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  • Soft Power beyond the Nation

    by Sylvia Dummer Scheel, Charlotte Faucher, Camila Gatica Mizala, Chandrika Kaul, Michael L. Krenn, Rui Kohiyama, Meredith L. Roman, Drew Flanagan0, Kelly R. Colvin1, Cyril Cordoba2, Claire Nicolas3, Maria Montt Strabucchi4, Coline Desportes5 ...
    An innovative, interdisciplinary perspective on soft power in history, moving beyond the framework of the nation-stateStarting in the nineteenth century, as world events became more interconnected than ever, and as public opinion began to weigh on democratic governments, nations employed new communication strategies and propaganda to gain global influence and prestige. Soft power strategies were ... Read more

    $44.99 USD

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    The Black Radical Imagination

    by Robin D. G. Kelley ...
    The 20th-anniversary edition of Kelley’s influential history of 20th-century Black radicalism, with new reflections on current movements and their impact on the author, and a foreword by poet Aja MonetFirst published in 2002, Freedom Dreams is a staple in the study of the Black radical tradition. Unearthing the thrilling history of grassroots movements and renegade intellectuals and artists, ... Read more

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  • Nationalism

    A World History

    by Eric Storm ...
    A global perspective on the nature and evolution of nationalism, from the early modern era to the presentThe current rise of nationalism across the globe is a reminder that we are not, after all, living in a borderless world of virtual connectivity. In Nationalism, historian Eric Storm sheds light on contemporary nationalist movements by exploring the global evolution of nationalism, beginning ... Read more

    $28.79 USD

  • Making Intangible Heritage

    El Condor Pasa and Other Stories from UNESCO

    by Valdimar Hafstein ...
    In Making Intangible Heritage, Valdimar Tr. Hafstein—folklorist and official delegate to UNESCO—tells the story of UNESCO's Intangible Heritage Convention. In the ethnographic tradition, Hafstein peers underneath the official account, revealing the context important for understanding UNESCO as an organization, the concept of intangible heritage, and the global impact of both. Looking beyond ... Read more

    $14.29 USD

  • The Invention of the Future

    A History of Cities in the Modern World

    by Bruno Carvalho ...
    A kaleidoscopic and original new history of urbanization—from Lisbon to New York, Paris to Rio de Janeiro, and Buenos Aires to LagosFor the past three centuries, urban dwellers and planners have imagined future cities that would be radically different from those of the past. Planners pursued progress, whether focused on flying vehicles above, sewage systems below, or daily life in between. Yet, as ... Read more

    $25.19 USD

  • Audible Empire

    Music, Global Politics, Critique

    Edited by Ronald Radano, Tejumola Olaniyan ...
    Series series Refiguring American Music
    Audible Empire rethinks the processes and mechanisms of empire and shows how musical practice has been crucial to its spread around the globe. Music is a means of comprehending empire as an audible formation, and the contributors highlight how it has been circulated, consumed, and understood through imperial logics. These fifteen interdisciplinary essays cover large swaths of genre, time, politics ... Read more

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  • Global Mobilities

    Refugees, Exiles, and Immigrants in Museums and Archives

    Edited by Amy K. Levin ...
    Global Mobilities illustrates the significant engagement of museums and archives with populations that have experienced forced or willing migration: emigrants, exiles, refugees, asylum seekers, and others. The volume explores the role of public institutions in the politics of integration and cultural diversity, analyzing their efforts to further the inclusion of racial and ethnic minority ... Read more

    $63.99 USD

  • Revolution, Rebellion, Resistance

    The Power of Story

    by Professor Eric Selbin ...
    Why do revolutions happen? Decades of social science research have brought us little closer to understanding where, when and amongst whom they occur.In this groundbreaking book, Eric Selbin argues that we need to look beyond the economic, political and social structural conditions to the thoughts and feelings of the people who make revolutions. In particular, he argues, we need to understand the ... Read more

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  • International Women's Year

    The Greatest Consciousness-Raising Event in History

    by Jocelyn Olcott ...
    Amid the geopolitical and social turmoil of the 1970s, the United Nations declared 1975 as International Women's Year. The capstone event, a two-week conference in Mexico City, was dubbed by organizers and journalists as "the greatest consciousness-raising event in history." The event drew an all-star cast of characters, including Soviet cosmonaut Valentina Tereshkova, Iranian Princess Ashraf ... Read more

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  • The Mask and the Flag

    Populism, Citizenism, and Global Protest

    by Paolo Gerbaudo ...
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  • Anti-Imperial Metropolis

    Interwar Paris and the Seeds of Third World Nationalism

    by Michael Goebel ...
    Series series Global and International History
    This book traces the spread of a global anti-imperialism from the vantage point of Paris between the two World Wars, where countless future leaders of Third World countries spent formative stints. Exploring the local social context in which these emergent activists moved, the study delves into assassination plots allegedly hatched by Chinese students, demonstrations by Latin American nationalists, ... Read more

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  • Dreams of Peace and Freedom

    Utopian Moments in the Twentieth Century

    by Professor Jay Winter ...
    In the wake of the monstrous projects of Hitler, Stalin, Mao, and others in the twentieth century, the idea of utopia has been discredited. Yet, historian Jay Winter suggests, alongside the major utopians” who murdered millions in their attempts to transform the world were disparate groups of people trying in their own separate ways to imagine a radically better world. This original book focuses ... Read more

    $18.99 USD