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Rockne and Jones
Notre Dame, USC, and the Greatest Rivalry of the Roaring Twenties
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2017
Notre Dame’s rallying cry was once “Win one for the Gipper.” The football series with Army that spawned that memorable slogan has long since faded into history, but every year the Irish continue to face another storied rival to test their mettle. The annual tradition of Notre Dame versus USC...
by Achille Mbembe
Language: English
Release Date: March 2, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: March 2, 2017
In Critique of Black Reason eminent critic Achille Mbembe offers a capacious genealogy of the category of Blackness—from the Atlantic slave trade to the present—to critically reevaluate history, racism, and the future of humanity. Mbembe teases out the intellectual consequences of the reality...
Duress
Imperial Durabilities in Our Times
Language: English
Release Date: October 13, 2016
How do colonial histories matter to the urgencies and conditions of our current world? How have those histories so often been rendered as leftovers, as "legacies" of a dead past rather than as active and violating forces in the world today? With precision and clarity, Ann Laura Stoler argues...
Counter-History of the Present
Untimely Interrogations into Globalization, Technology, Democracy
Language: English
Release Date: May 4, 2017
In Counter-History of the Present Gabriel Rockhill contests, dismantles, and displaces one of the most widespread understandings of the contemporary world: that we are all living in a democratized and globalized era intimately connected by a single, overarching economic and technological network....
by Alexandre Lefebvre
Language: English
Release Date: April 19, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: April 19, 2018
When we think of human rights we assume that they are meant to protect people from serious social, legal, and political abuses and to advance global justice. In Human Rights and the Care of the Self Alexandre Lefebvre turns this assumption on its head, showing how the value of human rights also lies...
From East Germans to Germans?
The New Postcommunist Elites
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2012
In 1990 Germany launched an experiment to transplant democracy into a formerly communist country, effectively dismantling the system of the German Democratic Republic and rebuilding it in the likeness of the democratic Federal Republic of Germany. From East Germans to Germans? examines the role of...
Exit-Voice Dynamics and the Collapse of East Germany
The Crisis of Leninism and the Revolution of 1989
Language: English
Release Date: July 10, 2006
Winner of the Social Science History Association President’s Book Award
East Germany was the first domino to fall when the Soviet bloc began to collapse in 1989. Its topple was so swift and unusual that it caught many area specialists and social scientists off guard; they failed to recognize...
Foreign Front
Third World Politics in Sixties West Germany
Language: English
Release Date: March 21, 2012
It is often asserted that West German New Leftists "discovered the Third World" in the pivotal decade of the 1960s. Quinn Slobodian upsets that storyline by beginning with individuals from the Third World themselves: students from Africa, Asia, and Latin America who arrived on West German...
We Were the People
Voices from East Germany’s Revolutionary Autumn of 1989
Language: English
Release Date: October 14, 1992
On the night of November 9, 1989, an electrified world watched as the Berlin Wall came down. Communism was dead, the Cold War was over, and freedom was on the rise—or so it seemed. We Were the People tells the story behind this momentous event. In an extraordinary series of interviews, the key actors...
Finding the Movement
Sexuality, Contested Space, and Feminist Activism
Language: English
Release Date: November 7, 2007
In Finding the Movement, Anne Enke reveals that diverse women’s engagement with public spaces gave rise to and profoundly shaped second-wave feminism. Focusing on women’s activism in Detroit, Chicago, and Minneapolis-St. Paul during the 1960s and 1970s, Enke describes how women across race and...
by Karlyn Forner
Language: English
Release Date: October 19, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: October 19, 2017
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 about economic justice for African Americans in the Alabama Black Belt. Drawing on a rich array of sources, Forner illustrates how voting rights failed...
Written In Blood
Courage and Corruption in the Appalachian War of Extraction
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2017
Written in Blood features the work of Appalachia's leading scholars and activists making available an accurate, ungilded, and uncensored understanding of our history. Combining new revelations from the past with sketches of a sane path forward, this is a deliberate collection looking at our past,...
Rivers by Design
State Power and the Origins of U.S. Flood Control
Language: English
Release Date: May 3, 2006
The United States has one of the largest and costliest flood control systems in the world, even though only a small proportion of its land lies in floodplains. Rivers by Design traces the emergence of the mammoth U.S. flood management system, which is overseen by the federal government but implemented...
Ordinary Medicine
Extraordinary Treatments, Longer Lives, and Where to Draw the Line
Language: English
Release Date: May 29, 2015
Most of us want and expect medicine’s miracles to extend our lives. In today’s aging society, however, the line between life-giving therapies and too much treatment is hard to see—it’s being obscured by a perfect storm created by the pharmaceutical and biomedical industries, along with insurance...