History Of Sociology – alle Bücher und Diverse, Seite 8

Kyle T Mays
When We Are Kin

A bold vision for a Black and Indigenous future rooted in real solidarity, a future that exists beyond the confines of the liberal imaginationCurrent advocates of reparations for slavery and land back oft…

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Natalia Konradova
Hacking the Iron Curtain

For decades before the internet existed, scientists, technologists, novelists, and enthusiasts of all descriptions dreamed of instantaneous, worldwide communication systems. What forms such systems might …

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Corinna Barrett Lain
Secrets of the Killing State

Lethal injection is nothing like what people think. This is its untold story. In the popular imagination, lethal injection is a slight pinch and a swift nodding off to forever-sleep. It is performed by we…

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Anne Ross
Folklore of Wales

Traditional tales, beliefs, rituals and customs of Wales

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Jeffrey A Kroessler
Rural County, Urban Borough

This book explains how, in less than 100 years, Queens transformed from an agricultural hinterland to a vital urban corridor. This richly illustrated, vital work of history charts the rapid transformation…

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Richard Hodges,
The Origins of Anglo-Saxon Towns

Reconsiders the debate about the archaeology of Anglo-Saxon towns on the occasion of the centennial of Henri Pirenne's celebrated bookMedieval Cities(1925).

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John Carson
The Measure of Merit

A wide-ranging account of American and French understandings of merit, talent, and intelligence over the past two centuriesHow have modern democracies squared their commitment to equality with their fear …

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Yoni Appelbaum
Stuck

How did America cease to be the land of opportunity? LONGLISTED FOR THE PORCHLIGHT BUSINESS BOOK AWARDWe take it for granted that good neighborhoods---with good schools and good housing---are only accessi…

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Rozina Ali
Seasons of Fury

This sweeping narrative history chronicles the U.S. government's broken compact with its Muslim citizens, culminating in the post-9/11 era of mass surveillance and increased violence---from an award-winni…

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Salem's Centuries

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Michael David-Fox
Crucibles of Power

The people of Smolensk survived both of the twentieth century's most brutal dictatorships. Michael David-Fox probes their experiences under Stalinist and Nazi rule to unravel the threads of authoritariani…

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Quinn Slobodian
Hayek's Bastards

"The story of the American Right is often told as the fusion of the free market and religion. Yet recent decades have seen the rise of a new fusionism which turns to nature and science to defend natu…

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Benjamin Aldes Wurgaft, Merry White
Ways of Eating

"The intricate ways in which human history is formed by food are catacombs full of stories, waiting to be exposed, unraveled, and told. Benjamin Wurgaft and Merry White's vignettes and chapters are f…

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Edna Bonhomme
A History of the World in Six Plagues

"Epidemic diseases enter the world by chance, but they become catastrophic by human design. With clear-eyed research and lush prose, A History of the World in Six Plagues shows that throughout histor…

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Salem's Centuries

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Cheryl Mendelson
Vows

The story of our wedding vows---what they mean and why they still matter.

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James M Gustafson
The Lion and the Sun

Why did the place of formerly powerful Eurasian land empires, like that of Iran, change so dramatically in global affairs over the course of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries? This book explores thi…

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Kyle T Mays
When We Are Kin

A bold vision for a Black and Indigenous future rooted in real solidarity, a future that exists beyond the confines of the liberal imaginationCurrent advocates of reparations for slavery and land back oft…

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Katarzyna Person
The Hour of Revenge

In the immediate aftermath of the Second World War, the emotional landscape of post-war Europe was profoundly shaped by the intertwined notions of retribution and physical revenge, particularly for Holoca…

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Kristen Kreider, James O'Leary
Ungovernable Spaces

What does it mean to be governed and what does it mean to resist? Examining how communities form amidst social and political turbulence, this open access book presents four case studies that demonstrate t…

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