Social History – Bücher, LPs, CDs und mehr, Seite 10

Amin Samman
Currency of Nihilism

What happens to economic life when meaning and value come apart? Drawing on Friedrich Nietzsche, E.M. Cioran, and Jean Baudrillard, this book shows how the latest trends in digital finance restage the dil…

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Neil W Bernstein
Poppaea Sabina

Like many famous figures from antiquity, we must work through layers of fantasy in order to uncover the life of Poppaea Sabina (c. 30-65 CE). In this book, Neil Bernstein critically examines these sources…

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Peter Laufer
We Are All Americans

In the days after September 11, 2001, journalist Peter Laufer set out on a cross-country journey to capture America at its most vulnerable and united. Traveling from Washington, DC, to California, he docu…

lieferbar ab 28.6.2026.

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Martin Luther King
The Other America

A beautiful commemorative edition of Dr. Martin Luther King's speech "The American Dream," part of Dr. King's archives published exclusively by HarperCollins. At Lincoln University on June 6, 19…

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Martin Luther King
The American Dream

A beautiful commemorative edition of Dr. Martin Luther King's speech "The American Dream," part of Dr. King's archives published exclusively by HarperCollins. At Lincoln University on June 6, 19…

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Nadine Attewell
Archives of Intimacy

This book offers a rich and innovative study of multiracial social worlds in early-twentieth-century London, Liverpool, and Hong Kong -- three port cities linked by their importance to global British ship…

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Camilla Annerfeldt
Clothing and Identity in Early Modern Rome

This is the first book-length exploration of the clothes worn in early modern Rome and provides novel insights into the city of Rome during one of its most fascinating periods. It also challenges the noti…

lieferbar ab 23.7.2026.

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Hugo Vickers
Behind Closed Doors

An illuminating and moving portrait of Wallis Simpson, the Duchess of Windsor, in her later years after the Duke's death.**The true story behind the film The Duchess and I,starring Isabella Rosselini and …

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Nadine Attewell
Archives of Intimacy

This book offers a rich and innovative study of multiracial social worlds in early-twentieth-century London, Liverpool, and Hong Kong -- three port cities linked by their importance to global British ship…

lieferbar ab 7.7.2026.

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Kim Christensen
On My Honor

"Since its founding in 1910, the Boy Scouts of America has been the nation's premier youth organization, espousing self-reliance and honor. More than 100 million Americans have been Boy Scouts, from …

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Ana Teixeira Pinto
Death Wall

How the transition to fossil fuels entailed an intensification of ongoing processes of racialization.From the eighteenth century onwards, Western science began to tap a large, yet non-renewable, capital s…

lieferbar ab 28.7.2026.

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Eric Beecher
The Men Who Killed the News

Readings Best Books of 2024, Non-Fiction Nominated for the 2025 Sperber PrizeNever before has the media played such an active part in our politics, with Elon Musk using X to affect world elections and dir…

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Augustine Sedgewick
Fatherhood

"Superbly intelligent...[a] rewarding Sapiens -style big history." ---The Times (London) A bold and original history of the invention and transformation of masculinity's most important instituti…

lieferbar ab 12.5.2026.

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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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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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Arianne Edmonds (Senior Civic Media Fellow, Senior Civic Media Fellow, USC Annenberg School for Communication and Journalism)
We Now Belong to Ourselves

At the turn of the twentieth century, the Black press provided a blueprint to help Black Americans transition from slavery and find opportunities to advance and prosper in American society. Among the vang…

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Richard Aspin
The Lure of the South

The Lure of the South looks at the experience of British health seekers in the explosion of continental touring that occurred after the opening of the Post-Napoleonic European continent to relatively easy…

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Dance and Sociability in the Long Eighteenth Century

This collection explores the relationship between dance and sociability during the 18th century in Britain, Europe, America and the Caribbean.

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Alistair Fair, Lynn Abrams, Kat Breen, Miles Glendinning
Building Modern Scotland

Combining architectural and social history, this open access book tells for the first time the in-depth story of Scotland's new towns.One of the most significant episodes in modern architectural, urban an…

lieferbar ab 5.3.2026.

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Keith Houston
Empire of the Sum

Starting with hands, abacus and slide rule, humans have always reached for tools to simplify math. Pocket-sized calculators ushered in modern mathematics, helped build the atomic bomb, took us to the bott…

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