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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...
| Автор | Timothy J. Cooley |
In <i>Spaces of Conflict, Sounds of Solidarity,</i> 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...
| Автор | Gaye Theresa Johnson |
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.<br /><br />This highly original look at the rise of the...
| Автор | Cemal Kafadar |
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.
| Автор | Кен Фоллетт |
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.<br /><br />Contrary to the conventional assumption that a few army officers and...
| Автор | Louise Young |
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. <br> <br> Emerging as an imperial instrument...
| Автор | Scott Laderman |
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...
| Автор | David G. Hackett |
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...
| Автор | Heather Vrana |
In this first detailed study of seventeenth-century <I>sepolcri</I><I>—</I>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...
| Автор | Robert L. Kendrick |
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....
| Автор | Wade Graham |
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...
| Автор | Kieran Connell |
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. <I>In Search of the Lost Decade </I>reconsiders Argentina’s transition to...
| Автор | Jennifer Adair |
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...
| Автор | James P. Brennan |
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...
| Автор | Ксюша Ангел |
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...
| Автор | Ксюша Ангел |
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, <I>Security and Terror</I> 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...
| Автор | Eli Jelly-Schapiro |
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...
| Автор | Robert Kramm |
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 <I>Wide World of Sports</I>, transformed professional football into a prime-time spectacle with <I>Monday Night Football</I>, fashioned the Olympics into a mega media event, and even revolutionized TV news. Travis...
| Автор | Travis Vogan |
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. <I>Traumatic Imprints </I>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...
| Автор | Noah Tsika |
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....
| Автор | Simeon Man |
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 <I>The Crime of Nationalism,</I> 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...
| Автор | Matthew Kraig Kelly |
The subprime crash of 2008 revealed a fragile, unjust, and unsustainable economy built on retail consumption, low-wage jobs, and fictitious capital. Economic crisis, finance capital, and global commodity chains transformed Southern California just as Latinxs and immigrants were turning California into a majority-nonwhite state. In <I>Inland Shift</I>, Juan D. De Lara uses the growth of Southern California’s logistics economy, which controls the movement of goods,...
| Автор | Juan De Lara |
Colonial documents and works of literature from early modern Spain are rife with references to public women, whores, and prostitutes. In <I>Profit and Passion, </I>Nicole von Germeten offers a new history of the women who carried and resisted these labels of ill repute. The elusive, ever-changing terminology for prosecuted women voiced by kings, jurists, magistrates, inquisitors, and bishops, as well as disgruntled husbands and neighbors, foreshadows the increasing regulation,...
| Автор | Nicole von Germeten |
Following her bestselling <I>Life Along the Silk Road</I>, Susan Whitfield widens her exploration of the great cultural highway with a new captivating portrait focusing on material things. <I>Silk, Slaves, and Stupas</I> tells the stories of ten very different objects, considering their interaction with the peoples and cultures of the Silk Road—those who made them, carried them, received them, used them, sold them, worshipped them, and, in more recent times,...
| Автор | Susan Whitfield |