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In Defending Fort Stanwix, William L. Kidder tells the dramatic story of "the Fort that Never Surrendered" and the crucial role it played in the American War for Independence. After a series of military defeats over the winter of 1776-1777, British military leaders developed a bold plan to gain control of the Hudson River and divide New England from the rest of the colonies. Three armies would converge on Albany: one under Burgoyne moving sout...

This book contains summaries of interviews with Lithuanians who were forcefully conscripted into the Soviet army to fight in Afghanistan between 1979-1989. The text is supported by portraits of the veterans and photographs from their personal collections."--

Funk the Clock reveals how time is racialized, how race is temporalized, and how race, racialization, and racism condition the time perspectives of black youth in urbanized space."--

In Schoolishness, Susan D. Blum continues her journey as an anthropologist and educator. The author defines "schoolishness" as educational practices that emphasize packaged "learning, " unimaginative teaching, uniformity, constant evaluation by others, arbitrary forms, predetermined time, and artificial boundaries, resulting in personal and educational alienation, dependence, and dread. Drawing on critical, progressive, and feminist pedagogy i...

An ethnography of fire dancers in Thailand's tourism industry that highlights how dancers employ affect to fulfill tourists' imaginaries and to negotiate the precarity and possibilities of touristic labor. Tracing affect through performance and everyday life, the book examines how dancers reimagine their labor and lives"--

Full-length study of an Iberia Muslim political dynasty that managed to adapt and survive in the Middle Ages through agile diplomacy with both Muslim and Christian states and through ambitious projects, from coinage to architecture, that confidently depicted them as a dynasty"-

This book examines the role of note-taking in ancient education as a pedagogical method, by taking readers on a stimulating analysis of lectures by ancient philosophers that were recorded by their students"--

This book examines the institutional evolution of central banks from the 1970s to the crises of the past decade. In examining central banks' deviation from monetary orthodoxy, the book recasts central banks as political actors whose actions are bound to the political environment in which they operate."--

Italian Forgers takes an unorthodox approach to a popular topic: art forgery. Based on original published sources as well as current and past scholarship, Italian Forgers focuses not on art forgery per se, but on the major forgery scandals in the context of a shifting art market operated by a number of Italians who fashioned a very sophisticated and self-conscious response to the constant and often intense demand for Italian objects."--

This book is concerned with how the extraordinary demography and proportions of migration and how global human mobility have shaped the city of Doha, and more broadly, shaped the urban landscapes characteristic of the Arabian Peninsula"--