Cartooning China. Punch, Power, & Politics in the Victorian Era, Paperback - Amy Matthewson

This book explores the series of cartoons of China and the Chinese that were published in the popular British satirical magazine Punch over a sixty...

Reducere. DescriptionIn scandals and power struggles obscured by time and legend, the wives, mistresses, mothers, sisters, and daughters of the Caesars have ...

Reducere. If you want to discover the captivating history of England, then keep reading...Two captivating manuscripts in one book: History of England: A Capt...

The story of the Confederate States of America, the proslavery, antidemocratic nation created by white Southern slaveholders to protect their prope...

Reducere. Agrippina the Younger attained a level of power in first-century Rome unprecedented for a woman. According to ancient sources, she achieved her suc...

Essays on the six monarchies of the Gulf: Saudi Arabia, Bahrain, Kuwait, Oman, Qatar, and UAE.

In the mid-19th century, as new routes opened up, a new generation of travelers embarked on excursions to India, China and Japan. Globetrotters--le...

This book identifies water as a crucial new topic of literary and cultural analysis at a critical moment for the world's water resources, focusing ...

Based on extensive original research at the local level, this book explores the relationship between Russian Orthodoxy and politics in contemporary...

The Archaeology of Power and Politics in Eurasia: Regimes and Revolutions - Dr Charles W. Hartley, Dr G. Bike Yazicioglu, Dr Adam T. Smith

The social and economic changes of Queen Victoria's era along with the experiences of such eminent Victorians as Florence Nightingale and Isambard ...

DescriptionIf you want to discover the captivating history of the Victorian Era, then keep reading...When Queen Victoria stepped onto the throne of...

Reducere. DescriptionThe Worlds of James Buchanan and Thaddeus Stevens examines the political interests, relationships, and practices of two of the era's mos...

Reducere. If you want to discover the captivating history of the Victorian Era, then keep reading...When Queen Victoria stepped onto the throne of Great Brit...

'An absolutely masterly work' Stephen Fry Alex Ross, renowned author of the international bestseller The Rest Is Noise, reveals how Richard Wagner ...

Publisher: Taylor & Francis LtdNumber of pages: 823Collection: Routledge Contemporary Russia and Eastern Europe SeriesPublication date: 2017Dimensi...

The third edition of the Victorian Era volume of The Broadview Anthology of British Literature includes a number of changes and new additions, incl...

'An absolutely masterly work' Stephen Fry Alex Ross, renowned author of the international bestseller The Rest Is Noise, reveals how Richard Wagner ...

Publisher: University of Minnesota PressAuthor(s): Jr., Adolph ReedNumber of pages: 320Publication date: 1999Dimensions: 149 x 228 x 24Cover type: ...

Reducere. Do you love traditional old Christmas stories and art? If so, then you'll enjoy this collection of 45 delightful stories and poems from days gone b...

A journey through the uncomputable remains of computer historyPublisher: Verso BooksAuthor(s): Alexander GallowayNumber of pages: 288Publication da...

We're Still Here provides powerful, on the ground evidence of the remaking of working-class identity and politics. Drawing on years of fieldwork an...

Exploring the nexus of corruption, late capitalism, and illiberal politics in the Trump era. Deep, contextualized analysis and critiques offer key ...

Reducere. If you want to discover the captivating history of England, then keep reading...Two captivating manuscripts in one book: History of England: A Capt...

Publisher: Fernwood Publishing Co LtdNumber of pages: 352Publication date: 2021Dimensions: 153 x 229 x 23Cover type: Paperback / softbackEditor(s):...

DescriptionHan-centrism, a virulent form of Chinese nationalism, asserts that the Han Chinese are superior to other peoples and have a legitimate r...

DescriptionWhere there are dictators, there are novels about dictators. But "dictator novels" do not simply respond to the reality of dictatorship....

A wide-ranging collection of essays on plants as market forces.

Reducere. The downfall of Bo Xilai in China was more than a darkly thrilling mystery. It revealed a cataclysmic internal power struggle between Communist Par...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Fei-Ling WangWhat does the rise of China represent, and how should the international community respond? With a holistic rer...

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. The Seneca Falls Convention is typically seen as the beginning of the first women's rights movement in the United States. Revolutionary Backlash ar...

This book is an ethnographic study of grassroots activists in the English Defence League. Setting the findings within contemporary debates on race ...

Publisher: Centre for Strategic & International Studies, U.S.Number of pages: 136Collection: CSIS ReportsPublication date: 2009Dimensions: 215 x 27...

Featuring a new foreword by Robin E. Kelley, this updated edition of the classic exploration of the economic inequality that fuels systematic racis...

This book examines the countries of Southeast Asia and how their relations with China have been transformed under the Chinese President Xi Jinping ...

Based on original documents never before discussed, this account of the disastrous marriage of Effie Gray and John Ruskin overturns the myths that ...

Reducere. DescriptionEnfleshing Theology honors and engages the life work of M. Shawn Copeland, whose theology is groundbreaking and prophetic, traversing th...

In Faith and Politics in the Public Sphere, Ugur explores the politics of religious engagement in the public sphere by comparing two modernist cons...

DescriptionPower and Patronage examines the unwritten rules and inner workings of contemporary China's local politics and government. It exposes ho...

Reducere. Historians overwhelmingly have blamed the demise of Reconstruction on Southerners' persistent racism. Heather Cox Richardson argues instead that cl...

How Catholic religious activism shaped the language and outcome of San Francisco's debates about over the common good and the public interestPublis...

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLCAuthor(s): Professor Marcia (New York University, USA) PallyNumber of pages: 200Publication date: 2021Dimension...

This volume presents ground-breaking empirical research on the media in political transition in Tunisia, Turkey and Morocco. Focusing on developmen...

Reducere. This book brings together key essays that seek to make visible and expand our understanding of the role of government (policies, programs, and inve...

Badass Victorian Women"Wild Women is a delightful collection of riveting stories about our independent, iconoclastic, and utterly outrageous foremo...

Reducere. Why are Americans so angry with each other?The United States is caught in a partisan hyperconflict that divides politicians, communities--and even ...

This book revisits the central issue of how propaganda was understood within China's Communist Party system. The contributions to this volume captu...

Publisher: Princeton University PressAuthor(s): Katharina VolkNumber of pages: 400Publication date: 2021Dimensions: 164 x 242 x 36Cover type: Hardb...