Social And Cultural History – Bücher, CDs, LPs und mehr, Seite 9

Elizabeth S Manley, Elizabeth Manley
Imagining the Tropics

Imagining the Tropics is a history of the development of tourism in the Caribbean across the twentieth century that focuses on the ways women's labors of hospitality, writing, and advocacy built the indus…

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Beth Lew-Williams
John Doe Chinaman

A revelatory history of the laws that conditioned the everyday lives of Chinese people in the American West-and of those who negotiated, circumvented, and resisted discrimination.Legal discrimination agai…

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Megan Garber
Screen People

From the popular and award-winning staff writer for The Atlantic, an eye-opening look at how the current media landscape has incentivized us to see our fellow citizens as characters in an ongoing entertai…

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El-Sayed El-Aswad
Religion and the Invisible World

A broad critical history of the transformation of religious thought in Egypt from ancient to modern periodsWhen a civilization disappears, its heritage does not vanish. It survives in different potentiall…

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Harvey Whitehouse
Inheritance

An "exhilarating" (Irish Times ) and "ambitious" (The Guardian) account of the ancient inheritance that made us who we are--and is now driving us to ruin.Why do humans everywhere belie…

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Paul Prescod
Against Black Nationalism

Why did Garvey's Black nationalism collapse while Randolph's labor organizing reshaped American politics? This book traces the roots, and the relevance, of two competing visions for Black liberation.From …

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Alexandra Furbee, Culture Smart!
Ireland - Culture Smart!

Most guidebooks on Ireland will tell you where to stay and what to see. Culture Smart! Ireland is written for people who want to know more and go deeper. Here you will find the beliefs and attitudes of th…

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Jorge Cañizares-Esguerra, Adrian Masters
The Radical Spanish Empire

A groundbreaking history of political struggle in the Spanish New World, where commoners and elites alike challenged the social order through the remarkable power of paperwork.As Spanish conquistadors swe…

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Cat Dawson
Monumental

"Monuments have shifted radically; 1st book to trace the shift to the 1960s & 70s to show how Black, feminist, and queer artists laid the groundwork for rethinking what we monumentalize now"…

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Norma E Cantú
Fiestas in Laredo

This book celebrates the many types of fiestas found in the border community of Laredo, Texas. Told from an insider's perspective and blending memoir, ethnography, and a folkloristic analysis, the author …

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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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Christy Hyman
The Cultural Heritage Resilience of the Great Dismal Swamp

This work highlights local narratives that sustain traditions amidst historical silences, connecting cultural values to heritage tourism and Indigenous stewardship.The Cultural Heritage Resilience of the …

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Flyover Fictions

Flyover Fictions critically engages the history and contemporary use of the "flyover country" trope in American culture and repurposes the concept as an abstract tool for cultural studies.

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Christy Hyman
The Cultural Heritage Resilience of the Great Dismal Swamp

This work highlights local narratives that sustain traditions amidst historical silences, connecting cultural values to heritage tourism and Indigenous stewardship.The Cultural Heritage Resilience of the …

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Cairo Securitized

"A compendium of profound insights, garnered in all their granularity from varied aspects of Cairo's rich social life, which keeps the reader engrossed to the last page."---Contemporary Sociolog…

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Oleksandr Mykhed,
I Will Mix Your Blood with Coal

A sweeping narrative introduction to the Donbas, I Will Mix Your Blood with Coal: Snapshots from the East of Ukraineexplores the fraught histories and complicated present reality of the country's easternm…

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Rebecca Lemov
The Instability of Truth

Because brainwashing affects both the world and our observation of the world, we often cannot recognise it while it's happening-unless we know where to look. In The Instability of Truth, Rebecca Lemov exp…

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Amélie Allard
Community Politics of the Fur Trade

Reinterpreting the Great Lakes fur trade as a dynamic interplay of ambition, alliances, and evolving identitiesThe North American fur trade was more than a system of economic exchange. In this book, Améli…

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Dream a World Anew

Dream A World Anew is the stunning gift book accompanying the opening of the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture. It combines informative narratives from leading scholars, …

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Mohammed Omer Almoghayer
On the Pleasures of Living in Gaza

Beyond the headlines of destruction and despair, discover the untold story of Gaza's humanity---its joys, resilience, and vibrant community spirit, as captured by a native son.Israel's brutal assault on G…

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