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Kuwait Transformed
A History of Oil and Urban Life
Language: English
Release Date: April 13, 2016
As the first Gulf city to experience oil urbanization, Kuwait City's transformation in the mid-twentieth century inaugurated a now-familiar regional narrative: a small traditional town of mudbrick courtyard houses and plentiful foot traffic transformed into a modern city with marble-fronted buildings,...
Releasing the Image
From Literature to New Media
Language: English
Release Date: August 9, 2011
It has become a commonplace that "images" were central to the twentieth century and that their role will be even more powerful in the twenty-first. But what is an image and what can an image be? Releasing the Image understands images as something beyond mere representations of things. Releasing...
Dada Presentism
An Essay on Art and History
Language: English
Release Date: April 20, 2016
Dada is often celebrated for its strategies of shock and opposition, but in Dada Presentism, Maria Stavrinaki provides a new picture of Dada art and writings as a lucid reflection on history and the role of art within it. The original (Berlin-based) Dadaists' acute historical consciousness and their...
Projections
Comics and the History of Twenty-First-Century Storytelling
Language: English
Release Date: January 11, 2012
When Art Spiegelman's Maus won the Pulitzer Prize in 1992, it marked a new era for comics. Comics are now taken seriously by the same academic and cultural institutions that long dismissed the form. And the visibility of comics continues to increase, with alternative cartoonists now published by major...
Jewish Salonica
Between the Ottoman Empire and Modern Greece
Language: English
Release Date: September 7, 2016
Touted as the "Jerusalem of the Balkans," the Mediterranean port city of Salonica (Thessaloniki) was once home to the largest Sephardic Jewish community in the world. The collapse of the Ottoman Empire and the city's incorporation into Greece in 1912 provoked a major upheaval that compelled...
Sephardi Lives
A Documentary History, 1700–1950
Language: English
Release Date: August 27, 2014
This ground-breaking documentary history contains over 150 primary sources originally written in 15 languages by or about Sephardi Jews—descendants of Jews who fled medieval Spain and Portugal settling in the western portions of the Ottoman Empire, including the Balkans, Anatolia, and Palestine....
Making Money
How Taiwanese Industrialists Embraced the Global Economy
Language: English
Release Date: December 12, 2017
Beginning in the 1950s, Taiwan rapidly industrialized, becoming a tributary to an increasingly "borderless" East Asian economy. And though President Trump has called for the end of "American carnage"—the loss of U.S. manufacturing jobs—domestic retailers and merchandisers still...
Varsity Green
A Behind the Scenes Look at Culture and Corruption in College Athletics
Language: English
Release Date: December 3, 2009
In Varsity Green, Mark Yost cuts through clichés and common misconceptions to take a hard-eyed look at the current state of college athletics. He takes readers behind the scenes of the conspicuous and high-revenue business of college sports in order to dissect the enormous television revenues, merchandising...
Selling under the Swastika
Advertising and Commercial Culture in Nazi Germany
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2013
Selling under the Swastika is the first in-depth study of commercial advertising in the Third Reich. While scholars have focused extensively on the political propaganda that infused daily life in Nazi Germany, they have paid little attention to the role played by commercial ads and sales culture in...
The South African Gandhi
Stretcher-Bearer of Empire
Language: English
Release Date: October 7, 2015
In the pantheon of freedom fighters, Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi has pride of place. His fame and influence extend far beyond India and are nowhere more significant than in South Africa. "India gave us a Mohandas, we gave them a Mahatma," goes a popular South African refrain. Contemporary...
by Victoria Saker Woeste
Language: English
Release Date: June 27, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: June 27, 2012
Henry Ford is remembered in American lore as the ultimate entrepreneur—the man who invented assembly-line manufacturing and made automobiles affordable. Largely forgotten is his side career as a publisher of antisemitic propaganda. This is the story of Ford's ownership of the Dearborn Independent,...
Making Their Place
Feminism After Socialism in Eastern Germany
Language: English
Release Date: April 29, 2010
The collapse of state socialism in eastern and central Europe in 1989 had a dramatic impact on women. Witnessing the loss of state support for their economic activity, the curtailing of their reproductive rights, and the rise of gender ideologies that value women primarily as mothers and wives rather...
Paris Dreams, Paris Memories
The City and Its Mystique
Language: English
Release Date: April 6, 2011
How did Paris become the world favorite it is today? Charles Rearick argues that we can best understand Paris as several cities in one, each with its own history and its own imaginary shaped by dream and memory. Paris has long been at once a cosmopolitan City of Light and of modernity, a patchwork...
On Ethics and History
Essays and Letters of Zhang Xuecheng
Language: English
Release Date: November 17, 2009
Zhang Xuecheng (1738–1801) has primarily been read as a philosopher of history. This volume presents him as an ethical philosopher with a distinctive understanding of the aims and methods of Confucian self-cultivation. Offered in English translation for the first time, this collection of Zhang's...