The story of a fiery Black abolitionist and how his radical ideology, unstinting commitment, and inspiring life remain relevant in the twenty-first century

Born enslaved in Maryland, Henry Highland Garnet (1815-1882) escaped with his family via the Underground Railroad to New York City and went on to become a major voice in the Black abolitionist movement. He led community-based organizations that physically confronted kidnappers and slave traders preying on Black New Yorkers. Garnet caused a sensation in 1843 by publicly advocating for armed Black resistance to slavery.

Despite a painful disability-one leg was amputated-Garnet became renowned as a masterful orator, pastored several important Black churches, and was a fixture at Black political conventions. He and his rival and fellow former fugitive Frederick Douglass were frequently cited as the most famous Black men in the United States. Garnet crystallized the role of an activist clergy, anticipating Martin Luther King Jr.'s social gospel. Laying the groundwork for the Black nationalist politics of Marcus Garvey and Malcolm X, Garnet became an advocate of African emigration and was eventually appointed an ambassador to Liberia, where he died.

In this book, the first biography of Garnet in fifty years, Graham Russell Gao Hodges's exhaustive research and innovative interpretations reveal Garnet's unflinching defense of Black civil rights and his influential thinking about building Black communities, ideas that continue to reverberate in our debates around race and society.

As the controversy over immigration control continues to unfold on a global level, this timely book explores the widespread involvement of private companies in UK detention and removal policies.

Based on original empirical data, the book pulls back the curtain on the day-to-day practices of the UK Home Office and private service providers, providing critical insights about the inner workings and failings of their processes.

Offering a unique analysis of the enactment of power and state sovereignty, this organizational ethnography will inform scholarly, policy and society debates.

Drawing on extensive ethnographic fieldwork with Greek Albanian families, this book explores how ethnic identity is lived, embodied, and performed in everyday life. Building on performativity theory and adapting it to the study of ethnicity and migration, it reveals how belonging, difference, and social boundaries are continually negotiated through everyday practices, relationships, and embodied experiences across Greece and Albania.

This timely contribution to migration studies, anthropology, sociology, and ethnic studies sheds new light on the performative production of ethnic identity. It offers a distinctive perspective on ethnicity, embodiment, and belonging as relational processes shaped by social norms, historical memory, migration, and transnational connections. Through rich ethnographic material, the book demonstrates how seemingly ordinary practices including greetings, celebrations, self-presentation, and language use become meaningful acts through which migrants and their families negotiate inclusion, exclusion, and cultural belonging in contemporary Europe.

This volume offers a critical examination of how widening age asymmetries across diverse Asian societies shape the representational economies through which older adults are constructed, mediated, and understood. Foregrounding the intersection of gender and age, it analyses the discursive positioning of older women in multimodal media environments and situates such portrayals within broader configurations of kinship, intergenerational obligation, and socio-emotional labour. The essays assembled here draw on textual, visual, and audiovisual materials from China, Hong Kong, India, Indonesia, Japan, Malaysia, South Korea, and Taiwan to interrogate emergent narratives of ageing and to map shifting cultural, familial, and institutional expectations surrounding later life

By engaging with demographic change, transformations in family structures, and evolving regimes of care, the collection elucidates the rearticulation of filial responsibility, economic dependency, and affective interdependence in rapidly ageing societies. It further considers how contemporary multimedia reframes the experience of decline, loss, and grief, and how these representational practices mediate broader ideological debates about the status, agency, and social value of older adults. Collectively, the contributions provide a theoretically grounded and empirically rich account of the cultural imaginaries through which ageing is negotiated in Asia, highlighting the profound reconfigurations of social relations and life-course expectations unfolding across the region.

Volume 4 of The Posen Library of Jewish Culture and Civilization, covering the later Middle Ages and highlighting the religious and cultural shifts of Jewish life at that time

At the start of the late medieval period, the center of Jewish intellectual productivity had shifted from Muslim lands to Christian Europe. By its end, Jews had been expelled from most of western Europe. In the intervening three hundred years, Jews in western and central Europe, the Middle East, and beyond produced a wealth of literary, legal, philosophical, and scientific writings, primarily but not exclusively written in Hebrew. Adding to this rich abundance, Jewish migration fostered increased contact and intellectual exchange among far-flung Jewish communities, each of which possessed a distinct regional culture.

This volume gathers over a thousand primary sources-texts, translated from more than a dozen languages, as well as a stunning array of visual images-that represent the breadth and diversity of late medieval Jewish cultures. The birth of kabbalah, a major development in the field of Jewish mysticism, represents a highlight of these years. Alongside religious, literary, and scholarly writings, the volume presents personal letters, chronicles, communal records, account ledgers, tombstone inscriptions, legal contracts, court testimonies, and much more, giving expression to the full sweep of Jewish civilization. The texts and artifacts in this volume offer an exciting window into the social, political, economic, and religious life of Jews in the late Middle Ages.

A history of one of the most controversial and consequential geopolitical developments of the last fifty years: how Jews became allied with the global Right

Nowhere Left to Go is a book about the upending of Western political life. It tells the story of how Jews, once the icons of liberal and progressive causes, emerged as avatars for illiberal political parties across the world over the last half-century. At one time identified with the Left, Jews became associated with the Right. Drawing from previously unexamined archives, dozens of new interviews with leading economists, politicians, and religious figures, and his own vast knowledge of Jewish history, Eliyahu Stern offers an unprecedented account of how and why this shift happened. For the first time, he reveals the pivotal role Jewish encounters with American Christian nationalists, European identitarians, and Russian Eurasians have played in the Middle East, the United States, and Europe from the 1970s through October 7, 2023.

Urging a return to a realist politics and a more diverse set of alliances, Stern confronts the failures of right-wing Jewish alliances to ultimately answer the Jewish question. What political wilderness will Jews find themselves in, he asks, if both the Right and Left turn on them? And what steps might Jews take to ensure their well-being and security? Impeccably researched and judiciously observed, this book is an eye-opening account of Jewish life in an increasingly polarized political landscape.

 This volume brings together scholarly articles on Cicero’s Academics, one of the most significant works for the history of Platonism and for reconstructing the intense Hellenistic debate between the so-called Skeptical Academy and the Stoa concerning the possibility, nature, and limits of knowledge. The contributions are written by leading specialists in classical philology and the history of philosophy.

The articles address all the central aspects of the dialogue, including its characters and themes, as well as the complex philological issues related to the text. Most importantly, they trace the Academics’ reception from antiquity through the medieval, modern, and contemporary periods, demonstrating the work’s enduring relevance to the history of epistemological thought in the Western philosophical tradition.

This is the only volume entirely devoted to the Academics and their reception in the history of philosophy. While primarily intended for scholars of ancient philosophy, it will also appeal to anyone interested in the history of Platonism, Hellenistic philosophies, Cicero as a philosopher, ancient epistemology, and its reception in later periods.

Zeit, wenngleich unsichtbar, ist sinnlich wahrnehmbar und ein wesentlicher Faktor bildlicher Darstellung. Im Bild zeigt sie sich, wenn kleine oder grosse Ereignisse miteinander in Beziehung gesetzt werden. Das Buch beschaeftigt sich mit diesem In-Beziehung-Setzen als bildkuenstlerischer Zeit-Erzeugung und nimmt dabei insbesondere situative Beziehungen in den Blick. Sie werden individuell gesetzt und haben anders als die grossen christlichen Zeitordnungen keine regulierende Funktion. Indem sie sich ?der Zeit‘ nicht als grosses Ganzes annaehern, sondern Zeit ueber die Erfahrbarkeit von Dauer, Gleichzeitigkeit oder Zaehlbarkeit erschliessen, ruecken sie das Dargestellte an die Lebenswelt der Glaeubigen an. In den Blick genommen werden diese Zusammenhaenge anhand von Werken aus Spaetantike, fruehem und hohem Mittelalter. Damit steht eine Zeitspanne im Mittelpunkt, deren Artefakte bisher kaum auf eine differenzierte Reflexion des Zeitlichen hin befragt wurden.

Cultures of Exchange examines the mercantile culture of the Italian peninsula, whose wealth and geographic location made it a focal point of cultural exchange in the Mediterranean. The volume explores the integration of the peninsula into international and global networks, the effect on societal structures and attitudes, and the role in the transfer and reception of knowledge, goods, and peoples.

Susanna Barsella, William Caferro, and Germano Maifreda bring together the work of an array of scholars - literary critics, art historians, numismatists, and historians - using diverse methodologies that provide a genuinely interdisciplinary discussion of a field that is still in its elemental stages. The chapters in the volume deal with interrelated issues from diverse perspectives, questioning whether cultural exchange also involved cultural appropriation, while interrogating the political, economic, social, religious, material, artistic, gendered, and racial aspects of exchange. Essays on cartography offer a strong visual component to the book, and the use of digital humanities adds to the methodological sophistication in assessing primary source materials.

Bringing into conversation the work of a broad range of scholars, Cultures of Exchange is written with accessibility and readability in mind and is a major intervention in the growing field of Mediterranean Studies.

Available open access digitally under CC-BY-NC-ND licence.

This book provides a critical reflection on the relationship between education, conflict, war and peace and the global actors and practitioners that have devised strategies to engage and support education systems in conflict-affected contexts.

Exploring a wide range of issues from development assistance to education, peacebuilding, de-radicalisation programmes and global governance, it evidences the challenges and the promises of education's complex relationship to war and peace. The book highlights the field's entanglements with geopolitics and imperial interventions, which have shaped its actions and undermined and limited its potential to support social transformation towards peace with social justice.