Church and State in the City. Catholics and Politics in Twentieth-Century San Francisco, Hardback - William Issel

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

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Provides a comprehensive history of manufacturers, including the principal people involved and covers the various mechanical clock movements that w...

English radicalism has been a persistent and important, though minority, strand in English political culture since at least the English Civil War. ...

Publisher: Anthem PressAuthor(s): John Rennie ShortNumber of pages: 182Publication date: 2022Dimensions: 160 x 235 x 20Cover type: HardbackRedescop...

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Reducere. A major new urban history of the design and development of postwar San FranciscoDesigning San Francisco is the untold story of the formative postwa...

Secularism can be stifling for religious actors seeking a voice in public life. But it can also be empowering. Sarah Shortall tells the story of Fr...

This year, London's elected mayor and assembly turn twenty. But has London's mayoralty lived up to the expectations that were set for it? Have its ...

The story of crippling overdevelopment in Mexico's economic and social centerPublisher: Temple University Press, U.S.Author(s): Diane DavisNumber o...

A guide for all those who have yet to fall in love with the City by the Bay, and for all those who have already left their heart there.Publisher: W...

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLCNumber of pages: 480Publication date: 2022Dimensions: 163 x 240 x 36Cover type: HardbackEditor(s): Associate Pr...

Photography and Literature in the Twentieth-Century offers an accessible and fresh approach to an object of interdisciplinary research that is curr...

Reducere. This exploration begins by tracing the concentration of IT in Greater Silicon Valley and the resulting growth in start-ups, jobs, and wealth. This ...

Reducere. In 1863, San Francisco's Board of Supervisors passed a law that criminalized appearing in public in "a dress not belonging to his or her sex." Adop...

Contributor(s): Author: Margot CanadayThe Straight State is the most expansive study of the federal regulation of homosexuality yet written. Uneart...

Reducere. Award NameIndependent Publisher Book AwardsAward categoryAnthologiesTaken from the pages of South Dakota History, these essays explore modern Ameri...

DescriptionRacisms is the first comprehensive history of racism, from the Crusades to the twentieth century. Demonstrating that there is not one co...

Reducere. Mark Blyth argues that economic ideas are powerful political tools as used by domestic groups in order to effect change since whoever defines what ...

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This widely acclaimed book, first published in 1974, was a classic from its first day in print. Written in a direct, inviting way by Harry Braverma...

Publisher: The Edwin Mellen Press LtdAuthor(s): James WolfeNumber of pages: 252Publication date: 2010Dimensions: 214 x 135 x 31Cover type: Hardback...

Reducere. Christianity Today Book AwardCalled -a pioneer contribution- by Church History when it was first published in 1971 as The Holiness-Pentecostal Move...

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLCIllustration(s): 3 bw illusNumber of pages: 320Collection: Critical Perspectives in South Asian HistoryPublicat...

Igor Torbakov explores the nexus between various forms of Russian political imagination and the apparently cyclic process of decline and fall of Ru...

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Supermarkets are a mundane feature in the landscape, but as Tracey Deutsch reveals, they represent a major transformation in the ways that American...

Reducere. Edward Teller is perhaps best known for his belief in freedom through strong defense. But this extraordinary memoir at last reveals the man behind ...