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Unintended Lessons of Revolution

Tanalís Padilla

• Hardcover | Engels
• In the 1920s, Mexico established rural normales--boarding schools that trained teachers in a new nation-building project. Drawn from campesino ranks a... Lees meer

Images at War

Serge Gruzinski

• Paperback | Engels | Latin America Otherwise
• "If colonial America was the melting pot of modernity, it was because it was also a fabulous laboratory of images. . . . Just as much as speech and wr... Lees meer

The Unvarnished Doctrine

Steven M Dworetz

• Paperback | Engels
• In The Unvarnished Doctrine , Steven M. Dworetz addresses two critical issues in contemporary thinking on the American Revolution-the ideological char... Lees meer

Poor People's Politics

Javier Auyero

• Paperback | Engels
• "Political clientelism" is a term used to characterize the contemporary relationships between political elites and the poor in Latin America in which ... Lees meer

A City on a Lake

Matthew Vitz

• Paperback | Engels | Radical Perspectives
• In A City on a Lake Matthew Vitz tracks the environmental and political history of Mexico City and explains its transformation from a forested, water-... Lees meer

Moral Economies of Corruption

Steven Pierce

• Paperback | Engels
• Nigeria is famous for "419" e-mails asking recipients for bank account information and for scandals involving the disappearance of billions of dollars... Lees meer

Obeah and Other Powers

• Paperback | Engels
• In Obeah and Other Powers , historians and anthropologists consider how marginalized spiritual traditions-such as obeah, Vodou, and Santería-have been... Lees meer

addicted.pregnant.poor

Kelly Ray Knight

• Hardcover | Engels | Critical Global Health: Evidence, Efficacy, Ethnography
• For the addicted, pregnant, and poor women living in daily-rent hotels in San Francisco's Mission district, life is marked by battles against drug cra... Lees meer

Unfree Masters

Matt Stahl

• Paperback | Engels | Refiguring American Music
• The widespread perception of singers and musicians as free individuals doing enjoyable and fulfilling work obscures the realities of their occupation.... Lees meer

Around the Day in Eighty Worlds

Martin Savransky

• Hardcover | Engels | Thought in the ACT
• In Around the Day in Eighty Worlds Martin Savransky calls for a radical politics of the pluriverse amid the ongoing devastation of the present. Respon... Lees meer

Archive of Tongues

Moon Charania

• Paperback | Engels
• In Archive of Tongues Moon Charania explores feminine dispossession and the brown diaspora through a reflection on the life of her mother. Drawing on ... Lees meer

Colonial Debts

Rocío Zambrana

• Paperback | Engels | Radical Américas
• With the largest municipal debt in US history and a major hurricane that destroyed much of the archipelago's infrastructure, Puerto Rico has emerged a... Lees meer

Savage Ecology

Jairus Victor Grove

• Paperback | Engels
• Jairus Victor Grove contends that we live in a world made by war. In Savage Ecology he offers an ecological theory of geopolitics that argues that con... Lees meer

An Ecology of Knowledges

Micha Rahder

• Paperback | Engels | Experimental Futures
• Guatemala's Maya Biosphere Reserve (MBR), the largest protected area in Central America, is characterized by rampant violence, social and ethnic inequ... Lees meer

In the Name of Humanity

• Paperback | Engels
• Scientists, activists, state officials, NGOs, and others increasingly claim to speak and act on behalf of "humanity." The remarkable array of circumst... Lees meer

Ne Me Quitte Pas

Maya Angela Smith

• Paperback | Engels | Singles
• In 1959, Belgian singer-songwriter Jacques Brel wrote and performed "Ne me quitte pas" (Don't leave me), a visceral and haunting plea for his lover to... Lees meer

Child of the Fire

Kirsten Buick

• Paperback | Engels
• Child of the Fire is the first book-length examination of the career of the nineteenth-century artist Mary Edmonia Lewis, best known for her sculpture... Lees meer

Nature as Event

Didier Debaise

• Hardcover | Engels | Thought in the ACT
• We have entered a new era of nature. What remains of the frontiers of modern thought that divided the living from the inert, subjectivity from objecti... Lees meer

Telling Complexions

Mary Ann O'Farrell

• Paperback | Engels | Class History
• In Telling Complexions Mary Ann O'Farrell explores the frequent use of "the blush" in Victorian novels as a sign of characters' inner emotions and des... Lees meer

Why the Vote Wasn't Enough for Selma

Karlyn Forner

• Paperback | Engels
• In Why the Vote Wasn't Enough for Selma Karlyn Forner rewrites the heralded story of Selma to explain why gaining the right to vote did not bring abou... Lees meer

Biblical Porn

Jessica Johnson

• Hardcover | Engels
• Between 1996 and 2014, Mark Driscoll's Mars Hill Church multiplied from its base in Seattle into fifteen facilities spread across five states with 13,... Lees meer

Prophets of the Hood

Imani Perry

• Paperback | Engels
• At once the most lucrative, popular, and culturally oppositional musical force in the United States, hip hop demands the kind of interpretation Imani ... Lees meer

Ten Books That Shaped the British Empire

• Paperback | Engels
• Combining insights from imperial studies and transnational book history, this provocative collection opens new vistas on both fields through ten acces... Lees meer

Palestine, Israel, and the Politics of Popular Culture

• Paperback | Engels
• This important volume rethinks the conventional parameters of Middle East studies through attention to popular cultural forms, producers, and communit... Lees meer