Catálogo de libros Historia Social Y Cultural

Richard Rose

While researching family history for his semibiographical opera Monte and Pinky, Richmond-based poet and songwriter Richard Rose came face to face with the fact of his ancestors’ involvement in the local slave trade. As a social and environmental activist, Rose became determined to explore and come to terms with the many consequences of the injustices in which his family took p...

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11,32 €

AL-FARD

Ali Mahdi Muhammad

The Al-Fard, or the The Dawn, has captured the early rays of Our history. This history is essential if we are to be brought face to face with the One true and living God of the universe. The purpose of this writing is to bring the reader step by step, one degree at a time to the reality of God in person. The teachings of Our Father elevates the believer to the level of Godhood ...

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23,17 €

Traveling to a New America

James Hilgendorf

Author, speaker, poet, and filmmaker James Hilgendorf draws upon his own books, poems, blogs, and articles, to create a pastiche of a new America - one that even now, amid all the division, anger, and loss of hope we are experiencing in our country, is struggling to be born.A song of immense new beginnings, of a deep seismic shift in the way we view our own individual identity ...

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13,54 €

Pan Kapitan of Jordanow

William Leibner

Yeshayahu Drucker devoted a good part of his life to rescuing Jewish children from non-Jewish homes. Many parents had given their children to Polish neighbors for safekeeping during the war. Unfortunately most of the parents did not survive the Shoah. At the end of the war, there was no one to claim the children and they remained with the “adopted” Polish families. Following hi...

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28,35 €

The Uniqueness of Israel

Lance Lambert

Woven into the fabric of Jewish existence there is an undeniable uniqueness. There is bitter controversy over the subject of Israel, but time itself will establish the truth about this nation's place in God's plan. For Lance Lambert, the Lord Jesus is the key that unlocks Jewish history He is the key not only to their fall, but also to their restoration. For in spite of...

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15,18 €

Tea

Velina Hasu Houston

It’s 1968. Himiko Hamilton struggles in a graceless marriage in a country that is not her own. Having come from Japan at the end of World War II and landed in a small Kansas town because of her marriage to an American soldier, she is at odds with the culture that she left behind and the one in which she is trying to survive. In the midst of this turmoil is her beautiful mixed...

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31,79 €

Girlhood in America

Suzanne Sherman

Collected stories from fifty-six women and young girls around the country reveal the times and tensions of a wider world, from a first ride in a Model T in 1911 to leading a school campaign against bullying in 2011.Girls' lives change in expected—and surprising—ways when indoor plumbing and electricity come into homes in the 1920s. Antibiotics replace mustard plasters, Worl...

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12,78 €

Arizal

Raphael Afilalo

The Ari overflowed with Torah. He was expert in Scripture, Mishnah, Talmud, Midrash, Maaseh Bereishit and Maaseh Merkavah. About all the different levels of prophecy, their details and from which level the prophets had their revelations. He understood the whistling of the trees, the grass and stones, the language of the birds and other animals, the conversations of angels, the...

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20,44 €

Rose-tinted Memory

Michael S Fryer

“Those who deny Auschwitz would be ready to remake it”. ~ Primo Levi, Holocaust survivor and author Seventy years after the mass murder of the Jews of Europe, Holocaust denial and Holocaust revisionism are creeping into our overall perception of what actually happened.Christendom has not ‘denied’ Holocaust, but it has attempted to create a memory of Holocaust which suggests th...

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8,84 €

Deep Denial

David Billings

Deep Denial explains why race is still with us, and what the Civil Rights Movement can tell us about today.Part I takes a broad historical view, from seventeenth century Virginia through World War II., examining the origins of white supremacy as a structural feature of US society and describing its evolution over time.Part II features the Civil Rights Movement, how it emerged i...

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20,70 €

The Worst Country in the World

Patsy Trench

“Set against the backdrop of the Australian migrant experience, 'The Worst Country in the World' is not only a great read but a thought-provoking one too, especially for those with links to Australia, which reinvented itself from a convict colony to one of the ’luckiest’ countries in the world.” Karen Clare, Family Tree magazine.In 1801 Mary Pitt, a 53-year-old widow an...

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14,92 €

Suburban Bravery

Andrew R Duckworth

In suburban Western Australia at the turn of last century, the threat of fire was both menacing and real. Lives and public infrastructure were destroyed. The need for fire brigades both in Western Australia and across the globe had never been greater.Join the men of the North Perth Fire Brigade as they form their fledgling brigade of 20 men and grow into a respected institution...

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34,78 €

Wild Things. Nature and the Social Imagination

HISTORIES OF HUMAN CONSTRUCTIONS OF NATUREWild Things: Nature and the Social Imagination assembles eleven substantive and original essays on the cultural and social dimensions of environmental history. They address a global cornucopia of social and ecological systems, from Africa to Europe, North America and the Caribbean, and their temporal range extends from the 1830s into th...

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112,73 €

Holy Dissent

Glenn Dynner

BThe religious communities of early modern Eastern Europe—particularly those with a mystical bent—are typically studied in isolation. Yet the heavy Slavic imprint on Jewish popular mysticism and pervasive Judaizing tendencies among Christian dissenters call into question the presumed binary quality of Jewish-Christian interactions. In Holy Dissent: Jewish and Christian Mystics ...

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62,96 €

50 Afrikans You Must Know, Vol. 2

Nikala Asante / Samori Camara

This is Volume 2 of Kamali Academy's Bestselling Reading Comprehension book. This book will grow comprehension skills and knowledge about some of our Greatest Warriors.This Book is for Middle to High School Warrior Scholars 3 ...

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14,52 €

Through the Eyes of Rebel Women

Iris Morales

THROUGH THE EYES OF REBEL WOMEN: The Young Lords, 1969-1976 iTHROUGH THE EYES OF REBEL WOMEN: The Young Lords, 1969-1976 is the first account of women members — a 'story within a story' told from the inside out. The Young Lords Organization emerged in the late sixties to fight poverty, racial and gender inequality, and the colonial status of Puerto Rico. Women joined to build a...

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31,39 €

Schizophrenic America

Anni Damgaard

Schizophrenic America explores a fundamental conflict in the United States between what we believe to be our inalienable rights and what we experience in every-day-life. This conflict induces a schism in our minds, leading to a 'cultural schizophrenia' in America. This book facilitates the process of reflection. It is a layman’s guide to cultural awareness, written for young a...

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17,00 €

Jews in Service to the Tsar

Lev Berdnikov / Nora Favorov

Benjamin Disraeli advised, “Read no history: nothing but biography, for that is life without theory.” With Jews in Service to the Tsar, Lev Berdnikov offers us 28 biographies spanning five centuries of Russian Jewish history, and each portrait opens a new window onto the history of Eastern Europe’s Jews, illuminating dark corners and challenging widely-held conceptions about th...

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22,05 €

The Invention of the Weekend How We Fought for Free Time and Why We’re Losing It

Marie Stenholm

A gripping history of the weekend-how it was won, and why it’s slipping through our fingers.Why does your boss email you on Sunday? Why does 'time off' no longer feel like a real break? In this timely book, The Invention of the Weekend uncovers the surprising history of the two-day break we now take for granted-and how it’s being quietly erased in the digital age.From the bruta...

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17,59 €

Horodetz

Gorodets (present day Horodzets, Belarus) was a small but commercially busy town in southwest Belarus situated along a major railway line about halfway between Brisk and Pinsk. It was home to 254 Jews in 1766, a number that grew to 648 (among 1761 non-Jews) in 1897. The town had been absorbed into the Russian empire in the late 18th century until it became part of Poland after ...

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51,83 €

Woman in the Nineteenth Century

Margaret Fuller Ossoli

'It has been thought desirable that such papers of Margaret Fuller Ossoli as pertained to the condition, sphere and duties of Woman, should be collected and published together. The present volume contains, not only her 'Woman in the Nineteenth Century,'-which has been before published, but for some years out of print, and inaccessible to readers who have sought it,-but also sev...

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17,10 €

Dancehalls, Glitterballs and DJs

Bruce Lindsay

The history of disco and its predecessors is often portrayed as one of glamour and excess. Dancehalls, Glitterballs and DJs expands this history to encompass tatty but much-loved provincial dancehalls, mobile DJs with home-made light shows and rusty vans, one-hit wonders on the chicken-in-a-basket circuit, and nights out with Jane Austen. It’s a vital, fun-packed history of a c...

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60,89 €

Transnational solidarity

This book excavates forgotten histories of solidarity which were vital to radical political imagination during the long sixties. It decentres the conventional Western loci of this critical historical moment by instead foregrounding transnational solidarity with, and across, anticolonial and anti-imperialist liberation struggles. ...

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43,59 €

Humanitarianism and the Greater War, 1914-24

Taking travel home

Emma Gleadhill

This book provides a new cultural history of the travel souvenir. It uncovers how eighteenth-century British women enlisted the objects they collected during their European travels to realise their ambitions in the arenas of connoisseurship, science and friendship, and to stake their claims to agency and authority as travelling subjects. ...

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46,63 €

The Last Lullaby

Roberta Kagan

'I can’t leave you, Mama. I can’t go,' Lily sobbed. 'Then don’t say goodbye,' Chloe whispered, pressing the cherished family heirloom into her daughter’s palm. 'Just say: until we meet again.'Paris, 1923. Lily Levin boards a train with her baby daughter Mimi and American husband, leaving behind her beloved mother Chloe for a new life across the ocean. Carrying her mother’s prec...

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16,62 €

Good in the Midst of Evil

Dana Fast / Yvona Fast

A detailed, invaluable first-hand narrative of Holocaust survival in Poland. With help from her daughter Yvona, Dana Fast tells the story of her incredible childhood experiences-life among the horrors of the Warsaw ghetto, studying at a forbidden secret school there, escape to relatives, in hiding passing as a Catholic girl in the countryside, under a new identity at a Catholic...

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19,34 €

Challenging Norms

Access to reproductive healthcare, including abortions and family planning services, remains a deeply polarizing issue within contemporary Eastern Europe. Originally a question reserved for couples, this topic has since been elevated to the public realm through the emergence of modern nation states. Challenging Norms offers a geographically wide-ranging re-examination of family...

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204,36 €

Women’s Zionism Worldwide, 1897-1948

Mira Katzburg-Yungman

Offering the first comprehensive historiographic exploration of women’s roles in the Zionist movement worldwide, this geographically wide-ranging study explores the ideologies, goals, strategies, activities, accomplishments and failures of women’s organizations and individuals in Europe, the United States, Latin America, the Middle East, and North Africa. Covering the period fr...

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204,06 €

Negotiating the Secular and the Religious in the German Empire

Rebekka Habermas

With its rapid industrialization, modernization, and gradual democratization, Imperial Germany has typically been understood in secular terms. However, religion and religious actors actually played crucial roles in the history of the Kaiserreich, a fact that becomes particularly evident when viewed through a transnational lens. In this volume, leading scholars of sociology, rel...

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47,25 €

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