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The fascinating history of how the antifascist movement of the 1930s created "the left" as we know it today

"Mari N. Crabtree traces the long afterlife of lynching in the South through the traumatic memories it left in its wake. She unearths how African American victims and survivors found ways to live through and beyond the horrors of lynching, offering a theory of African American collective trauma and memory rooted in the ironic spirit of the blues sensibility--a spirit of misdirection and cunning that blends joy and pain. Black southerners often shielded their loved ones from the most painful memories of local lynchings with strategic silences but also told lynching stories about vengeful ghosts or a wrathful God or the deathbed confessions of a lyncher tormented by his past. They protested lynching and its legacies through art and activism, and they mourned those lost to a mob's fury. They infused a blues element into their lynching narratives to confront traumatic memories and keep the blues at bay, even if just for a spell. Telling their stories troubles the simplistic binary of resistance or submission that has tended to dominate narratives of Black life and reminds us that amid the utter devastation of lynching were glimmers of hope and an affirmation of life."--Dust jacket.

A sweeping history of Muslim identity from its origins in late antiquity to the present

The fascinating history of American bookishness as told through the sale of Charles Lamb's library in 1848

A revealing biography of Sidney Reilly, the early twentieth-century virtuoso of espionage

How the history of liberal order and democratic politics since the 1930s explains ongoing threats to democracy and international order

The first book to examine the transformation of sporting cultures in South America in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries

A brutally funny, carnivalesque novel about love, death, and survival, from the Czech Republic's greatest living author

An inviting exploration of architecture across cultures and centuries by one of the field's eminent authors

An original study of late Enlightenment aesthetics, poetics, and environmental medicine as overlapping ways of comprehending the dislocations of historical existence lodged in the movements of bodies and minds

In this major new history, Robin Prior explores the fraught relationships between Britain's generals and civilian leadership during the two world wars. From Lloyd-George's notably interventionist stance to Churchill's constant feuding with American counterparts, Prior reveals the complex narrative of military and political decision-making which defined the world's most turbulent conflicts.

What does it mean when a radical understanding of National Socialism is inextricably embedded in the work of the twentieth century's most important philosopher?

The first Pevsner volume to explore the Isle of Man's unique architectural inheritance

A compelling history of the British Army in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries--showing how the military gathered knowledge from campaigns across the globe

A fascinating reception history of the theological, ethical, and social themes in the letters of Paul

A passionate and moving tribute to the captivating power of dance, not just as an art form but as a language that transcends barriers

An authoritative new edition of Marcel Proust‿s The Captive and The Fugitive, published together as the fifth volume of his epic masterwork, In Search of Lost Time

David Lasocki and Robert Ehrlich trace the history of the recorder from the fourteenth century to the present day. From minstrelsy to Baroque masterpieces, from Renaissance court splendor to Nazi propaganda, this fascinating account shows how present and significant the recorder has been throughout seven centuries of Western art music.

A global reconsideration and broadening of the definition of art conservation through the lenses of theory, ethics, culture, and history

Oliver Cromwell, with his complex and contradictory character, is one of the great figures of history. Untangling facts from fiction, Ronald Hutton reveals a Cromwell who was both genuine in his faith and deliberate in his dishonesty?and uncovers the inner workings of the man who has puzzled biographers for centuries.

"Introducing readers to the stunning breadth of Edward Ruscha's (b. 1937) creative output over the course of his entire life, this book includes materials dating back to his childhood and extending to his present-day output. The projects featured here fall outside Ruscha's production of paintings, drawings, prints, and artists' books. Many of these are unknown and most are reproduced here for the first time. Composed of three sections-Projects and Ephemera; Contour Gauge Profiles; and Painted Book Covers-the book offers Ruscha enthusiasts and scholars a hitherto unknown aspect of Ruscha's practice, while also showing how these projects coincide with, and sometimes even prefigure, the artistic work for which he is best known. The approximately 270 painted book covers, begun in 1990, utilize found books as support for small paintings and drawings. The 57 contour gauge profiles are silhouette-like profiles made using a mechanical device for reproducing contours. The largest section, Projects and Ephemera, consists of installations, sculpture and objects, films, book and poster design, utilitarian works, and more"--