Revolution of the Ordinary

DescriptionCitizenship is at the heart of our contemporary world but it is a particular vision of national citizenship forged in the French Revolut...

Reducere. A timely survey of radical spirituality and political activism in Islam and the West over the last century and a half, The Crescent And The Compass...

A free ebook version of this title is available through Luminos, University of California Press's Open Access publishing program. Visit www.luminos...

Reducere. Dominic Meng-Hsuan Yang examines one of the least understood migrations in modern East Asia - the human exodus from China to Taiwan when Chiang Kai...

Hildesheim is a mid-sized provincial town in northwest Germany. This title presents an account of how townspeople went about their lives and reacte...

Reducere. DescriptionThis remarkable memoir is one of the most celebrated documents toemerge from the tumult of America's Revolutionary War. Theordinary and ...

This radically original book argues for the power of ordinary language philosophy--a tradition inaugurated by Ludwig Wittgenstein and J. L. Austin,...

DescriptionIf we place women at the center of our account of China's last two centuries, how does this change our understanding of what happened? T...

From a major British political thinker and activist, a passionate case that both the left and right have lost their faith in ordinary people and mu...

Reducere. Mob violence in the United States is usually associated with the southern lynch mobs who terrorized African Americans during the Jim Crow era. In F...

In this social and cultural history of Czechoslovakia's "gentle revolution, " James Krapfl shifts the focus away from elites to ordinary citizens w...

This book is the first to trace the good and bad fortunes, over more than a century, of the earliest large free black community in the United State...

Offering a fresh history centred on the reactions and experiences of ordinary readers and writers, Lyons deals with key turning points that occurre...

Rebel populism is an ethnography of Syrian migrant workers in Lebanon during the Syrian uprising and civil war. It documents the rise and fall of t...

DescriptionTen Lessons in Modern Chinese History tells the story of modern China from the Opium Wars in the mid-nineteenth century to the Xi Jinpin...