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Contested Crown
Following conflicting desires for an Aztec crown, this book explores the possibilities of repatriation. In The Contested Crown, Khadija von Zinnenburg Carroll meditates on the case …
Minoritarian Liberalism
A mesmerizing ethnography of the largest favela in Rio, where residents articulate their own politics of freedom against the backdrop of multiple forms of oppression.Normative …
Inventing the Alphabet
The first comprehensive intellectual history of alphabet studies.Inventing the Alphabet provides the first account of two-and-a-half millennia of scholarship on the alphabet. …
Portraitist
A biography of the great portraitist Frans Hals that takes the reader into the turbulent world of the Dutch Golden Age. Frans Hals was one of the greatest portrait painters in …
Science of Character
The Science of Character makes a bold new claim for the power of the literary by showing how Victorian novelists used fiction to theorize how character forms. In 1843, the …
When the News Broke
A riveting, blow-by-blow account of how the network broadcasts of the 1968 Democratic convention shattered faith in American media. The whole world is watching! cried protestors …
Not-Forgetting
Explores contemporary art that challenges deadly desires for mastery and dominion. Amid times of emboldened cruelty and perpetual war, Rosalyn Deutsche links contemporary art to …
Where Research Begins
Plenty of books tell you how to do research. This book helps you figure out WHAT to research in the first place, and why it matters.The hardest part of research isn't answering a …
Channels of Student Activism
An eye-opening analysis of collegiate activism and its effects on the divisions in contemporary American politics. The past six years have been marked by a contentious political …
Trading Freedom
Explores the surprisingly rich early history of US-China trade and its unexpected impact on the developing republic. The economic and geographic development of the early United …
How Policies Make Interest Groups
A critical, revelatory examination of teachers unions' rise and influence in American politics.As most American labor organizations struggle for survival and relevance in the …