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The Holocaust Museum and Human Rights
Transnational Perspectives on Contemporary Memorials
Price: $74.95
ISBN: 9780812253221
Pub Date: January 2025
Format: Hardcover
312 Pages
Interrogates the global, and often controversial, phenomenon of Holocaust and human rights museumsSpanning six continents—Europe, Australia, Africa, Asia, North America, and South America—this edited...
State of Shock
The Kibbutz in Israel from Avant-Garde to Fetish, 1948-1955
Price: $59.95
ISBN: 9781512826661
Pub Date: November 2024
Format: Hardcover
256 Pages
Argues that the foundation of Israel was a trauma that destabilized the kibbutz’s conceptual groundingState of Shock decodes one of the most iconic images of Zionism and Israel: the kibbutz. Lior...
Far-Right Vanguard
The Radical Roots of Modern Conservatism
Price: $26.50
ISBN: 9781512826951
Pub Date: September 2024
Format: Paperback
312 Pages
The history of the ultraconservative movement, its national network, and its influence on Republican Party politicsDonald Trump shocked the nation in 2016 by winning the presidency through an ultraconservative,...
Predicting Disasters
Earthquakes, Scientists, and Uncertainty in Modern Japan
Price: $64.95
ISBN: 9781512825374
Pub Date: February 2024
Format: Hardcover
368 Pages
Japan is a place where powerful earthquakes have occurred more frequently and have caused more harm in the modern era than they have in all but a handful of other locations on the planet. In the twentieth...
Of Light and Struggle
Social Justice, Human Rights, and Accountability in Uruguay
Price: $45.00
ISBN: 9781512824247
Pub Date: June 2023
Format: Hardcover
352 Pages
During the country’s dictatorship from 1973 to 1985, Uruguayans suffered under crushing repression, which included the highest rate of political incarceration in the world. In Of Light and Struggle,...
Dreams for a Decade
International Nuclear Abolitionism and the End of the Cold War
Price: $45.00
ISBN: 9781512824223
Pub Date: April 2023
Format: Hardcover
328 Pages
During the 1980s, millions of ordinary individuals around the world mobilized in support of nuclear disarmament. Although U.S. President Ronald Reagan and Soviet General Secretary Mikhail Gorbachev...
The Paradox of Urban Revitalization
Progress and Poverty in America's Postindustrial Era
Price: $39.95
ISBN: 9780812253719
Pub Date: June 2022
Format: Hardcover
344 Pages
In the twenty-first century, cities in the United States that had suffered most the shift to a postindustrial era entered a period widely proclaimed as an urban renaissance. From Detroit to Newark to...
Contracting Freedom
Race, Empire, and U.S. Guestworker Programs
Price: $45.00
ISBN: 9780812253887
Pub Date: May 2022
Format: Hardcover
296 Pages
Contracting Freedom is the first relational study of the origins of twentieth-century U.S. guestworker programs from Mexico and the Caribbean, focusing on their shared origins. It investigates these...
Referendums and Ethnic Conflict
Price: $34.95
ISBN: 9780812225266
Pub Date: April 2022
Format: Paperback
208 Pages
Although referendums have been used for centuries to settle ethnonational conflicts, there had yet been no systematic study or generalized theory concerning their effectiveness until Matt Qvortrup's...

The Holocaust Museum and Human Rights
Transnational Perspectives on Contemporary Memorials
Price: $74.95
ISBN: 9780812253221
Pub Date: January 2025
Format: Hardcover
312 Pages
Interrogates the global, and often controversial, phenomenon of Holocaust and human rights museumsSpanning six continents—Europe, Australia, Africa, Asia, North America, and South America—this edited...
State of Shock
The Kibbutz in Israel from Avant-Garde to Fetish, 1948-1955
Price: $59.95
ISBN: 9781512826661
Pub Date: November 2024
Format: Hardcover
256 Pages
Argues that the foundation of Israel was a trauma that destabilized the kibbutz’s conceptual groundingState of Shock decodes one of the most iconic images of Zionism and Israel: the kibbutz. Lior...
Far-Right Vanguard
The Radical Roots of Modern Conservatism
Price: $26.50
ISBN: 9781512826951
Pub Date: September 2024
Format: Paperback
312 Pages
The history of the ultraconservative movement, its national network, and its influence on Republican Party politicsDonald Trump shocked the nation in 2016 by winning the presidency through an ultraconservative,...
Predicting Disasters
Earthquakes, Scientists, and Uncertainty in Modern Japan
Price: $64.95
ISBN: 9781512825374
Pub Date: February 2024
Format: Hardcover
368 Pages
Japan is a place where powerful earthquakes have occurred more frequently and have caused more harm in the modern era than they have in all but a handful of other locations on the planet. In the twentieth...
Of Light and Struggle
Social Justice, Human Rights, and Accountability in Uruguay
Price: $45.00
ISBN: 9781512824247
Pub Date: June 2023
Format: Hardcover
352 Pages
During the country’s dictatorship from 1973 to 1985, Uruguayans suffered under crushing repression, which included the highest rate of political incarceration in the world. In Of Light and Struggle,...
Dreams for a Decade
International Nuclear Abolitionism and the End of the Cold War
Price: $45.00
ISBN: 9781512824223
Pub Date: April 2023
Format: Hardcover
328 Pages
During the 1980s, millions of ordinary individuals around the world mobilized in support of nuclear disarmament. Although U.S. President Ronald Reagan and Soviet General Secretary Mikhail Gorbachev...
The Paradox of Urban Revitalization
Progress and Poverty in America's Postindustrial Era
Price: $39.95
ISBN: 9780812253719
Pub Date: June 2022
Format: Hardcover
344 Pages
In the twenty-first century, cities in the United States that had suffered most the shift to a postindustrial era entered a period widely proclaimed as an urban renaissance. From Detroit to Newark to...
Contracting Freedom
Race, Empire, and U.S. Guestworker Programs
Price: $45.00
ISBN: 9780812253887
Pub Date: May 2022
Format: Hardcover
296 Pages
Contracting Freedom is the first relational study of the origins of twentieth-century U.S. guestworker programs from Mexico and the Caribbean, focusing on their shared origins. It investigates these...
Referendums and Ethnic Conflict
Price: $34.95
ISBN: 9780812225266
Pub Date: April 2022
Format: Paperback
208 Pages
Although referendums have been used for centuries to settle ethnonational conflicts, there had yet been no systematic study or generalized theory concerning their effectiveness until Matt Qvortrup's...