... Slave owners appealing the court’s decisions to free their slaves shared their understandings and experiences of slaving practices. In the locus of the courtroom, they articulated clear ideas about the meaning of “natural” slavery and the practices of just war, ransom (rescate), and cannibalism...

... cannibalism legal narratives indio just war rescate ...

... campaign in history to protest toys on political grounds. The nuclear age, they contended, required the rejection of Cold War militarism not just in the streets but also in the home. If the middle-class family was popularly invoked as the first line of defense in America’s Cold War struggle with the USSR...

..., prolabor, and feminist activists as will as literary critics—took the unreal world of literature as an opportunity for social criticism and, more importantly, for the imaginative genesis of new ideals for a more just society. hope Cold War Bruno Latour Jacques Rancière critique ...

...The Tool of Story Pieces in this section demonstrate the conscious use of storytelling as a tool for change. Poems and essays in this section include lectures about metaphor as systems analysis and another often-cited essay, “The Historian as Curandera.” These are just a few examples of how...

... This final chapter examines the Spanish Revolution and Civil War, which had just broken out recently, and James predicts how the Stalinist policy will inevitably also lead to another disaster there too. Meanwhile, in the Soviet Union itself, James notes that “the Workers’ State presents...

... In the United States today, it is common to believe we live in an era of sexual emancipation. Within the span of a lifetime, sexual attitudes have undergone major transformations. Judicial and legislative decisions permit certain sexual freedoms that, just a short time before, would have seemed...

... that beauty is not just an index of some other force but is itself an instrument and an objective for calculating and arranging the life of others; an education in beauty sustains a philosophical statement about a world-historical consciousness, which also constitutes a political imperative for regime change...

... The earliest and brightest of the leading lights of socialism was the cosmopolitan intellectual Gustavo Navarro, who took the public name Tristán Marof. His time in Europe in the 1920s radicalized him, and in 1926, just before his return to Bolivia, he published The Justice of the Inca...

... This chapter turns to the first substantial part of the trial, which focused on M-13, the security center Duch ran during the Cambodian civil war. There, he experimented and began to develop methods of interrogation and torture that he would take with him to S-21 after the war—along...

... Staged just twice, first in Angola and later in Cambodia, the Miss Landmine pageant follows from a not uncommon faith that beauty is both a humanitarian problem and also its resolution. This chapter holds together the sprawling international complex that funds and conducts prosthetic...

... countryside and began just before General Manuel Odría seized national power in a military coup. Although Llamojha was not a member of the Peruvian Communist Party, his opponents cast his work as that of a communist to delegitimize his efforts to win justice. This chapter introduces Llamojha’s ideas about...

... Chapter 5 charts a shifting history of Indigenous material diplomacy based on the ritual smoking of the cʿąnų́pa wakʿą́ (sacred pipe) and its revival during the Cold War. Conjoining diverse Native communities across long distances prior to colonization, this pan-Indigenous practice endured...

... and ecological worlds went to war. The haunting specter of capital joined the fray—animating the movements of cattle, grasses with animal rhizomes, rice seeds, and flighty ducks. Amid this warfare, the fringe-toed foam frog was just one tenacious parasite, a noisy agent eating at the table of another, which...

... definitions and functions of each category have shifted over time. Adopting the restrictive theory of sovereign immunity required, first, redefining all commercial acts as private and then, gradually, expanding the category of commercial. In the context of the Cold War and postcolonial development efforts...

... Both the headnotes and the glossary entries in this collection are indebted to sources that deserve acknowledgment and that may themselves interest students of the war. Where particular stories are intriguing, it may also help to know whose research provides a likely place to begin further study...