The Cultural History Reader

Showing the cultural and institutional processes that have brought the notion of the 'consumer' to life, this book guides the reader on a comprehen...

This book offers the reader a critical and interdisciplinary introduction to Brazilian history. Combining a didactic approach with insightful histo...

Reducere. he Coastal Atlas of Ireland is a celebration of Ireland's coastal and marine spaces. Drawing on written contributions from over 100 authors from ac...

Reducere. DescriptionDecolonizing the Caribbean Record: An Archives Reader is a compendium of forty essays by archivists and academics within and outside of ...

Reducere. This updated and expanded edition of The History of Spain offers an in-depth examination of Europe's fifth largest economy, providing important cov...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: John Charles ChasteenBorn in Blood and Fire, Fourth Edition has been extensively revised to heighten emphasis on current cu...

Reducere. For more than three decades, the women's movement and its scholars have exhaustively studied women's complex history, roles, and struggles. In Manh...

DescriptionA collection of primary documents that explore the many facets of the American military from the colonial period to the present The seco...

Reducere. Featuring more than 100 readings from a wide range of sources and writers, The Pop, Rock, and Soul Reader has established itself as the #1 reader o...

Reducere. Caribbean Cultural Thought: From Plantation to Diaspora presents a critical appraisal of the range of issues and themes that have been pivotal in t...

DescriptionOne of only seven editors in chief in American Vogue's history, Jessica Daves has remained one of fashion's most enigmatic figures. Dian...

Reducere. DescriptionCritical Multiculturalism and Intersectionality in a Complex World guides the reader through a process of critical self-reflection that ...

Reducere. Disability as Diversity: Developing Cultural Competence reveals why disability is a cultural experience, rather than merely a medical status. Conce...

An ideal reader for courses in Greek history, Greek civilization, and Western civilization, this comprehensive collection of more than 180 historic...

Drawing on medieval sources from western Europe, the Byzantine Empire, and the Muslim world, this book will fascinate anyone interested in the hist...

Reducere. The Afrocentric School, a Blueprint is a handbook that guides the prospective educationist, parent, student, and reader to understand African cultu...

Reducere. This volume brings together a broad range of key writings from the Black Arts Movement of the 1960s and 1970s, among the most significant cultural ...

In this extensively revised third edition of The Viking Age: A Reader, Somerville and McDonald successfully bring the Vikings and their world to li...

Reducere. This new collection of essays surveys the history of dance in an innovative and wide-ranging fashion. Editors Dils and Albright address the current...

Reducere. Western esotericism has been a pervasive presence in Western culture from late antiquity to the present day, but until recently it was largely igno...

DescriptionMedieval Philosophy: A Multicultural Reader comprises a comparative, multicultural reading of the four main traditions of the medieval p...

Reducere. DescriptionThis reader brings together 78 primary documents that capture the diversity of experiences of Americans who lived through World War II, ...

DescriptionZimbabwe's Cultural Heritage won first prize in the Zimbabwe Book Publishers Association Awards in 2006 for Non-fiction: Humanities and ...

Reducere. Take a journey through the history and culture of the Bible with the only study Bible that unfolds in historical order.The NKJV Chronological Study...

Reducere. THE BOOK OF ST. CYPRIAN: THE SORCERER'S TREASURE is a translation of one of the most complete Portuguese grimoires attributed to St. Cyprian of Ant...

Reducere. DescriptionThe Long Sixties is a concise and engaging treatment of the major political, social, and cultural developments of this tumultuous period...

Description The Upaniṣads are among the most sacred foundational scriptures in the Hindu religion. Composed from 800 BCE onwards and making up part...

Reducere. Whereas the history of workers and labor movements has been widely researched, the history of work has been rather neglected by comparison. This vo...

Middle Egyptian introduces the reader to the writing system of ancient Egypt and the language of hieroglyphic texts. It contains twenty-six lessons...

Reducere. The Judith Butler Reader is a collection of writings that span her impressive career and trace her intellectual history. Judith Butler, author of i...

Reducere. The Mexico Reader is a vivid introduction to muchos Mexicos--the many Mexicos, or the many varied histories and cultures that comprise contemporary...

Reducere. Transoxania, Khurasan, and ?ukharistan - which comprise large parts of today's Central Asia - have long been an important frontier zone. In the lat...

Reducere. New in paperback " . . . skillfully analyzed hundreds of primary source documents and integrated contemporary political, social and cultural elemen...

Reducere. This book reveals the overall connection between American holidays, history, culture, and patriotism. Black and white illustrated chapters present ...

DescriptionThis is the first reader to gather primary sources from influential theorists of the late 20th and early 21st centuries in one place, pr...

With groundbreaking contributions by Marshall McLuhan, Oliver Sacks, Italo Calvino and Alain Corbin, among others, Empire of the Senses overturns l...

DescriptionKohls shares a feast of Korean culture: a ricebowl of history and tradition complimented by an array of spicy tidbits that capture the r...

Reducere. Hemmed in by the vast, arid Chaco to the west and, for most of its history, impenetrable jungles to the east, Paraguay has been defined largely by ...

Reducere. In the period of decolonization that followed World War II, a number of scholars, mainly Middle Eastern, launched a sustained assault on Orientalis...

Reducere. Alaska is home to more than two hundred federally recognized tribes. Yet the long histories and diverse cultures of Alaska's first peoples are ofte...

Reducere. Rome a photographic tour is a captivating travel photography book dedicated to Rome, Italy, a city with a unique history. This photo book guides th...

DescriptionJean-Paul Sartre is one of the most famous philosophers of the twentieth century. The principle founder of existentialism, a political t...

Reducere. As the first state to legalize same-sex marriage in Asia and host the first annual gay pride in the Sinophone Pacific, Taiwan is a historic center ...

Publisher: University of California PressIllustration(s): 42 b-w illustrationsNumber of pages: 322Publication date: 2021Dimensions: 178 x 253 x 31C...

Reducere. This book takes the reader on a fascinating journey through the history of a region from the perspective of the interactions that occurred on and w...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Noel MalcolmThis updated edition of Noel Malcolm's highly-acclaimed Bosnia: A Short History provides the reader with the mo...

Reducere. With 160 color photographs that invite the reader to step over the threshold, Historic Houses of Philadelphia brings the region's most impressive m...

This Sporting Life offers an important view of England's cultural history through its sporting pursuits, carrying the reader to a match or a hunt o...

Reducere. Art and Entertainment; The Creative Gift; Articles on history, faith and culture, lifestyle, scholarship, and the Westminster discussions Through h...

Reducere. Western art from the Middle Ages through the nineteenth century; Art Needs No Justification; Miscellaneous articles and reviews.Was Pieter Bruegel ...

Reducere. From New Interpretations of the glyphic writings of the Maya through the poetic response to events in modern Chiapas, here is a history of Mexico a...

The zombie is ubiquitous in popular culture: from comic books to video games, to internet applications and homemade films, zombies are all around u...

Reducere. DescriptionWritten in a clear, accessible, storytelling style, African American Theater will shine a bright new light on the culture which has hist...

Reducere. This book chronologically documents the rise and fall of the major religions of the world and explores the role that various cultural factors such ...

DescriptionHow has the UK evolved into the country it is today? This clear, comprehensive survey of its history since 1900 explores the political, ...

Reducere. The first Latin American to receive a Nobel Prize for Literature, the Chilean writer Gabriela Mistral (1889-1957) is often characterized as a heali...

Reducere. DescriptionAs the People's Republic's seemingly inexorable rise to economic and military power continues, never has the need for a better grasp of ...

Reducere. Fifty Years in the Karen Revolution in Burma is about commitment to an ideal, individual survival and the universality of the human experience. A m...

Dozens of maps provide a clear geography of great events, while timelines give the reader an ongoing sense of the passage of years and cultural int...

Reducere. Hildegard of Bingen 1098-1179], an important figure in her own time, has come increasingly to critical attention in recent years. Cause et Cure, at...

Reducere. Romania is a true cultural melting pot, its character rooted in many traditions from Greek, Turkish, and Slavic in the south and east, to Austrian,...

DescriptionIn this insightful study of Iranian cultural history and national identity, the late Shahrokh Meskoob, one of Iran's leading intellectua...

From West African masquerades to Venetian carnivals and New York society galas, fancy dress has long been used to convey important social and polit...

Reducere. These selections from the many writings of Thomas Sowell over a period of a half century cover social, economic, cultural, legal, educational, and ...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Chris SimsAuthor: Hillary Louise JohnsonThe Elements of Scrum has gained an international following and a reputation for be...

Through 100 groundbreaking dresses, The Dress traces the past and present influences and reinterpretations in clothing design. From the Victorian c...

Covering 500 years of Ghana's history, The Ghana Reader provides a multitude of historical, political, and cultural perspectives on this iconic Afr...

Reducere. Bangladesh is the world's eighth most populous country. It has more inhabitants than either Russia or Japan, and its national language, Bengali, ra...

From Miss Lou to Bob Marley and Usain Bolt to Kamala Harris, Jamaica has had an outsized reach in global mainstream culture. Yet many of its most i...

DescriptionBringing together experts from across the computational and cultural fields to explore the meaning and impact of artificial intelligence...