A Cultural History of Women

Age of Rogues: Rebels, Revolutionaries and Racketeers at the Frontiers of Empires, Hardcover - Ramazan Hakkı Öztan

867,99 RON 928,99 RON

Reducere. In Age of Rogues, leading scholars engage with themes of historical and cultural legacies, contentious interactions within imperial regimes, and th...

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Black Diamond Queens: African American Women and Rock and Roll, Hardcover - Maureen Mahon

865,99 RON 926,99 RON

Reducere. African American women have played a pivotal part in rock and roll--from laying its foundations and singing chart-topping hits to influencing some ...

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Educational Theatre for Women in Post-World War II Italy. A Stage of Their Own, Paperback - Daniela Cavallaro

821,99 RON

This book explores an important moment in Italian women's theatre and cultural history: plays written for all-women casts between 1946 and the mid-...

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Conflict in the Modern Middle East: An Encyclopedia of Civil War, Revolutions, and Regime Change, Hardcover - Jonathan K. Zartman

812,99 RON

This important reference offers readers a thorough understanding of the nature of the various conflicts that have erupted in the Middle East and No...

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African American Art: A Visual and Cultural History, Paperback - Lisa Farrington

803,99 RON 860,99 RON

Reducere. African-American Art: A Visual and Cultural History offers a current and comprehensive history that contextualizes black artists within the framewo...

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Mulata Nation: Visualizing Race and Gender in Cuba, Hardcover - Alison Fraunhar

785,99 RON

Description Repeatedly and powerfully throughout Cuban history, the mulata, a woman of mixed racial identity, features prominently in Cuban visual ...

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Encyclopedia of Hair: A Cultural History, Hardcover - Victoria Sherrow

747,99 RON 800,99 RON

Reducere. Examines the ways in which hair has served as a signifier of class, gender, ethnicity, conformity/non-comfority, authority, and power throughout hi...

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Making Muslim Women European: Voluntary Associations, Islam and Gender in Post-Ottoman Bosnia and Yugoslavia (1878-1941) - Fabio Giomi

727,99 RON

This highly original book provides a social, cultural, and political history of Slavic Muslim women of the Yugoslav region in the first decades of ...

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Art, Industry, and Women's Education in Philadelphia, Hardback - Nina D. Walls

725,99 RON

A study of the social and cultural context of a women's vocational art school, the Philadelphia School of Design for Women. Nina de Angeli Walls pr...

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Charleston Belles Abroad: The Music Collections of Harriett Lowndes, Henrietta Aiken, and Louisa Rebecca McCord, Hardcover - Candace Bailey

692,99 RON

DescriptionIn Charleston Belles Abroad, Candace Bailey examines the vital role music collections played in the lives of elite women of Charleston, ...

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Taking Travel Home. The Souvenir Culture of British Women Tourists, 1750-1830, Hardback - Emma Gleadhill

672,99 RON

This book provides a new cultural history of the travel souvenir. It uncovers how eighteenth-century British women enlisted the objects they collec...

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Ancient Greece: A Political, Social, and Cultural History, Paperback - Sarah B. Pomeroy

637,99 RON 682,99 RON

Reducere. Revised and updated throughout, the fourth edition of Ancient Greece presents the political, social, cultural, and economic history and civilizatio...

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The Wisconsin Oneidas and the Episcopal Church: A Chain Linking Two Traditions, Hardcover - L. Gordon McLester III

624,99 RON

DescriptionThis unique collaboration by academic historians, Oneida elders, and Episcopal clergy tells the fascinating story of how the oldest Prot...

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Invisible Enlighteners: The Jewish Merchants of Modena, from the Renaissance to the Emancipation, Hardcover - Federica Francesconi

569,99 RON 609,99 RON

Reducere. Federica Francesconi writes the history of the Jewish merchants who lived and prospered in the northern Italian city of Modena, capital city of the...

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American Military History: A Documentary Reader, Paperback - Brad D. Lookingbill

514,99 RON

DescriptionA collection of primary documents that explore the many facets of the American military from the colonial period to the present The seco...

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Sports in American Life: A History, Paperback - Richard O. Davies

455,99 RON 487,99 RON

Reducere. The third edition of author Richard O. Davies highly praised narrative of American sports, Sports in American Life: A History, features extensive r...

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Sex, the World History: Through Time, Religion and Culture, Paperback - John R. Gregg

448,99 RON 480,99 RON

Reducere. Sex, The World History: Through Time, Religion, and Culture is a daring exploration of human sexuality, from the ancient to the modern world. Sex, ...

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To Preach Deliverance to the Captives: Freedom and Slavery in the Protestant Mind of George Bourne, 1780-1845, Hardcover - Ryan McIlhenny

425,99 RON

George Bourne was one of the early American republic's first immediate abolitionists, an influential figure who paved the way for the campaign agai...

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A Historical Study of Women in Jamaica, 1655-1844, Paperback - Hilary MCD Beckles

422,99 RON 452,99 RON

Reducere. In 1974 Lucille Mathurin Mair defended her dissertation, which has since become a classic work in Caribbean historiography and influenced generatio...

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The Oxford Handbook of Women and Gender in Medieval Europe, Paperback - Judith M. Bennett

420,99 RON 450,99 RON

Reducere. The Oxford Handbook of Women and Gender in Medieval Europe provides a comprehensive overview of the gender rules encountered in Europe in the perio...

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The Dynamics of Forced Female Migration from Czechoslovakia to Britain, 1938-1950, Paperback - Jana Barbora Buresova

410,99 RON

Awarded the Honorary Silver Medal of Jan Masaryk The study of Czechoslovak women refugees in Britain is noticeably missing from current research an...

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Companion to Nineteenth-Century Britain, Paperback - ***

399,99 RON

A Companion to Nineteenth-Century Britain presents 33 essays by expert scholars on all the major aspects of the political, social, economic and cul...

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Mami Wata: Africa's Ancient God/dess Unveiled Vol. I, Paperback - Mama Zogbé

393,99 RON 421,99 RON

Reducere. This first definitive work on the predomiance of this powerful African deity throughout the ancient world has quickly become a "cult" classic. The ...

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The World of Prometheus: The Politics of Punishing in Democratic Athens, Paperback - Danielle S. Allen

366,99 RON 392,99 RON

Reducere. For Danielle Allen, punishment is more a window onto democratic Athens' fundamental values than simply a set of official practices. From imprisonme...

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Adobe Walls: The History and Archeology of the 1874 Trading Post, Hardcover - T. Lindsay Baker

353,99 RON

In the spring of 1874 a handful of men and one women set out for the Texas Panhandle to seek their fortunes in the great buffalo hunt. Moving south...

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The Garden District of New Orleans, Hardcover - Jim Fraiser

349,99 RON 374,99 RON

Reducere. The Garden District of New Orleans has enthralled residents and visitors alike since it arose in the 1830's with its stately white-columned Greek R...

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The Afrocentric School [a blueprint], Paperback - Nah Dove

348,99 RON 373,99 RON

Reducere. The Afrocentric School, a Blueprint is a handbook that guides the prospective educationist, parent, student, and reader to understand African cultu...

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Wellness in Whiteness (Open Access): Biomedicalization and the Promotion of Whiteness and Youth Among Women, Paperback - Amina Mire

337,99 RON

The Open Access version of this book, available at https: //www.taylorfrancis.com/books/9781351234146, has been made available under a Creative Com...

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Japan in Transformation, 1945-2010, Paperback - Jeff Kingston

327,99 RON

Since 1945, Japan has successfully reinvented itself, rising from the ashes of defeat to become a peaceful and prosperous nation. It is seen as an ...

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Venus in the Dark: Blackness and Beauty in Popular Culture, Paperback - Janell Hobson

319,99 RON

In this second edition of the remarkable, and now classic, cultural history of black women's beauty, Venus in the Dark, Janell Hobson explores the ...

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Women's Economic Thought in the Romantic Age: Towards a Transdisciplinary Herstory of Economic Thought, Paperback - Joanna Rostek

319,99 RON

This book examines the writings of seven English women economists from the period 1735-1811. It reveals that contrary to what standard accounts of ...

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The Viking Age: A Reader, Third Edition, Paperback - Angus A. Somerville

307,99 RON

In this extensively revised third edition of The Viking Age: A Reader, Somerville and McDonald successfully bring the Vikings and their world to li...

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Shadowboxing: Representations of Black Feminist Politics - Joy James

304,99 RON 326,99 RON

Reducere. DescriptionShadowboxing presents an explosive analysis of the history and practice of black feminisms, drawing upon political theory, history, and ...

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The Gender of History: Men, Women, and Historical Practice, Paperback - Bonnie G. Smith

304,99 RON 326,99 RON

Reducere. DescriptionIn this pathbreaking study of the gendering of the practices of history, Bonnie Smith resurrects the amateur history written by women in...

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The Cambridge History of Russia, Paperback - Dominic Lieven

302,99 RON

The second volume of The Cambridge History of Russia covers the imperial period (1689-1917). It encompasses political, economic, social, cultural, ...

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Black. Queer. Southern. Women.: An Oral History, Paperback - E. Patrick Johnson

300,99 RON 322,99 RON

Reducere. DescriptionDrawn from the life narratives of more than seventy African American queer women who were born, raised, and continue to reside in the Am...

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Louis XIV, Paperback - Richard Wilkinson

299,99 RON

Louis XIV ruled France for more than half a century and is typically remembered for his absolutism, his patronage of the arts and his lavish lifest...

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Timeless Caravan: The Story of a Spanish-American Family, Hardcover - Thomas E. Chavez

294,99 RON 315,99 RON

Reducere. Based on extensive research as well as on a career working for cultural institutions, historian Thomas E. Ch vez has created a historical novel abo...

sunstone press, carti, carte straina, biography

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United States in World War II, Paperback - G. Kurt Piehler

289,99 RON 310,99 RON

Reducere. DescriptionThis reader brings together 78 primary documents that capture the diversity of experiences of Americans who lived through World War II, ...

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A History of the Modern Middle East: Rulers, Rebels, and Rogues, Paperback - Betty S. Anderson

287,99 RON

Contributor(s): Author: Betty S. AndersonA History of the Modern Middle East offers a comprehensive assessment of the region, stretching from the f...

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Epic Encounters: Culture, Media, and U.S. Interests in the Middle East Since1945, Paperback - Melani McAlister

287,99 RON

Epic Encounters examines how popular culture has shaped the ways Americans define their "interests" in the Middle East. In this innovative book-now...

university of california press, carti, carte straina, society & social sciences

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Naked: A Cultural History of American Nudism, Hardcover - Brian Hoffman

287,99 RON 308,99 RON

Reducere. In 1929, a small group of men and women threw off their clothes and began to exercise in a New York City gymnasium, marking the start of the Americ...

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Desert Passions: Orientalism and Romance Novels, Paperback - Hsu-Ming Teo

285,99 RON 306,99 RON

Reducere. The Sheik--E. M. Hull's best-selling novel that became a wildly popular film starring Rudolph Valentino--kindled "sheik fever" across the Western w...

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Wandering God: A Study in Nomadic Spirituality, Paperback - Morris Berman

278,99 RON 298,99 RON

Reducere. The third book in Morris Berman's much acclaimed trilogy on the evolution of human consciousness, Wandering God continues his earlier work which ga...

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Politics, Gender, and the Islamic Past: The Legacy of 'a'isha Bint ABI Bakr, Paperback - D. A. Spellberg

274,99 RON

In this extraordinary study, D. A. Spellberg examines the life of 'A'isha bint Abi Bakr, Muhammad's most beloved and controversial wife, and a cent...

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Crescent City Girls: The Lives of Young Black Women in Segregated New Orleans, Paperback - Lakisha Michelle Simmons

267,99 RON 286,99 RON

Reducere. What was it like to grow up black and female in the segregated South? To answer this question, LaKisha Simmons blends social history and cultural s...

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Prairie Fairies: A History of Queer Communities and People in Western Canada, 1930-1985, Paperback - Valerie Korinek

266,99 RON

Prairie Fairies draws upon a wealth of oral, archival, and cultural histories to recover the experiences of queer urban and rural people in the pra...

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The History of the Conquest of New Spain by Bernal D az del Castillo, Paperback - David Carrasco

266,99 RON 285,99 RON

Reducere. The History of the Conquest of New Spain by Bernal Diaz del Castillo, a new abridgement of Diaz del Castillo's classic Historia verdadera de la con...

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Mexico's Nobodies: The Cultural Legacy of the Soldadera and Afro-Mexican Women, Paperback - B. Christine Arce

261,99 RON 280,99 RON

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: B. Christine ArceWinner of the 2016 Victoria Urbano Critical Monograph Book Prize presented by the International Associatio...

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Boys Love Manga and Beyond: History, Culture, and Community in Japan, Paperback - Mark McLelland

257,99 RON 276,99 RON

Reducere. Boys Love Manga and Beyond looks at a range of literary, artistic and other cultural products that celebrate the beauty of adolescent boys and youn...

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The Promise of the Suburbs: A Victorian History in Literature and Culture, Hardcover - Sarah Bilston

256,99 RON

DescriptionA study of the fast-growing Victorian suburbs as places of connection, creativity, and professional advance, especially for women Litera...

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Recipes and Everyday Knowledge: Medicine, Science, and the Household in Early Modern England, Paperback - Elaine Leong

255,99 RON

Across early modern Europe, men and women from all ranks gathered medical, culinary, and food preservation recipes from family and friends, experts...

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Disciplining Women, Paperback - Deborah Elizabeth Whaley

255,99 RON 273,99 RON

Reducere. Black Greek-letter organizations offer many African Americans opportunities for activism, community-building, fostering cultural pride, and cultura...

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Re-Dressing America's Frontier Past, Paperback - Peter Boag

254,99 RON 272,99 RON

Reducere. Americans have long cherished romantic images of the frontier and its colorful cast of characters, where the cowboys are always rugged and the ladi...

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The House on Diamond Hill: A Cherokee Plantation Story, Paperback - Tiya Miles

254,99 RON 272,99 RON

Reducere. At the turn of the nineteenth century, James Vann, a Cherokee chief and entrepreneur, established Diamond Hill in Georgia, the most famous plantati...

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Inventing the Mathematician: Gender, Race, and Our Cultural Understanding of Mathematics, Paperback - Sara N. Hottinger

254,99 RON 272,99 RON

Reducere. Where and how do we, as a culture, get our ideas about mathematics and about who can engage with mathematical knowledge? Sara N. Hottinger uses a c...

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Que Vivan Los Tamales!: Food and the Making of Mexican Identity, Paperback - Jeffrey M. Pilcher

253,99 RON 271,99 RON

Reducere. Connections between what people eat and who they are--between cuisine and identity--reach deep into Mexican history, beginning with pre-Columbian i...

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River of Hope: Forging Identity and Nation in the Rio Grande Borderlands, Paperback - Omar S. Valerio-Jiménez

246,99 RON 264,99 RON

Reducere. In River of Hope, Omar S. Valerio-Jiménez examines state formation, cultural change, and the construction of identity in the lower Rio Grande regio...

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No Mexicans, Women, or Dogs Allowed: The Rise of the Mexican American Civil Rights Movement, Paperback - Cynthia E. Orozco

244,99 RON 262,99 RON

Reducere. Founded by Mexican American men in 1929, the League of United Latin-American Citizens (LULAC) has usually been judged according to Chicano national...

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Birth Control and the Rights of Women: Post-Suffrage Feminism in the Early Twentieth Century, Paperback - Clare Debenham

242,99 RON

After the granting of the vote to women in 1918, the struggle for women's rights intensified with a nationwide campaign for the right to birth cont...

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Mobile, Alabama's People of Color: A Tricentennial History, 1702-2002 Volume One, Paperback - Shawn a. Bivens

242,99 RON

Description For many years, historians wrote about local communities from the national level, or from the "top down." These major "players, " for i...

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Timeless Caravan: The Story of a Spanish-American Family, Paperback - Thomas E. Chavez

239,99 RON 256,99 RON

Reducere. DescriptionBased on extensive research as well as on a career working for cultural institutions, historian Thomas E. Ch vez has created a historica...

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Asegi Stories: Cherokee Queer and Two-Spirit Memory, Paperback - Qwo-Li Driskill

239,99 RON 256,99 RON

Reducere. In Cherokee Asegi udanto refers to people who either fall outside of men's and women's roles or who mix men's and women's roles. Asegi, which trans...

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New Voyages to Carolina: Reinterpreting North Carolina History, Paperback - Larry E. Tise

237,99 RON 254,99 RON

Reducere. Contributor(s): Editor: Larry E. TiseEditor: Jeffrey J. CrowNew Voyages to Carolina offers a bold new approach for understanding and telling North ...

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Babylon Girls: Black Women Performers and the Shaping of the Modern, Paperback - Jayna Brown

237,99 RON 254,99 RON

Reducere. Babylon Girls is a groundbreaking cultural history of the African American women who performed in variety shows-chorus lines, burlesque revues, cab...

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A Clan Mother's Call: Reconstructing Haudenosaunee Cultural Memory - Jeanette Rodriguez

235,99 RON 252,99 RON

Reducere. Indigenous communities around the world are gathering to both reclaim and share their ancestral wisdom. Aware of and drawing from these social move...

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Architecture and Feminism, Paperback - Debra Coleman

235,99 RON

Over the last several decades, feminists and architects have independently developed critiques of modern Western assumptions and cultural practices...

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Women on the North American Plains, Paperback - Renee M. Laegreid

234,99 RON 251,99 RON

Reducere. The first comprehensive view of women on the North American Plains, these essays explore the richness, variety, and complexity of their experiences...

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The Business of Leisure: Tourism History in Latin America and the Caribbean, Paperback - Andrew Grant Wood

234,99 RON 251,99 RON

Reducere. The Business of Leisure critically surveys a wide selection of travel practices, places, and time periods in considering the development of the hos...

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Mr. Playboy: Hugh Hefner and the American Dream, Hardcover - Steven Watts

233,99 RON 250,99 RON

Reducere. The real Hugh Hefner-the extraordinary inside story of an American icon""Riveting... Watts packs in plenty of gasp-inducing passages.""-Newark Star...

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