Hot Stuff: Disco and the Remaking of American Culture, Paperback - Alice Echols

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

Everyday Movies documents the twentieth-century rise of portable film projectors. It demonstrates that since World War II, the vast majority of mov...

Reducere. Esalen is on the edge. Located in Big Sur, California, just off Highway 1, Esalen is, geographically speaking, a literal cliff, hanging rather prec...

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This modern classic by one of our leading scholars seeks to explain the values prevalent in today's mass culture by tracing them back to their root...

Reducere. In Young, Black, Rich, and Famous, Todd Boyd chronicles how basketball and hip hop have gone from being reviled by the American mainstream in the 1...

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. An emerging cult classic about America's cultural meltdown--and a surprising solution. A prophetic examination of Western decline, The Twilight of ...

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

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

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...

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

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...

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...

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...

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...

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. Janis Joplin was the skyrocket chick of the sixties, the woman who broke into the boys' club of rock and out of the stifling good-girl femininity o...

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...

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

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...

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...

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

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 ...

Reducere. Many people characterize urban renewal projects and the power of eminent domain as two of the most widely despised and often racist tools for resha...

A powerful and profound study of the news - how we read it, who controls it and why it matters - from former Guardian Editor-in-Chief Alan Rusbridger

Reducere. The Last Party is Anthony Haden-Guest's account of Studio 54 and the legendary New York nightlife scene of the '70s and '80s, now available as an I...

Land of Desire: Merchants, Power, and the Rise of a New American Culture, Paperback

From the collages of Romare Bearden and paintings of Jean-Michel Basquiat to the fiction of Ralph Ellison and Toni Morrison to the music of Louis A...

Reducere. Make a Beautiful Way is nothing less than a new way of looking at history-or more correctly, the reestablishment of a very old way. For too long, E...

Analysing a range of sources, including sexology texts, early cinema, and African American literature, the author argues that the emerging understa...

Reducere. The Hill and Wang Critical Issues Series: concise, affordable works on pivotal topics in American history, society, and politics. In this pioneerin...

Margarita M. Balmaceda follows Russia's three largest fossil-fuel exports-natural gas, oil, and coal-from production in Siberia through transportat...

Reducere. Description From a Nickel to an Empire Before the gut-busting eating contests and franchise stores across the country, there was a single man, Nath...

Reducere. Whether it's sleek leather pants, a shiny new Apple computer, or a designer toaster, we make important decisions as consumers every day based on ou...

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