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  • av Mark Harris
    266,-

  • - New York City and the Rise of Modern Athletics, 1820-70
    av Melvin L. Adelman
    414,-

  • - Working People and Class Consciousness in Detroit, 1875-1900
    av Richard Jules Oestreicher
    348,-

  • av Elia Peattie
    316,-

    The story of the volatility of a marriage and the inelasticity of two personalities, set against the backdrop of the Second World War.

  • - Incidents of Interest, and Experiences in the Author's Life
    av Sherlock Bristol
    279,-

  • av James Gray
    344,-

  • - Roots and Branches of Southern Appalachian Dance
    av Philip Jamison
    292 - 1 346,-

  • - The French Regime of Louis St. Ange de Bellerive
    av Carl J. Ekberg & Sharon K. Person
    305 - 1 346,-

  • - Race, Cultural Nationalism, and U.S. Colonialism in Puerto Rico
    av Isar P. Godreau
    370 - 1 346,-

    The geopolitical influence of the United States informs the processes of racialization in Puerto Rico, including the construction of black places. This book explores how Puerto Rican national discourses about race - created to overcome US colonial power - simultaneously privilege whiteness, typecast blackness, and silence charges of racism.

  • - From the Era of Frederick Douglass to the Age of Obama
     
    1 189,-

    Includes essays that use close readings of speeches, letters, historical archives, diaries, and memoirs of policymakers and newly available FBI files to confront much-neglected questions related to race and foreign relations in the United States.

  • - Illicit Sexuality, Nationalism, and Politics in Colonial Nigeria, 1900-1958
    av Saheed Aderinto
    339 - 1 189,-

    Breaking new ground in the understanding of sexuality's complex relationship to colonialism, this book illuminates the attempts at regulating prostitution in colonial Nigeria. It shows, British colonizers saw prostitution as an African form of sexual primitivity and a problem to be solved as part of imperialism's "civilizing mission".

  • - Global Media and the World's Most Wanted Man
    av Susan Jeffords
    318 - 1 346,-

    Starting in 2001, much of the world media used the image of Osama bin Laden as a shorthand for terrorism. Bin Laden himself considered media manipulation on a par with military, political, and ideological tools, and intentionally used interviews, taped speeches, and distributed statements to further al-Qaida's ends.

  • - Gender, Violence and Representation in Postcolonial India
    av Deepti Misri
    292 - 1 189,-

    Shows how 1947 marked the beginning of a history of politicized animosity associated with the differing ideas of "India" held by communities and in regions on one hand, and by the political-military Indian state on the other.

  • - Protestantism and Chicago's Eight-Hour Movement, 1866-1912
    av William A. Mirola
    587,-

    Explores how the city's eight-hour movement intersected with a Protestant religious culture that supported long hours to keep workers from idleness, intemperance, and secular leisure activities.

  • - Retention and Invention into Indo-Caribbean Music
    av Peter Manuel
    653,-

  • av Roderick N. Labrador
    318 - 1 189,-

    Drawing on ten years of interviews and ethnographic and archival research, the author delves into the ways Filipinos in Hawai'i have balanced their pursuit of upward mobility and mainstream acceptance with a desire to keep their Filipino identity.

  • - Eating Others in Caribbean and Indian Ocean Women's Writing
    av Njeri Githire
    613,-

    Employing theoretical analysis and insightful readings of English- and French-language texts, the author explores the prominence of alimentary-related tropes and their relationship to sexual consumption, writing, global geopolitics and economic dynamics, and migration.

  • - Information Technology and Economic Crisis
    av Dan Schiller
    292 - 1 346,-

    Focuses on capitalism's crisis tendencies to confront the contradictory matrix of a technological revolution and economic stagnation making up the current political economy and demonstrates digital technology's central role in the global political economy.

  • av Robert F Burk
    370,-

    Marvin Miller changed major league baseball and the business of sports. Drawing on research and interviews with Miller and others, this book offers the first biography covering the pivotal labor leader's entire life and career.

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    1 346,-

    The field of disability history continues to evolve rapidly. This book presents nineteen essays that integrate critical analysis of gender, race, historical context, and other factors to enrich and challenge the traditional modes of interpretation still dominating the field.

  • - White Femininity, National Identity, and Contemporary Media Culture
    av Raka Shome
    325 - 1 189,-

    What narrative of white femininity transformed Diana into a simultaneous signifier of a national and global popular? What ideologies did the narrative tap into to transform her into an idealized woman of the millennium? This book deals with these questions.

  • - Reflections with Afghan Women Leaders
    av Sally L. Kitch
    318 - 1 189,-

    Explores the crisis in contemporary Afghan women's lives by focusing on two remarkable Afghan professional women working on behalf of their Afghan sisters. This book also suggests how a new dialogue might be started - in which women from across geopolitical boundaries might find common cause for change and rewrite their collective stories.

  • - Teaching and Research on the Prairie
     
    318,-

  • - The Science of Variation and the Politics of Diversity
    av Banu Subramaniam
    1 201,-

    In a stimulating interchange between feminist studies and biology, the author explores how her dissertation on flower color variation in morning glories launched her on an intellectual odyssey that engaged the feminist studies of sciences in the experimental practices of science by tracing the central and critical idea of variation in biology.

  • - Indian Immigrants and Online Cultures in the United States
    av Madhavi Mallapragada
    279 - 1 189,-

  • av Michael Koresky
    227 - 1 189,-

    Explores the emotional tenor of Terence Davies' work by focusing on four paradoxes within the director's oeuvre: films that are autobiographical yet fictional; melancholy yet elating; conservative in tone and theme yet radically constructed; and obsessed with the passing of time yet frozen in time and space.

  • - On Classic Film Noir
    av Robert Miklitsch
    292 - 1 201,-

    Consider the usual view of film noir: endless rainy nights populated by down-at-the-heel boxers, writers, and private eyes stumbling toward inescapable doom while stalked by crooked cops and cheating wives in a neon-lit urban jungle. This book offers a collection of essays that reassesses the genre's iconic style, history, and themes.

  • - Feminism's Pivotal Year on the Network News
    av Bonnie J. Dow
    292 - 1 201,-

    In 1970, ABC, CBS, and NBC - the "Big Three" of the pre-cable television era - discovered the feminist movement. This book uses case studies of key media events to delve into the ways national TV news mediated the emergence of feminism's second wave.

  • - The Chicago Years
    av Allen Stuart Weller
    410,-

    Charts Lorado Taft's mentoring of women artists, including the so-called White Rabbits at the World's Fair, many of whom went on to achieve artistic success.

  • - Creativity and Continuity in Six Communities
    av Susan Eike Spalding
    318 - 1 189,-

    Employs twenty-five years' worth of interviews with black and white Virginians, Tennesseeans, and Kentuckians to explore the evolution and social uses of dance practices in each region. This book reveals how African Americans and Native Americans, and European immigrants drawn to the timber mills and coal fields, added to local dance vocabularies.

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