The Invention of Brownstone Brooklyn: Gentrification and the Search for Authenticity in Postwar New York, Paperback - Suleiman Osman

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Suleiman OsmanConsidered one of the city's most notorious industrial slums in the 1940s and 1950s, Brownstone Brooklyn by t...

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Reducere. Because of its clandestine nature, much of the history of the Underground Railroad remains shrouded in secrecy--so much so that some historians hav...

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...

Reducere. Note: This 292-page book is filled with hundreds of graphics, news headlines, photos, and many memes. The paperback is black-and-white, the ebook i...

Reducere. This 292-page book is filled with hundreds of graphics, news headlines, photos, and many memes. The paperback is black-and-white, the ebook is colo...

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 ...

Thomas Heise identifies and investigates the emerging "gentrification plot" in contemporary crime fiction. He considers recent novels that depict t...

A New York City ethnography that explores men's unique approaches to Catholic devotion Every Saturday, and sometimes on weekday evenings, a group o...

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...

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

Publisher: The University of Chicago PressAuthor(s): Mike AmezcuaIllustration(s): 32 halftonesNumber of pages: 320Collection: Historical Studies of...

DescriptionA fascinating journey through the origins of American tourism In the early nineteenth century, thanks to a booming transportation indust...

Reducere. A first-ever book on the subject, New York City Blues: Postwar Portraits from Harlem to the Village and Beyond offers a deep dive into the blues ve...

Reducere. Tim Pat Coogan covers the tortured history of Ireland from the beginning of the civil rights movement of the 1960s, through the long years of viole...

Association for Humanist Sociology 2007 Book Award co-winnerJulian Steward Award 2006 Runner-Up Over the past two decades, environmental racism has...

'Ali ibn 'Asakir (1105-1176) was one of the most renowned experts on Hadith and Islamic history in the medieval era. His was a tumultuous time: cen...

In today's world, many believe that everyday life has become selfish and atomised-that individuals live only to consume. Jon Lawrence argues that t...

Publisher: New York University PressAuthor(s): Cristina Mejia VisperasIllustration(s): 20 b/w illustrationsNumber of pages: 240Publication date: 20...

Securitizing Islam: Identity and the Search for Security - Stuart Croft

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Richly illustrated with manuscripts, portraits, Sir John Tenniel's original line drawings and contemporary photographs, this is a fresh look at two...

A nuanced account of the life and art of Piero della Francesca.Illustrations: 94 colour illustrations

Reducere. In 12 April 1937 Frank Whittle became the first person to successfully start and run a turbojet engine. In May 1941 the engine took to the air in a...

Reducere. During the Golden Age of Sports in the 1920s, Walter Hagen was to golf what Babe Ruth was to baseball. The first professional golfer to make his li...

This book describes leadership best practice and thinking.

This book maps key moments in the history of post-war art from a global perspective.Publisher: Taylor & Francis LtdNumber of pages: 252Collection: ...

Reducere. DescriptionThe New York Public Library amazing women in American HistoryJoin Susan B. Anthony's fight for voting rights. Follow Sandra DayO'Connor ...

Written for the educated non-scientist and scientist alike, it spans a variety of scientific disciplines, from observational astronomy to particle ...

Jeevan Vasagar is a superb and evocative writer, and Lion City is a compelling, illuminating and personal history that will be regarded as the defi...

The extraordinary story of Singapore told by the expert correspondent for the Financial TimesPublisher: Little, Brown Book GroupAuthor(s): Jeevan V...

Reducere. While most young people are just getting their footing in life, 24-year-old Bryshon Boogie Tolliver is already being groomed to be a boss by his fa...

Reducere. Praised by President Richard Nixon as his favorite read for 1987, The Search for Historical Meaning presents the postwar American conservative move...

Reducere. Bullets in The Fire - The Saga of New York RedA sexually liberated young woman, Erma Louise Hill, comes of age during the depression under difficul...

The Invention of Tradition - Eric Hobsbawm, Terence Ranger