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Decolonizing Anarchism

Maia Ramnath

Decolonizing Anarchism

The third in AK's popular collaboration with the Institute for Anarchist Studies. Ramnath is an IAS board member, and a respected member of the anarchist intellectual community.South Asian/Indian anarchism is a largely unexplored topic; most anarchist histories tend to focus on Europe and Latin America. This new study provides a window into radicalism in a part of the world that is largely unknown in the West.Thinkers like Arundhati Roy and Vandana Shiva have helped to generate interest in...

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Maia Ramnath

Glorious

Bernice L. McFadden

Glorious

"The seeming inevitability of cruel fate juxtaposes the triumph of the spirit in this remarkably rich and powerful novel, Glorious. Bernice McFadden's fully realized characters are complicated, imperfect beings, but if ever a character were worthy of love and honor, it is her Easter Bartlett. This very American story is fascinating; it is also heartbreaking, thought-provoking, and beautifully written."Binnie Kirshenbaum, author of The Scenic Route"Riveting. . . . I am as...

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Bernice L. McFadden

The Book of Harlan

Bernice L. McFadden

The Book of Harlan

15,000-copy paperback printing, along with 5,000-copy hardcover run. Akashic has had great success with McFadden's two most recent novels, Glorious and Gathering of Waters, as well as reissues. Bernice is considered one of Akashic's top fiction authors, in the same camp as Joe Meno and Nina Revoyr. This is Bernice's most ambitious novel to date, tackling the rarely explored but very real historical topic of African Americans imprisoned in Nazi concentration camps. The novel is...

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Bernice L. McFadden

Frederick Douglass in Brooklyn

Frederick Douglass

Frederick Douglass in Brooklyn

Frederick Douglass never lived in Brooklyn, but from the early 1850s onward, his frequent visits to the fast-growing city invariably attracted considerable attention. Brooklyn was home to several leading abolitionists who were key allies of Douglass, a roster led by Henry Ward Beecher, Theodore Tilton, and Rev. James and Elizabeth Gloucester. Yet through the Civil War, pro-Confederacy sentiment also ran strong, as evidenced by the Brooklyn Daily Eagle’s vitriolic attacks on Douglass and his...

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Frederick Douglass

All Waiting Is Long

Barbara J. Taylor

All Waiting Is Long

"Powerful…Every page is saturated with the 1930s milieu as the sisters navigate the adversities of their reality on a sea rough with the unrealistic expectations of well-intended idealists both religious and secular. As if to highlight those expectations, Taylor periodically interrupts her third-person narrative with Greek chorus-type commentary from the Scranton-based Isabelle Lumley Bible Class, including excerpts from a 1929 sex manual for women. The overall result is a thought-provoking...

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Barbara J. Taylor

Truth and Revolution

Michael Staudenmaier

Truth and Revolution

Founded in Chicago in 1969 from the rubble of the recently crumbled SDS, the Sojourner Truth Organization (STO) brought working-class consciousness to the forefront of New Left discourse, sending radicals back into the factories and thinking through the integration of radical politics into everyday realities. Through the influence of founding members like Noel Ignatiev and Don Hamerquist, STO took a Marxist approach to the question of race and revolution, exploring the notion of “white...

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Michael Staudenmaier

Sing in the Morning, Cry at Night

Barbara J. Taylor

Sing in the Morning, Cry at Night

Nominated for a 2014 Lime Award for Excellence in FictionNamed a Best Book of Summer 2014 by Publishers WeeklyNamed a Pick of the Week for the week of June 30th by Publishers Weekly"An earnest, well-done historical novel that skillfully blends fact and fiction."–Publishers Weekly"A profound story of how one unforeseen event may tear a family apart, but another can just as unexpectedly bring them back together again."–Publishers Weekly, Best Book of Summer 2014 Pick"Solomon enticingly described...

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Barbara J. Taylor

The Tempietto del Clitunno near Spo...

Judson Emerick

The Tempietto del Clitunno near Spoleto

This is the first full-length study of the enigmatic Early Medieval chapel near the river Clitunno in central Umbria. Judson Emerick makes the Tempietto del Clitunno, a celebrated art-historical test case, the focus of a study that penetrates to the deep structure of the discipline. For centuries scholars have puzzled over the chapel's lavish Corinthian column screens, the crosses surrounded by Neo-Attic vine scrolls in its pedimental reliefs, and the Christian Latin inscriptions in huge...

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Judson Emerick

Rebellion in Patagonia

Osvaldo Bayer

Rebellion in Patagonia

At the very end of Rebellion in Patagonia, Osvaldo Bayer writes: Time always tears down the curtain that tries to hide the truth. A crime can never be covered up forever.” He demonstrates that principle in this moving and nuanced study of strikes led by the powerful anarcho-syndicalist labor union FORA against the despotic landowners and industrialists of Argentina’s Patagonia region in 1921 1922. The tale ends tragically, with thousands...

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Osvaldo Bayer

Books and Religious Devotion

Allan F. Westphall

Books and Religious Devotion

In Books and Religious Devotion , Allan Westphall presents a study of the book-collecting habits and annotation practices of Thomas Connary, an Irish immigrant farmer who lived in New Hampshire in the latter half of the nineteenth century. Connary led a pious life that revolved around the use, annotation, and sharing of religious books. His surviving annotated volumes provide a revealing glimpse into the utility of books for a common reader—and they show how one remarkable, eccentric...

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Allan F. Westphall

Sterilization of Carrie Buck

David Smith

Sterilization of Carrie Buck

Now, the truth about one of America's most shameful moments is revealed in The Sterilization of Carrie Buck. On October 27, 1927, 21-year-old Carrie Buck was sterilized without her understanding or consent – and with the blessings of the United States Supreme Court.Through 1972, this act led to the sterilization of over 50,000 American citizens without their consent, and was the forerunner of the Hereditary Health Law which initiated the slaughter of millions of Jews, Catholics,...

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David Smith

Sacred Plunder

David M. Perry

Sacred Plunder

In Sacred Plunder , David Perry argues that plundered relics, and narratives about them, played a central role in shaping the memorial legacy of the Fourth Crusade and the development of Venice’s civic identity in the thirteenth century. After the Fourth Crusade ended in 1204, the disputes over the memory and meaning of the conquest began. Many crusaders faced accusations of impiety, sacrilege, violence, and theft. In their own defense, they produced hagiographical narratives about...

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David M. Perry

Anarchism and Workers' Self-Managem...

Frank Mintz

Anarchism and Workers' Self-Management in Revolutionary Spain

While there's been a lot of literature written about this moment in history, people are still thirsting for more analysis of the ways in which the Spanish Revolution succeeded in holding state power hostage for a short time, yet ultimately failed to bring about a radically new world. AK has published titles on various aspects of the Spanish Revolution, and they are always great sellers.This book will be of interest to both general European history buffs and anarchists with an interest in...

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Frank Mintz

Unmentionables

Laurie Loewenstein

Unmentionables

Imprint curator Kaylie Jones, a successful writer, will help in the promotion. So the book essentially has two authors working full-time to promote alongside Akashic. This book has great MIDWEST potential, and we're hoping to get CBSD and the sales reps invested to help spark interest, as with Wingshooters by Nina Revoyr. Submit to Barnes & Noble “Discover” program. Publicize to major dailies, weeklies, literary publications, alternative publications. Major radio and television push....

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Laurie Loewenstein

Dixie Be Damned

Neal Shirley

Dixie Be Damned

There is no other book like this. Not our usual suspects.The book is organized around seven «hidden» rebellions in southern history. Some of these are specific events, some describe longer time periods. But each tale in itself is an engaging read, with memorable characters and events (corrupt and brutal sheriffs, daring brigands, freedom fighters).It is a people's history in every sense, finding new, previously ignored angles from which to view themes otherwise familiar to historians and...

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Neal Shirley

Home from the Dark Side of Utopia

Clifton Ross

Home from the Dark Side of Utopia

A riveting personal memoir that shares hard-earned political insights. Ross's journey mirrors that of the post-war American left. From an Anabaptist hippie commune in the 1970s to the present-day failures of the Venezuelan revolution, he charts a trajectory of good intentions and poor choices, of blind faith in charismatic leaders followed by inevitable disillusionment and, ultimately, a solid belief in the ability of ordinary people to make history.Clifton Ross directed the film Venezuela:...

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Clifton Ross

Priests of the French Revolution

Joseph F. Byrnes

Priests of the French Revolution

The 115,000 priests on French territory in 1789 belonged to an evolving tradition of priesthood. The challenge of making sense of the Christian tradition can be formidable in any era, but this was especially true for those priests required at the very beginning of 1791 to take an oath of loyalty to the new government—and thereby accept the religious reforms promoted in a new Civil Constitution of the Clergy. More than half did so at the beginning, and those who were subsequently...

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Joseph F. Byrnes

Picturing Experience in the Early P...

Elizabeth Ross

Picturing Experience in the Early Printed Book

Bernhard von Breydenbach’s Peregrinatio in terram sanctam (Journey to the Holy Land), first published in 1486, is one of the seminal books of early printing and is especially renowned for the originality of its woodcuts. In Picturing Experience in the Early Printed Book , Elizabeth Ross considers the Peregrinatio from a variety of perspectives to explain its value for the cultural history of the period. Breydenbach, a high-ranking cleric in Mainz, recruited the painter Erhard...

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Elizabeth Ross

Die Wanderapothekerin (Ungekürzt)

Ксюша Ангел

Die Wanderapothekerin (Ungekürzt)

Ein mutiges Mädchen, eine abenteuerliche Reise, ein mörderischer Feind Thüringen, 18. Jahrhundert: Die beiden Brüder Martin und Alois ziehen als Wanderapotheker durch die Lande und haben vor vielen Jahren einen Goldschatz gefunden. Während Martin seinen Anteil versteckt und nicht angerührt hat, ist Alois nichts geblieben. Verzweifelt versucht er, seinen Bruder zur Herausgabe seines Teils zu bewegen. Als dieser sich weigert, kommt es zu einem tödlichen Streit. Alois glaubt sich am Ziel seiner...

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Ксюша Ангел

Picturing Dogs, Seeing Ourselves

Ann-Janine Morey

Picturing Dogs, Seeing Ourselves

Dogs are as ubiquitous in American culture as white picket fences and apple pie, embracing all the meanings of wholesome domestic life—family, fidelity, comfort, protection, nurturance, and love—as well as symbolizing some of the less palatable connotations of home and family, including domination, subservience, and violence. In Picturing Dogs, Seeing Ourselves , Ann-Janine Morey presents a collection of antique photographs of dogs and their owners in order to investigate...

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Ann-Janine Morey

A People's History of the World

Chris Harman

A People's History of the World

In this monumental book, Chris Harman achieves the impossible—a gripping history of the planet from the perspective of the struggling people throughout the ages. From earliest human society to the Holy Roman Empire, from the Middle Ages to the Enlightenment, from the Industrial Revolution to the end of the millennium, Chris Harman provides a brilliant and comprehensive history of the planet. Eschewing the standard histories of ‘Great Men,’ of dates and kings, Harman offers a groundbreaking...

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Chris Harman

The Invention of the Jewish People

Шломо Занд

The Invention of the Jewish People

Bestselling new analysis of Jewish history by a leading Israeli historian. A historical tour de force, The Invention of the Jewish People offers a groundbreaking account of Jewish and Israeli history. Exploding the myth that there was a forced Jewish exile in the first century at the hands of the Romans, Israeli historian Shlomo Sand argues that most modern Jews descend from converts, whose native lands were scattered across the Middle East and Eastern Europe. In this iconoclastic work,...

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Шломо Занд

Ten Myths About Israel

Ilan Pappé

Ten Myths About Israel

The myths—and reality—behind the state of Israel In this groundbreaking book, published on the fiftieth anniversary of the Occupation, the outspoken and radical Israeli historian Ilan Pappe examines the most contested ideas concerning the origins and identity of the contemporary state of Israel. The “ten myths” that Pappe explores—repeated endlessly in the media, enforced by the military, accepted without question by the world’s governments—reinforce the regional status quo. He explores the...

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Ilan Pappé

Hollow City

Rebecca Solnit

Hollow City

Surveying the transformation of San Francisco in the early millenium by Silicon Valley, critically acclaimed writer Rebecca Solnit and photographer Susan Schwartzenberg describe the complex interactions that make up a living, creative, diverse city. One of our most impassioned and acclaimed chroniclers of American urbanism, Rebecca Solnit explores the impact of skyrocketing rents, architectural homogenization, and the links between artists and gentrification. Wealth, she argues, is just as...

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Rebecca Solnit

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