The Future of Identity: Centennial Reflections on the Legacy of Erik Erikson
ISBN: 9780739108031 / Angielski / Miękka / 180 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Erik Erikson's lifetime of clinical and interdisciplinary work on human development centered on the formation and maintenance of identity among people of diverse backgrounds. In this volume key scholars of identity from various disciplines, some who knew and worked with Erikson, discuss and assess his legacy. Truly trans-disciplinary in scope Erikson and his scholarship begs to be revisited by psychologists, sociologists, anthropologists, and students of cultural studies.
Erik Erikson's lifetime of clinical and interdisciplinary work on human development centered on the formation and maintenance of identity among people...
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Nigeria's Urban History: Past and Present
ISBN: 9780761834335 / Angielski / Miękka / 270 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Nigeria's Urban History is a collection of sixteen peer-reviewed essays that explore the nature of Nigeria's urbanism and the challenges it faces. Beginning with analysis of the role of colonialism in the country's urban identity, the volume examines the role of the present oil economy, gender issues, human interactions, poverty, crime, prostitution, and transportation on the nature of urban life and culture. The insights of this collection will benefit students and researchers, historians and social scientists, policymakers and planners alike.
Nigeria's Urban History is a collection of sixteen peer-reviewed essays that explore the nature of Nigeria's urbanism and the challenges it faces. Beg...
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372,99 zł |
Mass Market Medieval: Essays on the Middle Ages in Popular Culture
ISBN: 9780786429226 / Angielski / Miękka / 215 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Beginning in 1976 with the first issue of the journal Studies in Medievalism, all things medieval and the concept of medievalism became a hot topic in culture studies. Medievalism examines how different groups, individuals, or eras use and shape the image of the Middle Ages, differentiating between historical knowledge of the Middle Ages and what we have made the period out to be. The 13 essays in this book explore the medieval invasion of today's media and consider the various ways--from film and print to websites and video games--that the Middle Ages have been packaged for...
Beginning in 1976 with the first issue of the journal Studies in Medievalism, all things medieval and the concept of medievalism became a hot t...
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How Britain's Economic, Political, and Military Weakness Forced Canada into the Arms of the United States: The 1988 Joanne Goodman Lectures
ISBN: 9780802067463 / Angielski / Miękka / 106 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In these lively, timely, and contentious essays J.L. Granatstein takes on one of the 'hoary central myths' of Canadian history and historiography: that the Liberals sold out Canada to the United States. It is a myth, he claims, perpetuated by Conservative historians such as David Creighton and George Grant, and by socialists like James Laxer. The original villain of this long-running melodrama is not the Liberals, the author maintains, but Britain. Focusing on events surrounding the first and second world wars and the old War, Granatstein argues that Canadian governments, both... In these lively, timely, and contentious essays J.L. Granatstein takes on one of the 'hoary central myths' of Canadian history and historiography: ... |
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Contact Points: American Frontiers from the Mohawk Valley to the Mississippi, 1750-1830
ISBN: 9780807847343 / Angielski / Miękka / 408 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The eleven essays in this volume probe multicultural interactions
between Indians, Europeans, and Africans in eastern North America's frontier zones from the late colonial era to the end of the early republic. Focusing on contact points between these groups, they construct frontiers as creative arenas that produced new forms of social and political organization.
The eleven essays in this volume probe multicultural interactions
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Beyond the Founders
ISBN: 9780807855584 / Angielski / Miękka / 448 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In pursuit of a more sophisticated and inclusive American history, the contributors to Beyond the Founders propose new directions for the study of the political history of the republic before the Civil War. In ways formal and informal, symbolic and tactile, this political world encompassed blacks, women, entrepreneurs, and Native Americans, as well as the Adamses, Jeffersons, and Jacksons, all struggling in their own ways to shape the new nation and express their ideas of American democracy.
Taking inspiration from the new cultural and social histories, these political... In pursuit of a more sophisticated and inclusive American history, the contributors to Beyond the Founders propose new directions for the study...
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The Logos Reader: Rational Radicalism and the Future of Politics
ISBN: 9780813123684 / Angielski / Twarda / 392 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The online publication Logos: A Journal of Modern Society and Culture was launched in response to the atmosphere of triumphant conservatism and militarism that pervades American political culture in the aftermath of 9/11. Aiming to revitalize the moribund political left, several world-renowned intellectual figures congregated to form the journal's core group of editors and writers. The mission of Logos is to promote "rational radicalism," grounded in critical social theory and fully engaged with the most vital issues of our time. The Logos Reader: Rational Radicalism and the Future of... The online publication Logos: A Journal of Modern Society and Culture was launched in response to the atmosphere of triumphant conservatism and mil... |
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The Practice of U.S. Women's History: Narratives, Intersections, and Dialogues
ISBN: 9780813541815 / Angielski / Miękka / 384 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In the last several decades, U.S. women's history has come of age. Not only have historians challenged the national narrative on the basis of their rich explorations of the personal, the social, the economic, and the political, but they have also entered into dialogues with each other over the meaning of women's history itself. In this collection of seventeen original essays on women's lives from the colonial period to the present, contributors take the competing forces of race, gender, class, sexuality, religion, and region into account. Among many other examples, they examine how... In the last several decades, U.S. women's history has come of age. Not only have historians challenged the national narrative on the basis of their... |
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Anglo-Scandinavian England: Norse-English Relations in the Period Before Conquest Old English Colloquium Series, No. 4
ISBN: 9780819172686 / Angielski / Miękka / 94 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The papers in this volume contribute to a more precise assessment of the interconnections between England and Scandinavia during the period from the establishment of the Danelaw to the Norman Conquest. The essays fall into three groups of concern: history, myth, and the language of poetry.
The papers in this volume contribute to a more precise assessment of the interconnections between England and Scandinavia during the period from the e...
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The Great Illusion: An Informal History of Prohibition
ISBN: 9780837100081 / Angielski / Twarda / 344 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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First World, Ha, Ha, Ha!
ISBN: 9780872862944 / Angielski / Miękka / 200 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The Zapatista Army emerged from the jungle on New Year's Day, 1994, and provoked a national crisis in Mexico. At a demonstration in Mexico City, over 100,000 people marched together and shouted, First World, HA HA HA --a defiant declaration of solidarity with the rebels, an insurgent army of indigenous campesinos who have challenged the direction of Mexico's future. The Chiapas uprising was internationally hailed as a direct attack on the New World Order. It was a milestone in the continuing history of indigenous resistance in the Americas, and an important development in the growing... The Zapatista Army emerged from the jungle on New Year's Day, 1994, and provoked a national crisis in Mexico. At a demonstration in Mexico City, ov... |
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The Mind and Faith of Justice Holmes: His Speeches, Essays, Letters, and Judicial Opinions
ISBN: 9780887387654 / Angielski / Miękka / 549 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. A reprint of the Little, Brown edition of 1943. Acidic paper. Annotation copyright Book News, Inc. Portland, Or.
A reprint of the Little, Brown edition of 1943. Acidic paper. Annotation copyright Book News, Inc. Portland, Or.
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Reinterpreting Revolutionary Russia: Essays in Honour of James D. White
ISBN: 9781403998989 / Angielski / Twarda / 219 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This is a stimulating and highly original collection of essays from a team of internationally renowned experts. The contributors reinterpret key issues and debates, including political, social, cultural and international aspects of the Russian revolution stretching from the late imperial period into the early Soviet state.
This is a stimulating and highly original collection of essays from a team of internationally renowned experts. The contributors reinterpret key issue...
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A Companion to Eighteenth-Century Europe
ISBN: 9781405139472 / Angielski / Twarda / 616 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This Companion contains 31 essays by leading international scholars to provide an overview of the key debates on eighteenth-century Europe.
This Companion contains 31 essays by leading international scholars to provide an overview of the key debates on eighteenth-century Europe. |
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The Germans and the East
ISBN: 9781557534439 / Angielski / Miękka / 458 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This volume provides an historical overview of the relationship between Germany, German speakers, and successive waves of German colonists with their eastern neighbors over the period from the Middle Ages to the present. The collection of essays by 28 leading experts includes the most recent scholarship together with fresh perspectives on the subject.
This volume provides an historical overview of the relationship between Germany, German speakers, and successive waves of German colonists with their ...
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New Deal Days: 1933-1934
ISBN: 9781560003311 / Angielski / Twarda / 109 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This is an extraordinary, first hand account of how the United States economy weathered the most devastating depression in the nation's history and how it responded to Roosevelt's New Deal initiatives. This is an extraordinary, first hand account of how the United States economy weathered the most devastating depression in the nation's history and... |
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Progressive Democracy
ISBN: 9781560009634 / Angielski / Miękka / 490 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Croly explains the requirements for a genuinely popular system of representative government providing progressive liberalism with both a philosophical critique of the founding fathers' political outlook, and a political strategy for replacing it with something more in keeping with a new epoch. Although it was written in 1914, the intellectual structure remains largely intact within the liberal-progressive tradition. Croly explains the requirements for a genuinely popular system of representative government providing progressive liberalism with both a philosophi... |
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Sources and Methods in African History: Spoken Written Unearthed
ISBN: 9781580461405 / Angielski / Miękka / 432 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Spurred in part by the ongoing re-evaluation of sources and methods in research, African historiography in the past two decades has been characterized by the continued branching and increasing sophistication of methodologies and areas of specialization. The rate of incorporation of new sources and methods into African historical research shows no signs of slowing. This book is both a snapshot of current academic practice and an attempt to sort through some of the problems scholars face within this unfolding web of sources and methods. The book is divided into five sections, each of which...
Spurred in part by the ongoing re-evaluation of sources and methods in research, African historiography in the past two decades has been characterized...
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Post-scarcity Anarchism
ISBN: 9781904859062 / Angielski / Miękka / 315 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In this series of essays, Murray Bookchin balances his ecological and anarchist vision with the promising opportunities of a post-scarcity era. Technological advances during the 20th century have expanded production in the pursuit of corporate profit at the expense of human need and ecological sustainability. New possibilities for human freedom must combine an ecological outlook with the dissolution of hierarchical social relations, capitalism and canonical political orientation. Bookchin s utopian vision, rooted in the realities of contemporary society, remains refreshingly pragmatic.... In this series of essays, Murray Bookchin balances his ecological and anarchist vision with the promising opportunities of a post-scarcity era. Tec... |
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Playing the Past: History and Nostalgia in Video Games
ISBN: 9780826516008 / Angielski / Twarda / 296 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Playing the Past brings together a group of interdisciplinary scholars to examine the complementary notions of history and nostalgia as they are expressed through video games and in gaming culture. The scope of these related concepts moves from the personal to the cultural, and essays in this collection address video game nostalgia as both an individual and societal phenomenon, connecting the fond memories many of us have of classic gaming to contemporary representations of historical periods and events in video games. From Ms. Pac-Man and Space Invaders to Call of Duty and JFK:...
Playing the Past brings together a group of interdisciplinary scholars to examine the complementary notions of history and nostalgia as they ar...
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607,23 zł |