Material Politics

A collection of essays by leading scholars of contemporary Indonesian politics and society, each addressing effects of material inequality on polit...

This exciting collection of documents offers readers access to primary material illustrating the experiences of women in Britain in politics, socie...

Reducere. With unparalleled empirical material, this is the most comprehensive introduction to comparative politics written by the leading experts in the fie...

In this now classic text, December Green and Laura Luehrmann show how history, economics, and politics converge to create the realities of life in ...

Moving far beyond predominant views of Africa as a place to be "saved, " and even more recent celebratory formulations of it as "rising, " African ...

A fresh and inter-disciplinary study of faith and social culture in Nigeria, this uses extensive archival material, interviews and fieldwork to exp...

Analyzing material from several archives in Germany and the United States, Michael E. O'Sullivan investigates the unsanctioned but very popular vis...

This book examines US gay and lesbian leather archives alongside contemporary artistic practices that reframe and renegotiate historical source mat...

An engaging collection that explores the politics of material objects.Publisher: University of Minnesota PressNumber of pages: 328Publication date:...

Politics in Japan is undergoing a major transformation. Under the leadership of Prime Minister Abe Shinzo, the ruling Liberal Democratic Party has,...

Treating rhetoric and symbols as central rather than peripheral to politics, Lisa Wedeen's groundbreaking book offers a compelling counterargument ...

Reducere. Aimed at the audience for "GCSE Poetry Live", this title offers poems that address core issues and experiences for young people. With race and cult...

Using new archival material from the Bureau of Military History, Fergus O'Farrell documents Brugha's career as a revolutionary. This closely-resear...

Interactive, interconnected and participatory, journalism today is a constant live-stream of outrage, terror, polarised politics and fake news. Wit...

"This brilliant and infuriating book is the latest intriguing offering from one of the most original anthropologists working. . . . It offers us un...

Written for political science and economics students who have completed a course in game theory, this text provides a unified and accessible survey...

The third edition of the best-selling The Fundamentals of Political Science Research provides an introduction to the scientific study of politics. ...

A thorough re-assessment of one of Ireland's major playwrights, J.M. Synge (1871-1909). Using much previously-undiscussed archival material, the bo...

Tells a tale of family, love and politics spanning the 2nd half of the 20th century through the prism of a Wolverhampton corner shop - itself a mic...

Reducere. This is a fascinating new account of how diplomacy and politics gave way to military strategy and warfare in the Pacific. Presenting previously unp...

Contributor(s): Author: Stacy AlaimoHow do we understand the agency and significance of material forces and their interface with human bodies? What...

Two longtime friends share an intimate and urgent conversation about life, music, and their enduring love of America, with all its challenges and c...

Reducere. Going Rogue is the #1 New York Times bestselling memoir from Sarah Palin, one of America's most beloved and controversial political figures. Now wi...

Reducere. In an effort to deny the ongoing effect of colonialism and imperialism on contemporary political life, the death knell for a multicultural society ...

Reducere. Over the last three decades, a new generation of conceptual artists has come to the fore in the Arab Middle East. As wars, peace treaties, sanction...

Reducere. Over the last three decades, a new generation of conceptual artists has come to the fore in the Arab Middle East. As wars, peace treaties, sanction...

DescriptionA startlingly prescient treatise on the cybernetic automation of society and a burlesque satire of its middle-class celebrants.An uproar...

Drawing on his own experience, rich archival material, and a keen sense of history and politics, Mikhail Gorbachev speaks his mind on a range of su...

Drawing upon previously unseen archival material, this book brings to life the story of the Actresses' Franchise League from 1908-1958, building a ...

Drawing on recently declassified personal papers and interview material, Aurelie Basha i Novosejt provides a new analysis of Secretary of Defense R...

Roads to Confederation: The Making of Canada, 1867 Volume 2 includes material that demonstrates the varied perspectives from the provinces and regi...

Stephen Philip Cohen, the scholar who virtually created the field of South Asian security studies, has curated a unique collection of the most inte...

This collection, which includes material hitherto difficult to access, will be an essential tool for all students of the history, international rel...

This book presents a unique investigation into the meaning of the commons. Unlike academic literature on the subject, Mohammed Sofiane Mesbahi-foun...

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

DescriptionThis volume provides a valuable introduction to the key concepts of witchcraft and demonology through a detailed study of one of the bes...

DescriptionThe aesthetics of a non-Soviet form of socialism, drafted by four Yugoslav artists in the 1950s.As the cold war gained momentum in Europ...

Reducere. These twenty pieces address the politics, culture, and literature of Russia with both flair and erudition. Passionate and opinionated, often funny,...

No solution demonstrates the naivety of claims that a solution to the Northern Ireland conflict could have been imposed by the British state two de...

Reducere. DescriptionA young activist reveals that the Pro-Life Movement's real agenda is a war on contraception, family planning, and sexual freedom.About t...

Reducere. From Table of Contents: American Political Culture Documents Preceding the U. S. Constitution Constitution Comes together Amendments to the Constit...

DescriptionThe early childhood services of Reggio Emilia in Northern Italy has gained worldwide interest and admiration. Drawing on the 'Reggio app...

Throughout his long and turbulent career as a political leader, first in South Africa and then in India, Gandhi sought to fulfil his religious aspi...

Reducere. Crosses, candles, choir vestments, sanctuary flowers, and stained glass are common church features found in nearly all mainline denominations of Am...

Reducere. Through lively, engaging narrative, Understories demonstrates how volatile politics of race, class, and nation animate the notoriously violent stru...

As the future of international law has become a growing site of struggle within and between powerful states, debates over the history of internatio...

Material culture in Eastern Europe under state socialism is remembered as uniformly gray, shabby, and monotonous--the worst of postwar modernist ar...

Spanning the North Atlantic rim from Canada to Scotland, and from the Caribbean to the coast of West Africa, the British Atlantic world is deeply i...

This meticulous and authoritative review of the collapse of the GDR uses first-hand interview material with a number of the leading figures to prov...

In the United States, egg donation for reproduction and egg donation for research involve the same procedures, the same risks, and the same populat...

Drawing from a rich array of visual and literary material from nineteenth-century Iran, this groundbreaking book rereads and rewrites the history o...

Challenging dominant discourses in the field of early childhood education, this book provides an accessible introduction to some of the alternative...

Contemporary craft, art and design are inseparable from the flows of production and consumption under global capitalism. The New Politics of the Ha...

Reducere. Despite the progress of decades-old disability rights policy, including the landmark Americans with Disabilities Act, threats continue to undermine...

If our oil addiction is so bad for us, why don't we kick the habit? Looking beyond the usual culprits--Big Oil, petro-states, and the strategists o...

Reducere. In this seventh edition, John A. Booth, Christine J. Wade, and Thomas W. Walker update a classic in the field which invites students to explore the...

Reducere. The definitive history of the Vikings -- from arts and culture to politics and cosmology -- by a distinguished archaeologist with decades of expert...

The act of eating is a basic human need. Yet, in all societies, quotidian choices regarding food and its consumption reveal deeply rooted shared cu...

DescriptionOver the last twenty-five years, garbage infrastructure in Dakar, Senegal, has taken center stage in the struggles over government, the ...

Reducere. Black Lives and Spatial Matters is a call to reconsider the epistemic violence that is committed when scholars, policymakers, and the general publi...

Reducere. David Bleich sees the human body, its affective life, social life, and political functions as belonging to the study of language. In The Materialit...

The original edition of Pompeii: A Sourcebook was a crucial resource for students of the site. Now updated to include material from Herculaneum, th...

Sidney Tarrow charts the rise, dynamics, and decline of social movements as part of political struggle and asks how they advance or regress democra...

Leading political and environmental commentator on where we have gone wrong, and what to do about it " Without countervailing voices, naming and ch...

Leading political and environmental commentator on where we have gone wrong, and what to do about it "Without countervailing voices, naming and cha...

Reducere. In Pistols and Politics, Samuel C. Hyde, Jr., reveals the reasons behind the remarkable levels of violence in Louisiana's Florida parishes in the n...

After the granting of the vote to women in 1918, the struggle for women's rights intensified with a nationwide campaign for the right to birth cont...

Reducere. From award-winning journalist and sociology professor Gary Younge, a nuanced analysis of identity politics and why they matter today.We are more al...

DescriptionA rare, insider's look at the life of Donald Trump from Bill O'Reilly, the bestselling author of the Killing series, based on exclusive ...

Bob Dylan has helped transform music, literature, pop culture, and even politics. The World of Bob Dylan chronicles a lifetime of creative inventio...