The Archaeology of Food: Identity, Politics, and Ideology in the Prehistoric and Historic Past (Twiss Katheryn C.)(Paperback)

The Archaeology of Food: Identity, Politics, and Ideology in the Prehistoric and Historic Past (Twiss Katheryn C.)(Paperback)

The Archaeology of Food explains how archaeologists reconstruct what people ate, and how such reconstructions reveal ancient political struggles, religious practices, ethnic identities, gender norms, and more. Balancing deep research with accessible writing, Katheryn Twiss familiarizes readers with

Gender, Race, and Social Identity in American Politics: The Past and Future of Political Access (Montalbano Lori L.)(Pevná vazba)

Gender, Race, and Social Identity in American Politics: The Past and Future of Political Access explores the ways in which cultural expression is represented in American politics as it intersects with issues of gender, race, and the construction of social identity. Specifically, this body of work

The Wandering Who (Atzmon Gilad)(Paperback)

This is an investigation of Jewish identity politics and contemporary Jewish ideology using both popular culture and scholarly

The Creation of Confederate Nationalism: Ideology and Identity in the Civil War South (Faust Drew Gilpin)(Paperback)

For decades, historians have debated the meaning and significance of Confederate nationalism and the role it played in the outcome of the Civil War. Yet they have paid little attention to the actual development and content of this Confederate ideology. In The Creation of Confederate Nationalism,

Identity - Contemporary Identity Politics and the Struggle for Recognition (Fukuyama Francis)(Paperback / softback)

The divisive impacts of identity politics laid bare by the bestselling author of The Origins of Political Order and The End of

The Archaeology of Seeing: Science and Interpretation, the Past and Contemporary Visual Art (Janik Liliana)(Paperback)

The Archaeology of Seeing provides readers with a new and provocative understanding of material culture through exploring visual narratives captured in cave and rock art, sculpture, paintings, and more. The engaging argument draws on current thinking in archaeology, on how we can interpret the

Politics Goes to the Movies: Hollywood, Europe, and Beyond (Kolker Robert P.)(Paperback)

Politics Goes to the Movies introduces the topic of political representation and ideology by analyzing some of the most important politically themed films across the history of cinema in a refreshing and concise volume. Offering a survey of political cinema from 1915 to present day, topics include:

The Immigrant-Food Nexus: Borders, Labor, and Identity in North America (Agyeman Julian)(Paperback)

The intersection of food and immigration in North America, from the macroscale of national policy to the microscale of immigrants' lived, daily foodways.This volume considers the intersection of food and immigration at both the macroscale of national policy and the microscale of immigrant

The Politics of Cultural Despair: A Study in the Rise of the Germanic Ideology (Stern Fritz R.)(Paperback)

This is a study in the pathology of cultural criticism. By analyzing the thought and influence of three leading critics of modern Germany, this study will demonstrate the dangers and dilemmas of a particular type of cultural despair. Lagarde, Langbehn, and Moeller van den Bruck-their active lives

Chiang Kai-Shek's Politics of Shame: Leadership, Legacy, and National Identity in China (Huang Grace C.)(Paperback)

Once a powerful figure who reversed the disintegration of China and steered the country to Allied victory in World War II, Chiang Kai-shek fled into exile following his 1949 defeat in the Chinese civil war. As attention pivoted to Mao Zedong's communist experiment, Chiang was relegated to the

Mistaken Identity: Race and Class in the Age of Trump (Haider Asad)(Paperback)

A powerful challenge to the way we understand the politics of race and the history of anti-racist struggleWhether class or race is the more important factor in modern politics is a question right at the heart of recent history's most contentious debates. Among groups who should readily find common

Violent Radical Movements in the Arab World: The Ideology and Politics of Non-State Actors (Sluglett Peter)(Paperback)

Violent non-state actors have become almost endemic to political movements in the Middle East and the Horn of Africa. This book examines why they play such a key role and the different ways in which they have developed. Placing them in the context of the region, separate chapters cover the

The Archaeology of Rock-Art (Chippindale Christopher)(Paperback)

Rock art--prehistoric pictures--gives us lively and captivating images of animals and people painted and carved in caves and on open rock surfaces. It is all too easy to guess at the meanings the images carry. This pioneering set of essays instead explores how we can reliably learn from rock art as

The Land of Boudica: Prehistoric and Roman Norfolk (Davies John)(Paperback)

Modern Archaeology is showing Norfolk to be a distinct region of national and international significance. This book traces the story of this area from the Ice Age and the first appearance of people, to the end of Roman Britain. In particular it focuses on the many remarkable and exciting

Jefferson Davis, Napoleonic France, and the Nature of Confederate Ideology, 1815-1870 (Zvengrowski Jeffrey)(Pevná vazba)

In this highly original study of Confederate ideology and politics, Jeffrey Zvengrowski suggests that Confederate president Jefferson Davis and his supporters saw Bonapartist France as a model for the Confederate States of America. They viewed themselves as struggling not so much for the

Making One's Way in the World: The Footprints and Trackways of Prehistoric People (Bell Martin)(Pevná vazba)

The book draws on the evidence of landscape archaeology, palaeoenvironmental studies, ethnohistory and animal tracking to address the neglected topic of how we identify and interpret past patterns of movement in the landscape. It challenges the pessimism of previous generations which regarded

Fingerprints Of The Gods (Hancock Graham)(Paperback / softback)

Exploring the past with hi-tech tools of modern archaeology, geology and astronomy, Hancock exposes an eerie network of connections between Egyptian pyramids, Andean temples, spherical geometry, and astro-navigation. He makes claim for a lost civilization that flourished during the last ice age

Artificial Whiteness: Politics and Ideology in Artificial Intelligence (Katz Yarden)(Paperback)

Dramatic statements about the promise and peril of artificial intelligence for humanity abound, as an industry of experts claims that AI is poised to reshape nearly every sphere of life. Who profits from the idea that the age of AI has arrived? Why do ideas of AI's transformative potential keep

The Politics and Ideology of Planning (Marshall Tim)(Paperback)

Planning is a battleground of ideas and interests, perhaps more visibly and continuously than ever before in the UK. Marshall goes to the root of current planning models and exposes who is acting for what purposes in these battlegrounds. He examines the ideological structuring of planning and the

Israel, Palestine and the Politics of Race: Exploring Identity and Power in a Global Context (Abu-Laban Yasmeen)(Paperback)

As the situation in Israel/Palestine seems to become ever more intractable and protracted, the need for new ways of looking at recent developments and their historical roots is more pressing than ever. Bearing this in mind, Yasmeen Abu-Laban and Abigail B. Bakan discuss the historic and

Augustus and the Destruction of History - The politics of the past in early imperial Rome(Pevná vazba)

Identity and the Difficulty of Emancipation (Kaul Volker)(Pevná vazba)

This book provides a comprehensive account of the phenomenon of identity in politics, featuring for the first time the question of individual emancipation. It addresses the burning questions of our times, viz. nationalism, populism, Islamic fundamentalism, multiculturalism, postsecularism and

Bible in the British Museum - Interpreting the Evidence (Mitchell T. C.)(Paperback / softback)

The links between archaeology and the Bible have fascinated generations of archaeologists and biblical scholars who seek documentation of events narrated in the Bible. This work selects over 70 such documents, mainly from Western Asia, with some examples included from Greece, Egypt and Asia

The Italian American Table: Food, Family, and Community in New York City (Cinotto Simone)(Paperback)

Best Food Book of 2014 by The Atlantic Looking at the historic Italian American community of East Harlem in the 1920s and 30s, Simone Cinotto recreates the bustling world of Italian life in New York City and demonstrates how food was at the center of the lives of immigrants and their children