Early-twentieth Century – Bücher, CDs, LPs und mehr, Seite 7

Robert G Parkinson
Heart of American Darkness

In this startingly original work, Robert Parkinson presents a new account of ever-shifting encounters between white colonists and Native Americans. Drawing skilfully on Joseph Conrad's famous novella, Hea…

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Across Time and Space

Explore the rise of oil painting in twentieth-century China.In the early twentieth century, oil painting as a non-Indigenous medium began to be taught in Chinese art academies. Since then, it has become a…

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Catherine Johnson,
Dance of Resistance

Catherine Johnson celebrates the incredible life of Josephine Baker in this "superb autobiography" (Guardian), chronicling her journey from an impoverished childhood to beloved actress, dancer a…

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Aleksandr Prigozhin
Modernism, Media, and the Politics of Common Life

Explores how modernist fiction interrogated the many promises of ubiquitous media connectivity as key to collective life.In Modernism, Media, and the Politics of Common Life, Aleksandr Prigozhin explores …

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David E. Winterton
Toronto Edwardian

Beginning his career as an independent architect in the mid-1870s, Frank Darling came to prominence as the principal of Darling & Pearson Architects, designing a plethora of delightful bank buildings …

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Samir Amin
Russia and the Long Transition from Capitalism to Socialism

Out of early twentieth-century Russia came the world's first significant effort to build a modern revolutionary society. According to Marxist economist Samir Amin, the great upheaval that once produced th…

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Paul Moawad,
Waiting on Borders

A powerful contribution to ongoing debates on refugees, borders, and camps and the politics of waitingThe Lebanese-Syrian borderscape is predominantly porous and ambiguous, without an actual border contro…

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Bryan Mccann
Rio de Janeiro

Ten Moments That Shaped

What do nineteenth-century fiction, early twentieth-century popular music, 1930s soccer, 1950s film comedy, 1960s experimental art and 1970s soap operas have in common with one another? Each reveal the de…

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Hannah Shepherd
The Narrowing Sea

"Moving beyond customary typologies of imperial or colonial cities, The Narrowing Sea offers a pioneering urban social history of imperialism's foot soldiers. The everyday lives of the inhabitants of…

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Edith Wharton
Pomegranate Seed and Other Ghostly Tales

Penguin Horror

PENGUIN HORROR: A celebration of the very best literary horror, a series of terrifying novels and tales that for generations have thrilled, captivated and kept readers wide awake at night.Known for writin…

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Despo Kritsotaki
A Social History of Mental Health Care in Greece, c. 1900-1920

Mental Health in Historical Perspective

This book examines the social and cultural meanings of mental illness and psychiatric hospitalisation in early twentieth-century Greece. Although Greek psychiatrists were trained in countries such as Fran…

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Lauren Nicole Henley
Inquisition for Blood

For three years in the early 1900s, a serial killer zigzagged across the rice belt region of the United States, using an everyday ax to slaughter Black families living within a mile of the Southern Pacifi…

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Richard Quang-Anh Tran
Queer Vietnam

"Queer Vietnam recovers the forgotten stories of variant genders and sexualities in early twentieth-century Vietnam. By the beginning of the 1900s, European imperialism had spread Western notions of …

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Jane Thomas
Wilful Neglect

Tuberculosis, once a leading cause of death in Europe and North America, was understood to be preventable and even curable by the early twentieth century. Yet despite growing knowledge about the disease a…

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Mithi Mukherjee
Asianism and the Fall of Empire

Offering a new global perspective on modern Indian history, Asianism and the Fall of Empire identifies the rise of Asianism in the early twentieth century as the origin and primary driving force of resist…

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Troubadours - Folk And The Roots Of American Music, Part 1

In the one hundred years that folk music has been recorded in the United States, the tradition has embraced ballads – mostly new, but some transplanted from Europe, political statements, personal introspe…

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Wayne M O'Leary
The Tancook Schooners

The Tancook Schooners recounts the history of a remarkable, yet neglected, Atlantic Canadian watercraft. The "little Bluenoses," as they were called, formed the backbone of Nova Scotia's inshore…

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Mitchell Abidor
Victor Serge

'Superb ... A vivid account of one of the most compelling lives in modern revolutionary history' - Maurice Casey, author of Hotel LuxIdeological schisms have always been a feature of the left, but for muc…

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Thomas Wilson
Confucian Gods

Confucian Gods offers an intellectual history of Confucian conceptions of the gods found in the Classics and feasted by the imperial court until the early twentieth century. Thomas Wilson examines court d…

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Brian Michael Murphy
We the Dead

Locked away in refrigerated vaults, sanitized by gas chambers, and secured within bombproof caverns deep under mountains are America's most prized materials: the ever-expanding collection of records that …

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