Colonization and Its Discontents: Emancipation, Emigration, and Antislavery in Antebellum Pennsylvania

DescriptionIn the mid-19th century, rhetoric surrounding slavery was permeated by violence. Slavery's defenders often used brute force to suppress ...

A series of investigative accounts from scholar-activists and housing campaign groups across the UK charts the diverse aims, tactics and strategies...

DescriptionThe first history of the deaccession of objects from museum collections that defends deaccession as an essential component of museum pra...

This volume considers the ways in which alternative worldviews, fostered by advances in twentieth century natural science and other intellectual de...

Reducere. This book contains the most important interviews and speeches that Prof. Hudson has given over the past decade (2003-2012). They span the political...

Using original interviews with estate residents in London, Watt provides a vivid account of estate regeneration and its impacts on marginalised com...

DescriptionThe death of the Islamic Republic's revolutionary patriarch, Ayatollah Khomeini, the bitter denouement of the Iran-Iraq War, and the mar...

This powerful, unsettling audiobook gives us a rare glimpse behind the closed doors of global financial institutions by the winner of the 2001 Nobe...

Publisher: Stanford University PressAuthor(s): Maria BoletsiNumber of pages: 328Collection: Cultural Memory in the PresentPublication date: 2013Dim...

Reducere. Civilization and Its Discontents' is one of the last of Freud's books, written in the decade before his death and first published in German in 1929...

Reducere. A critical exploration of the transformation of urban space through platform technologies such as Uber and AirbnbThis collection of essays explores...

Reducere. When it was first published, this national bestseller quickly became a touchstone in the globalization debate. Renowned economist and Nobel Prize w...

Considering the incompatibility of civilization and individual happiness, the author focuses on what he perceives to be one of society's greatest d...

This book draws on a range of critical approaches, including cultural anthropology, psychoanalytic theory, political justice theory, and feminist t...

Publisher: Broadview Press LtdAuthor(s): Sigmund FreudNumber of pages: 208Publication date: 2015Dimensions: 153 x 216 x 14Cover type: Paperback / s...

The key question at the heart of this book is to what extent political activists in mainland China, Taiwan and Hong Kong have made progress in thei...

Based on rich oral histories from over two hundred interviews in West Africa, Europe, and North America, this engaging study of dual citizenship an...

The book presents a thorough study of the changing landscape of state-diaspora relations in Africa, as well as a robust analysis of diaspora engage...

Reducere. With a New Introduction by Jaron Lanier A Salon Best Book of the Year In 1997, the computer was still a relatively new tool---a sleek and unforgivi...

Written by one of the world's most distinguished historians of psychiatry, Psychiatry and Its Discontents provides a wide-ranging and critical pers...

Reducere. Written in the decade before Freud s death, Civilization and Its Discontents may be his most famous and most brilliant work. It has been praised, d...

Reducere. Civilization and Its Discontents may be Sigmund Freud's best-known work. Originally published in 1930, it seeks to answer ultimate questions: What ...

Slavoj Zizek and Srecko Horvat combine their critical clout to emphasize the dangers of ignoring Europe's growing wealth gap and the parallel rise ...

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 ...

A defence of liberalism by the renowned political philosopher.Publisher: Profile Books LtdAuthor(s): Francis FukuyamaNumber of pages: 192Publicatio...

Gentrification is transforming cities, small and large, across the country. Though it's easy to bemoan the diminished social diversity and transfor...

Reducere. Nothing But Freedom examines the aftermath of emancipation in the South and the restructuring of society by which the former slaves gained, beyond ...

Reducere. This book builds upon my previous work, A People That Shall Dwell Alone: Judaism as a Group Evolutionary Strategy (MacDonald 1994/2002; hereafter P...

Publisher: Penguin Books LtdAuthor(s): Nina PowerNumber of pages: 192Publication date: 2022Dimensions: 144 x 223 x 25Cover type: HardbackRedescoper...

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 ...

Close to the Machine, Ellen Ullman's cult classic memoir of the world of computers in the 1980s and early 1990s is an insight into a world we rarel...

Reducere. According to accepted historical wisdom, the goal of the African Colonization Society (ACS), founded in 1816 to return freed slaves to Africa, was ...

Our contemporary celebration of difference, respect for pluralism, and avowal of identity politics have come to be regarded as the hallmarks of a p...

Reducere. George Washington claimed that anyone who attempted to provide an accurate account of the war for independence would be accused of writing fiction....