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Stigma Matrix
As developing states adopt neoliberal policies, more and more working-class women find themselves pulled into the public sphere. They are pressed into wage work by a privatizing …
Cancel Culture Panic
Fear of cancel culture has gripped the world, and it turns out to be an old fear in a new get-up.In this incisive new work, Adrian Daub analyzes the global spread of cancel culture …
Grounds of the Novel
What grounds the fictional world of a novel? Or is such a world peculiarly groundless? In a powerful engagement with the latest debates in novel theory, Daniel Wright investigates …
Moving from the Margins
At a time when movements for racial justice are front and center in U.S. national politics, this book provides essential new understanding to the study of race, its influence on …
Mightier Than the Sword
The civilian role in managing the military has never been more important. Today, civilian leadership of defense policy is challenged by the blurring line between war and …
Seductive Spirits
Pentecostalism, Africa's fastest-growing form of Christianity, has long been preoccupied with the business of banishing demons from human bodies. Among Ghanaian Pentecostals, …
Kabbalah and Catastrophe
While premodern kabbalistic texts were not chronicles of historical events, they provided elaborate models for understanding the secret divine plan guiding human affairs. Hartley …
Island and Empire
In the 1890s, conflict erupted on the Ottoman island of Crete. At the heart of the Crete Question, as it came to be known around the world, were clashing claims of sovereignty …
Business of Transition
The Business of Transition examines how the cosmopolitan bourgeoisie of the Eastern Mediterranean navigated the transition from empire to nation-state in the early twentieth …
Passionate Work
Corps de ballet literally means the "e;body"e; of the ballet company, and it refers to the group of dancers who are not principals. Another large group of dancers puts …
Rise and Fall of the Italian Communist Party
This book reassesses the history of Italian communism in international perspective. Analyzing the rise and fall of the Italian Communist Party as a case study in the global history …
