Atheists in American Politics: Social Movement Organizing from the Nineteenth to the Twenty-First Centuries (Meagher Richard J.)(Paperback)

Atheists in American Politics: Social Movement Organizing from the Nineteenth to the Twenty-First Centuries (Meagher Richard J.)(Paperback)

In this book, one of the first to take atheism seriously as a social movement, Richard J. Meagher examines the political history of American atheism and freethought. Meagher demonstrates how changes in resources, opportunities, and movement identity help explain the political mobilization of

Prisms of the People: Power & Organizing in Twenty-First-Century America (Han Hahrie)(Paperback)

Grassroots organizing and collective action have always been fundamental to American democracy but have been burgeoning since the 2016 election, as people struggle to make their voices heard in this moment of societal upheaval. Unfortunately much of that action has not had the kind of impact

Hard White: The Mainstreaming of Racism in American Politics (Fording Richard C.)(Paperback)

The white nationalist movement in the United States is nothing new. Yet, prior to the 2017 Unite the Right rally in Charlottesville, Virginia, many Americans assumed that it existed only on the fringes of our political system, a dark cultural relic pushed out of the mainstream by the victories of

Iran: A Social and Political History Since the Qajars (Richard Yann)(Paperback)

From encounters with Western powers in the nineteenth century through to a Constitutional Revolution at the beginning of the twentieth century, and from the overthrow of the democratically elected Prime Minister Mosaddeq in the 1950s to the current Islamic Republic, Iran's history has rarely been

In the Aftermath of Gezi: From Social Movement to Social Change? (Hemer Oscar)(Paperback)

The Dawn of Innovation: The First American Industrial Revolution (Morris Charles R.)(Paperback)

In the first few decades of the nineteenth century, America went from being a largely rural economy, with little internal transportation infrastructure, to a fledgling industrial powerhouse--setting the stage for the vast fortunes that would be made in the golden age of American capitalism. In The

The Politics of Life Itself: Biomedicine, Power, and Subjectivity in the Twenty-First Century (Rose Nikolas)(Paperback)

For centuries, medicine aimed to treat abnormalities. But today normality itself is open to medical modification. Equipped with a new molecular understanding of bodies and minds, and new techniques for manipulating basic life processes at the level of molecules, cells, and genes, medicine now seeks

Money in American Politics: The First 200 Years (Miller Richard Lawrence)(Paperback)

The people who run our government are affected by money just like the rest of us. Over the years, many of these officials have worried about meeting mortgage payments, holding off creditors, and avoiding bankruptcy. Others made fortunes by devoting their time to supervising their business

American Populism: A Social History 1877-1898 (McMath Robert)(Paperback)

From the first crises in America's farming regions in the 1870s through the fracture and demise of grass-roots protest organizations at the end of the century. American Populism chronicles the Populists' battles with the dominant institutions of an industrializing nation. In this readable and

Ribbon Societies in Nineteenth-Century Ireland and Its Diaspora: The Persistence of Tradition (Hughes Kyle)(Paperback)

This is the first full-length study of Irish Ribbonism, tracing the development of the movement from its origins in the Defender movement of the 1790s to the latter part of the century when the remnants of the Ribbon tradition found solace in a new movement: the quasi-constitutional affinitiesof

A Social Theory of Corruption: Notes from the Indian Subcontinent (Rajan Sudhir Chella)(Pevná vazba)

A social theory of grand corruption from antiquity to the twenty-first century. In contemporary policy discourse, the notion of corruption is highly constricted, understood just as the pursuit of private gain while fulfilling a public duty. Its paradigmatic manifestations are bribery and extortion,

Islamophobia and the Politics of Empire: Twenty Years After 9/11 (Kumar Deepa)(Paperback)

A critically acclaimed analysis of anti-Muslim racism from the sixteenth to the twenty-first centuries, in a fully revised and expanded second edition In this incisive account, leading scholar of Islamophobia Deepa Kumar traces the history of anti-Muslim racism from the early modern era to the 'War

On the Road - Adventures from Nixon to Trump (Naughtie James)(Paperback / softback)

The acclaimed author and BBC broadcaster on US politics and the American dream, from Richard Nixon to Donald

Dispatches from the Vanguard: The Global International African Arts Movement Versus Donald J. Trump (Howell Patrick)(Paperback)

A collection of writers, poets, artists, social entrepreneurs and political activists in the Global International African Arts Movement speak about their work in the context of Trump, giving a voice to the voiceless and about the 5th estate of power in this timely and important book. Scheduled for

On Stalin's Team: The Years of Living Dangerously in Soviet Politics (Fitzpatrick Sheila)(Paperback)

The first chronicle of Stalin's inner political and social circle--from a leading Soviet historianStalin was the unchallenged dictator of the Soviet Union for so long that most historians have dismissed the officials surrounding him as mere yes-men and political window dressing. On Stalin's Team

Dark Persuasion: A History of Brainwashing from Pavlov to Social Media (Dimsdale Joel E.)(Pevná vazba)

A harrowing account of brainwashing’s pervasive role in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries This gripping book traces the evolution of brainwashing from its beginnings in torture and religious conversion into the age of neuroscience and social media. When Pavlov introduced scientific

An Introduction to Old English (Hogg Richard)(Paperback)

An accessible overview of the first centuries in the history of the English languageCombining a wide variety of short texts with a coherent and up-to-date assessment of the forms of language which remain as the foundation of English today, this introduction offers a unique study of Old English in

Preston Murders and Misdemeanours (Johnson Keith)(Paperback / softback)

A compelling collection of true crime stories from the nineteenth and twentieth centuries in the Lancashire city of

Abstract Expressionism for Beginners (Klin Richard)(Paperback)

Abstract Expressionism was the defining movement in American art during the years following World War II, making New York City the center of the international art scene. But what the heck did it mean The drips, the spills, the splashes, the blotches of color, the wild spontaneous energy signifying

Fictional Television and American Politics: From 9/11 to Donald Trump (Holland Jack)(Paperback)

This book explores the relationship between fictional television and American world politics in the period from 9/11 through to the presidency of Donald J. Trump. This period comprises a second golden age for fictional TV. The book therefore explores some of the best TV of all time across two

J.G. Ballard's Politics (Cord Florian)(Paperback)

This book is the first sustained investigation of the political dimension in the work of J.G. Ballard. A product of and reaction to the cultural-socio-economic moment commonly designated as the postmodern condition, Ballard's oeuvre is read as a continuous and developing meditation on the

Animal Rights - Political and Social Pb (Kean Hilda)(Paperback / softback)

In the early twenty-first century animals are news. This title looks at the cultural and social role of animals from 1800 to the present at the way in which visual images and myths captured the popular imagination and encouraged sympathy for animals and outrage at their

Dispatches from Pluto: Lost and Found in the Mississippi Delta (Grant Richard)(Paperback)

In Dispatches from Pluto, adventure writer Richard Grant takes on 'the most American place on Earth'--the enigmatic, beautiful, often derided Mississippi Delta. Richard Grant and his girlfriend were living in a shoebox apartment in New

Capital Gains: Business and Politics in Twentieth-Century America (John Richard R.)(Paperback)

Recent events--the Citizens United Supreme Court decision, the Occupy Wall Street movement, and efforts to increase the minimum wage, among others--have driven a tremendous surge of interest in the political power of business. Capital Gains collects some of the most innovative new work in the