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Insecurity Politics: How Unstable Lives Lead to Populist Support

Insecurity Politics: How Unstable Lives Lead to Populist...

Author: Lorenza Antonucci
ISBN: 9780691262468
Format: Hardback
$180.00

The everyday realities of financial and work insecurity that drive right- and left-wing populism In Insecurity...  Read More >>

Lieutenants and Light: Mapping the US Army Heliograph Networks in Late Nineteenth-Century Arizona and New Mexico

Lieutenants and Light: Mapping the US Army Heliograph...

Author: Robert E.C. Davis
ISBN: 9780826368409
Format: Hardback
$173.00

Lieutenants and Light provides an accurate, detailed historical study of the U.S. Army’s use of the heliograph as...  Read More >>

Perilous Beasts: Mexican Necropolitics, Animal Deaths, and Blood Sports, 1870–1920

Perilous Beasts: Mexican Necropolitics, Animal Deaths,...

Author: Stephen B. Neufeld
ISBN: 9780826369093
Format: Hardback
$220.00

A deep dive into the history of bullfighting, hunting, and animal control in late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century...  Read More >>

The Battle for Brazil: Resistance,  Renewal, and the War Against the Dutch, 1580–1654

The Battle for Brazil: Resistance,  Renewal, and the...

Author: Suzanne M. Litrel
ISBN: 9780826369048
Format: Hardback
$220.00

This book examines a crucial turning point in the colonial history of Brazil and especially the enduring consequences...  Read More >>

The Fabric of Hellenism: Hellenic Culture and Civic Identity in the Imperial Greek World

The Fabric of Hellenism: Hellenic Culture and Civic...

Author: Ewen Bowie (Corpus Christi College) ,  Calum Maciver (Lecturer in Classics, University of Edinburgh)
ISBN: 9781399552455
Format: Hardback
$299.00

Explores the cultural and civic identity of the Imperial Greek city, examining what it meant to be 'Greek' in the...  Read More >>

Galicia As a Literary Idea: Jewish Eastern Europe in the Writings of Joseph Roth and Soma Morgenstern

Galicia As a Literary Idea: Jewish Eastern Europe in...

Author: Kata Gellen
ISBN: 9781487528898
Format: Hardback
$170.00

Galicia as a Literary Idea explores the relationship of Jewish tradition and modernity in literary works by Joseph...  Read More >>

Spinoza, A Physics of Thought: Individuation and Form

Spinoza, A Physics of Thought: Individuation and Form...

Author: Francois Zourabichvili ,  Eric Aldieri
ISBN: 9781399548007
Format: Hardback
$265.00

Offers a detailed study of Spinoza's philosophical analysis and reformulation of the concept of form and his novel...  Read More >>

Television Drama in Mexico: From Broadcast to Streaming

Television Drama in Mexico: From Broadcast to Streaming...

Author: Paul Julian Smith
ISBN: 9781399560528
Format: Hardback
$219.00

Studies the current artistic and industrial transformation of TV series in Mexico - the biggest and most dynamic...  Read More >>

Affective Dimensions of Political Violence: The Case of a Lynching in Mexico

Affective Dimensions of Political Violence: The Case...

Author: Melany Cruz (University of Leicester)
ISBN: 9781399545112
Format: Hardback
$200.00

Investigates the role of emotions in politicising forms of violence that are often dismissed as apolitical.  Read More >>

Bergson and Affect: Intensity, Virtuality and the Body

Bergson and Affect: Intensity, Virtuality and the Body...

Author: Miguel José Paley
ISBN: 9781399544719
Format: Hardback
$200.00

This book presents the first detailed study of Bergson's philosophy of Affect.  Read More >>

Indirectness: A Plea for Truth in Times of Post-Truth

Indirectness: A Plea for Truth in Times of Post-Truth...

Author: Jela Krečič ,  Jure Simoniti
ISBN: 9781399557900
Format: Hardback
$219.00

The collection is built around the original concept of indirectness, introduced by Jela Krei to illuminate a neglected...  Read More >>

Pleasure and Depletion in Contemporary Militarism

Pleasure and Depletion in Contemporary Militarism

Author: Julia Welland (Associate Professor of War Studies, University of Warwick, UK)
ISBN: 9781399530743
Format: Hardback
$200.00

Why do so many US service members, veterans and military families continue to affectively invest in militarism when...  Read More >>

Deleuze and Cosmology

Deleuze and Cosmology

Author: Janae Sholtz (Assistant Professor of Philosophy, Alvernia University) ,  Alain Beaulieu
ISBN: 9781399560894
Format: Hardback
$230.00

Illustrates the importance of cosmology in Deleuze's philosophy and its potential for multi-disciplinary transformation....  Read More >>

Pierre Schaeffer and the Ethics of Experimental Music Research

Pierre Schaeffer and the Ethics of Experimental Music...

Author: Patrick Valiquet
ISBN: 9781399539234
Format: Hardback
$200.00

The first monograph in English to offer a comprehensive account of Pierre Schaeffer's music philosophy including...  Read More >>

The Politics of Reason: A Postfoundational Approach

The Politics of Reason: A Postfoundational Approach...

Author: Gavin Rae (Associate Professor, Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Spain)
ISBN: 9781399552561
Format: Hardback
$230.00

Offers a reconfiguration of political reason from the perspective of the social performativity inherent in postfoundational...  Read More >>

The Oxford Handbook of American Military History

The Oxford Handbook of American Military History

Author: Samuel J. Watson (, United States Military Academy at West Point)
ISBN: 9780190079932
Format: Hardback
$386.95

The Oxford Handbook of American Military History examines the chronological and thematic range of American military...  Read More >>

The Phenomenology of Individual Agency: Science, Technology, and the Human Condition

The Phenomenology of Individual Agency: Science, Technology,...

Author: Jadwiga S. Smith ,  William S. Smith
ISBN: 9783032061461
Format: Hardback
$310.47

The volume investigates the phenomenology of individual agency in the context of the challenges dictated by modern...  Read More >>

Deleuze's Foucault: A Virtual Force Ontology

Deleuze's Foucault: A Virtual Force Ontology

Author: Christopher Penfield (Postdoctoral Scholar in Philosophy, Purdue University)
ISBN: 9781399530095
Format: Hardback
$219.00

How does Deleuze's study of Foucault challenge and deepen our understanding of both philosophers' thought?  Read More >>

Poetry and Politics in the Play Sir Thomas More

Poetry and Politics in the Play Sir Thomas More

Author: L. Joseph Hebert, Jr.
ISBN: 9780813240176
Format: Hardback
$157.00

If ever a play had something to say about the art of statesmanship, that play is Sir Thomas More. Its origins and...  Read More >>

Quaker, Whaler, Traitor, Spy!: The Trials of William Rotch

Quaker, Whaler, Traitor, Spy!: The Trials of William...

Author: Sarah Crabtree (San Francisco State University) ,  Melissa Philley
ISBN: 9780271101514
Format: Hardback
$167.00

Accused of treason four times by three governments, William Rotch led a harrowing life. A Quaker merchant in the...  Read More >>

Opinions Throughout History:: Government Secrets

Opinions Throughout History:: Government Secrets

Author: Micah Issit
ISBN: 9798891794832
Format: Hardback
$364.10

Uncover the evolution of American public opinion as original documents illuminate debates that have defined the...  Read More >>

Bioarchaeology, Activism and Social Justice: Equitable and Sustainable Global Futures

Bioarchaeology, Activism and Social Justice: Equitable...

Author: Siân E. Halcrow ,  Sabrina C. Agarwal
ISBN: 9783032103536
Format: Hardback
$116.41

This open access volume is the first dedicated to action within bioarchaeology and cognate disciplines, with the...  Read More >>

Legacies of British Slavery in Australia and New Zealand

Legacies of British Slavery in Australia and New Zealand...

Author: Zoë Laidlaw ,  Jane Lydon (Wesfarmers Chair in Australian History)
ISBN: 9781526184818
Format: Hardback
$200.00

This book investigates the legacies of British slavery beyond Britain, focusing upon the colonisation of Australia...  Read More >>

Furman University, 1826–2026: A Bicentennial History

Furman University, 1826–2026: A Bicentennial History...

Author: Courtney Tollison
ISBN: 9781478033462
Format: Hardback
$173.00

Furman University: A Bicentennial History, 1826–2026 is a beautiful, hardbound, full-color coffee table book published...  Read More >>

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