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  • The Shape of Utopia

    The Architecture of Radical Reform in Nineteenth-Century America

    de Irene Cheng ...
    Series series Buell Center Books in the History and Theory of American Architecture
    How nineteenth-century social reformers devised a new set of radical blueprints for societyIn the middle of the nineteenth century, a utopian impulse flourished in the United States through the circulation of architectural and urban plans predicated on geometrically distinct designs. Though the majority of such plans remained unrealized, The Shape of Utopia emphasizes the enduring importance of ... Leer más

    $25.99 USD

  • Race and Vision in the Nineteenth-Century United States

    de Irene Cheng, Brigitte Fielder, Jennifer Greiman, Kya Mangrum, Kelli Morgan, Janet Neary, Adena Spingarn, Cheryl Spinner, Christine Yao0, Kirsten Pai Buick1, Martha J. Cutter2, Wyn Kelley3 ...
    Race and Vision in the Nineteenth-Century United States is a collection of twelve essays by cultural critics that exposes how fraught relations of identity and race appear through imaging technologies in architecture, scientific discourse, sculpture, photography, painting, music, theater, and, finally, the twenty-first century visual commentary of Kara Walker. Throughout these essays, the racial ... Leer más

    $33.99 USD

  • Race and Modern Architecture

    A Critical History from the Enlightenment to the Present

    Edición de Irene Cheng, Charles L. Davis II, Mabel O. Wilson ...
    Series series
    Although race—a concept of human difference that establishes hierarchies of power and domination—has played a critical role in the development of modern architectural discourse and practice since the Enlightenment, its influence on the discipline remains largely underexplored. This volume offers a welcome and long-awaited intervention for the field by shining a spotlight on constructions of race ... Leer más

    $40.49 USD

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  • Knowledge Worlds

    Media, Materiality, and the Making of the Modern University

    de Reinhold Martin ...
    What do the technical practices, procedures, and systems that have shaped institutions of higher learning in the United States, from the Ivy League and women’s colleges to historically black colleges and land-grant universities, teach us about the production and distribution of knowledge? Addressing media theory, architectural history, and the history of academia, Knowledge Worlds reconceives the ... Leer más

    $35.99 USD

  • Stony the Road

    Reconstruction, White Supremacy, and the Rise of Jim Crow

    de Henry Louis Gates Jr. ...
    **“Stony the Road presents a bracing alternative to Trump-era white nationalism. . . . In our current politics we recognize African-American history—the spot under our country’s rug where the terrorism and injustices of white supremacy are habitually swept. Stony the Road lifts the rug." —Nell Irvin Painter, New York Times Book ReviewA profound new rendering of the struggle by African-Americans ... Leer más

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  • Thinking About History

    de Sarah Maza ...
    What distinguishes history as a discipline from other fields of study? That's the animating question of Sarah Maza’s Thinking About History, a general introduction to the field of history that revels in its eclecticism and highlights the inherent tensions and controversies that shape it.Designed for the classroom, Thinking About History is organized around big questions: Whose history do we write, ... Leer más

    $16.99 USD

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  • Mapping the Nation

    History and Cartography in Nineteenth-Century America

    de Susan Schulten ...
    "A compelling read" that reveals how maps became informational tools charting everything from epidemics to slavery ( Journal of American History).In the nineteenth century, Americans began to use maps in radically new ways. For the first time, medical men mapped diseases to understand and prevent epidemics, natural scientists mapped climate and rainfall to uncover weather patterns, educators ... Leer más

    $14.99 USD o gratis con Kobo Plus

  • The Unseen Truth

    When Race Changed Sight in America

    de Sarah Lewis ...
    American Book Award WinnerAnisfield-Wolf Book Award FinalistChicago Tribune, 10 Best Books of the YearA Hyperallergic Best Book of the YearThe award-winning art historian and founder of Vision & Justice uncovers a pivotal era in the story of race in the United States when Americans came to ignore the truth about the false foundations of the nation’s racial regime.</str... ... Leer más

    $25.99 USD

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  • American Lynching

    de Ashraf H. A. Rushdy ...
    A history of lynching in America over the course of three centuries, from colonial Virginia to twentieth-century Texas.After observing the varying reactions to the 1998 death of James Byrd Jr. in Texas, called a lynching by some, denied by others, Ashraf Rushdy determined that to comprehend this event he needed to understand the long history of lynching in the United States. In this meticulously ... Leer más

    $12.99 USD o gratis con Kobo Plus

  • Exhibiting Cultures

    The Poetics and Politics of Museum Display

    de Ivan Karp ...
    Debating the practices of museums, galleries, and festivals, Exhibiting Cultures probes the often politically charged relationships among aesthetics, contexts, and implicit assumptions that govern how art and artifacts are displayed and understood. The contributors—museum directors, curators, and scholars in art history, folklore, history, and anthropology—represent a variety of stances on the ... Leer más

    $18.99 USD

  • Social Darwinism in American Thought

    de Richard Hofstadter ...
    Social Darwinism in American Thought portrays the overall influence of Darwin on American social theory and the notable battle waged among thinkers over the implications of evolutionary theory for social thought and political action. Theorists such as Herbert Spencer and William Graham Sumner adopted the idea of the struggle for existence as justification for the evils as well as the benefits of ... Leer más

    $20.99 USD

  • Cedric J. Robinson

    On Racial Capitalism, Black Internationalism, and Cultures of Resistance

    de Cedric J. Robinson ...
    Series series Black Critique
    Cedric J. Robinson is considered one of the doyens of Black Studies and a pioneer in study of the Black Radical Tradition. His works have been essential texts, deconstructing racial capitalism and inspiring insurgent movements from Ferguson to the West Bank.For the first time, Robinson's essays come together, spanning over four decades and reflective of his diverse interests in the ... Leer más

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