Material Politics

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...

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

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

Reducere. Full facsimile of the original edition. Not reproduced with Optical Recognition Software. In this volume the authors have provided what has now bec...

GET UP TO SPEED WITH FAST TRACK: AMERICAN GOVERNMENT! Covering the most important material taught in high school government classes, this essential...

A wide-ranging account of shipping and capitalism in the Middle East On the map of global trade, China is now the factory of the world. A parade of...

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

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

Reducere. "James Luther Adams, one of the most beloved teachers, racontours, scholars and editors of the 20th century, wrote in small rather than full-length...

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

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

Reducere. Buying and Selling Civil War Memory explores the ways in which Guilded Age manufacturers, advertisers, publishers, and others commercialized Civil ...

Here is the whole sweep of the Soviet experiment and experience as told by its last steward. Drawing on his own experience, rich archival material,...

This highly accessible translation of the classic story of Sundiata, a real king who ruled the empire of Mali just south of the Sahara desert from ...

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

Reducere. Horror's longstanding reputation as a popular but culturally denigrated genre has been challenged by a new wave of films mixing arthouse minimalism...

Reducere. The hidden costs of artificial intelligence, from natural resources and labor to privacy, equality, and freedom "Eloquent, clear and profound--this...

Reducere. Revelation through Science is written for the educated non-scientist who may be troubled by apparent conflicts between science and religion. Are sc...

The gripping tale of the campaign that determined the outcome of the Second World WarBarbarossa, Hitler's invasion of Russia in June 1941, was the ...

This pioneering book traces Welsh LGBT life and politics from the Middle Ages to the present. Drawing on a rich array of archival sources from acro...

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

Reducere. In Dark Ages America, the pundit Morris Berman argues that the nation has entered a dangerous phase in its historical development from which there ...

A richly produced, craft- and activist-centered celebration of radical DIY publishing, for readers of Appalachian Reckoning. In a remarkable act of...

Prevailing views suggest rebels govern to enhance their organizational capacity, but this book demonstrates that some rebels undertake costly gover...

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

An illuminating and thought-provoking history of the growth of Hispanic American Republican voters in the past half century and their surprising im...

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...

How many grains of sand are there in the world? Why is DNA like sheet music? Can you hear silence?"These are examples of Real Questions that were a...

Reducere. The golden key to understanding the last 75 years of American political development, the eminent labor relations scholar Michael Goldfield argues, ...

Watching a Man Break a Dog's Back explores the question of how to live in a natural landscape that offers beauty while being consumed by industry, ...

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

Reducere. This book challenges the church to ask whether or not the gospel as we commonly interpret it today really embodies the jubilee vision of the Bible....

Reducere. On October 4, 1957, the day Leave It to Beaver premiered on American television, the Soviet Union launched the space age. Sputnik, all of 184 pound...

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

The post-civil rights era of the 1970s offered African Americans an all-too-familiar paradox. Material and symbolic gains contended with setbacks f...

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

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

Reducere. Before Epstein was the Franklin Cover-Up, before that the Finders and long before that the Cleveland Street Scandal. Pedogate Primer is a concise i...

Reducere. Revelation through Science is written for the educated non-scientist who may be troubled by apparent conflicts between science and religion. Are sc...

Reducere. Price theory, often misleadingly labeled "microeconomics, " is the explanation of how individual actors coordinate via markets, prices, and exchang...

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...

Reducere. A Precarious Game is an ethnographic examination of video game production. The developers that Ergin Bulut researched for almost three years in a m...

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

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

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

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

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

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

Some of the earliest feature films were derived from classic literature. Even today, most of the movies we see are adaptations of one kind or anoth...

Reducere. From 1973 to 1990 in Chile, approximately 370, 000 young men-mostly from impoverished backgrounds-were conscripted to serve as soldiers in Augusto ...

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...

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

'Shanzhai' from Cantonese slang, refers to the production of fake goods in China, which enjoy an anti-authoritarian-like dissemination across the g...

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

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...

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. No safe harbours for steamboats or sailing vessels could be found along an isolated 70-mile stretch of eastern Lake Ontario, dominated by the irreg...

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

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

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. Within queer, transgender, and Latinx and Chicanx cultural politics, brown transgender narratives are frequently silenced and erased. Brown trans s...

Reducere. The Judith Butler Reader is a collection of writings that span her impressive career and trace her intellectual history. Judith Butler, author of i...

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. 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...

Charles Burnett's 1977 film, Killer of Sheep is one of the towering classics of African American cinema. As a deliberate counterpoint to popular bl...

Reducere. Our Community at Winchester: The City and its Workers at New Haven's Gun Factory is based on an exhibit produced by the Greater New Haven Labor His...

DescriptionThe objects of architecture are not simply inert assemblies of material--they are complex entities that unfold their potential agencies ...

For a long time, international relations scholars have adopted a narrow view of what is global order, who are its makers and managers, and what mea...

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