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Book SynopsisA unique compendium, drawing on history and mythology, science and art, anecdote and image, personal narrative and epic to tell the extraordinary story of the grain that built the New World. Betty Fussell has given us a true American saga, interweaving the histories of the indigenous peoples who first cultivated the grain and the European conquerors who appropriated and propagated it.

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Book SynopsisIn the struggle against apartheid, one often overlooked group of crusaders was the coterie of black lawyers who overcame the Byzantine system that the government established oftentimes explicitly to block the paths of its black citizens from achieving justice.Now,

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Book SynopsisPooja Rangan interrogates participatory documentary's humanitarian ethos of "giving a voice to the voiceless" in documentaries featuring marginalized subjects, showing how it reinforces the films' subjects as the "other" and reproduces definitions of the human that exclude non-normative modes of thinking, being, and doing.Trade Review“Rangan moves diagonally across disciplinary boundaries and media forms, tracing the past and future of theory and practice concerning participatory documentary. Immediations offers substantial theoretical matrices for scholars to contend with going forward, and new challenges for interdisciplinary practitioners.” -- Joel Neville Anderson * Visual Studies Workshop *“Immediations marks an important contribution to documentary and anthropology studies, making exemplary use of multidisciplinary research to explore more deeply the human power structures and their relationship to the politics of representation.” -- Almudena Escobar López * Film Quarterly *"Pooja Rangan’s Immediations is a provocative, polemical, and vital book for thinking through the often problematic humanitarian impulse to give the camera to the Other. . . . Immediations is a bold, refreshing book that I simply cannot stop thinking about." -- Ryan Watson * Cinema Journal *Table of ContentsIllustrations ix Acknowledgments xi Introduction. Immediations: The Humanitarian Impulse in Documentary 1 1. Feral Innocence: The Humanitarian Aesthetic of Dematerialized Child Labor 23 2. Bare Liveness: The Eyewitness to Catastrophe in the Age of Humanitarian Emergency 61 3. "Having a Voice": Toward an Autistic Counterdiscourse of Documentary 103 4. The Documentary Art of Surrender: Humane-itarian and Posthumanist Encounters with Animals 151 Conclusion. The Gift of Documentary 191 Notes 197 Bibliography 223 Index 241

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Book SynopsisA fitful interloper among the Surrealists, the author rejected all forms of dogmatic thought, whether religious, philosophical, aesthetic, or political. He combined his skepticism about Western metaphysics with mystic's effort to maintain intense wakefulness to the present moment and to the irreducible particularity of all objects and experience.

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Book SynopsisIn 1581, after four days of debating six leading Anglican divines at the Tower of London, Jesuit Edmund Campion (1540-1581) was put to death because he would not deny his faith. This volume contains Catholic manuscripts of those debates.Trade Review...provides invaluable insights into the mind and soul of Edmund Campion, and highlights many of the issues that so tragically tore his world asunder. * —Catholic Historical Review *

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Book SynopsisAn innovative reinterpretation of the relationships forged between African revolutionaries and the countries of the Warsaw Pact, Cold War Liberation is a bold addition to debates about policy-making in the Global South during the Cold War.

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Book SynopsisTrade ReviewThis is only a 200 page book, but it covers a wealth of material...[A] clear, concise introduction that would be ideal for a one-term undergraduate course...Recommended." - CHOICE"This short text does an excellent job of covering those topics that should be included in an undergraduate introduction to computability theory... There are both appropriate exercises and enticing doorways to open topics and current research. The exposition is precise, but still conversational. I believe my students will enjoy reading this text." - Jeffry L. Hirst, Zentralblatt MATHTable of Contents Introduction Background Defining computability Working with computable functions Computing and enumerating sets Turing reduction and Post’s problem Two hierarchies of sets Further tools and results Areas of research Mathematical asides Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisPhotographic historian Edwards looks at the popularity of the amateur photographic survey movement in England between the mid-1880s and the end of World War I, when over a thousand amateur photographers took well over 50,000 photographs documenting nearby churches, cottages, and other local features. Edwards sees this movement as a form of popular history.Trade Review"The Camera as Historian offers groundbreaking insights into the entangled relations of photography and history, the recording impulse in modern British history, the complex links between visual practices and the historical imagination, and the intellectual and cultural traditions that frame representations of the past. It is significant as the first in-depth look at the fascinating and important work of the British survey movement: its participants, driving impulses, economies, audiences, values, and successes and failures. The book is made all the more important by Elizabeth Edwards's insistence on attention to the ways that photographs were produced and translated, and her demonstration of a mode of historical interpretation that not only links critical theory and archival practice, but illustrates their inseparability."—Jennifer Tucker, author of Nature Exposed: Photography as Eyewitness in Victorian Science"In this magnificent study, Elizabeth Edwards approaches the photographic survey movement in England above all as a practice: a relation between photographers, photographic technologies, photographs, and the material traces of the past in landscapes. This practice, as Edwards shows in rich detail, was extensive, amateur, public, local, and reflexive. With its empirical depth and conceptual reach, this book enhances immensely our understanding of the mediation of both history and geography by photography."—Gillian Rose, author of Doing Family Photography: The Domestic, the Public and the Politics of Sentiment“The The Camera as Historian provides a dense amount of information about the photographic survey movement, as well as aspects of Victorian and Edwardian Britain that shaped the survey movement. . . . But the content and ideas are interesting and provide an original perspective, making any extra effort in the read a tremendously worthwhile venture.” -- Mary Desjarlais * Photogram *“The Camera as Historian is unquestionably a major work of the new photographic history. As I have indicated it is now the benchmark study of mass photographic practice; it is inventively conceived, meticulously researched, and full of new ways of thinking about photography, history, and many other things.” -- Steve Edwards * Oxford Art Journal *“[A] fascinating and remarkable new book. . . . It is also a pleasure to use, being beautifully produced, with (as would be expected) a wonderful collection of photographs, magnificently reproduced—and. . . it is outstandingly good value.” -- Alan Crosby * Local Historian *“Probably because of the scope, British survey photography has lacked extensive studies, so this thoughtful analysis by Edwards of a complex set of practices and narratives is welcome. . . . Highly recommended. Lower-level undergraduates and above.” -- S. Spencer * Choice *“This is a great book on a great subject by a great author (and, yes, by a great publisher as well, for the amount and quality of the often never published images in this well designed and impressive volume is exemplary). . . . If good history is a dialogue between past, present and future, then The Camera as History is best history.” -- Jan Baetens * Leonardo Reviews *”This is the only comprehensive monograph on the survey movement, for which Edwards has identified 73 surveys, or regional bodies of work that were focused on particular towns, counties, and cities. Her analysis of the pictures is commendable as she describes the ‘historical imagination’ that these amateur photographers articulated through the surveys. . . . Serious researchers on this topic will appreciate the thorough work offered here, which is well documented in notes and appendixes.” -- Eric Linderman * Library Journal *“Essential and exciting reading for anyone interested in the visual culture of this period. Edwards’s achievement is to make the activities of one group—or linked groups—of people speak to the nation’s sense of itself and of how its physical character should be preserved and remembered. No less important is the way in which she makes us think about how photography may best be understood as history and what its responsibilities may be.” -- Kate Flint * Journal of British Studies *“Building on her groundbreaking work on anthropological photography, The Camera as Historian establishes Edwards as a role model in the field of photographic history. Addressing both the concerns of theory and the riches of the archive, Edwards exposes the foibles of these Edwardian amateurs without any bad-faith assumption of chauvinism. Adorned with over a hundred illustrations and a useful bibliography, scholars and graduate students in the fields of photography, visual culture, social, and cultural history will receive multiple dividends from reading and discussing this book.” -- Nicole Hudgins * Journal of Social History *“Edwards demonstrates a true mastery over her material and an adept use of critical theory, such that the book remains wholly engaging. The Camera as Historian positions Edwards as anexemplar in the writing of history and ethnography within the fields of photography and visualculture. With over one hundred illustrations and a comprehensive bibliography of primary andsecondary sources, this book will surely remain a useful reference on British survey photography and a model historiography of both British history and photography.” -- Taylor J. Acosta * Nineteenth-Century Art Worldwide *"I am Australian, and thus very distant in space and experience from these landscapes — but just holding and looking through Edwards’s beautiful book fills me with nostalgia and longing for a landscape I have never known.... Erudite and nuanced, this rich and suggestive book raises many issues and points to further work." -- Jane Lydon * Victorian Studies *Table of ContentsPreface xi Acknowledgments xiii 1. "Sacred Monuments of the Nation's Growth and Hope": Amateur Photography and Imagining the Past 1 2. "A Credit to Yourself and Your Country": Amateur Photographers and the Survey and Record Movement 31 3. Unblushing Realism: Practices of Evidence, Style, and Arachive 79 4. "To Be a Source of Pride": Local Histories and National Identities 123 5. "Doomed and Threatened": Photography, Disappearance, and Survival 163 6. "To Quicken the Instincts": Photographs 7. Afterlives and Legacies: An Epilogureas Public History 209 7. Afterlives and Legacies: An Epilogue 243 Appendix 259 Illustrations 269 Notes 273 Bibliography 305 Index 321

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Book SynopsisLooks at the vernacular cosmopolitanism of a group of jazz players in Ghana, who have traveled widely, played with American jazz greats, and blended Coltrane with local instruments and philosophy. This book describes their cosmopolitan outlook as an accoustemology, a way of knowing the world through sound.Trade Review"How to evoke the brilliant insight and empathy of Steven Feld's acoustemological memoir of music and musicians in Accra? To start, imagine E. T. Mensah, Shirley Temple, John Coltrane, and Ludwig van Beethoven riding (quasi-legally) in the back of a vividly motto-festooned Ghanaian trotro truck, cool-running a memory-drenched, complexly overlapping soundscape of highlife evergreens, Afriphonic jazz hollers, hallelujah choruses, ratcheting sewer toads, and honking India-rubber bulb horns. Centered on the voices, stories, and ambitions of a compelling cast of characters—Ghanaian musicians whose diversely linked experiences chart the layered, contradictory flows and deep reefs of globalization—Jazz Cosmopolitanism in Accra is a fundamental and stimulating contribution to the literature on musical cosmopolitanism and the study of contemporary urban culture in Africa.”—Christopher Waterman, Dean, UCLA School of the Arts and Architecture"Steven Feld has written an astonishing book: at once a sweetly told adventure story, biographies of some very important but virtually unknown African musicians, a shrewd look at the world we live in and think we know, and hidden within it all, a sly critique of the history of jazz."—John F. Szwed, Director, Center for Jazz Studies at Columbia University“[A] vital statement about the infinitely nuanced nature of cultural exchange between Africa and America, and how our fullest understanding of jazz history might be furthered by enquiries like this.” -- Kevin Le Gendre * Jazzwise *“A successful fusion of anthropology and aesthetics that illuminates the musical and cultural links—and differences—between African and American jazz, this is also a fascinating memoir of one person’s attempt to understand the urban culture of Ghana in an age of globalization.” * Publishers Weekly *“Feld reveals the high degree of cosmopolitanism in jazz-pop related musics and the huge role that race and class play in constraining the players. Deciphering the intertextuality of African American life and music requires an expert like Steven Feld. He has done a masterful job.” -- Philip K. Bock * Journal of Anthropological Research *“In addition to his effective usage of the storytelling mode, Feld provides an exemplary illustration of the seamless integration of multiple roles as a documentary filmmaker, musician, anthropologist, historian, and tour promoter. . . . Feld realizes that not all Ghanaians would view these musicians as cosmopolitans, but that fact seems to actually reinforce his discussion of the discourse on cosmopolitanism and its relationship to race, class, and other structures of power. Indeed, he opens many doors for his readers and tells us stories of why these types of music making are important beyond Ghana. He leads us to a more refined understanding of cosmopolitanism, not to provide a series of answers, but to provoke in each of us more thoughtful questions about our music, our research, and ourselves.” -- Dave Wilson * Ethnomusicology Review *“The chapters in which Feld listens and retells the stories of these mercurial musicians are compelling, and throw up original and profound material. . . . Feld is brilliant at articulating the multiple overlapping narratives and experiences that both obfuscate and animate diasporic dialogues, and in that process his book attains its own world-historical significance.” -- Tony Herrington * The Wire *“This fascinating book opens up jazz from the African perspective. Whether he’s discussing with Nortey the Africanization of his saxophone and his absolute dedication to the music of John Coltrane or explaining Ghanaba’s musical relationship with Max Roach, Feld brings a full picture to the broadening cultural aspects of Africans playing their own type of jazz.” -- Jon Ross * DownBeat *“With rich and diverse examples, Feld demonstrates the pervasiveness of cosmopolitan outlooks among jazz musicians in Accra, whether mobile or immobile, socially powerful or powerless, rich or poor… Jazz Cosmopolitanism in Accra is an important theoretical intervention in ‘cosmopolitanism from below’ and a powerful narrative about jazz as an African diasporic art form from the standpoint of musicians in Accra.” -- Stephen Hager * Notes *“Jazz Cosmopolitanism is a lively and important book, one that uses the vehicles of dialogue and sound to unearth the complex cultural and political dynamics that connect a group of urban Africans to the diaspora and wider world. It is a fun, invigorating, and worthwhile read. . . . Jazz Cosmopolitanism is a book that continues to resonate when finally put down. I highly recommend picking it up.” -- Nate Plageman * Journal of African History *“A thoroughly humane and endearing narrative account of Feld’s attempt in Ghana, encumbered by the title ‘prof,’ recording and photographic equipment, a car, and many of the resources one expects from a citizen of the wealthiest nation on earth,to try and engage with and understand Accra’s musical landscape and especially those aspects of it which relate to jazz. It’s a joy to read. . . .” * African Jazz *“Feld’s brilliant work should have a broad impact and appeal, offering significant contributions and interventions to interdisciplinary discourses on jazz, Ghanaian music, cosmopolitanism, as well as (urban) Africa and its diaspora.” -- Paul Schauert * African Music *“An absolute delight. . . . Jazz Cosmopolitanism in Accra will not only become one of the most important studies in jazz scholarship; it will also provide a provocative indication of where and how culturally oriented music studies might develop.” -- Ronald Radano * Journal of Popular Music Studies *“A text to listen to... Jazz Cosmopolitanism in Accra is a prime example of substantial academic research presented in an accessible way.... With his combination of academic depth, collaborative approach, and aesthetic sensibility in this book, as in his other work, Steven Feld is a guiding light for us all: musicians, filmmakers, anthropologists in Ghana and further afield.” -- Helena Wulff * Visual Anthropology Review *Table of ContentsOpus xi Four-Bar Intro "The Shape of Jazz to Come" 1 Vamp In, HeadAcoustemology in Accra: On Jazz Cosmopolitanism 11 First Chorus, with TranspositionGuy Warren / Ghanaba: From Afro-Jazz to Handel via Max Roach 51 Second Chorus, Blow FreeNii Noi Nortey: From Pan-Africanism to Afrifones via John Coltrane 87 Third Chorus, Back InsideNii Otoo Annan: From Toads to Polyrhythm via Elvin Jones and Rashied Ali 119 Fourth Chorus, Shout to the GroovePor Por: From Honk Horns to Jazz Funerals via New Orleans 159 Head Again, Vamp OutBeyond Diasporic Intimacy 199 "Dedicated to You" 245 Horn Backgrounds, Riffs Underneath 249 Themes, Players 299

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Book SynopsisExamining the notion of time in art history, Keith Moxey argues that looking at a work of art creates an experience of time for the viewer distinct from the work's place in the history of art.Trade Review“Every page is graced with an erudite yet refreshingly accessible writing style—a rare feat these days—which makes the reader feel excessively smart. . . . If you are not afraid to come away with more questions than you started with, this book definitely belongs within easy reach on your shelf. It is a book to anyone interested in the philosophy of time, the nature of art, and the ever-growing contemporary discourses of history and art history.” -- SeungJung Kim * Art in America *“Though it is a far-reaching critique of the kind of historicism that contents itself with studying the past without regard for the present, Keith Moxey’s Visual Time: The Image in History is not an attempt to liberate us from history. On the contrary, it is a critique of historicism in the name of history, and it never loses sight of the urgent issues that have fueled historicism, especially in the last century.” -- Amy Knight Powell * CAA Reviews *“Due to the breadth and variety of content and theory, the book should have wide-ranging application for art historians working in a number of geographic regions and time periods, and it should benefit those working in theory as well as object-based scholarship. . . . Moxey’s work is another valuable foray into a rich field, and it has the potential to reshape art historical discourse.” -- James Fishburne * Comitatus *"This book, with its sophisticated language and discussion of methodological and historiographical insights, will be key reading for graduate students and scholars across art history and related fields. While the case studies pertain largely to sixteenth-century northern European works, Moxey's thoughtful and provocative consideration of issues related to time, history, periodization, style, aesthetics, and presence in the interpretation of objects from the past will appeal to all who are grappling with these theoretical issues." -- Joyce de Vries * Sixteenth Century Journal * "Affect and historicism—dueling presences within any art experience—animate Keith Moxey’s superb new collection of essays on Northern Renaissance painting." -- Christopher P. Heuer * Renaissance Quarterly *Table of ContentsList of Illustrations ix Acknowledgments xi Introduction 1 Part I. Time 9 1. Is Modernity Multiple? 11 2. Do We Still Need a Renaissance? 23 3. Contemporaneity's Heterochronicity 37 Part II. History 51 4. Visual Studies and the Iconic Turn 53 5. Bruegel's Crows 77 6. Mimesis and Iconoclasm 107 7. Impossible Distance 139 Conclusion 173 Bibliography 177 Index 199

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Book SynopsisThe contributors to this provocative collection scrutinize the relations between anthropology and contemporary global war, contending that modern high-tech warfare is analogous to rituals of magic and sorcery, and examining the U.S. military's exploitation of ethnographic research.Trade Review"Virtual War and Magical Death is a creative project that is bound to stimulate constructive conversation. It inserts contemporary technologies of warfare, particularly the U.S. Army's Human Terrain System, into sociocultural anthropology's current reflections on its theoretical and methodological practices, as well as the purposes of ethnographic inquiry within and beyond the discipline."—Carol J. Greenhouse, author of The Paradox of Relevance: Ethnography and Citizenship in the United States"By placing in brackets conventional ways of contrasting modernity and premodernity, the contributors to this groundbreaking collection of essays bring into startling relief the phenomenological commonalities that underlie warfare and witchcraft, militarism and magic, while offering radically new insights into the virtual and ritual dimensions of violence and the 'war on terror.'"—Michael Jackson, author of Life Within Limits: Well-being in a World of Want“The book is strongly recommended, not least to those who are tasked with finding out whether ‘smart’ warfare does what it says on the box.” -- Paul Richards * Journal of Military History *“[E]nchanting, ethnographic- and analysis-full…. this volume gathers some of anthropology’s most knowledgeable war scholars who collectively identify the enormous scope of contemporary virtual war in its multiple meanings and applications.” -- Alisse Waterston * The Australian Journal of Anthropology *"The volume elegantly frames early-twenty-fi rst-century militarism as a form of magical thinking. The result is a collection that successfully, and productively, brings into dialogue chapters that cover the origins of the US military’s Human Terrain Systems and drone warfare programs with chapters on diamond diggers in rural Tanzania and the expansion of police violence in postwar Guatemala." -- Danny Hoffman * Journal of Anthropological Research *"A powerful critique of the hubristic illusion perpetuated by the military, that the infinite diversity, ambiguity and creativity of the social may be tamed through proper techno-cultural management." -- Malay Firoz * Social Anthropology *"This is a valuable collection…. It is a fine tribute to Neil Whitehead, whose insights on why we kill each other will be sorely missed." -- Chris Hables Gray * Technology and Culture *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments ix Introduction: Virtual War and Magical Death / Neil L. Whitehead and Sverker Finnström 1 1. Ethnography, Knowledge, Torture, and Silence / Neil L. Whitehead 26 2. The Role of Culture in Wars Waged by Robots: Connecting Drones, Anthropology, and Human Terrain System's Prehistory / David Price 46 3. Cybernetic Crystal Ball: "Forecasting" Insurgency in Iraq and Afghanistan / Roberto J. González 65 4. Full Spectrum: The Military Invasion of Anthropology / R. Brian Ferguson 85 5. Today He Is No More: Magic, Intervention, and Global War in Uganda / Sverker Finnström 111 6. The Hostile Gaze: Night Vision and the Immediation of Nocturnal Combat in Vietnam and Iraq / Antonius C. G. M. Robben 132 7. Virtual Soldiers, Cognitive Laborers / Robertson Allen 152 8. Virtual Wars in the Tribal Zone: Air Strikes, Drones, Civilian Casualties, and Losing Hearts and Minds in Afghanistan and Pakistan / Jeffrey A. Sluka 171 9. Propaganda, Gangs, and Social Cleansing in Guatemala / Victoria Sanford 194 10. The Soundtrack to War / Matthew Sumera 214 11. War at Large: Miner Magic and the Carrion System / Koen Stroeken 234 References 251 Contributors 279 Index 281

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Book SynopsisTrade Review“[A] slim yet comprehensive look at how an 1863 law against appearing in public dressed as a different sex invited a regime of surveillance upon “problem bodies.” The book covers a lot of ground.” -- Peter Kane * SF Weekly *“[A]s the first in-depth examination of cross-dressing laws in an American city, the book is a valuable contribution to gender studies. It demonstrates convincingly that societal discomfort with difference in gender-expression was historically tied to societal discomfort with other sorts of difference. Both led to the marginalization of “problem bodies.”” -- Lillian Faderman * Women's Review of Books *"Arresting Dress gives one much to think about beyond its well-argued and convincing conclusions. This is what I consider a good book — a scholarly endeavor that causes one to think about how one might look at evidence, arguments, and conceptualizations in different ways.... Arresting Dress is highly recommended, both for the conclusions it draws and for the further thinking and research it encourages." -- Peter Boag * GLQ *"Arresting Dress is an impressive work of history, based in deep archival research, written in engaging prose, woven with smart analysis, and complete with wonderful images from primary sources... that bring the text to life. Never over-theoretical, the work is both approachable for undergraduates as well as useful for specialists. As such, it deserves to be read and assigned widely." -- Emily Skidmore * Journal of American History *"In her compelling historical account of a multiplicity of cross-dressing practices and their incorporation into certain cultural venues and proscription in others, Clare Sears demonstrates the ways in which stabilizing gender and sexuality was central to state-making projects of that time.... [T]he result is a book well worth reading." -- Tey Meadow * American Journal of Sociology *"Sears’s book is important because it historicizes cross-dressing and cross-gender behavior in ways in which it never has been before. Indeed, it is the sort of interdisciplinary study that is often attempted but rarely executed with such interpretive precision.... Despite such scholarly intersections, however, the book is remarkably accessible. A stimulating read for undergraduates, specialists, and general readers." -- Adam Q. Stauffer * Journal of American Studies *"There is much to admire in Sears’ analysis of this topic, especially in her persistent and convincing analysis of how cross-dressing laws interacted with racial politics at the time—two topics that seem unrelated at first glance. Overall Sears gives a nuanced, sensitive and in intelligent reading of a little-known law and its vast consequences for the culture of the city and the nation." -- Ariel Beaujot * Social History *"What is especially admirable about Sears’s text is the depth and breadth of her interdisciplinary archival research that draws together a variety of processes and relations that demonstrate the fascination and outrage with forms of cross-dressing. This is equally well-balanced and supported with an application and articulation of a variety of theoretical perspectives that make this a valuable book about belonging, othering, bodies and dressed appearance, not just historically but with relevance today." -- Shaun Cole * International Journal of Fashion Studies *"Sears deftly uses a variety of well-placed illustrations (newspaper clippings, political cartoons, posters, and photographs) to explain and expand her arguments. She also, in a surprising twist in view of her emphasis on the prevalence of cross-dressing, successfully challenges the popular notion of frontier San Francisco as a ‘wide open' permissive town." -- Nancy C. Unger * Canadian Journal of History *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments vii Introduction. Not Belonging 1 1. Instant and Peculiar 23 2. Against Good Morals 41 3. Problem Bodies, Public Space 61 4. A Sight Well Worth Gazing Upon 78 5. Indecent Exhibitions 97 6. Problem Bodies, Nation-State 121 Conclusion. Against the Law 139 Notes 149 Bibliography 175 Index 191

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Book SynopsisFor Strasbourg consists of a series of essays and interviews by French philosopher and literary theorist Jacques Derrida (1930-2004) about the city of Strasbourg and the philosophical friendships he developed there over a forty year period. It is a profound interrogation of the relationship between philosophy and place, philosophy and language, and philosophy and friendship.Trade Review"Derrida did not plan to publish For Strasbourg, but it is an illuminating addition to his legacy," -Times Literary Supplement "This volume gathers some of Derrida's last texts, from 2002 to 2004, as he was engaged in fascinating discussions with Jean-Luc Nancy and Philippe Lacoue-Labarthe about questions of sovereignty, event, responsibility, friendship, hospitality, singularity, community, the people, the human and animality, and his own relation to Heidegger and to the "Strasbourg school." More poignantly, Derrida develops extraordinary meditations on death, on his own death, on dying alone or together, on survival and disappearance, on eternity, immortality and finitude, returning to the notions of trace, spectrality, and mourning. This is a moving and extraordinarily rich volume, which reveals Derrida's final philosophical reflections." -- -Francois Raffoul Louisiana State UniversityTable of ContentsTranslators' Preface 1. The place name(s): Strasbourg 2. Discussion between Jacques Derrida, Philippe Lacoue-Labarthe, and Jean-Luc Nancy 3. Opening 4. Responsibility-Of the Sense to Come

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Book SynopsisThe illuminating intellectual biography of one of the most controversial Italian figures of the twentieth century.Trade Review"Rota's biography of Angelo Tasca--a critically-important figure in 20th-century Italian political history--is clear, balanced,and engaging. Rota traces Tasca's tormented trajectory from communism to Vichy with judicious restraint and empathy. An insightful and provocative work of intellectual history." -- -Stanislao G. Pugliese Hofstra University "An original work. A good account of an intellectual and political journey from Italian and French socialism and communism through Vichy collaboration and back to an anti-communist moderate left." -- -Roy Domenico University of Scranton "...Rota's book is a fine example of a scholarly biography of an important figure in the history of the Italian Left. It is a pity that there are so few books of this nature available." -European Review of HistoryTable of ContentsAcknowledgments Introduction 1 Into the Battlefield 2 Learning Rus sian: Angelo Tasca and the Stalinization of the Communist Parties 3 In Limbo: Angelo Tasca and Liberal Democracy 4 The Road to Vichy 5 A Socialist in Vichy Epilogue Notes Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisA history of the role of biological theories in the construction and "protection" of whiteness in Australia from the first European settlement through World War II.Trade Review“The Cultivation of Whiteness is a beautifully written, extensively researched, and conceptually robust account of what it meant to be white in Australia from the nineteenth to the early twentieth century.”—Elizabeth A. Povinelli, author of The Empire of Love: Toward a Theory of Intimacy, Genealogy, and Carnality“The Cultivation of Whiteness is an unusual and well-crafted history, a model of method for historical and anthropological studies of medicine and public health.”—Judith Farquhar, author of Appetites: Food and Sex in Post-Socialist China“Warwick Anderson is one of the foremost historians of medicine and postcolonialism and The Cultivation of Whiteness one of the most detailed and persuasive explorations of exactly how scientific medicine is influenced by, and in turn promotes, racialization and racism.”—Priscilla Wald, Duke University“This broad-ranging study builds on a considerable body of local research to produce the first comprehensive history of Australian medical and scientific ideas about race from the early nineteenth century to the 1940s. It is a work of major significance. Anderson has written both an authoritative and prescient synthesis and a work of original research, utilizing the letters, journals, publications, and other surviving documentation of local medical practitioners and scientists. It is a work distinguished by command of its field and clarity of exposition.” -- Andrew Markus * American Historical Review *“[Anderson] writes with passion, wit, and panache, and the principal virtues of The Cultivation of Whiteness are the old-fashioned ones of thoroughness, accuracy, and impeccable documentation. . . . [His] sensitive study is a model of how contentious historical issues can be confronted.” -- W. F. Bynum * TLS *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments vii Introduction 1 The Temperate South 1. Antipodean Britons 11 2. A Cultivated Society 41 The Northern Tropics 3. No Place for a White Man 73 4. The Making of the Tropical White Man 95 5. White Triumph in the Tropics? 139 6. Whitening the Nation 165 Aboriginal Australia 7. From Deserts the Prophets Come 191 8. The Reproductive Frontier 225 Conclusion: Biology and Nation 253 Abbreviations 259 Notes 261 Bibliography of Works Cited 329 Index 381

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Book SynopsisThe story of a Cherokee boyhood of the 1930's.

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Book SynopsisIn recent years, there has been a remarkable resurgence of interest in classical conceptions of what it means for human beings to lead a good life. Although the primary focus of the return to classical thought has been Aristotle's account of virtue, the ethics of Aquinas has also received much attention.Trade Review"For anyone wishing to understand the Thomistic perpective on human action, this book is well worth a careful reading." -Nova and Vetera

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Book Synopsis"... Exemplifies a vision of education as cooperative inquiry in which heterogenous voices resound yet experiential authority in its full force operates."-Journal of Philosophy of EducationTrade Review"Saito's elegantly written book is a meditation on what she regards as a crisis of nihilism affecting modern democratic life, especially education." -Educational Studies in Japan: International Yearbook "... Exemplifies a vision of education as cooperative inquiry in which heterogenous voices resound yet experiential authority in its full force operates." -Journal of Philosophy of Education "Saito has written an important book with a remarkable educational implication: We should educate every individual to grow by recognizing their unique gleam of light in self-transcendent relation with others different from ourselves while recognizing the Over-Soul sustains us all." -Teachers College Record "A provocative book that will be of value to all who care about Emerson, Dewey, and what they have to say about education." -- -David Hansen Philosophy of Education Society " [A] spirited inquiry ..." -Studies in Philosophy and Education

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Book SynopsisFrom one of the leading figures in the Israeli peace movement comes a very personal handbook to keeping the fight going. When you're in a struggle that you lose day after day, but that you know has to be waged, how do you keep going? The lessons are drawn from Israel, but they're applicable for activists universally.

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Book SynopsisA new edition of a classic work of American history that eloquently examines the rise of antimodernism at the turn of the twentieth century.Trade Review"Auspicious radical history: cogently argued, crisply written, and alive with intellectual passion."-- "Kirkus Reviews" "This is a powerful and provocative reinterpretation. . . of the dominant Anglo-American culture of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. It is a book that all scholars in the field will have to take into account."-- "American Historical Review"Table of ContentsForeword by Jennifer Ratner-Rosenhagen Preface (1994) Preface Acknowledgments 1. Roots of Antimodernism: The Crisis of Cultural Authority during the Late Nineteenth Century A Pattern of Evasive Banality: Official Modern Culture in Industrial America A Social Crisis: The Republican Tradition and the Radical Specter Unreal City: Social Science, Secularization, and the Emergence of Weightlessness Psychic Crisis: Neurasthenia and the Emergence of a Therapeutic World View 2. The Figure of the Artisan: Arts and Crafts Ideology Origins of the American Craft Revival: Persons and Perceptions Revitalization and Transformation in Arts and Crafts Ideology: The Simple Life, Aestheticism, Educational Reform Reversing Antimodernism: The Factory, the Market, and the Process of Rationalization The Fate of the Craft Ideal 3. The Destructive Element: Modern Commercial Society and the Martial Ideal From Domestic Realism to “Real Life” Class, Race, and the Worship of Force The Psychological Uses of the Martial Ideal: The Cult of Experience and the Quest for Authentic Selfhood The Psychological Uses of the Martial Ideal: Guiney, Norris, Adams 4. The Morning of Belief: Medieval Mentalities in a Modern World The Image of Childhood and the Childhood of the Race Medieval Sincerity: Genteel and Robust Medieval Vitality: The Erotic Union of Sacred and Profane The Medieval Unconscious: Therapy and Protest 5. The Religion of Beauty: Catholic Forms and American Consciousness The Rise of Catholic Taste: Cultural Authority and Personal Regeneration Art, Ritual, and Belief: The Protestant Dilemma American Anglo-Catholicism: Legitimation and Protest The Poles of Anglicanism: Cram and Scudder 6. From Patriarchy to Nirvana: Patterns of Ambivalence The Problem of Victorian Ambivalence: Sources and Solutions The Lotus and the Father: Bigelow, Lowell, Lodge William Sturgis Bigelow Percival Lowell George Cabot Lodge Aesthetic Catholicism and “Feminine” Values: Norton, Hall, Brooks Charles Eliot Norton G. Stanley Hall Van Wyck Brooks 7. From Filial Loyalty to Religious Protest: Henry Adams Early Manhood: The Meandering Track of the Family Go-Cart Husband, Historian, Novelist: Adams’s Crisis of Generativity The Antimodern Quest: From Niagara to the Virgin Between Father and Mother, I: The Virgin, the Dynamo, and the Angelic Doctor Between Father and Mother, II: The Antimodern Modernist Epilogue Biographical Appendix Notes Index

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Book SynopsisThis study investigates how the medium of sound and its most representative art form of music enable Virginia Woolf to develop fresh concepts and methods in her experimental fiction.Trade Review"Clements’s book explores Woolf’s sustained attention to the production and reception of sound, gathering together arguments about sonic events, art music, and language in Woolf’s work. Through her bold scope, astute close readings, and careful theoretical expositions, she provides a sophisticated account of the vital importance of sound production and reception to Woolf’s ethics and experimentation." -- Emma Sutton * Woolf Studies Annual *"Elicia Clements in Virginia Woolf, Music, Sound and Language (2019) takes a deep dive into these relationships and argues that the concepts of sound and music enabled Woolf to develop a new understanding of her own writing and literature. This is new and exciting." -- Patricia Laurence, City College, City University of New York * Virginia Woolf Miscellany *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments Abbreviations Introduction I. Woolf's Musical Ear II. Interdisciplinary Methods III. "Hoity te, hoity te, hoity te …": Tripartite Woolf Part 1 An Emerging Earcon: Woolf's Singers 1. Finding a Voice I. Resonant Beginnings: The Voyage Out II. Sonic Networks in Jacob's Room III. Urban and Rural Interrelations in Mrs. Dalloway and To the Lighthouse 2. The Earcon Reproduces I. "And what is a cry?": The Waves II. Integrating the Earcon in The Years III. Aural Multiplicity in Between the Acts Part 2 Profound Listening and Acousmatics 3. Initial Apperceptions I. Materialized Sonics and Listening Subjects in The Voyage Out II. Involuntary, Yet Profound, Listening in Night and Day III. International Acousmatics: War and Its Veterans in Jacob's Room and Mrs. Dalloway 4. Bodies and Voices I. To the Lighthouse and Family Acousmatics II. The Gender of Listening in The Waves III. "Hush!... Somebody's listening": The Years IV. Heterogeneous Reattachments in Between the Acts Part 3 Music as Performance in Woolf's Fiction 5. Performing Women I. Women at the Piano in the First Three Novels II. Performing Personal History in The Years III. Historical Reenactments: Between the Acts 6. The Performativity of Language: The Waves Musicalized I. Word Music: "(The rhythm is the main thing in writing)" II. The Case of Ludwig van Beethoven III. Transforming Beethoven's Opus 130 and 133 into Words Coda: A Meditation on Rhythm Notes Works Cited Index

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Book SynopsisA challenging problem-solving book in Euclidean geometry, assuming nothing of the reader other than a good deal of courage. Topics covered included cyclic quadrilaterals, power of a point, and homothety; along the way the reader will meet such classical gems as the nine-point circle, the Simson line, and the symmedian and the mixtilinear incircle.Trade ReviewA good understanding of high school geometry, and a fondness for solving problems, should be sufficient background for this book. ... students preparing for mathematics competitions, and their faculty coaches, should find this book very valuable."" —Mark Hunacek, MAA Reviews

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Book SynopsisTrade Review...the book has much to commend it to qualifying practitioners, their tutors and practice educators.—The British Journal of Social Work...[the authors] offer credible practice-researchable examples from social work, nursing, physical therapy, education, and other practice contexts and the application of multiple methods to answer questions that emanate from those fields of practice. How do they know all this stuff?—Journal of Social WorkTable of ContentsPreface1. An Introduction to Practitioner Research2. Orientation3. Focusing4. Planning5. Data Collection6. Analysis and Conclusion7. Design and Innovation8. Documentation and PresentationAppendix. Using SourcesIndex

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Book SynopsisStalin''s Gulag at War places the Gulag within the story of the regional wartime mobilization of Western Siberia during the Second World War. Far from Moscow, Western Siberia was a key area for evacuated factories and for production in support of the war effort. Wilson T. Bell explores a diverse array of issues, including mass death, informal practices such as black markets, and the responses of prisoners and personnel to the war. The region''s camps were never prioritized, and faced a constant struggle to mobilize for the war. Prisoners in these camps, however, engaged in such activities as sewing Red Army uniforms, manufacturing artillery shells, and constructing and working in major defense factories. The myriad responses of prisoners and personnel to the war reveal the Gulag as a complex system, but one that was closely tied to the local, regional, and national war effort, to the point where prisoners and non-prisoners frequently interacted. At non-priority campTrade Review"...an excellently researched and thought-provoking study which will no doubt influence the direction of future research." -- Mark Vincent * History *"Although Bell touches on and evaluates various theories and arguments, his book is a close, source-based archival study of what happened in practice, on the ground. [This] is a good example of careful empirical research. He went where his sources took him and lets readers make up their own minds rather than prosecuting an a priori theoretical case." -- J. Arch Getty * Slavic Review *"As a careful empirical researcher, Bell eschews a single overarching argument, pointing repeatedly to paradoxes and contradictions in administrative intention and ground-level reality. While he insists on the primacy of economic motivations in running individual Gulag outposts, he reveals Gulag labor as costly and inefficient compared to alternative approaches to economic output. While he highlights the contribution that Gulag labor made to Soviet victory, he reminds us that those contributions were a tiny part of the total mobilization of the Soviet workforce outside the Gulag during the war." -- Steven A. Barnes, George Mason University * Russian Review *"Suffice it to say that our understanding of Gulag operations during World War II is significantly deeper thanks to Bell’s scrupulous attention to the intricacies of parsing documents from the People’s Commissariat for Internal Affairs, coupled with a close reading of memoir literature and supported by previous Gulag scholarship. Scholars, students, and World War II buffs will benefit from this engaging volume." -- Cynthia A. Ruder, University of Kentucky * University of Toronto Quarterly: Letters in Canada 2018 *"Wilson Bell’s excellent book, Stalin’s Gulag at War, is a detailed and dispassionate contribution to this growing body of research. Drawing on in-depth archival research and focused on camp operations and everyday camp life in Western Siberia during World War II, Bell reveals the extent to which the imperatives of Stalinist wartime mobilization molded the camps in these crucial years." -- Peter Whitewood, York St. John University * Europe-Asia Studies *"Bell has synthesized a huge amount of material to create a lasting contribution to the field, but this is a book that should also be read by historians beyond the Soviet field: environmental historians, historians of penal systems, or those of colonization too can find much to learn from Stalin’s Gulag at War." -- Victor Petrov, University of Tennessee Knoxville * H-Nationalism *Table of Contents1. Ready for Total War? 2. Total War, Total Mobilization 3. Patriotic Prisoners 4. Patriotic Personnel 5. The Gulag’s Victory

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Book SynopsisThematically focused on the theology of redemption or what is called in theology soteriology, each of the two sections of The Redemption addresses biblical literature and significant moments in the history of Christian theology, and especially the work of Anselm of Canterbury. The second part of the book presents a significant treatment of the problem of good and evil, and introduces the important category of cultural evil. Most significant from the standpoint of Lonergan''s original contribution is the treatment accorded in both Part 1 and Part 2 to what he calls the just and mysterious law of the cross. The treatment of biblical literature contains a valuable distinction between redemption as end and redemption as medium. Beginning with theses 15-17 from Lonergan''s Collected Works, The Incarnate Word, this volume also includes rare and never-before-published texts originally written in the late 1950s. Table of ContentsPart One: Theses 15-17 of De Verbo Incarnato Thesis 15 Thesis 16 Thesis 17 Part Two: The Redemption: A Supplement 1 Good and Evil 2 The Justice of God 3 The Death and Resurrection of Christ 4 The Cross of Christ 5 The Satisfaction Made by Christ 6 [The Effects of the Redemption] Appendix Abbreviations Bibliography Scriptural Passages Index

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Book SynopsisTrade Review[T]he Grand Scribe's Records volume 8 is a remarkable achievement and an interesting experiment in combining something resembling a traditional Chinese commentarial style with a Western scholarly context. . . . And, as with previous volumes, the intrepid beginner or the careful specialist will find volume 8 to be ahelpful aid to research on the Shiji. * China Review International *These volumes are most welcome. . . . The English translation has been done meticulously, with full scholarly apparatus. . . . These volumes are essential library additions. * Choice *Table of ContentsDedicationAcknowledgementsIntroductionOn Using This BookA Note on ChronologyWeights and MeasuresList of AbbreviationsThe Five Emperors, Basic Annals OneThe Hsia, Basic Annals TwoThe Yin, Basic Annals ThreeThe Chou, Basic Annals FourThe Ch’in, Basic Annals FiveThe First Emperor of Ch’in, Basic Annals SixHsiang Yu, Basic Annals SevenBibliographyIndexMaps

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Book SynopsisAn elegant, learned account of one of the great sites of the ancient world, a treasure of antiquity that has been all but destroyed by ISIS.Trade Review"An eloquent and learned farewell."--Marina Warner "Times Literary Supplement, Books of the Year "

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Book SynopsisPrompting a reevaluation of canonical understandings of twentieth century art history, Mapping Modernisms provides an analysis of how indigenous artists and art from Africa, Oceania, and the Americas became recognized as modern.Trade Review"The wide-ranging and meticulously researched essays in Mapping Modernisms focus on indigenous artists from Inuit, Zulu, Māori, Pueblo, and Aboriginal cultures, among others, around the world. . . . What emerges from Mapping Modernisms is that Modernism was not a process of diffusion from Western centers to non-Western peripheries, as it is traditionally constructed in Western narratives, but rather a complex web of mutual inuences and exchanges across the globe." -- Naomi Polonsky * Hyperallergic *"Mapping Modernisms is an excellent addition to any collection exploring the history of modernity and the decolonisation of modern art histories, and proposes a new conceptualization of modernity that would benefit any collection looking to re-examine its role in post-colonialism." -- Marianne R. Williams * ARLIS/NA Reviews *"Mapping Modernisms is a concise and carefully compiled selection of essays and art works from across historical and geographical spectrums, which challenge the relationship between postcolonialism and metahistorical concepts of modernity." -- Natalie Ilsley * Visual Studies *"Dispelling assumptions of the past, the authors reveal the artist to be as cognizant of the exigencies of their complicated histories and lives, as they are in command of their expressive forms. Mapping Modernism sheds much needed light onto the artistic production of modernist artists living in post- and neocolonial countries in the early twentieth century." -- Cécile Rose Ganteaume * Transmotion *“Mapping Modernisms keys in to several recent trends in cultural studies and art history, including transnationalism, global Indigeneity, and definitions of modernism and modernity. It addresses all of them in productively thought-provoking—and overtly political—ways. This is a volume with an agenda that is both timely and overdue, and, as their comprehensive and rousing introduction makes clear, the editors know it.” -- Louise Siddons * Canadian Journal of History *Table of ContentsList of Illustrations ix General Editors' Foreword / Ruth B. Phillips and Nicholas Thomas xiii Preface / Elizabeth Harney and Ruth B. Phillips xv Introduction. Inside Modernity: Indigeneity, Coloniality, Modernisms / Elizabeth Harney and Ruth B. Phillips 1 Part I. Modern Values 1. Reinventing Zulu Tradition: The Modernism of Zizwezenyanga Qwabe's Figurative Relief Panels / Sandra Klopper 33 2. "Hooked Forever on Primitive Peoples": James Houston and the Transformation of "Eskimo Handicrafts" to Inuit Art / Heather Igloliorte 62 3. Making Pictures on Baskets: Modern Indian Painting in an Expanded Field / Bill Anthes 91 4. An Intersection: Bill Reid, Henry Speck, and the Mapping of Modern Northwest Coast Art / Karen Duffek 110 5. Modernism on Display: Negotiating Value in Exhibitions of Māori Art, 1958–1973 / Damian Skinner 138 Part II. Modern Identities 6. "Artist of PNG": Mathias Kauage and Melanesian Modernism / Nicholas Thomas 163 7. Modernism and the Art of Albert Namatjira / Ian McLean 187 8. Cape Dorset Cosmopolitans: Making "Local" Prints in Global Modernity / Norman Vorano 209 9. Natural Synthesis: Art, Theory, and the Politics of Decolonization in Mid-Twentieth-Century Nigeria / Chika Okeke-Agulu 235 Part III. Modern Mobilities 10. Being Modern, Becoming Native: George Morrison's Surrealist Journey Home / W. Jackson Rushing III 259 11. Falling into the World: The Global Art World of Aloï Pilioko and Nicolaï Michoutouchkine / Peter Brunt 282 12. Constellations and Coordinates: Repositioning Postwar Paris in Stories of African Modernisms / Elizabeth Harney 304 13. Conditions of Engagement: Mobility, Modernism, and Modernity in the Art of Jackson Hlungwani and Sydney Kumalo / Anitra Nettleton 335 14. The Modernist Lens of Lutterodt Studios / Erin Haney 357 Bibliography 377 Contributors 409 Index 415

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Book SynopsisTrade Review"Winner of the 2016 Distinguished Scholarly Publication Award, Consumers and Consumption Section of the American Sociological Association""Winner of the 2017 Mary Douglas Prize for Best Book, Sociology of Culture Section of the American Sociological Association""Winner of a 2017 Gourmand World Cookbook Award, National Winner in “Culinary History”"

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Book SynopsisThe image of the anarchist assassin haunted the corridors of power and the popular imagination in the late nineteenth century. Fear spawned a gross but persistent stereotype: a swarthy Italian armed with a bloody knife or revolver and bred to violence by a combination of radical politics, madness, innate criminality, and poor genes. That Italian anarchists targeted--and even killed--high-profile figures added to their exaggerated, demonic image. Nunzio Pernicone and Fraser M. Ottanelli dig into the transnational experiences and the historical, social, cultural, and political conditions behind the phenomenon of anarchist violence in Italy. Looking at political assassinations in the 1890s, they illuminate the public effort to equate anarchy's goals with violent overthrow. Throughout, Pernicone and Ottanelli combine a cutting-edge synthesis of the intellectual origins, milieu, and nature of Italian anarchist violence with vivid portraits of its major players and their still-misunderstood Trade Review"Assassins Against the Old Order is a significant historical study and a tribute to an eminent scholar." --Ovunque Siamo"An outstanding book that deftly moves from an analysis of economic, political, and social conditions to the human scale through intimate descriptions of the values, lives, and actions of the most famous anarchist assassins. In explaining anarchist violence, it shows that the assassins aimed at killing symbols of state power and not persons."--Spencer Di Scala, author of Europe's Long Century: Politics, Society, Culture 1900-2000"Pernicone's posthumously published work will open many eyes about Italian anarchist and their attentats (actions). Readers who want a clear understanding of Italian anarchism and anarchists will be well repaid by reading Assassins against the Old Order. Highly Recommended." --Choice"This is history at its best-meticulously researched, filled with insightful details, and highly provocative. Pernicone and Ottanelli's book effectively explodes prevailing assumptions about fin-de-siècle Italian anarchists, showing that far from the 'born criminals' and degenerate madmen depicted in the yellow press they were a varied group of quite ordinary members of the working class who resist easy generalizations. Coming out at a time of unprecedented misinformation, misinterpretation and anti-intellectualism, Assassins against the Old Order also powerfully reminds us that anarchist violence cannot be conflated with contemporary definitions of 'terrorism' and that human behavior cannot be understood apart from the distinctive historical conditions and personal motivations of its actors. A must read for anyone interested in anarchism and, more broadly, the turbulent political history of late-nineteenth century Europe."--Marcella Bencivenni, author of Italian Immigrant Radical Culture: The Idealism of the Sovversivi in the United States, 1890-1940"The definitive study of nineteenth-century anarchist violence." --H-Net Reviews"Pernicone and Ottanelli have clearly opened new ground, and their original, commendable book will be a necessary reference for students on fin de siècle Anarchism and Italian social history." --Journal of Modern Italian Studies"An excellent new study." --History News Network"Such an excellent work." --American Historical Review "Pernicone and Ottanelli create well-rounded portraits of the anarchist assassins as well as a powerful fresco of the socio-political context in which they operated. By the end of this volume, we readers have learned enough of the giustiziere to identify him as he walks shoulder to shoulder with the workers who crowd Pelizza da Volpedo’s Quarto stat." --Annali d'Italianistica

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Book SynopsisA richly illustrated guide to railroad architecture, in all its surprising variety

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Book SynopsisTrade Review"No foggy remnant of a dying era, lesbian (and women’s) lands continue to provide meaning and solace to many women who are dissatisfied with and alienated from the dominant U.S. culture and its heterosexism. Herlands documents a particular moment in history in which a radical movement of primarily white women imagined and crafted a different world. There are few instances cross-culturally in which women have taken such dramatic steps to remake the world in their own image, which is why this story, an empathetic view of a group of women continuing to define themselves and live independently, is a must read."—Evelyn Blackwood, Purdue University"Herlands is an accessible and sympathetic ethnography of the lesbian back-to-the-land movement. Going well beyond caricatures of landdykes, Keridwen N. Luis shows the promise of feminist intentional communities—their enactment of utopic ideals of collectivity, feminist embodiment, and ecofeminism—without sidelining how the animating logic of women’s nature/nature-as-woman also reproduces transphobia, white supremacy, and settler colonialism. What emerges is a complex reading of gender, race, and nature in a rural lesbian culture."—Margot Weiss, author of Techniques of Pleasure: BDSM and the Circuits of Sexuality "The book is an ethnography rooted in the methods and language of Anthropology. It’s refreshing to see women's lands positioned as the saving remnants that we always hoped they might become!"—Duluth News Tribune "For urban, landscape, and community planners, a careful read of Herlands can shake loose the biases and banalities that inform our current assumptions about who is included in our sanitized visions of future communities. Landscape architecture and planning practices are grappling with intersecting threads of systemic racism and segregation, income inequality, and new perspectives on gender and identity, all within the context of climate change. Women’s communities have been facing these issues head-on, grappling with them in all the conflict and messiness required in utopian work, and they offer clues for alternative practices. "—Landscape Architecture Magazine "Luis describes the unique freedom she feels in an exclusively woman space. She is able to interact with others less carefully, and to experience a sense of self-possession and awareness."—Full Stop "Herlands makes important points about the cultural dynamics of social movements, the politicization of everyday life, current debates within feminism, and the persistence of inequality within social movements."—Mobilization "The book is deeply enmeshed in cutting-edge contemporary academic arguments about identity politics."—American Journal of Sociology "The relevance of the collectives, in addition to their reach into mainstream and left-of-mainstream culture, is their creation of a space to debate and examine and critique. In some of the most refreshing sections of the book, Luis describes the unique freedom she feels in an exclusively woman space."—Full Stop Reviews Supplement "Luis’s depiction of real women necessarily provides a much more nuanced narrative of complex lives, identities, and motives."—H-Net "This book beautifully illustrates the possibilities that can become realities when people collectively re-imagine ways of building community, creating homes, and living outside of traditional societal structures."—Resources for Gender and Women’s Studies Table of ContentsIntroduction: Welcome to Women’s Land, Here Is Your Umbrella1. The Political Is Personal: From the Peace Camp and Women’s Music Festivals to Women’s Land2. Are the Amazons White? Race and Space on Women’s Land3. “Now My Neighbors and Friends Are the Same People”: Community, Language, and Identity4. The Giving Tree: Gift Economies Planted in Capitalist Soil5. The Mountain Is She: Gender as Landscape, Landscape as Gender6. Primally Female: Agency and the Meaning of the Body on Women’s Land7. We Have Met the Enemy and She Is Us: Scapegoating Trans Bodies8. The Hermit and the Family: Aging and Dis/Ability in CommunityAfterword: Women’s Lands, Women’s LivesAcknowledgmentsBibliography

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Book Synopsis While faith in the Enlightenment was waning elsewhere by 1850, at the United States Military Academy at West Point and in the minds of academy graduates serving throughout the country Enlightenment thinking persisted, asserting that war was governable by a grand theory accessible through the study of military science. Officers of the regular army and instructors at the military academy and their political superiors all believed strongly in the possibility of acquiring a perfect knowledge of war through the proper curriculum. A Scientific Way of War analyzes how the doctrine of military science evolved from teaching specific Napoleonic applications to embracing subjects that wereuseful for war in North America. Drawing from a wide array of materials, Ian C. Hope refutes earlier charges of a lack of professionalization in the antebellum American army and an overreliance on the teachings of Swiss military theorist Antoine de Jomini. Instead, Hope showsTrade Review"Hope has written a book that will stand the test of time as the definitive treatise of the development of a professional American army."—Robert Grandchamp, Blue & Gray Magazine"Hope has persuasively challenged the standard narrative about West Point, the "Old Army," and the evolution of American military doctrine. Scholars whose work involves these topics cannot afford to overlook this book."—Rob Andrew Jr., American Historical Review"This book is remarkably researched and cogently written, and it will make itself invaluable in the understanding of both the antebellum army and its officers' education."—Bradford Wineman, Journal of Southern History"In A Scientific Way of War: Antebellum Military Science, West Point, and the Origins of American Military Thought, Hope demonstrates that the science of military thought and theory during this period was about much more than simply preparing for and waging continental war."—Andrew J. Ziebell, Army History"A well-researched and well-written contribution to the early development of American military thought. Readers who are interested in West Point and the essential role that its graduates played in both the Mexican and Civil Wars will find the book to be especially interesting."—Roger Cunningham, Journal of America's Military Past"A Scientific Way of War will appeal to both professionals and lay persons with a serious interest in the US Army, its premier professional Academy, nineteenth-century American defense policy, the nature of a particular national approach to military theory and doctrine, and the professionalization of the American armed forces."—Richard Swain, Michigan War Studies Review“A detailed, thoughtful, and provocative explanation of the evolution of the U.S. Army’s understanding of military science and why this scientific view of war was so important in the nation’s military history and to the conduct of the Civil War.”—Brian McAllister Linn, Ralph R. Thomas Professor in Liberal Arts at Texas A&M University and author of The Echo of Battle: The Army’s Way of War“Truly original. . . . No other scholar has so successfully explained what Americans understood by the phrase ‘military science’ as taught—and modified over time—at West Point, and how that doctrine related to the nation’s geographic position, quest for internal development, and preparation for and perceptions of war.”—Peter Maslowski, professor emeritus of history at the University of Nebraska–Lincoln and author of Looking for a Hero: Joe Ronnie Hooper and the Vietnam War "Highly recommended to any reader interested in the early development of the U.S. army."—Civil War Books and Authors“[Ian Hope’s] keen insights and original interpretations come through clearly in his new book, A Scientific Way of War. His penetrating analyses revolutionize our understanding of American military thinking in the antebellum era. This book is required reading for anyone who would understand generalship and high command in the American Civil War.”—Richard J. Sommers, senior historian emeritus, U.S. Army Heritage and Education Center, U.S. Army War CollegeTable of ContentsList of IllustrationsAcknowledgmentsIntroduction1. Colonial and Early National Military Science2. Army Reforms, 1815–18203. West Point’s Scientific Curriculum4. Internal Improvements5. Jacksonian Military Science6. Military Science during and after the Mexican War7. Antebellum Military Science8. Military Science in the Civil WarConclusionAppendix A. West Point CurriculaAppendix B. Antebellum and Civil War Officer StatisticsNotesBibliographyIndex

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Book SynopsisInternationally renowned author and scientist Tim Flannery takes readers to the skies to learn about the extraordinary animals that fly in them.

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Book SynopsisVolume XIII of the New Netherland Documents series includes the surviving correspondence of New Netherland's director general Petrus Stuyvesant and council from 1659 to 1660. These records reveal the broad range of issues with which the director general and his administration had to deal.

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Book SynopsisReveals how the comic book hero has evolved to maintain relevance to America's fluctuating ideas of masculinity, patriotism, and violence. The book outlines the history of Captain America's adventures and places the unfolding storyline in dialogue with the comic book industry as well as America's varying political culture.

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Book SynopsisA compelling and accessible textbook, by a pre-eminent Marxist literary critic.Trade Review'Invigorating and lucid - a fine introduction to Marxism in general and to Marxist literary criticism. Foley has done a superb job writing a book that is useful both for novices and for teachers who wish to show how literature is inescapably connected to the material world' -- Viet Thanh Nguyen, author of 'The Sympathizer''Widely surveying contemporary critical theory and practice, Barbara Foley's magisterial book demonstrates the crucial significance of Marxism to our historical moment, and it will be a valuable resource for students, critics, and activists for years to come' -- Robert T. Tally Jr., Texas State University'Foley deftly sketches the lineaments of traditional Marxism, then some main interests of traditional criticism, and then shows in readings of literary texts what depth of insight comes from conjoining the two traditions. I warmly recommend this book especially for those who want to change the world as well as interpret it' -- Richard Ohmann, Wesleyan University'This is a book many have longed for. Readers of literature will find Foley's lucid exposition of Marxist criticism an invaluable guide.' -- Rosemary Hennessy, Rice UniversityTable of ContentsAcknowledgements Prologue PART I: MARXISM 1. Historical Materialism Materialism Production Dialectics Class Base and Superstructure Relative Autonomy Mediation Levels of Generality 2. Political Economy Commodities Commodity Fetishism Labor Power and Exploitation Surplus Value Alienation Capital 3. Ideology Three Definitions of Ideology in Marx Dominant Ideology Relative Autonomy and Mediation Revisited Ideology as Smorgasbord Reification Interpellation Hegemony and Alternative Hegemony PART II: LITERATURE 4. Literature and Literary Criticism Defining Literature Fictionality Density Depth Concreteness and Particularity Showing Not Telling Defamiliarization Universality Empathy Individuality Group Identity Formal Unity Autonomy Beauty Greatness 5. Marxist Literary Criticism Rhetoric and Interpellation Ideology Critique Symptomatic Reading Humanism Realism Proletarian Literature and Alternative Hegemony 6. Marxist Pedagogy Alienation Rebellion Nation War Money Race and Racism Gender and Sexuality Nature Mortality Art Notes Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisMiryam Sas explores the potentialities and limitations of media theory and media art in Japan, showing how artists and theorists reframe ideas about collectivity, community, and connectivity.

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Book SynopsisTrade ReviewAn obvious question: why another graduate algebra book? Aren't there all but too many already? Is there anything genuinely novel to be done when it comes to educating fledgling graduate students in this subject, given such an already well-populated and high-quality field? Well, the answer is yes. And the title of the book under review, Algebra: Chapter 0, is already a clue to what the author, Paolo Aluffi, is up to. In a perhaps Bourbakian sense, the prevailing motivation and objective is to present the subject at hand in a manner that pays proper due to relatively new foundations, making for a rather different orientation and flavor for what ensues. ...His treatment of these preliminaries is thorough as well as eminently accessible: Aluffi writes well, clearly and engagingly. This characterizes all of Algebra: Chapter 0, actually, and makes it easy to recommend the book enthusiastically even aside from the fact that I am a big fan of category theory to begin with."" —MAA Online""This self-contained introduction is suitable for a first sequence at the beginning graduate or upper undergraduate level. A distinguishing feature of the book is the early introduction of categories, used as a unifying theme."" SciTech Book News Table of Contents Preliminaries: Set theory and categories Groups, first encounter Rings and modules Groups, second encounter Irreducibility and factorization in integral domains Linear algebra Fields Linear algebra, reprise Homological algebra Index

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