Social History – Bücher, CDs, LPs und mehr, Seite 8

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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Norifumi Daito
Sugar and the Indian Ocean World

Tracing the history of the sugar trade and its consumption in the Persian Gulf during the 18th century, this book explores the interplay of social, economic and political interests created by this popular…

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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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H A Drake
The Wisdom of the Ancients

This book is a novel look at developments in Mediterranean antiquity that became essential components of the modern world. Instead of the usual fare, such as Greek democracy, Roman law, and barbarian inva…

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Catherine Mayes
Hungarian Dances and Musical Life in Eighteenth-Century Vienna

Hungarian Dances and Musical Life in Eighteenth-Century Vienna is a social history of a unique facet of the Habsburg capital's diversity, illuminating how it shaped everyday experiences, individual and co…

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Samuel W Franklin
The Cult of Creativity

A history of how, in the mid-twentieth century, we came to believe in the concept of creativity. Named a best book of 2023 by the New Yorker and a notable book of 2023 by Behavioral Scientist.Creativity i…

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Kate Kennedy
Cello

"[T]he story of four cellists who suffered various forms of persecution, injury, and misfortune"--

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Fin Dwyer
A Lethal Legacy

The Instant Top 5 Irish Times BestsellerFrom the creator of The Irish History Podcast comes a fascinating look at Irish history through the lens of murder.

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Matthew P Llewellyn, Toby C Rider
British Sporting Relations with Apartheid South Africa

The first archival-based, historical examination of Britain's sporting relations with South Africa throughout the apartheid era, 1948-1994.

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Faisal Chaudhry
South Asia, the British Empire, and the Rise of Classical Legal Thought

The book delves into colonial South Asia's legal transformation under the rule of the British Crown, examining shifts in sovereignty, land control, and justice influenced by classical legal thought. It ex…

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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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Nathalie Cooke
Tastes and Traditions

An engaging exploration of why menus matter and the stories they tell.

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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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David C. Hoffman
American Freethought

"This book traces the history of the freethought movement to discover the strategies that allowed it to endure and succeed in a fervently religious nation. It argues that this movement was successful…

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Histories of Political Thought in the Ottoman World

This collection of papers is intended to provide a survey of the history of political ideas in the Ottoman world from its dawn around 1300 to its downfall in the early 20th century.

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Louis M Cullen
Six Generations

Six Generations describes the significant changes in everyday life - food, entertainment, household goods, working conditions, medicine, roads and communication - and what brought them about.

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Joe Cuhaj
The Pig War and the Pelican Girls

Whether you're an armchair historian or a lover of all things unusual and astonishing, this collection of obscure history shows that life surely is stranger than fiction.

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Stephan Mühr
Narrative des Unendlichen

Edition Kulturwissenschaft - Band 266

Das Unendliche überlastet unsere Einbildungskraft: Wir können es denken, aber wir vermögen es nicht, seine Ausmaße zu erfassen. Wie ist in der europäischen Kulturgeschichte mit dieser Inkommensurabilität …

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Evan Calder Williams
Inhuman Resources

On the forms of sabotage, insubordination, and invisible activity that evade the terrain of politics.Inhuman Resources centers on what gets stranded outside the border of the political. It develops an acc…

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