American Menswear: From the Civil War to the Twenty-First Century, Hardcover - Daniel Delis Hill

Reducere. If clothes make the man, who makes the clothes and the trends they inspire? Fashion historian Daniel Delis Hill takes readers on a fascinatingly de...

Reducere. Savannah in the New South: From the Civil War to the Twenty-First Century, by Walter J. Fraser, Jr., traces the city's evolution from the pivotal p...

DescriptionArchitecture reflects not only a nation's history, but also how its people lived, worked, prayed and fought over the centuries. Since th...

Contributor(s): Author: Jason ThompsonThe discovery of ancient Egypt and the development of Egyptology are momentous events in intellectual and cul...

This major survey charts the development of live art across six continents since the turn of the twenty- first century, revealing how it has become...

Reducere. In Literary Afrofuturism in the Twenty-First Century, eminent contributors pay tribute to Afrofuturism as a powerful and evolving aesthetic practic...

Reducere. Over the past two decades, scholarship in architectural history has transformed, moving away from design studio pedagogy and postmodern historicism...

Reducere. Maps the Path of Pan-Wesleyan ChristologiesAn international group of Pan-Wesleyan scholars address this question posed by Jaroslav Pelikan: What ha...

Open Democracy envisions what true government by mass leadership could look like.--Nathan Heller, New YorkerHow a new model of democracy that opens...

Reducere. From North Dakota beet fields to California campgrounds to Amazon's Texas CamperForce program, employers have found a new cheap labor pool: transie...

The specter of early twentieth-century eugenics-with its goal of preventing the "unfit" from reproducing through forced sterilization-still haunts ...

How moving beyond GDP will improve well-being and sustainabilityNever before in human history have we produced so much data, and this empirical rev...

DescriptionTrans Kids is a trenchant ethnographic and interview-based study of the first generation of families affirming and facilitating gender n...

Reducere. This book is about an idea--namely, that Scripture mandates a Jewish return to the historical region of Palestine--which in turn morphed into a pol...

An acclaimed journalist and novelist makes history personal, painting a rich and vivid portrait of the time when America become modern by tracing t...

A new integrated history of Christianity in Britain and Ireland

DescriptionThe Arab-Palestinian community, which constitutes 20 percent of Israel's population, is an ethnic minority living mainly in ethnically h...

Lengthening hours, lessening pay, no parental leave, scant job security... Never have so many workers needed so much support. Yet the very labor un...

Reducere. Redescopera farmecul lecturii si alege-ti de pe elefant.ro carti in limba engleza scrise de autori consacrati. Iti punem la dispozitie sute de mii ...

Reducere. History does not simply happen. Most often it is the result of years of graduate training, assiduous research, and careful writing. Without histori...

Reducere. "A superior book. . . . Many readers will be surprised to see that today's arguments about history education follow the culture wars that go back t...

Reducere. On Gunnery traces the fascinating evolution of artillery from the battlefields of the American Civil War to the desert sands of the middle east at ...

Reducere. From the beet fields of North Dakota to the National Forest campgrounds of California to Amazon's CamperForce program in Texas, employers have disc...

DescriptionAn exploration of the moral and ethical implications of new biotechnologies Many of the ethical issues raised by new technologies have n...

Reducere. A leading scholar, cultural historian, and Catholic priest who spent more than fifty years writing about our engagement with the Earth, Thomas Berr...

DescriptionThe subject of Eschatology has been studied and written about for centuries. Various viewpoints based on differing hermeneutical perspec...

While television has always played a role in recording and curating history, shaping cultural memory, and influencing public sentiment, the changin...

The Economy of Modern India: From 1860 to the Twenty-First Century - B. R. Tomlinson

"This book recounts the journey of English midwives over six centuries and their battle for survival as a discrete profession, caring safely for ch...

An exploration of the hidden history of camping in American life that connects a familiar recreational pastime to camps for functional needs and po...

Part history, part explanation of early music, this book also plays devil's advocate, criticizing current practices and urging experimentation. Hay...

Reducere. The explosive, behind-the-scenes story of Donald Trump's high-stakes confrontation with Beijing, from an award-winning Washington Post columnist an...

Anne: the boring Bronte? Or talented author, feminist, pioneer? Who, then, was the real Anne, how was her reputation destroyed, and why has she bee...

Reducere. One in five people in the United States lives with a disability. Some disabilities are visible, others less apparent--but all are underrepresented ...

Contributor(s): Author: Charles HolcombeCharles Holcombe begins by asking the question 'what is East Asia?' In the modern age, many of the features...

This book is for anyone interested in the history of encyclopedias, including academics in the humanities and non-academic readers with an interest...

Reducere. The United States Naval Academy has no monopoly on heroes - naval, marine, or otherwise. But over the last ten years, the most popular living autho...

This book examines Turkey's ethno-religious activism and power-related political strategies in the Balkans between 2002 and 2020, the period under ...

DescriptionA bracing assessment of U.S. foreign policy and world disorder over the past two decades from the bestselling author of The Revenge of G...

This is one of the first volumes to systematically analyse the key trends, contexts, and developments of 21st century US fiction. 14 leading schola...

An anthology of personal essays and short memoirs that span more than 100 years of warfare. It tells the enduring truths of battle, stripping away ...