Feeding Back: Conversations with Rock's Alternative Guitarists from Proto-Punk to Post-Rock offers a counter-history of rock music through the lens of interviews with musicians including Richard Thompson, J Mascis, James Williamson, Bob Mould, Tom Verlaine, Lydia Lunch, Lee Ranaldo, Johnny Marr, and John Frusciante. Individually, the book's in-depth discussions explore these subjects' ideas and innovations; taken together they document an alternative-guitar tradition with roots in free jaz...

Contrairement à ce que les historiens ont longtemps laissé entendre, la France ne s'est pas recroquevillée sur elle-même après la perte de ses colonies nord-américaines et caribéennes au tournant du XIXe siècle. L'impérialisme français a pris de nouvelles formes, moins visibles, et s'est déployé dans de nouvelles régions, notamment au Moyen-Orient et en Amérique latine.C'est l'histoire de cet " empire de velours " que retrace David Todd, depuis la chute de l'Empire napoléonien en 18...

La France n’aime pas le libre-échange. A gauche comme à droite, tous les sondages le montrent, les Français préfèrent le protectionnisme. L’ouverture au commerce international est source de malaise politique. L’identité économique de la France décrit l’émergence de cette culture protectionniste, entre la Révolution de 1789 et celle de 1848. Né au centre-droit de l’échiquier politique, le protectionnisme français séduit successivement la droite nationaliste, la gauche patriotique et les pre...

How France's elites used soft power to pursue their imperial ambitions in the nineteenth centuryAfter Napoleon's downfall in 1815, France embraced a mostly informal style of empire, one that emphasized economic and cultural influence rather than military conquest. A Velvet Empire is a global history of French imperialism in the nineteenth century, providing new insights into the mechanisms of imperial collaboration that extended France's power from the Mid...

In the aftermath of the French Revolution, advocates of protection against foreign competition prevailed in a fierce controversy over international trade. This groundbreaking study is the first to examine this 'protectionist turn' in full. Faced with a reaffirmation of mercantile jealousy under the Bourbon Restoration, Benjamin Constant, Jean-Baptiste Say and regional publicists advocated the adoption of the liberty of commerce in order to consolidate the new liberal order. But after the R...

The progress of astronomy from age to age has been far from uniform—rather by leaps and bounds: from the earliest epoch when man's planet earth was the center about which the stupendous cosmos wheeled, for whom it was created, and for whose edification it was maintained—down to the modern age whose discoveries have ascertained that even our stellar universe, the vast region of the solar domain, is but one of the thousands of island universes that tenant the inconceivable immensities of spa...

Astronomy is the science pertaining to all the bodies of the heavens. Parent of the sciences, it is the most perfect and beautiful of all. Sir William Rowan Hamilton, the eminent mathematician, has called astronomy man's golden chain between the earth and the visible heaven. This noble science is to man a possession both old and ancestral, passing with resistless progress from simple shepherds of the Orient watching their flocks by night, to the rulers of ancient empires and the giants of mod...

Winner of the 2019 Chicago Folklore PrizeIn 2011, the Midwest suffered devastating floods. Due to the flooding, the US Army Corps of Engineers activated the Birds Point-New Madrid Floodway, one of the flood prevention mechanisms of the Mississippi Rivers and Tributaries Project. This levee breach was intended to divert water in order to save the town of Cairo, Illinois, but in the process, it completely destroyed the small African American town of Pinhook, Missouri...

You Are God is an epic story about who we really are. It not only explains every mystery of the known world, but brings the reader to their 'own' realization that they themselves are - indeed - God! And through this awakening into their natural divinity, their own truth is revealed. For, the only way 'one' ever knows what is true for them, is when it gives them a feeling of relief. Let the relief begin and the light shine in.

Gangfighters, drug addicts, teenage runaways, and prostitutes—the toughest and most hopeless kids that New York's ghettos had to offer. That is, until a country preacher from the Pennsylvania hills arrived on their turf and began preaching a streetcorner message of renewal, miracles, and God's love.David Wilkerson, a man on a mission, stepped onto some of the world's most dangerous streets armed only with the simple message of God's love and the promise of the Holy Spirit's power. ...

**A clear-eyed yet hopeful history of the United States, revisiting the state of the union every fifty years since America’s birth.“Brilliantly written and illuminating.” —Douglas Brinkley, New York Times bestselling author of Silent Spring Revolution**America is the rare country that was founded on an idea, and it was a truly radical idea for its time: the belief that the people of a country could govern themselves.The Flag Was Still There

Duncan Cochrane wanted to be governor... until the murder of his daughter.“...a compelling picture of the Windy City when it was still in thrall to the mob and its own unique political machine.” ~ Shots MagazineWhen Duncan’s daughter is murdered, he blames his own political ambitions. Still, his best shot at justice may be the bully pulpit of the campaign trail. He must win the election or accept that she ...