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Explores the production, preparation, and consumption of food and drink in Republican Italy to illuminate the nature of cultural change during this period. Laura Banducci tracks through time the foodways of three sites in Etruria from about the third century BCE to the first century CE: Populonia, Musarna, and Cetamura del Chianti.

Examines the questions that citizens should have about their connections to government, why there is a government, what it does, how it does it, and why we can no longer do without government. The Three Ages of Government rises above stereotypical thinking about government.

Musical performance is a social interaction between musicians and their audiences, appealing as much to the eye as to the ear. In In Concert Philip Auslander addresses not only the visual means by which musicians engage their audiences through costume and physical gesture, but also spectacular aspects of performance such as light shows.

Provides a comprehensive analysis of the role that constituent instructions played in American politics from 1778 to the end of the nineteenth century. Constituent instructions were more widely issued than previously thought, and members of state legislatures and Congress were more likely to obey them than historians have assumed.

Exploring the chasm between the tyranny of surveillance and the ideal of privacy, this book traces the origins of personal data collection in digital technologies including artificial intelligence (AI) embedded in social network sites, search engines, mobile apps, the web, and email.

Focuses on queer and trans people of colour who apprehend the risky medium of the night to explore, know, and stage their bodies, genders, and sexualities in the face of systemic and social negation.

Jay-Z and Kanye West's death dance for capitalism

A new, interdisciplinary way of looking at Chinese foreign policy

Drawing on perspectives from anthropology and social theory, this book explores the quotidian routines of debt collection in nineteenth-century capitalism. Ultimately, the book advances an empirically grounded and theoretically informed history of quotidian legal practices in the everyday economy.

Uses empirical statistical modelling to show that war decreases rights in the short term, but the longer and bigger a war gets, the rights of the citizenry expand with the conflict. The authors test this argument through historical case studies and the use of large N statistical studies.

Investigates the legal, literary, social, and institutional creation of disrepute in ancient Roman society. The book tracks the shifting application of stigmas of disrepute between the Republic and Late Antiquity by following groups of professionals - funeral workers, criers, tanners, mint workers, and even bakers - and asking how they coped with stigmatization.

Using techniques from etymology, lexicology, and translation, Clyde Barrow brings analytical coherence to the concept of the lumpenproletariat, revealing it to be an inherent component of Marx and Engels' analysis of the historical origins of capitalism.

Advances the idea that reliable tools to hold officials accountable are essential for democratic governance and that one of the key threats to accountability comes from corrupt practices, especially when they are integrated - or normalized - in the day-to-day activities of institutions.

Buss has compiled the stories of 10 lower-income women, told in their own words

Investigates the literary afterlives of Rome's first conflict with Carthage. The book combines innovative theoretical approaches with advances in the philological and editorial analysis of Latin literature to reassess the various 'texts' of the First Punic War, including those composed by Vergil, Propertius, Horace, and Silius Italicus.

Explores the factors that shape the Millennial generation's unique political identity, how this identity conditions political choices, and how this cohort's diversity informs political attitudes and beliefs. This book explores politics from a generational perspective, first, and then combines this with other group identities.

The public, journalists, and legislators themselves have often lamented a decline in congressional lawmaking in recent years, often blaming party politics for the lack of legislative output. In this book, Dr. Lewallen examines the decline in lawmaking from a new, committee-centered perspective.

Published here in their archaeological context and with any relevant artifacts, the documents and inscriptions excavated recently in Egypt's Western Desert represent a valuable addition to our meager documentation of the Bahriya Oasis in the first centuries CE.

Examines proposed solutions to climate change. Drawing from Marx's negative conception of ideology, the authors illustrate how ideology continues to conceal the capital-climate contradiction or the fundamental incompatibility between growth-dependent capitalism and effectively and justly mitigating climate change.

Cloth and clothing provide potent tropes for physical and intellectual forms of self-expression. Drawing on sources ranging from fugitive slave narratives, mill workers' magazines to fiction, poetry, and autobiographies, this book examines the part played by mill workers and formerly enslaved people in this revolution of literary self-expression.

Draws on expertise from lawyers, historians of philosophy, and scholars of classical studies and ancient history, to investigate, historically and comparatively, the relationship between the law, legal institutions, and the boundaries of knowledge in classical Greece and Rome.

Designed for classroom use, Athens 415 is a source-based presentation of ancient urban life ideal for the study of a people and their institutions and beliefs. Original texts are presented along with thoughtful discussion and analyses by Clara Shaw Hardy in an engaging narrative that draws students into Athens' crisis.