TwentiethCentury – Bücher, CDs, Blu-ray Discs und mehr, Seite 5

Rahul Bhattacharya
Railsong

'Magnificent' KAMILA SHAMSIE 'Majestic yet profoundly tender' MEGHA MAJUMDARA breathtaking novel about a woman forging a life for herself on the railways, Railsongis the story of an individual coming of a…

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Colin Asher
The Midnight Special

In American popular music, we often glorify rebellious artists and "outlaws." But The Midnight Special reveals an untold story about the way criminal justice has impacted the lives and work of U…

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Katie Terezakis
The Reinvention of Idealism

To understand the role Kant's critical idealism has played in the development of American philosophies, one must understand why the classical American pragmatists, different realists, and other anti-ideal…

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Olivier Roy, Cynthia Schoch, Trista Selous
The Crisis of Culture

Are we confronting a new culture--global, online, individualistic? Or is our existing concept of culture in crisis, as explicit, normative systems replace implicit, social values?Olivier Roy's new book ex…

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Daniel Mcdonald
Peripheral Citizenship

How is citizenship constructed from the margins? Peripheral Citizenship examines this question by placing the urban outskirts of South America's most populous city, São Paulo, amid processes that transfor…

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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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Twentieth Century Society
Cooling Towers

SHORTLISTED for The British Book Design and Production Awards 2026.A stirring large-format celebration of cooling towers, the monumental brutalist structures dotted around Britain that are relics of twent…

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Colin Williamson
Drawn to Nature

How twentieth-century developments in science influenced the aesthetics of the burgeoning American cartoonWhat do technical renderings of plant cells in trees have to do with Disney's animated opus Fantas…

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Nicholas Mosley
Hopeful Monsters

Thirty-five years after its original publication, Hopeful Monsters reemerges as one of the "grand intellectual dramas" of the 20th century (- The New York Times).A sweeping, comprehensive epic, …

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Richard Quang-Anh Tran
Queer Vietnam

"Queer Vietnam recovers the forgotten stories of variant genders and sexualities in early twentieth-century Vietnam. By the beginning of the 1900s, European imperialism had spread Western notions of …

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Melissa Alexander
Conversation Pieces

Conversation Pieces sketches an object-oriented lineage for modernism, showing that Virginia Woolf's passion for objects was fuelled by her participation in a widespread conversation about philosophical e…

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The Penguin Book of Polish Short Stories

A revelatory and richly varied collection of Poland's greatest short stories, with a foreword by Nobel Prize-winner Olga Tokarczuk Witty, surprising and sparkling, this anthology is an essential explorati…

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Ohio's First Ladies

This engaging collection of essays explores the lives and legacies of six Ohio-born First Ladies: Lucy Webb Hayes, Lucretia Rudolph Garfield, Caroline Scott Harrison, Ida Saxton McKinley, Helen Herron Taf…

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Justin Marozzi
Captives and Companions

Slavery in the Islamic world has a long, diverse and controversial history. Captives and Companions is a brilliant synthesis of history and contemporary reportage that brings to life the voices of the ens…

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Guoqi Xu
The Idea of China

An acclaimed historian's bold response to two simple, yet vexed, questions: What counts as China, and who counts as Chinese?China became a capitalist superpower by investing in globalization. Now that it …

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Martha Vandrei
Queen Boudica and Historical Culture in Britain

This book takes an innovative approach to the study of the past in the past. It seeks to understand history, not as a discipline or profession, but as a cultural phenomenon. Spanning the early-modern and …

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Carole Srole
Marriage Making News

Women, Gender, and Sexuality in American History

The couplings of millionaires with stenographers, servants, and other so-called working girls supplied early twentieth-century newspapers with sensational headlines and swarms of eager readers. Carole Sro…

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Sarah Rovang
Through the Long Desert: Georgia O'Keeffe and Frank Lloyd Wright

A richly illustrated exploration of newfound connections between American cultural icons Georgia O'Keeffe and Frank Lloyd Wright. This groundbreaking volume places the artist and architect side by side, s…

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Marcus Willaschek,
Kant: A Revolution in Thinking

A foremost Kant expert takes us on a lively tour through the revolutionary ideas of the founder of modern philosophy.Immanuel Kant is undoubtedly the most important philosopher of the modern era. His Crit…

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Gyula Krúdy,
Mrs Kleofas's Rooster

A trio of darkly elegant, women-centric novellas from a master of twentieth-century Hungarian literature.Mrs Kleofas' Rooster brings together three captivating novellas by Gyula Krúdy, originally written …

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