The Histories

Reducere. Established in 1836, the Bristol Zoo is the world's oldest surviving zoo outside of a capital city and has frequently been at the vanguard of zoo i...

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLCIllustration(s): 40 bw illusNumber of pages: 328Publication date: 2020Dimensions: 163 x 240 x 24Cover type: Har...

This collection, which includes material hitherto difficult to access, will be an essential tool for all students of the history, international rel...

This book maps key moments in the history of post-war art from a global perspective.Publisher: Taylor & Francis LtdNumber of pages: 252Collection: ...

Reducere. I have worked as a psychiatrist and psychoanalyst for nearly fifty years, and I have consulted on and treated hundreds of patients.I have never met...

Publisher: Thames & Hudson LtdAuthor(s): Malcolm RussellIllustration(s): 417 Illustrations, colorNumber of pages: 224Publication date: 2022Dimensio...

Through multiple perspectives from both sides of the border, the collected essays in These Ragged Edges argue that rapidly changing conditions alon...

Lesser-known tales of anticolonial defiance in artworks and marginal histories worldwideThe artists featured in this book create compelling narrati...

Explores ten alternate outcomes of the First World War.Publisher: Pen & Sword Books LtdAuthor(s): Spencer JonesIllustration(s): 16 pages of b/w pla...

In this volume, Andrew Green examines the progress by which the Official Histories of World War I was written, the motives and influences of its pa...

Laughing Histories breaks new ground by exploring moments of laughter in early modern Europe, showing how laughter was inflected by gender and soci...

Publisher: University of Minnesota PressAuthor(s): John TaggIllustration(s): 40 black & whilte illustrationsNumber of pages: 272Publication date: 2...

Publisher: Tippermuir Books LimitedPublication date: 2020Dimensions: 155 x 218 x 33Cover type: Paperback / softbackEditor(s): Fraser BrownRedescope...

Publisher: Berghahn BooksNumber of pages: 352Publication date: 2021Dimensions: 229 x 184 x 24Cover type: Paperback / softbackEditor(s): Nils Edling...

Reducere. In this groundbreaking collection, editors Daina Ramey Berry and Leslie M. Harris place sexuality at the center of slavery studies in the Americas ...

Publisher: MIT Press LtdAuthor(s): Dolly (Professor, University of Stavanger) JorgensenIllustration(s): 13 b 26 Illustrations, unspecifiedNumber of...

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For many years, histories of the Holocaust focused on its perpetrators, and only recently have more scholars begun to consider in detail the experi...

Reducere. Historical scholarship is currently undergoing a digital turn. All historians have experienced this change in one way or another, by writing on wor...

Museum Representations of Chinese Diasporas is the first book to analyse the recent upsurge in museums on Chinese diasporas in China. Examining her...

Reducere. "Solid history and archaeology combines with an understated call to preserve Bears Ears--all of it, not just a sliver." --KIRKUS REVIEWS For more t...

DescriptionWith 192+ illustrations, The Illustrated Histories of Everyday Inventions introduces readers to the fascinating, humorous, and often for...

Reducere. The Great Basin, a stark and beautiful desert filled with sagebrush deserts and mountain ranges, is the epicenter for public lands conflicts. Arisi...

DescriptionIn Art to Come Terry Smith--who is widely recognized as one of the world's leading historians and theorists of contemporary art--traces ...

Reducere. In 1899, the United Fruit Company (UFCO) was officially incorporated in Boston, Massachusetts, beginning an era of economic, diplomatic, and milita...

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Reducere. Haunted Histories takes readers on a state-by-state journey across the United States, exploring the nation's most feared places. Along the way, the...

Reducere. Slavery and the University is the first edited collection of scholarly essays devoted solely to the histories and legacies of this subject on North...

Looks at the results of nationalist imagination in Asia and Africa that are posited not on identity but on difference with the nationalism propagat...

A pathbreaking history of art that uses digital research and economic tools to reveal enduring inequities in the formation of the art historical ca...

Reducere. Explores the prominent role of Highland Scots in the slavery industry of the cotton, sugar and coffee plantations of the 18th and 19th centuries. L...

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Reducere. DescriptionSimplify and deepen children's prayer of the Rosary with this beautiful book, complete with color-coded Hail Mary's to help answer the q...

How did writing histories of the world change after the discovery of America? Focusing on a set of case studies, this book explores creative works ...

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Publisher: Peter Lang Publishing IncNumber of pages: 194Collection: Currents in Comparative Romance Languages & LiteraturesPublication date: 1998Di...

The true story of the Mau Mau rebellion of 1952-60 in Kenya, told for the first timePublisher: Orion Publishing CoAuthor(s): David AndersonIllustra...

Reducere. This major study explores the spatial history of the Dutch East Indies as an imperial formation between the early nineteenth century and the end of...

New Histories of the Andaman Islands: Landscape, Place and Identity in the Bay of Bengal, 1790–2012 - Clare Anderson, Madhumita Mazumdar, Vishvajit Pa

DescriptionBringing together the work of over twenty international scholars from various disciplines, Cultural Histories of the Material World prov...

Reducere. How do we know the stories told by historians are true? To what extent can we rely on their interpretations of the past?Histories and Fallacies is ...

Reducere. Description"No writer has better understood the mix of fear and possibility, peril and exuberance that's marked this new millennium."--Bill McKibbe...

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Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLCIllustration(s): 48 bw illus, 4 tablesNumber of pages: 312Publication date: 2022Dimensions: 157 x 234 x 24Cover...

Reducere. The Black Populations of France is a study of Black peoples and their history in France and the French Empire during the modern era, from the eight...

A vibrant, intriguing and unmissable history of some of the most popular houseplantsPublisher: Hardie Grant Books (UK)Author(s): Alice BaileyIllust...

The first comprehensive re-assessment of the phenomenon of Greek 'local history-writing', which emerged as a popular and important form of history ...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: David AndersonDavid Anderson's troubling account of British conduct during the Mau Mau rebellion in the 1950s comes at a ti...

Reducere. The most comprehensive, practical, and beautiful directory of type, organized by type category -- Serif, San Serif, Display, and Script -- and cove...

Web 25: Histories from the first 25 years of the World Wide Web is a must-read for anyone interested in how our online present has been shaped by t...

Reducere. While this work tries to be a primer in Cuban history in its relationship with its northern neighbor and mentor, the United States, before the Cast...

Publisher: Beacon PressAuthor(s): Catherine Ceniza ChoyNumber of pages: 240Publication date: 2022Dimensions: 235 x 159 x 27Cover type: HardbackRede...

DescriptionA groundbreaking twentieth-century history of transgender children With transgender rights front and center in American politics, media,...

Reducere. A monumental addition to the understudied field of Korean art, this brilliantly illustrated volume assembles the perspectives of art historians, cr...

Reducere. Throughout modern-day Israel, over four hundred Palestinian villages were depopulated in the 1947-1949 war. With houses mostly destroyed, mosques a...

Reducere. The first book-length study of women's involvement in the Chicano Movement of the late 1960s and 1970s, Chicana Power tells the powerful story of t...

We know a lot about the directors and stars of Italian cinema's heyday, from Roberto Rossellini to Sophia Loren. But what do we know about the Ital...

This book is an experiment in writing an American sexual history, spanning the spectrum of queer, trans, and the allegedly 'normal'. The sexual his...

A feminist history of bicycling for sport and adventure spans a century of women who changed the world from two wheels. This vivacious tale, pepper...

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Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLCAuthor(s): Gideon (University of Minnesota, USA) MailerIllustration(s): 24 bw illusNumber of pages: 304Publicat...

Reducere. Roanoke, Virginia, is one of America's great historic railroad centers. The Norfolk & Western Railway Company, now the Norfolk Southern Corporation...

Publisher: Transcript VerlagAuthor(s): Anna LeonNumber of pages: 354Collection: Critical Dance StudiesPublication date: 2022Dimensions: 147 x 224 x...

Reducere. In the mid-eighteenth century, the French naturalist Buffon contended that the New World was in fact geologically new--that it had recently emerged...

Reducere. Subtitle: Orthodox Christian Reflections on the Book of Genesis The Book of Genesis is foundational reading for the Christian, concerned as it is w...

For better or worse, E.P. Thompson's monumental book The Making of the English Working Class has played an essential role in shaping the intellectu...

Publisher: Oxford University Press IncAuthor(s): Luis (Reynolds Professor of Latin American Studies, Reynolds Professor of Latin American Studies, ...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Keith DowmanIn Tibetan Buddhism, Mahamudra represents a perfected level of meditative realization: it is the inseparable un...

Showing how the Gothic can be read as a complex reaction to Enlightenment methods of historical representation, Sinister histories uncovers hithert...

Reducere. One of the unique features of the Georgia coast today is its thorough conservation. At first glance, it seems to be a place where nature reigns. Bu...