Catálogo de libros Historia Social Y Cultural

Jeffrey N. Gatten / Jeffrey NGatten

Since August 1969, the Woodstock Music and Art Fair looms large when recounting the history and impact of the baby boom generation and the societal upheavals of the Sixties. Scholars study the sociological, political, musical, and artistic impact of the event and use it as a cultural touchstone when exploring alternative perspectives or seeking clarity. This interdisciplinary a...

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44,75 €

Woodstock Scholarship

Jeffrey N. Gatten / Jeffrey NGatten

Since August 1969, the Woodstock Music and Art Fair looms large when recounting the history and impact of the baby boom generation and the societal upheavals of the Sixties. Scholars study the sociological, political, musical, and artistic impact of the event and use it as a cultural touchstone when exploring alternative perspectives or seeking clarity. This interdisciplinary a...

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27,82 €

Medicine, Knowledge and Venereal Diseases in England, 1886-1916

Anne R. Hanley / Anne RHanley

This book reveals the ever-present challenges of patient care at the forefront of medical knowledge. Syphilis and gonorrhoea played upon the public imagination in Victorian and Edwardian England, inspiring fascination and fear. Seemingly inextricable from the other great ’social evil’, prostitution, these diseases represented contamination, both physical and moral. They infiltr...

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119,74 €

Media and Print Culture Consumption in Nineteenth-Century Britain

This book explores Victorian readers’ consumption of a wide array of reading matter. Established scholars and emerging researchers examine nineteenth-century audience encounters with print culture material such as periodicals, books in series, cheap serials, and broadside ballads. Two key strands of enquiry run through the volume. First, these studies of historical readership d...

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144,70 €

A House Divided

Jonathan Wells

This new edition of A House Divided provides a synthetic overview of one of the most complex eras in American history, giving students a solid grounding in the broad and varied scholarship on the American Civil War and introducing key historiographical debates in an accessible way. ...

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312,41 €

Immigrant Women in Athens

Rebecca Futo Kennedy

Many of the women whose names are known to history from Classical Athens were metics or immigrants, linked in the literature with assumptions of being ’sexually exploitable.’ Despite recent scholarship on women in Athens beyond notions of the ’citizen wife’ and the ’common prostitute,’ the scholarship on women, both citizen and foreign, is focused almost exclusively on women in...

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93,80 €

Interpreting American Jewish History at Museums and Historic Sites

Avi Y Decter / Avi Y. Decter / Avi YDecter

Interpreting American Jewish History at Museums and Historic Sites begins with a broad overview of American Jewish history in the context of a religious culture than extends back more than 3,000 years and which manifests itself in a variety of distinctive American forms. Five chapters examine key themes in American Jewish history: movement, home life, community, prejudice, and ...

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123,94 €

Social History of Agriculture

Christopher Isett / Stephen Miller

This text provides a compelling narrative world history through the lens of food and farmers. Tracing the history of agriculture from earliest times to the present, Isett and Millerargue that people rather than markets have been the primary agents of agricultural change, exploring the actions taken by individuals and groups over time. ...

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67,22 €

Interpreting American Jewish History at Museums and Historic Sites

Avi Y Decter / Avi Y. Decter / Avi YDecter

Interpreting American Jewish History at Museums and Historic Sites begins with a broad overview of American Jewish history in the context of a religious culture than extends back more than 3,000 years and which manifests itself in a variety of distinctive American forms. Five chapters examine key themes in American Jewish history: movement, home life, community, prejudice, and ...

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54,24 €

Arizal

Raphael Afilalo

Le Ari débordait de Torah, il était expert dans les écrits, la Michna, Le Talmoud, Midrash, Maaseh Bereshit et Maaseh Merkavah. Sur tous les différents niveaux de prophétie, leurs détails et de quel niveau les prophètes avaient leurs révélations. Il comprenait le sifflement des arbres, de l'herbe et des pierres, le langage des oiseaux et d'autres animaux, les conversati...

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15,10 €

(Re)Constructing Communities in Europe, 1918-1968

This book offers a new perspective on the social history of twentieth-century Europe by investigating the ideals and ideas, the life worlds and ideologies that emerge behind the use of the concept of community. It explores a wide variety of actors, ranging from the tenants of London council estates to transnational cultural elites. ...

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254,30 €

The Emergence of Historical Forensic Expertise

Vladimir Petrović

This book scrutinizes the emergence of historians participating as expert witnesses in historical forensic contribution in some of the most important national and international legal ventures of the last century. It aims to advance the debate from discussions on whether historians should testify or not toward nuanced understanding of the history of the practice and making the b...

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254,43 €

War's Unconquered Children Speak

Alice Cobb

This remarkable work is the result of the author's four-month journey throughout Europe and the Middle East to meet 'children of war' and talk with them. While there, she recorded the stories of children and families who had lost homes, relatives, and friends, and were living in ruined villages, orphanages, and refugee camps. All the people and places whose stories are shar...

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12,71 €

The Transmission of Kapsiki-Higi Folktales over Two Generations

Walter E.A. van Beek

This study on Kapsiki-Higi tales compares two corpuses of stories collected over two generations. In this oral setting, folktales appear much more dynamic than usually assumed, depending on genre, performance and the memory characteristics of the tales themselves. In northeastern Nigeria the author collected these tales twice with a time gap of two generations, in orde...

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65,11 €

The Mirror of Information in Early Modern England

James Dougal Fleming

This book examines the seventeenth-century project for a 'real' or 'universal' character: a scientific and objective code. Focusing on the Essay towards a real character, and a philosophical language (1668) of the polymath John Wilkins, Fleming provides a detailed explanation of how a real character actually was supposed to work. He argues that the period movement should not be...

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144,46 €

The Butcher’s Daughter

Florence Grende

'The Butcher's Daughter' has been short-listed for the prestigious 2017 Eric Hoffer Book Award Grand Prize.What was it like to hide with your family in the dense forests of Poland for two long years, as Mameh did, living in a hole in the ground, while alert, always alert, to the sounds of Nazis and their dogs?How was it to be both hunter and hunted, as Tateh was, taking up ...

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18,65 €

101 Amazing Women

Jack Goldstein

Throughout human history, countless women have made important contributions to society. Some have made scientific discoveries vital to modern-day life, whereas others have fought for human rights, shaped entire countries and broken down barriers. This fascinating book introduces the reader to over one hundred such figures, with each having made important contributions in fields...

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12,43 €

The Viking Stone Age

Njord Kane

The Story of the Vikings during the early Nordic Stone Age time period. The first ancient Norsemen. A span of some thousands of years concisely covering the evolution the Stone Age Norse people. A whole new world of understanding about the ancient Vikings has been opened up by new archaeological discoveries and studies. This was the birth of the Viking Battle Axe Culture, so we...

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18,47 €

Americans Against the City

Steven Conn

It is a paradox of American life that we are a highly urbanized nation filled with people deeply ambivalent about urban life. An aversion to urban density and all that it contributes to urban life, and a perception that the city was the place where "big government" first took root in America fostered what historian Steven Conn terms the "anti-urban impulse." In response, anti-u...

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34,10 €

Migration, Memory, and Diversity

Cornelia Wilhelm

Within Germany, policies and cultural attitudes toward migrants have been profoundly shaped by the difficult legacies of the Second World War and its aftermath. This wide-ranging volume explores the complex history of migration and diversity in Germany from 1945 to today, showing how conceptions of "otherness" developed while memories of the Nazi era were still fresh, and ident...

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183,72 €

The Maya

Njord Kane

Definitively tracing the evolution of the Maya civilization from the arrival of migrating 'first peoples' to the end of the Pre-Columbian Mesoamerican World with the Spanish Conquest in the 16th century AD. A span of some thousands of years are concisely covered in one volume in a thorough study of the evolution of a complex Maya society. A new world of understandin...

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35,01 €

The Maya

Njord Kane

Definitively tracing the evolution of the Maya civilization from the arrival of migrating 'first peoples' to the end of the Pre-Columbian Mesoamerican World with the Spanish Conquest in the 16th century AD. A span of some thousands of years are concisely covered in one volume in a thorough study of the evolution of a complex Maya society. A new world of understanding ...

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27,90 €

Sounds of Modern History

Daniel Morat

Long ignored by scholars in the humanities, sound has just begun to take its place as an important object of study in the last few years. Since the late 19th century, there has been a paradigmatic shift in auditory cultures and practices in European societies. This change was brought about by modern phenomena such as urbanization, industrialization and mechanization, the rise o...

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44,05 €

Matters of Testimony

Dominic Williams / Nicholas Chare

In 1944, members of the Sonderkommando—the “special squads,” composed almost exclusively of Jewish prisoners, who ensured the smooth operation of the gas chambers and had firsthand knowledge of the extermination process—buried on the grounds of Auschwitz-Birkenau a series of remarkable eyewitness accounts of Nazi genocide. This careful and penetrating study examines anew these ...

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37,93 €

Kingsholm

Malc King

Official history of Gloucester Rugby Club from its foundation in 1873 to 2016, and of its ground at Kingsholm, acquired in 1891. Profusely illustrated throughout, mainly in colour, and drawing heavily on documentary sources and memories. The first of a projected five volumes describing all aspects of the club. ...

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65,29 €

America’s Beginnings

Tony J Williams / Tony J. Williams / Tony JWilliams

At a time when surveys reveal that Americans know less and less about our past, Tony Williams provides entertaining and informative descriptions of 50 of the most important and dramatic events from the colonial and Revolutionary period—some known and some forgotten—from the Mayflower Compact to the Annapolis Convention. ...

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12,98 €

Flora White

Linda C Morice / Linda C. Morice / Linda CMorice

This study examines the origins of the progressive education movement through the lens of the life of Flora White (1860–1948), an educator who worked to promote the physical and intellectual growth of girls and young women. It analyzes the role of women in the movement and how marginalized women dealt with powerful men to advance their own agency. ...

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120,89 €

Victoria C. Woodhull (First Female American Presidential Candidate)

Theodore Tilton / Victoria C. Woodhull / Victoria CWoodhull

Victoria Claflin Woodhull, later Victoria Woodhull Martin (September 23, 1838 – June 9, 1927) was an American leader of the woman's suffrage movement.In 1872, Woodhull ran for President of the United States. While many historians and authors agree that Woodhull was the first woman to run for President of the United States, some have questioned that priority given issues wit...

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13,90 €

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