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For Better, For Worse

The Marriage Crisis That Made Modern Egypt

by Hanan Kholoussy
Language: English
Release Date: January 14, 2010

For many Egyptians in the early twentieth century, the biggest national problem was not British domination or the Great Depression but a "marriage crisis" heralded in the press as a devastating rise in the number of middle-class men refraining from marriage. Voicing anxieties over a presumed...

Slow Print

Literary Radicalism and Late Victorian Print Culture

by Elizabeth Carolyn Miller
Language: English
Release Date: January 9, 2013

This book explores the literary culture of Britain's radical press from 1880 to 1910, a time that saw a flourishing of radical political activity as well as the emergence of a mass print industry. While Enlightenment radicals and their heirs had seen free print as an agent of revolutionary transformation,...

Science and Conscience

The Life of James Franck

by Jost Lemmerich
Language: English
Release Date: August 10, 2011

James Franck (1882–1964) was one of the twentieth century's most respected scientists, known both for his contributions to physics and for his moral courage. During the 1920s, Franck was a prominent figure in the German physics community. His research into the structure of the atom earned him the...

A Society of Young Women

Opportunities of Place, Power, and Reform in Saudi Arabia

by Amelie Le Renard
Language: English
Release Date: June 25, 2014

The cities of Saudi Arabia are among the most gender segregated in the world. In recent years the Saudi government has felt increasing international pressure to offer greater roles for women in society. Implicit in these calls for reform, however, is an assumption that the only "real" society...

Violence and Order on the Chengdu Plain

The Story of a Secret Brotherhood in Rural China, 1939-1949

by Di Wang
Language: English
Release Date: March 27, 2018

In 1939, residents of a rural village near Chengdu watched as Lei Mingyuan, a member of a violent secret society known as the Gowned Brothers, executed his teenage daughter. Six years later, Shen Baoyuan, a sociology student at Yenching University, arrived in the town to conduct fieldwork on the society...

Post-Postmodernism

or, The Cultural Logic of Just-in-Time Capitalism

by Jeffrey Nealon
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2012

Post-Postmodernism begins with a simple premise: we no longer live in the world of "postmodernism," famously dubbed "the cultural logic of late capitalism" by Fredric Jameson in 1984. Far from charting any simple move "beyond" postmodernism since the 1980s, though, this...

Holocaust Memory in the Digital Age

Survivors’ Stories and New Media Practices

by Jeffrey Shandler
Language: English
Release Date: September 12, 2017

Holocaust Memory in the Digital Age explores the nexus of new media and memory practices, raising questions about how advances in digital technologies continue to influence the nature of Holocaust memorialization. Through an in-depth study of the largest and most widely available collection of videotaped...

The Kurillian Knot

A History of Japanese-Russian Border Negotiations

by Hiroshi Kimura
Language: English
Release Date: March 28, 2008

This book provides an answer to the mystery of why no peace treaty has yet been signed between Japan and Russia after more than sixty years since the end of World War Two. The author, a leading authority on Japanese-Russian diplomatic history, was trained at the Russian Institute of Columbia University....

Reconstructing Bodies

Biomedicine, Health, and Nation-Building in South Korea Since 1945

by John DiMoia
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2013

South Korea represents one of the world's most enthusiastic markets for plastic surgery. The growth of this market is particularly fascinating as access to medical care and surgery arose only recently with economic growth since the 1980s. Reconstructing Bodies traces the development of a medical infrastructure...

Rise of the Red Engineers

The Cultural Revolution and the Origins of China's New Class

by Joel Andreas
Language: English
Release Date: March 10, 2009

Rise of the Red Engineers explains the tumultuous origins of the class of technocratic officials who rule China today. In a fascinating account, author Joel Andreas chronicles how two mutually hostile groups—the poorly educated peasant revolutionaries who seized power in 1949 and China's old educated...

After the Revolution

Youth, Democracy, and the Politics of Disappointment in Serbia

by Jessica Greenberg
Language: English
Release Date: May 7, 2014

What happens to student activism once mass protests have disappeared from view, and youth no longer embody the political frustrations and hopes of a nation? After the Revolution chronicles the lives of student activists as they confront the possibilities and disappointments of democracy in the shadow...

Gaining Freedoms

Claiming Space in Istanbul and Berlin

by Berna Turam
Language: English
Release Date: April 8, 2015

Gaining Freedoms reveals a new locus for global political change: everyday urban contestation. Cities are often assumed hotbeds of socio-economic division, but this assessment overlooks the importance of urban space and the everyday activities of urban life for empowerment, emancipation, and democratization....

Robinson Jeffers

Poet and Prophet

by James Karman
Language: English
Release Date: August 5, 2015

The precipitous cliffs, rolling headlands, and rocky inlets of the California coast come alive in the poetry of John Robinson Jeffers, an icon of the environmental movement. In this concise and accessible biography, Jeffers scholar James Karman reveals deep insights into this passionate and complex...

The Size of Others' Burdens

Barack Obama, Jane Addams, and the Politics of Helping Others

by Erik Schneiderhan
Language: English
Release Date: May 27, 2015

Americans have a fierce spirit of individualism. We pride ourselves on self-reliance, on bootstrapping our way to success. Yet, we also believe in helping those in need, and we turn to our neighbors in times of crisis. The tension between these competing values is evident, and how we balance between...
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