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In 1980s Britain, while the country failed to reckon with the legacies of its empire, a black, transnational sensibility was emerging in its urban areas. In Handsworth, an inner-city neighborhood of Birmingham, black residents looked across the Atlantic toward African and Afro-Caribbean social and political cultures and drew upon them while navigating the inequalities of their locale. For those of the Windrush generation and their British-born children, this diasporic inheritance became a core influence on cultural and political life. Through rich case studies, including photographic representations of the neighborhood,&#160;<I>Black Handsworth&#160;</I>takes readers inside pubs, churches, political organizations, domestic spaces, and social clubs to shed light on the experiences and everyday lives of black residents during this time. The result is a compelling and sophisticated study of black globality in the making of post-colonial Britain.<BR /> &#160;

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Forced to contend with unprecedented levels of psychological trauma during World War II, the United States military began sponsoring a series of nontheatrical films designed to educate and even rehabilitate soldiers and civilians alike.&#160;<I>Traumatic Imprints&#160;</I>traces the development of psychiatric and psychotherapeutic approaches to wartime trauma by the United States military, along with links to formal and narrative developments in military and civilian filmmaking. Offering close readings of a series of films alongside analysis of period scholarship in psychiatry and bolstered by research in trauma theory and documentary studies, Noah Tsika argues that trauma was foundational in postwar American culture. Examining wartime and postwar debates about the use of cinema as a vehicle for studying, publicizing, and even what has been termed &ldquo;working through&rdquo; war trauma, this book is an original contribution to scholarship on the military-industrial complex.

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Braided Waters sheds new light on the relationship between environment and society by charting the history of Hawaii&rsquo;s Molokai island over a thousand-year period of repeated settlement. From the arrival of the first Polynesians to contact with eighteenth-century European explorers and traders to our present era, this study shows how the control of resources&mdash;especially water&mdash;in a fragile, highly variable environment has had profound effects on the history of Hawaii. Wade Graham examines the ways environmental variation repeatedly shapes human social and economic structures and how, in turn, man-made environmental degradation influences and reshapes societies. A key finding of this study is how deep structures of place interact with distinct cultural patterns across different societies to produce similar social and environmental outcomes, in both the Polynesian and modern eras&mdash;a case of historical isomorphism with profound implications for global environmental history.&#160;

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ABC Sports shaped how the world consumes sport. The American Broadcasting Company&#39;s sports division is behind some of network television&#39;s most significant practices, celebrated personalities, and iconic moments. It created the weekend anthology <I>Wide World of Sports</I>, transformed professional football into a prime-time spectacle with <I>Monday Night Football</I>, fashioned the Olympics into a mega media event, and even revolutionized TV news. Travis Vogan&#39;s cultural and institutional history of ABC Sports examines the development of network sports television in the United States and the aesthetic, cultural, political, and industrial practices that mark it. <I>ABC Sports </I>traces the storied division from its beginnings through the internet age to reveal the changes it endured along with the new sports media environment it spawned.&#160;

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In this first detailed study of seventeenth-century <I>sepolcri</I><I>&mdash;</I>sacred operas written for court performance on Holy Thursday and Good Friday&mdash;Robert L. Kendrick delves into the political and artistic world of Habsburg Vienna, in which music and ritual combined on the stage to produce a thoroughly original art form based on devotion to Christ&rsquo;s Tomb. Through the use of allegorical characters, the musical dramas ranged from the devotionally intense, to the theologically complex, to the ugly anti-Jewish, but played a unique role in making Passion piety relevant to wider cultural concerns. <I>Fruits of the Cross</I> suggests that understanding the <I>sepolcri</I> has implications for the theatricalization of devotion, the power of allegory, the role of queenship in court ideology, the interplay between visuality and music, and not least the intellectual centrality of music theater to court self-understanding.

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When in 1492 Christopher Columbus set out for Asia but instead happened upon the Bahamas, Cuba, and Hispaniola, his error inaugurated a specifically colonial modernity. This is,&#160;<I>Security and Terror</I>&#160;contends, the colonial modernity within which we still live. And its enduring features are especially vivid in the current American century, a moment marked by a permanent War on Terror and pervasive capitalist dispossession.&#160;Resisting the assumption that September 11, 2001, constituted a historical rupture, Eli Jelly-Schapiro traces the political and philosophic genealogies of security and terror&mdash;from the settler-colonization of the New World to the wars in Afghanistan, Iraq, and beyond.&#160;A history of the present crisis,&#160;<I>Security and Terror</I>&#160;also examines how that history has been registered and reckoned with in significant works of contemporary fiction and theory&mdash;in novels by&#160;Teju Cole, Mohsin Hamid, Junot D&iacute;az, and Roberto Bola&ntilde;o,&#160;and in the critical interventions of Jean Baudrillard, Giorgio Agamben, Judith Butler, Michael Hardt and Antonio Negri, and others. In this richly interdisciplinary inquiry, Jelly-Schapiro reveals how the erasure of colonial pasts enables the perpetual reproduction of colonial culture.

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Argentina&rsquo;s Missing Bones is the first comprehensive English-language work of historical scholarship on the 1976&ndash;83 military dictatorship and Argentina&rsquo;s notorious experience with state terrorism during the so-called dirty war. It examines this history in a single but crucial place: C&oacute;rdoba, Argentina&rsquo;s second largest city. A site of thunderous working-class and student protest prior to the dictatorship, it later became a place where state terrorism was particularly cruel. Considering the legacy of this violent period,&#160;James P. Brennan examines the role of the state in constructing a public memory of the violence and in holding those responsible&#160;accountable through the most extensive trials for crimes against humanity to take place anywhere in Latin America.

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In this extraordinary new book, Andrew Konove traces the history of illicit commerce in Mexico City from the seventeenth century to the twentieth, showing how it became central to the economic and political life of the city. The story centers on the untold history of the Baratillo, the city&rsquo;s infamous thieves&rsquo; market. Originating in the colonial-era Plaza Mayor, the Baratillo moved to the neighborhood of Tepito in the early twentieth century, where it grew into one of the world&rsquo;s largest emporiums for black-market goods. Konove uncovers the far-reaching ties between vendors in the Baratillo and political and mercantile elites in Mexico City, revealing the surprising clout of vendors who trafficked in the shadow economy and the diverse individuals who benefited from their trade.

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