Undoing Slavery excavates cultural, political, medical, and legal history to understand the abolitionist focus on the body on its own terms. Motivated by their conviction that the physical form of the human body was universal and faced with the growing racism of eighteenth- and nineteenth-century science, abolitionists in North America and Britain ......
Undoing Slavery excavates cultural, political, medical, and legal history to understand the abolitionist focus on the body on its own terms. Motivated by their conviction that the physical form of the human body was universal and faced with the growing racism of eighteenth- and nineteenth-century science, abolitionists in North America and Britain ......
How Colombian mining communities navigate state power in a context of criminalization and political neglect In the Choco rainforests of Colombia, local and settler miners turn to gold as a means to get by and get ahead on the margins of capitalism. They eke out livelihoods while worrying about the declining richness of subsoils, their ......
How Colombian mining communities navigate state power in a context of criminalization and political neglect In the Choco rainforests of Colombia, local and settler miners turn to gold as a means to get by and get ahead on the margins of capitalism. They eke out livelihoods while worrying about the declining richness of subsoils, their ......
This book gets to the bottom of the twenty-first-century city, literally. Underground moves beneath Romania's capital, Bucharest, to examine how the demands of global accumulation have extended urban life not just upward into higher skylines, and outward to ever more distant peripheries, but also downward beneath city sidewalks. Underground ......
This book gets to the bottom of the twenty-first-century city, literally. Underground moves beneath Romania's capital, Bucharest, to examine how the demands of global accumulation have extended urban life not just upward into higher skylines, and outward to ever more distant peripheries, but also downward beneath city sidewalks. Underground ......
Everyday Politics of Religious Difference in Southern Turkey
An ethnographic study of the everyday lives of religious minorities near Turkey's border with Syria How do people coexist in a world shaped by longstanding differences, political instability, and recurrent displacement? In Under the Same Sky, Secil Da?ta? addresses this question by exploring the everyday politics of religious difference among ......
A Garnering from the Talks of Thirty Years on Poets, Dramatists, and Essayists
Cornelius Weygant aimed Tuesdays at Ten at his former students. The book consists of multiple lectures and lessons that he had taught and copied down almost verbatim. It outlined the history of Pennsylvania, the state that he loved so much, and the University of Pennsylvania, the school that molded him. It was a hit with many of his former ......
Political theorists Jeremy Elkins and Andrew Norris observe that American political culture is deeply ambivalent about truth. On the one hand, voices on both the left and right make confident appeals to the truth of claims about the status of the market in public life and the role of scientific evidence and argument in public life, human rights, ......
