Todd Bolender, Janet Reed, and the Making of American Ballet, Hardback - Martha Ullman West

Illustrates how American ballet developed over the course of the twentieth century from an aesthetic originating in the courts of Europe into a sty...

Race and the Making of American Political Science shows that changing scientific ideas about racial difference were central to the academic study o...

Reducere. When we think of constitutional law, we invariably think of the United States Supreme Court and the federal court system. Yet much of our constitut...

Reducere. When we think of constitutional law, we invariably think of the United States Supreme Court and the federal court system. Yet much of our constitut...

Reducere. Traces the development of Catholic cultures in the South, the Midwest, the West, and the Northeast, and their contribution to larger patterns of Ca...

Reducere. Women of Discriminating Taste examines the role of historically white sororities in the shaping of white womanhood in the twentieth century. As nat...

Americans tend to cast slavery as a pre-modern institution--the nation's original sin, perhaps, but isolated in time and divorced from America's la...

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 ...

When George C Marshall became Secretary of State in January of 1947, he asked George F Kennan to head a new component in the department's structure...

Fraser-Rahim spotlights the emergence of an American school of Islamic thought, which was created and established by the son of the former Nation o...

An award-winning scholar's sweeping history of American secularism, from Jefferson to TrumpPublisher: Yale University PressAuthor(s): David SehatNu...

Reducere. Food expert and celebrated food historian Andrew F. Smith recounts--in delicious detail--the creation of contemporary American cuisine. The diet of...

Over a career spanning American history from the 1880s to the 1950s, John Dewey sought not only to forge a persuasive argument for his conviction t...

" A] fascinating and indispensable book."--Christopher Knight, Los Angeles Times Best Books of 2018--The Guardian Gold Medal for Contribution to Pu...

Reducere. Best Books of 2018--The Guardian " a] fascinating and indispensable book."--Christopher Knight, Los Angeles Times Carleton Watkins (1829-1916) is w...

The story of the dynamic, driven, and sometimes despised third wheel in the creation of America's iconic theme park While the success of Disneyland...

'Anyone who values what is best in British theatre and film will want to join Selina Todd as she digs deep into the brilliance of Delaney's work - ...

Publisher: Greystone Books, CanadaAuthor(s): Zazie ToddNumber of pages: 288Publication date: 2022Dimensions: 161 x 238 x 28Cover type: HardbackRede...

Author and undertaker Todd Harra shares a fascinating and oft-surprising exploration of the history and meaning of funeral rituals.Publisher: Sound...

This book examines the ways in which writers' houses contribute to the making of memory. It shows that houses built or inhabited by poets and novel...

Social conflict and the making of a globalized place at Rosia Montana - Filip Alexandrescu

Winner of the Pulitzer PrizeIn this groundbreaking biography of the Japanese emperor Hirohito, Herbert P. Bix offers the first complete, unvarnishe...

Contributor(s): Author: William PooleMilton and the Making of Paradise Lost tells the story of John Milton's life as England's self-elected nationa...

The Citizen is an early prose work relating to Roy Fisher and his native city of Birmingham - previously thought to have been lost - which was the ...

Publisher: Zone BooksAuthor(s): Martha PoonNumber of pages: 512Publication date: 2021Dimensions: 162 x 210 x 40Cover type: HardbackRedescopera farm...

Martha Graham's Cold War frames the story of Martha Graham and her particular brand of dance modernism as pro-Western Cold War propaganda used by t...

Publisher: Random House USA IncAuthor(s): Julianna SwaneyIllustration(s): Full colourNumber of pages: 40Collection: American Ballet TheatrePublicat...

Reducere. New Delhi was the grandest planned capital city of the British empire. In its meticulous urban plan it owed as much to earlier imperial traditions ...

The Global Cold War: Third World Interventions and the Making of Our Times - Odd Arne Westad

The Cambridge Companion to 'Pride and Prejudice' - Janet Todd

Publisher: R H WoodAuthor(s): Adrian SmithIllustration(s): 240 illustrationsNumber of pages: 224Publication date: 2000Dimensions: 280 x 226 x 17Cov...

Reducere. INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER" The] rare biography of a public figure that's not only beautifully written, but also shockingly revelatory." -- ...

Bringing together international case studies, this book offers theoretical and empirical insights into the interaction between social work and soci...

An investigation of environmental politics in light of Foucault's work, drawing on and extending work done in feminist environmentalism, political ...

The Palm House at Kew has been one of Britain's most popular attractions since it opened in 1848 - this is the story of its creation and the men wh...

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLCAuthor(s): Professor Mark (Professor of English, Pace University, USA, Pace University, USA) HusseyNumber of pa...

Publisher: MIT Press LtdAuthor(s): Peter PesicIllustration(s): 143 figuresNumber of pages: 360Publication date: 2022Dimensions: 203 x 231 x 28Cover...

Compares how photographers in Norway and the US represented the environment in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, when once-remote wilde...

Focused to the new OCR GCSE History A: Schools History Project specification, our American West 1840-95 Student Book offers a comprehensive focus o...