Racism has not existed since the dawn of time. This chapter explains that racism is a socio-historical phenomenon thrown up by the rebirth of chattel slavery, when the newly-born capitalist system ...
Paul Lafargue, the disciple and son-in-law of Karl Marx, helped to found the first French Marxist party in 1882, and over the next three decades, served as its chief theoretician and propagandist. ...
Many historians have attempted to understand the violent religious conflicts of the seventeenth century from viewpoints dominated by concepts of class, gender, and demography. But few studies have ...
In unprecedented detail, Leslie Choquette narrates the peopling of French Canada across the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, the lesser known colonial phase of French migration. Drawing on Fre...
In 1852, President Louis Napoleon of France declared that August 15--Napoleon Bonaparte's birthday--would be celebrated as France's national day. Drawing on a wealth of archival evidence, Hazareesi...
The story of Shabbatai and his prophets has mainly been explored by specialists in Jewish mysticism. Goldish shifts the focus of Sabbatean studies from the theology of Lurianic Kabbalah to the wide...
Matthew Lenoe traces the origins of Stalinist mass culture to newspaper journalism in the late 1920s. In examining the transformation of Soviet newspapers during the New Economic Policy and the Fir...
The reforms initiated by Peter the Great transformed Russia not only into a European power, but into a European culture--a shift, argues Cracraft, that was nothing less than revolutionary. The auth...
Drawing on previously inaccessible sources as well as extensive personal interviews, Catherine Epstein offers an unparalleled portrait of the most enduring and influential generation of Central Eur...
One of the most controversial questions in Italy today concerns the origins of the political terror that ravaged the country from 1969 to 1984, when the Red Brigades, a Marxist revolutionary organi...
Subjects obey. Citizens choose. Transitional Citizens looks at the newly empowered citizens of Russia's protodemocracy facing choices at the ballot box that just a few years ago, under dictatorial ...
Even though German and Swedish Social Democrats belonged to the same transnational political movement and faced similar political and social conditions in their respective countries before and afte...
A dazzling work of intellectual history by a world-renowned scholar, spanning the years from Peter the Great to the fall of the Soviet Union, this book gives us a clear and sweeping view of Russia ...
Sean:.. What are Petty Traitors supposed to be? Sile: If we look at treason first, we see that eventually, the whole criminal gamut revolved around the hierarchy of Treason, Felony, Misdemeanors an...
THE CRIMINAL JUSTICE SYSTEM:
Properly understood the individual institutions of Parliament, the Police, the Courts and the Prisons, the Probation Service, etc are better understood as contributi...
THE JESUS JOKE
OR,
FAREWELL TO THE
MEDITERRANEAN MYTH
On February 15 44 BCE, even as he was named perpetual dictator, at the feast of Lupercalia, Caesar donned himself in purple and pa...
Why does AIT model still persist? Why do indologists not reconsider the fundamental premise of their theory? Though they have retracted the Aryan Invasion and have been forced to give up large scal...