Early Twentieth Century – alle Bücher, CDs und DVDs, Seite 8

Ashish Koul
Reinventing Caste

This book reveals that caste, usually assumed to be a feature of Hindu society, was in fact a trans-religious phenomenon in colonial India, as it is today. Even in an Islamic religious milieu that was sup…

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Jason R Young
The Mask of Memory

Many of the sights and sounds that Americans associate with slavery are rooted in a grand historical myth. The image of the Big House, sitting atop carefully manicured rolling green hills is, in large par…

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Yuval Etgar
Vitamin C+

Over 100 global artists working with collage, as chosen by art experts, now available in paperback for the first timeCollage is an artistic language comprising found images, fragmentary forms, and unexpec…

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Brad Watson
Miss Jane

' As unexpectedly beguiling as it is affecting' - Daily MailInspired by the true story of his own great-aunt, Brad Watson tells the story of Miss Jane Chisolm, born in rural, early-twentieth-century Missi…

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Virginia Woolf
The Waves

Vintage Classics

Virginia Woolf was born in London in 1882. After her father's death in 1904 Virginia and her sister, the painter Vanessa Bell, moved to Bloomsbury and became the centre of ¿The Bloomsbury Group¿. This inf…

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Louise Hegarty
Fair Play

"Louise Hegarty's genre-splicing debut is a treat---clever, confident, and always surprising, a mystery story that ingeniously escapes the locked room of the genre to take on the biggest questions of…

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Adam Smyth
The Book-Makers

The Book-Makers is a celebration of 550 years of the printed book, told through the lives of eighteen extraordinary men and women who took the book in radical new directions: printers and binders, publish…

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Black Artists in Their Own Words

The first book to center Black artists' voices on Black aesthetics, revealing a century of evolving relationships to race, identity, and art.What is Black art? No one has thought harder about that questio…

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Emily Gordon
The Doctrine of Privity in Negligence

This book traces the path of the doctrine of privity in negligence, from inception to its famous ousting in Donoghue v Stevenson in 1932.It begins with the origins of negligence's privity rule in the Indu…

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Samir Amin
Russia and the Long Transition from Capitalism to Socialism

Out of early twentieth-century Russia came the world's first significant effort to build a modern revolutionary society. According to Marxist economist Samir Amin, the great upheaval that once produced th…

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Robert Scully,
A Scarlet Pansy

The astonishing tale of Fay Etrange - republished in its original unexpurgated formFirst published in 1932, A Scarlet Pansy is an extraordinarily vivid and richly textured depiction of American queer life…

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Mitchell Abidor
Victor Serge

'Superb ... A vivid account of one of the most compelling lives in modern revolutionary history' - Maurice Casey, author of Hotel LuxIdeological schisms have always been a feature of the left, but for muc…

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Liesl Yamaguchi
On the Colors of Vowels

"A thrilling journey to the edges of the mind--and into the heart and soul of language and literature. Guiding us through famous poems and forgotten treatises with equal ease, Yamaguchi unfolds a pow…

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Hal Brands
The Eurasian Century

We often think of the modern era as the age of American power. In reality, we're living in a long, violent Eurasian century. That giant, resource-rich landmass possesses the bulk of the global population,…

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Liora Lukitz
Gertrude Bell's Moment in the Middle East

An explorer, archaeologist, scholar, writer, and policymaker, Gertude Bell was a colourful figure who played an outsize role in the history of the Middle East in the early twentieth century.This book care…

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Ivan Strenski
How to Do Things with Myths

How to Do Things with Myths assembles a radically updated collection of Ivan Strenski's oft-cited publications on myth. Together, they tell how theories of myth have changed and led to a novel "perfo…

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Daniel E. Atkinson
The Rediscovery of George "Nash" Walker

The first biography of George Walker, a uniquely Afro-American tale of innovation and triumph despite the odds; the story of an underdog with a bite! The Rediscovery of George "Nash" Walker is t…

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The Cambridge History of Welsh Literature

The literature of Wales is one of the oldest continuous literary traditions in Europe. The earliest surviving poetry was forged in the battlefields of post-Roman Wales and the 'Old North' of Britain, and …

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Martha Prevezer, Ed Legon
Trade, Regulation and Empire State-building in Britain

This book explores the impact of the Board of Trade upon the British state from the early seventeenth century to the early twentieth century. The study argues that for too long historians have overlooked …

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Wayne M O'Leary
The Tancook Schooners

The Tancook Schooners recounts the history of a remarkable, yet neglected, Atlantic Canadian watercraft. The "little Bluenoses," as they were called, formed the backbone of Nova Scotia's inshore…

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