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

A Cultural History of Mathematics in the Modern Age

A Cultural History of Mathematics in the Modern Age covers the period from 1914 to today. Across the Twentieth Century, mathematics influenced two World Wars and the shape of modern warfare, nuclear techn…

lieferbar ab 19.2.2026.

Buch

Gajendran Ayyathurai
Tamil Buddhism and Brahminism in Modern India

This book explores Tamil Buddhism in modern India, focusing on its emergence as a response to caste-based oppression during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Central to this movement was …

lieferbar ab 13.2.2026.

Buch

Regionalists on the Left

"Nothing is more anathema to a serious radical than regionalism," Berkeley English professor Henry Nash Smith asserted in 1980. Although regionalism in the American West has often been character…

lieferbar innerhalb 1-2 Wochen

Buch

Surekha Davies
Humans

"Surekha Davies invites readers to imagine the lives of historical monsters and to empathize with their often-wretched treatment."―Science magazineA history of how humans have created monsters o…

lieferbar ab 17.3.2026.

Buch

Adrian Bingham
Everyday Politics, Ordinary Lives

How do British citizens really feel about the political system, their role in it, and the people who represent them? By focusing on the everyday political opinions, discussions, and interactions of ordina…

lieferbar innerhalb 1-2 Wochen

Buch

Roy Christopher
The Grand Allusion

By tracing allusion use from its religious roots to internet memes, The Grand Allusion presents a new way to understand pop culture.The use of allusions represents an important way we employ our cultural …

lieferbar ab 17.3.2026.

Buch

Lizzie Wade
Apocalypse

A Next Big Idea Club Must-Read Book of May 2025 • APublishers Weekly Most Anticipated History Book of the Year • A The Millions Most Anticipated Spring Book of the YearA richly imagined new view on the gr…

lieferbar innerhalb 1-2 Wochen

Buch

A Cultural History of Insects in Antiquity

A Cultural History of Insects in Antiquity covers the period from 1000 BCE to 500 CE. As different cultures expanded so did their interactions with insects, largely seen as vectors of disease and as agric…

lieferbar ab 19.2.2026.

Buch

The Anthropology of White Supremacy

"White supremacy has shaped cultural anthropology from its inception, yet the discipline also offers powerful tools for understanding how this corrosive force structures societies around the world. T…

lieferbar innerhalb 1-2 Wochen

Buch

Tess Wilkinson-Ryan
Fool Proof

The fear of playing the fool is a universal psychological phenomenon and an underappreciated driver of human behavior; in the spirit of Malcolm Gladwell's Blink, Dan Ariely's Predictably Irrational, and S…

lieferbar innerhalb 1-2 Wochen

Buch

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.

Buch

Lauren Downing Peters,
Fashion Before Plus-Size

In the first in-depth historical survey of the plus-size fashion industry, Lauren Downing Peters reveals how the fashion industry perpetuates and materializes fat stigma through design discourse.

lieferbar innerhalb 1-2 Wochen

Buch

Andrew Stone Higgins
From the Free Speech Movement to the Factory Floor

From the Free Speech Movement to the Factory Floordocuments the overlooked history and lasting influence of the International Socialists through the words of its members.Founded at UC Berkeley in 1964 as …

lieferbar ab 31.3.2026.

Buch

Andrew Stone Higgins
From the Free Speech Movement to the Factory Floor

From the Free Speech Movement to the Factory Floordocuments the overlooked history and lasting influence of the International Socialists through the words of its members.Founded at UC Berkeley in 1964 as …

lieferbar ab 31.3.2026.

Buch

Dennis Mcnally
The Last Great Dream

"McNally masterfully combines many disparate lineages of political, social, art, and pop history into one singular, sweeping portrait. The result is a stunning vision of a broad and powerful idealism…

lieferbar innerhalb 1-2 Wochen

Buch

Ross Haynes
American Wealth Builders

The American Wealth Builders is a story of a finance, wealth, grit and powerful leadership in American Black History. It's a reminder of what truly makes America great: our potential to live up to our cre…

lieferbar innerhalb 1-2 Wochen

Buch

A Cultural History of Furniture in the Modern Age

Furniture is a unique witness to the transformations of private and public experience amidst the upheavals of the 20th century: how we work, rest, and play are determined by the embodied encounter with fu…

lieferbar ab 8.1.2026.

Buch

A Cultural History of Furniture in the Age of Enlightenment

The 18th century saw the height of court culture in Europe as well as the beginnings of its demise with conflicts such as the American and French Revolutions. The Scientific Revolution, which had begun in…

lieferbar ab 8.1.2026.

Buch

A Cultural History of Furniture in the Age of Empire and Industry

The 19th century in Western culture was a time of both confidence and turbulence. Industrial development produced a growing middle class as well as efficiency, convenience, and innovation across a range o…

lieferbar ab 8.1.2026.

Buch

Why Bob Dylan Matters, Revised Edition

"The coolest class on campus" -- The New York Times***Revised and updated with a new Afterword from the author.***When the Nobel Prize for Literature was awarded to Bob Dylan in 2016, a debate r…

lieferbar innerhalb 1-2 Wochen

Buch