Cultures in Flux. Lower-Class Values, Practices, and Resistance in Late Imperial Russia, Paperback - ***

The popular culture of urban and rural tsarist Russia revealed a dynamic and troubled world. This is a collection of essays by Western and Russian ...

Lankina reveals how Imperial Russia's social structure survived the Bolsheviks' social engineering projects and continues to drive inequalities and...

In this clear and accessible introduction to late Imperial Russia, Professor Hutchinson outlines the key problems facing the Tsarist regime, and th...

Essays bringing out the richness and vibrancy of pre-modern textual culture in all its variety.Publisher: Boydell & Brewer LtdIllustration(s): 62 c...

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This volume examines patterns of flint procurement and exploitation at the Acheulo-Yabrudian site Qesem Cave, Israel. The results show how flint ha...

The riots that broke out in various British port cities in 1919 were a dramatic manifestation of a wave of global unrest that affected Britain, par...

Reducere. ..``. a marvelous source for the social history of Russian peasant society in the years before the revolution.... The translation is superb.`` --St...

This edited volume presents an interdisciplinary collection of texts that examine the practice of gamification, the use of game design elements in ...

Describes approaches to understanding cultures in higher education, paying particular attention to cultures and cultural construction at department...

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Reducere. The battleships of the Kongō class were the oldest, smallest, and fastest battleships in the Imperial Japanese Navy during WWII. Initially classifi...

The riots that broke out in various British port cities in 1919 were a dramatic manifestation of a wave of global unrest that affected Britain, par...

Reducere. This study of the regulation of sexuality in the Qing dynasty explores the social context for sexual behavior criminalized by the state, arguing th...

The last Yugoslav Generation charts the development of youth culture and politics in socialist Yugoslavia, focusing on the 1980s -- .

Publisher: Rutgers University PressAuthor(s): Heidi Reynolds-StensonNumber of pages: 186Collection: Critical Issues in Crime and SocietyPublication...

In Minority Report, Leonard G. Friesen and the volume's contributors boldly reassess Mennonite history in Imperial Russia and the former Soviet Ukr...

Reducere. DescriptionAmid the chaos and violence of the 1905 Revolution in Russia, the Tsar's opponents printed and distributed vast quantities of picture po...

Contributor(s): Author: Mark C. ElliottIn 1644, the Manchus, a relatively unknown people inhabiting China's rude northeastern frontier, overthrew t...

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Publisher: University of Arizona PressNumber of pages: 205Publication date: 2001Cover type: Paperback / softbackRedescopera farmecul lecturii si al...

Reducere. Beginning on the shores of West Africa in the sixteenth century and ending in the U.S. Lower South on the eve of the Civil War, Alexis Wells-Oghogh...

A sharply-observed study of one of the major turning points in history. A superb first-hand account from an officer on the Russian Imperial Staff. ...

Wai-yee Li traces notions of the pleasures and dangers of things in the literature and thought of late imperial China. She considers core oppositio...

In October 1971 Mohammad Reza Pahlavi, Shah of Iran, held a celebration to commemorate the 2500th anniversary of the founding of the Persian Empire...

This book puts to the test the prominent claim that social class has declined in importance in an era of affluence, choice and the waning of tradit...

The nearly forgotten story of Soviet dissidentsIt has been nearly three decades since the collapse of the Soviet Union--enough time for the role th...

With case studies ranging from mega-plantations in Southeast Asia to sports events, Contemporary Megaprojects explores the increasing ambition and ...

What can culture, and its manifestations in artistic and creative forms, 'do'? This book draws on original collaborative research that brings toget...

Stand out of our Light: Freedom and Resistance in the Attention Economy - James Williams

Publisher: Schiffer Publishing LtdAuthor(s): Hans LengererIllustration(s): 150 b/w photos & line drawingsNumber of pages: 128Publication date: 2022...

There was much popular support for Hitler's regime in Nazi Germany, and little widespread domestic opposition or resistance. However, a number of i...