The Cultural Front: The Laboring of American Culture in the Twentieth Century, Paperback - Michael Denning

Reducere. The Cultural Front charts the extraordinary upsurge of cultural activity and theory in America that began during the Great Depression and embraced ...

This volume collects a series of influential early twentieth-century essays on the role of museumsPublisher: Bard Graduate Center, Exhibitions Depa...

Reducere. DescriptionThe Company of Critics provides a fascinating survey of the terrain of social criticism in the last century. Organizing the book as a se...

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...

Publisher: Mimesis InternationalAuthor(s): Cesereanu RuxandraNumber of pages: 204Collection: Speculum CivitatisPublication date: 2021Dimensions: 14...

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

Reducere. DescriptionBetween 1900 and 1950, Americans built the most powerful steam locomotives of all time--enormous engines that powered a colossal industr...

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 ...

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

Reducere. A rousing history of Ireland in its most tumultous century by one of the most well-known and beloved Irish writers of our time. Tim Pat Coogan's Ir...

The definitive history of twentieth-century theatrical dance, enhanced with more than 200 exceptional photographs Winner of the 2005 Congress on Re...

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 ...

Throughout the 20th century Scottish miners resisted deindustrialisation through collective action and by leading the campaign for Home Rule. This ...

A major new account of poetry in the twentieth century.

By examining the popular and vernacular discourse of stress, the book traces the ways in which stress became a ubiquitous condition of everyday lif...

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 ...

* A significant contribution to our understanding of how politics affects real people, and abrilliant blend of sweeping narrative and detailed anal...

The first anthology in over twenty-five years to focus exclusively on American dance practices across a wide span of American culture. This volume ...

Takes the reader across the Atlantic from Africa to the Americas and then back in pursuit of the music we call jazz. This first volume explores the...

A vivid biography of John Lee Hooker, from a critically acclaimed journalist

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

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

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 ...

The story of crippling overdevelopment in Mexico's economic and social centerPublisher: Temple University Press, U.S.Author(s): Diane DavisNumber o...

British Traitors explores the lives and motivations of a number of the traitors who betrayed their country during the twentieth century. From Kim P...

Reducere. With John Lee Hooker's death in June 2001 the world lost one of the last great Mississippi Delta bluesmen. Acclaimed writer Charles Schaar Murray's...

Reducere. Though much has been written about T. S. Eliot since it was first published, Eliot and His Age remains the best introduction to the poet's life, id...

DescriptionWomen, Warfare and Representation considers the various ways the American servicewoman has been represented throughout the 20th century ...

Examines children's strangeness, even some children's subliminal 'gayness', in the twentieth century.

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

This book details the narrative and history of Iraq in the 20th century and reinserts the Assyrian experience as an integral part of Iraq's broader...

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...

Despite the widespread trends of secularization in the 20th century, religion has played an important role in several outbreaks of genocide since t...

From The Hobbit to Harry Potter, how fantasy harnesses the cultural power of magic, medievalism, and childhood to re-enchant the modern world Why a...

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

Reducere. Penguin's landmark poetry anthology Rita Dove, Pulitzer Prize winner and former Poet Laureate of the United States, introduces readers to the most ...

Considering the development and ongoing influence of Black thought From 1900 to the present, people of African descent living in the United States ...

Reducere. Description "Catchin' babies" was merely one aspect of the broad role of African American midwives in the twentieth-century South. Yet, little has ...

DescriptionA fascinating look at the lives of women who bore the heat of day in Christian mission, but who were often forgotten by history until now.

Reducere. When it comes to large-scale public housing in the United States, the consensus for the past decades has been to let the wrecking balls fly. The de...

Shows the significant contributions of people of African descent to London's rich social and cultural history, masterfully weaving together the sto...

Publisher: Tate PublishingAuthor(s): Nicolette JonesIllustration(s): 46 illustrationsNumber of pages: 352Publication date: 2021Dimensions: 246 x 30...

A sweeping history of twentieth-century Europe, Out of Ashes tells the story of an era of unparalleled violence and barbarity yet also of humanity,...

Reducere. Pulitzer Prize finalist A poetic history of the twentieth century from one of our most beloved, popular, and highly lauded poets--a stirring, strik...

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