Ytasha L. Womack 
Afrofuturism [PDF ebook] 
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This volume contains a series of essays which examines various regimes and working classes of such countries as Italy, France, Poland, the USA, the Soviet Union and Great Britain in the early 20th ce …

During the nuclear heyday of the post-war years advocates of atomic power promised cheap electricity and a prosperous future. From the present, however, this promise seems tarnished by accidents, lea …

The Anabaptists were at the radical, utopian edge of the Reformation, ruthlessly repressed by Catholic, Lutheran and secular authorities alike. Hans-Jurgen Goertz gives a comprehensive account of the …

The Moving City: Processions, Passages and Promenades in Ancient Rome focusses on movements in the ancient city of Rome, exploring the interaction between people and monuments. Representing a novel a …

The book is an economic history of the South Sea Bubble. It combines economic theory and quantitative analysis with historical evidence in order to provide a rounded account. It brings together schol …

Religious Identity and Social Change offers a macro and micro analysis of the dynamics of rapid social and religious change occurring within the Muslim world. Drawing on rich ethnographic and quantit …

Attwood examines Victorian attitudes to prostitution across a number of sources: medical, literary, pornographic. …

Focusing on the impact of Continental religious warfare on the society, politics and culture of English, Scottish and Irish Protestantism, this study is concerned with the way in which British identi …

Ballooning, like the Enlightenment, was a Europe-wide movement and a massive cultural phenomenon. Lynn argues that in order to understand the importance of science during the age of the Enlightenment …

Following the fall of Burma to the Japanese in May 1942, reopening and expanding the link from India to China through Burma became the allied force”s principal war aim in South-East Asia. This book …