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  • - The Afropolitan Ethics of Malian Music
    av Ryan Thomas Skinner
    292 - 935,-

    "Sponsored by the Quadrant Global Cultures group ... and by the Institute for Global Studies at the University of Minnesota."

  • - The Social in the Afterlives of Violence
    av Yasmeen Arif
    314,-

  • - The Rise of Public Dining in Boston
    av Kelly Erby
    266 - 844,-

    Before the 1820s, the vast majority of Americans ate only at home. As the nation began to urbanize and industrialize, home and work became increasingly divided, resulting in new forms of commercial dining.In this fascinating book, Kelly Erby explores the evolution of such eating alternatives in Boston during the nineteenth century.

  • - Sleep, Medicine, and Modern American Life
    av Matthew J. Wolf-Meyer
    222,-

  • - Collective Pseudonyms from the Luddites to Anonymous
    av Marco Deseriis
    279,-

    Bridging gaps among thehistory of the labor movement, cinema studies, art history, media activism, andhacking, Improper Names examines the contentious politics and thestruggles for the control of a shared alias from the early nineteenth centuryto the age of networks.

  • - Design, Propaganda, and the 1968 Olympics
    av Luis M. Castaneda
    385 - 1 137,-

  • - Race and Revolt in the Modernist City
    av Eric Avila
    266,-

  • - Places and Agents in Contemporary Health Care
    av Cindy Patton
    266 - 731,-

    Analyzing the medical clinic after neoliberalism.

  • - Performing Leisure, Liberalism, and Race in New Zealand
    av Margaret Werry
    390 - 879,-

    Examining the role of performance in state-making

  • - IBM and the Transformation of Corporate Design, 1945-1976
    av John Harwood
    318,-

  • - Activism and Community in San Francisco Public Housing
    av Amy L. Howard
    292 - 888,-

    By looking closely at three public housing projects in San Francisco, Amy L. Howard brings to light the dramatic measures tenants have taken to create communities that mattered to them. These stories challenge assumptions about public housing and its tenants--and make way for a broader, more productive and inclusive vision of the public housing program in the United States.

  • - Development through Disease in Sierra Leone
    av Adia Benton
    266,-

    "Sponsored by Quadrant's Health and Society group (advisory board: Susan Craddock, Jennifer Gunn, Alex Rothman, and Karen-Sue Taussig), and by the Center for Bioethics at the University of Minnesota."

  • - Urban Sustainability in Immigrant Paris
    av Andrew Newman
    350,-

  • - Pious Neoliberalism and Islamic Charity in Egypt
    av Mona Atia
    290,-

    Originally presented as the author's thesis (doctoral)--University of Washington, 2008.

  • - Civics and Sympathy in Post-Welfare Chicago
    av Catherine Fennell
    277 - 1 013,-

    In 1995 a half-vacant public housing project on Chicago's Near West Side fell to the wrecking ball. The demolition and reconstruction of the Henry Horner housing complex ushered in the most ambitious urban housing experiment of its kind: smaller, mixed-income, and partially privatized developments that, the thinking went, would mitigate the insecur

  • - White Flight and the Animal Ghetto
    av Lisa Uddin
    292,-

    Why do we feel bad at the zoo? In a fascinating counterhistory of American zoos in the 1960s and 1970s, Lisa Uddin revisits the familiar narrative of zoo reform, from naked cages to more naturalistic enclosures. She argues that reform belongs to the story of cities and feelings toward many of their human inhabitants. In "Zoo Renewal, " Uddin demon

  • - Reading a West African Road
    av Marcus Filippello
    276 - 1 149,-

    Sometimes a road is more than just a road

  • - Extracting Nature and Identity in the Appalachian Coalfields
    av Rebecca R. Scott
    292 - 804,-

    An ethnography of coal country in southern West Virginia.

  • - Military Fables of Toxic Waste
    av Shiloh R. Krupar
    292 - 810,-

  • - Cochlear Implants and Raising Deaf Children
    av Laura Mauldin
    290 - 935,-

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