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Revolutionary Nativism
Fascism and Culture in China, 1925-1937
Language: English
Release Date: March 2, 2017
In Revolutionary Nativism Maggie Clinton traces the history and cultural politics of fascist organizations that operated under the umbrella of the Chinese Nationalist Party (GMD) during the 1920s and 1930s. Clinton argues that fascism was not imported to China from Europe or Japan; rather it emerged...
by C. Eric Lincoln, Lawrence H. Mamiya
Language: English
Release Date: November 7, 1990
Language: English
Release Date: November 7, 1990
Black churches in America have long been recognized as the most independent, stable, and dominant institutions in black communities. In The Black Church in the African American Experience, based on a ten-year study, is the largest nongovernmental study of urban and rural churches ever undertaken and...
Images at War
Mexico From Columbus to Blade Runner (1492–2019)
Language: English
Release Date: May 18, 2001
“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 writing, the image can be a vehicle for all sorts of power and resistance.” So writes Serge Gruzinski in the introduction to Images at War, his striking...
Imposing Harmony
Music and Society in Colonial Cuzco
Language: English
Release Date: March 24, 2008
Imposing Harmony is a groundbreaking analysis of the role of music and musicians in the social and political life of colonial Cuzco. Challenging musicology’s cathedral-centered approach to the history of music in colonial Latin America, Geoffrey Baker demonstrates that rather than being dominated...
Vertical Empire
The General Resettlement of Indians in the Colonial Andes
Language: English
Release Date: November 6, 2012
In 1569 the Spanish viceroy Francisco de Toledo ordered more than one million native people of the central Andes to move to newly founded Spanish-style towns called reducciones. This campaign, known as the General Resettlement of Indians, represented a turning point in the history of European colonialism:...
Alone Before God
The Religious Origins of Modernity in Mexico
Language: English
Release Date: August 30, 2002
Focusing on cemetery burials in late-eighteenth-century Mexico, Alone Before God provides a window onto the contested origins of modernity in Mexico. By investigating the religious and political debates surrounding the initiative to transfer the burials of prominent citizens from urban to suburban...
A Flock Divided
Race, Religion, and Politics in Mexico, 1749–1857
Language: English
Release Date: November 23, 2009
Catholicism, as it developed in colonial Mexico, helped to create a broad and remarkably inclusive community of Christian subjects, while it also divided that community into countless smaller flocks. Taking this contradiction as a starting point, Matthew D. O’Hara describes how religious thought...
Modern Inquisitions
Peru and the Colonial Origins of the Civilized World
Language: English
Release Date: October 29, 2004
Trying to understand how “civilized” people could embrace fascism, Hannah Arendt searched for a precedent in modern Western history. She found it in nineteenth-century colonialism, with its mix of bureaucratic rule, racial superiority, and appeals to rationality. Modern Inquisitions takes Arendt’s...
by Bartolomeo Vanzetti
Language: English
Release Date: July 12, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: July 12, 2018
Edited and with a detailed introduction by Jon Curley, this work features a never-before-published story by the famous anarchist and victim of legal persecution and xenophobia. The fact that Bartolomeo Vanzetti, an Italian immigrant, learned to write in English while jailed for a capital crime is...
Paper Cadavers
The Archives of Dictatorship in Guatemala
Language: English
Release Date: March 21, 2014
In Paper Cadavers, an inside account of the astonishing discovery and rescue of Guatemala's secret police archives, Kirsten Weld probes the politics of memory, the wages of the Cold War, and the stakes of historical knowledge production. After Guatemala's bloody thirty-six years of civil war (1960–1996),...
Archive Stories
Facts, Fictions, and the Writing of History
Language: English
Release Date: January 25, 2006
Despite the importance of archives to the profession of history, there is very little written about actual encounters with them—about the effect that the researcher’s race, gender, or class may have on her experience within them or about the impact that archival surveillance, architecture, or...
Religion and Poverty
Pan-African Perspectives
Language: English
Release Date: November 25, 2009
A Ghanaian scholar of religion argues that poverty is a particularly complex subject in traditional African cultures, where holistic worldviews unite life’s material and spiritual dimensions. A South African ethicist examines informal economies in Ghana, Jamaica, Kenya, and South Africa, looking...
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Language: English
Release Date: March 27, 1992
Language: English
Release Date: March 27, 1992
Sainted Women of the Dark Ages makes available the lives of eighteen Frankish women of the sixth and seventh centuries, all of whom became saints. Written in Latin by contemporaries or near contemporaries, and most translated here for the first time, these biographies cover the period from the fall...
Muslim Becoming
Aspiration and Skepticism in Pakistan
Language: English
Release Date: May 22, 2012
In Muslim Becoming, Naveeda Khan challenges the claim that Pakistan's relation to Islam is fragmented and problematic. Offering a radically different interpretation, Khan contends that Pakistan inherited an aspirational, always-becoming Islam, one with an open future and a tendency toward experimentation....