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Provides a wide-ranging investigation of the gendered nature of historical memory and its influence on the development of the Mara region of Tanzan...

DescriptionSpain's former African colonies-Equatorial Guinea and Western Sahara-share similar histories. Both are under the thumbs of heavy-handed,...

Drawing from personal experiences and theoretical perspectives in such varied fields as sociology, political science, literature, and media studies...

Reducere. Scholarly investigations of the rich field of verbal and extraverbal Athenian insults have typically been undertaken piecemeal. Deborah Kamen provi...

Examining the vanguard of New Turkish Cinema, Laurence Raw shows how these films reveal the effects of profound socio economic change on ordinary p...

Based on extensive field research in the Manianga region of the Lower Congo, Health in a Fragile State is an anthropological account of public heal...

DescriptionThe work of black writers, editors, publishers, and librarians is deeply embedded in the history of American print culture, from slave n...

Facing repression, the Latin American left in the '60s and '70s found connection in transnational exchange, organising with activists in Africa, th...

Grounded in history and case law, Last Train to Auschwitz traces the SNCF's journey toward accountability in France and the United States, culminat...

DescriptionSenegal Abroad explores the fascinating role of language in national, transnational, postcolonial, racial, and migrant identities. Captu...

The Italian educator and physician Maria Montessori (1870-1952) is best known for the teaching method that bears her name. She was also a lifelong ...

In rural South African clinics, Black nurses had to navigate the intersections of traditional African healing practices, changing gender relations,...

In presenting four substantial, historically valuable collections from the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, this book illustrates how understand...

Reveals the daily lives and religious practice of ordinary Muslim men in Tajikistan as they aspire to become Sufi mystics. Benjamin Gatling describ...

DescriptionNongovernmental organizations (NGOs) are ubiquitous in the Global South. Often international in origin, many attempt to assist local eff...

Systems of belonging are not static, automatic, or free of contest. Historical contexts shape the ways which we are included in or excluded from sp...

Reducere. The revival of the Olympic games in 1896 and the subsequent rise of modern athletics prompted a new, energetic movement away from more sedentary ha...

Reducere. Researchers often face significant and unique ethical and methodological challenges when conducting qualitative field work among people who have be...

Publisher: Marquette University PressAuthor(s): Thomas C. ReevesNumber of pages: 455Publication date: 2006Dimensions: 221 x 150 x 41Cover type: Har...

DescriptionMeke, a traditional rhythmic dance accompanied by singing, signifies an important piece of identity for Fijians. Despite its complicated...

Addresses the creative and often unexpected trajectory of French cinema, which continues to be one of the most provocative and engaging cinemas in ...

Englishwoman Mary McAuley first arrived in Leningrad in the early 1960s, eager to study labor relations for her thesis. Staying at a hostel, she me...

DescriptionIn 1898, in an era of racial terror at home and imperial conquest abroad, the United States sent its troops to suppress the Filipino str...

DescriptionBefore World War I, the government reaction to labor dissent had been local, ad hoc, and quasi-military. Sheriffs, mayors, or governors ...

The National Bolshevik Party, founded in the mid-1990s by Eduard Limonov and Aleksandr Dugin, began as an attempt to combine radically different id...

Tarquini offers a rich and stimulating synthesis, the best single-volume work available on this complex and challenging subject. This history revea...

DescriptionMore than four million visitors travel each year to the Wisconsin Dells, making it the most economically significant tourist destination...

This ambitious volume paints a rich picture of the tools and techniques of printing, publishing, and reading that shaped the ideas and practices th...

Three official languages have emerged in the Balkan region that was formerly Yugoslavia: Croatian in Croatia, Serbian in Serbia, and both of these ...

Countess Sofia Panina lived a remarkable life. Born into an aristocratic family in imperial Russia, she found her true calling in improving the liv...

Once considered the most stable country in West Africa, Ivory Coast was split by an armed rebellion in 2002 and endured a decade of instability and...

In 1999, Rabbi Steven Greenberg challenged this tradition when he became the first Orthodox rabbi ever to openly declare his homosexuality. Wrestli...

Reducere. In this landmark study of James Joyce's Finnegans Wake, Luca Crispi and Sam Slote have brought together fourteen other leading Joyce experts in a g...

Tells the story of voting in elections across the years and investigates electoral trends and patterns over the course of Wisconsin's history. This...

Reducere. A collaboration between well-established and rising scholars, Futures of Dance Studies suggests multiple directions for new research in the field. ...

Reducere. 'Between Resistance and Martyrdom' is a comprehensive historical study of the persecution of Jehovah's Witnesses during the Holocaust era."About th...

Reducere. Just as E. M. Forster's novel of gay love, Maurice, remained unpublished throughout his lifetime, Glenway Wescott's long story "A Visit to Priapus"...

In this captivating memoir, Emil Draitser explores what it means to be a satirist in a country lacking freedom of expression. His experience provid...

Reducere. American public universities were founded in a civic tradition that differentiated them from their European predecessors--steering away from the pu...

Reducere. DescriptionA cultural and intellectual history that explains the intersection of politics and culture, and the formation of a national identity, du...

Reducere. DescriptionWith experience as both a trial and appellate judge, Charles Benjamin Schudson knows the burdens on judges. With engaging candor, he tak...

This is a guide to the field of women's autobiography. The 39 essays explore narratives across the centuries, including testimonies, diaries, memoi...

Reducere. Approximately five million people worldwide speak Albanian. The opening of Albania in the 1990s to broader trading and diplomatic relations with ot...

Between Resistance and Martyrdom is the first comprehensive historical study of the persecution of Jehovah's Witnesses during the Holocaust era. Re...

Publisher: University of Wisconsin PressAuthor(s): Douglass K. DanielIllustration(s): 22 black and white photographsNumber of pages: 248Collection:...

Thanks to its active role in national politics, the market economy, and popular culture, the Thai crown remains both the country's dominant institu...

Reducere. Answers to written exercises and transcripts now included in e-book and in printThe Norsk, nordmenn og Norge series regards communication as the pr...

Drawing from diaries, journals, school textbooks, and printed propaganda, J.W. Mohnhaupt tells the stories of animals during the Third Reich, focus...

Reducere. Many students learn about the Middle East through a sprinkling of information and generalizations deriving largely from media treatments of current...

Glenn Ford star of such now-classic films as Gilda, Blackboard Jungle, The Big Heat, 3: 10 to Yuma, and The Rounders had rugged good looks, a long ...

Reducere. As European colonies in Asia and Africa became independent nations, as the United States engaged in war in Southeast Asia and in covert operations ...

Committed to the struggle for civil rights, in the late 1950s Joan Steinau marched and protested as a white ally and young woman coming to terms wi...

Presents the memoir of a man hungry for the logistics of travel: getting there, staying there, and feeling at home on any continent. Woven into Geo...

Demonstrates that, similar to their white counterparts, African American authors - including Ralph Ellison, Toni Morrison and Countee Cullen - have...

Between 1938 and 1941, the Philippine Commonwealth provided safe asylum to more than 1, 300 German Jews. In highlighting the efforts by Philippine ...

Reducere. DescriptionAntarctica is a vortex that draws you back, season after season. The place is so raw and pure, all seal hide and crystalline iceberg. Th...

Reducere. The demonstrations capture interest, teach, inform, fascinate, amaze, and perhaps, most importantly, involve students in chemistry. Nowhere else wi...

Reducere. Theodore J. Karamanski's sweeping maritime history demonstrates the far-ranging impact that the tools and infrastructure developed for navigating t...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Bassam Z. ShakhashiriEditor: Tino BalioThe demonstrations capture interest, teach, inform, fascinate, amaze, and perhaps, m...

Reducere. DescriptionAs the U.S. Latino population grows rapidly, and as the LGBTQ Latino community becomes more visible and a more crucial part of our liter...

Reducere. Knowing that queer voices have been making themselves heard in Germany, Switzerland, and Austria decades before Stonewall, editors Gary Schmidt and...

Reducere. This is the first comprehensive textbook teaching English-speakers to read, write, and speak contemporary Bulgarian. The text is designed to be ada...

Reducere. Few topics in modern history draw the attention that the Holocaust does. The Shoah has become synonymous with unspeakable atrocity and unbearable s...

Reducere. For nearly a half century, from 1945 to 1991, the United States and the Soviet Union maneuvered to achieve global hegemony. Each forged political a...

Reducere. With this book, published more than a half-century ago, Aldo Leopold created the discipline of wildlife management. Although A Sand Country Almanac...

Reducere. Teaching history well is not just a matter of knowing history--it is a set of skills that can be developed and honed through practice. In this theo...

Reducere. Most films tell tales, but what does that involve? How do motion pictures tease us into building what we all agree to call stories? In this study, ...

Newly revised for 21st-century readers, the author - an ordained but fallen exorcist - tells all about the evil eye, the queer eye, women and witch...

For many nineteenth-century Russians, poetry was woven into everyday life. Blending close literary analysis with social and cultural history, Daria...

Amid the rising nationalism and racial politics that culminated in World War II, European countries wishing to 'purify' their nations often forced ...