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Though the work of Irish writers has been paramount in conventional accounts of literary modernism, Ireland itself only rarely occupies a meaningful position in accounts of modernism’s historical trajectory. With an itinerary moving not simply among Dublin, Belfast, and London but also Paris, New York, Addis Ababa, Rome, Berlin, Geneva, and the world’s radio receivers, Ireland and the Problem of Information examines the pivotal mediations through which social knowledge was...
| Автор | Damien Keane |
For years scholars and others have been trying to out Shakespeare as an ardent Calvinist, a crypto-Catholic, a Puritan-baiter, a secularist, or a devotee of some hybrid faith. In Religion Around Shakespeare , Peter Kaufman sets aside such speculation in favor of considering the historical and religious context surrounding his work. Employing extensive archival research, he aims to assist literary historians who probe the religious discourses, characters, and events that seem to have found...
| Автор | Peter Iver Kaufman |
In Collective Courage , Jessica Gordon Nembhard chronicles African American cooperative business ownership and its place in the movements for Black civil rights and economic equality. Not since W. E. B. Du Bois’s 1907 Economic Co-operation Among Negro Americans has there been a full-length, nationwide study of African American cooperatives. Collective Courage extends that story into the twenty-first century. Many of the players are well known in the history of the African American...
| Автор | Jessica Gordon Nembhard |
Though pillage, profit, and plunder have been a mainstay of war since pre-colonial times, there is little contemporary focus on the role of finance and economics in today's «Drug Wars»—despite the fact that they boost US banks and fill our prisons with poor people. They feed political campaigns, increase the arms trade, and function as long-term fixes to capitalism's woes, cracking open new territories to privatization and foreign direct investment.Combining on-the-ground...
| Автор | Dawn Paley |
An exhaustive study of the richly textured «resistance culture» anarchists create to sustain their ideals and identities amid everyday lives defined by capital and the state, a culture prefiguring a post-revolutionary world and allowing an escape from domination even while enmeshed in it. Whether discussing famous artists like Kenneth Rexroth, John Cage, and Diane DiPrima, or relatively unknown anarchist writers, Jesse Cohn clearly links aesthetic dynamics to political and economic ones. This is...
| Автор | Jesse Cohn |
Fascism is unfortunately not a thing of the past. It never went away and, in our current climate of economic crisis and enforced austerity, it becomes even more prevalent…and brazen. From the Golden Dawn in Greece, to attempts to establish white supremacist towns in North Dakota, to recent revelations about the KKK in Canada, Fascist activity is on the rise around the world. It's in the news and will stay there. This book chronicles more than a century of militant struggle against fascism...
| Автор | M. Testa |
What this book has going for it is 1) deeply creepy tales of how fascists secretly operate, 2) a cloak-and-dagger investigation into current fascist inroads into political movements and 3) a solid theoretical and historical background.One of the underreported aspects of the Dylan Roof story in Charleston, SC, was the many connections that local and state politicians had to some of the reactionary groups that inspired Roof’s crime.Against the Fascist Creep follows those threads. It takes the...
| Автор | Alexander Reid Ross |
The ongoing battle for hearts and minds in Iraq and Afghanistan is a military strategy inspired originally by efforts at domestic social control and counterinsurgency in the United States. Weaponizing Anthropology documents how anthropological knowledge and ethnographic methods are harnessed by military and intelligence agencies in post-9/11 America to placate hostile foreign populations. David H. Price outlines the ethical implications of appropriating this traditional academic discourse for...
| Автор | David H. Price |
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...
| Автор | Maia Ramnath |
"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...
| Автор | Bernice L. McFadden |
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...
| Автор | Bernice L. McFadden |
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...
| Автор | Frederick Douglass |
"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...
| Автор | Barbara J. Taylor |
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...
| Автор | Michael Staudenmaier |
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...
| Автор | Barbara J. Taylor |
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...
| Автор | Judson Emerick |
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...
| Автор | Osvaldo Bayer |
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...
| Автор | Allan F. Westphall |
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,...
| Автор | David Smith |
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...
| Автор | David M. Perry |
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...
| Автор | Frank Mintz |
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....
| Автор | Laurie Loewenstein |
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...
| Автор | Neal Shirley |
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:...
| Автор | Clifton Ross |