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  • The New Zealand Project

    by Max Harris ...
    By any measure, New Zealand must confront monumental issues in the years ahead. From the future of work to climate change, wealth inequality to new populism these challenges are complex and even unprecedented. Yet why does New Zealand’s political discussion seem so diminished, and our political imagination unequal to the enormity of these issues? And why is this gulf particularly apparent to young ... Read more

    $13.09 USD

  • The Interregnum

    Rethinking New Zealand

    by Andrew Dean, Max Harris, Lamia Imam, Chloe King, Daniel Kleinsman, Edward Miller, Courtney Sina Meredith, Carrie Stoddart-Smith, Wilbur Townsend, Holly Walker ...
    Series series BWB Texts
    ‘The crisis consists precisely in the fact that the old is dying and the new cannot be born; in this interregnum a great variety of morbid symptoms appear’ Antonio GramsciIs New Zealand’s political settlement beginning to fray? And does this mean we’re entering the interregnum, that ambiguous moment between society-wide discontent and political change? In BWB’s latest book of essays, edited by ... Read more

    $3.99 USD

  • Aztecs, Moors, and Christians

    Festivals of Reconquest in Mexico and Spain

    by Max Harris ...
    In villages and towns across Spain and its former New World colonies, local performers stage mock battles between Spanish Christians and Moors or Aztecs that range from brief sword dances to massive street theatre lasting several days. The festival tradition officially celebrates the triumph of Spanish Catholicism over its enemies, yet this does not explain its persistence for more than five ... Read more

    $26.99 USD

  • Carnival and Other Christian Festivals

    Folk Theology and Folk Performance

    by Max Harris ...
    Series series Joe R. and Teresa Lozano Long Series in Latin American and Latino Art and Culture
    With a riotous mix of saints and devils, street theater and dancing, and music and fireworks, Christian festivals are some of the most lively and colorful spectacles that occur in Spain and its former European and American possessions. That these folk celebrations, with roots reaching back to medieval times, remain vibrant in the high-tech culture of the twenty-first century strongly suggests that ... Read more

    $28.49 USD

  • The Piketty Phenomenon

    New Zealand Perspectives

    by Geoff Bertram, Simon Chapple, Donal Curtin, Brian Easton, Max Harris, Tim Hazledine, Bernard Hickey, Prue Hyman, Hautahi Kingi, Gareth Morgan, Matt Nolan, Max Rashbrooke, Susan St John, Robert Wade, Cathy Wylie ...
    Series series BWB Texts
    Piketty’s book is a bombshell, promising a Kuhnian scientific revolution. Geoff BertramPiketty erects a floodlight that illuminates the shadows ignored by economists for too long. Hautahi KingiFew books have had the global impact of Thomas Piketty’s Capital in the Twenty-First Century. An overnight bestseller, Piketty’s assessment that inherited wealth will always grow faster, on average, than ... Read more

    $3.02 USD

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  • The Last Day

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  • Colonial Latin American Literature

    A Very Short Introduction

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  • Junípero Serra

    California's Founding Father

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  • Inquisition

    The Reign of Fear

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  • Tlacaelel Remembered

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