Hope And Memory. Reflections on the Twentieth Century, Paperback - Tzvetan Todorov

A landmark new account of the twentieth century from one of Europe's most outstanding thinkers.

Reducere. The Conquest of America is a fascinating study of cultural confrontation in the New World, with implications far beyond sixteenth-century America. ...

Provides a kaleidoscopic review of the avant-garde and radical subcultures of the twentieth century, and explains how artistic statements of the er...

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Publisher: Mimesis InternationalAuthor(s): Cesereanu RuxandraNumber of pages: 204Collection: Speculum CivitatisPublication date: 2021Dimensions: 14...

Reducere. Pulitzer Prize finalist A poetic history of the twentieth century from one of our most beloved, popular, and highly lauded poets--a stirring, strik...

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: MIT Press LtdAuthor(s): Andreas (Leuphana Universitat Luneburg) BroeckmannIllustration(s): 74 b&w illus., 16 color plates; 90 Illustrati...

Each week fans avidly devour his latest razor-sharp literary assassination, while authors turn tremblingly to the appropriate page of the review se...

War and Revolution identifies and takes to task a reactionary trend among contemporary historians, one that's grown increasingly apparent in recent...

The first anthology in over twenty-five years to focus exclusively on American dance practices across a wide span of American culture. This volume ...

Reducere. DescriptionBetween 1900 and 1950, Americans built the most powerful steam locomotives of all time--enormous engines that powered a colossal industr...

Reducere. "Peasant Wars of the Twentieth Century provides a good short course in the major popular revolutions of our century--in Russia, Mexico, China, Alge...

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Publisher: University of Minnesota PressAuthor(s): Claire ZimmermanNumber of pages: 416Publication date: 2014Dimensions: 256 x 179 x 26Cover type: ...

Reducere. A rousing history of Ireland in its most tumultous century by one of the most well-known and beloved Irish writers of our time. Tim Pat Coogan's Ir...

Reducere. From New York Times bestselling author Simon Baatz, the first comprehensive account of the murder that shocked the world. In 1901 Evelyn Nesbit, a ...

Paperback edition of Judt's final book, which was written up by Snyder from conversations he had with the great historian as he suffered from a fat...

The third volume of The Cambridge History of Russia provides an authoritative political, intellectual, social and cultural history of Russia and th...

The definitive history of twentieth-century theatrical dance, enhanced with more than 200 exceptional photographs Winner of the 2005 Congress on Re...

Inventing Tomorrow provides a definitive account of H. G. Wells's work and ideas. Sarah Cole illuminates his distinctive style as well as his inter...

In A Nation Divided by History and Memory a prominent Hungarian historian sheds light on how Hungary's historical image has become split as a conse...

Throughout the 20th century Scottish miners resisted deindustrialisation through collective action and by leading the campaign for Home Rule. This ...

A major new account of poetry in the twentieth century.

This book looks at British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher from 1975 through 1991, during which Mrs. Thatcher was Conservative Party Leader and th...

Reducere. (Yorktown). Exploration of the language, attitude, dissonance, and drama of the piano music of our century as in the works of Debussy, Bartok, Stra...

Reducere. DescriptionThe roots of European witchcraft and magic lie in Hebrew and other ancient Near Eastern cultures and in the Celtic, Nordic, and Germanic...

Our understanding of history is often mediated by popular culture, and television series set in the past have provided some of our most indelible i...

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* A significant contribution to our understanding of how politics affects real people, and abrilliant blend of sweeping narrative and detailed anal...

Reducere. For centuries, the world has witnessed the development and use of increasingly complex and powerful military systems and technologies. In the proce...

Presents an overview of Lakota religious thought and practice, introducing readers to its essential components. Through finely detailed description...

From the First World War to the waning days of the Cold War, a poignant exploration on what it means to be European at the end of the twentieth-cen...

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

British Traitors explores the lives and motivations of a number of the traitors who betrayed their country during the twentieth century. From Kim P...

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Reducere. Though much has been written about T. S. Eliot since it was first published, Eliot and His Age remains the best introduction to the poet's life, id...

DescriptionWomen, Warfare and Representation considers the various ways the American servicewoman has been represented throughout the 20th century ...

For four decades Sources of Chinese Tradition has served to introduce Western readers to Chinese civilization as it has been seen through basic wri...

Examines children's strangeness, even some children's subliminal 'gayness', in the twentieth century.

Volume 2 surveys twentieth-century European intellectual history, conceived as a crisis in modernity. It focuses on figures such as Freud, Heidegge...

Reducere. An overview of the best science fiction short stories of the 20th century as selected and evaluated by critically-acclaimed author Orson Scott Card...

This book explores the life courses of children born of warin different twentieth-century conflicts, from the Second World War to theRwandan Genoci...

This book details the narrative and history of Iraq in the 20th century and reinserts the Assyrian experience as an integral part of Iraq's broader...

Reducere. "A necessity for every African American who has ever lived in Dade County, or South Florida for that matter."--Garth Reeves, publisher emeritus, Mi...

Despite the widespread trends of secularization in the 20th century, religion has played an important role in several outbreaks of genocide since t...