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

Emmanuelle Fantin, Bran Nicol
Jean Baudrillard

The first English biography of the twentieth-century French sociologist and philosopher.Once hailed as a historian of the future, Jean Baudrillard remains a vital figure for understanding the present. Fam…

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Sabine Hake
The Nazi Worker

ISSN - Band 35

The Nazi Worker is the second in a three-volume project on the figure of the worker and, by extension, questions of class in twentieth-century German culture. It is based on extensive research in the arch…

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Eric Gardner
Frances Ellen Watkins Harper's Civil War and Reconstruction

Frances Ellen Watkins Harper fought for abolition, women's suffrage, Black suffrage, civil rights, and temperance throughout the second half of the nineteenth-century, all while lecturing across the natio…

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Arthur Zajonc
Thinking Beyond Materialism

Draws on the revolutionary discoveries of modern physics to reveal a universe built on experience and relationship, offering a new foundation for an ethical and spiritual life.For centuries, science and s…

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Gilles Postel-Vinay, Jean-Laurent Rosenthal
A Capital's Capital

The Princeton Economic History of the Western World

A study of the changes in wealth and its distribution in nineteenth- and twentieth-century Paris that maps the interplay among wealth, inequality, and welfareSuccessful economies sustain capital accumulat…

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Megan J Martinelli
The Fashion and Style of Marjorie Merriweather Post

A personal history of twentieth-century fashion and taste through the dressing room and jewelry vault of one of the most stylish women of her time.This publication positions Hillwood's remarkable collecti…

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Robert Jarvenpa
Declared Defective

Declared Defective is the anthropological history of an outcast community and a critical reevaluation of The Nam Family, written in 1912 by Arthur Estabrook and Charles Davenport, leaders of the early twe…

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Timothy Snyder
On Tyranny

Timothy Snyder is Levin Professor of History at Yale University, and has written and edited a number of critically acclaimed and prize-winning books about twentieth-century European history: his most rece…

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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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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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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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Mahesh Elkunchwar,
The Wada Trilogy

A dramatic cycle that follows a single family amid the profound transformation of their country.In The Wada Trilogy, Mahesh Elkunchwar delivers a remarkable cycle of plays that traces the rise and fall of…

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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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Bryan Mccann
Rio de Janeiro

Ten Moments That Shaped

What do nineteenth-century fiction, early twentieth-century popular music, 1930s soccer, 1950s film comedy, 1960s experimental art and 1970s soap operas have in common with one another? Each reveal the de…

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Lauren Nicole Henley
Inquisition for Blood

For three years in the early 1900s, a serial killer zigzagged across the rice belt region of the United States, using an everyday ax to slaughter Black families living within a mile of the Southern Pacifi…

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David Ponton
Houston and the Permanence of Segregation

2025 Most Significant Scholarly Book, Texas Institute of LettersA history of racism and segregation in twentieth-century Houston and beyond.Through the 1950s and beyond, the Supreme Court issued decisions…

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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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