Nostalgia for the Modern

Esra Özyürek

• Paperback | Engels | Politics, History, and Culture
• As the twentieth century drew to a close, the unity and authority of the secularist Turkish state were challenged by the rise of political Islam and K... Lees meer

Beyond Belief

Srirupa Roy

• Paperback | Engels | Politics, History, and Culture
• Beyond Belief is a bold rethinking of the formation and consolidation of nation-state ideologies. Analyzing India during the first two decades followi... Lees meer

States of Memory

• Paperback | Engels | Politics, History, and Culture
• States of Memory illuminates the construction of national memory from a comparative perspective. The essays collected here emphasize that memory itsel... Lees meer

Militarized Modernity and Gendered Citizenship in South Korea

Seungsook Moon

• Paperback | Engels | Politics, History, and Culture
• This pathbreaking study presents a feminist analysis of the politics of membership in the South Korean nation over the past four decades. Seungsook Mo... Lees meer

Paper Families

Estelle T Lau

• Paperback | Engels | Politics, History, and Culture
• The Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882 made the Chinese the first immigrant group officially excluded from the United States. In Paper Families , Estelle T... Lees meer

Bourdieu and Historical Analysis

• Paperback | Engels | Politics, History, and Culture
• The French sociologist Pierre Bourdieu had a broader theoretical agenda than is generally acknowledged. Introducing this innovative collection of essa... Lees meer

Materiality

• Paperback | Engels | Politics, History, and Culture
• Throughout history and across social and cultural contexts, most systems of belief--whether religious or secular--have ascribed wisdom to those who se... Lees meer

Europe's Indians

Vanita Seth

• Paperback | Engels | Politics, History, and Culture
• Europe's Indians forces a rethinking of key assumptions regarding difference-particularly racial difference-and its centrality to contemporary social ... Lees meer

Markets of Dispossession

Julia Elyachar

• Hardcover | Engels | Politics, History, and Culture
• What happens when the market tries to help the poor? In many parts of the world today, neoliberal development programs are offering ordinary people th... Lees meer

Materiality

• Hardcover | Engels | Politics, History, and Culture
• Throughout history and across social and cultural contexts, most systems of belief--whether religious or secular--have ascribed wisdom to those who se... Lees meer

Native Sons

Gregory Mann

• Hardcover | Engels | Politics, History, and Culture
• For much of the twentieth century, France recruited colonial subjects from sub-Saharan Africa to serve in its military, sending West African soldiers ... Lees meer

Creating Market Socialism

Carolyn L Hsu

• Hardcover | Engels | Politics, History, and Culture
• In the midst of China's post-Mao market reforms, the old status hierarchy is collapsing. Who will determine what will take its place? In Creating Mark... Lees meer

The Cunning of Recognition

Elizabeth A Povinelli

• Paperback | Engels | Politics, History, and Culture
• The Cunning of Recognition is an exploration of liberal multiculturalism from the perspective of Australian indigenous social life. Elizabeth A. Povin... Lees meer

The Assassination of Theo van Gogh

Ron Eyerman

• Paperback | Engels | Politics, History, and Culture
• In November 2004, the controversial Dutch filmmaker Theo van Gogh was killed on a busy street in Amsterdam. A twenty-six-year-old Dutch citizen of Mor... Lees meer

Class and the Color Line

Joseph Gerteis

• Hardcover | Engels | Politics, History, and Culture
• A lauded contribution to historical sociology, Class and the Color Line is an analysis of social-movement organizing across racial lines in the Americ... Lees meer

The Spectacular State

Laura L Adams

• Paperback | Engels | Politics, History, and Culture
• Laura L. Adams offers unique insight into nation building in Central Asia during the post-Soviet era through an exploration of Uzbekistan's production... Lees meer

Colored Amazons

Kali N Gross

• Hardcover | Engels | Politics, History, and Culture
• Colored Amazons is a groundbreaking historical analysis of the crimes, prosecution, and incarceration of black women in Philadelphia at the turn of th... Lees meer

Inequalities of Love

Averil Y Clarke

• Paperback | Engels | Politics, History, and Culture
• Inequalities of Love uses the personal narratives of college-educated black women to describe the difficulties they face when trying to date, marry, a... Lees meer

Disciplining Statistics

Libby Schweber

• Hardcover | Engels | Politics, History, and Culture
• In Disciplining Statistics Libby Schweber compares the science of population statistics in England and France during the nineteenth century, demonstra... Lees meer

Subject Lessons

Sanjay Seth

• Hardcover | Engels | Politics, History, and Culture
• Subject Lessons offers a fascinating account of how western knowledge "traveled" to India, changed that which it encountered, and was itself transform... Lees meer

The Art of the Network

Paul D McLean

• Hardcover | Engels | Politics, History, and Culture
• Writing letters to powerful people to win their favor and garner rewards such as political office, tax relief, and recommendations was an institution ... Lees meer

States of Imagination

• Paperback | Engels | Politics, History, and Culture
• The state has recently been rediscovered as an object of inquiry by a broad range of scholars. Reflecting the new vitality of the field of political a... Lees meer

Salt in the Sand

Lessie Jo Frazier

• Hardcover | Engels | Politics, History, and Culture
• Salt in the Sand is a compelling historical ethnography of the interplay between memory and state violence in the formation of the Chilean nation-stat... Lees meer

American Empire and the Politics of Meaning

Julian Go

• Paperback | Engels | Politics, History, and Culture
• When the United States took control of the Philippines and Puerto Rico in the wake of the Spanish-American War, it declared that it would transform it... Lees meer