Social History – Bücher, CDs, LPs und mehr, Seite 7

Kim Christensen
On My Honor

"Since its founding in 1910, the Boy Scouts of America has been the nation's premier youth organization, espousing self-reliance and honor. More than 100 million Americans have been Boy Scouts, from …

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Gioia Diliberto
Firebrands

"Gioia Diliberto's fresh and timely take on the history of Prohibition focuses on four women who played central roles in promoting, enforcing, profiting from, and repealing the Eighteenth Amendment: …

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Lucy Inglis
Born

A groundbreaking history of childbirth filled with medical, political, and social triumphs, Born is the story of how we give birth set against the female struggle to govern their ability to reproduce.Born…

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Katrina Quisumbing King
Enduring Empire

"In 1898 the United States became a formal overseas empire and claimed sovereignty over the Philippine islands, justifying its rule in explicitly racial terms. Less than fifty years later, in 1946, P…

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Catherine Mayes
Hungarian Dances and Musical Life in Eighteenth-Century Vienna

Hungarian Dances and Musical Life in Eighteenth-Century Vienna is a social history of a unique facet of the Habsburg capital's diversity, illuminating how it shaped everyday experiences, individual and co…

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H A Drake
The Wisdom of the Ancients

This book is a novel look at developments in Mediterranean antiquity that became essential components of the modern world. Instead of the usual fare, such as Greek democracy, Roman law, and barbarian inva…

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Arianne Edmonds (Senior Civic Media Fellow, Senior Civic Media Fellow, USC Annenberg School for Communication and Journalism)
We Now Belong to Ourselves

At the turn of the twentieth century, the Black press provided a blueprint to help Black Americans transition from slavery and find opportunities to advance and prosper in American society. Among the vang…

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Keith Houston
Empire of the Sum

Starting with hands, abacus and slide rule, humans have always reached for tools to simplify math. Pocket-sized calculators ushered in modern mathematics, helped build the atomic bomb, took us to the bott…

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Nathalie Cooke
Tastes and Traditions

An engaging exploration of why menus matter and the stories they tell.

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Samuel W Franklin
The Cult of Creativity

A history of how, in the mid-twentieth century, we came to believe in the concept of creativity. Named a best book of 2023 by the New Yorker and a notable book of 2023 by Behavioral Scientist.Creativity i…

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Kate Kennedy
Cello

"[T]he story of four cellists who suffered various forms of persecution, injury, and misfortune"--

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Faisal Chaudhry
South Asia, the British Empire, and the Rise of Classical Legal Thought

The book delves into colonial South Asia's legal transformation under the rule of the British Crown, examining shifts in sovereignty, land control, and justice influenced by classical legal thought. It ex…

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Histories of Political Thought in the Ottoman World

This collection of papers is intended to provide a survey of the history of political ideas in the Ottoman world from its dawn around 1300 to its downfall in the early 20th century.

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Katrina Quisumbing King
Enduring Empire

"In 1898 the United States became a formal overseas empire and claimed sovereignty over the Philippine islands, justifying its rule in explicitly racial terms. Less than fifty years later, in 1946, P…

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Norifumi Daito
Sugar and the Indian Ocean World

Tracing the history of the sugar trade and its consumption in the Persian Gulf during the 18th century, this book explores the interplay of social, economic and political interests created by this popular…

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Matthew P Llewellyn, Toby C Rider
British Sporting Relations with Apartheid South Africa

The first archival-based, historical examination of Britain's sporting relations with South Africa throughout the apartheid era, 1948-1994.

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Fin Dwyer
A Lethal Legacy

The Instant Top 5 Irish Times BestsellerFrom the creator of The Irish History Podcast comes a fascinating look at Irish history through the lens of murder.

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Israel G Solares
Underground Leviathan

Underground Leviathan explores the emergence, dynamics, and lasting impacts of a mining firm, the United States Company. Through its exercise of sovereign power across the borders of North America in the …

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Lisa Taddeo
Three Women

"A riveting true story about the sex lives of three real American women based on nearly a decade of reporting. Lina, a young mother in suburban Indiana whose marriage has lost its passion, reconnects…

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Sabrina Gilchrist Hadyk
The Waltzing Body in Victorian Literature

The Waltzing Body in Victorian Literature traces the evolution of the waltz from subversive to traditional across the 19th century, focusing on the Victorian authors who wrote about the waltz, exploring i…

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