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The Smartification of Everything

From the smart phone to the smart home, smartness has become an almost inescapable reality of everyday life. Supposedly intelligent, interconnected technologies, smart systems have taken on their own form…

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Harvey Whitehouse
Inheritance

An "exhilarating" (Irish Times ) and "ambitious" (The Guardian) account of the ancient inheritance that made us who we are--and is now driving us to ruin.Why do humans everywhere belie…

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The Smartification of Everything

From the smart phone to the smart home, smartness has become an almost inescapable reality of everyday life. Supposedly intelligent, interconnected technologies, smart systems have taken on their own form…

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Divya Garg
Decolonizing Media Fandom

"Description: In popular media and scholarship, the default fan is often assumed to be white, Anglo-American, and able-bodied. Research about racially and culturally diverse fans is usually undertake…

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Nadja Rothenburger
Autochoreografie im Zeitgeschehen

TanzScripte - Band 77

Tänzerische autobiografische Verfahrensweisen von Künstler*innen, sogenannte 'Auto_Choreo_Grafien', sind häufig in sozio-temporale Umbruchsdiskurse eingebettet. Nadja Rothenburger betrachtet sie im Kontex…

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Helen Hardacre
Shinto Shrines in Prewar and Wartime Japan

In Shinto Shrines in Prewar and Wartime Japan, Helen Hardacre uses shrine records, personal diaries, contemporary literature, and government documents to enhance understanding of State Shinto's reach and …

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Caitlin Blackwell Baines
How to Build a Haunted House

A cultural history of the phenomenon of the 'haunted house' as seen through art, architecture, and ghost stories.What makes a house haunted? Why do some buildings conjure up a reputation for being particu…

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Arab American Public History

Forthcoming Fall 2025

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El Monte's New Itineraries

El Monte's New Itineraries is the first book fully devoted to the study of Cuban author and ethnographer Lydia Cabrera's El Monte (1954), one of the most influential books in Caribbean cultural history. H…

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Unfolding Made in Italy (1948-1962)

Research for Development

This book examines postwar Italian craft and design (1948-1962) through a multidisciplinary lens, reassessing its significance today. It explores the enduring appeal of artifacts within and beyond museum …

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Steffen Köhn
Island in the Net

An exploration of Cuba's emerging digital culture and Cubans' creation of grassroots networks, digital black markets, and online spaces for public debateUntil just a few years ago, Cuba was one of the lea…

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El Monte's New Itineraries

El Monte's New Itineraries is the first book fully devoted to the study of Cuban author and ethnographer Lydia Cabrera's El Monte (1954), one of the most influential books in Caribbean cultural history. H…

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Arab American Public History

Forthcoming Fall 2025

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Michael Luo
Strangers in the Land

From New Yorker writer Michael Luo comes a masterful narrative history of the Chinese in America that traces the sorrowful theme of exclusion and documents their more than century-long struggle to belong.…

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Alexei Yurchak
Everything Was Forever, Until It Was No More

"[An] extraordinary book."---Brian Eno • "One of the best books about the U.S.S.R. in its late stage."---Alexei Navalny, from Patriot: A Memoir • "Not just history, but a pleasure…

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Freedoms of Speech

This collection brings together leading anthropologists and fresh new voices in the discipline to consider freedoms of speech with a wide comparative lens.

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Pamela Lothspeich,
Raslila and Ramlila

This short volume introduces readers to the interrelated devotional theatres of Raslila or Krishnalila (the play of Krishna), and Ramlila (the play of Ram), in a clear, accessible style.Pamela Lothspeich …

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Yuval Noah Harari
Nexus

#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - From the author of Sapiens comes the groundbreaking story of how information networks have made, and unmade, our world."Strikingly original . . . A historian whose argu…

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Roger Casas,
Worldly Engagements

The Tai Lue of Sipsong Panna, located in China's southern Yunnan province, is the largest community of Theravada Buddhists in a country where the Mahayana tradition is dominant. In recent decades, and in …

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J M Coetzee, Mariana Dimópulos
Speaking in Tongues

Language, historically speaking, has always been slippery. Two dictionaries provide two different maps of the universe: which one is true, or are both false? Speaking in Tongues -taking the form of a dial…

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