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  • Anton Pannekoek: Ways of Viewing Science and Society

    Edited by Chaokang Tai, Bart Steen, Jeroen Dongen ...
    Series series Studies in the History of Knowledge
    Anton Pannekoek (1873-1960), prominent astronomer and world-renowned socialist theorist, stood at the nexus of the revolutions in politics, science and the arts of the early twentieth century. His astronomy was uniquely visual and highly innovative, while his politics were radical. Anton Pannekoek: Ways of Viewing Science and Society collects essays on Pannekoek and his contemporaries at the ... Read more

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  • A European Youth Revolt

    European Perspectives on Youth Protest and Social Movements in the 1980s

    by Bart van der Steen ...
    Series series Social Sciences (R0)
    During the early 1980s, large parts of Europe were swept with riots and youth revolts. Radicalised young people occupied buildings and clashed with the police in cities such as Zurich, Berlin and Amsterdam, while in Great Britain and France, 'migrant' youths protested fiercely against their underprivileged position and police brutality. Was there a link between the youth revolts in different ... Read more

    $49.49 USD

  • Researching Subcultures, Myth and Memory

    Edited by Bart van der Steen, Thierry P.F. Verburgh ...
    Series series History (R0)
    This book brings together contributions that analyse how subcultural myths develop and how they can be studied. Through critical engagement with (history) writing and other sources on subcultures by contemporaries, veterans, popular media and researchers, it aims to establish: how stories and histories of subcultures emerge and become canonized through the process of mythification; which ... Read more

    $107.09 USD

  • City Is Ours

    Squatting and Autonomous Movements in Europe from the 1970s to the Present

    by George Katsiaficas ...
    Squatters and autonomous movements have been in the forefront of radical politics in Europe for nearly a half-century—from struggles against urban renewal and gentrification, to large-scale peace and environmental campaigns, to spearheading the antiausterity protests sweeping the continent.Through the compilation of the local movement histories of eight different cities—including Amsterdam, Berlin ... Read more

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  • The Man from the Future

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  • The Modern Mind

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  • The Landscape of History

    How Historians Map the Past

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