Racial Propositions: Ballot Initiatives and the Making of Postwar California - Daniel Martinez Hosang

Reducere. DescriptionThis book looks beyond the headlines to uncover the controversial history of California's ballot measures over the past fifty years. As ...

A sweeping history of transformative, radical, and abolitionist movements in the United States that places the struggle for racial justice at the c...

Reducere. The rise of the Auntie Sewing Squad, a massive mutual-aid network of volunteers who provide free masks in the wake of US government failures during...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Jakobi WilliamsIn this comprehensive history of the Illinois Chapter of the Black Panther Party (ILBPP), Chicago native Jak...

A portrait of history's first complex Christian society as seen through the lens of Christian philanthropy and gift giving As the Roman Empire brok...

This book unravels the ethnic history of California since the late nineteenth-century Anglo-American conquest and the institutionalization of "whit...

This book examines the ways in which writers' houses contribute to the making of memory. It shows that houses built or inhabited by poets and novel...

Social conflict and the making of a globalized place at Rosia Montana - Filip Alexandrescu

Publisher: University of California PressAuthor(s): Geo MaherNumber of pages: 156Collection: American Studies Now: Critical Histories of the Presen...

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The Citizen is an early prose work relating to Roy Fisher and his native city of Birmingham - previously thought to have been lost - which was the ...

Winner of the Pulitzer PrizeIn this groundbreaking biography of the Japanese emperor Hirohito, Herbert P. Bix offers the first complete, unvarnishe...

Contributor(s): Author: William PooleMilton and the Making of Paradise Lost tells the story of John Milton's life as England's self-elected nationa...

Reducere. From the beginning of California's statehood, adventurers, scientists, and writers reveled in its majestic landscape. Some were women, though few g...

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Reducere. "A valuable collection both for original source material as well as historical formulations of current problems." -- The Review of Metaphysics"Much...

Introduction1 Elements of Continuity2 After Oxford: The War Years3 Crampton Hodnet: The Continuous Cycle4 Some Tame Gazelle: Continuity and Content...

Reducere. New Delhi was the grandest planned capital city of the British empire. In its meticulous urban plan it owed as much to earlier imperial traditions ...

Reducere. Eric Helleiner's new book provides a powerful corrective to conventional accounts of the negotiations at Bretton Woods, New Hampshire, in 1944. The...

Publisher: The University of Chicago PressAuthor(s): Mike AmezcuaIllustration(s): 32 halftonesNumber of pages: 320Collection: Historical Studies of...

Richard Jean So draws on big data, computational methods, literary history, and close readings to offer an unprecedented analysis of racial inequal...

Reducere. INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER" The] rare biography of a public figure that's not only beautifully written, but also shockingly revelatory." -- ...

Bringing together international case studies, this book offers theoretical and empirical insights into the interaction between social work and soci...

An investigation of environmental politics in light of Foucault's work, drawing on and extending work done in feminist environmentalism, political ...

The Palm House at Kew has been one of Britain's most popular attractions since it opened in 1848 - this is the story of its creation and the men wh...

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLCAuthor(s): Professor Mark (Professor of English, Pace University, USA, Pace University, USA) HusseyNumber of pa...

Publisher: MIT Press LtdAuthor(s): Peter PesicIllustration(s): 143 figuresNumber of pages: 360Publication date: 2022Dimensions: 203 x 231 x 28Cover...

The Global Cold War: Third World Interventions and the Making of Our Times - Odd Arne Westad

Long before Greeks dominated the ancient Mediterranean, Phoenicians were the lords of the sea. Setting out from their Levantine cities, they introd...

Reducere. This fascinating and groundbreaking work tells the remarkable story of the relationship between Americans and their trees across the entire span of...

Reducere. A "Philadelphia Inquirer "Best Book of the Year A biography of Pope Francis that describes how this revolutionary thinker will use the power of his...

The Mongol army led by Genghis Khan subjugated more lands and people in twenty-five years than the Romans did in four hundred. In nearly every coun...

Description"Magnificent."--Robert L. Tignor, Princeton University From the early nineteenth century through to the 1960s, the Greeks formed the lar...

Reducere. Shame influences more of our thoughts and actions than many other emotions. Used as a punishment for bad behavior, shame acts as an incentive for u...

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Reducere. A detailed account of Ant Farm's 1975 Media Burn performance, a legendary act of consumerist critiqueThis book examines the complex set of cultural...

William Bennett's moral guide for children, "A Book of Virtues", was a national bestseller. Yet, many continue to associate virtue with a prudish, ...

Reducere. The definitive history of Peter Jackson's Middle-earth saga, Anything You Can Imagine takes us on a cinematic journey across all six films, featuri...