This richly illustrated volume presents an accessible history of Chinese silk art. Combining an expansive perspective with systematic analysis and engaging prose—complemented by extensive color imagery...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 23-Jun-2026, Paperback / softback, Kirjastus: Down East Books,U.S., ISBN-13: 9781684752249)
More likely than not, visitor photos of Acadia National Park include trees, whether the sharp spires of spruce and fir perched atop Otter Cliffs, streaks of pitch pines on the ledges of the Beehive, gnarled birches on Cadillac Mountain, or the jack...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 23-Jun-2026, Hardback, Kirjastus: University of Toronto Press, ISBN-13: 9781049801094)
“Were I the Author of This Tale” foregrounds Tolstoy’s lifelong habit of intervening in the work of others. Tolstoy’s work as an editor, commentator, anthologizer, re-writer, and especially translator began in...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 23-Jun-2026, Hardback, Kirjastus: University of Toronto Press, ISBN-13: 9781487560805)
Why do we keep returning to the Weimar Republic as a focal point for queer and trans histories, and why are images so crucial to our understanding of this period? This volume brings together research from disciplines including history, art history...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 23-Jun-2026, Hardback, Kirjastus: Johns Hopkins University Press, ISBN-13: 9781421453170)
Ideas, practices, and human priorities: culture in the unstable environment of the early Caribbean colonies. Early French colonization in the Caribbean from the 1620s to circa 1730 brought great demographic, economic, and agricultural cha...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 23-Jun-2026, Hardback, Kirjastus: Yale University Press, ISBN-13: 9780300282313)
A centennial celebration of the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture and its vital role in the development of Black Studies In 1926, the Afro–Puerto Rican bibliophile Arturo Schomburg’s collection of four thousand books, pa...Loe edasi...
How medieval English towns built, sustained, and reimagined the lifelines of urban life. In the bustling market towns and growing cities of medieval England between 1200 and 1600, public works were the lifelines of urban society. In Urban...Loe edasi...
The commemoration of a nations past is a highly contested process, fraught with identity politics and competing interests. For over a century even as the government of Canada denied them the rights to recognize or practise their cultures Indigenous...Loe edasi...
Following the passage of the 1834 New Poor Law, parishes in England and Wales were organized into unions, each of which had at least one workhouse, a public institution where impoverished individuals and families were housed, fed, and put to work. B...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 23-Jun-2026, Hardback, Kirjastus: Yale University Press, ISBN-13: 9780300243840)
An essential volume in the history of dance and its critical literature The French dance criticism of the Russian émigré André Levinson (18871933) set a new standard for the genre by regaling readers with a heady mix of formalist acumen, h...Loe edasi...
The next phase of the war over reproduction in America Personhood is a field guide to the seemingly boundless tactical resourcefulness of the anti-abortion movement.Margaret Talbot, New Yorker Whats next for the battle over abortion? Mary Ziegler...Loe edasi...
Philosophical Perspectives: Essays on Reality, Knowledge, and Morality is a collection of previously published essays by a professional philosopher whose research spans a rich array of foundational questions that shape our lives as rational creature...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 23-Jun-2026, Hardback, Kirjastus: Stanford University Press, ISBN-13: 9781503645677)
Purist Pursuits chronicles how and why Armenians in the Ottoman Empire fashioned a new language called Western Armenian. Tracing its rise from the eighteenth to the early-twentieth centuries, Jennifer Manoukian studies the evolution of an ever-chang...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 23-Jun-2026, Hardback, Kirjastus: McGill-Queen's University Press, ISBN-13: 9780228027829)
In 1867 Alfred LaRocque, a young Quebecker, left home to defend the papacy in Rome. In 1937 journalist and communist Jean Watts travelled to Spain to cover the civil war. In 2023 former corporal Kyle Porter took up arms in Ukraine. Separated by time...Loe edasi...
Although the great majority of Canadians lived in rural communities until the early 1900s, rural life has often been dismissed as marginal to the countrys economic development. Not a Simpler Time challenges this view, arguing that the strategies, sk...Loe edasi...
Cold War defections were highly public spectacles, often dominating headlines for weeks and fuelling propaganda about the irresistible allure of freedom. Yet only a minority of defectors were political dissidents before leaving; despite how they may...Loe edasi...
Sari: Posen Library of Jewish Culture and Civilization
(Ilmumisaeg: 23-Jun-2026, Hardback, Kirjastus: Yale University Press, ISBN-13: 9780300186277)
This volume of the Posen Library of Jewish Culture and Civilization covers the religious, political, economic, and geographic transformations of Jewish life through the early Middle Ages Volume 3 of the Posen Library of Jewish Culture and Civiliza...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 23-Jun-2026, Hardback, Kirjastus: Yale University Press, ISBN-13: 9780300273496)
From an acclaimed archaeological writer, a worldwide history of hunting Offers a comprehensive, authoritative history tracing huntings influence on culture and society through the ages.Bill Heavy, Wall Street Journal Hunting is...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 23-Jun-2026, Paperback / softback, Kirjastus: Manchester University Press, ISBN-13: 9781526198068)
The political ecology of colonial capitalism reveals how the co-production of race and nature is a fundamental dynamic of the capitalist world-system. -- ....Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 23-Jun-2026, Paperback / softback, Kirjastus: Manchester University Press, ISBN-13: 9781526198099)
In 1975 the UK voted yes, by 67, to the European Community (EC). Since 1 January 1973, when the UK first joined, Edward Heath and Harold Wilson sought a fundamental transformation of the UKs relationship with the EC in terms of membership and pu...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 23-Jun-2026, Paperback / softback, Kirjastus: Manchester University Press, ISBN-13: 9781526198013)
Survival Capitalism is a cultural history of the 1980s financial revolution. It ranges in scope across the Thatcher government, the Bank of England, London Stock Exchange and member firms, and Lloyds of London. It offers timely new perspectives on t...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 23-Jun-2026, Paperback / softback, Kirjastus: Manchester University Press, ISBN-13: 9781526198136)
This book presents examination of queer and feminist alternative art spaces in Canada and the United States from the late-1960s to the present. It explores how queer and feminist artists have responded to the institutions and histories they have inh...Loe edasi...
Tracey Loughran, Hannah Froom, Kate Mahoney, Daisy Payling
Sari: Social Histories of Medicine
(Ilmumisaeg: 23-Jun-2026, Paperback / softback, Kirjastus: Manchester University Press, ISBN-13: 9781526197986)
The volume explores the shaping of everyday health in different contexts since 1950. It shows how different aspects of identity affected experiences of health and wellbeing. -- ....Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 23-Jun-2026, Hardback, Kirjastus: Manchester University Press, ISBN-13: 9781526176233)
This book examines the role of artefacts and design practice in representing and commemorating a new political community of Turks within the cultural transformation from empire to nation-state between 1908-50s. It offers an expanded understanding of...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 23-Jun-2026, Paperback / softback, Kirjastus: Manchester University Press, ISBN-13: 9781526197979)
For the Victorian working class, lodging in someone elses home was commonplace. Drawing on hundreds of coroners inquests reported in the Victorian press, Living with lodgers traverses Englands domestic dwelling lodgings, providing an intimate portra...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 23-Jun-2026, Paperback / softback, Kirjastus: Manchester University Press, ISBN-13: 9781526198075)
This book explores the transformation of international relations in the first half of the twentieth century as internationalist schemes for doing world politics came to be practices and principles shared by diplomatic actors across the globe instru...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 23-Jun-2026, Hardback, Kirjastus: Yale University Press, ISBN-13: 9780300282313)
A centennial celebration of the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture and its vital role in the development of Black Studies In 1926, the Afro–Puerto Rican bibliophile Arturo Schomburg’s collection of four thousand books, pa...Loe edasi...
How medieval English towns built, sustained, and reimagined the lifelines of urban life. In the bustling market towns and growing cities of medieval England between 1200 and 1600, public works were the lifelines of urban society. In Urban...Loe edasi...
The commemoration of a nations past is a highly contested process, fraught with identity politics and competing interests. For over a century even as the government of Canada denied them the rights to recognize or practise their cultures Indigenous...Loe edasi...
Following the passage of the 1834 New Poor Law, parishes in England and Wales were organized into unions, each of which had at least one workhouse, a public institution where impoverished individuals and families were housed, fed, and put to work. B...Loe edasi...
A NEW YORKER BEST BOOK OF THE WEEK PICK Equal parts investigative journalism and cultural criticism, this is a look at the sexual health and sex lives of young adults, millennials, and Gen Z in post Roe v. Wade, post #MeToo Americaand how...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 23-Jun-2026, Hardback, Kirjastus: Yale University Press, ISBN-13: 9780300243840)
An essential volume in the history of dance and its critical literature The French dance criticism of the Russian émigré André Levinson (18871933) set a new standard for the genre by regaling readers with a heady mix of formalist acumen, h...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 23-Jun-2026, Hardback, Kirjastus: Johns Hopkins University Press, ISBN-13: 9781421453170)
Ideas, practices, and human priorities: culture in the unstable environment of the early Caribbean colonies. Early French colonization in the Caribbean from the 1620s to circa 1730 brought great demographic, economic, and agricultural cha...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 23-Jun-2026, Paperback / softback, Kirjastus: University Press of Florida, ISBN-13: 9780813081656)
A compelling story of scandal and reform at the highest levels of state government In the 1970s, justices on the Florida Supreme Court were popularly elected. But a number of scandals threatened to topple the court until public outrage le...Loe edasi...
How successful were missions to the Jews between 1900 and 1950?Walk through the history of evangelism efforts to the Jewish people in Continental Europe by Protestant missionaries during the early twentieth century and discover the...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 23-Jun-2026, Hardback, Kirjastus: University of Minnesota Press, ISBN-13: 9781517913441)
The complex and dramatic history of an illegal teachers’ strike that forever altered labor relations and Minnesota politics When viewed from our turbulent times, the Minneapolis of fifty years ago might seem serene, but Minneapol...Loe edasi...
This concise overview of Cuba is designed for anyone interested in quickly understanding its turbulent history, from the pre-Hispanic period, through the Castro years and reversal of Washington’s engagement with Cuba under President Trump. 100,000 fi...Loe edasi...
This richly illustrated volume presents an accessible history of Chinese silk art. Combining an expansive perspective with systematic analysis and engaging prose—complemented by extensive color imagery...Loe edasi...
Published to celebrate the 900th anniversary of the Worshipful Company of Weavers, this richly illustrated book is a tribute to the creativity, resourcefulness, and passion behind weaving in Britain today. Visiting a wide range of makers, from handl...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 23-Jun-2026, Paperback / softback, Kirjastus: Down East Books,U.S., ISBN-13: 9781684752249)
More likely than not, visitor photos of Acadia National Park include trees, whether the sharp spires of spruce and fir perched atop Otter Cliffs, streaks of pitch pines on the ledges of the Beehive, gnarled birches on Cadillac Mountain, or the jack...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 23-Jun-2026, Hardback, Kirjastus: Pennsylvania State University Press, ISBN-13: 9780271101439)
The Conquest That Never Was uncovers one of the most ambitious but disastrous campaigns of the early colonial period. Pedro de Alvaradobest known as Cortéss lieutenant in Mexico and later as the conqueror of Guatemalasought to extend his fame and fo...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 23-Jun-2026, Paperback / softback, Kirjastus: Pennsylvania State University Press, ISBN-13: 9780271101422)
The Conquest That Never Was uncovers one of the most ambitious but disastrous campaigns of the early colonial period. Pedro de Alvaradobest known as Cortéss lieutenant in Mexico and later as the conqueror of Guatemalasought to extend his fame and fo...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 23-Jun-2026, Hardback, Kirjastus: University of Toronto Press, ISBN-13: 9781049801094)
“Were I the Author of This Tale” foregrounds Tolstoy’s lifelong habit of intervening in the work of others. Tolstoy’s work as an editor, commentator, anthologizer, re-writer, and especially translator began in...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 23-Jun-2026, Hardback, Kirjastus: University of Toronto Press, ISBN-13: 9781487560805)
Why do we keep returning to the Weimar Republic as a focal point for queer and trans histories, and why are images so crucial to our understanding of this period? This volume brings together research from disciplines including history, art history...Loe edasi...
This brilliant distillation traces Turkeys long and complicated history from the rise and decline of the Ottoman Empire – the most enduring, and perhaps the most important, Islamic empire in history – to the emergence of the modern Turkish Republic...Loe edasi...
