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Uses cultural representations to investigate how two religious minority communities came to be incorporated into the Mexican nation.

Examines the many ways water has contributed to power structures in the past, with insights for contemporary water management.

Examines the ways in which austerity policies are transforming US cities.

Analyzes parallel developments in post-Cold War literature and film from Cuba and Angola to trace a shared history of revolutionary enthusiasm, disappointment, and solidarity.

An accessible introduction to the centrality of word, chant, and song in the Hindu, Buddhist, Islamic, and Sikh traditions.

Draws from twentieth-century French thought on film and aesthetics to address the philosophical significance of the pervasiveness of screens in contemporary technological life as well as the mutation of philosophy that such a pervasiveness seems to require.

Reveals the complicity between the Kyoto School's moral and political philosophy, based on the school's founder Nishida Kitarō's metaphysics of nothingness, and Japanese imperialism.

Offers a history of the role of investigations in radical political struggles from the nineteenth century forward.

A Marxist history of Israeli literature, tracing the relations between economic, social, and aesthetic transformations.

Examines how Jewish women have used poetry to challenge their historical limitations while rewriting their potential futures.

Offers a new perspective on the relationship between religion and the creation of the first Chinese empires.

Examines why many governments, rebels, and terrorist organizations are using children as soldiers.

Provides a new perspective on important linguistic issues in philosophical and religious Daoism through the comparative lens of twentieth-century European philosophies of language.

A transdisciplinary approach to reconciliation practices and policies by an international team of scholars and scholar-practitioners.

Presents an updated account of Hong Kong and its culture two decades after its reversion to China.

Reveals how presidents deploy a rhetoric that attempts to attract many racial and ethnic groups, but ultimately directs itself to an archtypal white, Middle-American swing voter.

Recounts the forgotten but important work of Wayne Coy, the Office for Emergency Management's Liaison Officer, during the early years of World War II.

Analyzes how location-shot crime films of the 1970s reflected and influenced understandings of urban crisis.

A wide-ranging exploration and critical assessment of the work of a major figure in Chinese and comparative philosophy.

Comprehensive examination of how Indigenous peoples have been represented in Argentine film.

Examines how recent Argentine horror films engage with the legacies of dictatorship and neoliberalism.

A broad examination of climate fantasy and science fiction, from The Lord of the Rings and the Narnia series to The Handmaid's Tale and Game of Thrones.

An anti-racist critique of gender studies as a field.

Blends academic and activist perspectives to explore recent emancipatory struggles to win and transform state power.

Essays address the major themes of Pareyson's hermeneutic philosophy in the context of his existentialist approach to personhood.

Contrasts the experiences of German Jewish refugees from the Holocaust who fled to London and New York City.

Analyzes the nineteenth century canal age in the Niagara-Great Lakes borderland region as a transnational phenomenon.