|9780822968290|Murillo has been first lady of Nicaragua twice (1985-1990 and 2007-2017), vice president (2017-2025), and co-president (since February 2025). She also is a published poet who has been involved with revolutionary and establishment politics since the late 1960s. With her husband, Daniel Ortega, Murillo has been an important figure in the Sandinista movement that overthrew the Somoza dictatorship and fought the Contra War. Particularly since returning to power in the twenty-first century, Ortega and Murillo have dispensed with any pretense of democratic socialism and have become increasingly authoritarian. Kampwirth draws on interviews with those close to Murillo as well as…

|9780822949190|Murillo has been first lady of Nicaragua twice (1985-1990 and 2007-2017), vice president (2017-2025), and co-president (since February 2025). She also is a published poet who has been involved with revolutionary and establishment politics since the late 1960s. With her husband, Daniel Ortega, Murillo has been an important figure in the Sandinista movement that overthrew the Somoza dictatorship and fought the Contra War. Particularly since returning to power in the twenty-first century, Ortega and Murillo have dispensed with any pretense of democratic socialism and have become increasingly authoritarian. Kampwirth draws on interviews with those close to Murillo as well as…

|9780822967620|Kamaladevi Chattopadhyay and the Making of Modern India|Kamaladevi Chattopadhyay (1903–1988) was a prominent socialist, anticolonial and antiracist activist, champion of women’s rights, and advocate for the arts and crafts. Defying the borders of gender, nation, and race, her efforts spanned social movements and played a leading role in the creation of modern India and the development of the Global South. In The Art of Freedom, Nico Slate showcases new archival materials to document Kamaladevi’s campaign to become the first woman elected to provincial office; her confrontation with Gandhi that helped open the salt protests of 1930 to women; her leadership…

|9780822967132|The Family That Built Pittsburgh’s Famed Department Store| In 1868, Jacob Kaufmann, the nineteen-year-old son of a German farmer, stepped off a ship onto the shores of New York. His brother Isaac soon followed, and together they joined an immigrant community of German Jews selling sewing items to the coal miners and mill workers of western Pennsylvania. After opening merchant tailor shops in Pittsburgh’s North and South sides, the Kaufmann brothers caught the wave of a new type of merchandising—the department store—and launched what would become their retail dynasty with a downtown storefront at Fifth Avenue and Smithfield Street. In…

|9780822954064| The Milkweed Ladies is written out of deep affection for and intimate knowledge of the lives of rural people and the rhythms of the natural world. It is a personal account of the farm in southern West Virginia where poet Louise McNeill’s family has lived for nine generations.The Milkweed Ladies is filled with memorable characters—an herb-gathering granny, McNeill’s sailor father, her patient, flower-loving mother, and Aunt Malindy in her “black sateen dress” who “never did a lick of work.” McNeill writes movingly of the harsh routines of the lives of her family, from spring plowing to winter sugaring, and…