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  • Black October The Missing Moment
    Jr. Wilson J. Washington / JrWilson JWashington
    WE (Black Men) were all equal leaders that day of the original Million Man March. It was a significant moment in African American history, a “Missing Moment.” History has shown us time and time again that true change engages momentum when we experience a “defining moment.” As we continue to embrace the “defining moment” changes are destined to occur without much additional effo...
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    16,22 €

  • From Anti-Judaism to Anti-Semitism
    Robert Chazan
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    48,13 €

  • Women in Gray
    Lochlainn Seabrook
    Most Civil War books focus only on its male participants, but award-winning Southern historian Colonel Lochlainn Seabrook covers both genders. Having written extensively on the masculine side of the conflict, his positive, uplifting, inspiring, and educational book on Confederate females, unique in American literature, examines the feminine view of the War.Entitled Women in Gra...
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    37,62 €

  • Stereotypes and Self-Representations of Women with a Muslim Background
    Margaretha A. van Es / Margaretha Avan Es
    This book explores how stereotypes of 'oppressed Muslim women' feed into the self-representations of women with a Muslim background. The focus is on women active in, and speaking on behalf of, a wide variety of minority self-organisations in the Netherlands and Norway between 1975 and 2010. The author reveals how these women have internalised and appropriated particular stereot...
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    119,74 €

  • War, Myths, and Fairy Tales
    This exciting new collection examines the relationships between warfare, myths, and fairy tales, and explores the connections and contradictions between the narratives of war and magic that dominate the ways in which people live and have lived, survived, considered and described their world. Presenting original contributions and critical reflections that explore fairy tales, fa...
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    132,38 €

  • Crisis of Legitimacy and Political Violence in Uganda, 1890 to 1979
    Ogenga Otunnu
    This book demonstrates that societies experiencing prolonged and severe crises of legitimacy are prone to intense and persistent political violence. The most significant factor accounting for the persistence of intense political violence in Uganda is the severe crisis of legitimacy of the state, its institutions, political incumbents and their challengers. This crisis of legiti...
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    144,07 €

  • From Jack Tar to Union Jack
    Mary A Conley / Mary A. Conley
    In this pioneering study, Conley examines the intersection between empire, navy, and manhood in British society from 1870 to 1918. Jack Tar to Union Jack is indispensable reading as it reminds us of the navy’s long-standing influence upon British domestic and imperial culture. ...
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    44,53 €

  • In Wainwright's Footsteps
    A Walker
    In 1938, in the shadow of possible hostilities and long before he became renowned for his ‘pictorial guides’, Alfred Wainwright decided to go for a walk. This was not just any walk: he chose to walk over 200 miles from Settle to Hadrian’s Wall and back. He wrote an account of his trek, Pennine Journey, not as a guidebook but as a commentary on the life and folk of the Dales. I...
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    16,18 €

  • Ourselves Unborn
    Sara Dubow
    During the past several decades, the fetus has been diversely represented in political debates, medical textbooks and journals, personal memoirs and autobiographies, museum exhibits and mass media, and civil and criminal law. ...
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    33,27 €

  • Jugar con fuego
    Sergio Guerra Vilaboy
    Esta es una obra que hurga en la posibilidad, en las realidades y en los deseos de la revolución continental en su primer momento, entre 1790 y 1830.Dos asuntos son de notar en Jugar con fuego. Uno es que el autor, a diferencia de buena parte de la historiografía tradicional y hasta de muchos estudiosos contemporáneos, considera que el ciclo de su estudio arranca con la revoluc...
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    15,08 €

  • Babylon i Berlin
    Douglas Reed
    Douglas Reed (1895-1976), kanske mest känd för sitt huvudverk The Controversy of Zion, var under mellankrigstiden korrespondent för The Times i Berlin och senare Wien. Hans böcker översattes till flera språk, bland annat svenska. Han observerade, och skrev ärligt om, de judiska attityder och strategier som ledde fram till Andra världskriget. Trots att han starkt ogillade Tredje...
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    11,67 €

  • Back to the Wall
    A Walker
    In 1938, in the shadow of possible hostilities and long before he became renowned for his ‘pictorial guides’, Alfred Wainwright decided to go for a walk. This was not just any walk: he chose to walk over 200 miles from Settle to Hadrian’s Wall and back. He wrote an account of his trek, Pennine Journey, not as a guidebook but as a commentary on the life and folk of the Dales. I...
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    11,36 €

  • Who Owns America’s Past?
    Robert C Post
    In 1994, when the National Air and Space Museum announced plans to display the Enola Gay, the B-29 sent to destroy Hiroshima with an atomic bomb, the ensuing political uproar caught the museum's parent Smithsonian Institution entirely unprepared. As the largest such complex in the world, the Smithsonian cares for millions of objects and has displayed everything from George ...
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    33,43 €

  • The Erracht Feud
    John Thor Ewing
    Bloodfeud was built into the structure of society in sixteenth-century Scotland, and feuding was governed by its own rules. This book examines a turbulent period in Clan Cameron’s history, spanning the last years of the chiefship of Donald Dow McConnell (1553-69) and the early years of Allan McConnell Dow (1569-1647). As rival factions vied for power, it was unclear who would l...
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    15,46 €

  • Women and Leadership
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    50,73 €

  • Harlem
    Lionel Bascom
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    82,52 €

  • Italian Americans
    Eric Martone
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    160,09 €

  • Stereotypes and Self-Representations of Women with a Muslim Background
    Margaretha A. van Es
    This book explores how stereotypes of 'oppressed Muslim women' feed into the self-representations of women with a Muslim background. The focus is on women active in, and speaking on behalf of, a wide variety of minority self-organisations in the Netherlands and Norway between 1975 and 2010. The author reveals how these women have internalised and appropriated particular stereot...
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    47,86 €

  • National Myth and the First World War in Modern Popular Music
    Peter Grant
    This book looks at the role of popular music in constructing the myth of the First World War. Since the late 1950s over 1,500 popular songs from more than forty countries have been recorded that draw inspiration from the War. National Myth and the First World War in Modern Popular Music takes an inter-disciplinary approach that locates popular music within the framework of ’mem...
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    159,34 €

  • ANU Productions
    Brian Singleton
    This book sets out strategies of analysis of the award-winning tetralogy of performances (2010-14) by ANU Productions known as ’The Monto Cycle’. Set within a quarter square mile of Dublin’s north inner city, colloquially known as The Monto, these performances featured social concerns that have blighted the area over the past 100 years, including prostitution, trafficking, asyl...
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    108,43 €

  • Bagnowka
    Heidi M. Szpek / Heidi MSzpek
    In the last decade of the nineteenth century, a traditional Jewish cemetery was established in the small town of Bagnowka, located near the urban center of Bialystok in current northeastern Poland. Though governed then by Tsarist Russia, Bialystok was still inspired by the teachings of the Torah, the Talmud, and the greater rabbinic community. Yet this was also a time of societ...
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    22,89 €

  • Africana Faith
    James L Conyers / James L. Conyers / James L. Jr. Conyers / James LJrConyers
    This primer aspires to make a concentric analysis of the function and capacity of spirituality and religiosity, within the African American Muslim movement. This collection of essays places emphasis on the role and views of the missionary and voluntary spread of Islam among African Americans in the United States. ...
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    170,81 €

  • Early Exchange between Africa and the Wider Indian Ocean World
    Gwyn Campbell
    This volume comprises a selection of essays by scholars from a variety of disciplines that discuss the exchange relationship between Africa and the wider Indian Ocean world (IOW), a macro-region running from East Africa to China, from early times to about 1300 CE. The rationale for regarding this macro-region as a 'world' is the central significance of the monsoon system w...
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    156,32 €

  • The Lebanese Media
    Sarah El-Richani
    This book presents an analysis of the current Lebanese media system. From a theoretical angle, it discusses the extent to which this system can be analyzed using the ideal types put forth by Hallin and Mancini in their seminal work Comparing Media Systems. Sarah El-Richani assesses the complex dimensions developed by the two scholars and utilizes their work as inspiration for a...
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    120,13 €

  • Alternatives to State-Socialism in Britain
    This book poses a major revisionist challenge to 20th century British labour history, aiming to look beyond the Marxist and Fabian exclusion of working class experience, notably religion and self-help, in order to exaggerate ’labour movement’ class cohesion. Instead of a ’forward march’ to secular state-socialism, the research presented here is devoted to a rich diversity of so...
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    47,69 €

  • Widowhood in Medieval and Early Modern Europe
    Lyndan Warner / Sandra Cavallo
    This book brings together innovative research on widows and widowers in medieval and early modern Europe. The introductory chapter by the Editors explores the conditions and constructions of widowhood in the period. Thirteen essays then illuminate different dimensions of widowhood in England, Italy, France, Germany and Spain. A particular attraction of the volume is the attenti...
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    240,80 €

  • Disorderly Women in Eighteenth-Century London
    Tony Henderson
     This is the first full-length study of prostitution in London during the eighteenth and early nineteenth century. Not only is it deeply revealing about the experience of prostitution in Georgian London but it also throws light on London society as a whole and its attitudes towards the female urban poor. ...
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    241,03 €

  • Freedom Ride
    James Peck
    2016 Reprint of 1962 Edition.  Full facsimile of the original edition, not reproduced with Optical Recognition Software.  Freedom Riders were civil rights activists who rode interstate buses into the segregated southern United States in 1961 and following years to challenge the non-enforcement of the United States Supreme Court decisions Morgan v. Virginia (1946) and Boynton v....
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    15,05 €

  • Gendered Encounters between Germany and Asia
    This volume provides new insights into gendered interactions over the past two centuries between Germany and Asia, including India, China, Japan, and previously overlooked Asian countries including Vietnam, the Philippines, Thailand, and Korea. This volume presents scholarship from academics working in the field of German-Asian Studies as it relates to gender across transnation...
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    144,39 €

  • Funding the Rise of Mass Schooling
    Johannes Westberg
    This book presents expert analysis on how the remarkable rise of mass schooling was funded during the nineteenth century. Based on rich source materials from rural Swedish school districts, and drawing up evidence from schooling in countries including France, Germany, England and the U.S., Westberg examines the moral considerations that guided economic practices and sheds new l...
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    64,73 €


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