著者:Sam Dalrymple
出版社: W. W. Norton & Company
発売日: 2026年02月03日
A bold and sweeping history of modern South Asia, told through the five partitions that reshaped it.
As recently as 1928, a vast swath of Asia stretching from the Red Sea to the borders of Thailand ……続きを見る
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著者:Karam Dana
出版社: Columbia University Press
発売日: 2025年01月14日
Longlisted, 2025 Palestine Book Awards
In recent years, attitudes in the United States toward the Palestinian cause have shifted dramatically. Although Palestinians have long been demonized in U.S. ……続きを見る
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Nog eerder dan de eerste auto, fiets, tram of het motorvliegtuig was er de trein. Op 26 september 1825 maakte de stoomtrein in Engeland zijn entr……続きを見る
Een weemoedige terugblik op hoe het vroeger was.
In dit boek neemt Wim Daniëls ons mee naar de tijd van zijn jeugd: de jaren vijftig en zestig. Een tijd waarin het leven wat trager ging. In het dorp……続きを見る
Owsley and Me is a love story set against the background of the Psychedelic Revolution of the '60s. Owsley “Bear” Stanley met her in Berkeley in 1965, when LSD was still legal and he was the world's……続きを見る
著者:Janet M. Davis
出版社: The University of North Carolina Press
発売日: 2016年08月26日
A century ago, daily life ground to a halt when the circus rolled into town. Across America, banks closed, schools canceled classes, farmers left their fields, and factories shut down so that everyo……続きを見る
Building Blocks is the history of Buckeye CableSystem. Buckeye is part of a family empire started in 1900 by the son of an immigrant in upstate New York. This book is a fascinating tale of the famil……続きを見る
This book critically explores the emerging architecture of regional security in Africa with particular reference to counterterrorism and counterinsurgency in the Lake Chad Basin Region. In New Archi……続きを見る
No understanding of the history of the sixties could be complete without a grasp of the work of Leary, Alpert, and Metzner, the cultural resistance to their experiments, and the way in which psychoa……続きを見る
New Modernist Studies, while reviving and revitalizing modernist studies through lively, scholarly debate about historicity, aesthetics, politics, and genres, is struggling with important questions ……続きを見る
In June 1964, courageous young civil rights workers risked their lives in the face of violence, intimidation, illegal arrests, and racism to register as many African American voters as possible in M……続きを見る