Woburn:: Hidden Tales of a Tannery Town
ISBN: 9781596295148 / Angielski / Miękka / 155 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Although it is only thirteen square miles in size, Woburn boasts a vast history, replete with curious episodes and colourful characters. The town was home to three women accused of witchcraft in the infamous Salem witch trials, and it was the choice camping ground of gypsy queen Marcia Mock in 1917. Discover the nefarious "yeggmen" who prowled the streets at the beginning of the twentieth century and the seven women known as the "Robins," whose friendship inspired a chain letter that has survived for more than fifty years. Woburn: Hidden Tales of a Tannery Town explores the mysteries of...
Although it is only thirteen square miles in size, Woburn boasts a vast history, replete with curious episodes and colourful characters. The town was ...
|
|
cena:
85,85 zł |
Civil Society: Berlin Perspectives
ISBN: 9781845453572 / Angielski / Miękka / 276 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. At the moment, no other European city attracts so much fascination as the city of Berlin. An unrivalled symbol of modern urban life, Berlin is a dynamic city whose inhabitants, in the course of the past two centuries, have lived through both the rapid growth and the violent destruction of the institutions of civil society, several times over. This volume situates itself within these developments by presenting, for the first time in English, a sample of the best, recently written essays on contemporary civil societies, their structural problems, and their uncertain future, written by scholars...
At the moment, no other European city attracts so much fascination as the city of Berlin. An unrivalled symbol of modern urban life, Berlin is a dynam...
|
|
cena:
142,19 zł |
The Empire of the Cities: Emperor Charles V, the Comunero Revolt, and the Transformation of the Spanish System
ISBN: 9789004171367 / Angielski / Twarda / 364 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Starting in the nineteenth century the scholarly consensus has been to attribute the decline of the Spanish empire to structural rigidity, corrupt bureaucracy and repressive policies. In The Empire of the Cities, Aurelio Espinosa challenges these theories and offers groundbreaking insight into Spain's political process and emphasizes early modern state formation. Spain's empire should no longer be viewed simply as a symbol of royal absolutism and dominance. Rather it functioned as a collection of autonomous municipalities interconnected by a parliament that articulated domestic...
Starting in the nineteenth century the scholarly consensus has been to attribute the decline of the Spanish empire to structural rigidity, corrupt bur...
|
|
cena:
597,20 zł |
Race Relations in the United States, 1900-1920
ISBN: 9780313339356 / Angielski / Twarda / 200 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In the first decades of the twentieth century, virulent racism lingered from Reconstruction, and segregation increased. Hostility met the millions of new immigrants from Eastern and southern Europe, and immigration was restricted. Still, even in an inhospitable climate, blacks and other minority groups came to have key roles in popular culture, from ragtime and jazz to film and the Harlem Renaissance. This volume is THE content-rich source in a desirable decade-by-decade organization to help students and general readers understand the crucial race relations of the start of modern America.... In the first decades of the twentieth century, virulent racism lingered from Reconstruction, and segregation increased. Hostility met the millions ... |
|
cena:
373,05 zł |
This Republic of Suffering: Death and the American Civil War
ISBN: 9780375703836 / Angielski / Miękka / 368 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. More than 600,000 soldiers lost their lives in the American Civil War. An equivalent proportion of today's population would be six million. In This Republic of Suffering, Drew Gilpin Faust reveals the ways that death on such a scale changed not only individual lives but the life of the nation, describing how the survivors managed on a practical level and how a deeply religious culture struggled to reconcile the unprecedented carnage with its belief in a benevolent God. Throughout, the voices of soldiers and their families, of statesmen, generals, preachers, poets, surgeons,... More than 600,000 soldiers lost their lives in the American Civil War. An equivalent proportion of today's population would be six million. In <... |
|
cena:
77,30 zł |
Aftershocks: Politics and Trauma in Britain, 1918-1931
ISBN: 9781403993335 / Angielski / Twarda / 248 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book examines the impact of collective trauma arising out of the Great War on the politics of the 1920s in Britain. Aftershocks studies how meanings of shellshock and imagery presenting the traumatized psyche as shattered contributed to Britons understandings of their political selves in the 1920s. It connects the force of emotions to the political culture of a decade which saw extraordinary violence against those regarded as un-English.
This book examines the impact of collective trauma arising out of the Great War on the politics of the 1920s in Britain. Aftershocks studies how meani...
|
|
cena:
194,97 zł |
Polin: Studies in Polish Jewry Volume 12: Focusing on Galicia: Jews, Poles and Ukrainians 1772-1918
ISBN: 9781874774402 / Angielski / Miękka / 418 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Austrian for almost 150 years, Galicia was a distinctive entity in east European Jewish history. Core contributions here discuss different aspects of the Austrian presence.
Austrian for almost 150 years, Galicia was a distinctive entity in east European Jewish history. Core contributions here discuss different aspects of ...
|
|
cena:
158,78 zł |
Dress and the Roman Woman : Self-Presentation and Society
ISBN: 9780415414753 / Angielski / Twarda / 171 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In ancient Rome, the subtlest details in dress distinguished between levels of hierarchy. Clothes were a key part of the sign systems of Roman civilisation - a central aspect of its visual language, for women as well as men. This engaging book collects and examines literary references and artistic evidence to female clothing, cosmetics and ornament in Roman antiquity to decipher their meaning and reveal what it meant to be an adorned woman in Roman society. Cosmetics, ornament and fashion were often considered frivolous, wasteful or deceptive, which reflects ancient views about women;... In ancient Rome, the subtlest details in dress distinguished between levels of hierarchy. Clothes were a key part of the sign systems of Roman civi... |
|
cena:
686,78 zł |
Black Wall Street: From Riot to Renaissance in Tulsa's Historic Greenwood District
ISBN: 9781934645383 / Angielski / Miękka / 316 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Early in the twentieth century, the black community in Tulsa- the "Greenwood District"- became a nationally renowned entrepreneurial center. Frequently referred to as "The Black Wall Street of America," the Greenwood District attracted pioneers from all over America who sought new opportunities and fresh challenges. Legal segregation forced blacks to do business among themselves. The Greenwood district prospered as dollars circulated within the black community. But fear and jealousy swelled in the greater Tulsa community. The alleged assault of a white woman by a black man triggered...
Early in the twentieth century, the black community in Tulsa- the "Greenwood District"- became a nationally renowned entrepreneurial center. Frequentl...
|
|
cena:
107,32 zł |
Römisches Zentrum und kirchliche Peripherie
ISBN: 9783110202236 / Niemiecki / Twarda / 366 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Der Band untersucht erstmals vergleichend papstliche Steuerungsinstrumente sowie die Wahrnehmung des Papsttums in den einzelnen Regionen und verbindet damit die Perspektive der romischen Zentrale mit der der Kirchen an der Peripherie. Der romischen Sicht auf die Mittel zur Durchdringung der Kirche wird der Befund gegenubergestellt, wie man in den verschiedenen Regionen mit ihnen umging. Neben den Spannungsbogen von romischem Prototypen und konkreter Deutung von der Mitte des 11. bis zum Ende des 12. Jahrhunderts tritt somit zusatzlich eine Differenzierung durch kontrastive... Der Band untersucht erstmals vergleichend papstliche Steuerungsinstrumente sowie die Wahrnehmung des Papsttums in den einzelnen Regionen und verbin... |
|
cena:
479,28 zł |
Making Marriage Modern
ISBN: 9780195064117 / Angielski / Twarda / 320 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The nineteenth-century middle-class ideal of the married woman was of a chaste and diligent wife focused on being a loving mother, with few needs or rights of her own. The modern woman, by contrast, was partner to a new model of marriage, one in which she and her husband formed a relationship based on greater sexual and psychological equality. In Making Marriage Modern, Christina Simmons narrates the development of this new companionate marriage ideal, which took hold in the early twentieth century and prevailed in American society by the 1940s. The first challenges to public...
The nineteenth-century middle-class ideal of the married woman was of a chaste and diligent wife focused on being a loving mother, with few needs or r...
|
|
cena:
213,49 zł |
The Changing World of Gay Men
ISBN: 9780230573956 / Angielski / Twarda / 222 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This ground-breaking book explores the experiences of gay men and their understanding of what itmeant to be gay in the20th Century: from when homosexuality was illegal though the less repressed but no less difficult eras of gay liberationand the HIV-AIDS epidemic."
This ground-breaking book explores the experiences of gay men and their understanding of what itmeant to be gay in the20th Century: from when homosexu...
|
|
cena:
194,97 zł |
Daily Lives of Civilians in Wartime Latin America: From the Wars of Independence to the Central American Civil Wars
ISBN: 9780313335945 / Angielski / Twarda / 360 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The countries of Latin America have suffered through numerous foreign interventions and domestic wars in the nearly two centuries that have followed its independence. These conflicts have also given rise to mass mobilizations of middle-class professionals, women, peasants, urban workers, and Indians, who sought to carve out a more active public role in the new states that emerged from these struggles. In some cases, elites and their military allies violently repressed the newly emerging forces. Recent research has begun to place greater emphasis on the lives of common people and the... The countries of Latin America have suffered through numerous foreign interventions and domestic wars in the nearly two centuries that have followe... |
|
cena:
481,27 zł |
Rape and the Politics of Consent in Classical Athens
ISBN: 9780521100267 / Angielski / Miękka / 264 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Were acts of sex which we would call rape and regard as a criminal offence similarly regarded in classical Athens? That is the main question posed in this book, the first in-depth study of the topic ever to be undertaken. It considers the legal terminology for rape and discusses exactly what these different terms describe. It also examines literary stories where rape and/or seduction feature as plot devices and looks at different characters' responses to them. The book's presentation makes it accessible to a wider readership of non-classicists.
Were acts of sex which we would call rape and regard as a criminal offence similarly regarded in classical Athens? That is the main question posed in ...
|
|
cena:
157,66 zł |
Law, Politics and Society in Early Modern England
ISBN: 9780521323918 / Angielski / Twarda / 470 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Law, like religion, provided one of the principal discourses through which early-modern English people conceptualised the world in which they lived. Transcending traditional boundaries between social, legal and political history, this innovative and authoritative study examines the development of legal thought and practice from the later middle ages through to the outbreak of the English civil war, and explores the ways in which law mediated and constituted social and economic relationships within the household, the community, and the state at all levels. By arguing that English common law...
Law, like religion, provided one of the principal discourses through which early-modern English people conceptualised the world in which they lived. T...
|
|
cena:
417,15 zł |
The Family in Greek History
ISBN: 9780674005686 / Angielski / Miękka / 304 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The family, Cynthia Patterson demonstrates, played a key role in the political changes that mark the history of ancient Greece. From the archaic society portrayed in Homer and Hesiod to the Hellenistic age, the private world of the family and household was integral with and essential to the civic realm. Early Greek society was rooted not in clans but in individual households, and a man's or woman's place in the larger community was determined by relationships within those households. The development of the city-state did not result in loss of the family's power and authority,... The family, Cynthia Patterson demonstrates, played a key role in the political changes that mark the history of ancient Greece. From the archaic so... |
|
cena:
252,81 zł |
The Civilising Mission and the English Middle Class, 1792-1850: The 'heathen' at Home and Overseas
ISBN: 9781403920409 / Angielski / Twarda / 368 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This volume concerns the missionary philanthropic movement which burst onto the social scene in early nineteenth century in England, becoming a popular provincial movement which sought no less than national and global reformation.
This volume concerns the missionary philanthropic movement which burst onto the social scene in early nineteenth century in England, becoming a popula...
|
|
cena:
428,99 zł |
Media and the Making of Modern Germany: Mass Communications, Society, and Politics from the Empire to the Third Reich
ISBN: 9780199278213 / Angielski / Miękka / 448 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Few developments in the industrial era have had a greater impact on everyday social life than the explosion of the mass media and commercial entertainments, and none have exerted a more profound influence on the nature of modern politics. Nowhere in Europe were the tensions and controversies surrounding the rise of mass culture more politically charged than in Germany--debates that played fatefully into the hands of the radical right. Corey Ross provides the first general account of the expansion of the mass media in Germany up to the Second World War, examining how the rise of film, radio,...
Few developments in the industrial era have had a greater impact on everyday social life than the explosion of the mass media and commercial entertain...
|
|
cena:
548,50 zł |
The Work of France: Labor and Culture in Early Modern Times, 1350-1800
ISBN: 9780742533998 / Angielski / Twarda / 246 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This clearly written and deeply informed book explores the nature and meaning of work in early modern France. Distinguished historian James R. Farr considers the relationship between material life--specifically the work activities of both men and women--and the culture in which these activities were embedded. This culture, he argues, helped shape the nature of work, invested it with meaning, and fashioned the identities of people across the social spectrum. Farr vividly traces the daily lives of peasants, common laborers, domestic servants, prostitutes, street vendors, craftsmen and -women,...
This clearly written and deeply informed book explores the nature and meaning of work in early modern France. Distinguished historian James R. Farr co...
|
|
cena:
481,95 zł |
The Work of France: Labor and Culture in Early Modern Times, 1350-1800
ISBN: 9780742534001 / Angielski / Miękka / 246 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This clearly written and deeply informed book explores the nature and meaning of work in early modern France. Distinguished historian James R. Farr considers the relationship between material life--specifically the work activities of both men and women--and the culture in which these activities were embedded. This culture, he argues, helped shape the nature of work, invested it with meaning, and fashioned the identities of people across the social spectrum. Farr vividly traces the daily lives of peasants, common laborers, domestic servants, prostitutes, street vendors, craftsmen and -women,...
This clearly written and deeply informed book explores the nature and meaning of work in early modern France. Distinguished historian James R. Farr co...
|
|
cena:
203,49 zł |