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  • Narrating Love and Violence

    Women Contesting Caste, Tribe, and State in Lahaul, India

    de Himika Bhattacharya ...
    Narrating Love and Violence is an ethnographic exploration of women’s stories from the Himalayan valley of Lahaul, in the region of Himachal Pradesh, India, focusing on how both, love and violence emerge (or function) at the intersection of gender, tribe, caste, and the state in India. Himika Bhattacharya privileges the everyday lives of women marginalized by caste and tribe to show how state and ... Leer más

    $23.99 USD

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  • The Mayor of Casterbridge (Diversion Classics)

    de Thomas Hardy ...
    Considered one of Hardy’s best works, this sobering and complex story of self-destruction features one of literature's quintessential tragic heroes.In a drunken fit of rage, young hay-trusser Michael Henchard auctions off his wife and baby daughter at a county fair. Exhausted by his behavior, his wife decides to leave with the highest bidder. The next day, too late to stop them from leaving, ... Leer más

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  • Omens and Superstitions of Southern India

    de Edgar Thurston ...
    This book deals mainly with some aspects of what may be termed the psychical life of the inhabitants of the Madras Presidency, and the Native States of Travancore and Cochin. In my “Ethnographic Notes in Southern India” (1906), I stated that the confused chapter devoted to omens, animal superstitions, evil eye, charms, sorcery, etc., was a mere outline sketch of a group of subjects, which, if ... Leer más

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  • The Power of the Past

    Understanding Cross-Class Marriages

    de Jessi Streib ...
    In an era in which class divisions are becoming starker than ever, some individuals are choosing to marry across class. The Power of the Past traces the lives of a subset of these individuals - highly-educated adults who married a partner raised in a class different from their own, primarily between those from blue- and white-collar backgrounds. Drawing upon detailed interviews with spouses who ... Leer más

    $36.99 USD

  • Annihilation of Caste

    The Annotated Critical Edition

    de B.R. Ambedkar ...
    **“What the Communist Manifesto is to the capitalist world, Annihilation of Caste is to India.” —Anand Teltumbde, author of The Persistence of CasteThe classic work of Indian Dalit politics, reframed with an extensive introduction by Arundathi Roy**B.R. Ambedkar’s Annihilation of Caste is one of the most important, yet neglected, works of political writing from India. Written in 1936, it is an ... Leer más

    $9.99 USD

  • Violence in the Home

    Multidisciplinary Perspectives

    de Karel Kurst-Swanger, Jacqueline L. Petcosky ...
    Violence in the home is one of the most damaging and widespread of social problems. It is an issue that cuts across all socioeconomic, racial, ethnic, gender, and age boundaries. This important book reviews the most current theoretical explanations of family violence and then links theory to practice. It looks at the systems and institutions that interact with families, which are mandated to ... Leer más

    $41.39 USD

  • Generation Rx

    A Story of Dope, Death, and America's Opiate Crisis

    de Erin Marie Daly ...
    What had happened to my baby brother? How did a tiny little pill shatter our family? When did we first begin losing Pat?These are the harrowing questions that plagued Erin Marie Daly after her youngest brother Pat, an OxyContin addict, was found dead of a heroin overdose at the age of twenty. In just a few short years, the powerful prescription painkiller had transformed him from a fun-loving ball ... Leer más

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  • Unlocked Memories

    Young Russians under German Rule

    de Alexey Vinogradov, Albert Pleysier ...
    Unlocked Memories is a collection of memories that were shared by Russians who witnessed the German invasion of the Leningrad region in 1941. All were children or young people during World War Two and nearly all were natives of Luga, Oredezh, or villages that were clustered around these two towns. Each lived under German rule after the Leningrad region was overrun and occupied by the enemy.The ... Leer más

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  • Routledge Revivals: Miners, Quarrymen and Saltworkers (1977)

    Edición de Raphael Samuel ...
    Series series Routledge Revivals: History Workshop Series
    Industrial discipline in mining, quarrying, brickmaking and other classes of mineral work was very different to that in nineteenth-century factories and mills. First published in 1977, this book deals with mineral workers of every class and discusses the peculiarities and common features of their work. It offers three detailed local studies: pit life in County Durham, slate quarrying in North ... Leer más

    $57.99 USD

  • Hindu Wife, Hindu Nation

    Community, Religion and Cultural Nationalism

    de Tanika Sarkar ...
    This book is a brilliant historicisation and scathing critique of many of the dominant concepts by which Indians generally, and north Indian Hindus more specifically, think and live today. Historians, sociologists, political scientists and serious readers who wish to understand how the immediate past has shaped Indias life will value this incisive work of a major historian. ... Leer más

    $5.99 USD

  • Routledge Revivals: Metropolis London (1989)

    Histories and Representations since 1800

    Edición de David Feldman, Gareth Stedman Jones ...
    Series series Routledge Revivals: History Workshop Series
    First published in 1989, this book seeks to demonstrate the social and political images of late-twentieth century London — the post-big-bang city, docklands, trade union defeats, a mounting north-south divide — do not mark as decisive break with the past as they may appear to. It argues that the most striking thing about London’s history since 1800 is the continuities and recurrences which ... Leer más

    $57.99 USD

  • Communication, Culture, and Human Rights in Africa

    Edición de Bala A. Musa, Jerry Komia Domatob ...
    Series series Communication, Society and Change in Africa
    Communication, Culture, and Human Rights in Africa provides a comprehensive and interdisciplinary analysis of the interface between human rights and civil society, the media, gender, education, religion, health communication, and political processes in sub-Saharan Africa. It weaves theory, history, policy, and case analyses into a holistic intellectual and cultural critique, while offering ... Leer más

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