TwentiethCentury – Bücher, CDs, Blu-ray Discs und mehr, Seite 2

Moritz Föllmer
The Quest for Individual Freedom

What does it mean to see oneself as free? And how can this freedom be attained in times of conflict and social upheaval? In this ambitious study, Moritz Föllmer explores what twentieth-century Europeans u…

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Jody Mason
Books for Development

Canadian book culture has served, in both domestic and international contexts, to underpin a moralizing rhetoric of enlightened liberal tolerance for difference. Between 1945 and the end of the 1970s the …

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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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Uzbekistan on Canvas

This stunning volume offers an in-depth look at the vibrant artistic culture of Uzbekistan, from its groundbreaking avant-gardes to the rise of Socialist Realism.During the 2024 Biennale, in Venice and Fl…

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Paula A. Oppermann
Thunder Cross

Founded in 1932, Thunder Cross (Pērkonkrusts) was the largest and most prominent right-wing political party in Latvia in the early twentieth century. Its motto--"Latvia for Latvians!"--echoed th…

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Alex Boodrookas
Comrades Estranged

In 1975, Kuwaiti workers orchestrated arguably the most powerful citizen-led movement for noncitizen rights in the history of the Persian Gulf. Their efforts built on decades of wide-ranging struggle over…

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Alex Boodrookas
Comrades Estranged

In 1975, Kuwaiti workers orchestrated arguably the most powerful citizen-led movement for noncitizen rights in the history of the Persian Gulf. Their efforts built on decades of wide-ranging struggle over…

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Simon Ings
Engineers of Human Souls

How four writers transformed the politics of the twentieth century, and changed for ever the relationship between governments and their people

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Dona Brown
Hill Farms

There is a stubborn myth that has persisted for almost two centuries: the narrative of the abandoned farm in the rural American northeast. In Hill Farms , historian Dona Brown confronts this myth of rural…

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Hunter Hampton
The Gridiron Gospel

From the game's early days, college football and a strain of muscular Christianity built a mutually reinforcing culture that taught lessons in America's dominant religious, gendered, and racial belief sys…

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Iván Eusebio Aguirre Darancou
Consuming Citizens

Explores twentieth-century Mexican counterculture through the lens of pleasure, body autonomy, and music and film undergrounds. Consuming Citizens offers a fresh conception of twentieth-century Mexican cu…

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Dona Brown
Hill Farms

There is a stubborn myth that has persisted for almost two centuries: the narrative of the abandoned farm in the rural American northeast. In Hill Farms , historian Dona Brown confronts this myth of rural…

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Lena Suk
In the Darkness of the Cinema

Gender and sexual morality, and their intersections with race and class, were central to the formation of urban Brazil in the twentieth century. In the Darkness of the Cinematakes a wide-ranging and innov…

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Annarose F Steinke
Religious Culture in Modernist Verse

Annarose F. Steinke offers a look into the nuanced treatments of religion in modernism, and modernist poetry in particular, by pairing Eliot with Mina Loy, Gertrude Stein, Basil Bunting, and Thom Gunn.Ste…

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Iván Eusebio Aguirre Darancou
Consuming Citizens

Explores twentieth-century Mexican counterculture through the lens of pleasure, body autonomy, and music and film undergrounds. Consuming Citizens offers a fresh conception of twentieth-century Mexican cu…

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Elisa Prosperetti
An Anticolonial Development

In what measure could education be an agent of African freedom? Combining histories of race, economics, and education, Elisa Prosperetti examines this question in two West African contexts, Ghana and Côte…

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Simon Ings
Engineers of Human Souls

Four writers. Four dictators. One world, changed out of all recognition. ENGINEERS OF HUMAN SOULS is an intimate and shocking shadow history of creative vanity in a time that turned writers - once the fai…

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Joanna Penglase
Orphans of the Living

In August 2004, Parliamentary senators wept as they presented Forgotten Australians, the report from the Senate Inquiry into the treatment of children in care. Half a million children grew up in 'care' in…

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Alyssa Lopez
Reel Freedom

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Aaron Botwick
The Dead Cannot Reply

An intellectual and literary history of the professionalization of suicidology at the turn of the 20th century which shows that fiction played a significant role in the transformation of the debates on vo…

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