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Baruch Spinoza (1632–1677) was one of the most important philosophers of all time; he was also arguably the most radical and controversial. This was the first complete biography of Spinoza in any language and is based on detailed archival research. More than simply recounting the story of Spinoza's life, the book takes the reader right into the heart of Jewish Amsterdam in the seventeenth century and, with Spinoza's exile from Judaism, right into the midst of the tumultuous political, social, intellectual and religious world of the young Dutch Republic. Though the book will be an invaluable resource for philosophers, historians, and scholars of Jewish thought, it has been written for any member of the general reading public with a serious interest in philosophy, Jewish history, seventeenth-century European history, and the culture of the Dutch Golden Age. Spinoza: A Life has recently been awarded the Koret Jewish Book Award

Intro -- Contents -- Foreword -- Acknowledgments -- Chapter 1. Abandoned -- Chapter 2. Cal Farley -- Chapter 3. A Schooling -- Chapter 4. The Rodeo -- Chapter 5. Homeless -- Chapter 6. Tascosa -- Chapter 7. Back to School -- Chapter 8. Growing Up -- Chapter 9. Future Farmers of America -- Chapter 10. The Free World -- Chapter 11. Politics -- Chapter 12. Honey -- Chapter 13. A New Road to Travel -- Chapter 14. The Primary -- Chapter 15. The General Election -- Chapter 16. Am I In Over My Head? -- Chapter 17. My First Session -- Chapter 18. Fighting Mad -- Chapter 19. Finding My Father and Saving the FFA -- Chapter 20. A Walking Miracle -- Chapter 21. Agony Even in Victory -- Chapter 22. From Slot Machinesto Congress -- Chapter 23. What Does He Have Planned for Me? -- Chapter 24. The Lithuanian Dream -- Chapter 25. The Fall of the Soviet Union -- Chapter 26. Fighting the Soviet Empire -- Chapter 27. The First Lady Comes to Boys Ranch -- Chapter 28. Voting for War -- Chapter 29. Losing What You Love -- Chapter 30. Grand Duke -- Epilogue -- Index

Cover -- Half Title -- Series -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Series Editor's Foreword -- 1 Introducing Norbert Elias to the Sociology of Education -- Part One Norbert Elias's Theory in General -- 2 Biography and Overview -- 3 The Last Classical Sociologist? -- 4 Key Concepts -- 5 Figurational Scholars and Extensions into Education -- Part Two Norbert Elias and the Sociology of Education -- 6 Civilization, Identity and Control -- 7 Diversity, Inclusion and Establishment-Outsider Relations -- 8 Unplanned Educational Policy Processes -- 9 Monopoly Mechanisms in Higher Education: Disciplinarity and Curriculum -- 10 The Globalization of Education -- Part Three Norbert Elias in Dialogue -- 11 Why Elias? Figurational Sociology of Education in Dialogue with Bourdieu and Foucault -- 12 Towards a Processual Sociology of Education -- References -- Index.

Washington Territory's first governor remains as controversial today as he was to his frontier contemporaries during the Pacific Northwest's most turbulent era--the mid-1850s. Indian wars, martial law, and bitter political disputes, as well as the establishment of a new, sound governmental system, characterized Isaac I. Stevens's years as governor (1853-1857). In addition, the West Point graduate was superintendent of Indian affairs, a delegate to the U.S. Congress, head of the Northern Pacific transcontinental railroad survey, and a major general in the Union Army. Richards's definitive biography is an essential work on the history of early Washington, northern Idaho, and western Montana. This revised edition offers a new preface.

Intro -- Author biography -- Title page -- Copyright page -- Contents -- INTRODUCTION -- CHAPTER I: BREAKFAST IN HOUGHTON -- CHAPTER II: THE MINISTER OF JUSTICE -- CHAPTER III: SEPARATE AMENITIES -- CHAPTER IV: BAGGING THE CROC -- CHAPTER V: DIFFERENT PLANETS -- CHAPTER VI: AYATOLLAH MANDELA -- CHAPTER VII: THE TIGER KING -- CHAPTER VIII: THE MASK -- CHAPTER IX: THE BITTER-ENDERS -- CHAPTER X: ROMANCING THE GENERAL -- CHAPTER XI: "ADDRESS THEIR HEARTS" -- CHAPTER XII: THE CAPTAIN AND THE PRESIDENT -- CHAPTER XIII: SPRINGBOK SERENADE -- CHAPTER XIV: SILVERMINE -- CHAPTER XV: DOUBTING THOMASES -- CHAPTER XVI: THE NUMBER SIX JERSEY -- CHAPTER XVII: "NELSON! NELSON!" -- CHAPTER XVIII: BLOOD IN THE THROAT -- CHAPTER XIX: LOVE THINE ENEMY -- EPILOGUE -- WHERE ARE THEY NOW? -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- A NOTE ON SOURCES -- INDEX

The understanding of contemporary economic geographies and global "social facts" represent the best challenge for Burawoy's public sociology. Scholars wonder whether sociology can successfully address our time's problems, keeping its spirit of service to the community alive. Indeed, recent political and economic events require formulating a new sociological imagination that is more creative, open, and accessible to the general public. In this paper, we use some of the most significant intersections of Mills' work, between history and personal biography, to highlight the sociological imagination's significant role in understanding the present. We use practical cases of applying the concept of sociological imagination close to us, such as the recent COVID-19 pandemic.

This history of US-led international drug control provides new perspectives on the economic, ideological, and political foundations of a Cold War American empire. US officials assumed the helm of international drug control after World War II at a moment of unprecedented geopolitical influence embodied in the growing economic clout of its pharmaceutical industry.We Sell Drugs is a study grounded in the transnational geography and political economy of the coca-leaf and coca-derived commodities market stretching from Peru and Bolivia into the United States. More than a narrow biography of one famous plant and its equally famous derivative products-Coca-Cola and cocaine-this book situates these commodities within the larger landscape of drug production and consumption. Examining efforts to control the circuits through which coca traveled, Suzanna Reiss provides a geographic and legal basis for considering the historical construction of designations of legality and illegality. The book also argues that the legal status of any given drug is largely premised on who grew, manufactured, distributed, and consumed it and not on the qualities of the drug itself. Drug control is a powerful tool for ordering international trade, national economies, and society's habits and daily lives. In a historical landscape animated by struggles over political economy, national autonomy, hegemony, and racial equality, We Sell Drugs insists on the socio-historical underpinnings of designations of legality to explore how drug control became a major weapon in asserting control of domestic and international affairs

Interview with Sir Shridath Ramphal, conducted 23rd November 2013 in London and 29th January 2015 in Bridgetown, Barbados, as part of the Commonwealth Oral History Project. The project aims to produce a unique digital research resource on the oral history of the Commonwealth since 1965 through sixty oral history interviews with leading figures in the recent history of the organisation. It will provide an essential research tool for anyone investigating the history of the Commonwealth and will serve to promote interest in and understanding of the organisation. Biography: Ramphal, Sir Shridath Surendranath 'Sonny'. 1928- . Born in New Amsterdam, British Guiana. Educated at King's College London and Gray's Inn, London, 1947-51. Assistant Attorney General of the West Indies Federation, 1958-62. Guggenheim Fellow, Harvard Law School, 1961. Attorney General of British Guiana, 1965-67. Minister of State for Foreign Affairs, Guyana, 1967-72, and then Minister of Foreign Affairs, 1972-75. Commonwealth Secretary General, 1975-90. Co-Chair, Commission on Global Governance, 1995. Chancellor of the University of Guyana, 1988-92. Chancellor of the University of Warwick, 1989-2001. Chancellor of the University of the West Indies, 1989-2003.

"During three interview sessions in early and mid 2011 Glen H. Elder was asked to reflect upon the issue of time and the life course on the basis of his experience and
contribution to the development and establishment of the life course approach. His
interest in the subject now spans several decades. Recalling his personal history and involvement in life course research Elder reviews the approach's key categories including agency and timing, or the connection between agency and contingency. He
discusses conceptual differences between the notions of biography and those applying to biographical, institutional and historical time. He reflects upon the interconnection
of social change, historical events and the lives of individuals, and comments on contemporary challenges for modern lives. Finally, he discusses methodological advancements in life course research and his current and future research plans." (author's abstract)

Machine generated contents note:An apology --"Brooks, jou poes!" --English Day --The salute --Toilet trouble --Gippo guts --The champ --Bombardier pilot --The gunner and the tramp --Forbidden pastures --Boxer --The Kraalkop --My buddy, the Recce --In the boardroom with General Andersen: who's in command? --General humour --The OC's prayer --Language riddle --Airwaves on Thunder Chariot --Pudding? --Caprivi fowl --Divine intervention? --Track discipline --Ambitious? --Ommatea action --Cold canvas --Fibre and Optic --A little tip --The quartermaster's store --Mess president's revenge --Tongue-tied --Oops --Alternate position --PF pride --Out of the frying pan --Spade challenge --Ratel wheel --Peckles presides --Cape Town chronicles: condensed milk --Epol and milk --Staffing around --Gary's camp --Pom-Z --The five sergeant-majors --Gus and Frank with Pottie, Cabbage and Ivan Red Eye --More of the five sergeant-majors: roadblock --Contraband --A tight situation --Old blue eyes --Ongiva --Forty days --The privilege of rank --Humiliation and humility --Air force aneedotes: the Puma disaster --Bosbok befok --Flying doctor --The maw of the Berg --SA Agulhas --Antarctic --Fireman Felicity --Flameout.

Intro -- Contents -- Prologue: The Cigar Maker Writes to the General -- 1. "Rosalie, Black Woman of the Poulard Nation" -- 2. "Rosalie . . . My Slave" -- 3. Citizen Rosalie -- 4. Crossing the Gulf -- 5. The Land of the Rights of Man -- 6. Joseph and His Brothers -- 7. "The Term Public Rights Should Be Made to Mean Something" -- 8. Horizons of Commerce -- 9. Citizens beyond Nation -- Epilogue: "For a Racial Reason" -- Notes -- Acknowledgments and Collaborations -- Index.

This biography traces the life of Manitoban Beatrice Alice Brigden (b.1888 - d.1977) from her early childhood to her mid-forties (1932), when she was a recognized political and social activist and an executive member of the newly formed political party, the Co-operative Commonwealth Federation. Based on her extensive collection of personal journals, work-related correspondence and political writing, this thesis examines aspects of Brigden's personal life and experience, to identify important influences, understand her motivation and perspective. It identifies traits she held in common with many of her contemporary social reformers and suggests that much of Brigden's life fits the familiar pattern taken by many men and women - that of moving from religious reform within the church, to social reform, to political reform. By presenting personal details, the biography adds to our understanding of the ordinary lives of young girls and women in Manitoba in the early decades of the twentieth century. It also examines Brigden's rather unusual career as a "social purity worker" to explore both the practical reality of the job and its influence on her political development. Finally, it offers insight into the attitudes of similar women active in some of the social and political reform movements of the time; insight which requires an examination of formative years, not merely the reconstruction of a successful adult career. Brigden was active in, or at least witnessed many important historical developments in western Canada in the 1910's - 1930's; the Winnipeg and Brandon General Strikes, the Labor Church movement and the birth of the CCF. She also organized two grassroots groups focusing raising political awareness and the participation of women in the political process, the People's Forum Speakers Bureau and the Labor Women's Social and Economic Conference. Brigden's gender is as much a part of her story as her religious and ethnic background and their influence on her choices is discussed. Her biography also sheds light ...

Wang Jingwei, poet and politician, patriot and traitor, has always been a figure of major academic and popular interest. Until now, his story has never been properly told, let alone critically investigated. The significance of his biography is evident from an ongoing war on cultural memory: modern mainland China prohibits serious academic research on wartime collaboration in general, and on Wang Jingwei in particular. At this critical juncture, when the recollection of World War II is fading from living memory and transforming into historical memory, this knowledge embargo will undoubtedly affect how China remembers its anti-fascist role in WWII. In Poetry, History, Memory: Wang Jingwei and China in Dark Times, Zhiyi Yang brings us a long overdue reexamination of Wang's impact on cultural memory of WWII in China.

In this book, Yang brings disparate methodologies into a fruitful dialogue, including sophisticated methods of poetic interpretation. The author argues that Wang's lyric poetry, as the public performance of a private voice, played a central role in constructing his political identity and heavily influenced the public's posthumous memory of him. Drawing on archives (in the PRC, Taiwan, Japan, the USA, France, and Germany), memoires, historical journals, newspapers, interviews, and other scholarly works, this book offers the first biography of Wang that addresses his political, literary, and personal life in a critical light and with sympathetic impartiality.

From the publisher: Provides a comprehensive history of the more than 120 African Americans who have served in the United States Congress. Written for a general audience, this book contains a profile of each African-American Member, including notables such as Hiram Revels, Joseph Rainey, Oscar De Priest, Adam Clayton Powell, Shirley Chisholm, Gus Hawkins, and Barbara Jordan. Individual profiles are introduced by contextual essays that explain major events in congressional and U.S. history. Illustrated with many portraits, photographs, and charts