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In the aftermath of the efflorescence of experimental literature and theory that characterized the Trente Glorieuses (1945-75), 'contemporary' Fren...

Reducere. In Age of Rogues, leading scholars engage with themes of historical and cultural legacies, contentious interactions within imperial regimes, and th...

How did we come to imagine what ideal childhood requires? Beginning in the late eighteenth century, German child-rearing radically transformed, and...

Reducere. Kashmir remains one of the world's most militarized areas of dispute, having been in the grips of an armed insurgency against India since the late ...

Reducere. In Plain Sight explores how the poetry of nineteenth-century American women that was once so visible within American culture could have, with the e...

Contributor(s): Author: Barry C. FeldA major statement on the juvenile justice system by one of America's leading experts The juvenile court lies a...

Reducere. With Zohar Studios, Stephen Berkman has perfected the rare and extremely difficult antique photographic process known as "wet collodion." Made with...

Argues that the portrayal in poetry of the modern city as a disintegrated, ruined space is part of a critique of the visions of progress and the hi...

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...

The term "secular" inspires thinking about disenchantment, periodization, modernity, and subjectivity. The essays in Sacred and Secular Transaction...

In 1230, Jews in the English city of Norwich were accused of having seized and circumcised a five-year-old Christian boy named Edward because they ...

Samuel Barber (1910-1981) is one of the most admired and honored American composers of the twentieth century. An unabashed Romantic, largely indepe...

DescriptionPrivate, voluntary standards shape almost everything we use, from screw threads to shipping containers to e-readers. They have been crit...

Reducere. During the American colonial period, what would become the Midwest was the "backcountry, " or the area behind the coastal population centers. It wa...

This innovative book reassesses the history of musicology, unearthing the field's twentieth-century German and global roots. In the process, Anna M...

Reducere. A long-awaited survey of female Abstract Expressionist artists revealing the richness and lasting influence of their work The artists Jay DeFeo, He...

Reducere. In contemporary discourse, much of the discussion of U.S. border politics focuses on the Southwest. In Bootlegged Aliens, however, Ashley Johnson B...

Reducere. In the nineteenth century, Texas's advancing western frontier was the site of one of America's longest conflicts between white settlers and native ...

In the eighteenth century, Bridgetown, Barbados, was heavily populated by both enslaved and free women. Marisa J. Fuentes creates a portrait of urb...

DescriptionThe civil rights revolutions of the 1950s and 1960s transformed the literature on Reconstruction in America by emphasizing the social hi...

For the past century and a half, extensive looting and illicit trafficking of Southeast Asia's cultural heritage have scattered art objects from th...

Reducere. Each year in France approximately 1.5 million people practice naturisme or naturism, an activity more commonly referred to as nudism. Because of Fr...

Reducere. Representations of first contact--the first meetings of European explorers and Native Americans--have always had a central place in our nation's hi...

A nuanced reassessment that transforms our understanding of this self-taught artist Arguably the most successful African American artist of his day...

Reducere. Extensive scholarship has emerged within the last twenty-five years on the role of Louisiana Creoles in the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuri...

Contributor(s): Author: Mark DawesAuthor: Ruth MatthewsAuthor: Andrew RobertsThis series helps students and teachers following the Cambridge AS & A...

Reducere. This new explanation of crime over the life course provides an important foundation for rethinking contemporary theory and criminal justice policy....

While television has always played a role in recording and curating history, shaping cultural memory, and influencing public sentiment, the changin...

DescriptionIn this pioneering study of slavery in colonial Ecuador and southern Colombia--Spain's Kingdom of Quito--Sherwin Bryant argues that the ...

Reducere. In the 5th century BCE, Herodotus wrote the first known Western history to build on the tradition of Homeric storytelling, basing his text on empir...

Reducere. For decades, we've been warned that video killed the radio star, and, more recently, that social media has replaced reading. Nerdfighteria, a first...

In the wake of the Scientific Revolution, the late seventeenth and eighteenth centuries saw the complete demolition of traditional structures of au...

Description"Each day of my life has been dedicated in part to drawing. I have never stopped drawing and painting, seeking, where I could find them,...

Reducere. DescriptionA History of Modern Italy addresses the question of how Italy's modern history--from its prolonged process of nation-building in the nin...

Reducere. James P. Woodard's history of consumer capitalism in Brazil, today the world's fifth most populous country, is at once magisterial, intimate, and p...

Reducere. From our twentieth-century perspective, we tend to think of the Europe of the past as a colonizer, a series of empires that conquered lands beyond ...

Reducere. Although many Americans assume that religious participation has declined in America, Finke and Stark present a different picture. In 1776, fewer th...

Reducere. DescriptionAlexander Romanovich Luria, one of the most influential psychologists of the twentieth century, is best known for his pioneering work on...

Reducere. In 1929, a small group of men and women threw off their clothes and began to exercise in a New York City gymnasium, marking the start of the Americ...

Reducere. Following Zebulon Pike's expeditions in the early nineteenth century, U.S. expansionists focused their gaze on the Southwest. Explorers, traders, s...

Reducere. What has it meant to be Jewish in a nation preoccupied with the categories of black and white? The Price of Whiteness documents the uneasy place Je...

Contributor(s): Author: Monica HellerAuthor: Bonnie McElhinnyHeller and McElhinny reinterpret sociolinguistics for the twenty-first century with an...

An enlightening account of the entwined histories of knowledge and nationhood in Latin America--and beyond The rise of nation-states is a hallmark ...

Reducere. DescriptionEvery night we enter a mythic realm, a dark, primordial world of fear and desire. What this world offers, Anthony Stevens suggests, may ...

Synthesizing fifty years' worth of scholarly literature, this accessible general history of the Reformation in the Low Countries traces the key dev...

Reducere. In nineteenth-century England, sodomy was punishable by death; even an accusation could damage a man's reputation for life. The last executions for...

A survey of violence in Cambodian history, testing the theories of Norbert Elias in a non-Western context. Focusing on trends and forms of violence...

Contributor(s): Author: Mark TesslerMark Tessler's highly praised, comprehensive, and balanced history of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict from the...

Contributor(s): Author: Peter James HudsonFrom the end of the nineteenth century until the onset of the Great Depression, Wall Street embarked on a...

DescriptionCapitalizing on the rich historical record of late antiquity, and employing sophisticated methodologies from social and economic history...

Reducere. An Examination of the evolution and impact of American intellectual property rights during the 'long nineteenth century, ' this book compares the A...

Reducere. Turning Selling into Buying strips away the fear, uncertainty and doubt that has surrounded sales and selling for too long. This well-proven, pract...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Paul O'CallaghanChrist Our Hope is a masterful reflection on Christian eschatology, in a textbook of twelve accessible chap...

Reducere. In this second edition of The Great Fa ade, co-author Christopher A. Ferrara brings the original work up to date with six new chapters addressing w...

Reducere. Since the 1950s, the death rate from heart attacks has plunged from 35 percent to about 5 percent--and fatalistic attitudes toward this disease and...

Reducere. Since the nineteenth century, the distinct tones of k&299;k&257; kila, the Hawaiian steel guitar, have defined the island sound. Here historian and...

Conversion to Islam is a phenomenon of immense significance in human history. At the outset of Islamic rule in the seventh century, Muslims constit...

How did the statues of ancient Greece wind up dictating art history in the West? How did the material culture of the Greeks and Romans come to be s...

Reducere. DescriptionInstalled at Plymouth, Massachusetts, in 1921 to commemorate the tercentenary of the landing of the Pilgrims, Cyrus Dallin's statue Mass...

The surprising history of the scientific method--from an evolutionary account of thinking to a simple set of steps--and the rise of psychology in t...

Famous for its majestic ruins, Mexico has gone to great lengths to preserve and display the remains of its pre-Hispanic past. The Pursuit of Ruins ...

The idea of civilization recurs frequently in reflections on international politics. However, International Relations academic writings on civiliza...

This book challenges the conventional (modernist-inspired) understanding of urbanization as a universal process tied to the ideal-typical model of ...

Reducere. This collection of documents in translation brings together the seminal sources for the late Merovingian Frankish kingdom. It inteprets the chronic...

DescriptionBased on ethnographic fieldwork at a small Chicago adoption agency specializing in transracial adoption, Contingent Kinship charts the e...

DescriptionFrom the mid-eighteenth century to the early nineteenth century, the English Old Poor Law was waning, soon to be replaced by the New Poo...

Reducere. Movements such as the Women's March on Washington and #MeToo have created a national dialogue about the sexual harassment of women that is still pr...

Reducere. In Haunted Media Jeffrey Sconce examines American culture's persistent association of new electronic media-from the invention of the telegraph to t...

Reducere. Methods of "Nourishing the Vital Principle" in the Ancient Daoist Religion is a tiré à part of Book IX of Henri Maspero's seminal work Taoism and...

While best known as one of the most important playwrights of the twentieth century, Harold Pinter (1930--2008) had an equally successful career wri...