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Immigrant America
This revised and updated fifth edition of Immigrant America: A Portrait provides a comprehensive and current overview of immigration to the United States, including its history, …
Famous Freaks
Did you know Thomas Edison proposed to his wife in Morse code? Or that the CIA considered covering Castro’s shoes in thallium to get rid of his iconic beard? The strange facts and …
Suppressed Composers in the Netherlands
An edited collection that assesses the music of 34 Dutch composers who were persecuted by the Nazis during World War Two. German occupation during the Second World War destroyed …
How Nations Escape Poverty
During the 20th century, Vietnam and Poland were both victims not only of devastating wars, but also of socialist planned economies that destroyed whatever war hadn’t already. In …
Hearsay Is Not Excluded
This chronicle of natural history argues that the modern environmental crisis and rise in science skepticism codeveloped with the historic distancing of scientific knowledge from …
Der Niederrheinische Orientbericht, c.1350
Translation and detailed commentary of a fourteenth-century Low-German work about the Near and Middle East. That extensive travel took place during the Middle Ages has long been …
Apartheid Remains
In Apartheid Remains, Sharad Chari explores how people handle the remains of segregation and apartheid in South Africa as witnessed through portals in an industrial-residential …
Civil Religion in the Early Modern Anglophone World, 1550-1700
Civil Religion - a tradition of political thought that has argued for a close connection between religion and the state - made an important contribution to the development of …
Yale and Slavery
A comprehensive look at how slavery and resistance to it have shaped Yale University Award-winning historian David W. Blight, with the Yale and Slavery Research Project, answers …
Max Stirner and Nihilism
A reassessment of the controversial, yet still influential nineteenth-century German philosopher that explores the contentious issue of whether he was, as his critics frequently …
Psychiatric Contours
Psychiatric Contours investigates new histories of psychiatry, derangement, and agitated subjectivities in colonial and decolonizing Africa. The volume lets the multivalent term …
Kriminologie
Kriminologie ist das empirische Fach, das sich in spezifischer Weise mit den normativen Voraussetzungen und tatsächlichen Bedingungen befasst, unter denen Verhalten als abweichend …