Born on the island of Flores, between Europe and the United States, Pedro da Silveira captures the islander's longing for migratory movement,... Læs mere
Print culture expanded significantly in the nineteenth century due to new print technologies and more efficient... Læs mere
The Iraqi city of Fallujah has become an epicentre of geopolitical conflict, where foreign powers and non-state actors have repeatedly waged war. The Sacking... Læs mere
Offers an analysis of the Vietnam War as experienced by the Vietnamese peasantry. This book shows how peasants, who earlier had aspired to a kind of revolutionary modernism, found themselves struggling to survive and to cope with the American intruders who poured into My Tho.
Playwright, biographer, screenwriter, and critic S.N. Behrman (1893-1973) characterized the years he spent... Læs mere
Drawing on newspaper accounts, prisoner narratives, and government records, David Dzurec explores how stories of... Læs mere
For many years, the far right has sown public distrust in the media as a political strategy, weaponizing libel... Læs mere
Presents an account of the cultural politics surrounding the memorialisation of the Vietnam War. This book presents a... Læs mere
For the first time, this book compiles original documents from Science for the People, the most important radical science... Læs mere
Considered the leading poet on the South Asian subcontinent, Faiz Ahmed Faiz (1911-1984), winner of the 1962 Lenin Peace Prize, was an outspoken opponent of the Pakistani government. This volume offers a selection of Faiz's poetry.
The Venice Ghetto was founded in 1516 by the Venetian government as a segregated area of the city in which Jews were compelled to live. This... Læs mere
Chronicling the untold stories of marginalized veterans in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries, Service Denied uncovers the generational divides, cultural stigmas, and discriminatory policies that affected veterans during and after their military service.