Woman. The American History of an Idea, Hardback - Lillian Faderman

A comprehensive history of the struggle to define womanhood in America, from the seventeenth to the twenty-first centuryPublisher: Yale University ...

Benoit Godin is a Professor at the Institut national de la recherche scientifique, Montreal.

Shiraz Maher charts the intellectual underpinnings of salafi-jihadism from its origins in the mountains of the Hindu Kush to the jihadist insurgenc...

Reducere. The exhortation to "Go West " has always sparked the American imagination. But for gays, lesbians, and transgendered people, the City of Angels pro...

Reducere. This landmark work of lesbian history focuses on how certain late-nineteenth-century and twentieth-century women whose lives can be described as le...

A powerful dissection of a core American myth.Publisher: The University of Chicago PressAuthor(s): Ian TyrrellNumber of pages: 288Publication date:...

As Lillian Faderman writes, there are "no constants with regard to lesbianism, " except that lesbians prefer women. In this groundbreaking book, sh...

Reducere. Caustic, brilliant, uncompromising, accomplished, Lillian Hellman, one writer noted, can "take the tops off bottles with her teeth." Her career as ...

Publisher: Taylor & Francis LtdAuthor(s): Cosimo (University of Salento, Italy) PerrottaNumber of pages: 270Publication date: 2020Dimensions: 155 x...

A worldwide survey on the idea of utopia, from classical mythology to contemporary science fiction.

Reducere. The racist legacy behind the Western idea of freedom The era of the Enlightenment, which gave rise to our modern conceptions of freedom and democra...

Publisher: Penguin Books LtdAuthor(s): Shiraz MaherNumber of pages: 320Publication date: 2017Dimensions: 201 x 139 x 20Cover type: Paperback / soft...

Reducere. ... will make a splendid contribution to the fields of African-American and American urban, social and family history.... expanding the tradition t...

A major new history of the century-long debate over what a Jewish state should beMany Zionists who advocated for the creation of a Jewish state env...

Publisher: Princeton University PressAuthor(s): Tyler StovallIllustration(s): 31 b/w illus.Number of pages: 440Publication date: 2022Dimensions: 24...

Reducere. Ever since John Winthrop told his fellow colonists in 1630 that they were about to establish a City upon a Hill, the idea of having a special place...

DescriptionWithin the history of African American struggle against racist oppression that often verges on dystopia, a hidden tradition has depicted...

Publisher: Oxford University Press IncAuthor(s): Stephen (Professor Emeritus of History, Professor Emeritus of History, UCLA) AronIllustration(s): ...

Publisher: The University of Chicago PressAuthor(s): Lilliana MasonIllustration(s): 45 line drawings, 7 tablesNumber of pages: 216Collection: Chica...

Reducere. "If you are looking for a true, gritty story about life in its rawest form, then Black Child to Black Woman...will fit the bill." - Readers Favorit...

Frederick Douglass's pioneering autobiography that played a key part in the abolition of slavery.Publisher: Pan MacmillanAuthor(s): Frederick Dougl...

Reducere. An important voice for her people by the first published Native American female authorLucy Thompson (or to give her the correct Yurok name Che-na-w...

Reducere. An important voice for her people by the first published Native American female authorLucy Thompson (or to give her the correct Yurok name Che-na-w...

From later antiquity to the close of the 18th century, most educated men accepted without question a traditional view of the plan and structure of ...

Reducere. "In many ways, this is The Phoenix Project for the PowerShell world."Introduced in 2006, Microsoft's PowerShell made an immediate, positive impact ...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Christopher J. LebronStarted in the wake of George Zimmerman's 2013 acquittal in the death of Trayvon Martin, the #BlackLiv...

Publisher: The University of Chicago PressAuthor(s): Claire DunningIllustration(s): 23 halftonesNumber of pages: 336Collection: Historical Studies ...

As a study of presidential image-fashioning, FDR in American Memory will be of immediate relevance to present-day readers.Publisher: Johns Hopkins ...

The first illustrated history to celebrate women's struggle for equality around the globe. One hundred years ago American women fought for and won ...

Between 1981 and 2016, thousands of American and Australian Vietnam War veterans returned to Viet Nam. This oral history tells their story and expl...

Started in the wake of George Zimmerman's 2013 acquittal in the death of Trayvon Martin, the #BlackLivesMatter movement has become a powerful and u...

Reducere. In Film Blackness Michael Boyce Gillespie shifts the ways we think about black film, treating it not as a category, a genre, or strictly a represen...

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 ...

Reducere. If you want to discover the captivating history of the United States, then keep reading... When the first settlers reached the United States of Ame...

Reducere. If you want to discover the captivating history of the United States, then keep reading...When the first settlers reached the United States of Amer...

Chronicling the transformative historical moment when Americans began to reimagine their nation as one strengthened by the diverse faiths of its pe...

This book is a collection of the surveillance reports that reveal the extent of the surveillance to which Western diplomats were subjected in the C...

A concise and lively history of California, the most multicultural state in the nationPublisher: Yale University PressAuthor(s): John Mack Faragher...

CONTENTS: Chapter 1: 1762-1786; Chapter 2: 1787-1817; Chapter 3: 1818-1830; Chapter 4: 1831-1845 (Introduction); Chapter 5: 1847-1853; Chapter 6: 1...