Colonial Fantasies, Imperial Realities. Race Science and the Making of Polishness on the Fringes of the German Empire, 1840-1920, Paperback - Lenny A.

Urena Valerio illuminates nested imperial and colonial relations using sources ranging from medical texts and state documents to travel literature ...

Publisher: The University of Chicago PressAuthor(s): James PoskettIllustration(s): 47 halftonesNumber of pages: 373Publication date: 2022Dimensions...

The Imperial Security State: British Colonial Knowledge and Empire-Building in Asia - James Hevia

This landmark book tracks matters of intimacy to investigate matters of state in late nineteenth and early twentieth century Indonesia, particularl...

Reducere. In 1752 an enslaved Pennsylvania ironworker named Ned purchased his freedom and moved to Virginia on the upper James River. Taking the name Edward ...

Reducere. DescriptionCombining Atlantic and imperial perspectives, Caribbean New Orleans offers a lively portrait of the city and a probing investigation of ...

This hilarious new version of the beloved children's song "The Wheels on the Bus" will have young readers errping and roaring and honking along."Th...

This chronicles the interrelation of gender, class and race which shaped British imperialism and, subsequently, its bloody dismantling.

Provides a description of the British rocketry and space programme from the 1950s to 1970s, detailing the Medium Range Ballistic Missile Blue Strea...

DescriptionHow did states come to monopolize control over migration? What do the processes that produced this monopoly tell us about the modern sta...

When and how did the Himalaya become the highest mountains in the world? Lachlan Fleetwood tells the story of the scientific, political and imagina...

Race and the Making of American Political Science shows that changing scientific ideas about racial difference were central to the academic study o...

Reducere. DescriptionThough the origins of asylums can be traced to Europe, the systematic segregation of the mentally ill into specialized institutions occu...

Publisher: Manchester University PressAuthor(s): Andrew SmithNumber of pages: 216Publication date: 2012Dimensions: 232 x 162 x 12Cover type: Paperb...

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Discovers the source of life and how it has developed into the wonder around us today. From ant-colonies to zinc mining, this book takes us on a jo...

Reducere. Now in big-book format, this hilarious new version of the beloved children's song "The Wheels on the Bus" will have young readers errping and roari...

Reducere. In 1899 the United States, having announced its arrival as a world power during the Spanish-Cuban-American War, inaugurated a brutal war of imperia...

Reducere. The unification of Germany, the defeat of Austria, the fall of the Second Empire, the defeat of France, the alliance of the German Empire and the H...

Reducere. Rodeo is a dangerous and painful performance in which only the strongest and most skilled riders succeed. In the popular imagination, the western r...

Reducere. Nineteenth-century Britain could be seen as the first information society in history--for the simple reason that it accumulated knowledge from the ...

Reducere. On the success of his two bestselling books about World War II, James Bradley began to wonder what the real catalyst was for the Pacific War. What ...

The unsuccessful pursuit of two German Imperial navy warshipsThe Goeben-Breslau Incident was a naval action which took place in 1914 in the Mediter...

Publisher: Taylor & Francis LtdAuthor(s): Charles SmithNumber of pages: 208Publication date: 2022Dimensions: 171 x 241 x 15Cover type: Paperback / ...

Reducere. "Fascinating.... A major work by a leading historian at the top of his game--at once engaging and tightly argued." --The New York Times Book Review...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Rana A. HogarthIn 1748, as yellow fever raged in Charleston, South Carolina, doctor John Lining remarked, "There is somethi...

In the 1930s, British colonial officials introduced drama performances, broadcasting services, and publication bureaus into Africa under the rubric...

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The Austrian Empire was not a colonial power in the sense that fellow actors like 19th-century England and France were. It nevertheless oversaw a m...

Reducere. This volume provides a synthesis of some of the most important themes to emerge from the recent proliferation of specialized scholarship on the per...

Why is the colonial context absent from Michel Foucault's history of a European sexual discourse that for him defined the bourgeois self? This book...

Publisher: Scribe PublicationsAuthor(s): Douglas RushkoffNumber of pages: 224Publication date: 2022Dimensions: 161 x 242 x 24Cover type: HardbackRe...

Publisher: Austin Macauley PublishersAuthor(s): Geoff OltonIllustration(s): 0Number of pages: 540Publication date: 2022Dimensions: 156 x 235 x 54Co...

Reducere. Contemporary discussions on nonfiction are often riddled with questions about the boundaries between truth and memory, honesty and artifice, facts ...

This book by the renowned naturalist and writer Paul A. Johnsgard tells the complex biological and environmental story of the western Great Plains ...

Providing a narrative of events and an analysis of social and cultural developments across the period, this book discusses the political, economic ...

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To Know the Soul of a People is a history of religion and race in the agricultural South before the Civil Rights era. Jamil W. Drake chronicles a c...

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Reducere. "May Steven Saylor's Roman empire never fall. A modern master of historical fiction, Saylor convincingly transports us into the ancient world...ent...

In the field of philosophy, the common view of philosophy as an essentially Western discipline persists even today, while non-Western philosophy te...

Publisher: University of Nebraska PressAuthor(s): Matthew G. StanardIllustration(s): 10 photographs, 1 chartNumber of pages: 406Publication date: 2...

Reducere. Discover the captivating history of Europe's second-oldest dynasty-the Habsburgs!The Habsburg family ruled central Europe since the early medieval ...