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

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

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

Affective Communities

Leela Gandhi

• Paperback | Engels | Politics, History, and Culture
• "If I had to choose between betraying my country and betraying my friend, I hope I should have the guts to betray my country." So E. M. Forster famous... 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

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

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

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

The Art of the Network

Paul D McLean

• Paperback | 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

German Colonialism in a Global Age

• Hardcover | Engels | Politics, History, and Culture
• This collection provides a comprehensive treatment of the German colonial empire and its significance. Leading scholars show not only how the colonies... Lees meer

Markets of Dispossession

Julia Elyachar

• Paperback | 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

Ruins of Modernity

• Paperback | Engels | Politics, History, and Culture
• Images of ruins may represent the raw realities created by bombs, natural disasters, or factory closings, but the way we see and understand ruins is n... Lees meer

The French Writers' War, 1940-1953

Gisèle Sapiro

• Hardcover | Engels | Politics, History, and Culture
• The French Writers' War, 1940-1953 , is a remarkably thorough account of French writers and literary institutions from the beginning of the German Occ... Lees meer

Colored Amazons

Kali N Gross

• Paperback | 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

Native Sons

Gregory Mann

• Paperback | 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

City of Extremes

Martin J Murray

• Hardcover | Engels | Politics, History, and Culture
• City of Extremes is a powerful critique of urban development in greater Johannesburg since the end of apartheid in 1994. Martin J. Murray describes ho... Lees meer

German Women for Empire, 1884-1945

Lora Wildenthal

• Paperback | Engels | Politics, History, and Culture
• When Germany annexed colonies in Africa and the Pacific beginning in the 1880s, many German women were enthusiastic. At the same time, however, they f... Lees meer

Class and the Color Line

Joseph Gerteis

• Paperback | 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

German Colonialism in a Global Age

• Paperback | Engels | Politics, History, and Culture
• This collection provides a comprehensive treatment of the German colonial empire and its significance. Leading scholars show not only how the colonies... Lees meer

Subject Lessons

Sanjay Seth

• Paperback | 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 Other Zulus

Michael R Mahoney

• Paperback | Engels | Politics, History, and Culture
• In 1879, the British colony of Natal invaded the neighboring Zulu kingdom. Large numbers of Natal Africans fought with the British against the Zulus, ... Lees meer

Blood and Culture

Cynthia Miller-Idriss

• Paperback | Engels | Politics, History, and Culture
• Over the past decade, immigration and globalization have significantly altered Europe's cultural and ethnic landscape, foregrounding questions of nati... Lees meer