Cultural History – Bücher, CDs, LPs und mehr, Seite 9

Katrina Quisumbing King
Enduring Empire

"In 1898 the United States became a formal overseas empire and claimed sovereignty over the Philippine islands, justifying its rule in explicitly racial terms. Less than fifty years later, in 1946, P…

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Rosalind O'Hanlon
Lineages of Brahman Power

Traces the role that western India's influential Brahman communities played in shaping India's modern caste system.Western India's Brahman communities have played a key role in the shaping of India's mode…

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Colin Jones
The Shortest History of France

The Shortest History Series

France has long been feted for its unsurpassed cultural and historical riches. Gothic architecture, Louis XIV opulence, revolutionary spirit, café society . . . what could be more quintessentially French?…

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Joel J Miller
The Idea Machine

Books are our first and most lasting form of information technology. Books preserve ideas, yes, but they also provoke new ones--- they are true tools for thinking. In The Idea Machine , Joel J. Miller sho…

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Venner
The Lost Voices of Pompeii

Award-winning ancient historian, archeologist, and social media sensation Dr. Jess Venner (@lifeinthepastlane_) brings the citizens of Pompeii back to life through a vibrant account of their final day bef…

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Danielle Callegari
A Bite-Sized History of Italy

A compelling exploration into the rich tapestry of Italian food history and culture, from the Roman Empire to today, by the co-host of the top-ranked Gola food and wine podcastThough a relatively young co…

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Jeff Hobbs
Seeking Shelter

"In the tradition of Evicted and Invisible Child, Jeff Hobbs masterfully explores America's housing crisis through the real-life story of Evelyn. This is Hobbs's first book since The Short and Tragic…

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Mahboob Qirvanian,
Life of an Enslaved African in the Ottoman Empire and Iran

The Life of an Enslaved African in the Ottoman Empire and Iran is a poignant and compelling account of one man’s journey through struggle, resilience, and unimaginable suffering. In the early t…

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Jason H Dormady
Conflict and Correspondence

In the decades following the 1910 Mexican Revolution, Guadalajara faced immense demographic and economic transformation, stunning both longtime residents and new arrivals. The city's population nearly tri…

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David Denby
Eminent Jews

Leonard Bernstein, Mel Brooks, Betty Friedan, and Norman Mailer. Brilliant, brash, yet soulful, they were 100 percent Jewish and 100 percent American. They upended the restrained culture of their forebear…

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Gordon H Chang
War, Race, and Culture

"Writing history, the systematic effort to understand the human past, is a demanding intellectual endeavor. For historian Gordon H. Chang, it has also been a personal and moral enterprise intimately …

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Fuchsia Dunlop
Invitation to a Banquet

Chinese was the earliest truly global cuisine. When the first Chinese laborers began to settle abroad, restaurants appeared in their wake. Yet Chinese has the curious distinction of being both one of the …

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Forgotten Streams in the History of 19th-Century German Psychology

The 19th century is a decisive time for the development of contemporary psychology. The assumption of a mechanical worldview, the secularization of society, the emergence of the modern urban metropolis, a…

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Ting Hui Lau
Decolonial Endurance

What does it mean to live through a world coming undone? How do people carry on amid rupture, loss, and grief? Decolonial Endurance explores these questions through the turbulent lives of Indigenous Lisu …

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Ting Hui Lau
Decolonial Endurance

What does it mean to live through a world coming undone? How do people carry on amid rupture, loss, and grief? Decolonial Endurance explores these questions through the turbulent lives of Indigenous Lisu …

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H Glenn Penny
In Humboldt's Shadow

A compelling history of the German ethnologists who were inspired by Prussian polymath and explorer Alexander von HumboldtThe Berlin Ethnological Museum is one of the world's largest and most important an…

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Paul Anisef, Paul Axelrod, Carl E James, Wolfgan Lehmann
The Story of a Generation

The Story of a Generation , a follow-up to Opportunity and Uncertainty: Life Course Experiences of the Class of '73 (2000), continues where its predecessor left off. Through surveys and in-depth interview…

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Historisches Erzählen in Digitalien

Public History - Angewandte Geschichte

Wie verändern sich Geschichtskultur und Narrationen im digitalen Zeitalter? Und was ist das genuin Andere, wenn Menschen in und mit digitalen Medien historisch erzählen? Die Beiträger*innen nehmen aktuell…

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Monuments and Memory

This volume examines many different public monuments, exploring the cultural factors behind their creation, their messages and evolving meanings, and the role of such markers in conveying the memory of hi…

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Philip Carr-Gomm
A Brief History of Nakedness

"In A Brief History of Nakedness psychologist Philip Carr-Gomm traces our inescapable preoccupation with nudity. Rather than studying the history of the nude in art or detailing the ways in which the…

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