M.B - 20th Century 10

South Africa provides a unique vantage point from which to examine the scientific imagination over the last three centuries, when its position on the African continent made it a staging post for Por……続きを見る

Forfatter og politiker Hans Jørgen Lembourns refleksioner over det moderne demokrati, dets svagheder og styrker, og hvorfor vi som samfund nødvendigvis må begynde at tænke på at gøde jorden snarere ……続きを見る

The Dreiser Committee, including writers Theodore Dreiser, John Dos Passos, and Sherwood Anderson, investigated the desperate situation of striking Kentucky miners in November 1931. When the Communi……続きを見る

Votes for Delaware Women is the first book-length study of the woman suffrage struggle in Delaware, placing it within the rich historical scholarship of the national story. It looks especially at wh……続きを見る

A relationship beset with extraordinary acrimony, the US and Iran rarely see eye-to-eye, if only to avoid war or nuclear catastrophe. What is at the core of this troubled rivalry that has stymied po……続きを見る

Ballerina, celebrata attrice di film di montagna, regista rivoluzionaria, straordinaria fotografa, Leni Riefenstahl (1902-2003) commise il grave errore di mettersi al servizio del nazismo. Nel 1932,……続きを見る

Racconti come immagini, ricordi come ritratti, storie come schegge di vita di un tempo perduto che rivive nelle testimonianze documentali, ora intense e vibranti, ora flebili e periture, degli abita……続きを見る

The life of a major figure in twentieth‑century economic history whose impact has long been clouded by dubious allegations Although Harry Dexter White (1892–1948) was arguably the most important U.S……続きを見る

The Dreiser Committee, including writers Theodore Dreiser, John Dos Passos, and Sherwood Anderson, investigated the desperate situation of striking Kentucky miners in November 1931. When the Communi……続きを見る

Cricket is an Indian game accidentally invented by the English, it has famously been said. But India was represented by a cricket team long before it became a nation. Conceived by an unlikely coalit……続きを見る

2022 National Jewish Book Award Finalist in Autobiography & Memoir; 2022 Foreword INDIES Book of the Year Awards Finalist; and a 2022 WNBA Great Group Reads Selection "Like a Drop of Ink in a Downpo……続きを見る

This updated edition includes a new afterword that identifies the role the Buck story plays in the Supreme Court's review of emerging state laws that seek to limit access to abortion. "Three generat……続きを見る

'The kind of history deserving of a cinematic blockbuster' Julia Lovell, Literary Review '[A] gripping and meticulously researched account of an epic effort to transport delicate scrolls, paintings ……続きを見る

An examination of how farming expertise could be shared and extended, over four centuries. All kinds of knowledge, from traditional know-how to modern science, are socially contingent and the produc……続きを見る

Tens of thousands of Palestinians migrated to the Americas in the final decades of the nineteenth century and early decades of the twentieth. By 1936, an estimated 40,000 Palestinians lived outside ……続きを見る

This edition includes the following editor's introduction:The Great San Francisco Earthquake of 1906 and how it was told First published in 1906, "Complete Story of the San Francisco Horror" is a ……続きを見る

Inspired by the University of Illinois's celebration of the Brown v. Board of Education decision's fiftieth anniversary, this collection addresses the significance of Brown in the contributors' live……続きを見る

Gesellschaften mit starker Einwanderung kennzeichnen vielfältige Formen von Identitätsbildung und das Ringen um politische und zivilgesellschaftliche Partizipation. Dies gilt in besonderer Weise für……続きを見る

Is class outmoded as a basis for understanding labor history? This collection emphatically answers, "No!" These thirteen essays delve into subjects like migrant labor, religion, ethnicity, agricultu……続きを見る

In September 1978, William Quandt, a member of the White House National Security Council staff, spent thirteen momentous days at Camp David, the presidential retreat in Maryland, where three world l……続きを見る

Our Portion of Hell: Fayette County, Tennessee: An Oral History of the Struggle for Civil Rights offers an unrivalled account of how a rural Black community drew together to combat the immense force……続きを見る

“During his public years, approximately half of the nine decades of his active life, Bernard Baruch has served or advised many of the men who in that time have ruled the Western world... Baruch appr……続きを見る

**“Indispensable history.” –Sally Jenkins, bestselling author of The Right Call A captivating chronicle of the pivotal decade in American sports, when the games invaded prime time, and sports moved ……続きを見る

Best-seller apresenta o estudo definitivo sobre a gripe espanhola e suas consequências Em 1918, um novo vírus de influenza, até então restrito às aves, passou a se manifestar também em humanos. Um a……続きを見る

Margaret Ogilvy is a biography written by Scottish playwright J.M. Barrie about his mother. The book provides a intimate look into Barrie's relationship with his mother and her influence on his life……続きを見る

Swansea University: Campus and Community in a Post-War World, 1945–2020 marks Swansea University’s centenary. It is a study of post- Second World War academic and social change in Britain and its un……続きを見る

Five letters by Columbus describing his first, third, and fourth voyages; another by Dr Chanca, physician, descriptive of the second voyage; and an extract from the will of Diego Mendez, one of Colu……続きを見る

During the Great Depression, the proliferation of local taxpayers’ associations was dramatic and unprecedented. The justly concerned members of these organizations examined the operations of state, ……続きを見る

À la fin des années 1970, un groupe de jeunes gens de plusieurs nationalités se retrouve dans la ville de Nancy. De cette rencontre bouleversante qui dure un an, ces adolescents aux personnalités di……続きを見る

Max Nettlau’s Utopian Vision gives a historically grounded presentation of the entire literature of utopianism. Nettlau shows an encyclopedic knowledge of the subject. He passionately b……続きを見る