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Shelley Hales
Mirrors and Masks in the Roman Empire

This book explores the ways in which masks and mirrors mediated encounters, enabled performances and effected visual and social metamorphoses across the Roman empire. The complex and multifaceted roles pl…

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John Blair
Killing the Dead

A riveting history of vampire panics across cultures and down through the millennia---and why killing the dead is better than killing the livingKilling the Dead provides the first in-depth, global account…

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Bruno Huberman,
The Palestinians and East Jerusalem

"Over the last two decades, the Israeli government has implemented policies for the development of East Jerusalem. These comprise urban revitalization as well as professional training and the promoti…

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Jeremy B Jones
Cipher

In the 1800s, Appalachian farmer and rogue William Prestwood kept salacious coded diaries, leaving his descendent, Jeremy Jones, to reflect on his complicated legacy.In 1975, a man stumbled upon a box of …

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Jonina Abron-Ervin
Driven by the Movement

A collective portrait of the Black Power movement by radical journalist and former Black Panther JoNina Abron-ErvinDriven by the Movement collects the stories of twenty ordinary people who did extraordina…

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Kazuhiko Tajima
Fishes of EDO

Decipher the history of Japanese people and fishes with authoritative Edo-period illustration collections.This third volume following Flowers of Edo and Birds of Edo turns its focus onto fishes. Mōri Baie…

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Basit Kareem Iqbal
The Dread Heights

"The Dread Heights is a remarkable contribution to the anthropology of religion. Iqbal traces the different ways refugees fleeing from the political cruelty and oppression of the Syrian regime resort…

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Dylan C Penningroth
Before the Movement

The familiar story of civil rights goes like this: once, America's legal system shut Black people out and refused to recognize their rights, their basic human dignity, or even their very lives. When lynch…

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Max Leonard
A Cold Spell

Taking us from the beginning of our story to the present day, A Cold Spell examines how ice has shaped our thoughts, actions and societies - and what it means for us that it is rapidly disappearing from o…

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Louis V Headman
Walks on the Ground

Walks on the Ground is a record of Ponca Elder Louis V. Headman's personal study of the Southern Ponca people, spanning seven decades.

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Grant Farred
Grievance

Reveals how America is a nation founded on grievance.Grievance is an American mode of being that can be traced back to the Declaration of Independence, that is at the root of the Civil War and accounts in…

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Stephanie Gray
Restoring America

Exploring how the New Deal shaped history through politically driven commemorationDuring the Great Depression, Americans employed historic preservation as a tool to address the political, economic, and so…

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Howard Amos
Russia Starts Here

Why do ordinary people support Putin? Why does Russia act so aggressively abroad? How fragile is the regime?In Russia Starts Here, Howard Amos paints a fascinating portrait of the lives of ordinary Russia…

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Stephanie Gray
Restoring America

Exploring how the New Deal shaped history through politically driven commemorationDuring the Great Depression, Americans employed historic preservation as a tool to address the political, economic, and so…

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Ella Ruth Tennent, Valerie J Frey
House-Keeping in the Sunny South

With its roots in the meetings of the Phoenix Agricultural Club of Marietta, Georgia, Ella Ruth Tennent's House-Keeping in the Sunny South offers nearly eight hundred food recipes, over seventy formulas f…

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Basit Kareem Iqbal
The Dread Heights

Understanding the devastation of the Syrian war through the Islamic tradition.

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R Alexander Bentley, Michael J O'Brien
Collaborators Through Time

Spanning 2 million years, this book examines how humans partnered with nature, technology, and each other to shape their world, from evolutionary origins and ancient innovations to the rise of artificial …

lieferbar ab 30.10.2025.

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Reparation, Restitution, and the Politics of Memory / Réparation, restitution et les politiques de la mémoire

Over the past roughly two decades, the interconnected concepts of reparation, restitution, and commemorative culture have gained renewed momentum ¿ in academic discourse as much as in activist, artistic, …

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Sung Hee Ru
The Road Taken

Traces China's transformations with a focus on China's incorporation process in the nineteenth century, which help to grasp the historical origins of China's capitalism.As Europe's colonial powers reached…

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David Denby
Eminent Jews

"Leonard Bernstein, Mel Brooks, Betty Friedan, and Norman Mailer. Brilliant, brash, 100 percent Jewish and 100 percent American, they were hell-bent on shaking up the world of their fathers. They wor…

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