Indiana University Press: 1129 books
Islands in the Cosmos
The Evolution of Life on Land
Language: English
Release Date: July 14, 2009
How is it that we came to be here? The search for answers to that question has preoccupied humans for millennia. Scientists have sought clues in the genes of living things, in the physical environments of Earth from mountaintops to the depths of the ocean, in the chemistry of this world and those...
The ANC's War against Apartheid
Umkhonto we Sizwe and the Liberation of South Africa
Language: English
Release Date: February 2, 2018
For nearly three decades, Umkhonto we Sizwe (MK), the armed wing of the African National Congress (ANC), waged a violent revolutionary struggle against the apartheid state in South Africa. Stephen Davis works with extensive oral testimonies and the heroic myths that were constructed after 1994 to...
Taking Stock
Cultures of Enumeration in Contemporary Jewish Life
Language: English
Release Date: June 27, 2016
Taking Stock is a collection of lively, original essays that explore the cultures of enumeration that permeate contemporary and modern Jewish life. Speaking to the profound cultural investment in quantified forms of knowledge and representation—whether discussing the Holocaust or counting the numbers...
by Alison Kafer
Language: English
Release Date: May 16, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: May 16, 2013
In Feminist, Queer, Crip Alison Kafer imagines a different future for disability and disabled bodies. Challenging the ways in which ideas about the future and time have been deployed in the service of compulsory able-bodiedness and able-mindedness, Kafer rejects the idea of disability as a pre-determined...
Islam and Politics in the Middle East
Explaining the Views of Ordinary Citizens
Language: English
Release Date: June 22, 2015
Some of the most pressing questions in the Middle East and North Africa today revolve around the proper place of Islamic institutions and authorities in governance and political affairs. Drawing on data from 42 surveys carried out in fifteen countries between 1988 and 2011, representing the opinions...
Comrades
A Local History of the Black Panther Party
Language: English
Release Date: December 25, 2007
The Black Panther Party for Self-Defense was founded in Oakland, California, in 1966 by Huey P. Newton and Bobby Seale. It was perhaps the most visible of the Black Power groups in the late 60s and early 70s, not least because of its confrontational politics, its rejection of nonviolence, and its...
Battle of Dogger Bank
The First Dreadnought Engagement, January 1915
Language: English
Release Date: March 10, 2014
The definitive study of one of the pivotal naval battles of the Great War.
On January 24, 1915, a German naval force commanded by Admiral Franz von Hipper conducted a raid on British fishing fleets in the area of the Dogger Banks. The force was engaged by a British force, which had been alerted...
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Language: English
Release Date: October 3, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: October 3, 2014
Focusing on everyday rituals, the essays in this volume look at spheres of social action and the places throughout the Atlantic world where African–descended communities have expressed their values, ideas, beliefs, and spirituality in material terms. The contributors trace the impact of encounters...
by Mark Tessler
Language: English
Release Date: March 24, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: March 24, 2009
Mark Tessler's highly praised, comprehensive, and balanced history of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict from the earliest times to the present—updated through the first years of the 21st century—provides a constructive framework for understanding recent developments and assessing the prospects...
Russia's People of Empire
Life Stories from Eurasia, 1500 to the Present
Language: English
Release Date: July 11, 2012
“A fresh and lively approach to understanding how the various Russian empires have worked.” —Slavic Review
A fundamental dimension of the Russian historical experience has been the diversity of its people and cultures, religions and languages, landscapes and economies. For six centuries this...
The Jewish Revolution in Belorussia
Economy, Race, and Bolshevik Power
Language: English
Release Date: February 13, 2017
Jewish life was changed fundamentally as Jews joined the Bolshevik movement and populated the front lines of the revolutionary struggle. Andrew Sloin’s story follows the arc of Bolshevik history but shows how the broader movement was enacted in factories and workshops, workers’ clubs and union...
by Anthony P. Tully
Language: English
Release Date: April 14, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: April 14, 2009
“[Tully] paints Admiral Nishimura's high-speed run into history with an entirely fresh palette of detail.” —James D. Hornfischer, New York Times–bestselling author of Neptune’s Inferno
Surigao Strait in the Philippine Islands was the scene of a major battleship duel during the Battle...
That the Blood Stay Pure
African Americans, Native Americans, and the Predicament of Race and Identity in Virginia
Language: English
Release Date: October 18, 2013
That the Blood Stay Pure traces the history and legacy of the commonwealth of Virginia’s effort to maintain racial purity and its impact on the relations between African Americans and Native Americans. Arica L. Coleman tells the story of Virginia’s racial purity campaign from the perspective of...
Tirpitz
And the Imperial German Navy
Language: English
Release Date: May 3, 2011
“A first-rate biography of this grand admiral who is better known for his political skills than his naval ones.” —US Naval Insitute Proceedings
Grand Admiral Alfred von Tirpitz (1849–1930) was the principal force behind the rise of the German Imperial Navy prior to World War I, challenging...