Social And Cultural History – Bücher, CDs, LPs und mehr, Seite 2

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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Monuments and Memory

This volume examines many different public monuments, exploring the cultural factors behind their creation, their messages and evolving meanings, and the role of such markers in conveying the memory of hi…

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Cultural History and the Anthropocene

This open access collection is a comprehensive analysis of the challenges and contributions of cultural history to contemporary and cross-disciplinary discussions of the Anthropocene.

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Lars Behrisch
Democracy's Double Helix

Where does our modern democracy come from? It is a composite of two very different things: a medieval tradition of political participation, pluralistic but highly elitist; and the notion of individual equ…

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Joseph M Odùmósù,
Book of Healing

The first book-length study of Yorùbá therapeutics, encompassing thousands of remedies for more than 160 different ailments, Ìwé Ìwòsàn (Book of Healing) was originally published in 1910 by Ìjẹ̀bú healer,…

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Tamim Ansary
The Invention of Yesterday

In this "terrific" (San Francisco Chronicle) book, an award-winning author tells the story of how humans invented history, from the Stone Age to the Virtual AgeTraveling across millennia and cul…

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Madeline Potter
The Roma

"A spellbinding tale of resilience and survival in the face of widespread bigotry and violence." ---Boston GlobeA unique, deeply personal portrait of the nomadic Romani people and their on-going…

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Dress as Biography

An exploration of the ways dress and dressed appearance have been used to express identity.

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Dress as Biography

An exploration of the ways dress and dressed appearance have been used to express identity.

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Jeff Hobbs
Seeking Shelter

In the tradition of Evicted and Invisible Child, a "moving, real-life saga" (The New Yorker ) that follows a single mother of six in Los Angeles courageously struggling to keep her family togeth…

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Paul Koudounaris
Faithful Unto Death

The remarkable stories of beloved pets--from the famous and unusual to the everyday--memorialized at burial sites around the world, accompanied by a rich selection of archival photos and the author's evoc…

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A Cultural History of Furniture in the Age of Empire and Industry

The 19th century in Western culture was a time of both confidence and turbulence. Industrial development produced a growing middle class as well as efficiency, convenience, and innovation across a range o…

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The Archaeology of Seafaring in Small-Scale Societies

Focusing on small-scale societies in saltwater environments, this volume explores the development of seafaring technology and examines how watercraft have served as groundbreaking innovations throughout h…

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John Blair
Killing the Dead

A riveting history of vampire panics across cultures and down through the millennia---and why killing the dead is better than killing the livingKilling the Dead provides the first in-depth, global account…

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Gazi Mizanur Rahman
In the Malay World

"Based on various archival and non-archival records, oral testimonies and travel accounts, some of which are used for the first time, this book explores the historical migration of Bengalis and their…

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Jeff Hobbs
Seeking Shelter

"In the tradition of Evicted and Invisible Child, Jeff Hobbs masterfully explores America's housing crisis through the real-life story of Evelyn. This is Hobbs's first book since The Short and Tragic…

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The Archaeology of Seafaring in Small-Scale Societies

Focusing on small-scale societies in saltwater environments, this volume explores the development of seafaring technology and examines how watercraft have served as groundbreaking innovations throughout h…

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John Parker
In My Time of Dying

"Why do people die and where do they go when they are dead? How should the dead be buried and mourned in order to ensure that they continue to work for the benefit of the living? How have perceptions…

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Caitlin Blackwell Baines
How to Build a Haunted House

A cultural history of the phenomenon of the 'haunted house' as seen through art, architecture, and ghost stories.What makes a house haunted? Why do some buildings conjure up a reputation for being particu…

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H Glenn Penny
In Humboldt's Shadow

A compelling history of the German ethnologists who were inspired by Prussian polymath and explorer Alexander von HumboldtThe Berlin Ethnological Museum is one of the world's largest and most important an…

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