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La revolución de Dios: ¿Qué fue lo que nos hizo humanos? (La revolución humana. Una historia de la civilización #Volumen 4)
by Juan Miguel ZunzuneguiHace 150 mil años un simio se puso de pie y abandonó África. Hoy se aventura en el interior del átomo y en los confines del universo. La humanidad camina lentamente, pero de pronto hay un salto sobre el abismo, una explosión transformadora y radical. Eso es revolución, y ha marcado todo lo que somos. La revolución es la esencia de la humanidad; es un antes y un después, un punto sin retorno; es un giro drástico, vertiginoso. Es un acontecimiento después del cual las cosas nunca vuelven a ser iguales. La revolución humana. Una historia de la civilización es un viaje a través de las revoluciones que han forjado a la humanidad. A partir de diez entregas, Juan Miguel Zunzunegui recorre desde la revolución cognitiva hasta la agrícola y la industrial, desde la toma de la Bastilla hasta la caída del Muro de Berlín, desde el origen del capitalismo hasta la disolución de la Unión Soviética, desde nuestro desconocido y misterioso origen hasta la única revolución que no hemos hecho, y que nos llevará a nuestro inevitable y glorioso destino. En La revolución de Dios. Antes y después del Imperio romano, cuarta entrega de la serie, Juan Miguel Zunzunegui nos habla de cómo todos los dioses se convirtieron en uno solo. A lo largo del texto, el autor retoma aquella Roma politeista que heredó y sincretizó todas las mitologías del mundo antiguo y hace el transito entre el primer siglo de nuestra era, cuando las religiones solares, encabezadas, por el mitraísmo, dominaban Roma, y Roma dominaba el mundo conocido, y la caida del Imperio romano en el que se fucionaron el platonismo, el estoicismo y las enseñanzas de Saulo de Tarso.
La revolución del capital (La revolución humana. Una historia de la civilización #Volumen 6)
by Juan Miguel ZunzuneguiHace 150 mil años un simio se puso de pie y abandonó África. Hoy se aventura en el interior del átomo y en los confines del universo. La humanidad camina lentamente, pero de pronto hay un salto sobre el abismo, una explosión transformadora y radical. Eso es revolución, y ha marcado todo lo que somos. La revolución es la esencia de la humanidad; es un antes y un después, un punto sin retorno; es un giro drástico, vertiginoso. Es un acontecimiento después del cual las cosas nunca vuelven a ser iguales. La revolución humana. Una historia de la civilización es un viaje a través de las revoluciones que han forjado a la humanidad. A partir de diez entregas, Juan Miguel Zunzunegui recorre desde la revolución cognitiva hasta la agrícola y la industrial, desde la toma de la Bastilla hasta la caída del Muro de Berlín, desde el origen del capitalismo hasta la disolución de la Unión Soviética, desde nuestro desconocido y misterioso origen hasta la única revolución que no hemos hecho, y que nos llevará a nuestro inevitable y glorioso destino. En La revolución del capital. Los mercaderes conquistan el mundo, Juan Miguel Zunzunegui nos relata el pasado de la fragmentada y ya débil Europa feudal a la poderosa Europa monárquica luego de la gran revolución religiosa, política y económica que fue la Reforma Protestante. Esta quinta entrega de la serie muestra cómo la clase de los mercaderes se lanza a la conquista del mundo y cómo a través de una revolución en las ideas económicas y una revolución científica cimentaron el mundo moderno en el que vivimos hoy.
La revolución del fin del mundo (La revolución humana. Una historia de la civilización #Volumen 5)
by Juan Miguel ZunzuneguiHace 150 mil años un simio se puso de pie y abandonó África. Hoy se aventura en el interior del átomo y en los confines del universo. La humanidad camina lentamente, pero de pronto hay un salto sobre el abismo, una explosión transformadora y radical. Eso es revolución, y ha marcado todo lo que somos. La revolución es la esencia de la humanidad; es un antes y un después, un punto sin retorno; es un giro drástico, vertiginoso. Es un acontecimiento después del cual las cosas nunca vuelven a ser iguales. La revolución humana. Una historia de la civilización es un viaje a través de las revoluciones que han forjado a la humanidad. A partir de diez entregas, Juan Miguel Zunzunegui recorre desde la revolución cognitiva hasta la agrícola y la industrial, desde la toma de la Bastilla hasta la caída del Muro de Berlín, desde el origen del capitalismo hasta la disolución de la Unión Soviética, desde nuestro desconocido y misterioso origen hasta la única revolución que no hemos hecho, y que nos llevará a nuestro inevitable y glorioso destino. En La revolución del fin del mundo. El origen de la modernidad, quinta entrega de la serie, Juan Miguel Zunzunegui nos acerca a lo que queda de Europa tras la caída de Roma; una Europa atrasada, en guerra y distanciada del mundo, el rincón más atrasado del planeta en el siglo XIII. Sin embargo, una serie de eventos que comenzaron con la peste negra, el Renacimiento, la caída de Constantinopla, el descubrimiento de América y la Reforma Protestante, hicieron de Europa la cultura que conquistó el mundo entero, ¿Cómo fue posible?
La revolución del sapiens / Civilización e imperio (La revolución humana. Una historia de la civilización #Volumen 1Y)
by Juan Miguel ZunzuneguiHace 150 mil años un simio se puso de pie y abandonó África. Hoy se aventura en el interior del átomo y en los confines del universo. La humanidad camina lentamente, pero de pronto hay un salto sobre el abismo, una explosión transformadora y radical. Eso es revolución, y ha marcado todo lo que somos. La revolución es la esencia de la humanidad; es un antes y un después, un punto sin retorno; es un giro drástico, vertiginoso. Es un acontecimiento después del cual las cosas nunca vuelven a ser iguales. La revolución humana. Una historia de la civilización es un viaje a través de las revoluciones que han forjado a la humanidad. A partir de diez entregas, Juan Miguel Zunzunegui recorre desde la revolución cognitiva hasta la agrícola y la industrial, desde la toma de la Bastilla hasta la caída del Muro de Berlín, desde el origen del capitalismo hasta la disolución de la Unión Soviética, desde nuestro desconocido y misterioso origen hasta la única revolución que no hemos hecho, y que nos llevará a nuestro inevitable y glorioso destino. Esta doble edición de lanzamiento incluye las primeras dos entregas de la serie: La revolución del sapiens y Civilización e imperio. En la primera encontramos los orígenes casi oscuros e incognoscibles de la humanidad; desde que un simio se puso de pie hasta que la especie Homo dominó el mundo, al tiempo que desarrolló misteriosamente -hace unos 70 mil años- aquello que nos hace humanos: la consciencia sobre nosotros mismos, la capacidad de abstracción y el pensamiento simbólico. Ése es el origen de todo lo que somos. Mientras que la segunda es la historia de cómo en un planeta cálido y fértil, nosotros, los Sapiens, desarrollamos la agricultura y cimentamos en ella la civilización. Entre el desarrollo de la agricultura y el de la industria pasaron 12 mil años, pero las estructuras humanas no cambiaron: imperios, jerarquías y desigualdad, guerras por los recursos, religiones sometedoras y un ser humano que produce incesante e irracionalmente en una eterna carrera a ningún lado. Ésta es la historia de los pros y contras de la civilización.
La revolución humana
by Juan Miguel ZunzuneguiLA HISTORIA DE LA HUMANIDAD COMO NUNCA ANTES TE LA HABÍAN CONTADO Con una revolución comenzó el universo, con otra abrimos los ojos de la consciencia y comenzó nuestra historia. Aprendimos a pensar, a producir, a luchar por el poder, a venerar dioses, a surcar los mares, a descifrar el firmamento, a transformar el mundo, a viajar por el espacio. Juan Miguel Zunzunegui nos lleva a un viaje desde el génesis del universo al inicio de la civilización, de la revolución agrícola a la industrial, de la toma de la Bastilla a la caída del Muro de Berlín, del origen del capitalismo a la disolución de la Unión Soviética…, y por un sendero místico que va desde nuestro desconocido y misterioso origen, hasta la única revolución que no hemos hecho, y que nos llevará a nuestro inevitable y glorioso destino.
The Man Who Understood Democracy: The Life of Alexis de Tocqueville
by Olivier ZunzA definitive biography of the French aristocrat who became one of democracy’s greatest championsIn 1831, at the age of twenty-five, Alexis de Tocqueville made his fateful journey to America, where he observed the thrilling reality of a functioning democracy. From that moment onward, the French aristocrat would dedicate his life as a writer and politician to ending despotism in his country and bringing it into a new age. In this authoritative and groundbreaking biography, leading Tocqueville expert Olivier Zunz tells the story of a radical thinker who, uniquely charged by the events of his time, both in America and France, used the world as a laboratory for his political ideas.Placing Tocqueville’s dedication to achieving a new kind of democracy at the center of his life and work, Zunz traces Tocqueville’s evolution into a passionate student and practitioner of liberal politics across a trove of correspondence with intellectuals, politicians, constituents, family members, and friends. While taking seriously Tocqueville’s attempts to apply the lessons of Democracy in America to French politics, Zunz shows that the United States, and not only France, remained central to Tocqueville’s thought and actions throughout his life. In his final years, with France gripped by an authoritarian regime and America divided by slavery, Tocqueville feared that the democratic experiment might be failing. Yet his passion for democracy never weakened.Giving equal attention to the French and American sources of Tocqueville’s unique blend of political philosophy and political action, The Man Who Understood Democracy offers the richest, most nuanced portrait yet of a man who, born between the worlds of aristocracy and democracy, fought tirelessly for the only system that he believed could provide both liberty and equality.
Philanthropy in America: A History - Updated Edition (Politics and Society in Modern America #103)
by Olivier ZunzHow philanthropy has shaped America in the twentieth centuryAmerican philanthropy today expands knowledge, champions social movements, defines active citizenship, influences policymaking, and addresses humanitarian crises. How did philanthropy become such a powerful and integral force in American society? Philanthropy in America is the first book to explore in depth the twentieth-century growth of this unique phenomenon. Ranging from the influential large-scale foundations established by tycoons such as John D. Rockefeller, Sr., and the mass mobilization of small donors by the Red Cross and March of Dimes, to the recent social advocacy of individuals like Bill Gates and George Soros, respected historian Olivier Zunz chronicles the tight connections between private giving and public affairs, and shows how this union has enlarged democracy and shaped history.Demonstrating that America has cultivated and relied on philanthropy more than any other country, Philanthropy in America examines how giving for the betterment of all became embedded in the fabric of the nation's civic democracy.
Patria o medios: La loca guerra de los Kirchner por el control de la realidad
by Edi ZuninoEl libro se centra en el verdadero paradigma de los Kirchner: gobernares editar. Una investigación narrada de forma tan atractiva que se leecomo una novela, repleta de personajes y microhistorias increíbles. Néstor y Cristina Kirchner tienen razón: toda realidad es unaconstrucción. ¿Pero cómo hicieron ellos para construir su historiaoficial? PATRIA O MEDIOS revela hasta qué punto concibieron su épocacomo una guerra de relatos irreconciliables al cabo de la cual debíanerigirse ganadores absolutos o morir políticamente. El libro se centraen el verdadero paradigma de los Kirchner: gobernar es editar. Elmatrimonio presidencial tomó desde un principio las críticas de laprensa como arteros fusilamientos mediáticos. Calificaron a la reformade la Ley de Radiodifusión como la madre de todas las batallas. Editaronlas estadísticas del INDEC como un mensuario, la obra pública como undiario, las denuncias de corrupción como un archivo, cajoneándolas, ysus propias historias personales como un folletín. Según ellos, fueronsalvajemente perseguidos por la dictadura, cuando solo hay registros deun par de noches en una comisaría de Río Gallegos. También editaron unmultimedios oficialista, beneficiado por la jugosa pauta publicitariagubernamental, utilizada a su vez para domesticar a los díscolos.
Pluralist Politics, Relational Worlds: Vulnerability and Care of the Earth
by Didier ZúñigaIn Pluralist Politics, Relational Worlds, Didier Zúñiga examines the possibility for dialogue and mutual understanding in human and more-than-human worlds. The book responds to the need to find more democratic ways of listening to, giving voice to, and caring for the variety of beings that inhabit the earth. Drawing on ecology and sustainability in democratic theory, Zúñiga demonstrates the transformative potential of a relational ethics that is not only concerned with human animals, but also with the multiplicity of beings on earth, and the relationships in which they are enmeshed. The book offers ways of cultivating and fostering the kinds of relations that are needed to maintain human and more-than-human diversity in order for life to persist. It also calls attention to the quality of the relationships that are needed for life to flourish, advancing our understanding of the diversity of pluralism. Pluralist Politics, Relational Worlds ultimately presses us to question our own condition of human animality so that we may reconsider the relations we entertain with one another and with more-than-human forms of life on earth.
Western Sahara: War, Nationalism, and Conflict Irresolution (Syracuse Studies on Peace and Conflict Resolution)
by Stephen Zunes Jacob MundyThe Western Sahara conflict has proven to be one of the most protracted and intractable struggles facing the international community. Pitting local nationalist determination against Moroccan territorial ambitions, the dispute is further complicated by regional tensions with Algeria and the geo-strategic concerns of major global players, including the United States, France, and the territory’s former colonial ruler, Spain. Since the early 1990s, the UN Security Council has failed to find a formula that will delicately balance these interests against Western Sahara’s long-denied right to a self-determination referendum as one of the last UN-recognized colonies. <p><p>The widely-lauded first edition was the first book-length treatment of the issue in the previous two decades. Zunes and Mundy examined the origins, evolution, and resilience of the Western Sahara conflict, deploying a diverse array of sources and firsthand knowledge of the region gained from multiple research visits. Shifting geographical frames—local, regional, and international—provided for a robust analysis of the stakes involved. With the renewal of the armed conflict, continued diplomatic stalemate, growing waves of nonviolent resistance in the occupied territory, and the recent U.S. recognition of Morocco’s annexation, this new revised and expanded paperback edition brings us up-to-date on a long-forgotten conflict that is finally capturing the world’s attention.
Tinderbox: U.S. Foreign Policy And The Roots Of Terrorism
by Stephen ZunesWill our democracy be defined by dominance? Or by the higher values we constantly espouse? This is the central question facing us in the wake of 9/11, and Stephen Zunes shows the prospects are not promising.
Franz Boas: The Emergence of the Anthropologist (Critical Studies in the History of Anthropology)
by Rosemary Lévy ZumwaltRosemary Lévy Zumwalt tells the remarkable story of Franz Boas, one of the leading scholars and public intellectuals of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. The first book in a two-part biography, Franz Boas begins with the anthropologist’s birth in Minden, Germany, in 1858 and ends with his resignation from the American Museum of Natural History in 1906, while also examining his role in training professional anthropologists from his berth at Columbia University in New York City. Zumwalt follows the stepping-stones that led Boas to his vision of anthropology as a four-field discipline, a journey demonstrating especially his tenacity to succeed, the passions that animated his life, and the toll that the professional struggle took on him. Zumwalt guides the reader through Boas’s childhood and university education, describes his joy at finding the great love of his life, Marie Krackowizer, traces his 1883 trip to Baffin Land, and recounts his efforts to find employment in the United States. A central interest in the book is Boas’s widely influential publications on cultural relativism and issues of race, particularly his book The Mind of Primitive Man (1911), which reshaped anthropology, the social sciences, and public debates about the problem of racism in American society.Franz Boas presents the remarkable life story of an American intellectual giant as told in his own words through his unpublished letters, diaries, and field notes. Zumwalt weaves together the strands of the personal and the professional to reveal Boas’s love for his family and for the discipline of anthropology as he shaped it.
Franz Boas: Shaping Anthropology and Fostering Social Justice (Critical Studies in the History of Anthropology)
by Rosemary Lévy ZumwaltFranz Boas defined the concept of cultural relativism and reoriented the humanities and social sciences away from race science toward an antiracist and anticolonialist understanding of human biology and culture. Franz Boas: Shaping Anthropology and Fostering Social Justice is the second volume in Rosemary Lévy Zumwalt&’s two-part biography of the renowned anthropologist and public intellectual. Zumwalt takes the reader through the most vital period in the development of Americanist anthropology and Boas&’s rise to dominance in the subfields of cultural anthropology, physical anthropology, ethnography, and linguistics. Boas&’s emergence as a prominent public intellectual, particularly his opposition to U.S. entry into World War I, reveals his struggle against the forces of nativism, racial hatred, ethnic chauvinism, scientific racism, and uncritical nationalism. Boas was instrumental in the American cultural renaissance of the 1920s and 1930s, training students and influencing colleagues such as Melville Herskovits, Zora Neale Hurston, Benjamin Botkin, Alan Lomax, Langston Hughes, and others involved in combating racism and the flourishing Harlem Renaissance. He assisted German and European émigré intellectuals fleeing Nazi Germany to relocate in the United States and was instrumental in organizing the denunciation of Nazi racial science and American eugenics. At the end of his career Boas guided a network of former student anthropologists, who spread across the country to university departments, museums, and government agencies, imprinting his social science more broadly in the world of learned knowledge.Franz Boas is a magisterial biography of Franz Boas and his influence in shaping not only anthropology but also the sciences, humanities, social science, visual and performing arts, and America&’s public sphere during a period of great global upheaval and democratic and social struggle.
The Cheater's Guide To Baseball
by Derek ZumstegEver see Mike Piazza block the plate? Or Derek Jeter slide hard into second? Illegal. But it happens every game. Baseball&’s rules, it seems, were made to be broken. And they are, by the players, the front office, and even sometimes the fans. Like it or not, cheating has been an integral part of America&’s favorite pastime since its inception. The Cheater&’s Guide to Baseball will show you how cheating is really done. In this lively tour through baseball&’s underhanded history, readers will learn how to cork a bat, steal signs, hurl a spitball, throw a World Series, and win at any cost! They&’ll also see the dirty little secrets of the game&’s greatest manipulators: John McGraw and Ty Cobb; Billy Martin and Gaylord Perry; Graig Nettles and Sammy Sosa; and, yes, even Barry Bonds. They&’ll find out how the Cleveland Indians doctored their basepaths to give new meaning to the term home field advantage. They&’ll delight in a hilarious examination of the Black Sox scandal, baseball&’s original sin. And, in the end, they&’ll come to understand that cheating is as much a part of baseball as pine tar and pinch hitters. And it&’s here to stay.
The Red Thread: The Passaic Textile Strike
by Jacob A. ZumoffThis book tells the story of 15,000 wool workers who went on strike for more than a year, defying police violence and hunger. The strikers were mainly immigrants and half were women. The Passaic textile strike, the first time that the Communist Party led a mass workers’ struggle in the United States, captured the nation’s imagination and came to symbolize the struggle of workers throughout the country when the labor movement as a whole was in decline during the conservative, pro-business 1920s. Although the strike was defeated, many of the methods and tactics of the Passaic strike presaged the struggles for industrial unions a decade later in the Great Depression.
Wittgenstein and Modernism
by Karen Zumhagen-Yekplé Michael LemahieuLudwig Wittgenstein famously declared that philosophy “ought really to be written only as a form of poetry,” and he even described the Tractatus as “philosophical and, at the same time, literary.” But few books have really followed up on these claims, and fewer still have focused on their relation to the special literary and artistic period in which Wittgenstein worked. This book offers the first collection to address the rich, vexed, and often contradictory relationship between modernism—the twentieth century’s predominant cultural and artistic movement—and Wittgenstein, one of its preeminent and most enduring philosophers. In doing so it offers rich new understandings of both. Michael LeMahieu Karen Zumhagen-Yekplé bring together scholars in both twentieth-century philosophy and modern literary studies to put Wittgenstein into dialogue with some of modernism’s most iconic figures, including Samuel Beckett, Saul Bellow, Walter Benjamin, Henry James, James Joyce, Franz Kafka, Adolf Loos, Robert Musil, Wallace Stevens, and Virginia Woolf. The contributors touch on two important aspects of Wittgenstein’s work and modernism itself: form and medium. They discuss issues ranging from Wittgenstein and poetics to his use of numbered propositions in the Tractatus as a virtuoso performance of modernist form; from Wittgenstein’s persistence metaphoric use of religion, music, and photography to an exploration of how he and Henry James both negotiated the relationship between the aesthetic and the ethical. Covering many other fascinating intersections of the philosopher and the arts, this book offers an important bridge across the disciplinary divides that have kept us from a fuller picture of both Wittgenstein and the larger intellectual and cultural movement of which he was a part.
Seas And Waterways Of The World: An Encyclopedia Of History, Uses, And Issues
by John Zumerchik Steven L. Danver Steven Laurence DanverWritten at the level of high school and up, this two-volume reference offers an introduction to the use of the world's seas and waterways in history and during modern times, emphasizing the importance of seas and waterways to civilization. The reference's 134 entries are grouped in three sections. The section on the history of the world's seas and waterways contains entries on specific bodies of water around the world. The section on uses of the world's seas and waterways describes areas such as agriculture, coastal tourism, diving, oil and natural gas, sailing, surfing, passenger shipping, wave energy, and wind energy. The last section looks at issues pertaining to seas and waterways, such as cartography, dredging, lighthouses, laws and treaties, port operations, research vessels, and trade and transportation. Many entries contain b&w photos and maps. A chronology and a glossary are included. Zumerchik has written a previous reference work. Danver teaches history at National University.
Was keine Geschichte ist: Vorgeschichte und Literatur im 19. Jahrhundert
by Cornelia ZumbuschUnter Vorgeschichte versteht man gewöhnlich die Geschichte der Menschen vor dem Einsatz schriftlicher Zeugnisse. In Bezug auf literarische Erzählungen hingegen meint Vorgeschichte das, was zwar vor dem Anfang der Geschichte geschehen ist, aber erst später erzählt wird. Ein zentraler Text für die Erforschung der Vorgeschichte sowohl in der prähistorischen Archäologie als auch in der Narratologie ist die homerische Odyssee. Am Leitfaden der Homer-Rezeption geht die Studie deshalb den Formen der Vorgeschichte im 19. Jahrhundert nach. Wie wird Vorgeschichte zum Gegenstand der Wissenschaften? Warum erzählen Romane von Goethe, Stifter und Fontane nicht nur Geschichten, sondern auch in diese eingelagerte Vorgeschichten? Und in welchem Zusammenhang steht diese Erzählform mit dem auffälligen Interesse der Literatur an Altertümern und prähistorischen Relikten?
Weimarer Klassik: Eine Einführung
by Cornelia ZumbuschDie Weimarer Klassik ist eine zentrale, wenn auch umstrittene Epoche der Literaturgeschichte. Diese Einführung skizziert die Diskussion über eine um Goethe und Schiller gruppierte ›Weimarer Klassik‹ und beschreibt ihre Voraussetzungen, Kontexte und Programmatik. Drei umfangreiche Kapitel stellen exemplarische literarische Werke Schillers und Goethes vor, geordnet nach Lyrik, Dramatik und Erzählformen.
The Colony Of New York (Spotlight on New York)
by Amelie Von Zumbusch Daniel R. FaustBacked by the latest scholarly research, this book chronicles the history of early New York, how it became a British colony, and what life was like in colonial New York.
The First Peoples of New York (Spotlight on New York)
by Amelie Von Zumbusch Daniel R. FaustReflecting the latest scholarship, this book looks at the different groups of Native Americans who lived on the land that would one day become New York State.
New York's European Explorers (Spotlight On New York Series)
by Amelie Von Zumbusch Daniel R. FaustFounded on recent historical investigations, this exciting volume delves into the journeys of the first intrepid travelers who sailed across the ocean to explore unknown lands. • Featured explorers include Henry Hudson, Jacques Cartier, Samuel de Champlain, and Giovanni da Verrazzano. • Address which Native American peoples were encountered by early explorers. • Also included are valuable primary source documents and maps from this exciting period of New York’s history.
The True Story of the Battle of Lexington and Concord
by Amelie Von ZumbuschThis book presents an overview of the first battle of the American Revolution in Massachusetts on April 19, 1775.
A History of Green Ridge State Forest
by Champ ZumbrunGreen Ridge State Forest is a haven of calm and natural beauty among the Appalachians of western Maryland. This land was once the frontier of the nation, and trailblazers such as Thomas Cresap and George Washington were among the first Europeans to discover its wonders: the swift Potomac, the flowering dogwood and pine in the mountain reaches and the nighttime calls of the bobcat and the barred owl. The vision and stewardship of people like forester Fred W. Besley preserved the forest for future generations of hikers, explorers and families. Join former forest manager Champ Zumbrun as he traverses hidden trails to tell the remarkable story of Green Ridge State Forest.
Transnational Identities on Okinawa’s Military Bases: Invisible Armies
by Johanna O. ZuluetaThis book considers the role of civilian workers on U.S. bases in Okinawa, Japan and how transnational movements within East Asia during the Occupation period brought foreign workers, mostly from the Philippines, to work on these bases. Decades later, in a seeming “reproduction of base labour”, returnees of both Okinawan and Philippine heritage began occupying jobs on base as United States of Japan (USFJ) employees. The book investigates the role that ethnicity, nationality, and capital play in the lives of these base employees, and at the same time examines how Japanese and Okinawan identity/ies are formed and challenged. It offers a valuable resource for those interested in Japan and Okinawa, U.S. military basing, migration, and mixed ethnicities.