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Third Worlds Within: Multiethnic Movements and Transnational Solidarity

Third Worlds Within: Multiethnic Movements and Transnational...

Author: Daniel Widener ,  Vijay Prashad
ISBN: 9781478025917
Format: Hardback
$303.47

Daniel Widener expands conceptions of the struggle for racial justice by reframing twentieth- and twenty-first-century...  Read More >>

Have You Got Good Religion?: Black Women's Faith, Courage, and Moral Leadership in the Civil Rights Movement

Have You Got Good Religion?: Black Women's Faith, Courage,...

Author: AnneMarie Mingo
ISBN: 9780252045653
Format: Hardback
$260.00

What compels a person to risk her life to change deeply rooted systems of injustice in ways that may not benefit...  Read More >>

A Cold War Exodus: How American Activists Mobilized to Free Soviet Jews

A Cold War Exodus: How American Activists Mobilized...

Author: Shaul Kelner
ISBN: 9781479879397
Format: Hardback
$75.99

Reveals the mass mobilization tactics that helped free Soviet Jews and reshaped the Jewish American experience from...  Read More >>

The Threshold of Dissent: A History of American Jewish Critics of Zionism

The Threshold of Dissent: A History of American Jewish...

Author: Marjorie Feld
ISBN: 9781479829316
Format: Hardback
$75.99

Explores the long history of anti-Zionist and non-Zionist American Jews Throughout the twentieth century, American...  Read More >>

The Woman Celebrant

The Woman Celebrant

Author: Jeremy B Sims
ISBN: 9798224631162
Format: Paperback
$31.65

This book is a compelling exploration into the essence of womanhood, weaving together observations from diverse...  Read More >>

The Undertow: Scenes from a Slow Civil War

The Undertow: Scenes from a Slow Civil War

Author: Jeff Sharlet (Dartmouth College)
ISBN: 9781324074519
Format: Paperback
$31.95

One of America's finest reporters and essayists explores the powerful currents beneath the roiled waters of a nation...  Read More >>

Being Indigenous in Jim Crow Virginia: Powhatan People and the Color Line

Being Indigenous in Jim Crow Virginia: Powhatan People...

Author: Laura J. Feller
ISBN: 9780806193892
Format: Paperback
$79.07

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Crisis Theatre and The Living Newspaper

Crisis Theatre and The Living Newspaper

Author: Sarah Jane Mullan (University of Northampton) ,  Sarah Bartley (Royal Central School of Speech and Drama)
ISBN: 9781009525817
Format: Paperback
$43.99

This Element describes what a transnational and transhistorical examination of the living newspaper through the...  Read More >>

Utpal Dutt and Political Theatre in Postcolonial India

Utpal Dutt and Political Theatre in Postcolonial India...

Author: Mallarika Sinha Roy (Jawaharlal Nehru University)
ISBN: 9781009264075
Format: Paperback
$43.99

This Element examines Dutt's passionate engagement with Marxism and explores how this sense of urgency was actioned...  Read More >>

More Finish Lines to Cross: Notes on Race, Redemption, and Hope

More Finish Lines to Cross: Notes on Race, Redemption,...

Author: Cary Clack ,  Joe Holley
ISBN: 9781595342713
Format: Paperback
$34.99

A nationally loved columnist reflects on life in Texas and the times we live in  Read More >>

Wage Rage for Equal Pay: Australia’s Long, Long Struggle

Wage Rage for Equal Pay: Australia’s Long, Long Struggle...

Author: Jocelynne A. Scutt
ISBN: 9783031421778
Format: Hardback
$343.17

This book ​makes a major contribution to the continuing legal and historical struggle for equal pay in Australia,...  Read More >>

Ghosts of the British Museum: A True Story of Colonial Loot and Restless Objects

Ghosts of the British Museum: A True Story of Colonial...

Author: Noah Angell
ISBN: 9781800961333
Format: Paperback
$34.99

An artist investigates strange goings on at the British museum - and uncovers a maelstrom of disquiet within its...  Read More >>

The Russian Workers' Republic

The Russian Workers' Republic

Author: Henry Noel Brailsford
ISBN: 9781032672977
Format: Hardback
$189.00

The Russian Workers’ Republic (1921) is a result of the author’s two-month travels through Soviet Russia. Moving...  Read More >>

Soviet Socialism: Social and Political Essays

Soviet Socialism: Social and Political Essays

Author: L.G. Churchward
ISBN: 9781032675824
Format: Hardback
$189.00

Soviet Socialism (1987) is based on the author’s specialized knowledge of many aspects of Soviet politics, including...  Read More >>

The Way of Bitterness: Soviet Russia, 1920

The Way of Bitterness: Soviet Russia, 1920

Author: Princess Peter Wolkonsky
ISBN: 9781032676227
Format: Hardback
$189.00

The Way of Bitterness (1931) is a valuable record of life in Soviet Russia in the early days of Bolshevik rule....  Read More >>

The Soviet Union: Second Edition

The Soviet Union: Second Edition

Author: R.W. Davies
ISBN: 9781032676333
Format: Hardback
$189.00

The Soviet Union (1989) examines the state of the Soviet Union at the end of the 1980s. It claimed to offer a new...  Read More >>

Crisis Theatre and The Living Newspaper

Crisis Theatre and The Living Newspaper

Author: Sarah Jane Mullan (University of Northampton) ,  Sarah Bartley (Royal Central School of Speech and Drama)
ISBN: 9781009525794
Format: Hardback
$129.35

This Element describes what a transnational and transhistorical examination of the living newspaper through the...  Read More >>

Utpal Dutt and Political Theatre in Postcolonial India

Utpal Dutt and Political Theatre in Postcolonial India...

Author: Mallarika Sinha Roy (Jawaharlal Nehru University)
ISBN: 9781009500227
Format: Hardback
$129.35

This Element examines Dutt's passionate engagement with Marxism and explores how this sense of urgency was actioned...  Read More >>

Impossible City: Paris in the Twenty-First Century

Impossible City: Paris in the Twenty-First Century

Author: Simon Kuper
ISBN: 9781800816480
Format: Hardback
$39.99

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The Book of Pintxos: Discover the Legendary Small Bites of Basque Country

The Book of Pintxos: Discover the Legendary Small Bites...

Author: Marti Buckley
ISBN: 9781579659875
Format: Hardback
$55.00

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The Chairs for Women in Science and Engineering Program: Thirty Years of Action Across Canada, from 1989 to 2021

The Chairs for Women in Science and Engineering Program:...

Author: Caroline D'Amours ,  Hannah Young
ISBN: 9783031540844
Format: Hardback
$290.37

This book describes the origins and evolution of Canada’s 30-year Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council...  Read More >>

All the Rage: Power, Pain, Pleasure: Stories from the Frontline of Beauty 1860-1960

All the Rage: Power, Pain, Pleasure: Stories from the...

Author: Virginia Nicholson
ISBN: 9780349014319
Format: Hardback
$59.99

From the popular historian and author of Among the Bohemians and How Was It For You? comes a new offering, unbuttoning...  Read More >>

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