This book presents a panorama of the history of China-U.S. relations from 1949 to 1972 and covers a wide range of topics in this significant period: China-U.S. Confrontation in the Korean War, American Containment of China from the 1950s to 1970s, T...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 08-Jun-2026, Hardback, Kirjastus: Oxford University Press, ISBN-13: 9780192844736)
The short-lived Ministry of Information (MoI, 1939–1946) had an outsized impact. It played a key role in the allied war effort, and its work has reverberated in British culture ever since, from its much darker version (as the Ministry of Truth) in...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 08-Jun-2026, Paperback / softback, Kirjastus: University of Chicago Press, ISBN-13: 9780226845166)
Upends current thinking about how early modern people started to conceptualize human beings in terms of populations. Bloody Numbers is a provocative account of the violent world of the sixteenth- and seventeenth-century South Atlantic slave-tradin...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 08-Jun-2026, Hardback, Kirjastus: University of Chicago Press, ISBN-13: 9780226845142)
Upends current thinking about how early modern people started to conceptualize human beings in terms of populations. Bloody Numbers is a provocative account of the violent world of the sixteenth- and seventeenth-century South Atlantic slave-tradin...Loe edasi...
This book examines how institutional spaces, lecture theatres, corridors, offices, and boardrooms actively shape who belongs and who is marginalised. While diversity and inclusion efforts often focus on representation, leadership, and policy, this...Loe edasi...
Radical initiatives to collectivise the land were defining features of the social revolution at the start of the Spanish Civil War. This book examines these agrarian collectives as integral to the upheaval that disabled the functions of the state...Loe edasi...
This book analyses the interconnection of space and experience in Roman Antiquity, Byzantium, and the Middle Ages, ca. 100 BCE – 1500 CE....Loe edasi...
Indian and South African Labor Responses to the International Labor Organization’s Green Initiatives:Through the Eyes of the Colonized explores the differences in attitudes of developing states to the International Labor Organization (ILO)...Loe edasi...
Drawing on new interviews and previously underused archival material, this book explores women’s anti-apartheid activism in South Africa and within broader transnational networks from 1952 to 1962 through a comparison of the Federation of South Af...Loe edasi...
This book explores how low-wage labour migration policies in seven Asian economies affect millions of migrant workers. It identifies two contrasting regulatory approaches that bookend a governance spectrum, offering an original theoretical framewo...Loe edasi...
This book examines a military occupation famous for institutional changes, state building, and Russias military and political endeavours in Eastern Europe. However, these topics are not the focus of this book. Instead, it focuses on the actors and r...Loe edasi...
This book offers a compelling archaeological exploration of Chinas millennia-old civilization. It masterfully synthesizes material evidence with classical texts such as The Rites of Zhou (Zhouli), anchored by 15 iconic cultural artifacts. These rang...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 06-Jun-2026, Hardback, Kirjastus: Oxford University Press Inc, ISBN-13: 9780197823408)
In this book, Farid Hafez reveals how Europes colonial past still shapes its present-day relationship with Muslim communities and Islam. By examining how the Austro-Hungarian and German empires governed the Muslim populations under colonization, ...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 05-Jun-2026, Hardback, Kirjastus: Oxford University Press Inc, ISBN-13: 9780190622091)
Editors Andrew Donnelly, Beth M. Forrest, and Deirdre Murphy bring together leading scholars from across disciplines to consider the relationship between the sauces we eat and our cultural identities, beginning in the ancient Roman world and ending...Loe edasi...
Early Modern English Foodways: A Critical Sourcebook is the first anthology devoted to food-related writing in Renaissance England. Bringing together seventy passages from a two-hundred-year sweep of British history, the volume demonstrates...Loe edasi...
A captivating journey blending memoir, history, and biography that takes the reader on one of the worlds most famous trains and tells of carving the dramatic route it follows, while pondering other international railways through the eyes of travell...Loe edasi...
In a world obsessed with expertise and control, the figure of the idiot illuminates deeper truths about society. Dostoevsky and Nietzsche wrote about him; Dadaists and punks idolized him; artists like Warhol and Beuys made him their ic...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 05-Jun-2026, Hardback, Kirjastus: Seagull Books London Ltd, ISBN-13: 9781803096261)
In a world obsessed with expertise and control, the figure of the idiot illuminates deeper truths about society. Dostoevsky and Nietzsche wrote about him; Dadaists and punks idolized him; artists like Warhol and Beuys made him their ic...Loe edasi...
Sari: Pioneering Women: Leaders and Trailblazers, Sponsored by the Jane Nelson Institute for Women's Leadership, Texas Woman's University
(Ilmumisaeg: 05-Jun-2026, Hardback, Kirjastus: Texas A & M University Press, ISBN-13: 9781648433856)
In 1964, the task of racial desegregation of public schools hung over the country. In Denton, North Texas town, a remarkable alliance transcended racial divides, ignited a city-wide grassroots civil rights movement. Denton Womens Interracial Fellow...Loe edasi...
A Decolonial Curriculum advances the claim that a decolonial and transcolonial curriculum must be grounded in a substantive account of what human beings do, have done, and might yet do.It proposes twelve fundamental domains of human...Loe edasi...
Although Antonio Gramsci is widely known as the theorist of hegemony, his enduring relevance to struggles against colonial oppression across the Global South reveals a deeper, often overlooked dimension of his thought. With this book, Giovanni Fre...Loe edasi...
Although Antonio Gramsci is widely known as the theorist of hegemony, his enduring relevance to struggles against colonial oppression across the Global South reveals a deeper, often overlooked dimension of his thought. With this book, Giovanni Fre...Loe edasi...
Over the past two decades, academic, sociological/historical writing on football has flourished, mainly on the back of the debate over the games early development. This book adds to that debate, providing more information on the early meetings of...Loe edasi...
Zemiology Beyond the Critique of Capitalism: Harm, Colonialism and Decolonization promotes the transformation of zemiology by calling on scholars to address how colonialism and its aftermath are central to understanding and explainin...Loe edasi...
Zemiology Beyond the Critique of Capitalism: Harm, Colonialism and Decolonization promotes the transformation of zemiology by calling on scholars to address how colonialism and its aftermath are central to understanding and explaining social harm....Loe edasi...
Based on an extensive body of Russian and German sources, this book reconstructs the fate of the approximately 1.5 million soldiers and officers of the Russian army held in German prisoner of war camps during the First World War. Moving beyond insti...Loe edasi...
The book explores the emergence of Bengali entrepreneurship in tea industry of colonial Bengal. Despite the ‘Divide and Rule Policy’ of the British Government, it shows how the rising tide of nationalism united them and ushered in Indianisation of th...Loe edasi...
Through the lens of whiteness as applied to White-body supremacy, this book examines the role racism played in shaping American dance from the late nineteenth century to the present. Thus, this book centralizes the actions of White dancers/choreogra...Loe edasi...
In April 1986 a series of explosions shook the Chernobyl nuclear reactor. Flames lit up the sky and radiation escaped to contaminate the land and poison the people for years to come. While officials tried to hush up the accident, Svetlana Alexievich...Loe edasi...
A fascinating exploration of the role of the bookseller through the ages, from antiquity to the present day. An essential read for all book lovers....Loe edasi...
Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s reflections on the civil rights struggle and the power of nonviolent action taken together in community. Part of Dr. King’s archives published exclusively by HarperCollins.Martin Luther King Jr On Gat...Loe edasi...
This is the first biography to explore in detail the life of Dark Age historian, The Venerable Bede. Based on the most up-to-date research and historical and archaeological evidence, this book pieces together Bedes life and those of the monks and nu...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 04-Jun-2026, Hardback, Kirjastus: Times Books, ISBN-13: 9780008804725)
Discover the story of Scotlands capital from behind the lens This photographic portrait offers a distinctive and vivid sketch of Edinburgh, inviting readers to embark on a visual journey through the enchanting streets, landscapes and vibrant culture...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 04-Jun-2026, Hardback, Kirjastus: Simon & Schuster, ISBN-13: 9781668217801)
Deepen your connections with loved ones and create a lasting legacy for future generations with this step-by-step guide to sharing your family history, packed with practical suggestions and creative approaches, from a leading oral historian and cura...Loe edasi...
This textbook explores vital networks and relationships among geographies and cultures that shaped medieval societies. Designed for students new to the subject, this second edition has been fully updated to include expanded coverage of Africa, the...Loe edasi...
This textbook explores vital networks and relationships among geographies and cultures that shaped medieval societies. Designed for students new to the subject, this second edition has been fully updated to include expanded coverage of Africa, the...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 04-Jun-2026, Paperback / softback, Kirjastus: White Rabbit, ISBN-13: 9781399638517)
The definitive book on Ecstasy, acid house and dance culture, first published in 1997 and newly updated for White Rabbits Deep Cuts series...Loe edasi...
Discover one of the Scottish Enlightenments brightest stars.Among the giants of the Scottish Enlightenment, the name of James Hutton is overlooked. Yet his Theory of the Earth revolutionised the way we think about how our planet was formed and laid...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 04-Jun-2026, Paperback / softback, Kirjastus: The New Press, ISBN-13: 9798893850581)
A “lucid, detailed, and imaginative analysis” (The Nation) of the model city that working-class New Yorkers created after World War II—and its tragic demiseMore than any other city in America, New York in the years after th...Loe edasi...
A Book of the Year for The New Yorker and Electric Lit and a Time Out 10 Best Books of 2025 From the National Book Critics Circle Award-winning author of Gay Bar comes a rule-breaking, genre-busting story of outlaw love. Its 19...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 04-Jun-2026, Paperback / softback, Kirjastus: BBC Books, ISBN-13: 9781785949876)
Explore how music has changed our world through 50 pieces across classical, folk and world traditions with BBC presenter Tom Service, in this official Radio 3 compendium. Music transports us and defines us. As a form of expression, it has...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 04-Jun-2026, Hardback, Kirjastus: The Bodley Head Ltd, ISBN-13: 9781847927583)
A ground-breaking history of modern Britain that puts the experiences of disabled people to the fore for the first time. A timely and enjoyable untold history PHILIPPA GREGORY A rare feat of a book: so many extraordinary sto...Loe edasi...
A powerful and important reckoning with Britains imperial legacy and contemporary systemic racism A richly told history of Empire from which we cannot turn away AFUA HIRSCH Id have loved to have read such a book when I was...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 04-Jun-2026, Hardback, Kirjastus: The History Press Ltd, ISBN-13: 9781837051731)
The unbelievable true story of a boy who went to sea at 13, became a war hero in both world wars, and survived four shipwrecks, including Titanic...Loe edasi...
A timely and provocative collection of essays exploring American oligarchy and the culture of excess, providing a wry, unfiltered look at how the ultrarich shape and sometimes warp our social and political landscape....Loe edasi...
