(Ilmumisaeg: 09-Jun-2026, Paperback / softback, Kirjastus: Grand Central Publishing, ISBN-13: 9781538783115)
Writer and historian Fay Bound Alberti synthesizes over twenty years of research to offer a breathtaking cultural history of our most decisive—and sometimes divisive—body part. Whats in a face? And how much power does it hold? ...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 09-Jun-2026, Hardback, Kirjastus: New York University Press, ISBN-13: 9781479832583)
A bold new exploration of Fenian revolutionary activity across the AmericasIn the aftermath of the American Civil War, the Fenian movement stood at a crossroads. Thousands of demobilized Irish soldiers held the power to reshape hist...Loe edasi...
National Geographic, David M. Rubenstein, David Treuer, Michael Beschloss, Douglas Brinkley, Annette Gordon-Reed, Walter Isaacson
(Ilmumisaeg: 09-Jun-2026, Hardback, Kirjastus: National Geographic Books, ISBN-13: 9781426224393)
A 250th anniversary celebration of the U.S. featuring 1,000 singular moments that shaped the American journey from pre-history to present Filled with more than 300 illustrations, sidebars, and timelines, plus penetrating commentary by prom...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 09-Jun-2026, Hardback, Kirjastus: Alfred A. Knopf, ISBN-13: 9780593803363)
The spectacular story of the Great Centennial Exhibition of 1876—held in the shadow of a highly contested presidential election that triggered the collapse of Reconstruction and laid the foundations of the Republican Party we know today...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 09-Jun-2026, Hardback, Kirjastus: Rutgers University Press, ISBN-13: 9781978844858)
Television is Where You Find It is a revelatory journey into the overlooked world of feature filmmakers who brought their cinematic vision to the small screen between 1955 and 1990—long before directing for television became trendy in the a...Loe edasi...
Television is Where You Find It is a revelatory journey into the overlooked world of feature filmmakers who brought their cinematic vision to the small screen between 1955 and 1990—long before directing for television became trendy in the a...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 09-Jun-2026, Hardback, Kirjastus: University of Delaware Press, ISBN-13: 9781644534205)
How did workers experience cut glass during its cultural heyday? Rather than privilege the stories of factory owners or wealthy consumers, Undercut: Cut Glass in Working-Class Life during the Long Gilded Age refracts the medium’s history th...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 09-Jun-2026, Hardback, Kirjastus: University of Texas Press, ISBN-13: 9781477334102)
A history of European immigrants in Texas and how they redefined racial identity. A history of European immigrants in Texas and how they redefined racial identity. While the creation of a Black-White racial binary...Loe edasi...
Gladiator meets The Hurricane Wars in the second book of this juicy saga about a Roman Princess and her Goth warlord husband. An addictive enemies-to-lovers romance set in the last days of the Roman empire t...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 09-Jun-2026, Hardback, Kirjastus: Castle Point Books, ISBN-13: 9781250904126)
A veteran journalists gritty, darkly funny memoir about growing up Italian American in 1960s Brooklyn.Mid-century Gowanus: Decades before the Whole Foods went up and the lofts were refurbished, a raucous, unruly, proudly Italian Am...Loe edasi...
Sari: Africa and the Diaspora: History, Politics, Culture
(Ilmumisaeg: 09-Jun-2026, Hardback, Kirjastus: University of Wisconsin Press, ISBN-13: 9780299356903)
Beginning in the late fifteenth century, more than two million people were taken from areas that lay behind the Bight of Benin, enslaved, and forced into the perilous Middle Passage bound for the New World. While a vast swath of scholarly work on th...Loe edasi...
Located 30 miles off the coast of Cape Cod, the island of Nantucket pivoted to a tourist destination in the early to mid-20th century. Former whaling captains mansions on Main Street were restored with historical accuracy. Small businesses and art g...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 09-Jun-2026, Hardback, Kirjastus: Yale University Press, ISBN-13: 9780300263480)
Based on extensive inside sources, a revealing account of how the Obama, Trump, and Biden administrations transformed both health care and politics in America For nearly a century, every Democratic president—and many Republicans—ente...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 09-Jun-2026, Paperback / softback, Kirjastus: University of Delaware Press, ISBN-13: 9781644534199)
How did workers experience cut glass during its cultural heyday? Rather than privilege the stories of factory owners or wealthy consumers, Undercut: Cut Glass in Working-Class Life during the Long Gilded Age refracts the medium’s history th...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 09-Jun-2026, Hardback, Kirjastus: Yale University Press, ISBN-13: 9780300282825)
A world-renowned critic’s haunting and deeply researched account of the subversive acts of literary revenge performed during the 1950s Red Scare hearings In the 1930s, ’40s, and ’50s, the House Un-American Activities Committee and th...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 09-Jun-2026, Hardback, Kirjastus: University of Toronto Press, ISBN-13: 9781487508500)
Amid the global rise of Korean popular culture, interest in learning the Korean language has surged – but few understand the complex history behind its modern form. This book traces the emergence of vernacular Korean as a distinct subject o...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 09-Jun-2026, Hardback, Kirjastus: Stanford University Press, ISBN-13: 9781503638730)
At the turn of the twentieth century, life in Ottoman Syria was upended by European and US colonial and capital expansion. Many people responded by migrating to the United States. In doing so, they stepped into the world of international migration...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 09-Jun-2026, Paperback / softback, Kirjastus: University of Tennessee Press, ISBN-13: 9798895270936)
Fifty years on from the Vietnam War, it can be easy to overlook the civilian lives that were forever changed by this endlessly debated global conflict. In Land of Dreams: An Immigrants Journey from War-Torn Vietnam to America, author C. L. Hoang re...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 09-Jun-2026, Hardback, Kirjastus: Sona Books, ISBN-13: 9781917259545)
Featuring an exceptional selection of historic photographs, detailed battle maps, personal accounts, and expert analysis of the tactics and strategy employed, The Greatest Battles: The Somme and Ypres provides a comprehensive and moving account of t...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 09-Jun-2026, Hardback, Kirjastus: Rutgers University Press, ISBN-13: 9781978842953)
In Stay Tuned, Patrick Sullivan treats network-era television sound as a formative texture of aesthetic life in postwar America. He analyzes television’s iconic sounds, such as the laugh track and Hanna-Barbera Productions’ sound effects, a...Loe edasi...
In Stay Tuned, Patrick Sullivan treats network-era television sound as a formative texture of aesthetic life in postwar America. He analyzes television’s iconic sounds, such as the laugh track and Hanna-Barbera Productions’ sound effects, a...Loe edasi...
