All the Nations Under Heaven. Immigrants, Migrants, and the Making of New York, Revised Edition, Hardback - Robert Snyder

All the Nations Under Heaven is an unparalleled chronicle of the role of immigrants and migrants in shaping the history and culture of New York Cit...

Reducere. Robert W. Snyder's Crossing Broadway tells how disparate groups overcame their mutual suspicions to rehabilitate housing, build new schools, restor...

At a time of renewed anti-immigrant sentiment and newly emerging infectious diseases, Quarantine! provides a historical context for considering som...

Throughout the ages of sail and steam, migrants made vital contributions to the construction of the urban-maritime world in terms of the built envi...

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While credit for the success of "Citizen Kane" has traditionally been attributed solely to its director, Orson Welles, this study documents the sha...

Reducere. New Delhi was the grandest planned capital city of the British empire. In its meticulous urban plan it owed as much to earlier imperial traditions ...

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Contributor(s): Author: Greg PrietoA portrait of two Mexican immigrant communities confronting threats of deportation, detention, and dispossession...

From Roxane Gay to Leslie Jamison, 30 brilliant writers share their timeless stories about the everlasting magic -- and occasional misery -- of liv...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Editor: Carola Suarez-OrozcoEditor: Mona M. Abo-ZenaEditor: Amy K. MarksWinner Best Edited Book Award presented by the Society for ...

DescriptionA sweeping chronicle of women's battles for reproductive freedomReproductive politics in the United States has always been about who has...

The fascinating story of the Regency period in Britain - an immensely colourful and chaotic decade that marked the emergence of the modern world.

Unique for its architectural and urbanistic focus, A Home to the World: The United Nations and New York City celebrates this important global organ...

Publisher: MIT Press LtdAuthor(s): Robert BuderiNumber of pages: 368Publication date: 2022Dimensions: 189 x 266 x 39Cover type: HardbackRedescopera...

Khaled Fahmy offers a new interpretation of modern Egyptian history and the rise of Egyptian nationalism in a theoretically informed study. The boo...

European history of the past century is full of examples of philosophers, writers, and scholars who supported or excused the worst tyrannies of the...

An explosive and news-making look at Donald Trump and his relationships with women, from his girlfriends to his multiple marriages, painting a port...

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The story of the science of plasma and its revolutionary implications for the way we understand the universe and our place in it.Publisher: Hodder ...

Celluloid Classicism provides a rich and detailed history of two important modern South Indian cultural forms: Tamil Cinema and Bharatanatyam dance.

Reducere. Genealogical And Family History Of Southern New York And The Hudson River Valley; A Record Of The Achievements Of Her People In The Making Of A Com...

Famous for its majestic ruins, Mexico has gone to great lengths to preserve and display the remains of its pre-Hispanic past. The Pursuit of Ruins ...

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

This is the leading textbook on the law of international armed conflict. In a completely revised and updated text, the author expertly covers the k...

Reducere. Examines how the Irish American community, the American public, and the American government played a crucial role in the making of a sovereign inde...

Reducere. Traces the development of Catholic cultures in the South, the Midwest, the West, and the Northeast, and their contribution to larger patterns of Ca...

Publisher: The Museum of BrandsAuthor(s): Robert PoleIllustration(s): Illustrations, colorNumber of pages: 56Publication date: 1999Dimensions: 39 x...

An evocative, vivid and vibrant look at British history, this book uses Robert Opie's collection of ephemera to give us a glimpse of a bygone age.P...

Published to coincide with Prince William's 40th birthdayPublisher: Ad Lib Publishers LtdAuthor(s): Robert JobsonIllustration(s): 8 pages colour ph...