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Memory and Social Movements in Modern and Contemporary History Remembering Past Struggles and Resourcing Protest
Reflecting the growing interest of historians in memory studies, this edited collection examines the relationship between memory and global social...
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Ronald Reagan’s 1984 Politics, Policy, and Culture
Forty years after Ronald Reagan’s successful re-election campaign, this book explores the significance of the year 1984 in the making of Reagan’s...
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Punk, Ageing and Time
To date there has been no plotting of punk scholarship which speaks to ‘time’, yet there are some clear bodies of work pertaining to particular...
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The Matteotti Murder and Mussolini The Anatomy of a Fascist Crime
This much-awarded work by one of Italy’s most esteemed historians of fascism, Mauro Canali, is now available in English translation. Based on a...
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The Reception of Ancient Egypt in Venice, 1400-1800 Travelers, Adventurers, and Collectors
This book examines for the first time how ancient Egypt is reflected in early modern Venetian sources. As a center of the printing industry, Venice...
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A History of the Humanities in the Modern University A Productive Crisis
This book challenges commonplace assertions that the humanities are presently undergoing a severe crisis as a result of a longstanding decline....
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Environment, Agency, and Technology in Urban Life since c.1750 Technonatures in the Global North
This book explores the historical relationship between ‘technonatures’ and urban transformations in the Global North. In recent years, various...
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“Unnecessary Conversations”: Talking Sex in the Early Modern Polish Village
This chapter shows us how early modern Polish peasants used to discuss sex. Despite the rules of decorum, conversations about sex were still...
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Language, Settings, and Networks for Early Modern Private Conversations
This chapter introduces the research area by proposing the angle of privacy to analyse the subject of everyday conversations in early modern Europe....
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An Agenda-Setting History
Following the survey of the book and the main historical stages of the history of the human sciences in the modern university outlined in the preface...
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“We Take Care of Our Own”: Talking about ‘Disability’ in Early Modern Netherlandish Households
This chapter investigates how people in the Netherlands talked about disability, poverty, and charity in the privacy of their homes in the sixteenth...
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The Way Out Is Through: Co-produced Critical Utopia as an Antidote to Anthropocenic Academic Melancholia
The starting point for this chapter is the late Mark Fisher’s work on nascent postcapitalist desire, as a curtailed exploration of the anxiety and...
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Challenging Dystopia with Laughter: Yan Lianke’s Inversion of Political Slogans in Serve the People!
While dystopian literature tends to be dark and ominous, Yan Lianke’s (b.1958) numerous satires of revolutionary politics and corruption in the...
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From Modern Feminist Utopias to Feminist Post-utopia: Biopolitics and Women’s Emancipation
The fundamental principle of modernity on which the utopian stories of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries are based, biopolitics as an...
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From Medieval Utopia to Modern Dystopia
The rich vocabulary of medieval Islamic apocalyptic and eschatological compilations is familiar to modern Arab writers, yet influenced by modern...
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Sumak Kawsay as Decolonial Post-utopia
The search for alternatives to development and beyond has become increasingly more frequent, especially in the face of the avalanche of evidence that...
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Post-apocalyptic Critical Dystopias: Killing the Minotaur in the Labyrinth
Contemporary series of books and movies for teenagers and young adults, such as The Giver by Lois Lowry, The City of Ember by Jeanne DuPrau, The...
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Techno-naturans vs. Terraforming. The Technique-Nature Relationship in Ernst Bloch, Gilles Deleuze, and Benjamin Bratton
Vis-à-vis the technocratic and productivist notion of technology implemented by hegemonic modernity, the materialism of Ernst Bloch, Gilles Deleuze,...
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Camilla Herculiana (Erculiani): Private Practices of Knowledge Production
This chapter analyses the paratextual and epistolary rhetorical strategies connected with private practices of knowledge production used by the...