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A Cultural History of Plants in Antiquity

Examines the uses and meanings of plants from 10,000 BCE to 500 CE, from the transition from hunter-gatherer subsistence to the practice of agriculture in Mesopotamia and elsewhere.

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A Cultural History of Plants in the Early Modern Era

Covering the period from 1400 to 1650, this volume looks at how Renaissance learning and exploration irrevocably changed both our botanical knowledge and human impact on plants.

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A Cultural History of Plants in the Post-Classical Era

Unravels the cultural history of plants from 500-1400, when ancient uses and meanings of plants were preserved but overlaid with new developments in agriculture, landscapes, medicines, eating habits and a…

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A Cultural History of Plants in the Nineteenth Century

Looks at the revolution of botanical study and the evolution of the new science of biology in the period from 1800 to 1920, a time of astonishing growth in industrialization, urbanization, migration, popu…

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A Cultural History of Plants in the Modern Era

Examines how our relationship with plants has evolved since 1920, through advances in agriculture, industry, science, and technology,, the impact of urbanization, and our increased understanding of the si…

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A Cultural History of Plants in the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries

Looks at the history and meanings of plants in the period from 1650-1800, a time of global exploration and the discovery of new species of plants and their potential uses.

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Mark Goodale
Extracting the Future

Bolivia's troubled efforts to develop a commercial lithium industry.Bolivia's lithium accounts for a significant percentage of the world's known reserve. Drawing on extensive ethnographic research, Mark G…

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Ellen Moodie
Indignant Liberalism

Documenting the rise and disillusionment of El Salvador's postwar activists in the face of populist authoritarian politics.The conclusion of El Salvador's long civil war, in 1992, was supposed to bring ab…

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Ellen Moodie
Indignant Liberalism

Documenting the rise and disillusionment of El Salvador's postwar activists in the face of populist authoritarian politics.The conclusion of El Salvador's long civil war, in 1992, was supposed to bring ab…

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Pancho McFarland
Food Autonomy in Chicago

"Using ethnographic methods, the author explores important themes in the food justice/autonomy movement in Black Chicago. This autoethnography uses the author's 15+ years in the movement as data info…

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Matei Candea
Reason, Carnival and Honour

What does free speech really mean? How does our understanding of it differ around the world? Why does it divide us - and how can we find common ground?What free speech really means is hotly contested. Is …

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Dan Stone
The Holocaust

A revelatory new history that reexamines the brutal reality of the Holocaust --and reinterprets the events as a living trauma from which modern society has not yet recoveredOne of the most acclaimed books…

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Melissa L Rosario
Beyond Disaster

An alternative view of Puerto Rico's past, present, and future. How do we map the pathways to liberation where we have been taught to see only trauma, suffering, and lack? Rosario offers an alternative vi…

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Elizabeth Flock
The Furies

"A rresting, deeply reported. . . . a patient reporter who embeds with her subjects long enough to write about their inner worlds with authority and nuance. . . . The Furies is deeply respectful of i…

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Vindhya Buthpitiya,
A Volatile Picture

Photography as witness and weapon amid civil war This groundbreaking ethnography explores how, in the context of Sri Lanka's protracted civil war and its turbulent aftermath, photography has become bound …

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Seeking Global Climate Justice

This book offers a critical exploration of climate justice, bringing together diverse perspectives from a wide range of regions and disciplines including law, political science, anthropology, environmenta…

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Information, Technology and Control in a Changing World

International Political Economy Series

This book explores the interconnected ways in which the control of knowledge has become central to the exercise of political, economic, and social power. Building on the work of International Political Ec…

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Disinformation

This volume provides a multidisciplinary analysis of disinformation and strategies for tackling it. Authored by a diverse group of scholars and experts, chapters in this volume are divided into three them…

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