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Language: English
Release Date: February 9, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: February 9, 2016
Sexuality and the Unnatural in Colonial Latin America brings together a broad community of scholars to explore the history of illicit and alternative sexualities in Latin America’s colonial and early national periods. Together the essays examine how "the unnatural” came to inscribe certain...
Argentina's Missing Bones
Revisiting the History of the Dirty War
Language: English
Release Date: March 23, 2018
Argentina’s Missing Bones is the first comprehensive English-language work of historical scholarship on the 1976–83 military dictatorship and Argentina’s notorious experience with state terrorism during the so-called dirty war. It examines this history in a single but crucial place: Córdoba,...
Tensions of Empire
Colonial Cultures in a Bourgeois World
Language: English
Release Date: February 6, 1997
Starting with the premise that Europe was made by its imperial projects as much as colonial encounters were shaped by events and conflicts in Europe, the contributors to Tensions of Empire investigate metropolitan-colonial relationships from a new perspective. The fifteen essays demonstrate various...
The Monster Within
The Hidden Side of Motherhood
Language: English
Release Date: October 4, 2010
Mixed feelings about motherhood—uncertainty over having a child, fears of pregnancy and childbirth, or negative thoughts about one’s own children—are not just hard to discuss, they are a powerful social taboo. In this beautifully written book, Barbara Almond brings this troubling issue to light....
Canned
The Rise and Fall of Consumer Confidence in the American Food Industry
Language: English
Release Date: March 6, 2018
2019 James Beard Foundation Book Award winner: Reference, History, and Scholarship
A century and a half ago, when the food industry was first taking root, few consumers trusted packaged foods. Americans had just begun to shift away from eating foods that they grew themselves or purchased from...
Following the Leader
Ruling China, from Deng Xiaoping to Xi Jinping
Language: English
Release Date: February 3, 2014
With unique access to Chinese leaders at all levels of the party and government, best-selling author David M. Lampton tells the story of China’s political elites from their own perspectives. Based on over five hundred interviews, Following the Leader offers a rare glimpse into how the attitudes...
Finding Women in the State
A Socialist Feminist Revolution in the People's Republic of China, 1949-1964
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2016
Finding Women in the State is a provocative hidden history of socialist state feminists maneuvering behind the scenes at the core of the Chinese Communist Party. These women worked to advance gender and class equality in the early People’s Republic and fought to transform sexist norms and practices,...
Living with Difference
How to Build Community in a Divided World
Language: English
Release Date: January 12, 2015
Whether looking at divided cities or working with populations on the margins of society, a growing number of engaged academics have reached out to communities around the world to address the practical problems of living with difference. This book explores the challenges and necessities of accommodating...
The Great Han
Race, Nationalism, and Tradition in China Today
Language: English
Release Date: August 22, 2017
The Great Han is an ethnographic study of the Han Clothing Movement*,* a neotraditionalist and racial nationalist movement that has emerged in China since 2001. Participants come together both online and in person in cities across China to revitalize their utopian vision of the authentic “Great...
The Insecure American
How We Got Here and What We Should Do About It
Language: English
Release Date: November 24, 2009
Americans are feeling insecure. They are retreating to gated communities in record numbers, fearing for their jobs and their 401(k)s, nervous about their health insurance and their debt levels, worrying about terrorist attacks and immigrants. In this innovative volume, editors Hugh Gusterson and Catherine...
Islamic State
The Digital Caliphate
Language: English
Release Date: September 8, 2015
Islamic State (also known as ISIS, ISIL, and Daesh) stunned the world when it overran an area the size of Great Britain on both sides of the Iraq-Syria border in a matter of weeks and proclaimed the birth of a new Caliphate. In this timely and important book, Abdel Bari Atwan draws on his unrivaled...
Thing Knowledge
A Philosophy of Scientific Instruments
Language: English
Release Date: February 10, 2004
Western philosophers have traditionally concentrated on theory as the means for expressing knowledge about a variety of phenomena. This absorbing book challenges this fundamental notion by showing how objects themselves, specifically scientific instruments, can express knowledge. As he considers numerous...
Politics of the Womb
Women, Reproduction, and the State in Kenya
Language: English
Release Date: August 20, 2003
In more than a metaphorical sense, the womb has proven to be an important site of political struggle in and about Africa. By examining the political significance—and complex ramifications—of reproductive controversies in twentieth-century Kenya, this book explores why and how control of female...
The Paper Road
Archive and Experience in the Botanical Exploration of West China and Tibet
Language: English
Release Date: November 2, 2011
This exhilarating book interweaves the stories of two early twentieth-century botanists to explore the collaborative relationships each formed with Yunnan villagers in gathering botanical specimens from the borderlands between China, Tibet, and Burma. Erik Mueggler introduces Scottish botanist George...