Social And Cultural History – Bücher, CDs, Diverse und mehr, Seite 3

Lauretta Malloy Noble, Leeanet Noble
Black, White, Colored

An absorbing investigation into a little-known historical tragedy---an insurrection which upended a resilient and wealthy Black community who found themselves in the clutches of an insurrection at the tur…

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Steven Ujifusa
The Last Ships from Hamburg

"Thoroughly researched and beautifully written history."---New York Times Book Review"Absorbing . . . a David-and-Goliath tale of the industrial age."---Wall Street JournalA propulsive…

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Beronda L Montgomery
When Trees Testify

This stunning cultural and personal reclamation of Black history and Black botanical mastery offers up lessons from the natural world shared through the stories of long-lived trees.The histories of trees …

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Micah S Muscolino
Remaking the Earth, Exhausting the People

State-led conservation transformed Gansu's landscape---rural communities bore the costsFrom the 1940s to the 1960s, soil and water conservation measures transformed both the arid, erosion-prone environmen…

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Christopher T Dole
Living on

"Living On centers around the unprecedented mobilization of mental health professionals in the wake of a massive earthquake that struck western Turkey in 1999--a disaster that left more than 20,000 p…

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Christopher T Dole
Living on

"Living On centers around the unprecedented mobilization of mental health professionals in the wake of a massive earthquake that struck western Turkey in 1999--a disaster that left more than 20,000 p…

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Andrea R Morrell
Prison Town

Andrea R. Morrell shows that despite the barriers aimed at separating incarcerated and free residents of Elmira, New York, the town's two prisons extended far beyond their walls, intricately connecting th…

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Samantha Bresnahan
In Blood, Flowers Bloom

"In Blood, Flowers Bloom illuminates one of the last untold stories of World War II, the common act of soldiers taking their enemy's possessions after victory. This is the story of a single Japanese …

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The Contours of Endearment

The Contours of Endearment offers a fresh, Southeast Asia--centered perspective on the complex and evolving relationship between Japan and the nations of Southeast Asia. While much scholarship has emphasi…

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Richard Wright
Black Boy

"Superb. . . . A great American writer speaks with his own voice about matters that still resonate at the center of our lives."---New York Times Book ReviewCelebrating its eightieth anniversary,…

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Economies of the Male Body

An intimate portrayal of masculinity in Egypt from lively, grounded, and fresh perspectives Based on long-term research in Cairo and Alexandria and grounded in ethnographic stories and intimate portrayals…

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The Mahele of Our Bodies

""They put up barriers, the same way with our bodies. Our bodies are meant for us to be very expressive. Hawaiians were like that. . . . To me it was an expression of the mahele of our bodies, t…

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Rebecca Jo Kinney
Mapping Asiatown Cleveland

Forthcoming Spring 2025This book examines the tensions that emerged between Asian American racial identity formation and the establishment of organized urban community in Cleveland. Moving from 1943 to th…

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Jeffrey Reid
Reason and Revelation in Hegel

Scholar and philosopher Jeffrey Reid's latest monograph, Reason and Revelation in Hegel, offers a new understanding of Hegel's metaphysical thought, centring on the Absolute's self-revelatory agency -- it…

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A Cultural History of Plants in the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries

Looks at the history and meanings of plants in the period from 1650-1800, a time of global exploration and the discovery of new species of plants and their potential uses.

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A Cultural History of Chemistry in Antiquity

Explores the chemical arts in the long period from 3000 BCE to 600 CE, when chemical artisans, recipes and ideas were exchanged between Mesopotamia, Egypt, Phoenicia, Greece, Rome and Byzantium. Also avai…

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A Cultural History of Chemistry in the Modern Age

Looks at the impact of chemistry and the chemical industry on science, war, society, and the economy in the "chemical age" from 1914 to the present.

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A Cultural History of Chemistry in the Early Modern Age

Traces chemical debates and practices within their cultural, social and political contexts during the period from 1500-1700.

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A Cultural History of Chemistry in the Nineteenth Century

Explores the birth of modern chemistry in the period from 1815-1914, looking at the elaboration of atomic theory, the growth of the chemical industry, new instruments and practices, the chemical laborator…

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A Cultural History of Chemistry in the Middle Ages

Explores alchemy and alchemical practice in the period from 600 to 1500 in European and Islamic cultures.

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