wyszukanych pozycji: 46
Falun Gong and the Future of China
ISBN: 9780199738533 / Angielski / Miękka / 2010 / 312 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. On April 25, 1999, ten thousand Falun Gong practitioners gathered outside Zhongnanhai, the guarded compound where China's highest leaders live and work, in a day-long peaceful protest of police brutality against fellow practitioners in the neighboring city of Tianjin. Stunned and surprised, China's leaders launched a campaign of brutal suppression against the group which continues to this day. This book, written by a leading scholar of the history of this Chinese popular religion, is the first to offer a full explanation of what Falun Gong is and where it came from, placing the group in the...
On April 25, 1999, ten thousand Falun Gong practitioners gathered outside Zhongnanhai, the guarded compound where China's highest leaders live and wor...
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138,22 zł |
Falun Gong and the Future of China
ISBN: 9780195329056 / Angielski / Twarda / 2008 / 312 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. On April 25, 1999, ten thousand Falun Gong practitioners gathered outside Zhongnanhai, the guarded compound where China's highest leaders live and work, in a day-long peaceful protest of police brutality against fellow practitioners in the neighboring city of Tianjin. Stunned and surprised, China's leaders launched a campaign of brutal suppression against the group which continues to this day. This book, written by a leading scholar of the history of this Chinese popular religion, is the first to offer a full explanation of what Falun Gong is and where it came from, placing the group in the...
On April 25, 1999, ten thousand Falun Gong practitioners gathered outside Zhongnanhai, the guarded compound where China's highest leaders live and wor...
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227,87 zł |
The Civil Rights Movement in Mississippi
ISBN: 9781617039331 / Angielski / Twarda / 2013 / 320 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych (Dostawa przed świętami) Based on new research and combining multiple scholarly approaches, these twelve essays tell new stories about the civil rights movement in the state most resistant to change. Wesley Hogan, Francoise N. Hamlin, and Michael Vinson Williams raise questions about how civil rights organizing took place. Three pairs of essays address African Americans' and whites' stories on education, religion, and the issues of violence. Jelani Favors and Robert Luckett analyze civil rights issues on the campuses of Jackson State University and the University of Mississippi. Carter Dalton Lyon and Joseph T.... Based on new research and combining multiple scholarly approaches, these twelve essays tell new stories about the civil rights movement in the stat... |
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680,59 zł |
Black and White: Cultural Interaction in the Antebellum South
ISBN: 9781604730104 / Angielski / Miękka / 2008 / 241 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych (Dostawa przed świętami) Questions about the cultural interaction between whites and enslaved blacks in the antebellum South have long aroused controversy. Was there one dominant culture? Two separate cultures? One shared culture? Were interaction and interchange between the races possible? The essays collected here attempt to give answers and conclusions and to bring the picture of cultural life in the antebellum South into clearer focus.
With essays and commentaries by Sylvia R. Frey Elliott J. Gorn Robert L. Hall Charles Joyner Lawrence T. McDonnell Bill C. Malone Leslie Howard Owens Mechal... Questions about the cultural interaction between whites and enslaved blacks in the antebellum South have long aroused controversy. Was there one domin...
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220,85 zł |
Hurtin' Words: Debating Family Problems in the Twentieth-Century South
ISBN: 9781469646992 / Angielski / Twarda / 2018 / 352 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych (Dostawa przed świętami) When Tammy Wynette sang "D-I-V-O-R-C-E", she famously said she "spelled out the hurtin' words" to spare her child the pain of family breakup. In this innovative work, Ted Ownby considers how a wide range of writers, thinkers, activists, and others defined family problems in the twentieth-century American South.
When Tammy Wynette sang "D-I-V-O-R-C-E", she famously said she "spelled out the hurtin' words" to spare her child the pain of family breakup. In this ...
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613,16 zł |
American Dreams in Mississippi: Consumers, Poverty, and Culture, 1830-1998
ISBN: 9780807848067 / Angielski / Miękka / 1999 / 248 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych (Dostawa przed świętami) The dreams of abundance, choice, and novelty that have fueled the growth of consumer culture in the United States would seem to have little place in the history of Mississippi--a state long associated with poverty, inequality, and rural life. But as Ted Ownby demonstrates in this innovative study, consumer goods and shopping have played important roles in the development of class, race, and gender relations in Mississippi from the antebellum era to the present.
After examining the general and plantation stores of the nineteenth century, a period when shopping habits were stratified... The dreams of abundance, choice, and novelty that have fueled the growth of consumer culture in the United States would seem to have little place in t...
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234,47 zł |
The Civil Rights Movement in Mississippi
ISBN: 9781496823670 / Angielski / Miękka / 2019 / 336 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych (Dostawa przed świętami) |
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220,85 zł |
Subduing Satan: Religion, Recreation, and Manhood in the Rural South, 1865-1920
ISBN: 9780807844298 / Angielski / Miękka / 1993 / 298 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych (Dostawa przed świętami) The Praying South and the Fighting South are two of our most popular images of white southern culture. In Subduing Satan, Ted Ownby details the tensions between these complex--and often opposing--attitudes.
"Ownby's re-creation of male recreation is rich and fascinating. He paints the saloon and the street, the cockfighting and dogfighting rings as realms of distinctly male vices, enjoyed lustily by men seeking to escape the sweet virtue of the Southern Christian home.--Nation "A bold new thesis. . . . Ownby] gives us guideposts in the ongoing search for the... The Praying South and the Fighting South are two of our most popular images of white southern culture. In Subduing Satan, Ted Ownby details the...
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234,47 zł |
Hurtin' Words: Debating Family Problems in the Twentieth-Century South
ISBN: 9781469647005 / Angielski / Miękka / 2018 / 352 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych (Dostawa przed świętami) When Tammy Wynette sang "D-I-V-O-R-C-E", she famously said she "spelled out the hurtin' words" to spare her child the pain of family breakup. In this innovative work, Ted Ownby considers how a wide range of writers, thinkers, activists, and others defined family problems in the twentieth-century American South.
When Tammy Wynette sang "D-I-V-O-R-C-E", she famously said she "spelled out the hurtin' words" to spare her child the pain of family breakup. In this ...
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179,30 zł |
Manners and Southern History
ISBN: 9781617030406 / Angielski / Miękka / 2011 / 186 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych (Dostawa przed świętami) The concept of southern manners may evoke images of debutantes being introduced to provincial society or it might conjure thoughts of the humiliating behavior white supremacists expected of African Americans under Jim Crow. The essays in Manners and Southern History analyze these topics and more. Scholars here investigate the myriad ways in which southerners from the Civil War through the civil rights movement understood manners. Contributors write about race, gender, power, and change. Essays analyze the ways southern white women worried about how to manage anger during the... The concept of southern manners may evoke images of debutantes being introduced to provincial society or it might conjure thoughts of the humiliati... |
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220,85 zł |
Brotherhoods and Secret Societies in Early and Mid-Qing China: The Formation of a Tradition
ISBN: 9780804726511 / Angielski / Twarda / 1996 / 256 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. This study examines the emergence and evolution in China of a tradition of popular organization generally known under the rubric of -secret society.- The author suggests that the secret society is properly understood as one variety of the -brotherhood association, - a category that encompasses a range of popular fraternal organizations that flourished in the early and mid-Qing period.
This study examines the emergence and evolution in China of a tradition of popular organization generally known under the rubric of -secret society.- ...
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283,87 zł |
Rethinking China's Rise: A Liberal Critique
ISBN: 9781108456586 / Angielski / Miękka / 2020 / 250 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. This volume is a vision of contemporary China from the inside. Eight recent essays by the prominent public intellectual Xu Jilin offer a liberal reaction to China's economic rise, critiquing China's rejection of universal values, the nation's embrace of particularism and the cult of the state.
This volume is a vision of contemporary China from the inside. Eight recent essays by the prominent public intellectual Xu Jilin offer a liberal react...
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160,64 zł |
Secret Societies Reconsidered: Perspectives on the Social History of Early Modern South China and Southeast Asia: Perspectives on the Social History
ISBN: 9781563241987 / Angielski / Twarda / 1993 / 208 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. A discussion of the development of secret societies within China and among Chinese communities in colonial Southeast Asia in the late 18th and 19th centuries.
A discussion of the development of secret societies within China and among Chinese communities in colonial Southeast Asia in the late 18th and 19th ce...
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814,81 zł |
Secret Societies Reconsidered: Perspectives on the Social History of Early Modern South China and Southeast Asia: Perspectives on the Social History
ISBN: 9781563241994 / Angielski / Miękka / 1993 / 208 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. A discussion of the development of secret societies within China and among Chinese communities in colonial Southeast Asia in the late 18th and 19th centuries.
A discussion of the development of secret societies within China and among Chinese communities in colonial Southeast Asia in the late 18th and 19th ce...
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199,71 zł |
What Is the Curse of the Law?
ISBN: 9781793258434 / Angielski / Miękka / 2019 / 84 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych (Dostawa przed świętami) |
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34,48 zł |
The King James Bible Legacy revisited
ISBN: 9781725965577 / Angielski / Miękka / 2018 / 78 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych (Dostawa przed świętami) |
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34,48 zł |
Jake Loy: "Daddy of Grayson County"
ISBN: 9798543539149 / Angielski / Miękka / 2021 / 86 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych (Dostawa przed świętami) |
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45,98 zł |
The King James Bible: The Real Legacy Unveiled
ISBN: 9781530945160 / Angielski / Miękka / 2016 / 52 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych (Dostawa przed świętami) |
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32,18 zł |
Frog Hollow 5
ISBN: 9781721864171 / Angielski / Miękka / 2018 / 66 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych (Dostawa przed świętami) |
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68,91 zł |
The Ownbys' Smoky Mountain Heritage: Mountain Life and Living in the Smokies
ISBN: 9781534724150 / Angielski / Miękka / 2016 / 180 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych (Dostawa przed świętami) |
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55,13 zł |