Julia Adams: 41 books
by Julia Adams, George Steinmetz
Language: English
Release Date: March 19, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: March 19, 2010
Images of ruins may represent the raw realities created by bombs, natural disasters, or factory closings, but the way we see and understand ruins is not raw or unmediated. Rather, looking at ruins, writing about them, and representing them are acts framed by a long tradition. This unique interdisciplinary...
Markets of Dispossession
NGOs, Economic Development, and the State in Cairo
Language: English
Release Date: October 26, 2005
What happens when the market tries to help the poor? In many parts of the world today, neoliberal development programs are offering ordinary people the tools of free enterprise as the means to well-being and empowerment. Schemes to transform the poor into small-scale entrepreneurs promise them the...
by Julia Adams
Language: English
Release Date: June 5, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: June 5, 2018
Discover the lives of 101 trailblazing women and the remarkable things they achieved.
This book is packed with bitesize biographies of scientists, activists, leaders, athletes, artists, explorers, and many, many more. From the celebrated to the overlooked, these women and their stories are sure to inspire young readers and encourage them to dream big.
Colored Amazons
Crime, Violence, and Black Women in the City of Brotherly Love, 1880–1910
Language: English
Release Date: July 12, 2006
Colored Amazons is a groundbreaking historical analysis of the crimes, prosecution, and incarceration of black women in Philadelphia at the turn of the twentieth century. Kali N. Gross reconstructs black women’s crimes and their representations in popular press accounts and within the discourses...
Blood and Culture
Youth, Right-Wing Extremism, and National Belonging in Contemporary Germany
Language: English
Release Date: August 28, 2009
Over the past decade, immigration and globalization have significantly altered Europe’s cultural and ethnic landscape, foregrounding questions of national belonging. In Blood and Culture, Cynthia Miller-Idriss provides a rich ethnographic analysis of how patterns of national identity are constructed...
The Assassination of Theo van Gogh
From Social Drama to Cultural Trauma
Language: English
Release Date: August 28, 2008
In November 2004, the controversial Dutch filmmaker Theo van Gogh was killed on a busy street in Amsterdam. A twenty-six-year-old Dutch citizen of Moroccan descent shot van Gogh, slit his throat, and pinned a five-page indictment of Western society to his body. The murder set off a series of reactions,...
Paper Families
Identity, Immigration Administration, and Chinese Exclusion
Language: English
Release Date: April 4, 2007
The Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882 made the Chinese the first immigrant group officially excluded from the United States. In Paper Families, Estelle T. Lau demonstrates how exclusion affected Chinese American communities and initiated the development of restrictive U.S. immigration policies and practices....
The Politics of Method in the Human Sciences
Positivism and Its Epistemological Others
Language: English
Release Date: May 16, 2005
The Politics of Method in the Human Sciences provides a remarkable comparative assessment of the variations of positivism and alternative epistemologies in the contemporary human sciences. Often declared obsolete, positivism is alive and well in a number of the fields; in others, its influence is...
Europe's Indians
Producing Racial Difference, 1500–1900
Language: English
Release Date: August 3, 2010
Europe’s Indians forces a rethinking of key assumptions regarding difference—particularly racial difference—and its centrality to contemporary social and political theory. Tracing shifts in European representations of two different colonial spaces, the New World and India, from the late fifteenth...
Class and the Color Line
Interracial Class Coalition in the Knights of Labor and the Populist Movement
Language: English
Release Date: October 24, 2007
A lauded contribution to historical sociology, Class and the Color Line is an analysis of social-movement organizing across racial lines in the American South during the 1880s and the 1890s. The Knights of Labor and the Populists were the largest and most influential movements of their day, as well...
Subject Lessons
The Western Education of Colonial India
Language: English
Release Date: August 29, 2007
Subject Lessons offers a fascinating account of how western knowledge “traveled” to India, changed that which it encountered, and was itself transformed in the process. Beginning in 1835, India’s British rulers funded schools and universities to disseminate modern, western knowledge in the expectation...
The Art of the Network
Strategic Interaction and Patronage in Renaissance Florence
Language: English
Release Date: December 7, 2007
Writing letters to powerful people to win their favor and garner rewards such as political office, tax relief, and recommendations was an institution in Renaissance Florence; the practice was an important tool for those seeking social mobility, security, and recognition by others. In this detailed...
States of Memory
Continuities, Conflicts, and Transformations in National Retrospection
Language: English
Release Date: July 21, 2003
States of Memory illuminates the construction of national memory from a comparative perspective. The essays collected here emphasize that memory itself has a history: not only do particular meanings change, but the very faculty of memory—its place in social relations and the forms it takes—varies...
by Lora Wildenthal, Julia Adams, George Steinmetz
Language: English
Release Date: November 28, 2001
Language: English
Release Date: November 28, 2001
When Germany annexed colonies in Africa and the Pacific beginning in the 1880s, many German women were enthusiastic. At the same time, however, they found themselves excluded from what they saw as a great nationalistic endeavor. In German Women for Empire, 1884–1945 Lora Wildenthal untangles the...