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  • 1
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    New York : Oxford University Press
    ISBN: 9780198036647 , 0198036647
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 online resource (viii, 196 p.) , ill
    Series Statement: EBSCOhost eBook Collection
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    Keywords: American fiction History and criticism ; 19th century ; Race in literature ; Caricatures and cartoons History ; 19th century ; United States ; Stereotypes (Social psychology) in literature ; Ethnicity in literature ; Realism in literature ; Electronic books ; American fiction History and criticism. 19th century ; Race in literature. ; Caricatures and cartoons History 19th century. ; Stereotype (Psychology) in literature. ; Ethnicity in literature. ; Realism in literature. ; Ethnische Gruppe ; Karikatur ; Literatur ; Schwarze ; United States Ethnic relations ; History ; 19th century ; United States Race relations ; History ; 19th century ; United States Ethnic relations 19th century. ; History ; United States Race relations 19th century. ; History ; USA ; Electronic books. ; Electronic books ; USA ; Ethnische Gruppe ; Geschichte 1870-1900 ; USA ; Karikatur ; Literatur ; Schwarze ; Geschichte 1870-1900 ; USA ; Ethnische Gruppe ; Humoristische Darstellung ; Geschichte 1870-1900 ; USA ; Karikatur ; Literatur ; Schwarze ; Geschichte 1870-1900
    Abstract: Introduction: the age of caricature, the age of realism -- William Dean Howells and the touch of exaggeration which typifies -- "I want a real coon": Twain and ethnic caricature -- A Jamesian art to be cultivated -- Edith Wharton's flamboyant copy -- The "curious realism" of Charles Chesnutt
    Abstract: Why did so many of the writers who aligned themselves with the social and aesthetic aims of late 19th-century American literary realism rely on stock conventions of ethnic caricature in their treatment of immigrant African-American figures?
    Description / Table of Contents: Introduction: the age of caricature, the age of realism -- William Dean Howells and the touch of exaggeration which typifies -- "I want a real coon": Twain and ethnic caricature -- A Jamesian art to be cultivated -- Edith Wharton's flamboyant copy -- The "curious realism" of Charles Chesnutt
    Note: Description based on print version record , Includes bibliographical references (p. 173-192) and index , Playing the races
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  • 2
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    New York : Palgrave Macmillan US
    ISBN: 9781137091932
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (VII, 240 p)
    Edition: Springer eBook Collection. Humanities, Social Sciences and Law
    Series Statement: The New Middle Ages
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als
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    Keywords: History ; Literature ; Literature Philosophy ; Europe History-476-1492 ; Classical literature ; Literature, Medieval ; Philosophy ; Science ; Literature, Ancient.
    Abstract: The twentieth-century discovered the concept of sacred place largely through the work of Martin Heidegger and Mircea Eliade. Their writings on sacred place respond to the modern manipulation of nature and secularization of space, and so may seem distinctively post-modern, but their work has an important and unacknowledged precedent in the Neoplatonism of Late Antiquity and the early Middle Ages. Sacred Place in Early Medieval Neoplatonism traces the appearance and development of sacred place in the writings of Neoplatonists from the third to ninth centuries, and sets them in the context of present-day debates over place and the sacred
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  • 3
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    New York : Palgrave Macmillan US
    ISBN: 9781137062284
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (XVI, 279 p)
    Edition: Springer eBook Collection. Humanities, Social Sciences and Law
    Series Statement: The New Middle Ages
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als
    Keywords: History ; History, Modern ; Europe History ; Great Britain History ; Europe History-476-1492 ; Civilization History ; Social history
    Abstract: Charlemagne's Mustache presents the reader with seven engaging studies, 'thick descriptions', of cultural life and thought in the Carolingian world. The author begins by asking questions. Why did Charlemagne have a mustache and why did hair matter? Why did the king own peacocks and other exotic animals? Why was he writing in bed and could he write at all? How did medieval kings become stars? How were secrets kept and conveyed in the early Middle Ages? And why did early medieval peoples believe in storm and hailmakers? The answers, he found, are often surprising
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  • 4
    ISBN: 9781137075529
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (VI, 267 p)
    Edition: Springer eBook Collection. Humanities, Social Sciences and Law
    Series Statement: The New Middle Ages
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als
    Keywords: History ; History, Ancient ; Europe History ; Great Britain History ; Europe History-476-1492 ; Civilization History ; Social history ; Europe
    Abstract: This timely volume examines the commitments of historicism in the wake of New Historicism. It contributes to the construction of a materialist historicism while, at the same time, proposing that discussions of work need not be limited to the clash between labour and capital. To this end, the essays offer more than a strictly historical view of the complex terms, social and literary, within which labour was treated in the medieval period. Several of the essays strive to reformulate the very critical language we use to think about the categories of labour and work through a continually doubled engagement with modern theories of labour and medieval theories and practices of labour
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  • 5
    ISBN: 9781137097941
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (XXIV, 238 p)
    Edition: Springer eBook Collection. Humanities, Social Sciences and Law
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als
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    Keywords: History ; History, Modern ; America History ; United States History ; Political science ; World politics ; Europe Politics and government
    Abstract: Reclaiming the American Revolution examines the struggles for political ascendancy between Federalists and the Republicans in the early days of the American Republic. Watkins views the struggle through the lens of the Kentucky and Virginia Resolutions, charters written by Thomas Jefferson and James Madison respectively, that were responses to the Alien and Sedition Acts passed by Federalists that, among other things, made criticism of the federal government a crime. Viewing those acts as a threat to states' rights, as well as indicative of a national government that sought supreme power, the Resolutions restated the principles of the American Revolution and sought to return the nation to the tenets of the Constitution, in which rights for all were protected by checking the power of the national government
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  • 6
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    New York : Palgrave Macmillan US
    ISBN: 9781137044976
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (VII, 312 p)
    Edition: Springer eBook Collection. Humanities, Social Sciences and Law
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als
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    Keywords: History ; Political economy ; United States History ; Civilization History ; Social history ; Economic sociology ; Industrial sociology ; International economic relations.
    Abstract: This single-volume comprehensive compilation of documents integrates institutional labour history (movements and trade unions) with aspects of social and cultural history, as well as charting changes in trade union and managerial practices, and integrating the economics and politics of labour history. It includes documents that treat household relations as well as industrial relations; women as domestic workers and unpaid household labour as well as factory workers; and African American, Hispanic American (especially Mexican and Mexican American), and Asian workers as well as white workers. American Labor offers readers an insight into the full spectrum historically of workers, their daily lives, and the movements that they created
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  • 7
    ISBN: 0195302648 , 9780198032427 , 0198032420 , 1602568839 , 9781602568839
    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource
    Series Statement: EBSCOhost eBook Collection
    Keywords: Electronic books ; Cities and towns Case studies ; Growth ; History ; 20th century ; United States ; Interstate Highway System History ; 20th century ; Roads Government policy ; History ; 20th century ; United States ; Transportation, Automotive History ; 20th century ; United States ; Interstate Highway System History 20th century ; Roads Government policy 20th century ; History ; Transportation, Automotive History 20th century ; Cities and towns Case studies Growth 20th century ; History ; Cities and towns Case studies. Growth 20th century ; History ; Interstate Highway System History 20th century. ; Roads Government policy 20th century. ; History ; Transportation, Automotive History 20th century. ; SOCIAL SCIENCE ; Sociology ; Urban ; Roads ; Government policy ; Transportation, Automotive ; Cities and towns ; Growth ; Interstate Highway System ; Case studies ; History ; Geschichte ; Regionalverkehr ; Stadtentwicklung ; Stadtverkehr ; Verkehrsplanung ; Denver (Colo.) History ; 20th century ; Middlebury (Vt. : Town) History ; 20th century ; Smyrna (Rutherford County, Tenn.) History ; 20th century ; Denver (Colo.) History ; 20th century ; Colorado ; Denver ; Tennessee ; Smyrna (Rutherford County) ; United States ; Vermont ; Middlebury (Town) ; Middlebury (Vt. : Town) History 20th century ; Smyrna (Rutherford County, Tenn.) History 20th century ; Denver (Colo.) History 20th century ; Middlebury (Vt. : Town) History 20th century. ; Smyrna (Rutherford County, Tenn.) History 20th century. ; Denver (Colo.) History 20th century. ; Colorado ; Denver ; Tennessee ; Smyrna (Rutherford County) ; United States ; Vermont ; Middlebury (Town) ; USA ; Electronic books Case studies ; History ; Electronic book ; Electronic books. ; Electronic books ; USA ; Stadtentwicklung ; Stadtverkehr ; Verkehrsplanung ; Regionalverkehr ; Geschichte ; USA ; Stadtentwicklung ; Stadtverkehr ; Verkehrsplanung ; Regionalverkehr ; Geschichte 1900-1999
    Abstract: Examines how highways have transformed American communities
    Description / Table of Contents: Highway federalism -- Denver meets the automobile -- The decentralization of post-World War II Denver -- Automobiles and a small town -- Bridges, bypasses, and boulevards -- AutoCity : Smyrna, Tennessee
    Description / Table of Contents: Contents; List of Illustrations, Figures, and Tables; Acknowledgments; List of Abbreviations; Introduction; ONE: Highway Federalism; TWO: Denver Meets the Automobile; THREE: The Decentralization of Post-World War II Denver; FOUR: Automobiles and a Small Town; FIVE: Bridges, Bypasses, and Boulevards; SIX: AutoCity: Smyrna, Tennessee; Conclusion; Notes; Bibliography; Index;
    Description / Table of Contents: Highway federalism -- Denver meets the automobile -- The decentralization of post-World War II Denver -- Automobiles and a small town -- Bridges, bypasses, and boulevards -- AutoCity : Smyrna, Tennessee
    Note: Includes bibliographical references and index
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  • 8
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    New York : Oxford University Press
    ISBN: 9780199849970 , 0199849978
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 online resource (x, 356 p.)
    Parallel Title: Druckausg. McDaniel, June Offering flowers, feeding skulls
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    Keywords: Kālī (Hindu deity) Cult ; India ; West Bengal ; Shaktism India ; West Bengal ; West Bengal ; Schaktismus ; Kali Göttin ; West Bengal
    Abstract: In 'Offering Flowers, Feeding Skulls', June McDaniel provides an overview of Bengali goddess worship or Shakti. She identifies three major forms of goddess worship, and examines each through its myths, folklore, songs, rituals, sacred texts, and practitioners, tracing these strands through Bengali culture.
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  • 9
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    New York : Palgrave Macmillan US
    ISBN: 9781137052629
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (XXIX, 506 p)
    Edition: Springer eBook Collection. Humanities, Social Sciences and Law
    Series Statement: The New Middle Ages
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als
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    Keywords: History ; Europe History ; Europe History-476-1492 ; Sex (Psychology) ; Gender expression ; Gender identity ; History, Ancient ; History, Modern ; Literature ; Sociology ; Europe-History-476-1492. ; Europe-History.
    Abstract: Eleanor's patrilineal descent, from a lineage already prestigious enough to have produced an empress in the eleventh century, gave her the lordship of Aquitaine. But marriage re-emphasized her sex which, in the medieval scheme of gender-power relations relegated her to the position of Lady in relation to her Lordly husbands. In this collection, essays provide a context for Eleanor's life and further an evolving understanding of Eleanor's multifaceted career. A valuable collection on the greatest heiress of the medieval period
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  • 10
    ISBN: 9781403981691
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (XIV, 330 p)
    Edition: Springer eBook Collection. Humanities, Social Sciences and Law
    Series Statement: Palgrave Studies in Oral History
    Parallel Title: Printed edition
    Keywords: History ; Oral history ; History, Modern ; Europe History ; Italy History ; World War, 1939-1945 ; World politics
    Abstract: On March 24, 1944, Nazi occupation forces in Rome killed 335 unarmed civilians in retaliation for a partisan attack the day before. Portelli has crafted an eloquent, multi-voiced oral history of the massacre, of its background and its aftermath. The moving stories of the victims, the women and children who survived and carried on, the partisans who fought the Nazis, and the common people who lived through the tragedies of the war together paint a many-hued portrait of one of the world's most richly historical cities. The Order Has Been Carried Out powerfully relates the struggles for freedom under Fascism and Nazism, the battles for memory in post-war democracy, and the meanings of death and grief in modern society
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  • 11
    ISBN: 9781137094568
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (XI, 216 p)
    Edition: Springer eBook Collection. Humanities, Social Sciences and Law
    Series Statement: The New Middle Ages
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als
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    Keywords: History ; Sociology ; Sex (Psychology) ; Gender expression ; Gender identity ; Europe History ; Europe History-476-1492 ; World history ; Classical literature ; Literature, Ancient. ; Sex.
    Abstract: Zeikowitz explores both affirming and denigrating discourses of male same-sex desire in diverse fourteenth-century chivalric texts and describes the sociopolitical forces motivating those discourses. He attempts to dethrone traditional heteronormative views by drawing attention to culturally normative 'queer' desire. Zeikowitz articulates possible homoeroticized spectatorial interactions between male readers and imagined or actual model knights, dramatized accounts of same-sex unions, and mutually stimulating - or competing - forces of homosocial and heterosexual desire in chivalric texts, such as Charny's Book of Chivalry , Sir Gawain and the Green Knight , and Troilus and Criseyde . He also examines how intimate male bonds are rendered sodomitically-inflected, dangerous attachments in chronicle narratives of the reigns of Edward II and Richard II
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  • 12
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    New York : Palgrave Macmillan US
    ISBN: 9781137055897
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (XVII, 238 p)
    Edition: Springer eBook Collection. Humanities, Social Sciences and Law
    Series Statement: Early Modern Cultural Series
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als
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    Keywords: History ; Literature, Modern ; History, Modern ; Europe History ; Europe History-476-1492 ; Civilization History ; European literature ; European literature
    Abstract: As cultural practice, the early modern duel both indicated and shaped the gender assumptions of wealthy young men; it served, in fact, as a nexus for different, often competing, notions of masculinity. As Jennifer Low illustrates by examining the aggression inherent in single combat, masculinity could be understood in spatial terms, social terms, or developmental terms. Low considers each category, developing a corrective to recent analyses of gender in early modern culture by scrutinizing the relationship between social rank and the understanding of masculinity. Reading a variety of documents, including fencing manuals and anti-dueling tracts as well as plays by Shakespeare, Jonson, Middleton, and other dramatists, Low demonstrates the interaction between the duel as practice, as stage-device, and as locus of early modern cultural debate
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    New York : Palgrave Macmillan US
    ISBN: 9781137098351
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (IX, 302 p)
    Edition: Springer eBook Collection. Humanities, Social Sciences and Law
    Series Statement: The New Middle Ages
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als
    Keywords: History, Ancient ; Sociology ; Sex (Psychology) ; Gender expression ; Gender identity ; History ; Historiography ; Europe History ; Great Britain History ; Europe History-476-1492 ; Sex. ; Europe
    Abstract: Never before have the women of the Capetian royal dynasty in France been the subject of a study in their own right. The new research in Capetian Women challenges old paradigms about the restricted roles of royal women, uncovering their influence in social, religious, cultural and even political spheres. The scholars in the volume consider medieval chroniclers' responses to the independent actions of royal women as well as modern historians' use of them as vehicles for constructing the past. The essays also delineate the creation of reginal identity through cultural practices such as religious patronage and the commissioning of manuscripts, tomb sculpture, and personal seals
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    New York : Oxford University Press
    ISBN: 9835600686
    Language: English
    Pages: V, 84 S. , Ill.
    Edition: 2nd ed
    Series Statement: Images of Asia
    DDC: 959.3
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    Keywords: Bangkok (Thailand) ; Description and travel ; Bangkok (Thailand) ; History ; Bangkok ; Geschichte
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    New York : Oxford University Press
    ISBN: 0195185242 , 9780198034353 , 0198034350 , 9781280835582 , 9780195150742 , 0195150740 , 9780195150735 , 0195150732 , 1280482214 , 9781280482212 , 1280835583
    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource
    Series Statement: EBSCOhost eBook Collection
    Keywords: Electronic books ; English fiction History and criticism ; 19th century ; Crime in literature ; Legal stories, English History and criticism ; Law and literature History ; 19th century ; Criminal liability in literature ; Responsibility in literature ; Criminals in literature ; English fiction History and criticism. 19th century ; Crime in literature. ; Legal stories, English History and criticism. ; Law and literature History 19th century. ; Criminal liability in literature. ; Responsibility in literature. ; Criminals in literature. ; English fiction History and criticism ; 19th century ; Crime in literature ; Criminal liability in literature ; Criminals in literature ; English fiction ; Law and literature ; Legal stories, English ; Responsibility in literature ; Englisch ; Kriminalität ; Roman ; Electronic books Electronic books ; Electronic books. ; Electronic books Criticism, interpretation, etc ; History ; Englisch ; Roman ; Kriminalität ; Geschichte 1837-1901 ; Englisch ; Roman ; Kriminalität ; Geschichte 1837-1901
    Abstract: This study of legal and literary narratives argues that the novel's power to represent the interior life of its characters both challenges the law's definitions of criminal responsibility and reaffirms them. Connecting novelists with jurists and legal historians of the era, it offers new ways of thinking about the Victorian period
    Description / Table of Contents: Organizing crime : conduct and character in Oliver Twist : prologue to George Eliot's crimes -- "To fix our minds on that consequence" : minding consequences in Adam Bede and Felix Holt -- Middlemarch, Daniel Deronda, and the crime in mind -- James Fitzjames Stephen and the responsibilities of narrative -- Modern responsibilities
    Description / Table of Contents: Contents; Introduction; ONE: Organizing Crime: Conduct and Character in Oliver Twist; Prologue to George Eliot's Crimes; TWO: "To Fix Our Minds on That Certainty": Minding Consequences in Adam Bede and Felix Holt; THREE: Middlemarch, Daniel Deronda, and the Crime in Mind; FOUR: James Fitzjames Stephen and the Responsibilities of Narrative; Conclusion: Modern Responsibilities; Notes; Bibliography; Index;
    Description / Table of Contents: Organizing crime : conduct and character in Oliver Twist : prologue to George Eliot's crimes -- "To fix our minds on that consequence" : minding consequences in Adam Bede and Felix Holt -- Middlemarch, Daniel Deronda, and the crime in mind -- James Fitzjames Stephen and the responsibilities of narrative -- Modern responsibilities
    Note: Includes bibliographical references (p. 259-267) and index
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    New York : Oxford University Press
    ISBN: 1280532580 , 9781280532580 , 1423784278 , 9781423784272
    Language: English
    Pages: Online Ressource (ix, 292 p.) , ill.
    Edition: Online-Ausg.
    Parallel Title: Print version Inventing modern
    DDC: 303.483097309045
    Keywords: Lienhard, John H. 1930- Childhood and youth ; Lienhard, John H Childhood and youth ; Lienhard, John H Childhood and youth ; Lienhard, John H ; Technological innovations Social aspects ; History ; 20th century ; United States ; Technology Social aspects ; History ; 20th century ; United States ; Science Social aspects ; History ; 20th century ; United States ; Material culture Social aspects ; History ; 20th century ; United States ; Science Social aspects 20th century ; History ; Material culture Social aspects 20th century ; History ; Technology Social aspects 20th century ; History ; Technological innovations Social aspects 20th century ; History ; Material culture Social aspects 20th century ; History ; Science Social aspects 20th century ; History ; Technological innovations Social aspects 20th century ; History ; Technology Social aspects 20th century ; History ; SCIENCE ; Philosophy & Social Aspects ; TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING ; Social Aspects ; Civilization ; Material culture ; Social aspects ; Science ; Social aspects ; Technological innovations ; Social aspects ; Technology ; Social aspects ; History ; United States Civilization ; 20th century ; United States Civilization 20th century ; United States Civilization 20th century ; United States ; Electronic books
    Abstract: Modern is a word much used, but hard to pin down. In Inventing Modern, John H. Lienhard uses that word to capture the furious rush of newness in the first half of 20th-century America. An unexpected world emerges from under the more familiar Modern. Beyond the airplanes, radios, art deco, skyscrapers, Fritz Lang's Metropolis, Buck Rogers, the culture of the open road-Burma Shave, Kerouac, and White Castles-lie driving forces that set this account of Modern apart. One force, says Lienhard, was a new concept of boyhood-the risk-taking, hands-on savage inventor. Driven by an admiration of recklessness, America developed its technological empire with stunning speed. Bringing the airplane to fruition in so short a time, for example, were people such as Katherine Stinson, Lincoln Beachey, Amelia Earhart, and Charles Lindbergh. The rediscovery of mystery powerfully drove Modern as well. X-Rays, quantum mechanics, and relativity theory had followed electricity and radium. Here we read how, with reality seemingly altered, hope seemed limitless. Lienhard blends these forces with his childhood in the brave new world. The result is perceptive, engaging, and filled with surprise.; Whether he talks about Alexander Calder (an engineer whose sculptures were exercises in materials science) or that wacky paean to flight, Flying Down to Rio, unexpected detail emerges from every tile of this large mosaic. Inventing Modern is a personal book that displays, rather than defines, an age that ended before most of us were born. It is an engineer's homage to a time before the bomb and our terrible loss of confidence-a time that might yet rise again out of its own postmodern ashes
    Description / Table of Contents: 1846 : great-grandpa and manifest destinyShort-lived technologies : searching for direction -- "The irruption of forces totally new" -- A new genus of genius -- Remington to modern : finding the core on the fringe -- Fires and the high-rise Phoenix -- The titan city -- Automobile -- On the road : of highways and gasoline -- The back door into the sky -- Flying down to Rio -- A boy's life in the new century -- Inventing a better mousetrap -- War -- A funeral in the fifties -- After modern.
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    ISBN: 9780195347739 , 0195347730 , 9781602569508 , 9780195160512 , 0195160517 , 1280503173 , 9781280503177 , 1602569509 , 019518078X , 9780195180787
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 online resource (x, 270 pages) , Illustrationen
    Series Statement: EBSCOhost eBook Collection
    Parallel Title: Print version Charles Dickens in cyberspace
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    Keywords: Dickens, Charles Appreciation ; United States ; Dickens, Charles Appreciation ; Dickens, Charles Appreciation ; Dickens, Charles, Appreciation ; Dickens, Charles 1812-1870 ; Dickens, Charles ; English literature History and criticism ; Theory, etc ; 19th century ; Criticism History ; 20th century ; United States ; English literature Appreciation ; United States ; Romanticism Great Britain ; Postmodernism (Literature) United States ; Literature and science United States ; Literature and science Great Britain ; Criticism History 20th century ; English literature Appreciation ; Postmodernism (Literature) ; Literature and science ; Literature and science ; Romanticism ; English literature History and criticism 19th century ; Theory, etc ; English literature Appreciation ; Postmodernism (Literature) ; Literature and science ; Literature and science ; Romanticism ; Criticism History 20th century ; English literature History and criticism 19th century ; Theory, etc ; Electronic books ; English literature Appreciation ; Postmodernism (Literature) ; Literature and science ; Literature and science ; Romanticism ; English literature History and criticism 19th century ; Theory, etc. ; Criticism History 20th century. ; Electronic books ; English literature ; Appreciation ; English literature ; Theory, etc ; Literature and science ; Postmodernism (Literature) ; Romanticism ; Criticism ; Civilization ; Civilization ; British influences ; LITERARY CRITICISM ; European ; English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh ; Art appreciation ; Criticism, interpretation, etc ; History ; Englisch ; Kultur ; Literatur ; Postmoderne ; Rezeption ; United States Civilization ; British influences ; United States Civilization ; 20th century ; Great Britain Civilization ; 19th century ; United States Civilization 20th century ; Great Britain Civilization 19th century ; United States Civilization ; British influences ; United States Civilization ; British influences ; United States Civilization 20th century ; Great Britain Civilization 19th century ; Great Britain ; United States ; USA ; Electronic books. ; Electronic book ; Electronic books ; Englisch ; Literatur ; Rezeption ; Postmoderne ; Geschichte 1800-1900 ; Dickens, Charles 1812-1870 ; Englisch ; Literatur ; Rezeption ; USA ; Kultur ; Geschichte 1980-2000 ; Englisch ; Literatur ; Rezeption ; Postmoderne ; Geschichte 1800-1900 ; Dickens, Charles 1812-1870 ; Englisch ; Literatur ; Rezeption ; USA ; Kultur ; Geschichte 1980-2000
    Abstract: Charles Dickens in Cyberspace' surveys novelists, scientists, filmmakers, and theorists over two centuries, tracing circuits that connect Austen, Babbage, Darwin, Dickens, and Mary Shelley with their contemporary counterparts: Andrea Barrett, Peter Carey, Richard Powers, Salman Rushdie, Ridley Scott, Neal Stephenson, Tom Stoppard, and others
    Abstract: The Past in the Future of Cultural Studies Crystal Palace to Millennium Dome -- The Voice in the Machine Hazlitt, Austen, Hardy, and James -- Undisciplined Cultures Peacock, Mary Somerville, and Mr. Pickwick -- Hacking the Nineteenth Century Babbage and Lovelace in The Difference Engine and Arcadia -- Concealed Circuits Frankenstein's Monster, Replicants, and Cyborgs -- Is Pip Postmodern? Or, Dickens at the Turn of the Millennium -- Genome Time New Age Evolution, The Gold Bug Variations, and Gattaca -- Convergence of the Two Cultures A Geek's Guide
    Description / Table of Contents: The Past in the Future of Cultural Studies Crystal Palace to Millennium DomeThe Voice in the Machine Hazlitt, Austen, Hardy, and JamesUndisciplined Cultures Peacock, Mary Somerville, and Mr. PickwickHacking the Nineteenth Century Babbage and Lovelace in The Difference Engine and ArcadiaConcealed Circuits Frankenstein's Monster, Replicants, and CyborgsIs Pip Postmodern? Or, Dickens at the Turn of the MillenniumGenome Time New Age Evolution, The Gold Bug Variations, and GattacaConvergence of the Two Cultures A Geek's Guide.
    Note: Description based on print version record , Includes bibliographical references (p. 237-258) and index , Charles Dickens in cyberspace
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    ISBN: 9781137112880
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (XV, 262 p)
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    Keywords: History ; Cultural studies ; Youth Social life and customs ; Theater History ; Civilization History ; European literature ; Culture
    Abstract: This is the most comprehensive analytical study ever done of The Phantom of the Opera in its many different versions from the original Gaston Leroux novel to the present day. It proposes answers to the question, 'why do we keep needing this story told and retold in the Western world?' by revealing the history of deep cultural tensions that underlie the novel and each major adaptation. Using extensive historical and textual evidence and drawing on perspectives from several theories of cultural study, this book argues that we need this tale told and reconfigured because it provides us ways to both confront and disguise how we have fashioned our senses of identity in the Western middle class. The Phantom of the Opera - in varying ways over time - turns out like the 'Gothic' tradition it extends, to be deeply connected to Western self-fashioning in the face of conflicted attitudes about class, gender, race, religious beliefs, Freudian psychology, economic and international tensions, and especially the shifting and permeable boundaries between 'high' and 'low' culture. This book should interest all students of the history of Western culture, as well as those especially fascinated by Gothic fiction, opera, musical theatre, and film
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    New York : Palgrave Macmillan US
    ISBN: 9781137044693
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (XVII, 282 p)
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    Series Statement: The New Middle Ages
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    Keywords: History ; History, Ancient ; Sociology ; Sex (Psychology) ; Gender expression ; Gender identity ; History, Modern ; Europe History ; Europe History-476-1492 ; Clinical psychology ; Europe ; Sex.
    Abstract: This book reconsiders a wide array of images of Byzantine empresses on media as diverse as bronze coins and gold mosaic from the fifth through to the seventh centuries A.D. The representations have often been viewed in terms of individual personas, but strong typological currents frame their medieval context. Empress Theodora, the target of political pornography, has consumed the bulk of past interest, but even her representations fit these patterns. Methodological tools from fields as disparate as numismatics as well as cultural and gender studies help clarify the broader cultural significance of female imperial representation and patronage at this time
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    New York : Palgrave Macmillan US
    ISBN: 9781137120298
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (VIII, 328 p)
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    Keywords: History ; History, Modern ; Europe History ; Europe History-1492- ; Russia History ; Europe, Eastern History ; Military history ; Politics and war ; Soviet Union
    Abstract: The Military History of the Soviet Union and The Military History of Tsarist Russia treat Russian military history from the rise of the Muscovite state to the present, even peeking briefly into the future. The two volumes will cover Russia's land forces extensively, but will also cover the development of the Russian Navy, and the creation and development of the Russian Air Force, parts of the Russian military machine which are frequently neglected in general writings. The historical analysis will address the development and function of the Russian military whether in peace or in war, as well as the impact of war and changes in the military upon Russian society and politics
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    ISBN: 9780230107496
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    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (XI, 290 p)
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    Keywords: History ; Political theory ; Political philosophy ; Philosophy ; Religion History ; History, Modern ; Political science. ; Political science ; Science
    Abstract: Toleration of differing religious ideas exists in parts of the contemporary world, but it is still not clear how this came about. Recent work has uncovered the enormous importance one branch of historiography has had in bringing about such tolerance as we have: histories of heresy. This book brings together experts in this field in order to attempt to map out the contours and features of the influence of these histories on early modern and modern conceptions of toleration. Perhaps by showing heretics and heresies to be more benign than once thought, these histories could tease tolerance from the intolerant. The essays in this book attempt to piece together the intentions and effects of key works from this literature in the promotion or rejection of toleration in theory and practice
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    New York : Palgrave Macmillan US
    ISBN: 9781137084507
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (XX, 367 p)
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    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als
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    Keywords: History ; Literature ; Religion Philosophy ; Linguistics ; Sociology ; Science
    Abstract: Max Müller is often referred to as the 'father of Religious Studies', having himself coined the term 'science of religion' (or religionswissenschaft) in 1873. It was he who encouraged the comparative study of myth and ritual, and it was he who introduced the oft-quoted dictum: 'He who knows one [religion], knows none'. Though a German-born and German-educated philologist, he spent the greater part of his career at Oxford, becoming one of the most famous of the Victorian arm-chair scholars. Müller wrote extensively on Indian philosophy and Vedic religion, translated major sections of the Vedas, the Upanisads, and all of the Dhammapada, yet never visited India. To be sure, his work bears the stamp of late Nineteenth-Century sensibilities, but as artifacts of Victorian era scholarship, Müller's essays are helpful in reconstructing and comprehending the intellectual concerns of this highly enlightened though highly imperialistic age
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    New York : Palgrave Macmillan US
    ISBN: 9780230108226
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (VI, 266 p)
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    Keywords: History ; History, Modern ; Europe History ; Russia History ; Europe, Eastern History ; World history ; Military history ; Politics and war ; Soviet Union
    Abstract: The Military History of Tsarist Russia examines Russian military history from the rise of the Muscovite state to the present, even peeking briefly into the future. The volume covers Russia's land forces extensively, but also covers the development of the Russian Navy, and the creation and development of the Russian Air Force - parts of the Russian military machine that are frequently neglected in general writings. The historical analysis addresses the development and function of the Russian military whether in peace or in war, as well as the impact of war and changes in the military upon Russian society and politics. Questions of military organization, doctrine, and technique are paramount, as well as the critical question of the interface between the armed forces and society
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    ISBN: 9781137083944
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (XIV, 270 p)
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    Series Statement: The New Middle Ages
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    Keywords: History ; Europe History ; Europe History-476-1492 ; Religion and culture ; History, Ancient ; History, Modern ; Nature conservation ; Europe-History. ; Europe-History-476-1492.
    Abstract: In this wide-ranging study of costume history contributors explore fashion, textiles, and the representation of clothing in the middle ages. Essays combine the perspectives of archaeology, art history, economics, religion, costume history, material culture, and literary criticism and explore materials from England, France, the Low Countries, Scandinavia, Germany, Italy, and Ireland. The collection focuses on multiple aspects of textiles and dress - their making, meaning, and representation - and explores the impact of international trade and other forms of cultural exchange
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    New York : Oxford University Press
    ISBN: 0195072324 , 9781602564671 , 1280481986 , 9781280481987 , 9780195072327 , 0195149297 , 9780195149296 , 1417587571 , 9781417587575 , 1423735331 , 9781423735335 , 1602564671
    Language: English
    Pages: Online Ressource (vi, 348 p.)
    Edition: Online-Ausg.
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als Bloom, Samuel William, 1921-2006 Word as scalpel
    DDC: 306.4610973
    Keywords: Social medicine History ; United States ; Sociology History ; United States ; Social medicine History ; Sociology History ; Sociology, Medical ; History ; United States ; Sociology, Medical history ; Electronic books United States ; SOCIAL SCIENCE ; Anthropology ; Cultural ; POLITICAL SCIENCE ; Public Policy ; Cultural Policy ; SOCIAL SCIENCE ; Popular Culture ; Social medicine ; Sociology ; History ; United States ; United States ; Electronic books ; Electronic books History
    Abstract: Medical sociology is now an established subdiscipline in both medicine and sociology. This book traces the intellectual and institutional evolution of the field in relation to antecedents of the past 2000 years. Drawing on his own experience as a participant and witness as well as from diverse fields, the author provides an account of the ongoing search for knowledge about relationship between illness, medicine, and society
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    New York : Oxford University Press
    ISBN: 1423736346 , 9781423736349 , 1601297157 , 9781601297150
    Language: English
    Pages: Online Ressource (xiv, 346 p.) , ports.
    Edition: Online-Ausg.
    Additional Information: Rezensiert in Hamilton, Dakota L. [Rezension von: Harris, Barbara J., English Aristocratic Women: 1450-1550] 2004
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als Harris, Barbara J. (Barbara Jean), 1942- English aristocratic women, 1450-1550
    DDC: 305.420942
    Keywords: Women History ; Renaissance, 1450-1600 ; England ; Upper class women History ; England ; Aristocracy (Social class) History ; England ; Femmes Histoire ; 1450-1600 (Renaissance) ; Angleterre ; Femmes de la classe supérieure Histoire ; Angleterre ; Aristocrates Histoire ; Angletere ; Upper class women History ; Aristocracy (Social class) History ; Women History Renaissance, 1450-1600 ; Upper class women ; Women ; Renaissance ; Aristocracy (Social class) ; SOCIAL SCIENCE ; Feminism & Feminist Theory ; History ; England ; Electronic book ; Electronic books
    Abstract: This work, based on archival research, combines a collective portrait of aristocratic women with an analysis of the particular, class-specific form of patriarchy and gender relations that flourished among the upper classes in Yorkist and early Tudor England
    Note: Includes bibliographical references (p. 309-332) and index. - Description based on print version record
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    New York : Oxford University Press
    ISBN: 0195160096 , 9780195160093 , 1433700190 , 9781433700194 , 1423726936 , 9781423726937
    Language: English
    Pages: Online Ressource (xv, 328 p.)
    Edition: Online-Ausg.
    Series Statement: Studies in contemporary Jewry 18
    Parallel Title: Print version Jews and violence
    DDC: 909.04924
    Keywords: Jews Social conditions ; 20th century ; Violence History ; 20th century ; Violence Religious aspects ; Judaism ; Judaism and state History ; 20th century ; Violence Israel ; Israel ; Jews Social conditions 20th century ; Judaism and state History 20th century ; Violence ; Violence History 20th century ; Violence Religious aspects ; Judaism ; Judaism and state History 20th century ; Jews Social conditions 20th century ; Violence Religious aspects ; Judaism ; Violence ; Violence History 20th century ; Jews ; Social conditions ; Judaism and state ; Violence ; Violence ; Religious aspects ; Judaism ; HISTORY ; Jewish ; History ; Israel ; Electronic books History ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Aufsatzsammlung
    Abstract: Religion, Thought, and EducationZionism, Israel, and the Middle East; Contents for Volume XIX; Note on Editorial Policy
    Abstract: Symposium; Jews and Violence: Images, Ideologies, Realities; Essay; Fighting for Palestine and Crimea: Two Jewish Friends from Philadelphia during the First World War and the 1920s; Review Essays; Personal Accounts of the Holocaust: What Can We Glean from Them?; The Slow Death of the Oslo Process; Assimilating, Coalescing, and Spiritual-Seeking: Recent Trends among American Jews; The Political Culture and Social Posture of American Jews; Book Reviews; Antisemitism, Holocaust, and Genocide; History and the Social Sciences; Language, Literature, and the Arts
    Abstract: Volume XVIII of 'Studies in Contemporary Jewry' offers a view of Jews and violence. It construes violence broadly, including deviance and crime, verbal threat and incitement, coercion, force and the resort to arms in individual, collective and communal, and state contexts. The essays span events in Israel, Russia, Germany, and the United States
    Note: Papers contributed as a symposium. - At head of title: The Avraham Harman Institute of Contemporary Jewry, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem. - Includes bibliographical references. - Description based on print version record , Includes bibliographical references , Papers contributed as a symposium
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  • 28
    ISBN: 0195102576
    Language: English
    Pages: xvi, 256 p.
    Additional Information: Rezensiert in Reeser, Todd W. [Rezension von: Merrick, Jeffrey, Homosexuality in Early Modern France: A Documentary Collection] 2002
    DDC: 306.76620944
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    Keywords: Homosexuality France ; History ; 16th century ; Sources ; Homosexuality France ; History ; 17th century ; Sources ; Homosexuality France ; History ; 18th century ; Sources ; Homosexuality Sources History 16th century ; Homosexuality Sources History 17th century ; Homosexuality Sources History 18th century ; Quelle ; Frankreich ; Homosexualität ; Geschichte 1500-1795 ; Frankreich ; Homosexualität ; Geschichte 1600-1800
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    New York : Palgrave Macmillan US
    ISBN: 9781137048301
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (XV, 550 p)
    Edition: Springer eBook Collection. Humanities, Social Sciences and Law
    Parallel Title: Printed edition
    DDC: 301
    Keywords: Social sciences ; Religion ; History ; Feminist theory ; Anthropology ; Sociology ; Sex (Psychology) ; Gender expression ; Gender identity
    Abstract: This up-to-date and forward-looking collection of essays on gender and religion fills a crucial gap. Interdisciplinary and multi-traditional, this volume highlights the contributions that different disciplinary approaches make to feminist/gender studies and religion. Designed for the classroom, the Reader simultaneously assesses the state of the field and raises questions for further inquiry and investigation
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    New Delhi | New York : Oxford University Press
    ISBN: 0195655257
    Language: English
    Pages: xv, 219 pages , 22 cm
    Parallel Title: Online version Structure and transformation
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    Keywords: India / Social conditions / 1947- ; Social structure / India ; Sociology / India ; Social systems ; Social change / India ; Social sciences / India / Philosophy ; Systèmes sociaux ; Changement social / Inde ; Sciences sociales / Inde / Philosophie ; Inde / Conditions sociales / 1947- ; Structure sociale / Inde ; Sociologie / Inde ; Social systems ; Social sciences / Philosophy ; Social change ; Social conditions ; Social structure ; Sociology ; India ; Social structure / India ; Sociology / India ; India / Social conditions / 1947- ; Since 1947
    Abstract: Contributed articles
    Description / Table of Contents: Structure and culture : the debates / Sheena Jain -- Framework in change : colonial Indian society / Satish Saberwal -- On understanding caste and class / K.L. Sharma -- Forest dwellers and tribals in India / Savyasaachi -- Anomie, alienation, and involvement / Kuriakose Mamkoottam -- Gender and work in Indian society / Cherian Joseph -- Women and migration / Tulsi Patel -- Interpretations of the city / Susan Visvanathan -- Plantation labour in South and South-East Asia / Shobhita Jain -- Religion and the Geddesian theory of the city / Shiv Visvanathan
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    ISBN: 9781137048172
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (VIII, 130 p)
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    Keywords: History ; Historiography ; History, Modern ; World politics ; Popular works ; Europe History ; Political science ; Engineering. ; Life sciences. ; Social sciences. ; Humanities. ; Science.
    Abstract: The Palgrave Concise Historical Atlas of Eastern Europe is a lucid and authoritative guide to a full understanding of the complicated history of Eastern Europe. Addressing the need for a comprehensive map collection for reference and classroom use, this volume includes fifty two two-colour full page maps which are each accompanied by a facing page of explanatory text to provide a useful aid in physical geography and in an area's political development over time. The maps illustrate key moments in East European history from the Middle Ages to the present, in a way that is immediate and comprehensible. Lecturers and students will find it to be an indispensable and affordable classroom and reference tool, and general readers will enjoy it for its clarity and wealth of information
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    New York : Palgrave Macmillan US
    ISBN: 9781137055019
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (IX, 117 p)
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    Series Statement: The Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt Institute Series on Diplomatic and Economic History
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    Keywords: History ; History, Modern ; America History ; United States History ; World history ; Military history
    Abstract: In the 1890s, Assistant Secretary of the Navy Theodore Roosevelt led a campaign to modernize the navy. Paramount in Roosevelt's vision was the creation of a fleet of modern, steel-hulled warships armed with the most powerful weapons available. The future president and his intellectual soul mate, Captain Alfred Thayer Mahan, firmly believed that America's emerging global expansion would only reach its full potential through sea. power. The swift and overwhelming US victor in the Spanish-American War of 1898 vindicated the views of Theodore Roosevelt and Captain Mahan, and marked the debut on the world stage of the modern US Navy. Theodore Roosevelt, the U.S. Navy and the Spanish American War considers the impact Roosevelt had on the US navy in general and how his reforms affected the course and outcome of the Spanish-American war in particular. The nine contributors to this volume include leading historians, and prominent naval officers from the US and Spain. With essays ranging from the Roosevelt family's naval heritage to the impact of the Spanish-American War on enlisted forces in the navy, this work is a major contribution to our understanding of Theodore Roosevelt and 'his' navy
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    New York : Palgrave Macmillan US
    ISBN: 9781137103192
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (XXVI, 218 p)
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    Keywords: History ; Culture Study and teaching ; Motion pictures History ; History, Modern ; America History ; United States History ; Social history ; Ethnology.
    Abstract: While the impact that legendary actors and actresses have had on the development of the Hollywood film industry is well known, few have recognised the power of movie fans on shaping the industry. This books redresses that balance, and is the first study of Hollywood's golden era to examine the period from the viewpoint of the fans. Using fan club journals, fan letters, studio production records, and other previously unpublished archival sources, Samantha Barbas reveals how the passion, enthusiasm, and ongoing activism of film fans in Hollywood's golden era transformed early cinema, the modern mass media and American popular culture
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    New York : Palgrave Macmillan US
    ISBN: 9781137087225
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (XVII, 269 Seiten)
    Edition: Springer eBook Collection. Business and Economics
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    Keywords: Ethnology—Latin America. ; America—History. ; Ethnology Latin America ; America History ; Industries ; History ; History, Modern ; Development economics ; Culture.
    Abstract: Tropical Capitalism traces the rise of Brazil's second largest industrial center, a planned city created in the 1890s as the capital of Minas Gerais, the nation's second most populous state. Marshall Eakin offers the industrialization of Belo Horizonte as an example of an extreme form of the pattern of Brazilian industrialization - a variation of capitalism characterized by state intervention, clientelism, family networks, and the lack of tehcnological innovation. At the core of the analysis are the webs of power formed by politicians, technocrats, and entrepreneurs who drove forward the process of industrialization. The first comprehensive analysis of Belo Horizonte, this book explores industrialization in Latin America, and looks beneath the larger, national economy to dissect a city and region
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    New York : Palgrave Macmillan US
    ISBN: 9781137053930
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (XIV, 222 p)
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    Keywords: History ; Social justice ; History, Modern ; United States History ; Human rights
    Abstract: On a hot summer night in 1930, three black teenagers accused of murdering a young white man and raping his girlfriend waited for justice in an Indiana jail. A mob dragged them from the jail and lynched two of them. No one in Marion, Indiana was ever punished for the murders. In this gripping account, James H. Madison refutes the popular perception that lynching was confined to the South, and clarifies 20th century America's painful encounters with race, justice, and memory
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    New York : Oxford University Press
    ISBN: 9780195116601 , 0195116607 , 1280470232 , 9781280470233 , 9780198027614 , 0198027613
    Language: English
    Pages: Online Ressource (xiv, 262 p.) , ill.
    Edition: Online-Ausg.
    Parallel Title: Print version Thinking Orientals
    DDC: 305.895073
    Keywords: Asian Americans Social conditions ; 20th century ; Asian Americans Ethnic identity ; Philosophy ; Sociology History ; 20th century ; United States ; Américains d'origine asiatique Conditions sociales ; 20e siècle ; Américains d'origine asiatique Identité ethnique ; Philosophie ; École de Chicago (Sociologie) ; Sociologie Histoire ; 20e siècle ; États-Unis ; Sociology History 20th century ; Chicago school of sociology ; Asian Americans Ethnic identity ; Philosophy ; Asian Americans Social conditions 20th century ; Chicago school of sociology ; Asian Americans Ethnic identity ; Philosophy ; Asian Americans Social conditions 20th century ; Sociology History 20th century ; Chicago school of sociology ; Race relations ; Philosophy ; Sociology ; Asian Americans ; Social conditions ; SOCIAL SCIENCE ; Ethnic Studies ; Asian American Studies ; History ; United States Race relations ; Philosophy ; États-Unis Relations raciales ; Philosophie ; United States Race relations ; Philosophy ; United States Race relations ; Philosophy ; United States ; Electronic books ; Electronic books
    Abstract: What is the difference between an "Oriental" and an "Asian American"? Henry Yu explains how Chinese Americans and Japanese Americans came to be lumped together as "Orientals" and how this eventually led to their understanding of themselves as Asian Americans. Rich in its lyrical use of imagery, in particular, metaphors of migration, mapping, and theatrical life, this study provides a glimpse into what W. E. B, DuBois called the "double consciousness" of racial minorities in the United States. This important book is one of the first to describe how crucial Asian Americans have been in theories of race and culture, helping move use away from the black/white dichotomy that has missed so much of American social life
    Note: Includes bibliographical references (p. [215]-256) and index. - Description based on print version record
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    New York : Oxford University Press
    ISBN: 9780198028154 , 0198028156
    Language: English
    Pages: Online Ressource (143 p.) , ill.
    Edition: Online-Ausg.
    Series Statement: Oxford portraits
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als Sigerman, Harriet Elizabeth Cady Stanton
    DDC: 305.42092
    Keywords: Stanton, Elizabeth Cady 1815-1902 Juvenile literature ; Stanton, Elizabeth Cady 1815-1902 Stanton, Elizabeth Cady 1815-1902 ; Stanton, Elizabeth Cady Juvenile literature ; Stanton, Elizabeth Cady ; Feminists Juvenile literature ; United States ; Women's rights Juvenile literature ; History ; United States ; Suffragists ; Women Suffrage ; Women Biography ; United States ; Women's rights ; Feminists Juvenile literature ; JUVENILE NONFICTION ; Social Science ; Sociology ; JUVENILE NONFICTION ; Biography & Autobiography ; General ; Feminists ; Women's rights ; History ; Juvenile works ; United States ; Electronic books ; Electronic books History ; Juvenile works ; Fiktionale Darstellung
    Abstract: A biography of one of the first leaders of the women's rights movement, whose work led to women's right to vote
    Note: Includes bibliographical references (p. 135-137) and index. - Description based on print version record
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    New York : Oxford University Press
    ISBN: 0195152891 , 0195120469
    Language: English
    Pages: XX, 149 S. , Ill., graph. Darst.
    DDC: 306.4408996073
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    Keywords: Black English United States ; English language United States ; African influences ; Slaves United States ; Language ; History ; Afro-Americans Education ; Language arts ; Language and culture United States ; Afro-Americans Language ; History ; Black English ; English language Social aspects ; English language Foreign elements ; African ; African languages Influence on English ; Language and culture ; Slaves Languages ; African Americans Languages ; Black English ; USA ; Black English ; Soziolinguistik
    Description / Table of Contents: Includes bibliographical references (p. 133 - 137) and index
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    New York : Palgrave Macmillan US
    ISBN: 9781349629985
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (XI, 243 p)
    Edition: Springer eBook Collection. Humanities, Social Sciences and Law
    Series Statement: The New Middle Ages
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als
    Keywords: History ; Cultural studies ; Europe History-476-1492 ; Social history ; Classical literature ; Literature, Medieval ; Culture ; Literature, Ancient.
    Abstract: Acts of reading appear everywhere in the late Middle Ages, from the margins of Books of Hours to self-portraits of authors in their studies. What relevance did this image have for the late medieval imagination? Engaging Words is an interdisciplinary study on the conception of reading in late medieval society. Beginning with an examination of the social conditions that produced a viable reading public, the book proceeds to examine popular tastes, the interrelationship between manuscript form and content, and finally the theory and poetry of late medieval authors. By drawing on images from late medieval culture as well as from historical documents and literary texts, Engaging Words shows how reading became a cultural metaphor in the late Middle Ages that transformed the way the Western world thought about identity and social roles
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    New York : Palgrave Macmillan US
    ISBN: 9781349626168
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (XVIII, 277 p)
    Edition: Springer eBook Collection. Humanities, Social Sciences and Law
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als
    Keywords: Islands of the Pacific History ; Sociology ; Sex (Psychology) ; Gender expression ; Gender identity ; History ; Australasia. ; Sex.
    Abstract: Contemporary female novelists tend to portray the relationship between women and the state as profoundly negative, in contrast to various constructions in current feminist theory. Martine Watson Brownley analyzes novels by Margaret Atwood, Paule Marshall, Nadine Gordimer, and Margaret Drabble to explore the significance of this disparity. The book uses literary analysis to highlight elements of state power that many feminist theorists currently occlude, ranging from women's still minimal access to state politics to the terrifying violence exercised by modern states. At the same time, however, feminist theory clarifies major elements in many contemporary women's lives about which the novels are ambivalent or misleading, such as romantic love and the role of sexuality in state politics. Deferrals of Domain fills a double gap, both authorial and topical, in current critical treatments of women writers and will be of interest to both literary and women's studies scholars
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    ISBN: 9781137053619
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (XXIV, 230 p)
    Edition: Springer eBook Collection. Humanities, Social Sciences and Law
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als
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    Keywords: History ; African Americans ; Theater History ; United States History ; Culture.
    Abstract: No Surrender! No Retreat! examines the careers of fifteen pioneer performers and their triumphs over herculean obstacles. It is a look back over the 20th century and documents personal histories of staggering achievement in spite of institutional racism, gender oppression, and classism. Twenty-four years in the making, No Surrender! No Retreat! is an indispensable work on African Americans in the performing arts, examining well-known performers, such as James Earl Jones, Morgan Freeman, and Pearl Bailey. Rare archival material and a number of personal interviews enrich this tome. Glenda E. Gill s work is a moving and sometimes tragic account of the lives and careers of some of America s most outstanding African American pioneers in theater
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    ISBN: 9781349618378
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (XI, 355 p)
    Edition: Springer eBook Collection. Humanities, Social Sciences and Law
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als
    Keywords: History ; Asia History ; Europe History ; Civilization History ; Social history ; World politics ; Anthropology
    Abstract: Throughout their entire history, the sedentary civilizations of China and Europe had to deal with nomads and barbarians. This unique volume explores their drastically different responses: China 'chose' containment while Europe 'chose' expansion. Migration played a crucial role in this interaction. Issuing from two population centers, the sedentary one in the West and the nomadic one in the East, two powerful population streams confronted each other in the Eurasian Steppe. This confrontation was a crucial factor in determining patterns of Eurasian history - it destroyed existing states, created new ones, and drastically changed the balance of power. Even today, while Russian populations in Asia contract, the population pressures in China and Central Asia continue to build and are likely to spill over across the border. This book shows how we are witnessing the beginning of a new cycle of the age-old contest
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    New York : Oxford University Press
    ISBN: 0195909399
    Language: English
    Pages: viii, 72 Seiten , Illustrationen
    Series Statement: Images of Asia
    DDC: 391.00951
    Keywords: Clothing and dress History ; Clothing and dress ; China ; History
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    New York : Oxford University Press
    ISBN: 1423774256 , 9781423774259
    Language: English
    Pages: Online Ressource (368 p.) , ill.
    Edition: Online-Ausg.
    Series Statement: Oxford student companions to American history
    Parallel Title: Print version American women's history
    DDC: 305.4097303
    Keywords: Women Encyclopedias, Juvenile ; History ; United States ; Women Encyclopedias ; History ; United States ; Women Encyclopedias, Juvenile History ; Women Encyclopedias, Juvenile History ; Women ; JUVENILE NONFICTION ; Social Science ; Sociology ; Encyclopedias ; History ; Juvenile works ; United States ; Electronic books ; Electronic books Encyclopedias ; History ; Juvenile works ; Wörterbuch
    Abstract: Alphabetical articles on major events, documents, persons, social movements, and political and social concepts connected with the history of women in America
    Description / Table of Contents: American women's history: Student companionAppendix I: Important dates in American women's history -- Appendix 2: Museums and historic sites -- Further readings and websites -- Index.
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    New York : Oxford University Press
    ISBN: 9780198027010 , 019802701X
    Language: English
    Pages: Online Ressource (xxiii, 327 p.) , ill.
    Edition: Online-Ausg.
    Series Statement: Race and American culture
    Parallel Title: Print version Racechanges
    DDC: 305.800973
    Keywords: Blackface entertainers History ; 20th century ; United States ; Arts, American 20th century ; United States ; African Americans in popular culture ; Arts, American 20th century ; Blackface entertainers History 20th century ; African Americans in popular culture ; Arts, American 20th century ; Blackface entertainers History 20th century ; SOCIAL SCIENCE ; Discrimination & Race Relations ; SOCIAL SCIENCE ; Minority Studies ; African Americans in popular culture ; Arts, American ; Blackface entertainers ; SOCIAL SCIENCE ; Anthropology ; Cultural ; History ; United States ; Electronic books History
    Note: "First published in 1997 by Oxford University Press ... First issued as an Oxford University Press paperback, 2000"--T.p. verso. - Includes bibliographical references (p. 293-311) and index. - Description based on print version record , Includes bibliographical references (p. 293-311) and index
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    New York : Oxford University Press
    ISBN: 1602564019 , 9781602564015 , 9780198026037 , 019802603X , 9780195100457 , 019510045X , 1423760514 , 9781423760511
    Language: English
    Pages: Online Ressource (viii, 288 p.) , ill.
    Edition: Online-Ausg.
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als Bay, Mia White image in the Black mind
    DDC: 305.800973
    Keywords: African Americans Attitudes ; History ; 19th century ; African Americans Attitudes ; History ; 20th century ; African Americans Intellectual life ; 19th century ; African Americans Intellectual life ; 20th century ; Race awareness History ; 19th century ; United States ; Race awareness History ; 20th century ; United States ; Whites United States ; Noirs américains Attitudes ; Histoire ; 19e siècle ; Noirs américains Attitudes ; Histoire ; 20e siècle ; Noirs américains Vie intellectuelle ; Conscience de race Histoire ; 19e siècle ; États-Unis ; Conscience de race Histoire ; 20e siècle ; États-Unis ; Blancs États-Unis ; Blancs dans la littérature ; Whites in literature ; Race awareness History 20th century ; Whites ; African Americans Attitudes 19th century ; History ; Race awareness History 19th century ; African Americans Attitudes 20th century ; History ; African Americans Intellectual life 19th century ; African Americans Intellectual life 20th century ; SOCIAL SCIENCE ; Anthropology ; Cultural ; SOCIAL SCIENCE ; Discrimination & Race Relations ; SOCIAL SCIENCE ; Minority Studies ; African Americans ; Attitudes ; African Americans ; Intellectual life ; Whites in literature ; Race awareness ; Race relations ; Whites ; History ; United States Race relations ; États-Unis Relations raciales ; United States ; United States Race relations ; United States ; Electronic book ; Electronic books History
    Abstract: Historical studies of white racial thought have focused on white ideas about the "Negroes". Bay's study examines the reverse - black ideas about whites, and, consequently, black understandings of race and racial categories
    Note: Includes bibliographical references (p. 265-279) and index. - Description based on print version record
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    New York : Oxford University Press
    ISBN: 9780195057058 , 0195057058 , 1423736427 , 9781423736424
    Language: English
    Pages: Online Ressource (xi, 387 p.) , ill. maps.
    Edition: Online-Ausg.
    Parallel Title: Print version Women and the city
    DDC: 305.40974461
    Keywords: Women History ; Massachusetts ; Boston ; Women in community organization History ; Massachusetts ; Boston ; Women in public life History ; Massachusetts ; Boston ; Spatial behavior History ; Massachusetts ; Boston ; Urban women History ; Massachusetts ; Women History ; Women in community organization History ; Women in public life History ; Spatial behavior History ; Urban women History ; Spatial behavior History ; Urban women History ; Women in public life History ; Women in community organization History ; Women History ; Women in community organizations History ; Massachusetts ; Boston ; Massachusetts ; Massachusetts ; Boston ; Women ; Women in community organization ; Women in public life ; Spatial behavior ; Urban women ; History ; SOCIAL SCIENCE ; Women's Studies ; Massachusetts ; Massachusetts ; Boston ; Electronic book ; Electronic books History
    Note: Includes bibliographical references (p. 291-371) and index. - Description based on print version record
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    New York : Oxford University Press
    ISBN: 0195352777 , 9780195352771 , 9780195122299 , 0195122291 , 1423760107 , 9781423760108 , 1280470828 , 9781280470820
    Language: English
    Pages: Online Ressource (xxi, 346 p.) , ill.
    Edition: Online-Ausg.
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als Faces of the feminine in ancient, medieval, and modern India
    DDC: 305.40954
    Keywords: Women History ; India ; Women Social conditions ; India ; Women Religious aspects ; Femmes Histoire ; Inde ; Femmes Aspect religieux ; Inde ; Femmes Conditions sociales ; Inde ; India ; Women History ; Women Social conditions ; Women Religious aspects ; SOCIAL SCIENCE ; Women's Studies ; Women ; Women ; Religious aspects ; Women ; Social conditions ; History ; Electronic books ; India ; Electronic books History ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Aufsatzsammlung
    Abstract: The essays in this collection explore ideas about women and their positions in Indian society from the earliest history to the present day. It is designed to provide primary material from literary, historical and sociological sources and to guide critical exploration of specific issues
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    New York : Oxford University Press
    ISBN: 9780195113648 , 0195113640 , 9780195113655 , 0195113659 , 1280453893 , 9781280453892 , 1423740998 , 9781423740995
    Language: English
    Pages: Online Ressource (xi, 230 p.)
    Edition: Online-Ausg.
    Additional Information: Rezensiert in Weiss, Richard Religion against the Self: An Ethnography of Tamil Rituals. Isabelle Nabokov 2002
    Parallel Title: Print version Religion against the self
    DDC: 306.6095482
    Keywords: Hinduism Customs and practices ; India ; Tamil Nadu ; Tamil (Indic people) Customs and practices ; Spirit possession India ; Tamil Nadu ; Hinduism Customs and practices ; Tamil (Indic people) Customs and practices ; Spirit possession ; Spirit possession ; Hinduism Customs and practices ; Tamil (Indic people) Customs and practices ; Hinduism ; Customs and practices ; Spirit possession ; SOCIAL SCIENCE ; Sociology of Religion ; Tamil Nadu (India) Religious life and customs ; Tamil Nadu (India) Religious life and customs ; Tamil Nadu (India) Religious life and customs ; India ; Tamil Nadu ; Electronic books ; Electronic books
    Abstract: This study, based on the author's fieldwork among rural Tamil villagers in South India, focuses on the ways in which people in this society interact with the supernatural beings who play such a large role in their personal and corporate lives. Isabelle Navokov looks at a spectrum of ritualized contexts in which the boundaries between the natural and spiritual worlds are penetrated and communication takes place. Throughout, Nabokov's meticulous analysis sheds new light on this hiterto almost unknown domain - and entire range of fascinating phenomena basic to South Indian religion as it is really lived
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