TwentiethCentury – Bücher, CDs, Blu-ray Discs und mehr, Seite 6

Nicholas Mosley
Hopeful Monsters

Thirty-five years after its original publication, Hopeful Monsters reemerges as one of the "grand intellectual dramas" of the 20th century (- The New York Times).A sweeping, comprehensive epic, …

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Richard Quang-Anh Tran
Queer Vietnam

"Queer Vietnam recovers the forgotten stories of variant genders and sexualities in early twentieth-century Vietnam. By the beginning of the 1900s, European imperialism had spread Western notions of …

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Melissa Alexander
Conversation Pieces

Conversation Pieces sketches an object-oriented lineage for modernism, showing that Virginia Woolf's passion for objects was fuelled by her participation in a widespread conversation about philosophical e…

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The Penguin Book of Polish Short Stories

A revelatory and richly varied collection of Poland's greatest short stories, with a foreword by Nobel Prize-winner Olga Tokarczuk Witty, surprising and sparkling, this anthology is an essential explorati…

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Ohio's First Ladies

This engaging collection of essays explores the lives and legacies of six Ohio-born First Ladies: Lucy Webb Hayes, Lucretia Rudolph Garfield, Caroline Scott Harrison, Ida Saxton McKinley, Helen Herron Taf…

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C. L. R. James
The Black Jacobins

Penguin Modern Classics

'James is a titan of twentieth-century politics and culture' Sunday Times'The Black Jacobins is not only a groundbreaking historical work; it is a masterpiece in storytelling and analysis' Gary Younge The…

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Hugo Moreno
Where the North Ends

A dramatic story of love, fate, and redemption in a time travel adventure filled with mysticism as our hero moves between the twentieth-century and New Mexico during the Spanish Inquisition.Aspiring write…

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Christopher Aylward
Beothuk

The well-known story of the Beothuk is that they were an isolated people who, through conflict with Newfoundland settlers and Mi'kmaq, were made extinct in 1829. Narratives about the disappearance of the …

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Thomas Mann,
The Magic Mountain

One of the greatest works of twentieth-century European literature, in the definitive English translation'Home and a settled life not only lay far behind, but also, and more importantly, they lay fathoms …

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Laurence Roth
Unpacking My Father's Bookstore

Unpacking My Father's Bookstore brings to life the history of J. Roth / Bookseller of Fine & Scholarly Judaica, which was a microcosm of the Los Angeles Jewish community from 1966 to 1994 and one of t…

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Karin Barber
Much Matter in a Penny Paper

New African Histories

A groundbreaking study of Yorùbá-language print culture in colonial LagosMuch Matter in a Penny Paper offers the first in-depth exploration of the emergence of an African-language print culture in early t…

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Larry Tye
The Jazzmen

From the New York Times bestselling author of Satchel and Bobby Kennedy, a sweeping and spellbinding portrait of the longtime kings of jazz---Duke Ellington, Louis Armstrong, and Count Basie---who, born w…

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Caroline Elkins
Legacy of Violence: A History of the British Empire

From a Pulitzer Prize--winning historian: a searing study of the British Empire that probes the country's pervasive use of violence throughout the twentieth century and traces how these practices were exp…

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Jared Goss
The Birth of Art Deco: Ruhlmann and the Hôtel Du Collectionneur, 1925

As his starting point for the aesthetic we have come to love as Art Deco, French furniture and interior designer E.-J. Ruhlmann's pavilion at the 1925 Exposition Internationale des Arts Décoratifs et Indu…

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Sophie Taeuber-Arp: La règle des courbes / The Rule of Curves

An absorbing study of Swiss artist Sophie Taeuber-Arp's influential work, looking in depth at the role of the curve in the artist's formal lexicon.Edited and introduced by Briony Fer, Sophie Taeuber-Arp: …

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Virginia Woolf
Mrs Dalloway

Macmillan Collector's Library

Bold and experimental, Virginia Woolf's Mrs Dalloway is a landmark in twentieth-century fiction and a book that gets better and better with every reading.On a perfect June morning, Clarissa Dalloway - fas…

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Edward L Bowen
Legacies of the Turf

Delve into both the human and equine accomplishments of America's greatest twentieth-century breeders in this first volume of Legacies of the Turf .Some of Thoroughbred racing's greatest champions---horse…

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Christos Tsagalis
Early Greek Epic: Language, Interpretation, Performance

In the last fifty years major developments have taken place, both in the field of Homeric studies and in the rest of early Greek epic. These developments have not only created a more solid basis for study…

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Joel Nelson
Kennedy's Only Hero

The surprising story of how John F. Kennedy's obsession with Winston Churchill defined his life, transformed his politics, and helped elevate him to the nation's highest officeWinston Churchill remains on…

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Rebecca S Graff
Disposing of Modernity

Exploring twentieth-century urban America through trash and artifacts from the 1893 Chicago World's FairThrough archaeological and archival research from sites associated with the 1893 World's Columbian E…

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