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

Eric Beecher
The Men Who Killed the News

Readings Best Books of 2024, Non-Fiction Nominated for the 2025 Sperber PrizeNever before has the media played such an active part in our politics, with Elon Musk using X to affect world elections and dir…

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Kim Christensen
On My Honor

From a Pulitzer Prize winning journalist, the shocking rise and fall of an American institution.Since its founding in 1910, the Boy Scouts of America has been the nation's premier youth organization, espo…

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A Cultural History of Genocide in the Long Nineteenth Century

The long 19th century, approximately 1750 to 1918, was one of significant existential change for peoples across the globe. The beginning of this period saw the expansion of empires, and shortly thereafter…

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A Cultural History of Genocide in the Modern World

The cry of "never again" reverberated around the world in the aftermath of the Holocaust. Yet despite the unprecedented horrors of the Shoah, and the subsequent creation of the Convention on the…

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Sandra Rollings-Magnusson
Folklife and Superstition

A captivating history of folk traditions, beliefs, and culturally diverse customs in the early homesteading era on the Canadian prairies.

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A Cultural History of Genocide in the Era of Total War

The period between the two World Wars was characterized by an acceleration of mass violence across the world. Developments in technology, communications, ideology, global political and economic integratio…

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John M Kinder
World War Zoos

"John Kinder proposes nothing less than a new history of World War II, told through the lens of zoos. On the most basic level, some wartime zoo animals were cherished; some were abandoned; and some w…

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Ana Teixeira Pinto
Death Wall

How the transition to fossil fuels entailed an intensification of ongoing processes of racialization.From the eighteenth century onwards, Western science began to tap a large, yet non-renewable, capital s…

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David C. Hoffman
American Freethought

"This book traces the history of the freethought movement to discover the strategies that allowed it to endure and succeed in a fervently religious nation. It argues that this movement was successful…

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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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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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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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Dance and Sociability in the Long Eighteenth Century

This collection explores the relationship between dance and sociability during the 18th century in Britain, Europe, America and the Caribbean.

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Aran Shetterly
Morningside

An unflinching look at a shocking racial tragedy that divides a Southern city?comparable to the recent events in Charlottesville?and the activists who, in their tireless fight for justice, refuse to give …

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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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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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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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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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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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