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"In Making Wonderful, Martin M. Tweedale tells how an ideology arose in the West that energized the economic expansion that has led to ecological disaster. He takes us back to the rise of cities and autocratic rulers, and analyzes how respect for custom and tradition gave way to the dominance of top-down rational planning and organization. Then came a highly attractive myth of an eventual future in which all of humankind's material and spiritual ills would be banished and life "made wonderful." Originating in Zoroastrianism and, through Jewish apocalyptic works, flowing into early Christianity, this belief produced utopian ideologies that set the West apart from the other civilizations of the old world. Tweedale shows how this thinking became popular among Western elites in the early modern period and eventually resulted in the distinctively Western doctrine of progress, an idea that once coupled with a virtually religious faith in the capacity of science and technology to improve human life, released economic expansion from traditional constraints. Exploring sources from philosophy, religion, and the history of ideas, Making Wonderful is for all readers who are intellectually curious about the roots of our eco-catastrophe."--

A fascinating journey through Europe's old towns, exploring why we treasure them—but also what they hide about a continent's fraught history Historic quarters in cities and towns across the middle of Europe were devastated during the Second World War—some, like those of Warsaw and Frankfurt, had to be rebuilt almost completely. They are now centers of peace and civility that attract millions of tourists, but the stories they tell about places, peoples, and nations are selective. They are never the whole story. These old towns and their turbulent histories have been key sites in Europe's ongoing theater of politics and war. Exploring seven old towns, from Frankfurt and Prague to Vilnius in Lithuania, the acclaimed writer Marek Kohn examines how they have been used since the Second World War to conceal political tensions and reinforce certain versions of history. Uncovering hidden stories behind these old and old-seeming façades, Kohn offers us a new understanding of the politics of European history-making—showing how our visits to old towns could promote belonging over exclusion, and empathy over indifference

"Cash, Clothes, and Construction presents the first gender-based analysis of "pluri-economy," a central pillar of Evo Morales's Movimiento al Socialismo (MAS) in Bolivia to overthrow neoliberalism and decolonize politics and economics. Centering the perspective of the Indigenous women who have transformed Bolivia's economy from the ground up, Kate Maclean evaluates the potential of MAS's vision to embrace feminist critiques of capitalism and economic diversity."

Intro -- Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Dedication -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: Death and the South -- Part One. Death and the New South -- 1. Selling Our Dead: Evolving Rural Burial Practice -- A Deadly Landscape -- Visiting and Informing -- Preparing the Body -- Committing the Body -- Cemeteries -- Remembering and Mourning the Dead -- A Practical Approach to Infant Deaths -- 2. Heavenly Reunions and Progressive Reform -- Give Me that (New) Old Time Religion -- Evangelizing Public Health in the South -- Southern Diseases and Southern Healthcare -- Private Charities -- 3. Life Extension and the Emergence of a Death Commerce System -- The Emergence of Death Professionals -- The Expansion of Burial Societies -- The Expansion of Burial Insurance and the Introduction of Life Extension -- Insurance Agents and Weekly Dues -- A Statistical Assist -- The Federal Government and Death Registration Areas -- The Federal Government and the Children's Bureau -- County and State Efforts at Life Extension -- Part Two. World War I and Challenging Southern Death Care -- 4. Lonely Coffins: World War I and the Spanish Influenza Epidemic -- Preparing for War -- Gazing Out from the South -- Honoring the Confederacy -- Going to War-Preparing for Death -- Disease, Death, and the Military -- The Spanish Influenza Epidemic -- Civilians Become Ill and Die from the Flu -- Incipient Healthcare Structures and the Flu -- Noble Death and the Flu -- 5. Remembering the War, Forgetting the Flu, Burying the Military Dead -- The Emergence of Military Death Care -- How Did My Soldier Die? -- Planning for Repatriation -- Bringing the Soldiers Home -- Families Remember the Dead -- Southern States Reclaim Their Soldiers -- Photography and Other Postwar Memorials -- Part Three. Death Care in the 1920s South.

Introduction: How Prices Shape Globalization -- 1 The Great Famine and the Great Revolt -- 2 Krach at the Margins -- 3 The Great War and the Great Inflation -- 4 The Great Depression -- 5 The Great Inflation: The 1970s -- 6 The Great Recession: 2008 -- 7 The Great Lockdown: 2020-2022 -- Conclusion: The Next Great Globalization

Cover -- Half Title -- Title -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- Introduction Asylum between Nations -- 1. Aristocratic Émigrés and Luxurious Temptations in Hamburg and Altona -- 2. "A Temple Always Open to Peace": Poets and Ports -- 3. French Connections: "For Commerce and Humanity" -- 4. "The Right Papers" in a World of Nations -- 5. Stateless in Brussels: Transforming the World -- 6. Alliances: "Democrats from the World Over" -- 7. "The Spectre of Communism" and a Revolution "on Our Doorstep" -- 8. "Not Foreigners, but Democrats": Refugees and a Revolution Averted -- 9. The Forty-Eighters in America: The Promise of "an Asylum for Mankind" -- Epilogue "A Destabilized Citizenship" for Refugees -- Notes -- Further Reading -- Acknowledgments -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Y -- Z.

Cover -- Halftitle page -- Title page -- Copyright page -- Dedication -- Contents -- Figures and Tables -- Acknowledgements -- Preface: The Journey from Deflation to Inflation -- 1 The Resurrection of Inflation -- 2 A History of Inflation, Money and Ideas -- 3 The Inflationary Role of Governments -- 4 The Case for Resisting Inflationary Temptations -- 5 How to Get Rid of Inflation . . . and How Not To -- 6 Four Inflationary Tests -- 7 Lessons, Warnings and Possible Next Steps -- Notes -- Bibliography -- INDEX.

Intro -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- A Note on the Text -- The Life and Adventures of Olaudah Equiano -- or, Gustavus Vassa, the African -- Explanatory Notes -- Appendix A: Rethinking Textual Paradigms in Early Black Atlantic Studies -- Appendix B: Pedagogy, Politics, and Regulations at the New York African Free Schools -- An Address to the Parents and Guardians of the Children Belonging to the New-York African Free-School (1818) -- Charles C. Andrews, Letter to John B. Russwurm, Freedom's Journal (1827) -- "A[frican] F[ree] S[chool]," Freedom's Journal (1828) -- A "[R]esolution," Commercial Advertiser (1828) -- Selections from Charles C. Andrews, The History of the New-York African Free-Schools (1830) -- Appendix C: Additional Works by and about Abigail Field Mott -- A Short Account of the Last Sickness and Death of Maria Mott (1817) -- "G[eneral] R[emarks]" from Abigail Field Mott, Observations on the Importance of Female Education, and Maternal Instruction (1825) -- Selections from Abigail Field Mott, Biographical Sketches and Interesting Anecdotes of Persons of Colour (1826) -- Selections from Abigail Field Mott, The Mother and Her Children (1828) -- "Report of [the] Ladies' Anti-Slavery Society of Albany," The Albany Patriot (1845) -- Abigail Field Mott, "[Narrative] of Douglass," The Liberator (1845) -- Memoir of Purchase Monthly Meeting, Concerning Abigail Mott (1852) -- Appendix D: Selected Commentary on the Institution of Slavery in Books Published by Samuel Wood and Sons -- "To the Reader," The Penitential Tyrant (1807) -- "A Family [C]onversation on the Slavery of the Negroes," The New-York Reader, No. 2 (1813) -- "Master and Slave," The New-York Reader, No. 3 (1819).