George Steinmetz: 29 books
New York Air
The View from Above
Language: English
Release Date: September 25, 2018
Shooting in all seasons and from dawn to dusk, Steinmetz captures the thrilling complexity and romance of 21st-century New York, with its new skyline and waterfront landscape, dazzling contemporary architecture and historic buildings—along with parks and streets and rooftops used for every possible...
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...
Remaking Modernity
Politics, History, and Sociology
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2005
A state-of-the-field survey of historical sociology, Remaking Modernity assesses the field’s past accomplishments and peers into the future, envisioning changes to come. The seventeen essays in this collection reveal the potential of historical sociology to transform understandings of social and...
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....
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...
Punishing the Poor
The Neoliberal Government of Social Insecurity
Language: English
Release Date: May 22, 2009
The punitive turn of penal policy in the United States after the acme of the Civil Rights movement responds not to rising criminal insecurity but to the social insecurity spawned by the fragmentation of wage labor and the shakeup of the ethnoracial hierarchy. It partakes of a broader reconstruction...
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...