Transnational Perspectives on Contemporary Memorials
Edited by Jennifer Barrett, Avril Alba and Dirk Moses
Price: $74.95
ISBN: 9780812253221
Pub Date: January 2025
Format: Hardcover
312 Pages
Spanning six continents—Europe, Australia, Africa, Asia, North America, and South America—this collection offers a transnational study of Holocaust and human rights museums that foregrounds the overlapping and often contested work these institutions do in narrating and memorializing histories of genocide and human rights abuses for the public.
The Kibbutz in Israel from Avant-Garde to Fetish, 1948-1955
Lior Libman
Price: $59.95
ISBN: 9781512826661
Pub Date: November 2024
Format: Hardcover
256 Pages
Through an exploration of the imagery of the kibbutz in the stormy transition into Israeli statehood, State of Shock argues that the establishment of the State of Israel was a trauma that destabilized the kibbutz’s deepest conceptual ground and shifted its history, turning it, politically and culturally, from avant-garde to fetish.
Far-Right Vanguard chronicles the history of the ultraconservative movement, its national network, its influence on Republican Party politics, and its centrality to America's rightward turn during the second half of the twentieth century.
Earthquakes, Scientists, and Uncertainty in Modern Japan
Kerry Smith
Price: $64.95
ISBN: 9781512825374
Pub Date: February 2024
Format: Hardcover
368 Pages
Predicting Disasters is the first English-language book to explore how scientists convinced policy makers and the public in postwar Japan that catastrophic earthquakes were coming, and the first to show why earthquake prediction has played such a central role in Japan’s efforts to prepare for a dangerous future ever since.
Social Justice, Human Rights, and Accountability in Uruguay
Debbie Sharnak
Price: $45.00
ISBN: 9781512824247
Pub Date: June 2023
Format: Hardcover
352 Pages
Of Light and Struggle uncovers the messy process through which human rights became a powerful discourse for social change, suggesting that discussions occurring around the globe about the small country on the Río de la Plata had international implications for the limits and possibilities of human rights well beyond Uruguay’s shores.
International Nuclear Abolitionism and the End of the Cold War
Stephanie L. Freeman
Price: $45.00
ISBN: 9781512824223
Pub Date: April 2023
Format: Hardcover
328 Pages
During the 1980s, U.S. President Ronald Reagan, Soviet General Secretary Mikhail Gorbachev, and grassroots movements across the globe pursued the radical goal of nuclear abolition. Together, they reshaped U.S. and Soviet approaches to nuclear arms control and Europe in a way that brought the Cold War to an end.
Progress and Poverty in America's Postindustrial Era
Howard Gillette Jr.
Price: $39.95
ISBN: 9780812253719
Pub Date: June 2022
Format: Hardcover
344 Pages
Even as postindustrial cities have climbed from the depths of decline in the twenty-first century, they have witnessed a cruel paradox: with prosperity has come greater inequality. Tracing the origins and effects of uneven revitalization, this book examines the genesis of America's second urban crisis and prospects for its resolution.
The first relational study of twentieth-century U.S. guestworker programs from Mexico and the Caribbean, Contracting Freedom explores how 1940s debates over labor programs elided race and empire while further legitimating and extending U.S. domination abroad in the post-World War II era.
This updated and revised edition of Referendums and Ethnic Conflict features recent referendums, including Scotland (2014), Catalonia (2017), and the Brexit vote in the United Kingdom (2016), among others, through 2020. The book's political framework also addresses new developments such as identity politics, social media, and populism.
