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Preface : just open your eyes and see that life is beautiful -- Livin' on a prayer... in a cave -- Desperately wanting : identity forming in classical civilizations -- Immigrant singing : movement and the post classical era -- In the Renaissance, my name is human -- The beginning is the end is the beginning : colonization and empire -- Raging against the machine : industrial and democratic revolutions -- Bullets and butterfly wings : investigating imperialism -- Standing alone : pre- and post- World War I -- The space between our wicked lies : the Great Depression and World War II -- Frozen remix : navigating the Cold War -- Am I wrong for thinkin out the box from where I stay? : new identities, decolonization, revolutions, and revolutionary impacts -- Conclusion : we are the people we've been waiting for.