Social History – Bücher, LPs, CDs und mehr, Seite 5

John Parker
Great Kingdoms of Africa

A groundbreaking, sweeping overview of the great kingdoms in African history and their legacies, written by world-leading experts.This is the first book for nonspecialists to explore the great precolonial…

lieferbar ab 14.4.2026.

Buch

Matthew Lockwood
Explorers

The impulse to seek out new worlds is universal to humanity. In a truly inclusive account of exploration, historian Matthew Lockwood interweaves stories of famous figures-including Sacagawea, Pocahontas a…

lieferbar innerhalb 1-2 Wochen

Buch

Raffaele Danna
The Craft of Indo-Arabic Numerals

"A must-read." -Joel Mokyr, Nobel Prize-winning author of A Culture of Growth: The Origins of the Modern EconomyAn illuminating, fine-grained account of how Indo-Arabic numerals facilitated the …

lieferbar ab 28.4.2026.

Buch

Rebecca L Davis
Fierce Desires

Our era is one of sexual upheaval. Roe v. Wade was overturned in the summer of 2022, school systems across the country are banning books with LGBTQ+ themes, and the notion of a "tradwife" is gai…

lieferbar innerhalb 1-2 Wochen

Buch

Joseph Pearson
Sweet Victory

The fascinating story of how a forgotten group of airmen---who had spent World War II dropping Allied bombs on Berlin---risked their lives in 1948-49 dropping chocolate bars from the sky.> In June of 1…

lieferbar innerhalb 1-2 Wochen

Buch

Brian Groom
Made in Manchester

A rich and vivid history of Britain's second city through the people who made itWITH A NEW FOREWORD BY ANDY BURNHAM, MAYOR OF GREATER MANCHESTER'What Manchester thinks today, England thinks tomorrow.'Long…

lieferbar innerhalb 1-2 Wochen

Buch

A Cultural History of Translation

How has our relationship with translation changed for different cultures over the centuries? What effect has it had on politics, art and religion?In a work that spans 2,500 years these ambitious questions…

lieferbar innerhalb 1-2 Wochen

Buch

Geoff Williams
The Summer of Death

A riveting historic narrative that tells the iconic story of the great heat wave that ravaged the continent in the last gasps of the Dust Bowl.In 1936, ironically after one of the coldest winters on recor…

lieferbar ab 2.6.2026.

Buch

Louise Heren,
Scottish History in 15 Violent Crimes

Taking fifteen real-life criminal cases prosecuted at the High Court of Justiciary in Scotland between 1700 and 2000, this book explores developments in social attitudes and legal responses to violence. F…

lieferbar ab 19.2.2026.

Buch

Venezuela in Crisis

In this essential intervention, Venezuelan socialists provide an invaluable analysis of the origins and causes of their country's crisis, and offer a critique of the Maduro regime.Venezuela in Crisis brin…

lieferbar ab 17.2.2026.

Buch

Rhian E Jones
Rebecca's Country

In nineteenth-century Wales, a protest took place like no other. Burdened by punishing tolls and desperate for their livelihoods, protestors dramatically cross-dressed in carnivalesque costumes to attack …

lieferbar innerhalb 2-3 Wochen

Buch

Jon Michaels, David Noll
Vigilante Nation

"For readers of How Democracies Die, two legal scholars expose the history of the GOP's hidden political strategy to rollback protected rights, from abortion and gun control to surveillance and LGBTQ…

lieferbar innerhalb 1-2 Wochen

Buch

Michael Kimmel
Playmakers

In 1902, Morris and Rose Michtom invented the Teddy Bear in the back room of their Brooklyn sweet shop. Together, they launched the Ideal Toy Corporation into a pre-war market rife with other first-genera…

lieferbar ab 17.2.2026.

Buch

Kristen Alff
Violent Interests

Between the 1830s and 1930s, companies established by Beirut-based businessmen emerged among the largest shareholders in major British manufacturing and trading companies. These companies transformed from…

lieferbar ab 16.6.2026.

Buch

Kristen Alff
Violent Interests

Between the 1830s and 1930s, companies established by Beirut-based businessmen emerged among the largest shareholders in major British manufacturing and trading companies. These companies transformed from…

lieferbar ab 16.6.2026.

Buch

Pam Inder
Feathers, Frills and Fancy Goods

Tracing its development from a trade devoted to selling small needlework articles, ribbons and trimmings to one chiefly concerned with making and selling hats and bonnets, Feathers, Frills and Fancy Goods…

lieferbar ab 22.1.2026.

Buch

Jeff Hobbs
Seeking Shelter

Named a Best Book of the Year by The New YorkerIn the tradition of Evicted and Invisible Child, a "remarkably vivid...deeply empathetic" (Los Angeles Times ) story that follows a single mother o…

lieferbar ab 10.2.2026.

Buch

Venezuela in Crisis

In this essential intervention, Venezuelan socialists provide an invaluable analysis of the origins and causes of their country's crisis, and offer a critique of the Maduro regime.Venezuela in Crisis brin…

lieferbar ab 17.2.2026.

Buch

Louise Heren,
Scottish History in 15 Violent Crimes

Taking fifteen real-life criminal cases prosecuted at the High Court of Justiciary in Scotland between 1700 and 2000, this book explores developments in social attitudes and legal responses to violence. F…

lieferbar ab 19.2.2026.

Buch

Mira Ducommun
Kategorisiert, verwaltet und platziert

In der Schweiz wurden im 20. Jahrhundert über 100 000 Kinder und Jugendliche in Heimen und Pflegefamilien platziert. Damit griffen die Behörden entscheidend in die Biografien und Familienleben von Kinde…

sofort lieferbar

Buch