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Free Black woman, poet, novelist, essayist, speaker, and activist, Frances Watkins Harper was one...

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Subjectified is a book about subjects, objects, and verbs. It is also a book about clothing-optio...

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On 26 August 1974, Michel Foucault completed work on Discipline and Punish, and on that very same...

In this brilliant and widely acclaimed work, Peter Burke presents a social and cultural history o...

With many predicting the end of US hegemony, Russia and China's growing cooperation in a number o...

The third edition of Popular Music and Society is fully revised and updated, deftly exploring the...

In these divided and divisive times, what is the future course for our politics? In this ground-b...

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This book provides a critical history of the movement associated with the journal Annales, from i...

How do the communication practices of governments, NGOs and social movements enhance opportunitie...

Warfare has migrated into cities. From Mosul to Mumbai, Aleppo to Marawi, the major military batt...

Human societies have always been deeply interconnected with our ecosystems, but today those relat...

Today, deliberative democracy is the most widely discussed theory of democracy. Its proponents ar...

China has gone from being a marginal to a leading power in Africa in just over two decades. Its s...

Between 1954 and 1960, in the midst of the Algerian War, more than two million Algerian peasants ...

Socrates is one the most important thinkers in western philosophy, yet he remains enigmatic, havi...

New Pandemics, Old Politics explores how the modern world adopted a martial script to deal with e...

Rethinking Global Governance casts fresh eyes upon a once poignant but now languishing concept. I...

'Value' seems like an elusive and abstract concept. Nonetheless, notions of value underpin how we...

Ethics is a field of study that we all need. This is because we all make choices, and ethics is a...

Disasters kill, maim, and generate increasingly large economic losses. But they do not wreak thei...

In this sweeping new interpretation of the history of civilization, bestselling author Jeremy Rif...

We live in a time of great uncertainty about the future. Those heady days of the late twentieth c...

Skin is the border of our body and, as such, it is that through which we relate to others but als...

This is the fourth of five volumes based on the lectures given by Pierre Bourdieu at the Collège ...

It is commonly thought that, thanks to globalization, nation-state borders are becoming increasin...

This bold and wide-ranging book views the history of humankind through the prism of natural resou...

Class is not only amongst the oldest and most controversial of all concepts in social science, bu...