Engines of Redemption: Railroads and the Reconstruction of Capitalism in the New South (Huffard R. Scott)(Paperback)

Engines of Redemption: Railroads and the Reconstruction of Capitalism in the New South (Huffard R. Scott)(Paperback)

After the upheavals of the Civil War and Reconstruction shattered the plantation economy of the Old South, white southerners turned to the railroad to reconstruct capitalism in the region. Examining the rapid growth, systemization, and consolidation of the southern railroad network, R. Scott

The Best of Enemies: Race and Redemption in the New South (Davidson Osha Gray)(Paperback)

C.P. Ellis grew up in the poor white section of Durham, North Carolina, and as a young man joined the Ku Klux Klan. Ann Atwater, from the poor black part of town, quit her job as a household domestic to join the civil rights fight. Now a major motion picture, The Best of Enemies offers a vivid

South Pacific Anchorages (Clay Warwick)(Paperback)

Details of harbours and anchorages in the pacific south of the equator between New Guinea and South

Blood, Iron, and Gold: How the Railroads Transformed the World (Wolmar Christian)(Paperback)

The opening of the world's first railroad in Britain and America in 1830 marked the dawn of a new age. Within the course of a decade, tracks were being laid as far afield as Australia and Cuba, and by the outbreak of World War I, the United States alone boasted over a quarter of a million miles

Religion and the Rise of Capitalism (Tawney R. H.)(Paperback / softback)

A classic of political economy that traces the influence of religious thought on capitalism In one of the true classics of twentieth-century political economy, R. H. Tawney investigates the way religion has moulded social and economic practice. He tracks the influence of religious thought on

Great Railway Revolution - The Epic Story of the American Railroad (Wolmar Christian)(Paperback / softback)

The first new and comprehensive narrative history of the American railroads in a generation. 'Shrewd, articulate and incredibly well-informed' - Miranda Seymour, Daily

Age of Surveillance Capitalism - The Fight for a Human Future at the New Frontier of Power: Barack Obama's Books of 2019 (Zuboff Professor Shoshana)(Paperback / softback)

The challenges to humanity posed by the digital future, the first detailed examination of the unprecedented form of power called 'surveillance capitalism,' and the quest by powerful corporations to predict and control us.The heady optimism of the Internet's early days is gone. Technologies that

History of the World in Seven Cheap Things - A Guide to Capitalism, Nature, and the Future of the Planet (Patel Raj)(Paperback / softback)

A Guide to Capitalism, Nature, and the Future of the

Sinews of War and Trade: Shipping and Capitalism in the Arabian Peninsula (Khalili Laleh)(Paperback)

A wide-ranging account of shipping and capitalism in the Middle East On the map of global trade, China is now the factory of the world. A parade of ships full of raw commodities -iron ore, coal, oil- arrive in its ports, and fleets of container ships leave with manufactured goods in all directions

Passions of the Christ: The Emotional Life of Jesus in the Gospels (Spencer F. Scott)(Paperback)

Senior New Testament scholar F. Scott Spencer focuses on a neglected area in the study of Jesus and the Gospels: the emotional life of Jesus. This book offers a fresh reading of the Gospels through the lens of Jesus's emotions--anger, grief, disgust, surprise, compassion, and joy. These emotions

The Star of Redemption (Rosenzweig Franz)(Paperback)

The Star of Redemption is essential reading for anyone interested in understanding religion and philosophy in the twentieth century. Fusing philosophy and theology, the book assigns both Judaism and Christianity distinct but equally important roles in the spiritual structure of the world. Franz

The Last Place on Earth: Scott and Amundsen's Race to the South Pole, Revised and Updated (Huntford Roland)(Paperback)

At the beginning of the twentieth century, the South Pole was the most coveted prize in the fiercely nationalistic modern age of exploration. In the brilliant dual biography, the award-winning writer Roland Huntford re-examines every detail of the great race to the South Pole between Britain's

Beyond Redemption (Fletcher Michael R.)(Paperback)

A darkly imaginative writer in the tradition of Joe Abercrombie, Peter V. Brett, and Neil Gaiman conjures a gritty mind-bending fantasy, set in a world where delusion becomes reality . . . and the fulfillment of humanity's desires may well prove to be its undoing.When belief defines reality, those

The Making of Minjung: Democracy and the Politics of Representation in South Korea (Lee Namhee)(Paperback)

In this sweeping intellectual and cultural history of the minjung (common people's) movement in South Korea, Namhee Lee shows how the movement arose in the 1970s and 1980s in response to the repressive authoritarian regime and grew out of a widespread sense that the nation's failed history left

The Digitally Disposed, 61: Racial Capitalism and the Informatics of Value (Franklin Seb)(Paperback)

Locates the deep history of digitality in the development of racial capitalism Seb Franklin sets out a media theory of racial capitalism to examine digitality's racial-capitalist foundations. The Digitally Disposed shows how the promises of boundless connection, flexibility, and prosperity that

Trends in Reconstructive Neurosurgery: Neurorehabilitation, Restoration and Reconstruction (Visocchi Massimiliano)(Paperback)

These proceeding cover new trends presented at the IV Congress of the International Society of Reconstructive Neurosurgery (ISRN),

The New Spirit of Capitalism (Boltanski Luc)(Paperback)

New edition of this major work examining the development of neoliberalism In this major work, sociologists Luc Boltanski and Eve Chiapello go to the heart of the changes in contemporary capitalism. Via an unprecedented analysis of the latest management texts that have formed the thinking of

Keywords: The New Language of Capitalism (Leary John Patrick)(Paperback)

A lexicon of our age of inequality, which decodes the new vocabulary of capitalism for a broad

The Culture of the New Capitalism (Sennett Richard)(Paperback)

Class Theory and History - Capitalism and Communism in the USSR (Resnick Stephen A.)(Paperback / softback)

A ground-breaking look at the entire history of the Soviet Union, presenting a new kind of analysis of the history of the USSR: examining its birth, evolution, and death in class

Coed Revolution: The Female Student in the Japanese New Left (Schieder Chelsea Szendi)(Paperback)

In the 1960s, a new generation of university educated youth in Japan challenged forms of capitalism and the state. In Coed Revolution Chelsea Szendi Schieder recounts the crucial stories of Japanese women's participation in these protest movements led by the New Left throughout the 1960s and early

God in Pain: Inversions of Apocalypse (Zizek Slavoj)(Paperback)

A brilliant dissection and reconstruction of the three major faith-based systems of belief in the world today, from one of the world's most articulate intellectuals, Slavoj Zizek, in conversation with Croatian philosopher Boris Gunjevic. In six chapters that describe Christianity, Islam, and

The Corrosion of Character: The Personal Consequences of Work in the New Capitalism (Sennett Richard)(Paperback)

In The Corrosion of Character, Richard Sennett, 'among the country's most distinguished thinkers . . . has concentrated into 176 pages a profoundly affecting argument' (Business Week) that draws on interviews with dismissed IBM executives, bakers, a bartender turned advertising executive, and many

Diesels and Electrics in London and the South East (Batten Malcolm)(Paperback)

The railway lines of London and the South East include tracks from all four of the constituent companies that made up British Railways and subsequently became the Eastern, Midland, Southern and Western regions. Each region took a separate approach when diesels and electrics replaced steam in the