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Photographers shot millions of pictures of the black civil rights struggle between the close of World War II and the early 1970s, yet most Americans today can recall only a handful of searing images. This title offers alternative photographs of the era that challenge the stories told in many of the famous scenes.

Nowhere was the linguistic diversity of the New World more extreme than in California, where an extraordinary variety of village-dwelling peoples spoke seventy-eight mutually unintelligible languages. This comprehensive illustrated handbook, a major synthesis of more than 150 years of documentation and study, reviews what we now know about California's indigenous languages. Victor Golla outlines the basic structural features of more than two dozen language types, and cites all the major sources, both published and unpublished, for the documentation of these languages-from the earliest vocabularies collected by explorers and missionaries, to the data amassed during the twentieth-century by Alfred Kroeber and his colleagues, and to the extraordinary work of John P. Harrington and C. Hart Merriam. Golla also devotes chapters to the role of language in reconstructing prehistory, and to the intertwining of the language and culture in pre-contact California societies, making this work, the first of its kind, an essential reference on California's remarkable Indian languages.

"Medicine in the Talmud is a growing area of interest but is understudied and undertheorized. This volume productively pushes the field forward. Considering both text and material culture, especially important evidence from the Aramaic bowls, this volume is indispensable for anyone interested in scientific knowledge in rabbinic literature or medicine in the ancient world in general."--Jordan D. Rosenblum, author of Rabbinic Drinking: What Beverages Teach Us about Rabbinic Literature "A groundbreaking study that introduces readers to intriguing Talmudic healing therapies (not to be tried at home). Mokhtarian integrates this rabbinic knowledge firmly in the interdisciplinary discourses of late antiquity, a move that refines and corrects many prevailing assumptions about these enduring traditions."--Christine Shepardson, author of Controlling Contested Places: Late Antique Antioch and the Spatial Politics of Religious Controversy "In this easy-to-read and engaging work, Jason Sion Mokhtarian demonstrates how the Babylonian rabbis thoroughly and eagerly participated in knowledge gathering and making across ethnic and cultural boundaries in late antique Mesopotamia."--Naomi Koltun-Fromm, Associate Professor of Religion, Haverford College

"This is a book to be read, not just consulted. Jack Davis is a masterly raconteur whose story simultaneously provides a wide-ranging and accessible guide to what archaeology is all about, a broad account of the Greek Bronze Age, and a detailed evocation of Bronze Age Pylos."--Robin Osborne, Professor of Ancient History, University of Cambridge "Accessibly written, this book will appeal to scholars of the ancient world and those with an interest in archaeology as a discipline, as well as anyone following the media exposure of the exciting new finds at Pylos."--Kim Shelton, Associate Professor of Classics, University of California, Berkeley

"Expansive in its historical coverage and rigorous in its analyses, Cinematic Independence is remarkable for its incalculable insights and revelations into Nigeria's colonial media history and the ruthless workings of American capitalism."--Paul Ugor, author of Nollywood: Popular Culture and Narratives of Youth Struggles in Nigeria "Offers a panoramic view of theatrical exhibition in Nigeria and a major contribution to our understanding of a previously overlooked, imbricated history involving both Hollywood and what we now know as Nollywood."--Moradewun Adejunmobi, Professor of African American and African Studies, University of California, Davis

"The scholarly work of Michael Welch is recognized for its blend of critical theory and human rights. The Bastille Effect is no exception. With lessons from Northern Ireland, the Southern Cone of Latin America, and other postconflict societies, the book reveals the terrible depths--and pains--of political imprisonment."--Kieran McEvoy, Senator George J. Mitchell Institute for Global Peace, Security and Justice, Queen's University, Belfast > "By attending to political cultures, scholars are remapping the ways in which criminal justice is understood. Welch's highly original project on the afterlife of sites of political imprisonment throws new critical light onto the politics of punishment and represents an important contribution to the burgeoning study of comparative penality."--Tim Newburn, London School of Economics

"This book is both a comprehensive study of Huizhou society during the Ming dynasty and a valuable resource for the comparative study of Chinese migration. Ambitiously tackling a wide range of primary sources and different subfields, Qitao Guo has masterfully woven together seemingly disparate themes into this coherent and compelling study."--Steven B. Miles, author of Opportunity in Crisis: Cantonese Migrants and the State in Late Qing China

​"If the Shaan-Gan-Ning Border Region, the homeland of Xi Jinping's family, is the 'holy land' of Mao's Revolution, then Esherick's new book is its indispensable Baedecker guide. This thoroughly researched and clearly written narrative helps us understand the complex historical roots of the People's Republic of China as it incubated in Shaanxi Province's 'yellow earth' hills."--Orville Schell, Arthur Ross Director of the Center on US-China Relations, Asia Society "Shattering the myth of historical inevitability, this meticulously researched and beautifully crafted study is a refreshing corrective to previous interpretations of the Chinese revolution. Esherick's gripping tale of battling bandits and Bolsheviks in the making of Mao's wartime sanctuary lays bare the indeterminate and contingent course of one of the most momentous events of the twentieth century. Scholars and general readers alike will learn much from this authoritative work by America's premier historian of the Chinese revolution."--Elizabeth J. Perry, Henry Rosovsky Professor of Government, Harvard University "Esherick provides a compelling argument that will offer a sound alternative to the two pop narratives on China and the Chinese revolution: Xi's stairway to heaven and the anti-China right's house of the rising sun. Thwarting the easy and satisfying narratives, this book tells a convincing story of revolution grounded in context, contingency, and choice."--Timothy Cheek, Louis Cha Chair in Chinese Research, University of British Columbia

"The contribution of this work is immense: a complete translation of one of the landmark scientific/medical works in Chinese history. The Ben cao gang mu, historically, has been the most comprehensive materia medica, with 1,892 medical substances. But because of the various regions of mainland China explored by Li Shizhen, Ming dynasty-era social mores, language, the multiple cultures of China, and different usages of medicinals throughout China, it has been difficult at best to translate this work into European languages, including English. Previous attempts have led to inferior works. The Ben cao gang mu also quotes many preceding works of materia medica, some no longer available, and folk knowledge of remedies, so few herbal medicine texts can compete with this one. It is an invaluable resource, indeed, for the clinician and the scholar and in university libraries. It is academic, precise, readable, and well sourced."--Z'ev Rosenberg, author of Returning to the Source: Han Dynasty Medical Classics in Modern Clinical Practice

"A valuable scholarly contribution. The Practice of Texts provides a vivid account of the philological conversations between the vaidya-gurus and their students. By documenting how the gurukula system operated for two millennia, Anthony Cerulli demonstrates how it continues to impart a medical education that remains relevant today."--Sree Padma, author of Vicissitudes of the Goddess: Reconstructions of the Gramadevata in India's Religious Traditions "By explaining the changing role of the gurukula, The Practice of Texts makes an important contribution to the histories of science and education in late- and postcolonial India. Beyond that, Cerulli offers new ways of conceptualizing the cultural uses of texts, which will be useful to scholars of India more broadly."--Brian Collins, Drs. Ram and Sushila Gawande Chair in Indian Religion and Philosophy, Ohio University

"This book is a brilliant potential history of Palestine, centered on seven photographic albums collected and curated by Wasif Jawhariyyeh from the mid-1920s to the mid-1960s. With decolonial commitment and intellectual breadth, the authors turn the photographs into an inalienable entitlement (kawshun) to Palestine, and turn Palestine into an 'uninterrupted albeit traumatic' place, whose existence can neither be eradicated by Zionists actions nor erased by European narratives. This is a must-read book for scholars of Palestine and photography."--Ariella Aïsha Azoulay, author of Potential History: Unlearning Imperialism "Camera Palaestina offers readers both a rich visual chronicle of Palestinian social and political life in the late Ottoman and British Mandate period and a granular account of the history of photography in Palestine. The story of these archives--with their multiple genres, subjects, and standpoints--highlights the polyvalent terms of Palestinian modernity in the pivotal decades before 1948 while offering the grounds for a new theorization of Palestinian spectatorship as anticolonial practice."--Rebecca L. Stein, author of Screen Shots: State Violence on Camera in Israel and Palestine "Who knew that one man's photographic collection could reveal such a multifaceted picture of a society? Camera Palaestina shows how these photographs, their arrangement, and Wasif Jawhariyyeh's commentary paint an intriguing picture of Palestinian society before the Nakba, one with more ethical complexity, more religious coexistence (including with Jews), less homogeneity, and above all a society less centered on colonial powers than some may have been led to believe. The three intertwined perspectives on these albums collaborate to trouble notions of 'the' Palestinian subject. This is a profound study of the photographic practices of collecting, arranging, and annotating."--Margaret Olin, author of Touching Photographs "Camera Palaestina opens a new chapter in the history of photography in the Middle East. Traditionally dominated by analyses of Orientalist photography taken by Europeans and American, the focus shifts to photographers from the region. This unique book covers Palestine's political, social, and cultural history from an underrepresented perspective during times of critical transformation."--Zeynep Çelik, author of Displaying the Orient and Urban Forms of Colonial Confrontations "This book captures one of the most critical contributions of the growing field of the visual cultures of the Arab region and Palestine in particular: the idea that found images are in and of themselves telling of the ways in which colonial regimes of visuality, like orientalism, were unknowingly countered in everyday practices of those that lived them. Camera Palaestina demands that we look beyond the gaze and into the lived experiences of those Indigenous image makers that collected material about their political and social lives on their own terms."--Hanan Toukan, author of The Politics of Art: Dissent and Cultural Diplomacy in Palestine Lebanon and Jordan "Centering the Jawhariyyeh memoirs and photographic albums, this book is an impressive collaborative work of three scholars from different fields. Thoroughly contextualizing historical images and commentary through the temporalities in which they exist, the authors foreground the continuities of Palestinian life, including presences and absences, tensions and contradictions."--Annelies Moors, Professor Emerita, University of Amsterdam

"Metrics of Modernity is the first book in any language to illuminate postwar art in Turkey in all its complexity, using the varied lenses of a new economy, rapid internationalization, and state support and intervention. Blending the historian's rigor with the storyteller's command of narrative, Sarah-Neel Smith reveals how an artistic community molded during the liberalization of the 1950s--and pulled geopolitically between the Soviets, a nonaligned South and East, the NATO countries, and Iran--built the foundations of today's global contemporary art scene."--Vasıf Kortun, Research and Curatorial Advisor, Mathaf, Arab Museum of Modern Art, Doha "Metrics of Modernity charts a much-needed history of a precise period and presents a remarkable narrative based on a web of interactions between objects, people, and institutions. Sarah-Neel Smith employs a new methodology based on an alternative body of evidence that moves away from mainstream institutional history. She rigorously mines a noninstitutional structure that is equally a narrative of state opposition and a history of an elite class. She meticulously plugs Turkey into the wider postwar discourse and debates about art and democracy across different geopolitical contexts, particularly through abstraction.--Nada Shabout, Regents Professor of Art History, University of North Texas "Metrics of Modernity expertly weaves together the artistic, political, and economic threads that shape Turkey's relation to international politics and the broader framework of developmental modernity. Sarah-Neel Smith's work is a landmark intervention into our understanding of art and modernity in the Cold War era, offering us productive new avenues for the study of postwar art around the world."--Rebecca M. Brown, Professor of History of Art, Johns Hopkins University "Smith successfully grants agency to the artists and cultural workers who negotiated the terrain of Turkey's economic liberalization during the 1950s. Her book draws thought-provoking parallels between the development of Turkey's arts industry during the 1950s and its neoliberal economic transformation today."--Berin Golonu, Assistant Professor of Art History, University at Buffalo, SUNY

"Jerome Segal-on Palestine, no one more creative."--Robert Malley, former special assistant to President Obama, National Security Council "Segal's carefully argued and highly informative study is centered on an original strategy that he had devised, a strategy implemented by Palestinian leadership but only partially, so that its feasibility remains untested. I have followed these matters closely for a long time, but Segal's account contains a good deal that was new to me."--Noam Chomsky "Segal's thoughtful engagement in the formative days of the PLP's pursuit of Palestinian statehood provides him with uniquely relevant insights regarding the Israeli-Palestinian conflict and thought-provoking suggestions regarding its resolution."--Ofer Zalzberg, Middle East Program Director, Herbert C. Kelman Institute for Interactive Conflict Transformation "Segal offers a firsthand historical account of some behind-the-scenes moves that shed light on the evolution of the Palestinians' struggle for independence. Very few scholars have been more creative in offering strategies for moving forward on an elusive peace. This book is a major contribution to understanding important aspects of the Arab-Israeli conflict."--Marwan Muasher, Vice President for Studies, Middle East Program, Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, and former foreign minister of Jordan "Probably one of the most creative minds offering much-needed novel avenues for resolving a seemingly intractable conflict. That such stirring and feasible ideas are not fully appreciated is a sad commentary on the sterile policies of recent decades and those who endorse them."--Hussein Agha, coauthor of A Framework for a Palestinian National Security Doctrine "Today, Israelis and Palestinians are stuck in a 'post-Oslo paralysis', with no prospects or path on the horizon for a resolution of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. Segal describes the 1988 Palestinian Declaration of Independence as a game-changing act of 'unilateral peace-making, ' and proposes that it serve as a model for a new Palestinian initiative to break the current impasse. The Olive Branch from Palestine is a book that everyone concerned with the quest for a resolution of the conflict, for the sake of both Israelis and Palestinians, should read."--Hillel Schenker, coeditor of Palestine-Israel Journal "Jerome Segal inspired the thinking of the Independence Declaration. In The Olive Branch from Palestine, he not only provides a historical account and extended commentary about the conflict and the problems and strategies of achieving resolution, but he also proposes a strategy for exiting from the current impasse. I strongly recommend this book for anyone who wants to read a fair intellectual and political review of the Palestinian-Israeli state of relations which led us to where we are today."--Ziad AbuZayyad, coeditor of Palestine-Israel Journal, and former Palestinian Authority minister of state and legislator "Jerome Segal has written a remarkable and deeply insightful account of the impasse between Israel and the Palestinians living under occupation since 1967. His uncommonly clear-headed and profoundly honest account allows him to map out a plausible and sophisticated proposal for these two embattled people to craft a modus vivendi based on self-determination for both communities. Identifying realistic paths out of the quicksand of conflict is exactly the task facing scholars and peace-seekers under the present and extremely discouraging realities. This is a work of impressive erudition, realistic appraisals, and, above all, real hope."--Hussein Ibish, Senior Resident Scholar, Arab Gulf States Institute in Washington

"This is a phenomenal book. Archipelago of Resettlement takes seriously the implication of Indigenous calls for place-based scholarship to refugee and migration studies and it ups the ante by engaging the accountabilities such calls demand. Gandhi exemplifies the possibilities of reading 'archipelagically' across Indigenous and Asian American studies, across settler colonies, and against US militarism and empire."--Jodi A Byrd, author of The Transit of Empire: Indigenous Critiques of Colonialism "Exploring with great rigor the refugee settlers' vexed relationship to Indigenous sovereignty, this strikingly original study demonstrates for us ways of knowing and connection otherwise--within, across, and beyond the incommensurable structural divides and multiple belongings. Deeply inspiring, Gandhi's archipelagic methodology elucidates compelling political possibilities for decolonial futures." --Lisa Yoneyama, author of Cold War Ruins: Transpacific Critique of American Justice and Japanese War Crimes "This brilliant book interweaves archival research, site visits, and oral interviews to map and grapple with the entangled histories of Vietnamese refugee resettlement, Indigenous displacement in Guam and Palestine, and the settler colonialism of the United States and Israel. Throughout, an archipelagic epistemology of the 'nước' is poetically articulated, an inspiring vision that calls forth refugee futurity and decolonial solidarities."--Craig Santos Perez, author of Navigating CHamoru Poetry: Indigeneity, Aesthetics, and Decolonization "Once dispersed across seemingly unconnected geographies of US empire, the aesthetic and archival sands, pebbles, and stones of the refugee settler condition are brilliantly gathered herein. The result is an archipelagic imaginary at once moved by and contributing to the confluence of today's most powerful decolonial currents."--Keith Feldman, author of A Shadow over Palestine: The Imperial Life of Race in America "A thought-provoking and truly original way of 'seeing' Vietnamese diasporic resettlement. Gandhi convincingly juxtaposes two numerically small and seemingly marginal populations and in the process raises universal questions of interest to scholars in refugee studies and US empire."--Jana K. Lipman, author of In Camps: Vietnamese Refugees, Asylum Seekers, and Repatriates

"This book should have been written a long time ago. It is the first bold and incisive deconstruction of the greatest fabricated binary of this century: 'Islam and the West.' This old Orientalist and destructive juxtaposition has survived until today and provided the moral justification for the brutal American assaults on Afghanistan and Iraq. This book offers a different genealogy for the emergence of this constructed binary, positioned one against the other in a poisonous, and artificial, relationship. Hamid Dabashi forcefully challenges this dangerous concept of 'Islam and the West, ' offering an alternative de-racialized and humane perspective--visions of the past and future that will be essential for all who are embroiled and affected by this insidious and violent construct. Scholars and the wider audience will find in this book an accessible, honest, and very readable critique of a notion that impacts the lives of so many of us in this century."--Ilan Pappé, Professor of History and Director of the European Centre for Palestine Studies, University of Exeter "'Islam and the West' is a gnoseological invention (not a 'representation') cast in the binary logic undergirding the idea of Western Civilization. Dabashi's convincing and powerful argument is the call to extricate ourselves from this and all binary illusions that shatter thinking in order to manage subjective and intersubjective relations."--Walter D. Mignolo, author of The Politics of Decolonial Investigations "Dabashi, with all the erudition of a distinguished scholar, takes on and demolishes a fiction that has long been accepted as truth: that something called the 'West' and 'Islam' actually exist. This book both pushes back against mainstream and right-wing authors and takes on scholarly work that falls into the trap of creating an essentialized West. It then draws on millennia of history to expose the limitations of the 'Islam and the West' framework. This brilliant book is an important intervention at this historical moment when the empire of capital has assumed new forms to legitimate itself."--Deepa Kumar, Professor of Media Studies at Rutgers University and author of Islamophobia and the Politics of Empire: 20 Years after 9/11 "In this gripping text, Dabashi advances a new materialist, post-Saidian perspective to dismantle the ideological foundation of the all-too-familiar binary 'Islam and the West.' The End of Two Illusions is a powerful antidote to Samuel Huntington and the epistemological apparatus of the 'clash of civilizations.'"--Asef Bayat, Bastian Professor of Global and Transnational Studies, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign "Dabashi draws on his probing and erudite oeuvre to chart an emancipatory path beyond the illusory West-Islam binary."--Elizabeth Suzanne Kassab, author of Enlightenment on the Eve of Revolution: The Egyptian and Syrian Debates

"Palimpsests of Themselves is a transformative work of historical scholarship. With empathy and rigor, Asad Q. Ahmed succeeds brilliantly in recreating the intricate logical theories and exegetical practices of South-Asian Muslim logicians and commentators, who up to now have been entirely neglected in Islamic Studies and in the history of philosophy."--Robert Wisnovsky, James McGill Professor of Islamic Philosophy, McGill University "This is a fascinating text of early modern logic, beautifully presented. Perhaps more importantly, Asad Q. Ahmed has set the Sullam against the commentary tradition it engendered. His intricate analysis, working from a number of perspectives, brings to life the scholarly world for which the evolving reception of Bihārī's masterpiece was a crucial incitement to sustained philosophical creativity."--Tony Street, University of Cambridge "Both the amount of hitherto unstudied material excavated by Ahmed and the care and sophistication with which he handles this material are remarkable and put scholarship on Indo-Muslim philosophy and logic on an entirely new footing. Particularly impressive are his identification of distinct scholarly lineages in various regional centers and his reflections on the cultural and pedagogical context of the widespread practice of writing commentaries, glosses, and super-commentaries."--Khaled El-Rouayheb, James Richard Jewett Professor of Arabic and of Islamic Intellectual History, Harvard University "A stunning piece of work. The historical detective work on the commentaries and their interconnections is truly extraordinary, as is the marriage of philological and philosophical skills that went into the translation, edition, and commentary."--Peter Adamson, Professor of Philosophy, Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich "Asad Q. Ahmed provides not just an invaluable translation and study of a major text in the logical tradition but also puts forward a significant theory for reading texts and understanding commentary traditions in the post-classical period."--Sajjad H. Rizvi, Director, Institute of Arab and Islamic Studies, University of Exeter

"Tracing the rise of the modern real estate economy through art's entanglements with processes of speculation, gentrification, and various forms of land management between 1820 and 1900, Speculative Landscapes makes a compelling case for painting as a key site where those processes were worked out and, in some cases, resisted. Ross Barrett's case studies reject any opposition between art and business to argue for both as 'deeply imaginative' endeavors."--Jennifer A. Greenhill, author of Playing It Straight: Art and Humor in the Gilded Age "Speculative Landscapes is a comprehensive look at speculation, enclosure, outlay, debt, recompense, and the process by which land becomes property. Barrett shows how painting provided a tool for comprehending and commenting on that act of becoming."--Leo Mazow, Louise B. and J. Harwood Cochrane Curator of American Art, Virginia Museum of Fine Arts

​"A remarkable tour of Syriac Christianity over its first 1500 years. This anthology provides a sumptuous array of treasures introduced with elegant clarity and explicated with incisive grasp. At a time when we seek to understand Christian history in global terms, this collection is a game changer."--Susan Ashbrook Harvey, Willard Prescott and Annie McClelland Smith Professor of Religion and History, Brown University "Invitation to Syriac Christianity is a remarkable resource not only for Syriac scholars and students but also for the public and members of modern Syriac churches, who will thus have easier access to their heritage and traditions. As the first complete anthology of Syriac literature in English translation, it offers unique access to the spiritual realm of the Syriac tradition."--Mor Polycarpus, Archbishop of the Syriac Orthodox Church in The Netherlands "This book succeeds magnificently in introducing the rarely studied world of a major Christian community. Well-chosen and carefully presented extracts capture the thrill of a brilliant culture placed at the crossroads of Asia. Resonant religious imagery and daring mystical speculations, impassioned theological debate, the heroism of male and female martyrs and ascetics, open dialogue with religious rivals, disabused accounts of the clash of empires: this book has it all. It decisively alters the balance of scholarship in exciting new directions and adds an entire new dimension to the history of religion in late antique and medieval times."--Peter Brown, Professor Emeritus of History, Princeton University

​"A remarkable tour of Syriac Christianity over its first 1500 years. This anthology provides a sumptuous array of treasures introduced with elegant clarity and explicated with incisive grasp. At a time when we seek to understand Christian history in global terms, this collection is a game changer."--Susan Ashbrook Harvey, Willard Prescott and Annie McClelland Smith Professor of Religion and History, Brown University "Invitation to Syriac Christianity is a remarkable resource not only for Syriac scholars and students but also for the public and members of modern Syriac churches, who will thus have easier access to their heritage and traditions. As the first complete anthology of Syriac literature in English translation, it offers unique access to the spiritual realm of the Syriac tradition."--Mor Polycarpus, Archbishop of the Syriac Orthodox Church in The Netherlands "This book succeeds magnificently in introducing the rarely studied world of a major Christian community. Well-chosen and carefully presented extracts capture the thrill of a brilliant culture placed at the crossroads of Asia. Resonant religious imagery and daring mystical speculations, impassioned theological debate, the heroism of male and female martyrs and ascetics, open dialogue with religious rivals, disabused accounts of the clash of empires: this book has it all. It decisively alters the balance of scholarship in exciting new directions and adds an entire new dimension to the history of religion in late antique and medieval times."--Peter Brown, Professor Emeritus of History, Princeton University

"Brilliantly contextualized and judiciously selected, this collection of documents is a magnificent and indispensable companion to The Sea in the Middle. The extensive number of primary sources provides a vivid road map to the Mediterranean's complex historical and cultural history between ca. 650 and 1650. An important achievement and a major contribution to Mediterranean studies." --Teofilo Ruiz, Distinguished Research Professor Emeritus of History, University of California, Los Angeles "This superb selection of texts offers students an invaluable first-hand encounter with how and why the Mediterranean was such a shaping force during this millennium of history. Texts from the Middle vividly brings to life a diversity of peoples from across the Mediterranean world, ranging from violent border lords, proud queens, officious bureaucrats, energetic business women, hopeful migrants, fiery polemicists, and enslaved Africans to disappointed brides, lazy students, and artful tax dodgers."--Amy G. Remensnyder, Professor of History, Brown University

"Written in a clear and engaging style and covering thematically the whole span of Mediterranean history, this is an exemplary textbook, as well as a capacious and engaging example of what three masterful historians can do in writing a 'total' history of the Mediterranean. An extraordinary achievement to be read by students and scholars alike."--Teofilo Ruiz, Distinguished Research Professor Emeritus of History, University of California, Los Angeles "By focusing on the Mediterranean writ large, this powerful and original book upends traditional views of medieval and early modern history to offer a compelling new master narrative of the millennium from 650 to 1650. The authors reveal the Mediterranean as an integrated space that extended far beyond this sea's shores to involve Muslims, Christians, Jews, and others in complex patterns of conflict and cooperation. This highly readable tour-de-force of synthesis and analysis is bound to become a classic."--Amy G. Remensnyder, Professor of History, Brown University "In this ground-breaking work, Thomas E. Burman, Brian A. Catlos, and Mark D. Meyerson have taken care to provide a guide to the complexities of the medieval and early modern Mediterranean that will surprise, delight, and illuminate. Teachers and students will be forever grateful."--Teresa Shawcross, Associate Professor of History and Hellenic Studies, Princeton University

"Through his work in the trenches as an artist, activist, and academic, Bryonn Bain has carved out a space over the past two decades as one of the most important voices of the twenty-first century. He exemplifies the power of the word as arguably the most effective weapon for social change and equality, and he wields it with a spirited conviction that moves everyone who hears his call."--Lolita Files, author of Child of God and CEO of Griot Initiative "Rebel Speak is not just a book. It is not just Bryonn having the courage to speak truth to power, or just walking, talking, and living while Black. This is love in all its forms telling Law and Order they can't exist without Justice. Justice can't exist without Mercy. Mercy without Understanding. And Understanding teaches us to forgive each other while still being held accountable. Rebel Speak is time itself, capturing generations of people who against all odds dared to believe and triumphed!"--Nanon Williams, Death Row Survivor and Activist, Ramsey Unit Prison, Rosharon, Texas "Bringing together critical race theory, oral history, and the prison reform/abolition movement, these dialogues allow the reader to hear the multiplicity of voices that have been at the forefront of this work. Anyone who is familiar with the genre and the theoretical foundations used will be duly impressed."--Miguel Martinez-Saenz, President, St. Francis College "The beauty of Bain's engaging oral history is that these figures are able to emerge and claim the fullness of their space, their ideas, and their social contributions. His is the kind of textured writing that we need, the kind of writing that stays with you."--Eddie Bruce-Jones, Professor of Law and Deputy Dean, University of London, Birkbeck School of Law "Bain's distinctive combination of artistic presence and intellectual gravitas comes across. This book stands out as a unique document that manages to communicate a vision of integrating scholarship with activism and art."--Thomas Jeffrey Miley, Lecturer of Political Sociology, University of Cambridge "This powerful book combines the perspectives of elder activists like Harry Belafonte and Dolores Huerta with the perspectives of younger ones, to address issues of mass incarceration and racial violence by the police in new and profoundly important ways."--Pedro Noguera, Professor of Sociology and Dean, USC Rossier School of Education "Shortly after producing the film Beat Street, in the years that followed, I grew frustrated with hip hop. The world needs to see how Bryonn carries the tradition of joining art and activism as an instrument for justice--at a time when the prison system has our communities in crisis."--Harry Belafonte, Artist and Activist "A legend in the making!"--DJ Kool Herc, The Father of Hip Hop

"Openness is the absolute key to innovation. Read this book on how to kick-start data-driven innovation and rein in Big Tech monopolies."--Katharina Borchert, former Chief Innovation Officer at Mozilla and Cofounder of Equilibrio "Access Rules is a manifesto for mandating broad access to data--or open data. Freeing data from today's digital monopolies, the authors argue, will increase transparency, empower small producers, and accelerate innovation. This powerful vision deserves the attention of scholars, policymakers, and anyone interested in democratizing access to information."--AnnaLee Saxenian, Professor, School of Information at the University of California, Berkeley "Data protection in the style of General Data Protection Regulation produces warm feelings and also stifles innovation. Access Rules call for greater access to data, which will better for those living on the margins."--Rohan Samarajiva, former Chair of the ICT Agency of Sri Lanka and Data, Algorithms, and Policy Lead at LIRNEasia "Highly readable, engaging, and important, Access Rules explores why we need to compel tech giants to make the data they collect freely available. A must-read for anyone wanting to understand the future of the global information economy."--Beth Simone Noveck, Director, The Governance Lab "Access Rules is simultaneously a practical guide to taming Big Tech's power and a profound contribution to the political economy of digitalization. Written in a brisk and accessible style, this book is a must-read for anyone interested in a positive-sum future for global information flows."--Frank Pasquale, author of The Black Box Society: The Secret Algorithms That Control Money and Information "This book is an urgent and provocative call for bold, creative thinking about asymmetries of power and the source of power--data itself. It should occupy scholars and policy makers around the world as we debate the best ways to curb some of the most dangerous monopolists we have ever let grow."--Siva Vaidhyanathan, author of Antisocial Media: How Facebook Disconnects Us and Undermines Democracy