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M.K. Gandhi, Attorney at Law

Charles R. DiSalvo

M.K. Gandhi, Attorney at Law

“…a must read for persons from all walks of life…interested in understanding the philosophical evolution of an ordinary man into the extraordinary.” – Indian Law Journal In 1888, at the age of eighteen, Mohandas Gandhi sets out from his modest home in India. Shy, timid, and soft-spoken, he embarks on what he believes will be a new life abroad. Twenty-seven years later, at the age of forty-five, he returns—this time fearless, impassioned, and ready to...

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Charles R. DiSalvo

Das vergessene Pergament

Ксюша Ангел

Das vergessene Pergament

Anno Domini, 1400. In den großen Kathedralen, Domen und Münstern von Köln, Strassburg, Regensburg, Chartres und Amiens stürzen auf unerklärliche Weise Pfeiler ein, bersten Treppen, lösen sich Schlusssteine aus den Gewölben. In der Bevölkerung bricht Hysterie aus, die Dombaumeister stehen vor einem Rätsel. Ist dies die Strafe Gottes oder des Teufels Werk? Afra, die schöne Tochter eines Bibliothekars und heimliche Geliebte des berühmten Dombaumeisters Ulrich von Ensingen, hat den Schlüssel zu...

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Ксюша Ангел

The Snow Lion and the Dragon

Melvyn C. Goldstein

The Snow Lion and the Dragon

Tensions over the «Tibet Question»—the political status of Tibet—are escalating every day. The Dalai Lama has gained broad international sympathy in his appeals for autonomy from China, yet the Chinese government maintains a hard-line position against it. What is the history of the conflict? Can the two sides come to an acceptable compromise? In this thoughtful analysis, distinguished professor and longtime Tibet analyst Melvyn C. Goldstein presents a balanced and accessible view of the conflict...

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Melvyn C. Goldstein

Surfing about Music

Timothy J. Cooley

Surfing about Music

This first major examination the interrelationships of music and surfing explores different ways that surfers combine surfing with making and listening to music. Tim Cooley uses his knowledge and experience as a practicing musician and avid surfer to consider the musical practices of surfers in locations around the world, taking into account ideas about surfing as a global affinity group and the real-life stories of surfers and musicians he encounters. In doing so, he expands ethnomusicological...

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Timothy J. Cooley

Spaces of Conflict, Sounds of Solid...

Gaye Theresa Johnson

Spaces of Conflict, Sounds of Solidarity

In Spaces of Conflict, Sounds of Solidarity, Gaye Theresa Johnson examines interracial anti-racist alliances, divisions among aggrieved minority communities, and the cultural expressions and spatial politics that emerge from the mutual struggles of Blacks and Chicanos in Los Angeles from the 1940s to the present. Johnson argues that struggles waged in response to institutional and social repression have created both moments and movements in which Blacks and Chicanos have...

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Gaye Theresa Johnson

Between Two Worlds

Cemal Kafadar

Between Two Worlds

Cemal Kafadar offers a much more subtle and complex interpretation of the early Ottoman period than that provided by other historians. His careful analysis of medieval as well as modern historiography from the perspective of a cultural historian demonstrates how ethnic, tribal, linguistic, religious, and political affiliations were all at play in the struggle for power in Anatolia and the Balkans during the late Middle Ages. This highly original look at the rise of the...

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Cemal Kafadar

Die Brücken der Freiheit

Кен Фоллетт

Die Brücken der Freiheit

Das abenteuerliche Leben zweier Menschen auf der Suche nach Freiheit In den schottischen Kohlengruben herrscht das Gesetz der Sklaverei. Doch Mack McAsh, ein junger Bergmann, träumt davon frei zu sein. Er flieht nach London – und gerät in eine andere Form von Knechtschaft: Als Aufrührer verurteilt, wird er in Ketten nach Virginia verschifft. Dort trifft er auf Lizzi Jamisson, die Frau, die ihm einst zur Flucht verholfen hat und dabei ihr eigenes Glück als Preis zahlte.

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Кен Фоллетт

Japan's Total Empire

Louise Young

Japan's Total Empire

In this first social and cultural history of Japan's construction of Manchuria, Louise Young offers an incisive examination of the nature of Japanese imperialism. Focusing on the domestic impact of Japan's activities in Northeast China between 1931 and 1945, Young considers «metropolitan effects» of empire building: how people at home imagined and experienced the empire they called Manchukuo. Contrary to the conventional assumption that a few army officers and...

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Louise Young

Empire in Waves

Scott Laderman

Empire in Waves

Surfing today evokes many things: thundering waves, warm beaches, bikinis and lifeguards, and carefree pleasure. But is the story of surfing really as simple as popular culture suggests? In this first international political history of the sport, Scott Laderman shows that while wave riding is indeed capable of stimulating tremendous pleasure, its globalization went hand in hand with the blood and repression of the long twentieth century. Emerging as an imperial instrument...

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Scott Laderman

That Religion in Which All Men Agre...

David G. Hackett

That Religion in Which All Men Agree

This powerful study weaves the story of Freemasonry into the narrative of American religious history. Freighted with the mythical legacies of stonemasons’ guilds and the Newtonian revolution, English Freemasonry arrived in colonial America with a vast array of cultural baggage, which was drawn on, added to, and transformed during its sojourn through American culture. David G. Hackett argues that from the 1730s through the early twentieth century the religious worlds of an evolving American...

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David G. Hackett

This City Belongs to You

Heather Vrana

This City Belongs to You

Between 1944 and 1996, Guatemala experienced a revolution, counterrevolution, and civil war. Playing a pivotal role within these national shifts were students from Guatemala’s only public university, the University of San Carlos (USAC). USAC students served in, advised, protested, and were later persecuted by the government, all while crafting a powerful student nationalism. In no other moment in Guatemalan history has the relationship between the university and the state been so...

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Heather Vrana

Fruits of the Cross

Robert L. Kendrick

Fruits of the Cross

In this first detailed study of seventeenth-century sepolcri—sacred operas written for court performance on Holy Thursday and Good Friday—Robert L. Kendrick delves into the political and artistic world of Habsburg Vienna, in which music and ritual combined on the stage to produce a thoroughly original art form based on devotion to Christ’s Tomb. Through the use of allegorical characters, the musical dramas ranged from the...

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Robert L. Kendrick

Braided Waters

Wade Graham

Braided Waters

Braided Waters sheds new light on the relationship between environment and society by charting the history of Hawaii’s Molokai island over a thousand-year period of repeated settlement. From the arrival of the first Polynesians to contact with eighteenth-century European explorers and traders to our present era, this study shows how the control of resources—especially water—in a fragile, highly variable environment has had profound effects on the history of Hawaii....

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Wade Graham

Black Handsworth

Kieran Connell

Black Handsworth

In 1980s Britain, while the country failed to reckon with the legacies of its empire, a black, transnational sensibility was emerging in its urban areas. In Handsworth, an inner-city neighborhood of Birmingham, black residents looked across the Atlantic toward African and Afro-Caribbean social and political cultures and drew upon them while navigating the inequalities of their locale. For those of the Windrush generation and their British-born children, this diasporic inheritance became a core...

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Kieran Connell

In Search of the Lost Decade

Jennifer Adair

In Search of the Lost Decade

In 1983, following a military dictatorship that left thousands dead and disappeared and the economy in ruins, Raúl Alfonsín was elected president of Argentina on the strength of his pledge to prosecute the armed forces for their crimes and restore a measure of material well-being to Argentine lives. Food, housing, and full employment became the litmus tests of the new democracy. In Search of the Lost Decade reconsiders Argentina’s transition to...

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Jennifer Adair

Argentina's Missing Bones

James P. Brennan

Argentina's Missing Bones

Argentina’s Missing Bones is the first comprehensive English-language work of historical scholarship on the 1976–83 military dictatorship and Argentina’s notorious experience with state terrorism during the so-called dirty war. It examines this history in a single but crucial place: Córdoba, Argentina’s second largest city. A site of thunderous working-class and student protest prior to the dictatorship, it later became a place where state...

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James P. Brennan

Die Pestärztin

Ксюша Ангел

Die Pestärztin

Die Pestärztin Sie lebt in einer dunklen Zeit. Sie ist ein Spielball des launischen Schicksals. Ein fesselnder Roman – prächtig und gefühlvoll. Mainz 1348: Der schwarze Tod wütet in der Stadt, und eine junge Heilkundige nimmt den Kampf mit ihm auf: Lucia verfügt über außergewöhnliche medizinische Kenntnisse. Doch auf dem Höhepunkt der Epidemie verliert sie ihren wichtigsten Mitstreiter und den Mann, den sie liebt: den Pestarzt Clemens von Treist. Die Stimmung in der Stadt schlägt um, und Lucia...

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Ксюша Ангел

Die Tatarin (Gekürzt)

Ксюша Ангел

Die Tatarin (Gekürzt)

Russland 1707: Das Leben der jungen Tatarin Schirin ändert sich jäh, als ihr Vater nach einem missglückten Aufstand von den Russen gefangen genommen wird. Die Sieger fordern den Khan auf, ihnen einen Sohn als Geisel zu stellen. Doch der älteste seiner Söhne ist tot und der jüngste zu klein. So wird Schirin in Männerkleider gesteckt und unter dem Namen ihres toten Bruders ausgeliefert. Es beginnt eine harte Zeit, in der Schirin ihre Identität verheimlicht und die aufkeimenden Gefühle für einen...

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Ксюша Ангел

Security and Terror

Eli Jelly-Schapiro

Security and Terror

When in 1492 Christopher Columbus set out for Asia but instead happened upon the Bahamas, Cuba, and Hispaniola, his error inaugurated a specifically colonial modernity. This is, Security and Terror contends, the colonial modernity within which we still live. And its enduring features are especially vivid in the current American century, a moment marked by a permanent War on Terror and pervasive capitalist dispossession. Resisting the assumption that...

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Eli Jelly-Schapiro

Sanitized Sex

Robert Kramm

Sanitized Sex

Sanitized Sex analyzes the development of new forms of regulation concerning prostitution, venereal disease, and intimacy during the American occupation of Japan after the Second World War, focusing on the period between 1945 and 1952. It contributes to the cultural and social history of the occupation of Japan by investigating the intersections of ordering principles like race, class, gender, and sexuality. It also reveals how sex and its regulation were not marginal but key issues in postwar...

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Robert Kramm

ABC Sports

Travis Vogan

ABC Sports

ABC Sports shaped how the world consumes sport. The American Broadcasting Company's sports division is behind some of network television's most significant practices, celebrated personalities, and iconic moments. It created the weekend anthology Wide World of Sports, transformed professional football into a prime-time spectacle with Monday Night Football, fashioned the Olympics into a mega media event, and even revolutionized TV news. Travis...

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Travis Vogan

Traumatic Imprints

Noah Tsika

Traumatic Imprints

Forced to contend with unprecedented levels of psychological trauma during World War II, the United States military began sponsoring a series of nontheatrical films designed to educate and even rehabilitate soldiers and civilians alike. Traumatic Imprints traces the development of psychiatric and psychotherapeutic approaches to wartime trauma by the United States military, along with links to formal and narrative developments in military and civilian...

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Noah Tsika

Soldiering through Empire

Simeon Man

Soldiering through Empire

In the decades after World War II, tens of thousands of soldiers and civilian contractors across Asia and the Pacific found work through the U.S. military. Recently liberated from colonial rule, these workers were drawn to the opportunities the military offered and became active participants of the U.S. empire, most centrally during the U.S. war in Vietnam. Simeon Man uncovers the little-known histories of Filipinos, South Koreans, and Asian Americans who fought in Vietnam, revealing how U.S....

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Simeon Man

The Crime of Nationalism

Matthew Kraig Kelly

The Crime of Nationalism

The Palestinian national movement gestated in the early decades of the twentieth century, but it was born during the Great Revolt of 1936–39, a period of Arab rebellion against British policy in the Palestine mandate. In The Crime of Nationalism, Matthew Kraig Kelly makes the unique case that the key to understanding the Great Revolt lies in what he calls the “crimino-national” domain—the overlap between the criminological and the...

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Matthew Kraig Kelly

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