Palgrave Macmillan: 11161 books
George Padmore and Decolonization from Below
Pan-Africanism, the Cold War, and the End of Empire
Language: English
Release Date: October 14, 2014
This book argues that the rising tide of anti-colonialism after the 1930s should be considered a turning point not just in harnessing a new mood or feeling of unity, but primarily as one that viewed empire, racism, and economic degradation as part of a system that fundamentally required the application of strategy to their destruction.
The Other Special Relationship
Race, Rights, and Riots in Britain and the United States
Language: English
Release Date: February 22, 2016
The close diplomatic, economic, and military ties that comprising the "special relationship" between the United States and Great Britain have received plenty of attention from historians over the years. Less frequently noted are the countries' shared experiences of empire, white supremacy,...
On The Government of the Living
Lectures at the Collège de France, 1979-1980
Language: English
Release Date: September 9, 2014
With these lectures Foucault inaugurates his investigations of truth-telling in the ethical domain of practices of techniques of the self. How and why, he asks, does the government of men require those subject to power to be subjects who must tell the truth about themselves?
Adorno and Art
Aesthetic Theory Contra Critical Theory
Language: English
Release Date: May 6, 2014
A comprehensive, critical and accessible account of Theodor W. Adorno's materialist-dialectical aesthetic theory of art from a contemporary perspective, this volume shows how Adorno's critical theory is awash with images crystallising thoughts to such a degree that it has every reason to be described as aesthetic.
by M. Paryz
Language: English
Release Date: January 30, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: January 30, 2012
Analyses literary representations of the American experience in selected works of Ralph Waldo Emerson, Henry David Thoreau, and Walt Whitman. Reveals the ambivalence that underlay the cultural and political development of the United States as a former colony.
by E. Burleigh
Language: English
Release Date: May 21, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: May 21, 2014
Through the prism of intimacy, Burleigh sheds light on eighteenth and early-nineteenth-century American texts. This insightful study shows how the trope of the family recurred to produce contradictory images - both intimately familiar and frighteningly alienating - through which Americans responded to upheavals in their cultural landscape.
by E. VanDette
Language: English
Release Date: February 6, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: February 6, 2013
This study posits that the narrative of sibling love as a culturally significant tradition in nineteenth-century American fiction. Ultimately, Emily E. VanDette suggests that these novels contribute to historical conversations about affiliation in such tumultuous contexts as sectional divisions, slavery debates, the Civil War, and Reconstruction.
Days of Glory?
Imaging Military Recruitment and the French Revolution
Language: English
Release Date: August 26, 2016
This book examines a range of visual images of military recruitment to explore changing notions of glory, or of gloire, during the French Revolution. It raises questions about how this event re-orientated notions of ‘citizenship’ and of service to ‘la Patrie’. The opening lines of the Marseillaise...
The Second French Republic 1848-1852
A Political Reinterpretation
Language: English
Release Date: June 9, 2016
Thisbook follows the story of the Second French Republic from its idealistic beginnings in February 1848 to its formal replacement in December 1852 by the Second Empire. Based on original archival research, The Second French Republic gives a detailed account of the internal tensions that irrevocably...
Solidarity Politics for Millennials
A Guide to Ending the Oppression Olympics
Language: English
Release Date: August 29, 2011
This book takes the political theory of intersectionality - the most cutting-edge approach to the politics of gender, race, sexual orientation, and class - and introduces it to the general public for the first time.
Living with Class
Philosophical Reflections on Identity and Material Culture
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2013
A philosophical-cultural exploration, this book expands the discussion of "class" from a novel perspective. Following the current debates about wealth and class, the contributors address the social and cultural phenomena of class from a uniquely innovative philosophical approach and reconsider philosophical "givens" within the context of culture.
Rituals and Student Identity in Education
Ritual Critique for a New Pedagogy
Language: English
Release Date: January 31, 2011
An exploration of how the nonrational aspects of schooling, especially ritual(s), have been harnessed to construct a commonsense which serves the interests of transnational corporations, leaving those educators committed to democracy to develop a new pedagogy that rejects the technical solutions that present reforms demand.
Tudor Queenship
The Reigns of Mary and Elizabeth
Language: English
Release Date: October 18, 2010
This book brings together a selection of recent, cutting-edge research which, for the first time, challenges commonplace arguments about Mary and Elizabeth's relative successes or failures in order to rethink Tudor queenship.
Remembering and Rethinking the GDR
Multiple Perspectives and Plural Authenticities
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2012
Exploring the ways in which the GDR has been remembered since its demise in 1989/90, this volume asks how memory of the former state continues to shape contemporary Germany. Its contributors offer multiple perspectives on the GDR and offer new insights into the complex relationship between past and present.