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Counter-History of the Present
Untimely Interrogations into Globalization, Technology, Democracy
Language: English
Release Date: May 4, 2017
In Counter-History of the Present Gabriel Rockhill contests, dismantles, and displaces one of the most widespread understandings of the contemporary world: that we are all living in a democratized and globalized era intimately connected by a single, overarching economic and technological network....
by Alexandre Lefebvre
Language: English
Release Date: April 19, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: April 19, 2018
When we think of human rights we assume that they are meant to protect people from serious social, legal, and political abuses and to advance global justice. In Human Rights and the Care of the Self Alexandre Lefebvre turns this assumption on its head, showing how the value of human rights also lies...
From East Germans to Germans?
The New Postcommunist Elites
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2012
In 1990 Germany launched an experiment to transplant democracy into a formerly communist country, effectively dismantling the system of the German Democratic Republic and rebuilding it in the likeness of the democratic Federal Republic of Germany. From East Germans to Germans? examines the role of...
Exit-Voice Dynamics and the Collapse of East Germany
The Crisis of Leninism and the Revolution of 1989
Language: English
Release Date: July 10, 2006
Winner of the Social Science History Association President’s Book Award
East Germany was the first domino to fall when the Soviet bloc began to collapse in 1989. Its topple was so swift and unusual that it caught many area specialists and social scientists off guard; they failed to recognize...
Foreign Front
Third World Politics in Sixties West Germany
Language: English
Release Date: March 21, 2012
It is often asserted that West German New Leftists "discovered the Third World" in the pivotal decade of the 1960s. Quinn Slobodian upsets that storyline by beginning with individuals from the Third World themselves: students from Africa, Asia, and Latin America who arrived on West German...
We Were the People
Voices from East Germany’s Revolutionary Autumn of 1989
Language: English
Release Date: October 14, 1992
On the night of November 9, 1989, an electrified world watched as the Berlin Wall came down. Communism was dead, the Cold War was over, and freedom was on the rise—or so it seemed. We Were the People tells the story behind this momentous event. In an extraordinary series of interviews, the key actors...
Finding the Movement
Sexuality, Contested Space, and Feminist Activism
Language: English
Release Date: November 7, 2007
In Finding the Movement, Anne Enke reveals that diverse women’s engagement with public spaces gave rise to and profoundly shaped second-wave feminism. Focusing on women’s activism in Detroit, Chicago, and Minneapolis-St. Paul during the 1960s and 1970s, Enke describes how women across race and...
by Karlyn Forner
Language: English
Release Date: October 19, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: October 19, 2017
In Why the Vote Wasn't Enough for Selma Karlyn Forner rewrites the heralded story of Selma to explain why gaining the right to vote did not bring about economic justice for African Americans in the Alabama Black Belt. Drawing on a rich array of sources, Forner illustrates how voting rights failed...
Rivers by Design
State Power and the Origins of U.S. Flood Control
Language: English
Release Date: May 3, 2006
The United States has one of the largest and costliest flood control systems in the world, even though only a small proportion of its land lies in floodplains. Rivers by Design traces the emergence of the mammoth U.S. flood management system, which is overseen by the federal government but implemented...
Ordinary Medicine
Extraordinary Treatments, Longer Lives, and Where to Draw the Line
Language: English
Release Date: May 29, 2015
Most of us want and expect medicine’s miracles to extend our lives. In today’s aging society, however, the line between life-giving therapies and too much treatment is hard to see—it’s being obscured by a perfect storm created by the pharmaceutical and biomedical industries, along with insurance...
Now Is the Time!
Detroit Black Politics and Grassroots Activism
Language: English
Release Date: September 25, 2009
In Now Is the Time! Todd C. Shaw delves into the political strategies of post–Civil Rights Movement African American activists in Detroit, Michigan, to discover the conditions for effective social activism. Analyzing a wide range of grassroots community-housing initiatives intended to revitalize...
The Apartment Plot
Urban Living in American Film and Popular Culture, 1945 to 1975
Language: English
Release Date: November 11, 2010
Rethinking the significance of films including Pillow Talk, Rear Window, and The Seven Year Itch, Pamela Robertson Wojcik examines the popularity of the “apartment plot,” her term for stories in which the apartment functions as a central narrative device. From the baby boom years into the 1970s,...
Transnational America
Feminisms, Diasporas, Neoliberalisms
Language: English
Release Date: June 28, 2005
In Transnational America, Inderpal Grewal examines how the circulation of people, goods, social movements, and rights discourses during the 1990s created transnational subjects shaped by a global American culture. Rather than simply frame the United States as an imperialist nation-state that imposes...
Suffering for Territory
Race, Place, and Power in Zimbabwe
Language: English
Release Date: September 12, 2005
Since 2000, black squatters have forcibly occupied white farms across Zimbabwe, reigniting questions of racialized dispossession, land rights, and legacies of liberation. Donald S. Moore probes these contentious politics by analyzing fierce disputes over territory, sovereignty, and subjection in the...