wyszukanych pozycji: 6
The Book of Jerry Falwell: Fundamentalist Language and Politics
ISBN: 9780691089584 / Angielski / Miękka / 2001 / 352 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. National polls show that approximately 50 million adult Americans are born-again Christians. Yet most Americans see their culture as secular, and the United States is viewed around the world as a secular nation. Further, intellectuals and journalists often portray born-again Christians, despite their numbers, as outsiders who endanger public life. But is American culture really so neatly split between the religious and the secular? Is America as "modern" and is born-again Christian religious belief as "pre-modern" as many think? In the 1980s, born-again Christians burst into the... National polls show that approximately 50 million adult Americans are born-again Christians. Yet most Americans see their culture as secular, and t... |
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Statemaking and Social Movements: Essays in History and Theory
ISBN: 9780472750504 / Angielski / Miękka / 1984 / 412 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. Statemaking does not end once states emerge but is a continuous process, argue the contributors to Statemaking and Social Movements. In their view, states are not static structures that "act upon" society, nor are states simple reflections of economic relations; states are instead highly dynamic structures that are constantly built up, dismantled, and transformed by complex interplays of political, social, and economic processes. This collection of original essays by leading scholars in the fields of history, anthropology, sociology, and economics argues for historically specific theories of...
Statemaking does not end once states emerge but is a continuous process, argue the contributors to Statemaking and Social Movements. In their view, st...
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Remaking Ibieca: Rural Life in Aragon Under Franco
ISBN: 9780807896778 / Angielski / Miękka / 2011 / 238 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. Combining ethnography with historical and political economic analysis, Harding shows how the people of the Spanish village refashioned themselves and their society under Franco's regime. As they responded to market-oriented agrarian reforms between 1950 and 1975, they intended to preserve their way of life but as they decided to buy, sell, rent, and borrow in the new ways, they inadvertently became the agents of their own metamorphosis.
Originally published in 1984. A UNC Press Enduring Edition -- UNC Press Enduring Editions use the latest in digital technology to make... Combining ethnography with historical and political economic analysis, Harding shows how the people of the Spanish village refashioned themselves and ...
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Histories of the Future
ISBN: 9780822334736 / Angielski / Miękka / 2005 / 376 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. We live in a world saturated by futures. Our lives are constructed around ideas and images about the future that are as full and as flawed as our understandings of the past. This book is a conceptual toolkit for thinking about the forms and functions that the future takes. Exploring links between panic and nostalgia, waiting and utopia, technology and messianism, prophecy and trauma, it brings together critical meditations on the social, cultural, and intellectual forces that create narratives and practices of the future. The prognosticators, speculators, prophets, and visionaries have their...
We live in a world saturated by futures. Our lives are constructed around ideas and images about the future that are as full and as flawed as our unde...
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European Societies in the Bronze Age
ISBN: 9780521367295 / Angielski / Miękka / 2000 / 572 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. The European Bronze Age, roughly 2500 to 750 BC, was the last fully prehistoric period and crucial to the formation of the Europe emerging in the later first millennium BC. This book provides a detailed account of its material culture, comparing and contrasting evidence from different geographical zones, and drawing out the essential characteristics of the period. It looks at settlement, burial, economy, technology, trade and transport, warfare, and social and religious life. The result is a comprehensive study that will interest specialists and students, and be accessible to nonspecialists.
The European Bronze Age, roughly 2500 to 750 BC, was the last fully prehistoric period and crucial to the formation of the Europe emerging in the late...
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Histories of the Future
ISBN: 9780822334859 / Angielski / Twarda / 2005 / 376 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. We live in a world saturated by futures. Our lives are constructed around ideas and images about the future that are as full and as flawed as our understandings of the past. This book is a conceptual toolkit for thinking about the forms and functions that the future takes. Exploring links between panic and nostalgia, waiting and utopia, technology and messianism, prophecy and trauma, it brings together critical meditations on the social, cultural, and intellectual forces that create narratives and practices of the future. The prognosticators, speculators, prophets, and visionaries have their...
We live in a world saturated by futures. Our lives are constructed around ideas and images about the future that are as full and as flawed as our unde...
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462,54 zł |