Divided by the Word. Colonial Encounters and the Remaking of Zulu and Xhosa Identities, Hardback - Jochen S. Arndt

Using archival sources from three continents written in multiple languages, this book offers a new appreciation for the deep historicity of languag...

A revealing study of the confrontation between an eminent Victorian general and two of South Africa's warrior nations.Publisher: Pen & Sword Books ...

Reducere. The first ever written Zulu history book covering 800 years of authentic history, written from the traditional Zulu perspective. This riveting and ...

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The true, behind-the-scenes history of the people who built Silicon Valley and shaped Big Tech in America Long before Margaret O'Mara became one of...

Education is thought to be the route out of poverty, but history disagrees. Cristina Groeger explores the Gilded Age origins of this idea and shows...

"In his highly influential 1996 book, Huntington offers a vision of a post-Cold War world in which conflict takes place not between competing ideol...

Reducere. Alice Echols reveals the ways in which disco transformed popular music, propelling it into new sonic territory and influencing rap, techno, and tra...

In this account of the Algerian War's effect on French political structures and notions of national identity, Todd Shepard asserts that the separat...

The classic study of post-Cold War international relations, now even more relevant in the post-September 11 world.

Its atmosphere - slow, dark, meditative, luminous - became all-pervasive for a generation, and has remained the epitome of melancholy coolness ever...

Reducere. The definitive account of the 1945 Potsdam Conference: the historic summit where Truman, Stalin, and Churchill met to determine the fate of post-Wo...

Reducere. Latinas/os and Asians are rewriting the meaning and history of race in the American South by complicating the black/white binary that has frequentl...

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

The New Madrid earthquakes of 1811-12 were the strongest temblors in the North American interior in at least the past five centuries. From the Grea...

Reducere. A revealing look at the intersection of wealth, philanthropy, and conservation Billionaire Wilderness takes you inside the exclusive world of the u...

Based on extensive research & interviews, highlights the many great players France has produced, analyses key events as the game emerged from the c...

Daniel Barish explores debates surrounding the education of the final three Qing emperors, showing how imperial curricula became proxy battles for ...

Publisher: New York University PressAuthor(s): Daanika GordonNumber of pages: 288Publication date: 2022Dimensions: 153 x 229 x 20Cover type: Paperb...

The glaciers creepLike snakes that watch their prey, from their far fountains, Slow rolling on.- Percy Shelley, "Mont Blanc, " 1816Glaciers in Amer...

Reducere. A bold new interpretation of the First World War and the birth of the American Century In the depths of the Great War, with millions dead and no en...

Contributor(s): Author: James ChappelIn 1900 the Catholic Church stood staunchly against human rights, religious freedom, and the secular state. Ac...

Millions of southerners left the South in the twentieth century in a mass migration that has, in many ways, rewoven the fabric of American society ...

Reducere. A Financial Times and The Economist Best Book of the Year and a New York Times Book Review Editors' ChoiceA SURPRISING, GRIPPING NARRATIVE DEPICTIN...

Reducere. The border region of the Sonoran Desert, which spans southern Arizona in the United States and northern Sonora, Mexico, has attracted national and ...

From the sidewalk to City Hall, in the corporate boardroom, and around the kitchen table, The Heart of Toronto traces the power dynamics and projec...

Reducere. An in-depth look at how a team and a city were rebuilt around LeBron James . . .When the Cleveland Cavaliers drew the top pick in the 2003 NBA draf...

From the sidewalk to City Hall, in the corporate boardroom, and around the kitchen table, The Heart of Toronto traces the power dynamics and projec...

Reducere. A Nation of Women chronicles changing ideas of gender and identity among the Delaware Indians from the mid-seventeenth through the eighteenth centu...

Forging Leninism in China re-examines the Chinese revolution by focusing on the transformation of the Chinese Communist Party between 1927 and 1932...

Reducere. The transatlantic slave trade brought individuals from diverse African regions and cultures to a common destiny in the American South. In this comp...

Publisher: Peter Lang LtdIllustration(s): 8 Illustrations, unspecifiedNumber of pages: 328Collection: New Comparative CriticismPublication date: 20...

A wealth of new research and thinking on Lawrence, the Arab Revolt, and World War One in the Middle East, providing essential background to today's...

An examination of shifting global power dynamics in climate change politics, and how this affects our ability to achieve equitable and sustainable ...

Publisher: Black Rose BooksAuthor(s): Joseph GrahamNumber of pages: 250Publication date: 2021Dimensions: 158 x 236 x 25Cover type: HardbackRedescop...