Healing 285 12. Make Me Feel Good 317 Epilogue 237 Notes 343 References 365 Index 375

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Book SynopsisMinh-ha T. Pham examines the phenomenal rise and influence of elite Asian personal style superbloggers such as Susie Bubble and Bryanboy. Situating blogging within the historical context of gendered racial fashion work and global consumer capitalism, Pham analyzes how race, class, gender, and sexuality affect bloggers' work, opportunities, and rewards.Trade Review"[A] deeply engaging and sophisticated discussion of the race and gender dynamics that affect Asian fashion labor." -- Christine Wu * Japan Times *"Pham’s book is sharp, punchy and eminently readable. It is full of shrewd visual and textual analysis of the content of blogs and puts forward a muchneeded critique of the kinds of critiques that bloggers themselves tend to have launched at them. . . . I thoroughly enjoyed reading Asians Wear Clothes on the Internet, and I would recommend it to any scholar interested in blogging, social media, personal style, creative labour or race and gender politics in fashion today." -- Brent Luvaas * International Journal of Fashion Studies *"With Asians Wear Clothes on the Internet, Pham makes a significant contribution to scholarship on fashion, race, gender, and online media by eloquently demonstrating the ambivalent outcomes when Asianness becomes productive of economic and cultural value. While Asian superbloggers serve as evidence that the previously marginalized can gain entry into fashion’s highest status venues, Pham deftly shows that behind the veneer of this apparent democratization lies an unpaid or underpaid, racialized labor force." -- Ann Marie Leshkowich * Media Industries *"Asians Wear Clothes on the Internet makes an important scholarly contribution not only to the field of media and cultural studies but to ethnic, gender, and queer studies as well. In this sense, it is an excellent example of intersectional, feminist digital culture research that continues to be needed in order to better understand how the visibilities and movement of embodied identities work across digital culture." -- Jessalynn Keller * Cinema Journal *"Pham’s is one of the first of its kind in offering a critical investigation of the personal-style blogosphere.... Though the work of creating selfies and writing blog entries about clothing is often considered more within the realm of leisure than labor, Pham convincingly argues that the work of being a superblogger is highly labor intensive." -- Anita Mannur * American Quarterly *"Asians Wear Clothes on the Internet is a compelling book to read, deserving critical acclaim for its originality and insightful contribution to digital fashion media studies concerning the dynamic relations of race, gender, class, and labor. It is good for researchers who are interested in, and classes where the focus is on, fashion studies; digital media; and critical cultural analysis of race, gender, and class." -- Sara Liao * Journal of Asian Studies *"This is an ambitious project, but Pham is up to the task. Pham’s attention to the blog as both a cultural form and a commercial project is supported with textual and visual evidence garnered from blogs themselves. In doing so, she not only makes her argument, she demonstrates a model of digital analysis that is both traditional and novel at the same time. After reading this book, it will be hard to argue against the merits of 'blog studies.'” -- Erin M. Arizzi * Feminist Media Studies *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments vii Introduction. Asian Personal Style Superbloggers and the Material Conditions and Contexts of Asian Fashion Work 1 1. The Taste and Aftertaste for Asian Superbloggers 41 2. Style Stories, Written Tastes, and the Work of Self-Composure 81 3. "So Many and All the Same" (but Not Quite): Outfit Photos and the Codes of Asian Eliteness 105 4. The Racial and Gendered Job Performances of Fashion Blogger Poses 129 5. Invisible Labor and Racial Visibilities in Outfit Posts 167 Coda. All in the Eyes 193 Notes 201 Bibliography 219 Index 247

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Book SynopsisIn Bioinsecurities Neel Ahuja shows how twentieth-century U.S. imperial expansion was dependent on controlling the spread of disease through the transformation of humans, animals, bacteria, and viruses into living theaters of warfare and securitization. Trade Review"[T]he histories Ahuja offers in Bioinsecurities can help us to move away from the default mode of racialized panic toward more critical discourses and practices of care in the context of epidemics that cross borders and harm unevenly." -- Martha Kenney * Feminist Formations *"After decades of publications on biosecurity, Ahuja’s title—Bioinsecurities—promises something different. . . . Ahuja has five or six analytic balls in the air at once. It is the genre that encourages and allows this, and the scholarly juggling should be applauded. The book is not and should not be read as a history of medicine, and yet it will profitably be read by medical historians." -- Alison Bashford * Bulletin of the History of Medicine *“The book navigates wide-ranging cultural, scientific, and state archives with stunning clarity, all without compromising the complexity of its argument. As a result, Bioinsecurities carves out fresh possibilities for the medical humanities, as novels and short stories, films and photographs, memoirs and epistles appear side-by-side with government reports, immigration acts, and lab research to document tensions and struggles inhering the biopolitical relations of a modern U.S. security state.” -- James Fitz Gerald * symploke *“Bioinsecurities is an important book that speaks to the intertwined racial projects of military, imperial securitization, and disease control, which is particularly timely.” -- Claire Laurier Decoteau * Technology and Culture *"Incisive vivisection of the interspecies politics of American empire and global biosecurity. . . . Ahuja’s work offers trenchant and timely political diagnoses that should attract a wide readership, particularly as it spans (and highlights the linkages between) the humanities, social sciences, and STEM fields. . . . With its comparative, multi-cited, and interdisciplinary analysis, Bioinsecurities offers an important and timely contribution to our understanding of the interspecies dimension of US empire and its possible futures." -- Shanon Fitzpatrick * Journal of American Studies *"Bioinsecurities describes with vivid detail how empire operates on a scale that is at once global and microscopic, stretching from the Hawai’ian territo-ries to the Panama Canal Zone to US-occupied Iraq." -- Russ Castronovo * American Literature *“This is a theoretically ambitious project that draws on both biopolitics and posthumanism—two bodies of thought that have tended to sit somewhat uneasily together.... Bioinsecurities makes a valuable contribution to understanding the nexus of imperial power, species, and the human.” -- Courtney Addison * New Genetics and Society *Table of ContentsPreface: Empire in Life vii Acknowledgments xvii Introduction. Dread Life: Disease Interventions and the Intimacies of Empire 1 1. "An Atmosphere of Leprosy": Hansen's Disease, the Dependent Body, and the Transoceanic Politics of Hawaiian Annexation 29 2. Medicalized States of War: Venereal Disease and the Risks of Occupation in Wartime Panamá 71 3. Domesticating Immunity: The Polio Scare, Cold War Mobility, and the Vivisected Primate 101 4. Staging Smallpox: Reanimating Variola in the Iraq War 133 5. Refugee Medicine, HIV, and a "Humanitarian Camp" at Guantánamo 169 Epilogue. Species War and the Planetary Horizon of Security 195 Notes 207 Bibliography 231 Index 249

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Book SynopsisIn Landscapes of Power Dana E. Powell takes an historical and ethnographic approach to understanding how a controversial coal power plant slated for development in the Navajo (Diné) Nation was defeated and, in the process of its destruction, generated the conditions for new understandings of indigenous environmentalism to emerge.Trade Review“Powell's book is impressive and creative. Essential reading for scholars of the Navajo nation and Indian country more broadly. Essential. Upper-division undergraduates through professionals.” -- R. E. O'Connor * Choice *“Dana Powell’s Landscapes of Power offers a fresh, astute, and important look at contemporary life within the context of energy politics on an American Indian Reservation in what is arguably the first modern and consciously post-colonial ethnography of the Diné. This book should draw interest from a broad range of readers.” -- Gilbert A. Quintero * Medical Anthropology Quarterly *"Dana Powell is a gifted writer and exquisite storyteller, and the book is engaging, readable, and carries the reader through from beginning to end." -- Kristina Jacobsen * Canadian Journal of Native Studies *"Landscapes of Power seeks to explain what energy justice and climate justice look like for marginalized communities embedded in ecologies rich in energy minerals. The book complicates common understandings of sovereignty as absolute independence; instead, it considers the variant forms of struggles and redefinitions of sovereignty among the Diné in their ongoing contestations over land, minerals, and energy...." -- Jorge Ramirez * Radical History Review *"No other work has gone so far to provide a ground-level understanding of how individual tribal members experienced development and how those experiences shaped the debates about and ultimate policy toward further projects." -- James Robert Allison III * American Historical Review *"A welcome addition to ethnographies of governance and power in Native communities. . . . A timely contribution to literature on energy projects that threaten Indigenous lands. It gives voice to Navajo people who were ignored or marginalized during institutional deliberations of the power plant." -- Andrew Curley * Environment and Society *"A theoretically sound and thoughtful narrative that moves from the imagined landscapes of pollution and degradation to how the politics of tribal sovereignty is entwined with the environmental justice activism that emerges from the sociocultural life of the inhabitants of the Diné Nation. . . . Landscapes of Power is particularly well suited for American Indian studies and anthropology courses that examine the intersecting challenges and interests of economic development, environmental justice, and tribal sovereignty." -- Sean P. Bruna * American Ethnologist *"Its accessible prose makes it a good choice for the classroom. Landscapes of Power will spark interesting discussions among undergraduates and graduate students in anthropology, Native American and ethnic studies, and the history of environmental justice movements. For scholars of the modern Navajo Nation it is essential reading." -- Marsha Weisiger * Anthropos *"Landscapes of Power is empirically rich and effectively puts issues of colonialism, indigenous sovereignty, and expertise at the heart of debates about environmental and energy justice. It makes clear that the practice of energy justice is always about more than forms and technologies of energy. Readers interested in the history of technology and the energy humanities will glean much from this analysis of the plurality of energy politics and the ways technology opens up new spaces for forging alliances and futures from the ground up." -- Caleb Wellum * Technology and Culture *Table of ContentsPreface. Arrivals xi Acknowledgments xvii List of Abbreviations xxi Introduction. Changing Climates of Colonialism 1 Interlude 1. Every Navajo Has an Anthro 19 1. Extractive Legacies: Histories of Diné Power 26 2. The Rise of Energy Activism 64 Interlude 2. Solar Power in Klagetoh 108 3. Sovereignty's Interdependencies 113 4. Contesting Expertise: Public Hearings on Desert Rock 149 5. Artifacts of Energy Futures 187 Interlude 3. Off-Grid in the Chuskas 230 Conclusion. Conversions 236 Epilogue. Vitalities 253 Notes 257 References 283 Index

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Book SynopsisThe Alchemy of Empire unravels the non-European origins of Enlightenment science. Focusing on the abject materials of empire-building, this study traces the genealogies of substances like mud, mortar, ice, and paper, and forms of knowledge like inoculation, arguing that East India Company employees deployed the paradigm of alchemy in order to make sense of the new worlds they confronted.Trade Review"An intriguing book that brings together an array of literary and non-literary texts dealing with eighteenth-century British response to South Asian techne. Sudan is a significant voice in global eighteenth-century studies as well as a leading critic of Anglo-Indian Relations." -- -Robert Markley University of IllinoisTable of ContentsIntroduction: Mud, Mortar, and Empire 1. The Alchemy of Empire 2. Mortar and the Making of Madras 3. Ice and the Production of British Climate 4. Inoculation and the Limits of British Imperialism 5. "Plaisters," Paper, and the Labor of Letters Conclusion Notes Works Cited

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Book SynopsisSince the 2000 elections toppled the PRI, over 150 Mexican journalists have been murdered. Failed assassinations and threats have silenced thousands more. In this collection historians, media experts, political scientists, cartoonists, and journalists reconsider censorship, state-press relations, news coverage, and readership to retell the history of Mexico's press.Trade ReviewWe journalists are not in the business of staying silent. For us, silence is not an option. But for those who abuse their power, censorship has always been a tool at their disposal. Well, this indispensable book shows us that, at the end, every story will be told (even the story of censorship)."" - Jorge Ramos, author of A Country for All: An Immigrant Manifesto

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Book SynopsisContinually Working tells the stories of Black working women who resisted employment inequality in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, from the 1940s to the 1970s. The book explores the job-related activism of Black Midwestern working women and uncovers the political and intellectual strategies they used to critique and resist employment discrimination, dismantle unjust structures, and transform their lives and the lives of those in their community. Moten emphasizes the ways in which Black women transformed the urban landscape by simultaneously occupying spaces from which they had been historically excluded and creating their own spaces. Black women refused to be marginalized within the historically white and middle-class Milwaukee Young Women's Christian Association (MYWCA), an association whose mission centered on supporting women in urban areas. Black women forged interracial relationships within this organization and made it, not without much conflict and struggle, one of the most socially prTable of Contents Acknowledgments Prologue Introduction 1. "More than a Job": Black Women's Midcentury Struggles at the Milwaukee Young Women's Christian Association 2. "A Credit to Our City as well as Our State": Black Beauticians' Professionalization, Progress, and Organization in Milwaukee, 1940s and 1950s 3. Working Toward a Remedy: Exposing the Experiences of Black Women during the Civil Rights Era 4. "What the Mothers Have to Say": Welfare Rights Activism in 1970s Milwaukee 5. "No Longer Marching": Dismantling the Jim Crow Jobs System in a Post-Civil Rights Era Epilogue Bibliography Notes Index

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Book SynopsisWest Indian Women at War documents the hitherto unrecorded contribution made by West Indian women in the British forces during the Second World War. Based on original research and interviews, the book charts the obstacles placed in the way of the recruitment of black women by a very reluctant war office. The documentary evidence of British racism uncovered by the authors makes compelling reading. But the women interviewed in this book are inspirational; they emerge as doughty fighters, as capable of taking on the war office as they were of joining the battle against Hitler.

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Book SynopsisIn 1983, Interpol named Northern Ireland the most dangerous place in the world to be a police officer. In 1968, the RUC was catapulted into the Troubles. Bombs, death threats and murder became a regular part of the day job. Working right at the heart of the conflict, police officers were often caught in the middle heroes to some, villains to others.Now, for the first time, the men and women who policed the Troubles tell their own stories in their own words. Covering all aspects of police work, from handling informants and conducting interviews with notorious criminals to dealing with the aftermath of tragic bombings, these candid, moving and sometimes blackly comic stories show the unpredictable, brutal and surreal world in which the RUC operated.As a former police officer, Colin Breen has unparalleled access to former RUC, Special Branch and CID officers who have never spoken out before. Their stories reveal the mayhem and madness that officers dealt with every day; the psychological and personal toll of the job; and the camaraderie and the whiskey that helped them to cope.Raw, unsettling and frank, A Force Like No Other tells the real story of the RUC.Trade Reviewfascinating, and hugely enjoyableBelfast Taxi is an absorbing read, which provides a fresh look at Belfast.full of comic and tragic first person accounts

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Book SynopsisWhat happened to UK cinema and TV when swinging London ended? Looking for a New England covers the period 1975 to 1986, from Slade in Flame to Absolute Beginners. A carefully researched exploration of transgressive films, the career of David Bowie, dystopias, the Joan Collins ouevre, black cinema, the origins...Trade ReviewMatthews clearly knows his stuff * Fortean Times *Simon Matthews's comprehensive and enjoyable overview... excels as a gazetteer of film genres as varied as black cinema, dystopian futures, the rise and fall of punk rock, 1980s agitprop, and the big-screen careers of Joan Collins and David Bowie * The Spectator *This absorbing, fact-filled book highlights numerous obscure but deserving British pictures alongside chapters on punk, Bowie and other dissenting voices who kept alive a spirit of adventure and transgression in a period that began with the grittiness of Slade in Flame and wrapped with the glossy, ill-conceived Absolute Beginners * Herald *Short review quote in here -- Thomas Patterson * Shindig! *Hugely enjoyable * Lion & Unicorn *

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Book SynopsisFew fictional characters have proven to be as enduringly popular as the legendary Count Dracula. In Dracula: The Origins and Influence of the Legendary Vampire Count, author Giles Morgan examines the roots of the vampire myth and the creation of Bram Stoker's masterpiece of horror....

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Book Synopsis**Shortlisted for the 2018 General Outstanding Sports Book of the Year**One of the founder members in 1895 of what became the Rugby League, Batley was once a thriving centre of commerce, one of the bustling mill towns in the Heavy Woollen District of West Yorkshire. More than 120 years on, times have changed, even if the town''s Victorian buildings remain, but one constant is the importance of the club as the centre of the community. And in 2016, the Batley Bulldogs brought more than their fair share of pride to the town. They were Underdogs, but gave their professional Super League rivals a run for their money in a season that surpassed all expectations.Given unprecedented access to the team - players, staff and fans - Tony Hannan charts a fascinating year in the life of a lower-league club, of labourers spilling blood and guts on to Batley''s notorious sloping pitch before getting bruised bodies up for work on a Monday morning, of hand-to-mouth existeTrade ReviewRecounting a year with Batley, Hannan's aim was to evoke a venerable, small-scale sporting institution in relation to the town around it... but its appeal should extend well beyond league fans. Groundbreaking. * Guardian's best books of 2017 *A compelling story... Underdogs is a fascinating account of life outside of the rugby league spotlight and gets beneath the skin of the club, town and sport in a way that's not been done before. Readers won't need to be a fan of Batley or even rugby league to enjoy this. It is a must-read. * Yorkshire Evening Post *Tremendous. I felt I was there, battling with the underdogs against the Championship's big-hitters. It's like Friday Night Lights in West Riding rather than west Texas. Underdogs is a social study of a town as much as a sports book, George Orwell meets George Williams. -- Gavin Willacy * The Guardian *A brilliant and fascinating insight into sport at a part-time level: it offers an angle rare in sports books - that of an outsider given an access-all-areas pass to the inner workings of a sporting team over the course of 12 months. And Hannan uses it superbly, providing a detailed look into the life of a modern Championship club not seen before. It's difficult to see any rugby league supporter not turning the pages as quickly as I was - and this is a book that should be enjoyed by others beyond the boundaries of the sport as well. -- Gareth Walker * League Express *For a story about a small-town rugby league team, Underdogs contains multitudes. More than a great sports book, it is a gripping and witty insight into a neglected, working-class community struggling to find its place in a changing world. One of the many delights of Underdogs are the colourful characters that populate its pages... The beating heart of the story, though, is the wonderful and ridiculously under-appreciated sport of rugby league. Hannan does a magnificent job of illustrating just how much more intricate this phenomenally tough game is than initially meets the casual observer’s eye. Life-affirming... ultimately Underdogs is about the human spirit at its finest. A richly rewarding read for anyone with even a passing interest in rugby league or sport in general. It is a must-read too for anyone interested in 21st century life in a northern town. -- Paul Knott * Disclaimer Mag *Few sports have retained the values of honesty, hard work and pride, which underpin its history, quite like rugby league. Rarely have those values been revealed with such clarity and candour as in the pages of Underdogs, a new book by Tony Hannan which focuses on what can be achieved when a sports club is at the heart of a community... Beautifully written and infused with dry humour, there is also an energetic and important debate on why rugby league has failed to attract an Asian audience, nor aligned itself with ethnic communities in areas populated with generations of immigrants. Mostly, however, Underdogs is an exploration of enduring working class culture with its extended family and a story of what can be achieved when a band of average but committed sportsmen take guardianship of their reputations. It is rugby in the raw and essential reading for anyone with a passing interest in why sport really matters. -- Frank Malley * Sports Journalists' Association *Fantastic... It's as if I'm in Batley as I read it. * Adrian Durham, talkSPORT *A tremendous book. * Harry Gration, BBC Look North *Tremendous insight. * Mark Wilson, Radio Yorkshire *Excellent read. * Danny Lockwood, League Weekly *

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Book SynopsisA New Statesman essential non-fiction read of 2021''Everybody should read [this]'' StylistBlackness is an art, not a science. It is a paradox: intangible and visceral; a situation and a story. It is the thread that connects these essays, but its significance as an experience emerges randomly, unpredictably. . . . Race is the story of my life, and therefore black is the body of this book.In twelve intensely personal, interconnected essays, Emily Bernard sets out to tell stories from her life that enable her to talk about truth, race, family and relationships, and much more. She observes the complexities and paradoxes, the haunting memories and ambushing realities of growing up black in the South with a family name inherited from a white man, of getting a PhD from Yale, of marrying a white man from the North, of adopting two babies from Ethiopia, of teaching at a white college and living in America''s New England today.Ultimately, she shows us that it is in our shared experience of humanity that we find connection, happiness and hope.What readers are saying:''Perspective changing essays'' *****''A page-turner - full of empathy, love, and insight'' *****''I raced through this'' *****''I loved it'' *****''Exquisitely crafted'' *****''Essential reading'' *****''I couldn''t put it down'' *****''Beautifully written. A must read for all races'' *****''I loved everything about this book'' *****Trade ReviewContemplative and compassionate ... Bernard's voice is personable yet incisive in exploring the lived reality of race ... [Her] wisdom and compassion radiate throughout this collection. * Publishers Weekly *Conceived while the author was hospitalized after being stabbed by a white man, these 13 formidable, destined-to-be-studied essays mark the emergence of an extraordinary voice on race in America. * Oprah Magazine *Emily Bernard is a master storyteller. She writes with an honesty and vulnerability that is uncommon. These stories are about what it means to be human-to love, to hurt, to heal. They will make you think, re-think, feel, and grow. * Nana-Ama Danquah, author of Willow Weep for Me: A Black Woman’s Journey through Depression *My very favorite book that I have read so far this year...It's really life changing. If you get no other book this year, get Black Is the Body by Emily Bernard. * Ann Patchett *Of the 12 essays here, there's not one that even comes close to being forgettable. Bernard's language is fresh, poetically compact, and often witty ... Bernard proves herself to be a revelatory storyteller of race in America who can hold her own with some of those great writers she teaches. * Maureen Corrigan *

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Book SynopsisExamines abuse of the civil rights and liberties of tens of thousands of Canadians and Canadian residents via internment from 1914 to the present day. This ongoing story spans both war and peacetime and has affected people from a wide variety of political backgrounds and ethno-cultural communities.Table of Contents Introduction Section 1 Meta Narratives Section 2 Personal Histories and Legacies Section 3 Internment and the Ukrainian Left in Two World Wars Section 4 Authorities, Internment, and Community Interventions Section 5 Gender, Identity, and Interment in WWII Section 6 Japanese Canadians: Resistance and Internment by Other Means Section 7 Personal Reflections and Documents of the Internment Experience Section 8 Commemorating Internment: Museums, Memory and the Politics of Public History Section 9 The Politics of Redress Section 10 International Internees: Canada as 'Host'

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Book SynopsisInn of the Few is a tale of the White Hart inn, which became a home to the brave fighter pilots of WWII who battled over the skies of Southern England. In the dark days of 1940, when Britain stood alone, Churchill's Few', the brave fighter pilots who battled over the skies of Southern England, found a haven in the White Hart inn in Brasted, where they could escape the traumas of war for a few hours. The landlords Kath and Teddy Preston were there to share in the hopes and fears, the elation and sorrow of the men who lived their lives on the edge daily. Inn of the Few is a tale of those precarious days, an insight into life at the White Hart and its famous visitors. The book includes fascinating anecdotes and archive photographs and documents of a momentous time in history, in which local lives gained national significance.

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Book SynopsisKistiakovsky railed against Lenin’s concept of a vanguard party to lead the revolution and advocated a government based on respect for human rights and constitutional federalism. Heuman shows the fresh urgency of Kistiakovsky’s ideas as countries of the former Soviet Union seek to establish precisely those values that he put forth 90 years ago.Trade Review[Heuman's] lucid scholarly account places [Kistiakovsky] firmly in his social and intellectual context, and provides a fascinating picture of the complex intermingling of diverse currents of thought in the early twentieth-century Russian Empire. -- Maureen Perrie * English Historical Review *

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Book SynopsisOur conception of the culture and values of the ancient Greco-Roman world is largely based on texts and material evidence left behind by a small and atypical group of city-dwellers. The people of the deep Mediterranean countryside seldom appear in the historical record from antiquity, and almost never as historical actors. This book is the first extended historical ethnography of an ancient village society, based on an extraordinarily rich body of funerary and propitiatory inscriptions from a remote upland region of Roman Asia Minor. Rural kinship structures and household forms are analysed in detail, as are the region''s demography, religious life, gender relations, class structure, normative standards and values. Roman north-east Lydia is perhaps the only non-urban society in the Greco-Roman world whose culture can be described at so fine-grained a level of detail: a world of tight-knit families, egalitarian values, hard agricultural labour, village solidarity, honour, piety and loveTable of Contents1. Hieradoumia; 2. Commemorative cultures; 3. Demography; 4. Kinship terminology; 5. Household forms; 6. The circulation of children; 7. Beyond the family; 8. Rural sanctuaries; 9. Village society; 10. City, village, kin-group.

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Book SynopsisHow did the cities of Ionia construct and express a distinct sense of Ionian identity under Roman rule? With the creation of the Roman province of Asia and the ever-growing incorporation of the Greeks into the Roman Empire, issues of identity gained new relevance and urgency for the Greek provincials. The Ionian cities are a special case as they, unlike many other cities in Asia Minor, were all old Greek poleis and could look back on a glorious tradition of great antiquity. Martin Hallmannsecker provides answers to this question using studies of the extant literary sources complemented with analyses of the rich epigraphic and numismatic material from the cities of Ionia. In doing so, he draws a more holistic and nuanced picture of the region and furthers understanding of Greek culture under the Roman Empire.Table of ContentsIntroduction; 1. Mental geographies; 2. The Ionian Koinon; 3. Cults and myths; 4. Times and names; 5. The Ionic dialect; 6. Ionianness outside Ionia; Concluding remarks.

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Book SynopsisThe first comprehensive history of music at social recreations in antiquity, from private parties to festivals, demonstrating not only its diverse pleasures but also the various personal and social purposes it served.Table of ContentsGlossary of Musical Instruments; Introduction: The Topic and the Sources; 1. Sympotic Scenes and Songs; 2. The Gentleman's Lyre; 3. Hellenistic Evolutions; 4. Poets and Musicians at Upper-Class Greek Banquets; 5. Music and Elite Dining in the Roman Age; 6. Music at the Social Recreations of the Lower Classes; 7. Music at the Suppers and Feasts of the Jewish People; 8. Music at Christian Social Meals; 9. Purposes and Pleasures.

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Book SynopsisShanghai Tai Chi offers a masterful portrait of daily urban life under socialism in a rich social and political history of one of the world''s most complex cities. Hanchao Lu explores the lives of people from all areas of society - from capitalists and bourgeois intellectuals to women and youth. Utilizing the metaphor of Tai Chi, he reveals how people in Shanghai experienced and adapted to a new Maoist political culture from 1949. Exploring the multifaceted complexity of everyday life and material culture in Mao''s China, Lu addresses the survival of old bourgeois lifestyles under the new proletarian dictatorship, the achievements of intellectuals in an age of anti-intellectualism, the pleasure that urban youth derived from reading taboo literature, the emergence of women''s liberation and the politics of greening and horticulture.This captivating, epitomizing, and vivid history transports readers to history as lived on Shanghai''s streets and back alleyways.Table of ContentsList of Figures; List of Maps; List of Tables; Notes on the Text; Introduction; Part I. The Condemned: 1. The upper crust; 2. The stinking number nine; Part II. The Liberated: 3. The power of Balzac; 4. Alleyway women's detachments; Part III. Under the French Parasol Trees: 5. Everyday flora; 6. In the eyes of foreign onlookers; 7. The essential does not change; Conclusion; Appendix: List of Informants; Character List; References; Index.

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Book SynopsisThis Element analyses the relationship between gender and literary letterpress printing from the early 20th century to the beginning of the 21st. Drawing on examples from modernist writer/printers of the 1920s to literary book artists of the early 21st, it offers a way of thinking about the feminist historiography of printing as we confront the presence and particular character of letterpress in a digital age. This Element is divided into four sections: the first, ''Historicizing'' traces the critical histories of women and print through to the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. The second section, ''Learning,'' offers an analysis of some of the modes of discourse and training through which women and gender minorities have learned the craft of printing. The third section, ''Individualizing'' offers brief biographical vignettes. The fourth section, ''Writing,'' focuses on printers'' own written reflections about letterpress. This title is also available as Open Access on Cambridge CoTable of ContentsPreface; 1. Historicizing; 2. Learning; 3. Individualizing; 4. Writing; Coda: Letterpress at a Distance; Glossary.

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Book SynopsisEnmity, a state or feeling of mutual opposition or hostility, became a major social problem during Europe's transition to modernity between 1500 and 1800. This book transforms our understanding of that process, exploring how ordinary people felt about their enemies, the violence it engendered and the solutions that helped create modern society.Trade Review'Based on extensive research in several languages, this book is the first major study of enmity across western Europe in the early modern period. Stuart Carroll argues that enmity remains one of the greatest challenges to liberal democracy and, as such, the concept of enmity remains of central importance today. This book makes a direct challenge to our very understanding of early modern Europe and it is an original and significant contribution to the histories of the state, violence, the law, and emotions.' Jonathan Davies, University of Warwick'… a seminal work of meticulous scholarship and solidly recommended addition to personal, community, college, and university library European History collections and supplemental curriculum studies lists.' James A. Cox, Midwest Book Review'Stuart Carroll's latest book is testimony to a career of reading in multiple archives and languages. It vividly synthesises a large body of new historical scholarship into a coherent vision of the early modern obsession with justice, and the violent paths that people trod on their quests for it.' Colin Rose, Times Literary SupplementTable of ContentsIntroduction; Italy; 1. The use of the law; 2. The politics of vendetta; 3. The culture of vendetta; 4. The decline of vendetta; Germany; 5. Rethinking the feud; 6. The culture of enmity in Early Modern Germany; 7. Sühne: the theory and practice of peace-making; France; 8. Village politics and vendetta; 9. Peace and justice under the absolute monarchy; England; 10. Justice and violence; 11. Enmity in Early Modern England; Comparisons; 12. The experience of enmity; 13. Enmity and sacred space; 14. Living with the enemy.

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