Stand, Columbia: A History of Columbia University in the City of New York, 1754-2004, Hardcover - Robert McCaughey

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Evan Friss traces the colorful and fraught history of bicycles-and bicyclists-in New York City. He uncovers the bicycle's place in the city over ti...

Rockaway Beach was once a popular seaside resort in south Queens with a small permanent population. Shortly after World War II, large parts of this...

All the Nations Under Heaven is an unparalleled chronicle of the role of immigrants and migrants in shaping the history and culture of New York Cit...

In The Soft City, the ethnographer Terry Williams ventures deep into the underground world of sex in New York. The book explores different aspects ...

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Reducere. DescriptionBordered by the Hudson River and the Berkshire Mountains, Columbia County is part of the famously picturesque Hudson Valley region. But ...

In July 1964, after a white police officer shot and killed a Black teenage boy, unrest broke out in Harlem and then Bedford-Stuyvesant. Christopher...

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Why did the passion for food-gastronomy-originate in France? The key, it turns out, is France itself. In its climate, diversity of soils, abundant ...

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In this seminal study, Robert Cox offers a new approach to the study of power by identifying the connections between production, the state, and wor...

Between 1949 and 1997, Hong Kong transformed from a struggling British colonial outpost into a global financial capital. Made in Hong Kong delivers...

From its origins as a primitive Dutch outpost to the sprawling urban complex it is today, the defining characteristic of New York has been constant...

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Reducere. When we think of the Italian Mafia, we think of Marlon Brando, Tony Soprano, and the Corleones--iconic actors and characters who give shady dealing...

Since the mid-twentieth century, the United States and Saudi Arabia have built a close but often troubled alliance. In this critical history, Victo...

DescriptionIn this groundbreaking book, leading Arab and Jewish intellectuals examine how and why the Holocaust and the Nakba are interlinked witho...

Reducere. The essays in Shadows in the City of Light explore the significance of Paris in the writing of five influential French writers--Sarah Kofman, Patri...

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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...

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A concise history of the Indians said to have sold Manhattan for $24 The Indian sale of Manhattan is one of the world's most cherished legends. Few...

Publisher: New York University PressAuthor(s): Tanya HartNumber of pages: 336Collection: Culture, Labor, HistoryPublication date: 2015Dimensions: 1...

"I trace my ancestry back to the Mayflower, " writes Andrew S. Dolkart. "Not to the legendary ship that brought the Pilgrims to Plymouth, Massachus...

This is a historical study of acculturation in New York City. It documents the Americanisation of foreign enclaves within the city, showing the eff...

Reducere. David Hurst has a unique knowledge of organizations--their function and their failure--both in theory and in practice. He has spent twenty-five yea...

Richard Popkin has assembled 63 leading scholars to forge a highly approachable chronological account of the development of Western philosophical t...

Digital technologies have changed the world, transforming how, where, and when we communicate, love, learn, produce, distribute, and consume. Digit...

Reducere. Through fiction, memoir, music, photography, and art, In the Catskills highlights the Catskills experience over a century and assesses its continui...

DescriptionReforming Modernity is a sweeping intellectual history and philosophical reflection built around the work of the Morocco-based philosoph...

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Eli Friedman reveals how cities in China have granted public goods to the privileged while condemning poor and working-class migrants to insecurity...

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Experience a seldom-seen New York City with journalists and NYC natives Sharon Seitz and Stuart Miller as they show you the 42 islands in this city...

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Since Edward Said's foundational work, Orientalism has been singled out for critique as the quintessential example of Western intellectuals' collab...

Reducere. ALL COLOR INTERIORVery few men have had the impact on Broadway theatre as did Justin Brooks Atkinson, the drama critic of The New York Times from 1...

Richard Koszarski chronicles the compelling and often surprising origins of New York's postwar film renaissance. He examines the social, cultural, ...

A classic picture book from 1950 by the creator of Madeline, Ludwig Bemelmans.

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A historical-conceptual perspective on the concept of "the political"

From the mid-nineteenth to the late twentieth centuries, Saint Elizabeths Hospital was one of the United States' most important institutions for th...

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A definitive account of the efforts by Ronald Reagan, George H. W. Bush, and other conservatives to remake American politics, the American economy,...

Reducere. DescriptionColumbia started life in 1850 when Dr. Thaddeus Hildreth and his brother set up the camp known as Hildreth's Diggins in the lovely Sierr...

The illustrated story of the rich pop music scene in the city of Adelaide in the 1960s and all the local bands that contributed to that remarkable ...