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The contemporary US peace movement. New York: Routledge, 2009.

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1969-, Delville Michel, and Pagnoulle Christine, eds. Sound as sense: Contemporary US poetry &/in music. Brussels: P.I.E.-Peter Lang, 2003.

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More than an ally?: Contemporary Australia-US relations. Aldershot, England: Ashgate, 2008.

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Queer commodities: Contemporary US fiction, consumer capitalism, and gay and lesbian subcultures. New York, NY: Palgrave Macmillan, 2012.

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Just us girls: Essays on the contemporary African American young adult novel. New York: P. Lang, 2008.

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Teresa, Jordan, and Hepworth James 1948-, eds. The stories that shape us: Contemporary women write about the West : an anthology. New York: Norton, 1995.

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The Holy Trinity- God for God and God for us: Seven positions on the immanent-economic Trinity relation in contemporary Trinitatian theology. Eugene, Or: Pickwick Publications, 2011.

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Bhopal, Mhinder. US union busting in contemporary Malaysia: The dependent state and the electronics industry : Seminar on Comparative Labour and Working Class History, Institute of Historical Research, 13 October 2000. [London]: [s.n.], 2000.

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Luca, Tiago. Planetary Cinema. NL Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.5117/9789463729628.

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The story is now familiar. In the late 1960s humanity finally saw photographic evidence of the Earth in space for the first time. According to this narrative, the impact of such images in the consolidation of a planetary consciousness is yet to be matched. This book tells a different story. It argues that this narrative has failed to account for the vertiginous global imagination underpinning the media and film culture of the late nineteenth century and beyond. Panoramas, giant globes, world exhibitions, photography and stereography: all promoted and hinged on the idea of a world made whole and newly visible. When it emerged, cinema did not simply contribute to this effervescent globalism so much as become its most significant and enduring manifestation. Planetary Cinema proposes that an exploration of that media culture can help us understand contemporary planetary imaginaries in times of environmental collapse. Engaging with a variety of media, genres and texts, the book sits at the intersection of film/media history and theory/philosophy, and it claims that we need this combined approach and expansive textual focus in order to understand the way we see the world.
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Ecosickness in Contemporary US Fiction. Columbia University Press, 2014.

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Understanding and Teaching Contemporary US History since Reagan. University of Wisconsin Press, 2022.

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Diversifying Greek Tragedy on the Contemporary US Stage. Oxford University Press, 2018.

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'That Was Us': Contemporary Irish Theatre and Performance. Oberon Books, Limited, 2013.

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Arras, Paul. The Lonely Nineties: Visions of Community in Contemporary US Television. Palgrave Macmillan, 2019.

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Arras, Paul. The Lonely Nineties: Visions of Community in Contemporary US Television. Palgrave Macmillan, 2018.

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Public Negotiations: Gender and Journalism in Contemporary US Latina/o Literature. Ohio State University Press, 2019.

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Vigil, Ariana E. Public Negotiations: Gender and Journalism in Contemporary US Latina/o Literature. Ohio State University Press, 2019.

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The Historical Epic and Contemporary Hollywood: From Dances With Wolves to Gladiator. Continuum International Publishing Group, 2007.

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The Historical Epic and Contemporary Hollywood: From Dances With Wolves to Gladiator. Continuum International Publishing Group, 2007.

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Davidson, Guy. Queer Commodities: Contemporary Us Fiction, Consumer Capitalism, and Gay and Lesbian Subcultures. Palgrave Macmillan, 2012.

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Jr, David Carey, and Allan F. Burns. Our Elders Teach Us : Maya-Kaqchikel Historical Perspectives (Contemporary American Indian Studies). University Alabama Press, 2001.

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Lambert, Page. The Stories That Shape Us: Contemporary Women Write About the West : An Anthology. W. W. Norton & Company, 1995.

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Barrow, Jim. History of South Korea: From the US Military Administration and the Korean War to Contemporary Pop Culture. Independently Published, 2021.

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Kunne, Regina. Eternally Yours - Challenge and Response: Contemporary US American Romance Novels by Jayne Ann Krentz and Barbara Delinsky. Lit Verlag, 2015.

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II, Anthony J. Cataldo, and Arline A. Savage. US Individual Federal Income Taxation: Historical, Contemporary, and Prospective Policy Issues (Studies in Managerial and Financial Accounting). JAI Press, 2001.

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Allen, Jafari S. There's a Disco Ball Between Us. Duke University Press, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.1215/9781478021896.

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In There’s a Disco Ball Between Us, Jafari S. Allen offers a sweeping and lively ethnographic and intellectual history of what he calls “Black gay habits of mind.” In conversational and lyrical language, Allen locates this sensibility as it emerged from radical Black lesbian activism and writing during the long 1980s. He traverses multiple temporalities and locations, drawing on research and fieldwork conducted across the globe, from Nairobi, London, and Paris to Toronto, Miami, and Trinidad and Tobago. In these locations and archives, Allen traces the genealogies of Black gay politics and cultures in the visual art, poetry, film, Black feminist theory, historiography, and activism of thinkers and artists such as Audre Lorde, Marsha P. Johnson, Essex Hemphill, Colin Robinson, Marlon Riggs, Pat Parker, and Joseph Beam. Throughout, Allen renarrates Black queer history while cultivating a Black gay method of thinking and writing. In so doing, he speaks to the urgent contemporary struggles for social justice while calling on Black studies to pursue scholarship, art, and policy derived from the lived experience and fantasies of Black people throughout the world.
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Baik, Chung-Hyun. Holy Trinity--God for God and God for Us: Seven Positions on the Immanent-Economic Trinity Relation in Contemporary Trinitatian Theology. Wipf & Stock Publishers, 2011.

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Hickey, Helen M., Anne McKendry, and Melissa Raine, eds. Contemporary Chaucer across the centuries. Manchester University Press, 2019. http://dx.doi.org/10.7228/manchester/9781526129154.001.0001.

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For 700 years, Geoffrey Chaucer has spoken to scholars and amateurs alike. How does his work speak to us in the twenty-first century? This volume provides a unique vantage point for responding to this question, furnished by the pioneering scholar of medieval literary studies, Stephanie Trigg: the symptomatic long history. While Trigg's signature methodological framework acts as a springboard for the vibrant conversation that characterises this collection, each chapter offers an inspiring extension of her scholarly insights. The varied perspectives of the outstanding contributors attest to the vibrancy and the advancement of debates in Chaucer studies: thus, formerly rigid demarcations surrounding medieval literary studies, particularly those concerned with Chaucer, yield in these essays to a fluid interplay between Chaucer within his medieval context; medievalism and ‘reception’; the rigours of scholarly research and the recognition of amateur engagement with the past; the significance of the history of emotions; and the relationship of textuality with subjectivity according to their social and ecological context. Each chapter produces a distinctive and often startling interpretation of Chaucer that broadens our understanding of the dynamic relationship between the medieval past and its ongoing re-evaluation. The inventive strategies and methodologies employed in this volume by leading thinkers in medieval literary criticism will stimulate exciting and timely insights for researchers and students of Chaucer, medievalism, medieval studies, and the history of emotions, especially those interested in the relationship between medieval literature, the intervening centuries and contemporary cultural change.
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Murray, Hannah Lauren. Liminal Whiteness in Early US Fiction. Edinburgh University Press, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.3366/edinburgh/9781474481731.001.0001.

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Liminal Whiteness in Early US Fiction shows that early US authors repeatedly imagined lost, challenged and negated White racial identity in the new nation. It brings together fiction and multiple discourses on White racial identity in the early US including natural history, medical science, blackface minstrelsy, abolitionism and anti-abolitionism, mesmerism and spiritualism. Moving beyond an anthropological framework of liminality and its focus on ritualised behaviour in tribal societies, this book examines liminality as both a temporary transformative experience and a permanent condition of exclusion and loss for White men in the early United States. In a Critical Whiteness reading of canonical and lesser-known texts from Charles Brockden Brown to Frank J. Webb, the book argues that White characters on the border between life and death were liminal presences that disturbed prescriptions of racial belonging in the early US. Liminal Whiteness contributes to a growing body of scholarship concerned with the cultural construction of Whiteness and citizenship in the early US, and which resonates with contemporary discussions of White cultural anxiety and fragility. Fears of losing Whiteness in the early US were routinely channelled through the language of liminality, in a precursor to today’s White anxieties of marginalisation and minoritisation.
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(W)orte / Words in Place: Zeitgenossische Literatur Aus Und Uber Sudtirol / Contemporary Literature by German-speaking Minority Writers from South Tyrol (Italy) (Skarabc&us). Transaction Publishers, 2006.

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O'Malley, Martin, and John J. Pungente. More Than Meets the Eye: Watching Television Watching Us. McClelland & Stewart, 1999.

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Warren-Findley, Jannelle. Public History, Cultural Institutions, and National Identity. Edited by Paula Hamilton and James B. Gardner. Oxford University Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199766024.013.17.

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Public surveys in Anglophone countries suggest that many individuals learn most of their history from family or cultural institutions, rather than from reading scholarship or sitting in classrooms. As histories of silenced groups, forgotten tribes, and ignored communities gain a place in the contemporary narrative of national histories, we must explore the methods and assumptions used by those who created the intellectual and legal frameworks that determine who in the past were represented as historical players and why others were not. Analyzing public policy documents can help us understand the cultural assumptions underlying historic preservation decisions. Modifying or rethinking those assumptions entirely can permit us to “dialogue across difference” and work for inclusive cultural identities in our public places.
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Phillips, Murray G., and Gary Osmond. Digital History Flexes its Muscle. University of Illinois Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.5406/illinois/9780252038938.003.0012.

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This concluding chapter discusses the potentially far-reaching impact of the intersection between history and the digital era. An important consequence of this discussion is the encouragement of experimentation in history making. Digital history, at its maximalist end, engages with the practice of experimentation by denaturalizing every dimension of traditional history: the dominance of qualitative research, traditional source materials, the practice of sole authoring, one-way scholarly communication, peer review, filter-then-publish models, linear narratives, intellectual property, and the viability of the monograph as the gold-standard, professionally approved, artifact. In these ways, “the digital does provide us with an important opportunity to explore the possibilities of reconsidering and reformulating the practice and value of history to contemporary society.”
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The history and evolution of tourism. Wallingford: CABI, 2022. http://dx.doi.org/10.1079/9781800621282.0000.

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Abstract The aim of the present book is to provide an overview of tourism evolution in the past, present and future. This book discusses significant travel, tourism and hospitality events while referring to tourism-related notions and theories that were developed throughout the history of tourism. Even so, its scope moves beyond a detailed historical account of facts and events that occurred in the past. In more detail, this book departs from a basic description of these events and theories. Instead, it attempts to bridge these with contemporary issues, challenges and concerns, so that readers may make mental associations of the tourism past with the present and future, consecutively feeding their scepticism, decisions and even the development of new theories. While studying the evolution of tourism, one must look at the past: that is, the history of tourism throughout the centuries. History helps us to understand the past, predict the future and help in creating it.
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Kidman, Joanna, Vincent O'Malley, Liana MacDonald, Tom Roa, and Keziah Wallis. Fragments from a Contested Past: Remembrance, Denial and New Zealand History. Bridget Williams Books, 2022. http://dx.doi.org/10.7810/9781990046483.

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‘What a nation or society chooses to remember and forget speaks to its contemporary priorities and sense of identity. Understanding how that process works enables us to better imagine a future with a different, or wider, set of priorities.’ History has rarely felt more topical or relevant as, all across the globe, nations have begun to debate who, how and what they choose to remember and forget. In this BWB Text addressing ‘difficult histories’, a team of five researchers, several from iwi invaded or attacked during the nineteenth-century New Zealand Wars, reflect on these questions of memory and loss locally. Combining first-hand fieldnotes from their journeys to sites of conflict and contestation with innovative archival and oral research exploring the gaps and silences in the ways we engage with the past, this group investigates how these events are remembered – or not – and how this has shaped the modern New Zealand nation.
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Steinvall, Anders, and Sarah Street, eds. A Cultural History of Color in the Modern Age. Bloomsbury Publishing Plc, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.5040/9781474206235.

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Volume 6 A Cultural History of Color in the Modern Age covers the period 1920 to the present, a time of extraordinary developments in colour science, philosophy, art, design and technologies. The expansion of products produced with synthetic dyes was accelerated by mass consumerism as artists, designers, architects, writers, theater and filmmakers made us a ‘color conscious’ society. This influenced what we wore, how we chose to furnish and decorate our homes, and how we responded to the vibrancy and chromatic eclecticism of contemporary visual cultures.The volume brings together research on how philosophers, scientists, linguists and artists debated color’s polyvalence, its meaning to different cultures, and how it could be measured, manufactured, manipulated and enjoyed. Color shapes an individual’s experience of the world and also how society gives particular spaces, objects, and moments meaning. The 6 volume set of the Cultural History of Color examines how color has been created, traded, used, and interpreted over the last 5000 years. The themes covered in each volume are color philosophy and science; color technology and trade; power and identity; religion and ritual; body and clothing; language and psychology; literature and the performing arts; art; architecture and interiors; and artefacts. Volume 6 in the Cultural History of Color set. General Editors: Carole P. Biggam and Kirsten Wolf
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Stamey, Emily. Gilded: Contemporary Artists Explore Value and Worth. Weatherspoon Art Museum, 2022. http://dx.doi.org/10.5149/9781890949198_stamey.

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This exhibition catalogue accompanies Gilded: Contemporary Artists Explore Value and Worth, organized by the Weatherspoon Art Museum at UNC Greensboro, on view September 10, 2022 - April 8, 2023. Across time and cultures, gold has served as a metaphor for what we value most. Symbolically, it stands in for goodness, excellence, brilliance, and wealth. He has a heart of gold. She is going for gold. It shone like gold. They struck gold. Found in crowns and regalia that bestow power, rings that signal matrimony, and currency traded among peoples, the metal has profound social significance. Across the arts, craftspeople have long pounded gold into thin sheets called leaves, which are applied in a process called gilding. In realms of the spiritual, gilding illuminates sacred texts, gives otherworldly luster to holy spaces, and allows religious sculptures to shine. While we most often associate gold leaf with historic traditions, the material appears frequently in the work of contemporary artists. Specifically, the artists represented in this exhibition turn to gilding as a means to reconsider our value systems. Gilding images of graffiti and sidewalks, cardboard boxes and architectural fragments, they ask us to see the beauty in what we so often overlook and honor that which we so often throw away. Gilding images of people—often those who have been disempowered or forgotten—they ask us to hold up our collective humanity. If, as the saying goes, “all that glitters is not gold,” the artists represented here offer an inverse proposition: perhaps that which does not always shine is most worthy of our attention. Gilded features the work of Radcliffe Bailey, Larissa Bates, william cordova, Angela Fraleigh, Gajin Fujita, Nicholas Galanin, Liz Glynn, Shan Goshorn, Sherin Guirguis, Titus Kaphar, Hung Liu, James Nares, Ronny Quevedo, Shinji Turner-Yamamoto, Danh Vo, Stacy Lynn Waddell, and Summer Wheat. After its Weatherspoon debut, the project will travel to the Hunter Museum of Art in Chattanooga, TN and the Hood Museum of Art at Dartmouth in Hanover, NH.
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Rushdy, Ashraf H. A. Afterword The Arts of Empathy. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780190851972.003.0012.

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This Afterword argues that the moral practices of resentment, apology, and forgiveness all have particular meaning for what has been called, by both primatologist Frans de Waal and economist Jeremy Rifkin, the contemporary “age of empathy.” De Waal focuses on biological evolution to show how our empathy is producing a “kinder society,” Rifkin examines social evolutions in the harnessing of energy and the production of communication patterns tied to those energy regimes to show how moments in our past may help us see that our trajectory is inexorably leading us to a “global consciousness.” Empathy is in our nature and in our history, and a product of our nature and our history—and, in either case, an aspect of who we are as individuals and what we are as a society or world.
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Hutton, Eric L. Extended Knowledge and Confucian Tradition. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198769811.003.0011.

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Although studies in the history of philosophy look backward to the past, developments in contemporary philosophy can often contribute to such studies by teaching us how to analyze particular issues more carefully, and sometimes the lessons learned from reconsidering past thinkers in such a light can in turn contribute to current work in philosophy by highlighting problems or approaches that might otherwise go unnoticed. This phenomenon is not limited to the Western tradition alone: scholars of Asian thought may benefit from the conceptual tools offered by contemporary Western philosophers, and contemporary Western philosophers may find value in insights from the Asian tradition. This chapter hopes to provide support for this last claim by means of a concrete example involving contemporary theories of extended knowledge and an ancient Chinese Confucian thinker, Xunzi.
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Prendergast, Thomas, and Stephanie Trigg. Affective medievalism. Manchester University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.7228/manchester/9781526126863.001.0001.

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This book destabilises the customary disciplinary and epistemological oppositions between medieval studies and modern medievalism. It argues that the twinned concepts of “the medieval” and post-medieval “medievalism” are mutually though unevenly constitutive, not just in the contemporary era, but from the medieval period on. Medieval and medievalist culture share similar concerns about the nature of temporality, and the means by which we approach or “touch” the past, whether through textual or material culture, or the conceptual frames through which we approach those artefacts. Those approaches are often affective ones, often structured around love, abjection and discontent. Medieval writers offer powerful models for the ways in which contemporary desire determines the constitution of the past. This desire can not only connect us with the past but can reconnect present readers with the lost history of what we call the medievalism of the medievals. In other words, to come to terms with the history of the medieval is to understand that it already offers us a model of how to relate to the past. The book ranges across literary and historical texts, but is equally attentive to material culture and its problematic witness to the reality of the historical past.
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Williamson, Timothy. Philosophical Method: A Very Short Introduction. Oxford University Press, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/actrade/9780198810001.001.0001.

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What is philosophy and what are philosophers trying to achieve? Philosophical Method: A Very Short Introduction looks at the history of philosophy, including examples from history charting the successes and failures of philosophical thinking. Themes explored in detail include philosophy’s relationship to mathematics and science, common sense and its misinterpretations, the role of debate in the search for truth, and the importance of thought experiments to philosophical arguments. This VSI provides a contemporary look at philosophical methodology, asking if philosophy is always an ‘armchair-based’ discipline or if real-life thought experiments can help us solve philosophical problems.
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Gillick, Liam. Industry and Intelligence. Columbia University Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.7312/columbia/9780231170208.001.0001.

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The history of modern art is often told through aesthetic breakthroughs that sync well with cultural and political change. From Courbet to Picasso, from Malevich to Warhol, it is accepted that art tracks the disruptions of industrialization, fascism, revolution, and war. Yet filtering the history of modern art only through catastrophic events cannot account for the subtle developments that lead to the profound confusion at the heart of contemporary art. In Industry and Intelligence, the artist Liam Gillick writes a nuanced genealogy to help us appreciate contemporary art’s engagement with history even when it seems apathetic or blind to current events. Taking a broad view of artistic creation from 1820 to today, Gillick follows the response of artists to incremental developments in science, politics, and technology. The great innovations and dislocations of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries have their place in this timeline, but their traces are alternately amplified and diminished as Gillick moves through artistic reactions to liberalism, mass manufacturing, psychology, nuclear physics, automobiles, and a host of other advances. He intimately ties the origins of contemporary art to the social and technological adjustments of modern life, which artists struggled to incorporate truthfully into their works.
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Mitchell, Scott A. Buddhism in America. Bloomsbury Publishing Plc, 2016. http://dx.doi.org/10.5040/9781474204064.

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Buddhism in America provides the most comprehensive and up to date survey of the diverse landscape of US Buddhist traditions, their history and development, and current methodological trends in the study of Buddhism in the West, located within the translocal flow of global Buddhist culture. Divided into three parts (Histories; Traditions; Frames), this introduction traces Buddhism's history and encounter with North American culture, charts the landscape of US Buddhist communities, and engages current methodological and theoretical developments in the field. The volume includes: - A short introduction to Buddhism - A historical survey from the 19th century to the present - Coverage of contemporary US Buddhist communities, including Theravada, Mahayana, and Vajrayana Theoretical and methodological issues and debates covered include: - Social, political and environmental engagement - Race, feminist, and queer theories of Buddhism - Secular Buddhism, digital Buddhism, and modernity - Popular culture, media, and the arts Pedagogical tools include chapter summaries, discussion questions, images and maps, a glossary, and case studies. The book's website provides recommended further resources including websites, books and films, organized by chapter. With individual chapters which can stand on their own and be assigned out of sequence, Buddhism in America is the ideal resource for courses on Buddhism in America, American Religious History, and Introduction to Buddhism.
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Lieven, Anatol. West Asia Since 1900. Oxford University Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780190673604.003.0002.

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The history of West Asia over the past century has been defined by the collapse of three great empires. Contemporary history of the region is being defined by the decay of a fourth, informal empire —the USA — and the appearance of a new local power, the Islamic State, which is radically hostile to the US hegemony, local regimes and the very existence of the states of the region. These ruins of empire have been preceded, accompanied, and, to a considerable extent, caused by the decay of the civilizational ideologies, which had legitimized imperial rule. While internal culture, social and economic factors have been crucial barriers to modernization, so too has been the dependence of would-be modernizing Middle Eastern states on the US imperial hegemon. This dependency has stripped these states of the nationalist legitimacy which elsewhere has been vital to the introduction of necessary but highly painful and contested reforms.
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Howard, Christopher. The Welfare State. Edited by Richard Valelly, Suzanne Mettler, and Robert Lieberman. Oxford University Press, 2014. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199697915.013.004.

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The American welfare state has a long and complicated history. Political institutions, organized groups, ideas, and values have worked singly and in myriad combinations to shape US social policy; no single factor stands out as the most important influence. The end result, however, is increasingly clear. Built over many decades and shaped by so many different hands, the American welfare state has emerged as a large, jerry-rigged contraption capable of helping some groups of citizens far more than others. While citizens, pundits, and policymakers alike may lament the lack of rational design, a historical perspective helps us understand why the contemporary American welfare state fails to deliver on some of its promises.
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Mullins, Paul R. Revolting Things. University Press of Florida, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.5744/florida/9780813066714.001.0001.

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Revolting Things: An Archaeology of Shameful Histories and Repulsive Realities examines a host of material things that induce anxiety, provoke unpleasantness, or simply revolt us. The book is a study of the contemporary world and its recent dark history that wrestles with how and why certain material things provoke strong and predominately negative feelings that are firmly rooted in contemporary political concerns. This book interrogates the physical and emotional experience of abhorrent things ranging from Confederate heritage to landscapes of racial violence and confirms the emotional, physical, and social power of material things. The book argues that our experience of difficult material heritage is emotionally rich, shaped by social circumstances, and reflective of deep-seated social and historical anxieties.
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Hogan, Wesley C., and Paul Ortiz, eds. People Power. University Press of Florida, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.5744/florida/9780813066912.001.0001.

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Featuring contributions from leading scholar-activists, People Power demonstrates how the lessons of history can inform the building of new social justice movements today. This volume is inspired by the pathbreaking life and work of writer, activist, and historian Lawrence “Larry” Goodwyn. As a radical Texas journalist and a political organizer, Goodwyn participated in historic changes ushered in by grassroots activism in the 1950s and ’60s. Professor and cofounder of the Oral History Program at Duke University, Goodwyn wrote about movements built by Latino farm workers, Polish trade unionists, civil rights activists, and others who challenged the status quo. The essays in this volume examine Goodwyn’s influence in political and social movements, his approaches to teaching and writing, and his insights into the long history behind contemporary activism. People Power will generate deep discussions about the potential of democracy amid the multiple crises of our time. What motivates ordinary people to move from kitchen table conversations to civic engagement? What do the chronicles of past social movements tell us about how to confront the real blocks of racism and the idea that Americans are somehow “exceptional”? Contributors provide key experiential knowledge that will help today’s scholars and community organizers address these pressing questions.
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Flood, Dawn Rae. Conclusion. University of Illinois Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.5406/illinois/9780252036897.003.0007.

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This concluding chapter considers the myriad legal and medical reforms that have been established since the 1970s in enhancing access to justice for rape victims. At the same time the chapter looks at contemporary rape cases and the media storm surrounding them, once again confronting the racial rape myths that prevail in contemporary American society. The chapter argues that, while institutionalized support for those navigating the complexities of rape trials has grown in recent decades, historic myths about race, gender, and sexual violence still uncomfortably intervene in sensationalized media coverage of sex crimes and in the contemporary justice system, forcing us to continue to confront and challenge our own understandings of rape.
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Field Jr., Thomas C., Stella Krepp, and Vanni Pettiná, eds. Latin America and the Global Cold War. University of North Carolina Press, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.5149/northcarolina/9781469655697.001.0001.

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Latin America and the Global Cold War analyzes more than a dozen of Latin America’s forgotten encounters with Africa, Asia, and the Communist world, and by placing the region in meaningful dialogue with the wider Global South, this volume produces the first truly global history of contemporary Latin America. It uncovers a multitude of overlapping and sometimes conflicting iterations of Third Worldist movements in Latin America, and offers insights for better understanding the region’s past, as well as its possible futures, challenging us to consider how the Global Cold War continues to inform Latin America’s ongoing political struggles.
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Stitzlein, Sarah M. Accountability, the Public, and Public Schools. Oxford University Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/acprof:oso/9780190657383.003.0002.

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I begin by laying out the shifting context of public schools and the citizens and democracy they serve. I ground my discussion in a theory of participatory democracy influenced by the ideas of Progressive Era philosopher of education John Dewey and contemporary political theorist Benjamin Barber. I provide that theory as both a foil to analyze contemporary changes in democracy and a guide for how we might respond to and, at times, resist them. I then trace the history of educational accountability to illuminate key aspects of the current accountability crisis. Finally, I define the public and public goods, an important basis for my call to revitalize citizen support for public schools insofar as these concepts show us how schools not only serve as a shared benefit, but also are established and protected as such through our shared efforts.
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