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Fire in the Minds of Men
James H. Billington
Paperback - $65.95
This book traces the origins of a faith -- perhaps the faith of the century. Billington is interested not in revolutions, but revolutionaries -- the innovative creators of a new tradition. His historical frame extends from the warning of the French R ...
C. Wright Mills and the Ending of Violence
John D. Brewer
Hardcover - $212.95
This book has two aims: to clarify the meaning of C. Wright Mills's depiction of the sociological imagination; and to use this to develop a sociological framework that assists in understanding the process by which communal violence has ended in North ...
In an Abusive State : How Neoliberalism Appropriated the Feminist Movement Against Sexual Violence
Kristin Bumiller
Paperback - $47.95
Manslaughter, Markets, and Moral Economy : Violent Disputes Over Property Rights in Eighteenth-Century China
Thomas M. Buoye
Paperback - $107.95
Thomas Buoye examines the impact of large-scale economic change on social conflict in eighteenth-century China. He draws on a large number of documented cases of violent property disputes to recreate the social tensions fostered by the development of ...
The Making of a Lynching Culture : Violence and Vigilantism in Central Texas, 1836-1916
William D. Carrigan
Paperback - $54.95
On May 15, 1916, a crowd of 15,000 witnessed the lynching of an eighteen-year-old black farm worker named Jesse Washington. Most central Texans of the time failed to call for the punishment of the mob's leaders. In The Making of a Lynching Culture, W ...
Interventions : Activists and Academics Respond to Violence
Elizabeth A. Castelli
Paperback - $68.95
"Interventions: Activists and Academics Respond to Violence brings together top scholars to discuss the significance of violence from a global perspective and the intersections between the global structures of violence and more localized and intimate ...