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Lou Adler: A Musical History

Rezensionen „‚A Musical History‘ umfasst die Jahre 1958 bis 1974 und bietet ein Spektrum vom Fifties-R&B (Sam Cookes ‚Wonderful World‘) über Sixties-Pop (‚Crying In The Rain‘, Everly Brothers), Sixties-…

Informal Cities

An empirically rich reconstruction of how informality became an intrinsic part of urban life across three continents.Over a quarter of the world's urban population lives in informal settlements. While inf…

The Historicity of International Politics

This book shows how historical trajectories have shaped international politics, covering a wide range of imperial and (post-) colonial settings. For scholars and advanced students of IR, historical sociol…

Bruce Robbins

Atrocity

" Exploring literary representations of mass violence, Robbins traces the emergence of a cosmopolitan recognition of atrocity. Mass violence did not always have a name. Like conquest, atrocity was no…

Lawrence R Samuel

Making Miami

"Very informative---includes subject areas that have remained underserved in terms of historiography."---Paul George , Resident Historian, HistoryMiami MuseumMaking Miami takes a deep dive into …

Historicity in Organization Studies

As soon as we go beyond the borders of our present and begin to explore remote pasts and futures, management and organization scholars are exposed to two dangers. The first is the exaggeration of continui…

Translocations

Who owns cultural assets? Who has narrative control? What could fair and just approaches to dislocations of cultural assets look like, independently of restitution?Discussions about historical appropriati…

Dorothée Boulanger

Fiction as History

Fiction as History is an interdisciplinary analysis of over twenty Angolan novels written from the 1960s to the 2010s by some of the country's most celebrated writers: Pepetela, Manuel dos Santos Lima, Ma…

Molly Nilsson

History

The Skatalites

History Of Ska, Rocksteady And Reggae

Dieses außergewöhnliche Livealbum enthält die letzten bekannten Aufnahmen mit den Gründungsmitgliedern der legendären Band The Skatalites. Das Album mit seinen ansteckenden, tanzbaren Songs ist ein wertvo…

Christian Frost

Architecture and Cultural Continuity

Architecture and Cultural Continuityexplores a dynamic way of viewing architecture - arguing that all architecture is best evaluated through active experiences in relation to cultural traditions of commun…

Christian Frost

Architecture and Cultural Continuity

Architecture and Cultural Continuityexplores a dynamic way of viewing architecture - arguing that all architecture is best evaluated through active experiences in relation to cultural traditions of commun…

Brittany Murray

Time on the Brink of Impasse

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Brittany Murray

Time on the Brink of Impasse

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Maria Kalenska

Cuisines of Odesa

Nestled on the Black Sea coast, Odesa's cuisine is a tantalizing fusion of influences from Ukrainian, Jewish, Greek, Turkish, and Armenian traditions. In Cuisines of Odesa, gourmand and travel writer Mari…

Nikkolas Smith

The History of We

An awe-inspiring picture book about the origin and evolution of humans, from #1 New York Times bestselling illustrator.

A Cultural History of Race in Antiquity

The era generally referred to as antiquity lasted for thousands of years and was characterized by a diverse range of peoples and cultural systems. This volume explores some of the specific ways race was d…

Charles Zahno

From Elba to Paris: The Audacity of Napoleon's Comeback

Exiled, defeated, and stripped of his empire, Napoleon Bonaparte seemed destined to fade into history. But in a move that stunned Europe, the former Emperor escaped his Mediterranean exile on Elba and emb…

J. Hoberman

Everything Is Now

Like Paris in the 1920s, New York City in the 1960s was a cauldron of avant-garde ferment and artistic innovation. Boundaries were transgressed and new forms created. Drawing on interviews, memoirs, and t…