Storied Ground: Landscape and the Shaping of English National Identity, Hardcover

DescriptionA richly illustrated commemoration of African Americans' roles in World War I highlighting how the wartime experience reshaped their liv...

An atlas of English archaeology covering the period from the middle Bronze Age (c. 1500 BC) to Domesday Book (AD 1086), encompassing the Bronze and...

Reducere. Between 1803 and 1806, Meriwether Lewis and William Clark cocaptained the most famous expedition in American history. But while Lewis ended his lif...

Reducere. Babylon Girls is a groundbreaking cultural history of the African American women who performed in variety shows-chorus lines, burlesque revues, cab...

Reducere. The Storied Landscape of Iroquoia explores the creation, destruction, appropriation, and enduring legacy of one of early America's most important p...

Africa throughout its postcolonial history has been plagued by human rights abuses ranging from intolerance of political dissent to heinous crimes ...

This study is an interdisciplinary examination of the role of sport in the formation of urban identity in Chicago. The author employs historical an...

This book investigates how the practice of keeping a light burning in churches was established in the early Middle Ages. It asks what the material ...

Reducere. Irish Presbyterians and the Shaping of Western Pennsylvania, 1770-1830 is a historical study examining the religious culture of Irish immigrants in...

Canada to Ireland explores the poetry and prose of twelve Irish writers and nationalists in Canada between 1788 and 1900. The book demonstrates tha...

Reducere. Redescopera farmecul lecturii si alege-ti de pe elefant.ro carti in limba engleza scrise de autori consacrati. Iti punem la dispozitie sute de mii ...

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...

How do archives and other cultural institutions such as museums determine the boundaries of a particular community, and of their own institutional ...

The instant New York Times bestseller interpreting the controversial long-lost gospel The recently unearthed Gospel of Judas is a source of fascina...

The English Exorcist presents an intellectual history of John Darrell, a controversial Puritan exorcist in the early modern period. It illustrates ...

The Shaping of EU Competition Law - Pablo Ibanez Colomo

Reducere. THE ONE BIBLE THAT SHOWS HOW 'A LIGHT FROM ABOVE' SHAPED OUR NATION. Never has a version of the Bible targeted the spiritual needs of those who lov...

Reducere. In Creole Italian, Justin A. Nystrom explores the influence Sicilian immigrants have had on New Orleans foodways. His culinary journey follows thes...

Publisher: McFarland & Co IncAuthor(s): Philip A Gouduti JnrIllustration(s): notes, bibliography, indexNumber of pages: 251Publication date: 2012Di...

This is an innovative and accessible study of how decolonization is engaged with, subverted, and transformed as a curriculum change project in univ...

Redescopera farmecul lecturii si alege-ti de pe elefant.ro carti in limba engleza scrise de autori consacrati. Iti punem la dispozitie sute de mii ...

Reducere. Andrew Marshall is a Pentagon legend. For more than four decades he has served as Director of the Office of Net Assessment, the Pentagon's internal...

Reducere. Redescopera farmecul lecturii si alege-ti de pe elefant.ro carti in limba engleza scrise de autori consacrati. Iti punem la dispozitie sute de mii ...

Americans are generally apprehensive about what they perceive as big government--especially when it comes to measures that target their bodies. Sod...

Reducere. Hugh Brody crystallizes three decades of studying, learning from, crusading for, and thinking about hunter-gatherers in this profound and provocati...

Hear the stories of Black British Christians in their own words.Publisher: Inter-Varsity PressNumber of pages: 176Publication date: 2007Dimensions:...

Through various stages in history from the Roman to the Medieval, to the Renaissance and the Early Modern and Modern, the book shows how political ...

Reducere. While recurrent drought, war with neighboring Ethiopia, and a staggering refugee crisis have recently propelled the African nation of Somalia into ...

Reducere. Poems and prose, maps and chronologies, detours and diversions along the road to Middle-earth . . . Christopher Tolkien has gathered archival mater...

Considers the multiplicity and instability of medieval French literary identity, arguing that it is fluid and represented in numerous ways. The wor...

Publisher: Taylor & Francis LtdIllustration(s): 4 Line drawings, black and white; 1 Halftones, black and white; 7 Tables, black and white; 5 Illust...

Reducere. DescriptionBetween 1880 and 1920, emigration from Sweden to Chicago soared, and the city itself grew remarkably. During this time, the Swedish popu...

Reducere. Whidbey and Camano, two of the largest of the numerous beautiful islands dotting Puget Sound, together form the major part of Island Country. Takin...

Reducere. Within a variety of historical contexts, The Shaping of Grand Strategy addresses the most important tasks states have confronted: namely, how to pr...

An illuminating and thought-provoking history of the growth of Hispanic American Republican voters in the past half century and their surprising im...

This book illuminates the history of popular dance, one of the most influential and widespread leisure practices in early twentieth-century Britain...

In a time when the need for and the relevance of the Gospel has seldom been greater, the relevance of the church has seldom been less. The Shaping ...

Reducere. "Eating is not only a political act, it is also a cultural act that reaffirms one's identity and worldview, " Enrique Salmon writes in Eating the L...

An essential compilation of the most garden worthy ground covers.Publisher: Timber PressAuthor(s): Gary LewisIllustration(s): 640 colour photosNumb...

New Histories of the Andaman Islands: Landscape, Place and Identity in the Bay of Bengal, 1790–2012 - Clare Anderson, Madhumita Mazumdar, Vishvajit Pa

Publisher: Pindar PressAuthor(s): John MitchellIllustration(s): 243 illus.Number of pages: 356Publication date: 2004Dimensions: 248 x 176 x 24Cover...

The text studies the importance of monuments tracing their history from their first creation to over 6000 years later. Part one discusses how monum...

At a time when knowledge is being 're-valued' as central to curriculum concerns, subject English is being called to account. This book puts long-st...

Recent years have seen the arrival of new approaches to writing about landscape. Partly to do with new eco-sensibilities, this is however also due ...

Reducere. The Storied South features the voices--by turn searching and honest, coy and scathing--of twenty-six of the most luminous artists and thinkers in t...

DescriptionIn southeastern Morocco, around the oasis of Tafilalet, the Ait Khabbash people weave brightly colored carpets, embroider indigo head co...