Books Books Press imprint: 2592 books
by William R. Hutchison
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 1992
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 1992
This landmark study of American religion, recipient of the National Religious Book Award in 1976, is being brought back into print with an updated bibliography. The Modernist Impulse in American Protestantism traces the history of American Protestant thought from the early part of the nineteenth century...
Revolutions in Mexican Catholicism
Reform and Revelation in Oaxaca, 1887–1934
Language: English
Release Date: April 20, 2009
In Revolutions in Mexican Catholicism, Edward Wright-Rios investigates how Catholicism was lived and experienced in the Archdiocese of Oaxaca, a region known for its distinct indigenous cultures and vibrant religious life, during the turbulent period of modernization in Mexico that extended from the...
Between Colonialism and Diaspora
Sikh Cultural Formations in an Imperial World
Language: English
Release Date: August 16, 2006
Bringing South Asian and British imperial history together with recent scholarship on transnationalism and postcolonialism, Tony Ballantyne offers a bold reevaluation of constructions of Sikh identity from the late eighteenth century through the early twenty-first. Ballantyne considers Sikh communities...
The Extractive Zone
Social Ecologies and Decolonial Perspectives
Language: English
Release Date: October 19, 2017
In The Extractive Zone Macarena Gómez-Barris traces the political, aesthetic, and performative practices that emerge in opposition to the ruinous effects of extractive capital. The work of Indigenous activists, intellectuals, and artists in spaces Gómez-Barris labels extractive zones—majority...
Everynight Life
Culture and Dance in Latin/o America
Language: English
Release Date: June 18, 1997
The function of dance in Latin/o American culture is the focus of the essays collected in Everynight Life. The contributors interpret how Latin/o culture expresses itself through dance, approaching the material from the varying perspectives of literary, cultural, dance, performance, queer, and feminist...
Durham County
A History of Durham County, North Carolina
Language: English
Release Date: May 9, 2011
In this revised and expanded second edition of Durham County, Jean Bradley Anderson extends her sweeping history of Durham from the seventeenth century to the end of the twentieth. Moving beyond traditional local histories, which tend to focus on powerful families, Anderson integrates the stories...
Cachita's Streets
The Virgin of Charity, Race, and Revolution in Cuba
Language: English
Release Date: September 17, 2015
Cuba’s patron saint, the Virgin of Charity of El Cobre, also called Cachita, is a potent symbol of Cuban national identity. Jalane D. Schmidt shows how groups as diverse as Indians and African slaves, Spanish colonial officials, Cuban independence soldiers, Catholic authorities and laypeople, intellectuals,...
Nihil Obstat
Religion, Politics, and Social Change in East-Central Europe and Russia
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2012
Nihil Obstat—Latin for "nothing stands in the way"—examines the interplay between religion and politics in East-Central Europe and Russia. While focusing on the postcommunist, late twentieth century, Sabrina P. Ramet discusses developments as far back as the eleventh century to explain...
by Jack Halberstam
Language: English
Release Date: September 19, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: September 19, 2011
The Queer Art of Failure is about finding alternatives—to conventional understandings of success in a heteronormative, capitalist society; to academic disciplines that confirm what is already known according to approved methods of knowing; and to cultural criticism that claims to break new ground...
Queer Activism in India
A Story in the Anthropology of Ethics
Language: English
Release Date: October 8, 2012
In Queer Activism in India, Naisargi Dave examines the formation of lesbian communities in India from the 1980s to the early 2000s. Based on ethnographic fieldwork conducted with activist organizations in Delhi, a body of letters written by lesbian women, and research with lesbian communities and...
Children of Ezekiel
Aliens, UFOs, the Crisis of Race, and the Advent of End Time
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 1998
Are Milton’s Paradise Lost, Ronald Reagan’s “Star Wars” missile defense program, our culture’s fascination with UFOs and alien abductions, and Louis Farrakhan’s views on racial Armageddon somehow linked? In Children of Ezekiel Michael Lieb reveals the connections between these phenomena...
The Bastille
A History of a Symbol of Despotism and Freedom
Language: English
Release Date: July 18, 1997
This book is both an analysis of the Bastille as cultural paradigm and a case study on the history of French political culture. It examines in particular the storming and subsequent fall of the Bastille in Paris on July 14, 1789 and how it came to represent the cornerstone of the French Revolution,...
In the Shadows of the State
Indigenous Politics, Environmentalism, and Insurgency in Jharkhand, India
Language: English
Release Date: August 2, 2010
In the Shadows of the State suggests that well-meaning indigenous rights and development claims and interventions may misrepresent and hurt the very people they intend to help. It is a powerful critique based on extensive ethnographic research in Jharkhand, a state in eastern India officially created...
The New History in an Old Museum
Creating the Past at Colonial Williamsburg
Language: English
Release Date: July 17, 1997
The New History in an Old Museum is an exploration of "historical truth" as presented at Colonial Williamsburg. More than a detailed history of a museum and tourist attraction, it examines the packaging of American history, and consumerism and the manufacturing of cultural beliefs. Through...