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Genealogy as Critique
Foucault and the Problems of Modernity
Language: English
Release Date: February 12, 2013
Viewing Foucault in the light of work by Continental and American philosophers, most notably Nietzsche, Habermas, Deleuze, Richard Rorty, Bernard Williams, and Ian Hacking, Genealogy as Critique shows that philosophical genealogy involves not only the critique of modernity but also its transformation....
The Jewish Economic Elite
Making Modern Europe
Language: English
Release Date: February 27, 2018
In this rich transnational history, Cornelia Aust traces Jewish Ashkenazi families as they moved across Europe and established new commercial and entrepreneurial networks as they went. Aust balances economic history with elaborate discussions of Jewish marriage patterns, women's economic activity,...
Sephardi, Jewish, Argentine
Community and National Identity, 1880-1960
Language: English
Release Date: October 31, 2016
At the turn of the 20th century, Jews from North Africa and the Middle East were called Turcos ("Turks"), and they were seen as distinct from Ashkenazim, not even identified as Jews. Adriana M. Brodsky follows the history of Sephardim as they arrived in Argentina, created immigrant organizations,...
Political Conspiracies in America
A Reader
Language: English
Release Date: March 19, 2008
Conspiracy theories have been a part of the American experience since colonial times. There is a rich literature on conspiracies involving, among others, Masons, Catholics, Mormons, Jews, financiers, Communists, and internationalists. Although many conspiracy theories appear irrational, an exaggerated...
Seizing the New Day
African Americans in Post-Civil War Charleston
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2003
"Seizing the New Day is a good book, carefully researched, logically organized, and clearly written.... an excellent model for others who would study change at the local level in this fascinating period of American history. And the volume is handsomely illustrated with well-chosen photographs, drawings,...
Free and French in the Caribbean
Toussaint Louverture, Aimé Césaire, and Narratives of Loyal Opposition
Language: English
Release Date: April 12, 2013
In Free and French in the Caribbean, John Patrick Walsh studies the writings of Toussaint Louverture and Aimé Césaire to examine how they conceived of and narrated two defining events in the decolonializing of the French Caribbean: the revolution that freed the French colony of Saint-Domingue in...
Strangers in the Wild Place
Refugees, Americans, and a German Town, 1945-1952
Language: English
Release Date: March 7, 2013
In 1936, the Nazi state created a massive military training site near Wildflecken, a tiny community in rural Bavaria. During the war, this base housed an industrial facility that drew forced laborers from all over conquered Europe. At war’s end, the base became Europe’s largest Displaced Persons...
Culture and Value
Tourism, Heritage, and Property
Language: English
Release Date: May 9, 2018
This book is the first collection of essays by noted folklorist, Regina F. Bendix, that explore how cultures create, give, and maintain value for cultural elements and artifacts.
Bendix's work seeks to transcend specialized perspectives on cultural heritage and integrate this booming research...
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Language: English
Release Date: August 29, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: August 29, 2016
Many Muslim societies are in the throes of tumultuous political transitions, and common to all has been heightened debate over the place of shari`a law in modern politics and ethical life. Bringing together leading scholars of Islamic politics, ethics, and law, this book examines the varied meanings...
Imagined Landscapes
Geovisualizing Australian Spatial Narratives
Language: English
Release Date: December 21, 2015
Imagined Landscapes teams geocritical analysis with digital visualization techniques to map and interrogate films, novels, and plays in which space and place figure prominently. Drawing upon A Cultural Atlas of Australia, a database-driven interactive digital map that can be used to identify patterns...
Trans-Appalachian Frontier, Third Edition
People, Societies, and Institutions, 1775-1850
Language: English
Release Date: January 9, 2008
The first American frontier lay just beyond the Appalachian Mountains and along the Gulf Coast. Here, successive groups of pioneers built new societies and developed new institutions to cope with life in the wilderness. In this thorough revision of his classic account, Malcolm J. Rohrbough tells the...
by Craig Sanders
Language: English
Release Date: May 11, 2006
Language: English
Release Date: May 11, 2006
"Craig Sanders has done an excellent job of research... his treatment is as comprehensive as anyone could reasonably wish for, and solidly based. In addition, he succeeds in making it all clear as well as any human can. He also manages to inject enough humor and human interest to keep the reader moving."...
by James E. Genova
Language: English
Release Date: September 25, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: September 25, 2013
Cinema and Development in West Africa shows how the film industry in Francophone West African countries played an important role in executing strategies of nation building during the transition from French rule to the early postcolonial period. James E. Genova sees the construction of African identities...
Shi'i Cosmopolitanisms in Africa
Lebanese Migration and Religious Conversion in Senegal
Language: English
Release Date: August 27, 2015
Mara A. Leichtman offers an in-depth study of Shi‘i Islam in two very different communities in Senegal: the well-established Lebanese diaspora and Senegalese "converts" from Sunni to Shi‘i Islam of recent decades. Sharing a minority religious status in a predominantly Sunni Muslim country, each...