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This Side of Silence
Human Rights, Torture, and the Recognition of Cruelty
Language: English
Release Date: November 29, 2011
We are accustomed to thinking of torture as the purposeful infliction of cruelty by public officials, and we assume that lawyers and clinicians are best placed to speak about its causes and effects. However, it has not always been so. The category of torture is a very specific way of thinking about...
The Anti-Slavery Project
From the Slave Trade to Human Trafficking
Language: English
Release Date: May 26, 2011
It is commonly assumed that slavery came to an end in the nineteenth century. While slavery in the Americas officially ended in 1888, millions of slaves remained in bondage across Africa, Asia, and the Middle East well into the first half of the twentieth century. Wherever laws against slavery were...
Maoists at the Hearth
Everyday Life in Nepal's Civil War
Language: English
Release Date: May 28, 2013
The Maoist insurgency in Nepal lasted from 1996 to 2006, and at the pinnacle of their armed success the Maoists controlled much of the countryside. Maoists at the Hearth, which is based on ethnographic research that commenced more than a decade before the escalation of the civil war in 2001, explores...
by Peter C. Mancall
Language: English
Release Date: November 7, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: November 7, 2017
In the sixteenth-century Atlantic world, nature and culture swirled in people's minds to produce fantastic images. In the South of France, a cloister's painted wooden panels greeted parishioners with vivid depictions of unicorns, dragons, and centaurs, while Mayans in the Yucatan created openings...
Everyday Life
A Poetics of Vernacular Practices
Language: English
Release Date: June 7, 2011
A folklorist and ethnographer who has written about the Southern Appalachians, African American communities in the United States, and the West Indies, Roger D. Abrahams goes up against the triviality barrier. Here he takes on the systematics of his own culture. He traces forms of mundane experience...
by Randy M. Browne
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2017
Atlantic slave societies were notorious deathtraps. In Surviving Slavery in the British Caribbean, Randy M. Browne looks past the familiar numbers of life and death and into a human drama in which enslaved Africans and their descendants struggled to survive against their enslavers, their environment,...
Colonial Botany
Science, Commerce, and Politics in the Early Modern World
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2016
In the early modern world, botany was big science and big business, critical to Europe's national and trade ambitions. Tracing the dynamic relationships among plants, peoples, states, and economies over the course of three centuries, this collection of essays offers a lively challenge to a historiography...
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Language: English
Release Date: October 9, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: October 9, 2013
In Biography and the Black Atlantic, leading historians in the field of Atlantic studies examine the biographies and autobiographies of eighteenth- and nineteenth-century African-descended people and reflect on the opportunities and limitations these life stories present to studies of slavery and...
Liberia
The Violence of Democracy
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2013
Liberia, a small West African country that has been wracked by violence and civil war since 1989, seems a paradoxical place in which to examine questions of democracy and popular participation. Yet Liberia is also the oldest republic in Africa, having become independent in 1847 after colonization...
Blue-Collar Broadway
The Craft and Industry of American Theater
Language: English
Release Date: October 21, 2014
Behind the scenes of New York City's Great White Way, virtuosos of stagecraft have built the scenery, costumes, lights, and other components of theatrical productions for more than a hundred years. But like a good magician who refuses to reveal secrets, they have left few clues about their work. Blue-Collar...
Sea of Silk
A Textile Geography of Women's Work in Medieval French Literature
Language: English
Release Date: July 14, 2014
The story of silk is an old and familiar one, a tale involving mercantile travel and commercial exchange along the broad land mass that connects ancient China to the west and extending eventually to sites on the eastern Mediterranean and along sea routes to India. But if we shift our focus from economic...
by Steven Justice
Language: English
Release Date: January 30, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: January 30, 2015
Adam Usk, a Welsh lawyer in England and Rome during the first years of the fifteenth century, lived a peculiar life. He was, by turns, a professor, a royal advisor, a traitor, a schismatic, and a spy. He cultivated and then sabotaged figures of great influence, switching allegiances between kings,...
Strangers Nowhere in the World
The Rise of Cosmopolitanism in Early Modern Europe
Language: English
Release Date: December 2, 2016
The mingling of aristocrats and commoners in a southern French city, the jostling of foreigners in stock markets across northern and western Europe, the club gatherings in Paris and London of genteel naturalists busily distilling plants or making air pumps, the ritual fraternizing of "brothers"...
Day of Reckoning
Power and Accountability in Medieval France
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2013
Day of Reckoning: Power and Accountability in Medieval France applies recent approaches to literacy, legal studies, memory, ritual, and the manorial economy to reexamine the transformation of medieval power. Highlighting the relationship of archives and power, it draws on the rich documentary sources...