The inertia of language, declares Geoffrey Hill, is also the coercive force of language. Good
poets write against coercion, and Against Coercion is essentially about the power of words. Looking at our most highly organized form of words, poems, and ...
Peru's Truth and Reconciliation Commission not only documented the political violence of the 1980s and
1990s but also gave Peruvians a unique opportunity to examine the causes and nature of that violence. In Art from a Fractured Past, scholars and ...
Winner, James Deetz Book Award (Society for Historical Archaeology) Biography of a Hacienda is a
many-voiced reconstruction of events leading up to the Mexican Revolution and the legacy that remains to the present day. Drawing on ethnohistorical, archaeological, and ethnographic ...
WOLA-Duke Book Award FinalistIn Blood and Capital: The Paramilitarization of Colombia, Jasmin Hristov examines the
complexities, dynamics, and contradictions of present-day armed conflict in Colombia. She conducts an in-depth inquiry into the restructuring of the state’s coercive apparatus and the ...
Sometimes playful or poetic, always provocative, Raoul Vaneigem reviews the history of bills of rights
before offering his own call, with commentary, for fifty-seven rights yet to be won in a world where the “freedoms accorded to Man” are no ...
Fans of TV's CSI: Crime Scene Investigation should be in heaven (People) stepping into the
world of forensic anthropologist Dr. Temperance Brennan, star of Kathy Reichs' electrifyingly authentic bestsellers. A harrowing excavation unearths a chilling tragedy never laid to rest. ...
Open this book and step into the storied corridors of the nation's oldest university; encounter
the historic landmarks and curiosities; and among them, meet the famous dropouts and former students, the world-class scholars, eccentrics, and prodigies who have given the ...
This book redefines the place of the Wordsworthian imagination in a cultural moment often classified
as the transition from Romantic to Victorian. Taking The Excursion and a constellation of related texts as a framework, the book suggests that the staggering ...
