Symptoms of Modernity. Jews and Queers in Late-Twentieth-Century Vienna, Paperback - Matti Bunzl

In the 1990s, Vienna's Jews and queers abandoned their clandestine existence and emerged into the city's public sphere in unprecedented numbers. Th...

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

Reducere. Publisher: Oxford University Press IncAuthor(s): Richard (Professor of musicology, Professor of musicology, University of California, Berkeley) Tar...

Reducere. In this book, his first to appear in English, French sinologist Fran ois Jullien uses the Chinese concept of shi--meaning disposition or circumstan...

Reducere. In its last decade, the Ottoman Empire underwent a period of dynamic reform, and the 1908 revolution transformed the empire's 20 million subjects i...

Examining works by Rabindranath Tagore, Mulk Raj Anand, Vikram Seth and the photography of Dayanita Singh, Tania Roy examines the delayed claims of...

Publisher: Oxford University Press IncAuthor(s): Kevin (Emory University) KarnesIllustration(s): 6 halftones, 3 line illustrationsNumber of pages: ...

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Explores the many aspects and outcomes of NASA's research in life sciences, a little-understood endeavor that has often been overlooked in historie...

This book presents the remarkable constitutional reforms undertaken by the Blair and Brown governments in the UK. The reforms are remarkable in tha...

From the early 1970s, working class writing and publishing in local communities rapidly proliferated into a national movement. This book is the fir...

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...

This edited volume presents an interdisciplinary collection of texts that examine the practice of gamification, the use of game design elements in ...

Reducere. Whether in characterizing Catharine MacKinnon's theory of gender as itself pornographic or in identifying liberalism as unable to make good on its ...

Reducere. At the beginning of the twentieth century, Jewish immigrants upended Protestant control of vaudeville and the silent film industry. This book rejec...

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Labyrinths of Deceit. Culture, Modernity and Identity in the Nineteenth century - Richard J. Walker

This book puts to the test the prominent claim that social class has declined in importance in an era of affluence, choice and the waning of tradit...

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Engine of modernity examines the connection between public transportation and popular culture in nineteenth-century Paris through a focus on the om...

Museums, Modernity and Conflict examines the history of the relationship between museums, collections and war, revealing how museums have responded...

A major new account of poetry in the twentieth century.

Offering a radically transhistorical view of modernity, Lee Morrissey recasts Milton's major late poems as fictions narrating three varying respons...

Edited and with an introduction by David Cottis, andfollowing on from A Dirty Broth, which looked at thepioneers of the Welsh theatre in English, A...

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"[This book] charts the transformation of one of the world's great religions during an age marked by world wars, genocide, nationalism, decolonizat...

Reducere. DescriptionThe roots of European witchcraft and magic lie in Hebrew and other ancient Near Eastern cultures and in the Celtic, Nordic, and Germanic...

Publisher: University of Minnesota PressAuthor(s): Claire ZimmermanNumber of pages: 416Publication date: 2014Dimensions: 256 x 179 x 26Cover type: ...

Reducere. For centuries, the world has witnessed the development and use of increasingly complex and powerful military systems and technologies. In the proce...

Final volume of the seven-volume Cambridge History of the Book in Britain series, focusing on the twentieth century and beyond. The book is for stu...

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

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Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLCNumber of pages: 480Publication date: 2022Dimensions: 234 x 157 x 30Cover type: Paperback / softbackEditor(s): ...

Reducere. Uncovering a history buried by different nationalist narratives (Jewish, Israeli, Arab and Palestinian) this book looks at how the late Ottoman era...

English radicalism has been a persistent and important, though minority, strand in English political culture since at least the English Civil War. ...

This book examines the array of financial crises, slumps, depressions and recessions that happened around the globe during the twentieth and early ...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Anthony GiddensModernity differs from all preceding forms of social order because of its dynamism, its deep undercutting of...

Reducere. Gunfighter Nation completes Richard Slotkin's trilogy, begun in Regeneration Through Violence and continued in Fatal Environment, on the myth of th...

From the Nuremberg Trials onwards, Jews figure prominently in international legal history. Yet ties between Jewish identity and legal thought rarel...

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This book explores the life courses of children born of warin different twentieth-century conflicts, from the Second World War to theRwandan Genoci...

Reducere. "A necessity for every African American who has ever lived in Dade County, or South Florida for that matter."--Garth Reeves, publisher emeritus, Mi...

Publisher: MIT Press LtdAuthor(s): Andreas (Leuphana Universitat Luneburg) BroeckmannIllustration(s): 74 b&w illus., 16 color plates; 90 Illustrati...

A new edition of this seminal survey on the history of graphic design in the twentieth century.Publisher: Thames & Hudson LtdAuthor(s): Richard Hol...

In the last third of the nineteenth century, the discourse on the "Jewish question" in the Habsburg crownlands of Galicia changed fundamentally, as...

The study of teenagers' interaction in the classroom can tell us a great deal about late-modern society. In this revealing account, Ben Rampton pre...

Reducere. By the Wand of Some Magician addresses the severe impact of railroad technology upon its arrival into Vermont in the mid-nineteenth century that in...

Publisher: University of California PressAuthor(s): Aaron Rock-SingerIllustration(s): 1 b-w illustrationNumber of pages: 278Publication date: 2022D...

A study of Communism and a history of the myth of Communism as perpetuated by its admirers. This book illuminates how the support for Communism and...