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As the author of The Condition of the Working Class in England and,
along with Karl Marx, The Communist Manifesto, Friedrich Engels is
a seminal 19th-century figure; the co-founder of Marxism, he left
an indelible impression as a philosopher, political theorist,
economist, historian and revolutionary socialist. The Life, Work
and Legacy of Friedrich Engels is nevertheless the first book to
comprehensively explore Engels' contributions in all of these
spheres. The book sees 13 experts from a range of scholarly
backgrounds examine Engels and his writing in relation to topics
including the United States and the future of capitalism, European
social democracy and the nature of the political economy, with
technology, capital, and labor acting as fundamental cross-cutting
themes throughout. The volume analyses the intriguing relationship
between Engels and Karl Marx, the towering historical figure whose
long shadow has obscured the achievements of Engels for so long,
and reassesses Engels' significance in this context. There are 66
images to be found throughout the text, 30 of these in colour, as
well as a conclusion which successfully views Engels in the context
of the age. As a journalist, author and communist figurehead,
Engels dealt succinctly - and with strong opinions - with the core
questions of the developments changing the globe in the 19th
century and The Life, Work and Legacy of Friedrich Engels finally
shines a light on this in a compelling call for revisionism.
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May '68
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Donald Matthew Reid, Daniel J. Sherman
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R346
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This issue presents new directions in the study of the civil unrest
in France during May 1968 on its fiftieth anniversary. Authors from
France and the United States emphasize the nature and experience of
the political upheaval in May 1968, the long-term cultural impacts
of events in Paris, and the ways in which these events figures into
a global context. Contributors offer new ways of understanding and
interpreting the discord by focusing on the emotional and cultural
resonance of the events of May 1968 in activism and popular
culture. Other essays explore the relation of student activism in
former French colonies to events in France, place the events of May
1968 in a global context by considering diplomatic and radical
networks between Europe and the United States, and examine the
cultural relationship between France and Germany. Contributors:
Ludivine Bantigny, Francoise Blum, Tony Come, Boris Gobille,
Bethany Keenan, Salar Mohandesi, Donald Reid, Sandrine Sanos,
Daniel Sherman
Contributors to this issue approach the October 1917 Russian
Revolution and the experiments of the revolutionary period as
events that opened new possibilities for politics that remain vital
one hundred years later. The essays highlight how those events not
only affected Russia and Europe but led to the emergence of a new
political image of the world and a profound rethinking of Marxist
traditions. This issue globalizes the 1917 revolution, emphasizing
its echoes throughout the world and the parallel development of
political possibilities beyond Russia. Topics include the Soviets
from the revolution to the present, the impact of the revolution in
Latin America, the work of the legal theorist Evgeny Pashukanis
analyzed through the lens of the revolution, anarchist imaginaries,
and the historicizing of communism. Contributors. Giso Amendola,
Martin Bergel, Kathy Ferguson, Michael Hardt, Wang Hui, Artemy
Magun, John MacKay, Sandro Mezzadra, Antonio Negri, Enzo Traverso
Transforming Saints explores the transformation and function of the
images of holy females within wider religious, social, and
political contexts of Old Spain and New Spain from the Spanish
conquest to Mexican independence. The chapters here examine the
rise of the cults of the lactating Madonna, St. Anne, St. Librada,
St. Mary Magdalene, and the Suffering Virgin. Concerned with holy
figures presented as feminine archetypes, images that came under
Inquisition scrutiny, as well as cults suspected of concealing
indigenous influences, Charlene VillaseNor Black argues that these
images would come to reflect the empowerment and agency of women in
viceregal Mexico. Her close analysis of the imagery additionally
demonstrates artists' innovative responses to Inquisition
censorship and the new artistic demands occasioned by conversion.
The concerns that motivated the twenty-first century protests
against Chicana artists Yolanda LOpez in 2001 and Alma LOpez in
2003 have a long history in the Hispanic world-anxieties about the
humanization of sacred female bodies and fears of indigenous
influences infiltrating Catholicism. In this context Black also
examines a number of important artists in depth, including El
Greco, Murillo, Jusepe de Ribera, and Pedro de Mena in Spain and
Naples and Baltasar de Echave IbIa, Juan Correa, CristObal de
Villalpando, and Miguel Cabrera.
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