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Book SynopsisIn Reading Islam Fabio Vicini offers a journey within the intimate relations, reading practices, and forms of intellectual engagement that regulate Muslim life in two enclosed religious communities in Istanbul. Combining anthropological observation with textual and genealogical analysis, he illustrates how the modes of thought and social engagement promoted by these two communities are the outcome of complex intellectual entanglements with modern discourses about science, education, the self, and Muslims’ place and responsibility in society. In this way, Reading Islam sheds light on the formation of new generations of faithful and socially active Muslims over the last thirty years and on their impact on the turn of Turkey from an assertive secularist Republic to an Islamic-oriented form of governance.Trade Review‘For the better part of a century, Turkey has been a major center of intellectual, educational, and ethical reform in modern Islam. In this vividly written and theoretically sophisticated book, Fabio Vicini takes readers through a reading of the two most foundational currents in that reform movement, and shows their deep relevance for education, ethics, and civility in the broader Muslim world. This is a must-read book for all students of Islamic affairs.’ Robert W. Hefner, Pardee School of Global Affairs, Boston University ‘Fabio Vicini’s Reading Islam is both methodologically careful and theoretically insightful, reflecting the best qualities of ethnographic writing on the social life of Islam in Turkey. Vicini describes in rich detail the forms of piety and intellectual development encouraged in religious communities active in Turkey. It is certainly refreshing to read an analysis of religious practice that takes seriously the practitioners’ orientation toward transcendence in developing religious knowledge and ethical reasoning.’ Kim Shiveley, Kutztown University ‘This perceptive study of brotherhood, ethics and self-disciplining in religious communities focused on reading Said Nursi’s Risale-i Nur draws attention to aspects of religious tradition hitherto neglected in studies of Turkish Islam. Vicini’s thoughtful analysis engages critically with a large body of contemporary social theory and provides essential new insight into the interiorizing practices of these communities and Islamic piety in general, offering a sympathetic understanding of Muslim life in modern Turkey.’ Martin van Bruinessen, Comparative Study of Contemporary Muslim Societies, Utrecht UniversityTable of ContentsAcknowledgments Note on Transliteration and Turkish Pronunciation Introduction: Reading Islam in Modern Times  1 Reading is Transcending  2 Accommodating Modernity  3 Thinking Islam  4 A Revival of Muslim Civility  5 Fieldwork in Two Concealed Communities  6 Before and after July 15  7 Outline of the Book 1 Outreaches of Religious Service  1 Reading the Risale  2 Reforming Society through Educational Service  3 From Hizmet to Individual Duty  4 Modernity and the Displacement of Islamic Ethics  5 The Islamic Revival, Urban Life and Community 2 Living the Brotherhood  1 Daily Life in the Houses  2 Discipline and Prayer  3 Time and Prayer  4 Living by Example  5 Brotherhood between Pedagogy and Authority  6 Brotherhood between Civility and Corporate Personality  7 Virtues of Mutuality  8 Living Sincerity 3 Reading, Reflection and the Search for Transcendence  1 Appealing to the Imagination  2 Iterative Reading  3 Reading as Cultural Practice  4 Genealogies of Reflection  5 Toward a Sufi Cosmology  6 Reflecting on Death 4 Putting Islam to Work  1 Education, the Nation and the Islamic “Ethos”  2 Accessing Quality Education  3 Modern Times, Docile Methods  4 From Jihad to Reforming Society  5 Life and Tutoring in the Gülen Housings  6 Romanticizing Prophethood  7 Learning by Example  8 Embodying Responsibility 5 Politics of Brotherhood  1 “You’ll Be of Service to This Country”  2 The Nur Self’s Spaces of Will and Freedom  3 The Relativity of the Good: On the Modern Liberal Conception of the Self  4 Being an Aware and Responsible Muslim  5 On Brotherhood and Moral Reasoning Conclusion References Index

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Book SynopsisThis first English-language biography of Mikhail Tomsky reveals his central role in all the key developments in early Soviet history, including the stormy debates over the role of unions in the self-proclaimed workers’ state. Charters Wynn’s compelling account illuminates how the charismatic Tomsky rose from an impoverished working-class background and years of tsarist prison and Siberian exile to become both a Politburo member and the head of the trade unions, where he helped shape Soviet domestic and foreign policy along generally moderate lines throughout the 1920s. His failed attempt to block Stalin’s catastrophic adoption of forced collectivization would tragically make Tomsky a prime target in the Great Purges.Table of ContentsAcknowledgements List of Illustrations Introduction  1 Note on Transliteration 1 The Making of a Moderate Working-Class Bolshevik Leader 2 Balancing Act: Tomsky during War Communism and the Trade-Union Debate 3 Detour East: From Disgraced Exile in Tashkent to Redemption inside the Kremlin 4 Getting Together Then Falling Apart: Tomsky and British Trade Unionists 5 Tomsky during NEP: Trade Unions and the Intra-Party Struggle 6 NEP’s Last Stand: The Eighth Trade-Union Congress 7 Tomsky Outcast: Tormenting a ‘Right Deviationist’ Conclusion Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisSabrina Ardizzoni’s book is an in-depth analysis of Hakka women in tulou villages in Southeast China. Based on fieldwork, data acquired through local documents, diverse material and symbolic culture elements, this study adopts an original approach that includes historical-textual investigation and socio-anthropological enquiry. Having interviewed local Hakka women and participated in rural village events, public and private, in west Fujian’s Hakka tulou area, the author provides a comprehensive overview of the historical threads and cultural processes that lead to the construction of the ideal Hakka woman, as well as an insightful analysis of the multifaceted Hakka society in which rural women reinvent their social subjectivity and negotiate their position between traditional constructs and modern dynamics.Table of ContentsAcknowledgments List of Figures and Tables Acronyms Introduction   The Theoretical Framework in the Research    Rural/Urban Dialectics in Twentieth-Century China    The Han/Non-Han Dichotomy and the Nation-Building Process in Modern China    The Hakka Ethnicity/Cultural Issue   Existing Relevant Studies   The Yongding Area, the Tulou Issue, and Modern Approaches   Contemporary Studies on Hakka Women in Rural Villages in Fujian   The Legacy of Gender Studies on Rural Chinese Women    Methodology   The Villages   The Informants   The Present Book 1 Into the Minxi Countryside  1.1 From Collectivization to the Individual  1.2 Demographic Changes: The Gender Perspective  1.3 Out of the Countryside  1.4 School and Girls’ Education  1.5 Female Employment  1.6 New Jobs  1.7 New Ethics: The “Wise Wife and Good Mother” in Contemporary Terms  1.8 Conclusions 2 Hakka Culture  2.1 The Hakkas: A Definition   2.1.1 Migration: Historical Narrations and Social Group Construction   2.1.2 The “Hakka Spirit”  2.2 Hakka Family Culture   2.2.1 Confucian Values in the Traditional Hakka Family   2.2.2 Family as an Agent for Education   2.2.3 Hakka jiapus and zupus  2.3 Conclusions 3 The Tulou as a Material Body and a Theoretical Body  3.1 Introduction  3.2 The Functions of the Hakka Minxi tulou   3.2.1 Defensive Function: The Fortress   3.2.2 Ecology: Harmony with the Environment   3.2.3 Ethics: Perpetuating Family Cohesion  3.3 Fengshui  3.4 Myths and Legends  3.5 A Tulou’s Walls Embody Hakka Lineage Culture  3.6 Conclusions 4 Contemporary Ritual Practices in Fujianese Hakka Villages  4.1 Introduction  4.2 Ancestor Worship  4.3 Popular Rituals and Beliefs  4.4 Female Deities   4.4.1 Mazu: An Independent Female Deity   4.4.2 Guanyin: a Powerful Protector   4.4.3 Potai: The Woman Ancestor  4.5 A Private Ritual: The Manyue Ceremony   4.5.1 The First Manyue   4.5.2 The Second Manyue  4.6 Conclusions 5 “Woman” as an Ethical Model in Confucian Traditions  5.1 Introduction  5.2 Zhongnan qingnü Culture and the Tradition of Rites  5.3 The Nüjie Tradition  5.4 Must-Reads for Women: Nüzi mengxue  5.5 Conclusions 6 Women in Hakka Tradition  6.1 Introduction  6.2 The “Strong Woman” Narrative  6.3 The “Virtuous Woman” Narrative  6.4 Traditional Marriage  6.5 Folk Wisdom and Wen Education: A “Snowball” Effect   6.5.1 “Zengguang xianwen” (The Expanded Writings of Wisdom)   6.5.2 An Artistic Vehicle for Expressing Emotion: Shan ge   6.5.3 The Ballad of the Hakka Woman  6.6 Gender Inequality from a Historical Perspective   6.6.1 Hakka Women in the Taiping Rebellion  6.7 Conclusions 7 The Twentieth Century: From the Tulou to the Modern World  7.1 Introduction  7.2 The Central Soviet and the Political Shift  7.3 A Matter of Education  7.4 Heroines in Revolutionary Times  7.5 Conclusions 8 The Image of the Hakka Woman  8.1 Representations of Hakka Women in Contemporary Minxi   8.1.1 Yongding Fulian   8.1.2 Homepage  8.2 A Twenty-First Century Model of a Twentieth-Century Hakka Woman: Jiang Yue’e  8.3 Global Inspirational Models  8.4 Conclusions 9 Conclusions References Appendix: Chinese Place Names Index

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Book SynopsisOn a global scale, more than 40 million people make their living working directly at sea as fishers, seafarers, in aquaculture or seabed-mining, or related occupations such as dockworkers, shipbuilding, logistics, maritime administration, secondary branches of shipping, marine tourism and other maritime professions. The study of maritime labour and occupations is still under-represented in the social sciences and humanities. With the present volume, we attempt to fill this gap by representing recent research on maritime professions from a sociological perspective drawing on a wide variety of disciplinary approaches and subject matters.Table of ContentsList of Figures List of Tables Introduction: Maritime Professions as a Field of Social Research  Marie C. Grasmeier, Agnieszka Kolodziej-Durnas and Frank Sowa Part 1: Macro-Sociological and Organizational Approaches 1 Seafarers and Dockworkers: Implications for Industrial Sociology  Shaun Ruggunan 2 “Making a Ship”: Maritime Labour Regime(s) and Alienation in Norwegian Offshore Production  Camilla Mevik 3 Boundary-work, Occupational Identities and Class-experiences of Global Seafarers  Marie C. Grasmeier and Linda Beck Part 2: Gender Issues 4 The Role of Discursive Contexts in Constructing the Identity of Women at Sea: Towards Informal Dimensions of Maritime Adult Education  Iwona Królikowska and Astrid Meczkowska-Christiansen 5 Strategies and Struggle of Women Fishers for the Rescue and Conservation of a Coastal Lagoon System: “Mujeres Pescadoras del Manglar”  Nuria Jimenez Garcia 6 The Fishing Profession in Quebec: Structure, Origins and Development of a “Typically Male” Sector  Marco Alberio Part 3: Micro-Sociological Approaches 7 “Team Play”: Seafarers’ Strategies for Coping with Job Demands of Short Sea Cargo Shipping Lines  Birgit Pauksztat 8 The Role of Personality Traits, Work Motivation and Job Satisfaction in the Explanation of Seafarers’ Well-being  Ana Sliškovic 9 A Study on the Sense of Relative Deprivation of Elderly Fishers from the Perspective of Ocean Sociology: The Example of Island S and G in Zhoushan City, China  Wen Zhang and Ya Wen 10 Families of Seamen in the Period of Political Changes and Today – Homelessness Issues  Roland Dobrzeniecki-Lukasiewicz Index

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Book SynopsisThe focus of this volume is on political discourse about the pattern and desirability of economic development, and how/why historical interpretations of social phenomena connected to this systemic process alter. It is a trajectory pursued here with reference to the materialism of Marxism, via the mid-nineteenth century ideas about race, through the development decade, the ‘cultural turn’, debates about modes of production and their respective labour regimes, culminating in the role played by immigration before and after the Brexit referendum. Also examined is the trajectory followed by travel writing, and how many of its core assumptions overlap with those made in the social sciences and development studies. The object is to account for the way concepts informing these trajectories do or do not alter.Table of ContentsAcknowledgements List of Figures and Tables Introduction (Steps Forward or Backwards?)   Reified Notions, Fantasmic Representations?   Transition, Critique, Silence   Marxist Methodology?   A Lesser Status and a Distant Place?   A Distant Place as a Greater Status   Themes part 1 Travelling On 1 Racisms (Home and Away)  Introduction: A Place in the World  Blood of the Founders  The Good Things of This World  Music, Speech, Passion  A Faint Uneasy Movement  They Are Our Brothers  One’s Own Free Will  To See with Distorted Vision  Avoiding the Question  Samuel Smiles Revisited  A Dearth of Workers  Steady Work, Job Security  Conclusion 2 Anti-capitalisms (Lessons Unlearned by Postmodernists)  Introduction: The Anti-capitalism of Pro-slavery Discourse  For the Mutual Benefit of Both  Pro-slavery and/as (Conservative) Anti-capitalism  Forging New Chains for Themselves  All Capital Is Created by Labour  (Pro-slavery) Contradictions, (Postmodern) Similarities  Pro-slavery, Postmodernism, and Identity Politics  Empowering Populism  Conclusion 3 Transitions (Real and Imagined)  Introduction: Simple Transitions?  The Parting to Come?  Trading Places  Feudalism, but Not Yet …  Free but Tied?  Workers, or Tenants?  Modes and Beams  How Do We Know?  Since the Beginning of the World  Conclusion 4 Trajectories (to and from Unfreedom)  Introduction: Quo Vadis, Domine?  1950 to 1980  1980 to 2000  2000 to the Present  Theory, Methods, Problems  India: 18th Century Onwards  India: 1960s Onwards  UK: 2015 Onwards  Conclusion part 2 On Travel 5 Travellers, or Tourists? (Journeys Outside Europe)  Introduction: An Instinctive Simplicity, a Thoughtless Idealism  Hello, I Must Be Going  Tourists Who Are Not Tourists  The Ruin(s) of Time, the Time of Ruin(s)  Is Your Journey Really Necessary?  Traveller’s Tales  Ragpickers of History  Unevolved People  Pristine Other, Untouched Land  Conclusion 6 Tourists, or Travellers? (European Journeys)  Introduction: Songs of Travel  City and Countryside  Class, Race, Blood  Away from Home  Always Defeated?  Land, Politics, Fascism  Peasants, Ancient and Modern  Conclusion 7 Arrivals, Not Departures (on Never Leaving Venice)  Introduction: Venice, Tourism and the Agrarian Myth  The Ox Spoke  It Is Not Easy to Do One’s Duty  Loaded Pistols, Ominous Chatter  Real and Loveable?  A Dream Long Lost  Conclusion 8 Other Worlds (Neo-populist Journeys)  Introduction: Worlds of Difference?  Chayanov: The Economic Case  Chayanov: The Economic Case Against  Chayanov: The Political Case Against  Undiscovered Country?  Journeys: Space, Time, Politics  Valuable Warnings, Wholesome Reprimands  Conclusion   Conclusion (Better Worlds?) Bibliography Author Index Subject Index

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Book SynopsisSociology for Durkheim was by no means a knowledge closed in its specificity. It was rather an open science, permeable to contributions coming from other disciplines. For him, the task of sociology was to study what held societies together, giving place to reflective change and progressive development. This is an epistemological and political model that still retains all its relevance today: an example to be rediscovered against any reductionist conception of the vocation and object of social sciences; an encouragement to see sociology as an indispensable protagonist for an authentic interdisciplinary dialogue in the field of humanities. It is one of the best legacies Durkheim left us, that this book attempts to illustrate. *Émile Durkheim: Sociology as an Open Science is now available in paperback for individual customers.Table of ContentsList of Tables Introduction: Reversing the canon of Durkheim's sociology Massimo Pendenza and Giovanni Paoletti Part I – A crossover between disciplines: The Elementary Forms of Religious Life 1. Reason as a social faculty. The Elementary Forms of Religious Life and the sociological critique of Philosophical Enlightenment Nicola Marcucci 2. Durkheim and the history of ancient religions: the strange case of the camel sacrifice Giovanni Paoletti 3. Little Skeleton and the Rubber Duckie: Durkheim and the Invisible Religion Fabio Dei 4. ‘Fusing morals and aesthetics’: The aesthetic foundations of the cosmopolitan social bond in Durkheim’s vision of ritual and religious life Dario Verderame 5. Durkheim and the sociology of festivities Philippe Steiner Part II - Beyond conservative Durkheim: society, solidarity, and politics 6. ‘Elevating human dignity as a universal frame of reference’: Durkheim on the moral sources of solidarity in modern societies Massimo Pendenza 7. Towards a model of reflexive solidarity Ambrogio Santambrogio 8. The government of society: Durkheim on the political, the State and democracy from a sociological perspective Francesco Callegaro 9. Durkheim, “Europe” and Brexit David Inglis

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Book SynopsisTypically carved in stone, the cylinder seal is perhaps the most distinctive art form to emerge in ancient Mesopotamia. It spread across the Near East from ca. 3300 BCE onwards, and remained in use for millennia. What was the role of this intricate object in the making of a person's social identity? As the first comprehensive study dedicated to this question, Selves Engraved on Stone explores the ways in which different but often intersecting aspects of identity, such as religion, gender, community and profession, were constructed through the material, visual, and textual characteristics of seals from Mesopotamia and Syria.Table of ContentsAuthor’s Note Acknowledgements List of Figures 1 Introduction  1 Historical Background: The Ancient Near East in the Late Bronze Age 2 Identity as a Theoretical Framework in the Study of Ancient Art  1 Is Identity a Valid Tool for Studying Ancient Art?  2 Gender, Community, and Others: Prominent Identities in the Ancient Near East  3 Constructing Ancient Identities through Material and Visual Culture 3 People Praying on Stone: Identity in Kassite Babylonian Seals, ca. 1415–1155 BCE  1 Historical Introduction  2 Babylonian Glyptic during the Kassite Period  3 Seals and Religious Identity in Kassite Babylonia  4 Family and Community Relations in Kassite Babylonian Seals  5 Gender and Seals in Kassite Babylonia  6 Profession and Institutional Affiliations in Kassite Babylonian Seals  7 Synopsis 4 Men of the State: Seals as Markers of Distinction in Assyria, ca. 1353–1050 BCE  1 Historical Introduction  2 Middle Assyrian Glyptic Tradition from the 14th to the 11th Centuries BCE  3 Religious Identity in Middle Assyrian Seals  4 Family and Community Relations in Middle Assyrian Seals  5 Gender and Representation in Middle Assyrian Seals  6 Professional and Institutional Affiliations in Middle Assyrian Seals  7 Synopsis 5 Under the Shadow of the Great Kings: Seals and Identity in Hittite Syria, ca. 1340–1180 BCE  1 Historical Introduction  2 Scholarship on the Glyptics of Late Bronze Age Syria  3 Religious Identity in the Seals from Hittite Syria  4 Family and Community Relations in the Seals from Hittite Syria  5 Gender and Representation in the Seals from Hittite Syria  6 Professional and Institutional Affiliations in the Seals from Hittite Syria  7 Synopsis 6 Conclusion Appendix 1: List of Seals and Seal Impressions Discussed in the Text Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisYouth studies in Latin America and Spain face numerous challenges. This book delves into youth experiences in the 21st century, shaped by complex and pressing issues: the surge of youth cultures and groups, visual images of youth throughout time, and fragmented youth experiences in radically unequal societies. It analyzes young people as precarious natives in global capitalism and labor uncertainty, juvenicide, feminist discourse, social networks, intimacy and sexual affection among young people in a context of growing claims of gender equality. Also included are rural and indigenous youth as political actors, the actions of young political activists within government administrations, the experience of youth migration and empowerment, and young people dealing with the digital world. How have youth studies approached these issues in Latin America and Spain? Which were the main developments and transformations in this research field over the past years? Where is it heading? Contributors are: Jorge Benedicto, Maritza Urteaga, Dolores Rocca, José Antonio Pérez Islas, Juan Carlos Revilla, Mariano Urraco, Almudena Moreno, Óscar Aguilera, Marcela Saá, Rafael Merino, Ana Miranda, Carles Feixa, Gonzalo Saraví, Antonio Santos-Ortega, David Muñoz-Rodríguez, Arantxa Grau-Muñoz, José Manuel Valenzuela, Silvia Elizalde, Mónica Figueras, Mittzy Arciniega, Nele Hansen, Tanja Strecker, Elisa G. de Castro, Melina Vázquez, René Unda, Daniel Llanos, Sonia Páez de la Torre, Pere Soler, Daniel Calderón, and Stribor Kuric.Table of ContentsAcknowledgments List of Illustrations Notes on Contributors  Introduction Studying Young People’s Lives, Understanding Complex and Diverse Societies   Jorge Benedicto and Maritza Urteaga part 1 Youth Studies in Latin America and Spain: Multiple Perspectives, Multiple Contexts   Jorge Benedicto 1 Game of Glances Review of Youth Research in Latin America   José Antonio Pérez Islas 2 40 Years of Youth Studies in Spain and Their Contribution to Social Images of Youth   Juan Carlos Revilla and Mariano Urraco 3 The Current Theoretical Debates in Comparative Research on Young People A European Perspective   Almudena Moreno 4 Youth Images Visual Images, Representations and Imaginaries of Young People   Óscar Aguilera and Marcela Saá part 2 The Life of Young People in Complex and Unequal Societies   Maritza Urteaga 5 Youth as Transition Theoretical and Methodological Contributions to the Youth Study Field in Latin America and Spain   Rafael Merino and Ana Miranda 6 Youth Cultures and Identities The Surfaces of the Underground   Carles Feixa 7 The Fragmentation of Youth Experience Social Inequality and Everyday Life in Urban Latin America   Gonzalo Saraví 8 Precarious Natives New Profiles of Precarious Young People in the Flexible Economies   Antonio Santos-Ortega, David Muñoz-Rodríguez and Arantxa Grau-Muñoz 9 Iuvenis Sacer The Systematic Murder of Young People in Latin America   José Manuel Valenzuela 10 Gender Relationships and Sexual Affection between Young People Reflections from the Argentine Case   Silvia Elizalde part 3 Diversity and Youth Agency: Young People as Actors in Society   Jorge Benedicto and Dolores Rocca 11 Young Women as Social Actors Participation in Cultural Groups and the Feminist Empowerment of Young People in Catalonia (Spain)   Mònica Figueras, Mittzy Arciniega, Nele Hansen and Tanja Strecker 12 Rural Youth A Political Actor of Social Movements in Brazil and its Impact on Youth Policies   Elisa Guaraná 13 Young Political Activists in Government-Supporting Organizations Argentina from a Regional Perspective   Melina Vázquez and Dolores Rocca 14 Kichwa Indigenous Youth from Ecuador Conditions and Context of their Youth Agency   René Unda and Daniel Llanos 15 Migration and Youth Empowerment The Migration Experience of Young Latin Americans to Catalonia   Sonia Páez de la Torre and Pere Soler 16 Youth in the Digital World Dispositions and Experiences of Internet Use   Daniel Calderón and Stribor Kuric   Afterword Young People and Covid-19: Some Thoughts about a Very Near Future   Jorge Benedicto, Maritza Urteaga and Dolores Rocca Index

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Book SynopsisFocusing on new nation states and mandates in post-Ottoman territories, Borders, Boundaries and Belonging in Post-Ottoman Space in the Interwar Period examines how people negotiated, imagined or ignored new state borders and how they conceived of or constructed belonging. Through investigations of border crossing, population transfer, exile and emigration, this book explores the intricacies of survival within and beyond newly imposed state borders, the exploitation of opportunities and the human cost of political partition. Contributors are Toufoul Abou-Hodeib, Leyla Amzi-Erdogdular, Amit Bein, Ebru Boyar, Onur İşçi, Liat Kozma, Brian McLaren, Nikola Minov, Eli Osheroff, Ramazan Hakkı Öztan, Michael Provence, Jordi Tejel and Peter Wien.Table of ContentsAcknowledgements Contributors List of illustrations Introduction Ebru Boyar and Kate Fleet Ch 1 Post-Ottoman Dreams and Nightmares in the Mandate Middle East Michael Provence Ch. 2 The Deal of the Decade: Jewish Immigration for Arab Independence and Post-Ottomanism in 1930s Palestine Eli Osheroff Ch. 3 Cursed in Heaven: the Colonization of the Aromanians in Southern Dobruja Nikola Minov Ch. 4 Colonialism and Mobility in Libya during the Balbo Era, 1934-1940 Brian McLaren Ch. 5 Yüzellilikler: the League of Nations’s First and Only Muslim Refugees Ebru Boyar Ch. 6 Surviving in Nazi Berlin: Husni al-‘Urabi’s 89 Months in Exile Peter Wien Ch. 7 Regional Careers: Doctors’ Mobility across the New Frontiers of the Interwar Middle East Liat Kozma Ch. 8 Strolling through Istanbul: Egyptians in 1930s Turkey Amit Bein Ch. 9 Borders of Mobility? Crime and Punishment along the Syrian-Turkish Border, 1921-1939 Jordi Tejel and Ramazan Hakkı Öztan Ch. 10 Interwar Territoriality and Soviet-Turkish Convergence across the Aras River Onur İşçi Ch. 11 Muslim Migration and Nation-Building in Interwar Yugoslavia and Turkey Leyla Amzi-Erdoğdular Ch. 12From Marjayun to Oklahoma: Translocalizing the Periphery in Interwar Lebanon Toufoul Abou-Hodeib Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisAs the author of the ground-breaking work of Marxist political economy, Finance Capital, and a leader in the German Social Democratic Party, Rudolf Hilferding was a dominant intellectual and political figure in the history of European socialism from its halcyon days in the pre-1914 era until its collapse in the 1930s. This collection of his previously unpublished correspondence allows readers to trace the evolution of Hilferding’s thought as socialism’s fortunes declined and his own fate became precarious. It shows how, in the face of rising Stalinism and fascism, democracy remained at the core of his socialist vision.Table of ContentsPreface List of Figures Abbreviations Part 1 1 Introduction to Part 1: Passing the Torch 2 Rudolf Hilferding’s Letters to Karl Kautsky, 1902–07 3 Rudolf Hilferding’s Letters to Karl Kautsky, 1915–18 4 Hilferding’s Letters to Karl Kautsky, 1924–33 5 Hilferding to Kautsky, 1933–38 Part 2 6 Introduction to Part 2: A Political Friendship? 7 Leon Trotsky’s Letters to Rudolf Hilferding, 1907–12 Part 3 8 Introduction to Part 3: “Freedom or Slavery” 9 Rudolf Hilferding’s Correspondence with Paul Hertz, 1933–38 Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisThat the idea of world revolution was crucial for the Bolshevik leaders in the years following the 1917 revolution is a well-known fact. But what did the party’s rank and file make of it? How did it resonate with the general population? And what can a social history of international solidarity tell us about the transformation of Soviet society from NEP to Stalinism? This book undertakes the first in-depth analysis of the discourses and practices of internationalism in early Soviet society during the years of revolution, civil war and NEP, using forgotten archival materials and contemporary sources.Table of ContentsAcknowledgements Abbreviations Editorial Note 1 Introduction 2 ‘World Revolution’, the Bolsheviks and Soviet Society  1 Bolshevik Internationalism through the World War and Revolution  2 1918/19, 1923, 1926: Three World-Revolutionary ‘Windows of Opportunity’ in Their Soviet Reflection 3 Activists and the Charisma of World Revolution  1 Activists, Opportunists and Functionaries: Types of Early Soviet Political Actors  2 The World Revolution as a ‘Delightful Thing’  3 Communist World Society or Russian Domination? Activists Imagine the Future 4 Internationalist Practices I: Charisma and Activism between the Revolution and NEP  1 Informing, Performing and Intervening: Public Speech about the World Revolution  2 Internationalist Greeting Messages and Their Authors  3 The Bolshevik Provincial Press: From Activist Mouthpiece to ‘Mass’ Newspaper 5 Internationalism and the Soviet ‘Masses’  1 Ways and Means of Transmitting Internationalist Knowledge  2 Reactions of the ‘Masses’: Disinterest, Resistance, Appropriation 6 MOPR: The Institutionalisation of International Solidarity in the obshchestvennost’ 7 International Practices II: Activism and obshchestvennost’ from NEP to Stalinism  1 Donations and Fundraising: Class Solidarity, Philanthropy and Entertainment  2 Objects and Subjects of ‘Shefstvo’: Comparing Two Types of International Sponsorship  3 Internationalist Pen Pal Correspondence – Collective and Individual  4 Banners Wanted: The Twists and Turns of International Flag Exchange  5 Dealing with Comrades from Abroad: Foreign Representatives of the Labour Movement in the Soviet Union 8 A Practice Forestalled: Going Abroad for the World Revolution 9 Concluding Remarks Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisWhat would an alternative to contemporary capitalism look like? In this book, Geert Reuten sets out a detailed design of a democratic society organised in worker cooperatives, followed by an equally detailed democratic transition to it, thereby making a convincing case. In Reuten’s design, Workers constitute the single economic class. However, unlike in capitalism, there is no class that owns the means of production. The legal structure of worker cooperatives is such that workers have full rights to the fruits of the cooperative without owning it, and yet the state does not own the cooperatives either. Interestingly, worker councils in the economic and state domains vote on all economically relevant matters. In Reuten’s work, the free choice of occupation and of specific consumer goods is even larger than in capitalism.Table of ContentsPreface and acknowledgements General introduction Part One Design of the organisation of a worker cooperatives society 1 Preview of the main elements of the design’s worker cooperatives society 2 Design of the economy of a worker cooperatives society: economic democracy and the organisation of cooperatives 3 Design of the state in a worker cooperatives society: democratic governance of the state and the organisation of state institutions 4 Municipal and provincial administrations 5 International economic relations Part Two From modifying capitalism to transition Introduction to Part Two 6 The modification of capitalist practices by ‘worker-owned cooperatives’ and similar democratic enterprises 7 Circumstances just before the transition: financial and real estate markets and the scope of capital flight 8 Transition to a worker cooperatives society General summary References Index of names Index of subjects Abbreviations Extended list of contents

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Book SynopsisDespite the collapse of Soviet-style socialism, the spectre of Marx still haunts the French imagination. This is no accident, in a country whose intellectual life and political history have long been marked by his multiple presences. This volume offers a historical and sociological insight into the way his thought has been received in the French context, from his own lifetime to the present. Analysing Marx’s place and influence in the French intellectual, political and artistic debate – across the political spectrum and even in the French-speaking colonial world – it helps us understand the uses and misuses of an œuvre of paramount importance.Table of ContentsIntroduction: Writing the History of France’s Marxisms  Jean-Numa Ducange and Antony Burlaud Prologue: Karl Marx’s France  Antony Burlaud Part 1 The Political Uses of Marx 1 The Socialists’ Marx: The Guesde-Jaurès Moment  Jean-Numa Ducange 2 The Socialists’ Marx: The Centenary of Marx’s Birth: A Challenge for the SFIO  Raymond Huard 3 The Socialists’ Marx: The Blum Era  Thierry Hohl 4 The Socialists’ Marx: From Guy Mollet to the Present  Mathieu Fulla 5 The Communists’ Marx: Karl Marx, Marxism and Marxism-Leninism, 1920–55  Serge Wolikow 6 The Communists’ Marx: A (Now-)Problematic Reference Point, 1956–2017  Anthony Crézégut 7 The Far Left’s Marx: The Politicisation of a Scholarly Marxism  Patrick Massa Part 2 Translating, Editing, and Publishing Marx 8 How to Translate Marx into French?  Guillaume Fondu and Jean Quétier 9 PCF Publishing Houses and Marx in France, 1920–60: From Politics to Scholarship?  Marie-Cécile Bouju 10 Marx’s Works in the ‘Bibliothèque de la Pléiade’: A Paradoxical Legitimation  Aude Le Moullec-Rieu 11 A Golden Age for Marxist Publishing? The 1960s and 1970s  Julien Hage Part 3 Marx and the Social Sciences 12 Marxism and Rationalism in the French Social Sciences (1930–60)  Isabelle Gouarné 13 Marx’s Peculiar Fate in French Economic Scholarship  Thierry Pouch 14 Sociology and Marxism  Gérard Mauger 15 Marx and French Historians  François Dosse 16 Marxism and Literary Criticism  Lucile Dumont, Quentin Fondu and Laélia Veron Part 4 Theoretical Hybridisations 17 Marx and the Marxists, Children of France’s Eighteenth Century?  Stéphanie Roza 18 Marxism and Phenomenology in France  Alexandre Feron 19 The Structuralist Marx  Frédérique Matonti 20 Marx, an Avant-Gardist?  Frédéric Thomas 21 Post-’68 Intellectuals and Marx: A Fascination with ‘Farewells’  Antoine Aubert 22 Feminisms, Marxism, And Their Contentious Links  Sylvie Chaperon and Florence Rochefort Part 5 Seen from Elsewhere 23 Marx Seen from the Right: When French Economists Discovered Marx’s Capital  Jacqueline Cahen 24 Marx Seen from the Right: Raymond Aron, Marxism and Communism  Gwendal Châton 25 French Catholics and Marxism, from the 1930s to the ‘1968 Moment’  Denis Pelletier 26 Marx in French-Speaking Africa  Françoise Blum 27 Learning Marxism in Paris: Chinese Students in France, 1919–25  Kaixuan Liu and Wenrui Bi References Index

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Book SynopsisThis book chronicles the life and times of tribal leader Mujāhid Ḥaydar, scion of a prominent local dynasty, and his agency in highland Yemen’s political conflicts from the 1970s to the early 2000s. When the political elites of the Ṣāliḥ regime murder his father and his elder brothers, he is forced to exact revenge and lead his tribe through dramatic vicissitudes that culminate in the catastrophe of the Ḥūthī wars. Mujāhid’s life is a story of ongoing strife, heroism, resistance, commitment to the defence of honour, loss, and exile. His biography offers nuanced and original insights into how tribal politics in Yemen influence the domain of the state and are often intertwined with it – such that neither can be comprehended independently from the other.Table of ContentsList of Maps and Figures Acknowledgements Introduction Notes on Transliteration Glossary Abbreviations Chronology Chapter 1: Childhood in Obscurity Chapter 2: The Serpent with the Many Heads Chapter 3: Burdensome Inheritances Chapter 4: The Road to Politics Chapter 5: The Time of Faits Accomplis Chapter 6: Those Who Loosen and Those Who Bind Some Final Thoughts on Tribes, Politics, and Passions References Index

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Book SynopsisThis volume collects the proceedings of the First Latin American Communist Conference, organized in Buenos Aires, Argentina in June 1929 by the South American Secretariat of the Moscow-based Communist International (Comintern). The Conference was the first and in some ways only opportunity that communists in Latin America had to engage in a broad discussion of the most important problems and challenges that they faced. The topics that the assembled delegates addressed – including militarism, anti-imperialism, trade union issues, and racial discrimination – were all central to the question of how to organise a strong revolutionary movement. This major documentary collection of the Latin American Communist movement, newly translated into English and with a substantial introduction, remains surprisingly relevant to our world today. With an introduction by Victor Jeifets and Lazar Jeifets.Table of ContentsAbbreviations Biographies of Conference Participants Introduction: The Outcomes of Ten Years of Latin American Communism  Victor Jeifets and Lazar Jeifets Part 1 Descriptions of the Conference Introduction to Part 1 1 The First Latin American Communist Conference 2 First Latin American Communist Conference 3 Issues Addressed at the First Latin American Communist Conference 4 Towards the Latin American Communist Conference 5 Bibliography for the First Latin American Communist Conference 6 Parties Represented at the First Latin American Communist Conference 7 The Latin American Revolutionary Movement Part 2 Background Documents Introduction to Part 2 1 The First Session of the South American Secretariat of the Communist International 2 Questions of the Latin American Countries 3 Draft Theses on the Revolutionary Movement in Latin America 4 Report from the SP of the EC of the PSRC to the ECCI 5 Letter from the CI to the Revolutionary Socialist Party of Colombia 6 Colombia, 27 May 1929, Morning Session 7 Meeting with the Colombian Delegate 8 Mexico 9 Conversation with the Peruvian Delegates 10 The Importance of the First Latin American Communist Conference Part 3 Proceedings and Resolutions Introduction to Part 3 1 Foreword 2 Conference Opening (1 June 1929) 3 The International Situation in Latin America and the Threat of War  Second Session, 2 June 1929  Third Session, 2 June 1929  Fourth Session, 2 June 1929 4 Resolution on the International Situation in Latin America and the Threat of War 5 The Anti-Imperialist Struggle and Tactical Issues Facing Communist Parties in Latin America  Fifth and Sixth Sessions, 3 June 1929  Seventh Session, 4 June 1929  Eighth Session, 4 June 1929  Ninth Session, 4 June 1929  Tenth Session, 5 June 1929  Eleventh Session, 5 June 1929 6 Resolution on the Tactics of the Communist Parties of Latin America 7 Trade Union Issues  Twelfth Session, 6 June 1929 8 Resolution on the Tasks of the Communist Parties in the Latin American Trade Union Movement 9 Agrarian Issues 10 Peasant Issues  Thirteenth Session, 7 June 1929  Fourteenth Session, 7 June 1929  Fifteenth Session, 7 June 1929 11 Resolution on Peasant Issues in Latin America 12 Racial Problems in Latin America  Sixteenth Session, 8 June 1929  Seventeenth Session, 8 June 1929 13 Resolution on Racial Problems in Latin America 14 Racial Problems 15 Work of the Anti-Imperialist League  Eighteenth Session, 10 June 1929 16 Resolution on the Work of the Anti-Imperialist Leagues 17 The Youth Movement and the Tasks of Communist Parties  Nineteenth Session, 10 June 1929 18 Draft Thesis on the Tasks of the Party in the Youth Movement 19 Organisational Matters 20 Resolution on Organisational Matters of the Communist Parties in Latin America 21 Work of the South American Secretariat  Twentieth Session, 12 June 1929 22 Report on the Solution to the Crisis in the Communist Party of Argentina 23 Resolution on the Solution to the Crisis of the Communist Party of Argentina 24 Theses on Women’s Issues 25 Communists and the International Red Aid Part 4 Conversations After the Conference Introduction to Part 4 1 Conversation with the Delegates from Mexico 2 Conversation with the Delegations from Guatemala and El Salvador 3 Conversation with the Colombian Delegation 4 Second Conversation with the Colombian Delegation 5 Conversation with the Peruvian Delegates 6 Conversation with the Delegation of Peru 7 South American Secretariat Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisRaising the Red Flag explores the origins of the British Marxist movement from the creation of the Social Democratic Federation to the foundation of the Communist Party. It tells a story of rising class struggle, the founding of the Labour Party, the fight against World War One, the Russian Revolution, and the explosive year of 1919. The book also uses new archival sources to re-examine Marxist organisations such as the British Socialist Party, the Socialist Labour Party, and Sylvia Parkhurst’s Workers’ Socialist Federation. Above all, this is the story of men and women who fought to liberate the working class from capitalism through socialist revolution.Table of ContentsList of Figures Abbreviations Introduction 1 Mr Hyndman versus Comrade Engels: The Birth of the Social Democratic Federation  1 The Birth of the Social Democratic Federation  2 From the Socialist League to the Independent Labour Party 2 The Labour Party Question: Labourism, Leftism, and the Second International  1 The Russian Influence  2 The Labour Party and the Second International 3 Britain in Crisis: Labour’s Great Unrest and the Revolutionary Left  1 Realignment on the Left and the British Socialist Party  2 The Second International Steers towards the Labour Party  3 The Rise of the Revolutionary Left  4 The SLP and Revolutionary Syndicalism  5 Beyond Suffragism 4 August 1914: British Marxists in the Face of War  1 The BSP and SLP and the Test of War  2 The Anti-war Left  3 Revolutionary Opponents of War 5 The Clyde Turns Red: John Maclean and the Enemy at Home  1 The War on the Home Front  2 The Easter Rising and the British Left  3 Nashe Slovo, the BSP and Revolutionary Internationalism  4 The Zimmerwald Debate in Britain 6 ‘Lads Like Me Had Whacked the Bosses’: The Coming of the Russian Revolution  1 Repression and Revolt  2 Follow Russia! The Leeds Convention  3 Labourism Responds to the Russian Revolution  4 Bolshevism and the British Left 7 1919: The Question of Power  1 ‘Are You Ready to Take Power?’  2 The Police Strikes  3 Leadership, the Lefts and the Left  4 Racist Scourge in Europe  5 Ireland’s Tragedy, Labour’s Disgrace 8 Between Labour and Bolshevism: Towards A Communist Party  1 Towards Unity … and the Labour Party?  2 The Coming of the Communist International  3 Britain and the Amsterdam Bureau  4 The Fate of John Maclean 9 ‘Long Live the Communist Party!’ Building a British Section of the Communist International  1 The Second Congress of the Comintern  2 The Birth of the Communist Party of Great Britain  3 The Unification Conference  4 A Stillborn Party? Conclusion  In Praise of Learning Appendix 1: Timeline Appendix 2: Figures Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisVittorio Cotesta’s The Heavens and the Earth traces the origin of the images of the world typical of the Graeco-Roman, Ancient Chinese and Medieval Islamic civilisations. Each of them had its own peculiar way of understanding the universe, life, death, society, power, humanity and its destiny. The comparative analysis carried out here suggests that they all shared a common human aspiration despite their differences: human being is unique; differences are details which enrich its image. Today, the traditions derived from these civilisations are often in competition and conflict. Reference to a common vision of humanity as a shared universal entity should lead, instead, to a quest for understanding and dialogue.Trade Review"This is a magisterial overview of the formulations of important philosophical topics in three world civilizations. It is framed as a comparative study of the emergence among philosophers, historians, and geographers of a universalistic humanism in these three traditions. Its focus is on the conceptualizations of human nature and the ways in which philosophers, geographers and historians thought about ‘others.’ But it also provides an insightful and enlightening overview of ontology, geography, scientific and historical epistemology – the nature of reality, the known world, time, space and theories of eternity and creation." — Christopher Chase-Dunn, University of California-Riverside "A monumental work on the longue durée of the Eurasian world history and civilizations." — Mehdi P. Amineh, University of AmsterdamTable of ContentsContents Preface List of Illustrations and Tables Introduction: The Axial Age and Global Society Part 1: The Greek and Roman Vision of the World Section 1: The Greek Vision of the World 1 The Universe, Nature and Humanity in Ancient Greece 2 The Political Constitution and Forms of Government  1 Plato’s Utopic Model  2 Aristotle’s politeia as a Form of Mixed Government 3 Herodotus and the Greek Image of a Global Society 4 The Image of Mankind and the Social Bond 5 Chance and Necessity  1 The Movement of Atoms and the Origins of the Universe  2 Life, Death, Happiness 6 God, Nature, Providence  1 The Epistemological Model of Stoicism  2 The Origin and Structure of the Universe  3 Humanity, Society and the State  4 The Happy Life  5 Natural Law and Human Rights Section 2: The Roman Vision of the World, Society and Mankind 7 Polybius and the Roman View of the World  1 The Paradoxes of Polybius’ Existence, from Hostage to Cantor of the Destiny of Rome  2 Polybius and History as a Science of Prevision  3 Rome: Sole World Power 8 Conflict over Rome’s Cultural Identity  1 Tradition and Innovation: Cato the Censor and Scipio Africanus  2 Scipio’s Dream and the Destiny of Rome 9 The Image of Rome and of Her Mission in the World According to Cicero  1 Society, the State and the Law. Rome’s Universal Destiny  2 Global Graeco-Roman Society and Cosmopolitan Law 10 The Empire and Rome’s New Vision of the World 11 Rome and Christianity  1 Incomprehension, Conflict, Convergence 12 The Hellenistic Scientific Revolution and the New World View  1 The Inhabited World Is a Chlamys. On Eratosthenes and His Critics  2 The Star Canopus and New Measurements of the Earth 13 The Geography of the Century of Augustus and First Diplomatic Contact with China  1 Strabo: “Pragmatic” Geography  2 Juba of Mauretania and Exploration of the Sources of the Nile  3 Pliny the Elder: Chinese Silk and the Transparent Robes of the Roman Matrons  4 The Periplous of the Erythrean Sea and the Silent Barter between the Kiratas and the Chinese  5 First Diplomatic Contact with China 14 Claudius Ptolemy and Astrological Previsions of Peoples’ Destinies Part 2: Harmony as the Core of Chinese Image of the World 1 Confucius: The Origin of the Axial Revolution in China  1 The Virtues of the Good Ruler  2 The Dao: The Way to Humanity 2 Mozi and Universal Love 3 Xunzi: The Dark Side of Human Nature 4 Zhuangzi and Lao Tzu: Harmony in Taoist Philosophy  1 The Dao Has No Name  2 Non-action as a Principle of World Governance 5 Legalism: How to Create a Well-Ordered Society  1 Society, History, Power 6 Sima Qian: History and the Identity of Ancient China  1 Herodotus and Sima Qian  2 History and Power in Sima Qian’s Life  3 Dynastic Cycles and History  4 The Social Organisation of the Mongols and Chinese Identity Part 3: Intermezzo 1 Convergences and Divergences between China and Greece  1 The Universe, Heaven and Earth  2 Society and Humanity  3 The State, Power and Politics 2 The Formation of a Eurasian World-System 3 A Shift in the Meaning of “Axial Revolution” Section 1: The Global World from the Islamic Point of View Section 2: Origin and Structure of the Islamic Vision of the World 1 The Preaching of Muhammad and the Birth of Islam 2 God, The Universe and the World According to Islam 3 Al-Kindi: Muhammad and Aristotle  1 The Quest for Truth  2 God and the Creation of the World 4 Al-Farabi I. God, The Universe, The World and the Way to Happiness  1 Introduction  2 God and the Universe  3 Man and Society  4 Happiness, The “Virtuous City” 5 Al-Farabi II. Political Theory and the Doctrine of Perfect Imam  1 Political Regimes  2 The Theory of the Perfect Imam  3 Peace and (Just) War 6 Avicenna I. God, The Cosmos and the World  1 An Adventurous and Dangerous Life  2 God, The Universe, The World 7 Avicenna II. Man, Society and Governance  1 The Happy Life and Man’s Return to God  2 Reason and Mysticism 8 Al-Biruni. I. A Eurasian Vision of the World Biographical, Cultural and Epistemological Premises  1 The Adventurous Life of al-Biruni  2 Time, History and Society  3 The Study of India and of the Identity of Peoples 9 Al-Biruni. II. A Eurasian Vision of the World A Sociological and Anthropological Analysis  1 The Sciences and Social Classes  2 The Indian Castes and the Hierarchical Societies of Eurasia 10 The Islamic Vision of the World and History Al-YaʿQubi, al-Tabari’s and al-MasʿUdi’s Contributions  1 Al-YaʿQubi  2 Al-Tabari  3 Al-MasʿUdi 11 The Islamic Vision of the World and Geography Al-Khwarizmi, Ferdowsi, al-Muqaddasi, al-Idrisi  1 Al-Khwarizmi  2 Ferdowsi, al-Faqih and Other Persian Geographers and Historians  3 Al-Muqaddasi  4 Al-Idrisi’s Universalist Perspective 12 Reason and Mysticism. Al-Ghazali’s Battle against Philosophy  1 The Life of al-Ghazali  2 The Battle against Reason  3 The Virtues of the Intellectual The Western Islamic Vision of the World 13 The Western Pathway to the Construction of the Islamic Image of the World  1 Introduction 14 Alternative Ways to Happiness. Ibn Bajja and Ibn Tufayl  1 The Outsider and the Way to Happiness: Ibn Bajja  2 Ibn Tufayl: Mysticism as a Way to Happiness 15 Averroes. I. The Defense of Reason  1 Introduction  2 The Controversy with al-Ghazali and the Decisive Treaty 16 Averroes. II. A Project for a New World  1 The Ideal City and the Happy Life  2 Societies, Forms of Government, the Virtues of the Good Ruler (Imam)  3 Some Final Observations, in Brief 17 Ibn Khaldun. I. Truth and History  1 A Life Lived between Politics and Study  2 Ibn Khaldun’s Epistemological Model of History  3 Fake News and Historical Truth 18 Ibn Khaldun II. Religions, Society, and Civilisations. Islam’s Universal Mission  1 The Shape of the Earth and the Characteristics of Peoples  2 Cooperation and Society  3 Nomadism and Civilisation  4 Religion as a Factor of Civilisation and of the Universal Mission of Islam Conclusions  1 The Problems and the Research Method  2 The Universe  3 The Issue of Time  4 The Heavens and the Earth  5 The Form of the oikoumene  6 Humanity, Society and Forms of Government  7 Human Nature and Human Rights. Universalism by Halves Bibliography Index of Proper Names Index of Selected Topics, Cities, Countries and Continents

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Book SynopsisThe book offers a critical account of how utopian thinking became defeated as a tool of philosophy whose explicit objective has been to not only analyse but emancipate the world. While such philosophy was originally inseparable from ideas of a radically better society it aimed to realise, many of its most influential practitioners today object to the use of utopian ideas. Countering this scepticism, the book argues in favour of utopian thinking. By elucidating a concept of utopia freed of its alleged pitfalls, the book contends that utopian thinking indeed presents an important resource for achieving emancipatory social goals.Table of ContentsAcknowledgements Note on Translations Introduction  1 The Blow to Utopia from the Left  2 The Road Not Taken  3 (Political) Utopian Thinking  4 Critical Theory  5 A New Perspective on Contemporary Critical Theory 1 Marx’s Two Utopian Paradoxes  1 The Deployment of the Label ‘Utopian’ and Its Consequences  2 Marx’s Vision of the Communist Society  3 Utopia Cannot Be Envisaged  4 Imaginary vs. Rational Ideas  5 Utopian Visions Are Insignificant 2 The Origins of Adorno’s Utopieverbot  1 Adorno and Marxist Theory in the Early Twentieth Century  2 What Is the Utopieverbot?  3 From the Bilderverbot to the Utopieverbot  4 Marx’s Influence on the Utopieverbot  5 The Removal of Utopia into the Messianic Future  6 Culture Industry and Utopian Consciousness  7 The Problem with Identity Thinking 3 Negative Utopia?  1 Positive Utopia – a Point of Departure for Negative Thinking  2 Does Determinate Negation Make Sense?  3 The Emergence of the Positive in Constellations  4 Something Is Missing 4 Bloch’s Rejection of the Utopieverbot  1 Bloch’s Life and Times  2 Utopia as the ‘Not-Yet’  3 The Warm and Cold Streams of Marxism  4 Bloch’s Utopian Society: ‘Heimat’  5 The Utopian Core: ‘Invariant of Direction’  6 Traces Experiences and Expressions of Utopia  7 Concrete Utopian Thinking 5 An Ontology of Processual Utopia  1 The Prefigurations of Utopia in the ‘Not-Yet-Conscious’  2 Incompleteness of the World as the ‘Not-Yet-Become’  3 The Necessity of Utopian Thinking  4 Processual Utopia and Processual Utopian Thinking Conclusion Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisThe pioneering and still relevant Marxist studies of the transition from feudalism to capitalism in this collection are, with one exception, published in English here for the first time. Before his better-known work on Marx’s theories, Henryk Grossman wrote about the economic history of Galicia, the Polish province annexed by the Habsburgs, drawing on very extensive primary research. His later, devastating critique of Weber argument about Protestantism and the rise of capitalism is also included in this volume.Table of ContentsAcknowledgements Introduction  Rick Kuhn 1 The Area of Galicia After Its Occupation by Austria 2 The Industry and Trade Policies for Galicia of Maria Theresia’s and Joseph II’s Governments, 1772–90 (A Lecture at the Fifth Congress of Polish Lawyers and Economists) 3 Official Statistics of Galicia’s Foreign Trade to 1792 Austria’s Trade Policy, with Reference to Galicia during the Reform Period 1772 to 1790 Preface Introduction Part 1 The Relationship with the German-Slav Hereditary Lands of the Monarchy, 1772–76 1 The Provisional Form of the Customs System, 1772–73 2 The Reform of Old Polish Legislation, 1774 3 Special Privileges Granted to Improve Galician Trade, 1773–75 4 Plans for a New System of Regulating Galicia’s Relationship with the Hereditary Lands, 1775–76 Part 2 Galicia’s Relationship with Poland, 1772–90 5 The Significance of the Vistula Trade Route to Gdańsk for Galicia 6 Attempts to Conclude a Trade Treaty with Poland 7 The Trade Treaty of 15 March 1775. Its Ratification. The Tariff of 1 October 1776 8 Supplementary Provisions 9 The Implementation of the Treaty. An episode of Tariff War. The Extent of Austrian-Polish Trade Relations Part 3 Galicia’s Relationship with the Hereditary Lands and Hungary, 1776–84 10 The ‘Provisional’ Tariff of 28 December 1776 11 The Galician Tariff of 3 January 1778 12 The Struggle over Brody’s Privileges, 1778–79 13 Livestock Export Policy and the Organisation of the Cattle Trade 1772–90 Part 4 The Austro-Prussian Relationship and the Struggle for Supremacy in Germany between 1772 and 1790 14 The Economic Background to the Antagonism between Austria and Prussia 15 Prussian Policy on Trade between Galicia and Silesia 16 Prussian Policy on Trade between Galicia and Gdańsk 17 Austria’s Attitude to Prussia. The Period under Maria Theresia, 1773–80 18 Continuation. The Period of Joseph II, 1780–90 Part 5 Galicia’s Relationship with the Hereditary Lands and Hungary, 1784–90 19 The Tariff Reform of 1784 20 The Extension of the Reform Part 6 Galicia’s Trade Relations with the South and the South-East, 1772–90 21 The Effort to Open New Export Routes through Trieste 22 Trade with Turkey and to the Black Sea. The Trade Treaty of 1 November 1785 with Russia Final Observations Appendices Appendix 1, to page 102: Some Remarks on the Relationship between the State and the Nobility Appendix 2, to page 111: Joseph II’s Economic Policy in Hungary Appendix 3, to page 282: The Tariff of 2 January 1778 Appendix 4, to page 289: The Promotion of Linen Exports Appendix 5, to page 295: The Official Language The Beginnings of Capitalism and the New Mass Morality References Index

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Book SynopsisThis volume gathers papers written by archaeologists utilising the methods of historical materialism, attesting not only to what Marxism has contributed to archaeology, but also to what archaeology has contributed, and can contribute, to Marxism as a method for interpreting the history of humanity. The book’s contributors consider the question of what archaeology can contribute to a historical perspective on the overcoming of present-day capitalism, synthesising developments in world archaeology, and supplying concrete case studies of the archaeology of the Americas, Europe and the Near East. Contributors are: Guillermo Acosta Ochoa, Marcus Bajema, Bernardo Gandulla, Alex Gonzales-Panta, Pablo Jaruf, Vicente Lull, Savas Michael-Matsas, Rafael Micó, Ianir Milevski, Patricia Pérez Martínez, Cristina Rihuete Herrada, Roberto Risch, Steve Roskams, Henry Tantaleán, Marcelo Vitores, and LouAnn Wurst.

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Book SynopsisChallenging mainstream nation-centred theories of economic development, Nicolás Grinberg examines the specificities of capitalist development in Brazil and South Korea by starting from their modes of participation in the international division of labour and hence in the production of surplus value on a global scale. Contrary to those theories, he does not consider these as resulting simply from the economic policies of nation states and their associated political institutions; nor from local class-struggle dynamics or geopolitical developments. Rather, drawing on key insights from Marx’s critique of political economy, his analysis begins by recognising that the process of capitalist development is global in terms of its economic dynamics and historical trends, and national only in its political and institutional forms of realisation. State-mediated patterns of economic development and institutional change in Brazil and Korea, as well as the intra- and inter-state political processes through which these have come about, are then considered mediations in the conformation and reproduction of the nationally differentiated, uneven process of capital’s valorisation on a global scale.Table of ContentsAcknowledgements List of Graphs and Tables Introduction  0.1 State-centred accounts: neoliberal and statist approaches  0.2 Global capital accumulation and the development of the East Asian and Latin American national economies  0.3 Summary and conclusions Part 1 The Specificity of the Brazilian and Korean Processes of Capitalist Development Introduction to Part 1 1 Capital Accumulation in Brazil and Korea: An Overview  1.1 Capital accumulation and the Brazilian state  1.2 Capital accumulation and the Korean state  1.3 Summary and conclusions  Appendix 2 The Valorisation of Capital in Brazil and Korea  2.1 Valorisation of the total social capital and of the portions invested in the industrial and agrarian sectors  2.2 Rate of profit of social, industrial (manufacturing) and agrarian capital  2.3 Surplus value in the form of ground-rent  2.4 Inflows of aid resources and interest-bearing (loanable) capital  2.5 Summary and conclusions 3 Determinants of the Valorisation Capacity of Industrial Capital in Brazil and Korea: The Steel, Automotive and Semiconductor Industries  3.1 Development of the system of machinery and the productive attributes of the collective worker in large-scale industrial productions  3.2 Summary and conclusions  Appendix 3.1: The determinants of the rate of valorisation of industrial capital in the Korean, Japanese and Brazilian steel industries  Appendix 3.2: The rate of valorisation of industrial capital in the Korean and Japanese automobile industries  Appendix 3.3: Brazilian, Korean, Japanese, Argentinian and Mexican automotive industries: base data 4 Growth and Development Characteristics of the Brazilian and Korean Processes of Capital Accumulation  4.1 Economic growth  4.2 Industrial exports  4.3 Labour productivity in the industrial sector  4.4 Individual and collective characteristics of the industrial labour-force  4.5 Cost and reproduction patterns of the industrial labour-force  4.6 Labour-market institutions and working-class political representation  4.7 Summary and conclusions  Appendix: Tables A4.1–A4.17 Part 2 Historical Development of the Brazilian and Korean Processes of Capital Accumulation Introduction to Part 2 5 Brazil and Korea up to the mid-1960s  5.1 Brazil: From nationalistic to developmentalist populism  5.2 Korea: From autocratic democracy to electoral autocracy  5.3 End of chapter conclusions 6 Brazil and Korea between the mid-1960s and the early 1970s  6.1 Brazil: From ‘corrective inflation’ to the ‘economic miracle’  6.2 Korea: From the ‘democratic restoration’ to the Yusin Republic  6.3 End of chapter conclusions 7 Brazil and Korea between the early and the early 1980s  7.1 Brazil: From the first ‘oil shock’ to the ‘debt crisis’  7.2 Korea: From the Heavy and Chemical Industry Plan to the Comprehensive Stabilisation Programme  7.3 End of chapter conclusions 8 Brazil and Korea between the early 1980s and the early 1990s  8.1 Brazil: From the IMF ‘stabilisation’ programme to the hyperinflation crisis  8.2 Korea: From the Kwangju massacre to the Great Workers’ Struggle  8.3 End of chapter conclusions 9 Brazil and Korea between the early 1990s and the early 2000s  9.1 Brazil: From the neoliberal reforms to the neoliberal crisis  9.2 Korea: From the conservative coalition to the ‘democratic market economy’  9.3 End of chapter conclusions 10 Brazil and Korea between the early 2000s and the mid-2010s  10.1 Brazil: From neoliberalism to neodevelopmentalism  10.2 Korea: From ‘participatory government’ to ‘post-democracy’  10.3 End of chapter conclusions Summary and Conclusions of the Book Appendix A: The qualitative and quantitative determination of the capitalist ground-rent Appendix B: Methodological bases and sources Appendix C: Statistical tables Databases consulted References Index

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Book SynopsisNathaniel Barron offers the first book length account in English of Ernst Bloch’s contribution to a Marxist philosophy of language. It is ambitious both in situating Bloch’s ideas in the broader Marxist engagement with language as it currently exists, and in using Bloch’s utopian categories to challenge that engagement. In particular, Barron reads Voloshinov’s insights into language through Bloch’s categories, and argues that Bloch advances on Voloshinov by offering an understanding of the social materiality of language which is more useful for challenging fascist forms of utterance.Table of ContentsAcknowledgements Introduction  1 Bloch’s Marxism  2 Philosophy of Language as a Problem  3 Outline of the Book 1 Bloch’s Utopian Materialism  1 Kant ‘Burning’ through Hegel  2 Tendency  3 Possibility  4 Latency 2 Bloch’s Anacoluthon  1 The Anacoluthon  2 The Anacoluthon as Trace  3 The Anacoluthon as Linguistic Tendency  4 The Anacoluthon as Linguistic Latency 3 Bloch and Marxist Philosohpy of Language  1 Voloshinov and Relationality  2 Refraction  3 Neo-Kantianism  4 Freudianism 4 Bloch and Fascism  1 Marx’s Incipit  2 The Eighteenth Brumaire  3 The Expressionism Debate  4 Fascism and Language, Then and Now: Postscript References Index

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Book SynopsisHow did the Bolsheviks see themselves? What grand narrative gave meaning to their revolutionary aspirations? The leading Western expert on Bolshevism, Lars T. Lih, answers these questions in the first-ever study of the Bolshevik outlook from Lenin to perestroika. Sharply focused case studies allow individual leaders – Lenin, Stalin, Bukharin, Trotsky, Zinoviev – to come alive and speak in their own voices, with surprising results that challenge conventional narratives left and right. What Was Bolshevism? uses novels, plays, literary criticism, photographs, statues, poetry, history textbooks, songs, and film to paint an indispensable self-portrait of Soviet civilization.Table of ContentsAcknowledgements Original Publication Introduction: What Was Bolshevism? Part 1 Overview 1 Ordinary Miracles: Lenin’s Call for Revolutionary Ambition 2 The Soviet Union and the Path to Communism Part 2 Deferred Dreams: Against the Myth of ‘War Communism’ (1918–1921) 3 Tsiurupa’s White Beard 4 The Mystery of the ABC 5 Vlast from the Past: Stories Told by Bolsheviks Part 3 Time of Troubles: Policies (1914–1921) 6 Grain Monopoly and Agricultural Transformation: Ideals and Necessities 7 Bolshevik Razverstka and War Communism 8 Bolsheviks at Work: The Sowing Committees of 1920 Part 4 Time of Troubles: Outlook (1914–1921) 9 Bolshevism’s ‘Services to the State’: Three Voices 10 ‘Our Position Is in the Highest Degree Tragic’: Trotsky and Bolshevik ‘Euphoria’ in 1920 11 Zinoviev: Populist Leninist Part 5 NEP (1921–1930) 12 Political Testament: Lenin, Bukharin and the Meaning of NEP 13 Bukharin on Bolshevik ‘Illusions’: ‘War Communism’ vs. NEP Part 6 Stalin Era (1925–1953) 14 Stalin at Work: Introduction to Stalin’s Letters to Molotov 15 Bukharin’s Bolshevik Epic: The Prison Writings 16 Show Trials in the Stalin Era: On Stage and In Court 17 Vertigo: Masks and Lies in Stalin’s Russia 18 Who Is Stalin? What Is He? Part 7 Perestroika (1984–1991) 19 Perestroika Looks Back Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisIn the early 19th century, a new social collective emerged out of impoverished artisans, urban rabble, wandering rural lower classes, bankrupt aristocrats and precarious intellectuals, one that would soon be called the proletariat. But this did not yet exist as a unified, homogeneous class with affiliated political parties. The motley appearance, the dreams and longings of these figures, torn from all economic certainties, found new forms of narration in romantic novellas, reportages, social-statistical studies, and monthly bulletins. But soon enough, these disorderly, violent, nostalgic, errant, and utopian figures were denigrated as reactionary and anarchic by the heads of the labour movement, since they did not fit into their grand linear vision of progress. In this book, Patrick Eiden-Offe tells their story, tracing the making of the proletariat in Vörmarz Germany (1815–1848) through the writings of figures like Ludwig Tieck, Moses Hess, Wilhelm Weitling, Georg Weerth, Friedrich Engels, Louise Otto-Peters, Ernst Willkomm, and Georg Büchner, and in so doing, revealing a striking similarity to the disorderly classes of today.Table of ContentsTranslator’s Note Introduction  1 Class and Classification, Proletariat and Proletarianisation  2 The Proletariat: a Non-identical Subject  3 Romantic Anti-capitalism  4 Historiography of Rescue  5 Proletarian Identity: Openness and (Self-)Enclosure  6 Inverse Relevance of the Vormärz  7 Literary History as Social History: Class as Figure 1 Small Masters and Journeymen: from Guild to Movement  1 Romantic Anti-capitalism: Ludwig Tieck’s The Young Master Carpenter  2 Journeymen Culture and the Workers’ Movement: Wilhelm Weitling  3 Georg Weerth and the Break with Guild Traditions 2 ‘We? Tricky Question!’ on the Search for Class Identity in Proletarian Journals  1 Negations: ‘Bourgeois’ and ‘Intellectual Prolatarians’  2 Ascension: ‘We’ Want to Be Bürger  3 Activation: What ‘We’ Should Be  4 Affirmation: ‘We’ Who Raise Our Voices 3 Counting the People: Class Statistics  1 Statistics and Social Agitation: The Hessian Messenger  2 Statistics in the Service of Revolution: Gesellschaftsspiegel 4 Miserabilism and Critique: from the Poverty of Literature to the Poverty of Theory  1 Ludwig Tieck and the Wolves of London  2 German Misery, German Verse: Engels as Narrative Theorist  3 Striking Stereotypes: Ernst Dronke’s ‘Rich and Poor’  4 The Family Romance of the Proletarian  5 Relentlessness  6 Mystères – Misère  7 Misery in Relations: Production, World Market, Needs  8 Poverty and Quality of Life: Disposable Time 5 Wage Labour and Slavery: Unfulfilled Promises of Freedom  1 Allegories of Class: ‘Steam King’ and ‘White Slaves’  2 Point of Comparison: Weitling’s ‘Politics of Slavery’  3 The ‘Semblance of Liberty’ and Real Slavery: Engels  4 Class Slavery  5 Why ‘White Slaves’?  6 Theory as Mystification: the Cult of the Industrial Worker and Global Critique  7 The Universality of Proletarianisation 6 Representing the ‘Labouring Poor’  1 The Possibilities of Literature: Ernst Willkomm’s White Slaves or the Sufferings of the People  2 Engels and the Invention of Social Reportage  3 The Reporter in the Field: ‘The Great Towns’ 7 Class in Struggle  1 Witches’ Sabbath as Early Modern Class Struggle: Tieck  2 The Witches’ Sabbath of the Class Struggles in France: Börne  3 Social War on Lake Zurich: Weitling  4 Primitive Rebels in Lower Lusatia: Willkomm  5 Rescuing the Rebels  6 Revenge and Class  7 The Machine Breakers  8 Is It O.K. to Be a Luddite?  9 Towards a Pure Strike: Georg Weerth’s Fragment of a Novel  10 The Struggle for the Family Wage, the Feminisation of Factory Work and the Masculinisation of the Workers’ Movement Conclusion: the Return of Romantic Anti-capitalism Epilogue: Romantic ‘Anti-capitalism’ from Above Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisThe six books by legendary Russian revolutionary, diplomat, espionage agent and journalist Larisa Reisner, published here together for the first time in translation, set the story of her life against the world-changing events of 1917, and accompany Brill’s publication of Cathy Porter’s Larisa Reisner: A Biography, published as volume 266 in the Historical Materialism book series.Table of ContentsAcknowledgements Timeline Introduction  Cathy Porter The Front Afghanistan Berlin, October 1923 Hamburg at the Barricades Coal Iron and Living People In Hindenburg’s Country Index

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Book SynopsisThe Sung Home tells the story of Kurdish singer-poets (dengbêjs) in Kurdistan in Turkey, who are specialized in the recital singing of historical songs. After a long period of silence, they returned to public life in the 2000s and are presented as guardians of history and culture. Their lyrics, life stories, and live performances offer fascinating insights into cultural practices, local politics and the contingencies of state borders. Decades of oppression have deeply politicized and moralized cultural and musical production. Through in-depth ethnographic analysis Hamelink highlights the variety of personal and social narratives within a society in turmoil. Set within the larger global stories of modernity, nationalism, and Orientalism, this study reflects on different ideas about what it means to create a Kurdish home.Trade Review"...an excellent bridge between the Kurdish past and the current state of social reorganization, taking place amid the impact of modernity, artfully discerned from the songs, laments, and stories sung/narrated by the dengbêj. It captures some crucial historical, social, political, and cultural dynamics that have shaped the collective Kurdish experience." Ozan Aksoy in Bustan Vol. 8, No. 2 , 2017.Table of ContentsList of participating performers List of songs discussed List of figures, maps and tables List of terms and abbreviations Notes on language use and translation Acknowledgements Introduction i.1 The Sung Home 2 i.2 Some notes on the dengbêj art 17 i.3 Folklore, nationalism, and (self-)Orientalism in Turkey 31 i.4 Narrative and morality 50 i.5 Engaged writing 56 i.6 Chapter outline 58 Part I Songs and Performance Chapter 1. ‘My heart is on fire.’ Singing a Kurdish past. Introduction 63 1.1 The kilams and the corpus 69 1.2 Time, place, and figures 1.3 Women and men 73 1.4 Elite and commoners 86 1.5 Armenians 90 1.6 Local leaders in battle songs 96 1.7 A Kurdish geography: place names and landscape marks 108 1.8 Kurdish rebels and the Turkish state 111 1.9 Evdalê Zeynikê: the dengbêj as a figure 122 Conclusion 126 Chapter 2. ‘It would disappear in a moment.’ Performing tradition. 131 Introduction 132 2.1 The empersonment of Kurdishness 135 2.2 The Diyarbakır Dengbêj House and its dengbêjs 138 2.3 Performing the village 145 2.4 Tribes and battles 154 2.5 Rebellions and tribes in performance 159 Conclusion 179 Part II Life stories 183 Chapter 3. ‘A language is a life, and art is a bracelet.’ A landscape of silence. 184 Introduction 185 Life story 1: Politicization of Kurdish language and culture 191 Life story 2: A female dengbêj 201 Life story 3: Landlords and support 214 Life story 4: Armenian voices 222 Life story 5: The religious class 236 Life story 6: Turkish experiences 245 Life story 7: The prohibition on musical instruments 251 Conclusion 262 Part III Conflict and Activism 266 Chapter 4. ‘Decorate your heart with the voice of the dengbêjs.’ Cultural activism. 267 Introduction 268 4.1 Kurdish television in Europe 278 4.2 Zana Güneş and TV activism 285 4.3 The Dengbêj House in Diyarbakır 291 4.4 Zeki Barış and activism in the House 298 4.5 Individual dengbêjs referring to political narratives 302 4.6 Istanbul, a market for dengbêjs 312 Conclusion 320 Chapter 5. Songs crossing borders: musical memories of a family on the run. 324 Introduction 325 5.1 Context and history 331 5.2 Experiencing borders 356 5.3 The embodied experience of singing songs 365 5.4 Resignifying cultural memory and redefining the position of women 367 Conclusion 377 Bibliography 396 General index

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Book SynopsisThe essays in this volume explore in detail many of the ways power structures our daily personal, political and intellectual lives, and evaluate the workings of power using a variety of theoretical paradigms, from Hobbesian liberalism to Foucauldian feminist postmodernism. Taken as a whole, the book aims towards an end to unjust and destructive uses of power and the flowering of an encouraging, educated empowerment for all human beings in a pluralistic world. Section I offers a progressive chain of arguments that moves from the acceptance of domination, through the rejection of domination and, finally, to a new vision of power based on equality and mutual respect. Section II explores the questions, how is the philosophical self, that is, our very understanding of who we are, implicated in the web of power and domination? Section III responds to political realism as it explores morally ideal solutions to the global problems of poverty, war and hunger. Section IV discusses ways in which our thought and practice in both public and private life are bound up in hierarchies of domination.Table of ContentsJoseph C. KUNKEL: Editorial Foreword. Laura DUHAN KAPLAN and Laurence F. BOVE: Preface. Acknowledgments. SECTION I DOMINATION AND ITS ALTERNATIVES. Introduction. ONE Robert LITKE: Domination and Other Kinds of Power. TWO William C. GAY: The Violence of Domination and the Power of Non-violence. THREE Gail M. PRESBEY: Hannah Arendt on Power. FOUR Maria MORALES: The Corrupting Influence on Power. SECTION II POWER, SELF, AND SOCIETY. Introduction. FIVE Laura DUHAN KAPLAN: Physical Education for Domination and Emancipation: A Foucauldian Analysis of Aerobics and Hatha Yoga. SIX Glen T. MARTIN: Eschatological Ethics and Positive Peace: Western Contributions to the Critique of the Self-Centered Ego and Its Social Manifestations. SEVEN Jerald RICHARDS: Power Imbalance and Human Worth. EIGHT. Judith PRESLER: Plato's Solution to the Problem of Political Corruption. NINE Marc STIER: The Whole Truth and Nothing But the Truth? Deception and the Educative Ideal of Politics. SECTION III POWER, WAR, AND GLOBAL RESPONSIBILITY. Introduction. TEN Bernard R. BOXIL: Power and Poverty: The Prospects for World Peace. ELEVEN Joseph C. KUNKEL: The Rich Get Richer and the Poor Starve: Is There an Ethical Alternative? TWELVE Michael HOWARD: Future Generations and Moral Duties. THIRTEEN Barbara A. THIEDE: Assuming Power: Liberal Peace Advocacy in the U.S. and Germany. FOURTEEN David J. ULBRICH: A Kantian Critique of Machiavelli's Ethic of Power. SECTION IV POWER, RACE, AND GENDER. Introduction. FIFTEEN Elizabeth KAMARCK MINNICH: Preparing to Think about Power and Domination: Locating Errors that Perpetuate Injustice. SIXTEEN Laurence F. BOVE: Malcolm X's Rejection of Martin Luther King, Jr.'s Nonviolence. SEVENTEEN Judith A. BOSS: Throwing Pearls to the Swine: Women, Forgiveness, and the Unrepentent Abuser. EIGHTEEN David E. JOHNSON: Educational Responses to Tailhook. NINETEEN Amy IHLAN: Burning Crosses, Political Expression, and the First Amendment: The Case of R.A.V. v. City of St. Paul. TWENTY Alison BAILEY: Mothers, Birthgivers, and Peacemakers: The Need for an Inclusive Account. Reference Bibliography. About the Authors. Index

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Trade Review”…an important contribution to GDR studies and German Studies.” in: Monatshefte, Vol. 97, No. 2, 2005Table of ContentsIan WALLACE: Preface. Section One: Martin KANE: The Role of the East German Writer. Paul COOKE: Continuity and Taboo: Sexual Repression and Vergangenheitsbewältigung in Wolfgang Hilbig's Die Weiber Simon BEVAN: Change and Continuity in the Work of Christoph Hein: a Comparison of Horns Ende (1985) and Von allem Anfang an (1997) David CLARKE: 'Mit Kunst der Welt beikommen': Christoph Hein on Literature, Ideology and the Possibility of Change in the GDR Diana ALBERGHINI: Re-defining the Role of the Intellectual and the Function of Literature: The Example of Helga Königsdorf Section Two: Wilfried van der WILL: The Visual Arts Astrid IHLE: Framing Socialist Reconstruction in the GDR: Women under Socialism - a Discussion of the Fragments of a Documentary Project by the Photographer Evelyn Richter Jennie HAWKSLEY: Continuity of Practice versus Change in Circumstance: GDR Visual Culture and the East German Artist. An Examination of the Work of Via and Pina Lewandowsky Section Three: Ian WALLACE: Varieties of Non-Conformity Jonathan GRIX: Non-Conformist Behaviour and the Collapse of the GDR Gordon Charles ROSS: The Swastika in Socialism: Right-Wing Extremism and Militant Nationalism in the GDR Stephen BROWN: The Protestant Churches and Political Opposition: Continuity and Change 1978 to 1989 Brendan de SILVA: The Protestant Church and the East German State: An Organisational Perspective Michael PLOETZ: The East German Peace Council in the Peace Struggle of the Early 1980s Section Four: Peter BARKER: Institutions and Parties Daniel HOUGH: SED to PDS - A Case of Continuity through Change? Julian RHYS: 'Was denn, es gibt euch noch?' The Freie Deutsche Jugend in the 1990s Thorsten LAUTERBACH: The German Reunified - Challenges to the Legal System Section Five: Chris FLOCKTON: Women, Economy and the Regions Bettina IGANSKI: The Meaning of Women's 'Second Family' for Current Patterns of Discontinuity in Rural East Germany Vanessa BECK: The Impact of Unemployment on Women in the New Bundesländer Corinne NATIVEL and Hannah TOOZE: The Significance of the Region in East Germany's Economic Transition List of Contributors

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Book SynopsisIn this book, Rhodes provides a nonevaluative account of coercion. He begins with a thorough discussion of the charge that coercion is an essentially contested concept. He argues that effective communication of regulations pertaining to human conduct requires a basic level of clarity as to the kind of conduct being regulated. Accordingly, he argues that before we prescribe or proscribe conduct, we should describe it. In short, he maintains that wherever possible description should precede prescription and proscription. Rhodes begins his descriptive project by providing a fundamental account of human motivation. Upon this foundation he supports his distinctions between threats, offers, throffers, and neutral proposals. He argues that all coercion claims can be understood in light of these components. He applies this analysis to three prominent accounts of coercion as advanced by F.A. Hayek, Harry Frankfurt, and Robert Nozick. After comparing and contrasting these views, Rhodes provides his own account. Rhodes's account is based upon the identification of what he refers to as perceived-threat-avoidance-behavior as a necessary condition for coercion. As a descriptive, or nonevaluative, account, Rhodes is able to identify coercion independent from normative judgments. He argues that it is not the wrongfulness of some conduct that makes it coercion, instead, it is the coerciveness of some conduct that makes it wrong. Unique to Rhodes's account, coercion is not necessarily wrong. As a descriptive account, his view permits an independent analysis of the moral status of an act of coercion. The book concludes with a discussion of the normatively significant variables of a coercion claim.Trade Review”[Rhodes] develops his analysis out of an admirably broad canvassing of the recent literature on coercion … offering reasonable amendments…” in: Ethics, Vol. 112, No. 2, January 2002Table of ContentsEditorial Foreword by Richard T. Hull. Acknowledgments. ONE Essential Contestability and Evaluative Concepts. TWO Our Own Doings. THREE Works on Coercion. FOUR Coercion and Morality. Notes. Bibliography. About the Author. Index.

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Book SynopsisTradition and how far writers fit into or diverge from the demands of tradition is one of the most debated issues in literary discussion. Gender, however, is not often part of discussions which depend on such questions at the decisiveness of the Modernist break with the Victorian period or whether Postmodernism makes tradition meaningless. By contrast the very existence of a specifically female tradition is still an urgent subject of debate, and it is clear that many nineteenth-century women writers were troubled in their search for literary foremothers. This autobiographical impetus can be located in the work of each of the poets discussed in Tradition and the Poetics of Self Nineteenth-Century Women’s Poetry: Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Caroline Bowles Southey, Emily Dickinson and Christina Rossetti. An exploration of the self, either in the abstract or in a more closely personal sense, appears in a concern with the craft of poetry and the role of the poet, in a teasing out of language as a marker of a personal encounter with the world, in an adventurous play with genre and a rewriting of myth, and in a bold confrontation with received notions of a woman’s place. Adventurousness marks the work of each of these poets and is a central focus of these essays.Table of ContentsBarbara GARLICK: Introduction 1 Virginia BLAIN: “Be these his daughters?” Caroline Bowles Southey, Elizabeth Barrett Browning and Disruption in a Patriarchal Poetics of Women’s Autobiography 2 Meg TASKER: Aurora Leigh: Elizabeth Barrett Browning’s Novel Approach to the Woman Poet 3 E. WARWICK SLINN: Elizabeth Barrett Browning and the Problem of Female Agency 4 Debra FRIED: In Daisy’s Lane: Variants and Personification in Emily Dickinson 5 Lori LEBOW: Emily Dickinson’s Epistolary Poetics: Text, Lies and Autobiography 6 Susan CONLEY: Burying the Medusa: Romantic Bloodlines in Christina Rossetti’s Gothic Epistle 7 Sharon BICKLE: A Woman of Women for “A Sonnet of Sonnets”: Exploring Female Subjectivity in Christina Rossetti’s “Monna Innominata” 8 C.C. BARFOOT: “Thus only in a dream”: Appetite in Christina Rossetti’s Poetry. 9. Barbara GARLICK: Defacing the Self: Christina Rossetti’s The Face of the Deep as Absolution 10 Tomoko TAKAGUCHI: Christina Rossetti in Secrecy: Revising the Poetics of Sensibility Notes on Contributors Index

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Book SynopsisThis book aims to show the many resources at our disposal for grappling with the Holocaust as the darkest occurrence of the twentieth century. These wide-ranging studies on philosophy, history, and literature address the way the Holocaust had led to the reconceptualization of the humanities. The scholarly approaches of Pierre Klossowski, Georges Bataille, and Maurice Blanchot are examined critically, and the volume explores such poignant topics as violence, evil, and monuments.Trade Review"[an] excellent edited collection … Stone’s volume is hugely welcome as an admirable comprehensive guide for an Anglophone readership to an alternative tradition of thinking about the Holocaust." - in: The Jewish Quarterly (Autumn 2002)Table of ContentsEDITORIAL FOREWORD ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS EDITOR’S INTRODUCTION ONE ANDREW BENJAMIN: Interrupting Confession, Resisting Absolution: Monuments after the Holocaust TWO RAVIT REICHMAN: The Myth of Old Forms: On the Unknowable and Representation THREE IAN JAMES: Pierre Klossowski: The Suspended Self FOUR DAN STONE: Georges Bataille and the Interpretation of the Holocaust FIVE SARA GUYER: Being-Destroyed: Anthropomorphizing L’espèce humaine SIX RICHARD STAMP: “Do Not Forget the Very Thing that Will Make You Lose Your Memory”: Blanchot’s “Désastre” and the Holocaust SEVEN HEIDRUN FRIESE: Silence — Voice — Representation EIGHT MICHAL BEN-NAFTALI: Lyotard’s and Derrida’s “Catastrophist Phenomenology” NINE SIMON SPARKS: The Experience of Evil: Kant and Nancy ABOUT THE AUTHORS INDEX

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Book SynopsisThe book concludes with looking at the last thirty years where Hyderabad has taken a giant leap towards becoming a modern city that is now the preferred location of scientific and technological institutions and companies.

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Book SynopsisEver get the feeling that things are falling apart? You''re not alone. From bad banks to global warming it can all look hopeless, but what if everything could turn out, well, even better than before? What if the only thing holding us back is a lack of imagination and a surplus of old orthodoxies? In fascinating and iconoclastic detail - on everything from the cash in your pocket to the food on your plate and the shape of our working lives - Cancel the Apocalypse describes how the relentless race for economic growth is not always one worth winning, how excessive materialism has come at a terrible cost to our environment, and hasn''t even made us any happier in the process. Simms believes passionately in the human capacity for change, and shows how the good life remains in our grasp. While global warming and financial meltdown might feel like modern day horsemen of the apocalypse, Simms shows how such end of the world scenarios offer us the chance for a new beg

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Book SynopsisTONY AWARD WINNER • An explosive re-imagining of the mysterious wartime meeting between two Nobel laureates to discuss the atomic bomb.“Endlessly fascinating…. The most invigorating and ingenious play of ideas in many a year….  An electrifying work of art.” —Ben Brantley, The New York Times In 1941 the German physicist Werner Heisenberg made a clandestine trip to Copenhagen to see his Danish counterpart and friend Niels Bohr. Their work together on quantum mechanics and the uncertainty principle had revolutionized atomic physics. But now the world had changed and the two men were on opposite sides in a world war. Why Heisenberg went to Copenhagen and what he wanted to say to Bohr are questions that have vexed historians ever since. In Michael Frayn’s ambitious, fiercely intelligent, and daring new play Heisenberg and Bohr meet once again to discuss the intricacies of physics and to ponder the

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Book SynopsisThis bibliography is now under the editorial direction and authority of the British Library of Political and Economic Science, at the London School of Economics. The editorial expertise of the world''s leading social science institution will ensure that the IBSS maintains its unrivalled position as a bibliographic source. This bibliography lists the most important works in sociology published in 1988.

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Book SynopsisEducation in, about, and through, the sciences â physics, chemistry, biology, earth science â has grown rapidly in the last 150 years. Starting from the twin bases of an elective provision for those likely to become scientists and engineers and of informal provision for the general populace, it has evolved into a core component of compulsory education across the globe. Above this rises an edifice of provision at university level and beyond, both formal and informal. This expansion has been justified by the perceptions that science is one of the major roots for economic prosperity, that it must inform an increasing number of decisions in democratic societies, and that it increasingly impinges on the personal lives of individuals. This collection of papers, drawn from worldwide literature and reflecting diverse cultural traditions, provides a fascinating resource for scholars seeking to unravel the historical trajectories of these complexities, to understand the nature of current provision, and to identify likely future directions of development.Table of ContentsVolume 1: Science, Education, and the Formal Curriculum Section A: The Relationship between Science and Science Education Section B: Aims of the Formal Science Curriculum and the Needs of Students Volume 2: Science Education and Assessment in the Formal Curriculum Section C: Science Education in the Formal Curriculum Section D: Assessment in Formal Science Education Volume 3: Teaching and Learning in Science Education Section E: Teaching in Science Education Section F: Learning in Science Education Volume 4: Conceptual and Teacher Development in Science Education Section G: The Conceptual Development of Students in Science Education Section H: The Professional Development of Science Teachers

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Book SynopsisScientific developments have always been central to conceptions of society at particular historical moments. However, the rise of molecular biology and the new genetic knowledge in the twentieth century pose particular challenges to our notions of the individual, our sense of past and future, and our relationships with the body, nature and the family. As a number of authors have suggested, the meanings of âlife itselfâ may be in the process of subtle transformation and many of these reconfigurations are occurring more rapidly than our ability to fully grasp their social and cultural implications.A fascinating work, the first volume in this collection sets out the background to scientific developments, the social responses to them and the constitution of science and technology as subjects for sociological analysis. The following volumes explore the interactions between biotechnology and the politics of the environment, the cultural context in which science is practised, and the broader social consequences that it may be expected to have.A general introduction maps key approaches and controversies, highlighting particular theoretical and methodological perspectives, and each individual volume is introduced by a specialist in the field. Table of ContentsVolume 1: New Genetic Knowledge, the Body, Health and Disease Volume 2: The Environment, Food and Biodiversity Volume 3: Genomic Applications: Consent, Ownership, Control Volume 4: Citizenship, Diversity and Governance

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Book SynopsisAnimals are crucial to the functioning of any society: they provide humans with food, labour, raw materials, modes of transport, companionship, scientific knowledge through observation and experimentation, and forms of leisure and entertainment. Given both the wide variety of ways in which animals are involved in human societies, and also the broad range of controversies (from vivisection for scientific and commercial purposes, to factory farming) that have arisen, the study of animals is by its very nature interdisciplinary. Each social scientific discipline has distinctive and interesting things to say about the relations that pertain both historically and in the present day between humans and animals. In subjects such as anthropology and geography, the study of human-animal relations has become in recent years a key area of analysis. Other subjects, such as sociology, are now increasingly recognising the need to put animals firmly on their research agendas.This collection brings together the rich diversity of research work from across the social sciences on the topic of human-animal relations, and also provides overviews of research that has been carried out within particular disciplines in this area.

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Book SynopsisIn the last five years or so, there has been a huge explosion of scholarly work on the history of food and, likewise, pressing problems such as food scares and genetic modification, as well as anorexia and obesity, have become increasingly present in the public consciousness.Drawing on a wide variety of disciplines, this fascinating four-volume collection covers anthropology, sociology, psychology, history, cultural history, land economy, and, outside of the arts and social sciences, disciplines such as health sciences and health economics. An engaging and comprehensive reference, it is undoubtedly a highly useful resource for both student and scholar alike.

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