Carnal Knowledge and Imperial Power: Race and the Intimate in Colonial Rule, with a New Preface, Paperback - Ann Laura Stoler

This landmark book tracks matters of intimacy to investigate matters of state in late nineteenth and early twentieth century Indonesia, particularl...

Why is the colonial context absent from Michel Foucault's history of a European sexual discourse that for him defined the bourgeois self? This book...

Gus White grew up on the wrong side of the color line in Jim Crow Tennessee, then became the first black medical student at Stanford and a top surg...

DescriptionHow do colonial histories matter to the urgencies and conditions of our current world? How have those histories so often been rendered a...

Along the Archival Grain offers a unique methodological and analytic opening to the affective registers of imperial governance and the political co...

Reducere. DescriptionFirst published in 1999, this celebrated history of San Francisco traces the exploitation of both local and distant regions by prominent...

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Reducere. Does the scientific "theory" that HIV came to North America from Haiti stem from underlying attitudes of racism and ethnocentrism in the United Sta...

This final volume in Manuel Castells' trilogy studies the key defining processes taking place in the last decade of the 20th century as an expressi...

"Paints in chilling detail the distance between Martin Luther King's dream and the reality of present-day America."--Anthony Walton, Harper's "Inte...

Essays by major contemporary figures in political philosophy, anthropology, and cultural studies presenting an original reflection on the question ...

Since the late 1980s, queer studies and theory have become vital to the intellectual and political life of the United States. This has been due, in...

Al-Fārābī who was conferred the distinguished title of al-Mu'allim al-thānī (The Second Teacher), is here sympathetically portrayed as a deeply rel...

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The Imperial Security State: British Colonial Knowledge and Empire-Building in Asia - James Hevia

Paul Farmer has battled AIDS in rural Haiti and deadly strains of drug-resistant tuberculosis in the slums of Peru. A physician-anthropologist with...

Reducere. DescriptionThe little-known story of an eighteenth-century Quaker dwarf who fiercely attacked slavery and imagined a new, more humane way of life I...

DescriptionA Times Higher Education Book of the WeekUnder certain conditions, the right small simple actions can produce large and complex "butterf...

DescriptionEven the most powerful men in the world are human-they get sick, take dubious drugs, drink too much, contemplate suicide, fret about ail...

Reducere. Generation Priced Out is a call to action on one of the most talked-about issues of our time: how skyrocketing rents and home values are pricing th...

This chronicles the interrelation of gender, class and race which shaped British imperialism and, subsequently, its bloody dismantling.

Publisher: University of California PressAuthor(s): Leslie J. ReaganIllustration(s): 6 illustrations, 7 tablesNumber of pages: 432Publication date:...

Scandal of Colonial Rule: Power and Subversion in the British Atlantic during the Age of Revolution - James Epstein

The keys to global business success, as taught by a T-shirt's journey The Travels of a T-Shirt in the Global Economy is a critically-acclaimed narr...

Urena Valerio illuminates nested imperial and colonial relations using sources ranging from medical texts and state documents to travel literature ...

Reducere. Award NameBenjamin Franklin AwardAward categoryReference/DirectoriesFrom head to toe to breast to behind, Charles Hodgson's Carnal Knowledge is a d...

Why is it that in the '90s, business in California's Silicon Valley flourished, while along Route 128 in Massachusetts it declined? The answer, Ann...

Publisher: Monkfish Book PublishingAuthor(s): Mark MatousekIllustration(s): NoNumber of pages: 320Publication date: 2022Dimensions: 191 x 228 x 24C...

With a new foreword by Mark Cuban and a new preface by the author.

Reducere. Using an interdisciplinary approach that also considers legal, literary, and religious documents of the period, Magali Carrera focuses on eighteent...

Biographies of women of the north east who have made local, national and international contributions to society.

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A series of closely interrelated essays on game theory, this book deals with an area in which progress has been least satisfactory-the situations w...