A Radical History of the World

Reducere. Presenting examples from the fields of critical race studies, cultural resource management, digital archaeology, environmental studies, and heritag...

Reducere. The incarnation--the act of God assuming mortal flesh through Jesus Christ--reveals God's radical love for a world marked by the rebellion of the c...

Reducere. A radical reconception of Degas' sculpture through the lens of gender, labor and more, with new photography of the worksThis substantial new monogr...

DescriptionBefore World War I, the government reaction to labor dissent had been local, ad hoc, and quasi-military. Sheriffs, mayors, or governors ...

From its underground genesis during the Cultural Revolution (1966-76), contemporary Chinese art has become a dynamic and hugely influential force i...

DescriptionA classic book on the legacy of Rosa Luxemburg's work with essays of political analysis by leading scholars As an advocate of social dem...

DescriptionIn today's culture, popular music is a vital site where ideas about gender and sexuality are imagined and disseminated. Popular Music an...

Explores the diverse and sometimes conflicting attempts of lesbian and gay people to build a new world for themselves and those they loved.Publishe...

Reducere. Millennia ago, Egyptian and Celtic authors recorded prophetic warnings for the future and their harbinger signs are now converging. These predictio...

Reducere. Millennia ago, Egyptian and Celtic authors recorded prophetic warnings for the future and their harbinger signs are now converging. These predictio...

Reducere. Description"No writer has better understood the mix of fear and possibility, peril and exuberance that's marked this new millennium."--Bill McKibbe...

Reducere. DescriptionHegel's The Phenomenology of Spirit (1807) is one of the most influential texts in the history of modern philosophy. In it, Hegel propos...

DescriptionFor the last sixty years discussion of 1950s science fiction cinema has been dominated by claims that the genre reflected US paranoia ab...

This book reevaluates the changes to chymistry that took place from 1660 to 1730 through a close study of the chymist Wilhelm Homberg (1653-1715) a...

Our understanding of ourselves and the world as historical has drastically changed since the postwar period, yet this emerging historical sensibili...

DescriptionWhen searching for genuinely sustainable building design and technology - designs that go beyond conventional sustainability to be truly...

Reducere. In the 1930s and 1940s the early roots of the Chicano Movement took shape. Activists like Jes s Cruz, and later Ralph Cuar n, sought justice for mi...

Reducere. We are at a critical point in human history and that of the planet. In this book, a world leader in agricultural research, Professor Sayed Azam-Ali...

DescriptionThe concluding volume to the first biography of one of the most important, influential, and beloved twentieth-century sculptors, and one...

Reducere. Describing the radical transformation in German Infantry tactics that took place during World War I, this book presents the first detailed account ...

Reducere. Clare Anderson provides a radical new reading of histories of empire and nation, showing that the history of punishment is not solely connected to ...

Reducere. The deaf community in the West has endured radical changes in the past centuries. This work of history tracks the changes both in the education of ...

Martin Luther King, Jr., may be America's most revered political figure, commemorated in statues, celebrations, and street names around the world. ...

Contributor(s): Author: John ZameticaExamining the origins of the First World War has been called "the ultimate who dunnit." In his book, published...

In 1969, several young men met on a rainy night in Kabul to form an Islamist student group. Their aim was laid out in a simple typewritten statemen...

Reducere. This book explores Greek collaboration with the Nazis during the Axis occupation of Greece in the Second World War, a topic that continues to be on...

Reducere. This penetrating book sheds light on the psychology of fundamentalism, with a particular focus on those who become extremists and fanatics. What ac...

Reducere. Gerald Massey's work has become essential for readers seeking a balanced understanding of human origins, religious thought and belief, and the role...

Reducere. Sir Elton John, musician and philanthropist, has built one of the greatest private collections of photography in the world. This book presents an u...

Reducere. Ye That Are Men Now Serve Him examines how religious belief reshaped concepts of gender during the New South period that took place from 1877 to 19...

Reducere. Was Canada immune to the racist currents of thought that swept central Europe in the 1920's and 1930's? In this landmark book Angus McLaren, co-aut...

A highly illustrated study of some of the weapons developed by Nazi Germany to equip the Luftwaffe in their desperate war against the encroaching A...

Reducere. DescriptionThis book maps how American Methodists have responded to sexual change since World War II. It argues that the current United Methodist i...

Reducere. In the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries a small but conspicuous fringe of the Jewish population became the world's most resolute, intellec...

DescriptionA must-read book for understanding this vibrant and influential modern Jewish movementHasidism originated in southeastern Poland, in mys...

Reducere. DescriptionBaruch Spinoza (1632-1677) was one of the most important philosophers of all time; he was also one of the most radical and controversial...

Written in 1923, when Germany was in the throes of revolutionary demands from both the Left and the Right, Moeller van den Bruck envisioned a Germa...

Reducere. During the 1920s and 1930s, American minority artists and writers collaborated extensively with the Soviet avant-garde, seeking to build a revoluti...

A major intellectual history of the American Revolution and its influence on later revolutions in Europe and the AmericasThe Expanding Blaze is a s...

Reducere. Several decades after her death in 1968, Helen Keller remains one of the most widely recognized women of the twentieth century. But the fascinating...

Over a career spanning American history from the 1880s to the 1950s, John Dewey sought not only to forge a persuasive argument for his conviction t...

Before World War I, the government reaction to labor dissent had been local, ad hoc, and quasi-military. Sheriffs, mayors, or governors would deput...

The workings of Western intelligence in our day--whether in politics or the arts, in the humanities or the church--are as troubling as they are mys...

In From the Tricontinental to the Global South Anne Garland Mahler traces the history and intellectual legacy of the understudied global justice mo...

The concept of the avant garde is highly contested, whether one consigns it to history or claims it for present-day or future uses. The first volum...

Transhumanism posits that humanity is on the verge of rapid evolutionary change as a result of emerging technologies and increased global conscious...

DescriptionThe Australian Independent Companies and the Commandos into which they evolved were unique sub-units of the Australian Army during the S...

Reducere. In Weak and Widespread, modernity stands as a contrasting operative practice when compared to that of the 20th century, which was based on finding ...

We tend to suppose that the ancient Greeks had primitive ideas of the self, of responsibility, freedom, and shame, and that now humanity has advanc...

Iran's national epic, the Shahnameh of Ferdowsi, has traditionally been regarded by both Persians and Westerners as a poem celebrating the the cent...

Reducere. DescriptionZionism, Islam and the West is a wide-ranging, thoroughly referenced examination of the Zionist factor in world affairs. Bolton traces t...

The Cambridge Companion to Eighteenth-Century Thought gives a comprehensive overview of intellectual life in the eighteenth-century Anglophone worl...

Reducere. An Unlikely Union tells the dramatic story of how two of America's largest ethnic groups learned to love and laugh with each other after decades of...

Reducere. The radical history of a dynamic, multiracial American neighborhood. "When I think of the future of the United States, and the history that matters...

Reducere. DescriptionFor as long as there have been rich nations and poor nations, debt has been a powerful force for maintaining the unequal relations betwe...

Reducere. In the decade before the Civil War, Concord, Massachusetts, was a center of abolitionist sentiment and activism. To Set this World Right is the fir...

Reducere. Situating Dakota language and oral tradition within the framework of decolonization, Remember This Dakota Decolonization and the Eli Taylor Narrati...

Reducere. DescriptionThe Story of Mary MacLane shocked the literary world when it was published in April 1902. It sold 100, 000 copies in its first month, an...

Reducere. Making the radical argument that the nation-state was born of colonialism, this book calls us to rethink political violence and reimagine political...

In this classic account, historian Philip Foner traces the radical history of Black workers' contribution to the American labor movement.About the ...

Reducere. If you can't trust those in charge, who can you trust? From government to business, banks to media, trust in institutions is at an all-time low. Bu...

Description Throughout Germany's tumultuous twentieth century, photography was an indispensable form of documentation. Whether acting as artists, w...

Reducere. Zilphia Horton was a pioneer of cultural organizing, an activist and musician who taught people how to use the arts as a tool for social change, an...

Counter Jihad is a sweeping account of America's military campaigns in the Islamic world. Revising our understanding of what was once known as the ...

DescriptionThe practice of Chelsea School of Art and Goldsmiths College graduate Greg Rook (b.1971, London) explores the rich visual history, curio...

Reducere. A historical biography of a radical relationship at the dawn of the 20th Century The opening years of the twentieth century saw a grand cast of rad...

Reducere. The Founding of the American Republic is on trial. Critics say it was a poison pill with a time-release formula; we are its victims. Its principles...

DescriptionWithin the history of African American struggle against racist oppression that often verges on dystopia, a hidden tradition has depicted...

DescriptionCountersexual Manifesto is an outrageous yet rigorous work of trans theory, a performative literary text, and an insistent call to actio...

Reducere. The untold story of the founding father's likely Jewish birth and upbringing--and its revolutionary consequences for understanding him and the nati...