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Imagining a Greater Germany
Republican Nationalism and the Idea of Anschluss
Language: English
Release Date: October 4, 2016
In Imagining a Greater Germany, Erin R. Hochman offers a fresh approach to the questions of state- and nation-building in interwar Central Europe. Ever since Hitler annexed his native Austria to Germany in 1938, the term "Anschluss" has been linked to Nazi expansionism. The legacy of Nazism has cast...
Proletarian Peasants
The Revolution of 1905 in Russia's Southwest
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2016
In this book, conceived and written for the general reader as well as the specialist, Robert Edelman uses a case study of peasant behavior during a particular revolutionary situation to make an important contribution to one of the major debates in contemporary peasant studies. Edelman's subject is...
Seductive Reasoning
Pluralism as the Problematic of Contemporary Literary Theory
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2016
Seductive Reasoning takes a provocative look at contemporary Anglo-American literary theory, calling into question the critical consensus on pluralism's nature and its status in literary studies. Drawing on the insights of Marxist and feminist critical theory and on the works of Althusser, Derrida,...
Nuclear Summer
The Clash of Communities at the Seneca Women's Peace Encampment
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2018
When thousands of women gathered in 1983 to protest the stockpiling of nuclear weapons at a rural upstate New York military depot, the area was shaken by their actions. What so disturbed residents that they organized counterdemonstrations, wrote hundreds of letters to local newspapers, verbally and...
by Anthony Leeds
Language: English
Release Date: April 10, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: April 10, 2017
Cities, Classes, and the Social Order brings together nine conceptual and theoretical essays by the anthropologist, Anthony Leeds (1925–1989), whose pioneering work in the anthropology of complex societies was built on formative personal and research experiences in both urban and rural settings...
Bang Chan
Social History of a Rural Community in Thailand
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2018
Bang Chan traces the changing cultural characteristics of a small Siamese village during the century and a quarter from its founding as a wilderness settlement outside Bangkok to its absorption into the urban spread of the Thai capital. Rich in ethnographic detail, the book sums up the major findings...
Casualties of History
Wounded Japanese Servicemen and the Second World War
Language: English
Release Date: May 6, 2015
Thousands of wounded servicemen returned to Japan following the escalation of Japanese military aggression in China in July 1937. Tens of thousands would return home after Japan widened its war effort in 1939. In Casualties of History, Lee K. Pennington relates for the first time in English the experiences...
Meaning and Interpretation
Wittgenstein, Henry James, and Literary Knowledge
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2018
'What is the meaning of a word?' In this thought-provoking book, Hagberg demonstrates how this question—which initiated Wittgenstein's later work in the philosophy of language—is significant for our understanding not only of linguistic meaning but of the meaning of works of art and literature as well.
Restraint
A New Foundation for U.S. Grand Strategy
Language: English
Release Date: June 3, 2014
The United States, Barry R. Posen argues in Restraint, has grown incapable of moderating its ambitions in international politics. Since the collapse of Soviet power, it has pursued a grand strategy that he calls "liberal hegemony," one that Posen sees as unnecessary, counterproductive, costly, and...
Divorcing Traditions
Islamic Marriage Law and the Making of Indian Secularism
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2019
Divorcing Traditions is an ethnography of Islamic legal expertise and practices in India, a secular state in which Muslims are a significant minority and where Islamic judgments are not legally binding. Katherine Lemons argues that an analysis of divorce in accordance with Islamic strictures is critical...
No Man's Land
Globalization, Territory, and Clandestine Groups in Southeast Asia
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
The increased ability of clandestine groups to operate with little regard for borders or geography is often taken to be one of the dark consequences of a brave new globalized world. Yet even for terrorists and smugglers, the world is not flat; states exert formidable control over the technologies...
Dangerous Familiars
Representations of Domestic Crime in England, 1550-1700
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Looking back at images of violence in the popular culture of early modern England, we find that the specter of the murderer loomed most vividly not in the stranger, but in the familiar; and not in the master, husband, or father, but in the servant, wife, or mother. A gripping exploration of seventeenth-century...
The Golden Triangle
Inside Southeast Asia's Drug Trade
Language: English
Release Date: February 23, 2011
The Golden Triangle region that joins Burma, Thailand, and Laos is one of the global centers of opiate and methamphetamine production. Opportunistic Chinese businessmen and leaders of various armed groups are largely responsible for the manufacture of these drugs. The region is defined by the apparently...
A Disability of the Soul
An Ethnography of Schizophrenia and Mental Illness in Contemporary Japan
Language: English
Release Date: June 13, 2013
Bethel House, located in a small fishing village in northern Japan, was founded in 1984 as an intentional community for people with schizophrenia and other psychiatric disorders. Using a unique, community approach to psychosocial recovery, Bethel House focuses as much on social integration as on therapeutic...