Laurent Dubois, "Freedom Roots: Histories from the Caribbean"
English | ISBN: 1469653605 | 2019 | 408 pages | EPUB | 671 KB
To tell the history of the Caribbean is to tell the history of the world," write Laurent Dubois and Richard Lee Turits. In this powerful and expansive story of the vast archipelago, Dubois and Turits chronicle how the Caribbean has been at the heart of modern contests between slavery and freedom, racism and equality, and empire and independence. From the emergence of racial slavery and European colonialism in the early sixteenth century to U.S. annexations and military occupations in the twentieth, systems of exploitation and imperial control have haunted the region. Yet the Caribbean is also where empires have been overthrown, slavery was first defeated, and the most dramatic revolutions triumphed. Caribbean peoples have never stopped imagining and pursuing new forms of liberty.

Damien Tricoire, "Apocalypse Now: Connected Histories of Eschatological Movements from Moscow to Cusco, 15th-18th Centuries "
English | ISBN: 0367532344 | 2022 | 296 pages | PDF | 6 MB
Eschatology played a central role in both politics and society throughout the early modern period. It inspired people to strive for social and political change, including sometimes by violent means, and prompted in return strong reactions against their religious activism. From the fifteenth to the eighteenth century, numerous apocalyptical and messianic movements came to the fore across Eurasia and North Africa, raising questions about possible interconnections.

Barry Godfrey, Clive Emsley, Graeme Dunstall, "Comparative Histories of Crime"
English | 2003 | pages: 237 | ISBN: 1843920360, 1843920379 | PDF | 5,0 mb
This book aims to both reflect and take forward current thinking on comparative and cross-national and cross-cultural aspects of the history of crime. Its content is wide-ranging: some chapters discuss the value of comparative approaches in aiding understanding of comparative history, and providing research directions for the future; others address substantive issues and topics that will be of interest to those with interests in both history and criminology. Overall the book aims to broaden the focus of the historical context of crime and policing to take fuller account of cross-national and cross-cultural factors.

Sjoerd van Tuinen, "Speculative Art Histories: Analysis at the Limits"
English | ISBN: 1474421040 | 2017 | 320 pages | EPUB | 25 MB
Situated at the interface of philosophy, aesthetics and art history, this collection brings together a series of creative responses to the recent speculative turn in Continental philosophy. It gives you both a genealogy of speculative art history and a provocatively experimental counter-discourse of new speculative art histories.

Virginia Woolf's Unwritten Histories: Conversations with the Nineteenth Century By Anne Besnault
2021 | 288 Pages | ISBN: 0367354969 | PDF | 20 MB
Virginia Woolf's Unwritten Histories explores the interrelatedness of Woolf's modernism, feminism, and her understanding of history as a site of knowledge and a writing practice that enabled her to negotiate her heritage, to find her place among the moderns as a female artist and intellectual, and to elaborate her poetics of the "new": not as radical rupture but as the result of a process of unwriting and rewriting "traditional" historiographical orthodoxies. Its central argument is that unless we comprehend the genealogy of Woolf's historical thought and the complexity of its lineage, we cannot fully grasp the innovative thrust of her attempt to "think back through our mothers." Bringing together canonical texts such as Orlando (1928), A Room of One's Own (1929), Three Guineas (1938) or Between the Acts (1941) and under-researched ones ― among which stand Woolf's essays on historians and reviews of history books and her pieces on literary history and nineteenth-century women's literature ― this book argues that Woolf's textual "conversations" with nineteenth-century writers, historians and critics, many of which remain unexplored, are interwoven with her historiographical poeisis and constitute the groundwork for her alternative histories and literary histories: "unwritten," open-textured, unacademic and polemical counter-narratives that keep track of the past and engage politically with the future.

Mapping Histories: Essays Presented to Ravinder Kumar By Neera Chandhoke (editor)
2000 | 443 Pages | ISBN: 8185229163 | PDF | 62 MB
19 essays on recent history, honouring Ravinder Kumar.

Charlotte Karem Albrecht, "Possible Histories: Arab Americans and the Queer Ecology of Peddling (Volume 70) "
English | ISBN: 0520391721 | 2023 | 204 pages | PDF | 17 MB
A free ebook version of this title is available through Luminos, University of California Press's Open Access publishing program. Visitwww.luminosoa.orgto learn more.

Histories of Health and Materiality in the Indian Ocean World
by Gerritsen, Anne;Cleetus, Burton;
English | 2023 | ISBN: 135019588X | 321 pages | True PDF EPUB | 23.46 MB

Impossible Histories
by Hal Johnson
English | 2023 | ISBN: 1250809673 | 416 pages | True EPUB | 28.06 MB

A Cultural History of Sport in the Renaissance (The Cultural Histories Series) by Alessandro Arcangeli
English | August 31st, 2022 | ISBN: 1350023981 | 256 pages | True EPUB | 12.38 MB
A Cultural History of Sport in the Renaissance covers the period 1450 to 1650. Outwardly, Renaissance sports resembled their medieval forebears, but the incorporation of athletics into the educational curriculum signalled a change. As part of the scientific revolution, sport now became the object of intellectual analysis. Numerous books were written on the medical benefits of sport and on the best way to joust, fence, train horses and ride, play ball games, swim, practice archery, wrestle, or become an acrobat. Sport became the visible sign of the mind's control over the physical body, such control often becoming an end in itself with some sports shaped more by decorum than exercise.