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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Crown

The End Of All Things

Product Information The End Of All Things is for C R O W N what Kid A was for Radiohead: an album that nobody was expecting from them. Dark and moody; bleak and sublime; airy and crushing; mesmerizing 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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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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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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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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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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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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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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The Cambridge History of Welsh Literature

The literature of Wales is one of the oldest continuous literary traditions in Europe. The earliest surviving poetry was forged in the battlefields of post-Roman Wales and the 'Old North' of Britain, and …

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Ivan Strenski
How to Do Things with Myths

How to Do Things with Myths assembles a radically updated collection of Ivan Strenski's oft-cited publications on myth. Together, they tell how theories of myth have changed and led to a novel "perfo…

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Daniel E. Atkinson
The Rediscovery of George "Nash" Walker

The first biography of George Walker, a uniquely Afro-American tale of innovation and triumph despite the odds; the story of an underdog with a bite! The Rediscovery of George "Nash" Walker is t…

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