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Gay Voluntary Associations in New York
Public Sharing and Private Lives
Language: English
Release Date: October 14, 2014
Gay Voluntary Associations in New York is a sensitive and insightful ethnography of social groups that have gathered around common interests in an urban LGBT population from the time of the AIDS crisis to the present. Anthropologist Moshe Shokeid examines the social discourse of sex, love, friendship,...
Fairy Tales and Society
Illusion, Allusion, and Paradigm
Language: English
Release Date: December 5, 2014
This collection of exemplary essays by internationally recognized scholars examines the fairy tale from historical, folkloristic, literary, and psychoanalytical points of view. For generations of children and adults, fairy tales have encapsulated social values, often through the use of fixed characters...
Human Rights or Global Capitalism
The Limits of Privatization
Language: English
Release Date: October 26, 2016
The fall of communism in the late 1980s and the end of the Cold War seemed to signal a new international social order built on pluralist democracy, the rule of law, and universal human rights. But the window of opportunity for creating this more just, more equal, and more secure world slammed shut...
After the Black Death
Plague and Commemoration Among Iberian Jews
Language: English
Release Date: May 18, 2018
The Black Death of 1348-50 devastated Europe. With mortality estimates ranging from thirty to sixty percent of the population, it was arguably the most significant event of the fourteenth century. Nonetheless, its force varied across the continent, and so did the ways people responded to it. Surprisingly,...
by Edward J. Blum
Language: English
Release Date: March 26, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: March 26, 2013
Pioneering historian, sociologist, editor, novelist, poet, and organizer, W. E. B. Du Bois was one of the foremost African American intellectuals of the twentieth century. While Du Bois is remembered for his monumental contributions to scholarship and civil rights activism, the spiritual aspects of...
Set the World on Fire
Black Nationalist Women and the Global Struggle for Freedom
Language: English
Release Date: January 18, 2018
In 1932, Mittie Maude Lena Gordon spoke to a crowd of black Chicagoans at the old Jack Johnson boxing ring, rallying their support for emigration to West Africa. In 1937, Celia Jane Allen traveled to Jim Crow Mississippi to organize rural black workers around black nationalist causes. In the late...
The Jet Sex
Airline Stewardesses and the Making of an American Icon
Language: English
Release Date: March 5, 2013
In the years after World War II, the airline stewardess became one of the most celebrated symbols of American womanhood. Stewardesses appeared on magazine covers, on lecture circuits, and in ad campaigns for everything from milk to cigarettes. Airlines enlisted them to pose for publicity shots, mingle...
Translating Nature
Cross-Cultural Histories of Early Modern Science
Language: English
Release Date: March 26, 2019
Translating Nature recasts the era of early modern science as an age not of discovery but of translation. As Iberian and Protestant empires expanded across the Americas, colonial travelers encountered, translated, and reinterpreted Amerindian traditions of knowledge—knowledge that was later translated...
The Associational State
American Governance in the Twentieth Century
Language: English
Release Date: April 22, 2015
In the wake of the New Deal, U.S. politics has been popularly imagined as an ongoing conflict between small-government conservatives and big-government liberals. In practice, narratives of left versus right or government versus the people do not begin to capture the dynamic ways Americans pursue civic...
When Counterinsurgency Wins
Sri Lanka's Defeat of the Tamil Tigers
Language: English
Release Date: May 28, 2013
For twenty-six years, civil war tore Sri Lanka apart. Despite numerous peace talks, cease-fires, and external military and diplomatic pressure, war raged on between the separatist Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam and the Sinhala-dominated Sri Lankan government. Then, in 2009, the Sri Lankan military...
Yigal Allon, Native Son
A Biography
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2015
Born in 1918 into the fabric of Arab-Jewish frontier life at the foot of Mt. Tabor, Yigal Allon rose to become one of the founding figures of the state of Israel and an architect of its politics. In 1945 Allon became commander of the Palmah—an elite unit of the Haganah, the semilegal army of the...
Capitalism by Gaslight
Illuminating the Economy of Nineteenth-Century America
Language: English
Release Date: February 2, 2015
While elite merchants, financiers, shopkeepers, and customers were the most visible producers, consumers, and distributors of goods and capital in the nineteenth century, they were certainly not alone in shaping the economy. Lurking in the shadows of capitalism's past are those who made markets by...
The Best Possible Immigrants
International Adoption and the American Family
Language: English
Release Date: April 7, 2017
Prior to World War II, international adoption was virtually unknown, but in the twenty-first century, it has become a common practice, touching almost every American. How did the adoption of foreign children by U.S. families become an essential part of American culture in such a short period of time?...
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Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2019
Established in 1969, the Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) is an intergovernmental organization the purpose of which is the strengthening of solidarity among Muslims. Headquartered in Jeddah, the OIC today consists of fifty seven states from the Middle East, Asia, Africa, and Latin America....