Of Limits and Growth. The Rise of Global Sustainable Development in the Twentieth Century, Hardback - Stephen J. Macekura

Of Limits and Growth offers new perspectives on environmentalism, post-1945 international history, and the origins of sustainability.

Few ideas in the past century have had wider financial, political, and governmental impact than that of economic growth. The common belief that end...

From The Hobbit to Harry Potter, how fantasy harnesses the cultural power of magic, medievalism, and childhood to re-enchant the modern world Why a...

Photography and Literature in the Twentieth-Century offers an accessible and fresh approach to an object of interdisciplinary research that is curr...

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

Publisher: Anthem PressAuthor(s): John Rennie ShortNumber of pages: 182Publication date: 2022Dimensions: 160 x 235 x 20Cover type: HardbackRedescop...

Paris to New York shows how competition and cooperation between transatlantic designers and entrepreneurs built the groundwork of today's internati...

A gripping history of the Security Service and its covert surveillance on British writers and intellectuals in the twentieth century.Publisher: Ver...

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Erik J. Hammerstrom recasts the history of twentieth-century Chinese Buddhism by examining how Huayan Buddhism was imagined, taught, and practiced ...

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...

Presents the history of how two countries on the northern edge of Europe built societies in the twentieth century that became objects of inspiratio...

The Rise of Global Powers: International Politics in the Era of the World Wars - Anthony D'Agostino

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Publisher: The Edwin Mellen Press LtdAuthor(s): James WolfeNumber of pages: 252Publication date: 2010Dimensions: 214 x 135 x 31Cover type: Hardback...

This volume collects a series of influential early twentieth-century essays on the role of museumsPublisher: Bard Graduate Center, Exhibitions Depa...

This book brings together jurisprudential debates on international criminal law, international law scholarship on the limits of state sovereignty, ...

Reducere. The original (1985) edition of this work attempted to cover the main lines of development of phonological theory from the end of the 19th century t...

Publisher: Lynne Rienner PublishersAuthor(s): Patti LondonoNumber of pages: 293Publication date: 2022Dimensions: 167 x 237 x 26Cover type: Hardback...

My book begins with a brief consideration of what we mean by "English music" and what factors are involved. I explain the reasons behind my choice ...

Provides a comprehensive history of manufacturers, including the principal people involved and covers the various mechanical clock movements that w...

Reducere. In the century after the Civil War, an economic revolution improved the American standard of living in ways previously unimaginable. Electric light...

In the century after the Civil War, an economic revolution improved the American standard of living in ways previously unimaginable. Electric light...

Despite a terrible two-stage 'European civil war' and the traumatic rise and fall of communism, wealth has increased dramatically alongside a four-...

Taking literary food studies in a new direction to explore the connections between what or how one eats and what one is. Focusing primarily on four...

This book examines the thinking of early twentieth-century US foreign policy makers and their advisors, including business leaders and economists -...

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20/20 provides an account of modern architecture through the prism of 20 of the most influential houses built over the past century, including exam...

Publisher: University of California PressAuthor(s): Micaela BaranelloIllustration(s): 39 music examples, 6 b-w photographs, 1 tableNumber of pages:...

Publisher: University of California PressAuthor(s): John LieNumber of pages: 342Publication date: 2021Dimensions: 153 x 230 x 18Cover type: Paperba...

First comprehensive account of British naval intelligence in the modern era. Challenges established perceptions of its role in the two World Wars.I...

Publisher: Vintage PublishingAuthor(s): Timothy SnyderNumber of pages: 128Publication date: 2021Dimensions: 190 x 262 x 27Cover type: HardbackIllus...

Acclaimed author follows the work of the Situationist International after May 1968.Publisher: Verso BooksAuthor(s): McKenzie WarkNumber of pages: 2...

In the 1960s biologists and social scientists engaged in a public debate about human nature. The question-whether humans are innately aggressive or...

This international edited volume examines the rise of global Islamophobia in the War on Terror across the global North and South, its impact on Mus...

The American Revolution is universally seen as a colossal defeat of the powerful British Empire by colonial rebels. Yet the British emerged from th...

This book examines the Red Love vogue that swept across the Asia-Pacific in the 1920s and 1930s as part of a worldwide interest in socialism and fo...

Bestselling author Douglas Century reveals the untold story of the epic rise and fall of Boris Nayfeld, also known as Biba, one of the most notorio...

Despite great progress around the world in getting more kids into schools, too many leave without even the most basic skills. This title argues tha...

Publisher: The University of Chicago PressAuthor(s): Annabella PitkinIllustration(s): 7 halftonesNumber of pages: 280Collection: Buddhism and Moder...

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The history of the twentieth century is most often told through its world wars, the rise and fall of communism, or its economic upheavals. In his s...