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Télécharger le livre :  Icons of Dissent
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Icons of Dissent


Jeremy Prestholdt


The global icon is an omnipresent but poorly understood element of mass culture. This book asks why audiences around the world have embraced particular iconic figures, how perceptions of these figures have changed, and what this tells us about transnational relations...

Parution : 2019-07-01
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18,24
Télécharger le livre :  "The Infidel Within"
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"The Infidel Within"


Humayun Ansari


Muslims constitute Britain's second largest religious grouping, and writing about their experiences has found a new audience in recent years-though not always through a positive lens. But a proper historical treatment of their arrival, settlement and establishment had...

Parution : 2018-08-01
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10,13
Télécharger le livre :  What is a Refugee?
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What is a Refugee?


William Maley


With the arrival in Europe of over a million refugees and asylum seekers in 2015, a sense of panic began to spread within the continent and beyond. What is a Refugee? puts these developments into historical context, injecting much-needed objectivity and nuance into...

Parution : 2016-12-01
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10,13
Télécharger le livre :  A Sociology of Modern China
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A Sociology of Modern China


Jean-Louis Rocca


Jean-Louis Rocca's admirably concise A Sociology of Modern China wears its scholarship lightly and paints an intimate and complex portrait of Chinese society, all the while avoiding clichés and simplifications. He delves into China's history and examines the...

Parution : 2015-01-05
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Télécharger le livre :  Steel Drivin' Man
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Steel Drivin' Man


Scott Reynolds Nelson


The ballad "John Henry" is the most recorded folk song in American history and John Henry--the mighty railroad man who could blast through rock faster than a steam drill--is a towering figure in our culture. In Steel Drivin' Man, Scott Reynolds Nelson recounts the...

Parution : 2006-09-28
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Télécharger le livre :  Steel Drivin' Man
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Steel Drivin' Man


Scott Reynolds Nelson


The ballad "John Henry" is the most recorded folk song in American history and John Henry--the mighty railroad man who could blast through rock faster than a steam drill--is a towering figure in our culture. In Steel Drivin' Man, Scott Reynolds Nelson recounts the...

Parution : 2006-09-28
Format(s) : ePub
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7,29
Télécharger le livre :  Southern Lady, Yankee Spy
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Southern Lady, Yankee Spy


Elizabeth R. Varon


Northern sympathizer in the Confederate capital, daring spymaster, postwar politician: Elizabeth Van Lew was one of the most remarkable figures in American history, a woman who defied the conventions of the nineteenth-century South. In Southern Lady, Yankee Spy,...

Parution : 2003-10-02
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Télécharger le livre :  The Strange Career of Jim Crow
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The Strange Career of Jim Crow


William S. Mcfeely , C. Vann Woodward


C. Vann Woodward, who died in 1999 at the age of 91, was America's most eminent Southern historian, the winner of a Pulitzer Prize for Mary Chestnut's Civil War and a Bancroft Prize for The Origins of the New South. Now, to honor his long and truly distinguished career,...

Parution : 2001-11-29
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Télécharger le livre :  The Strange Career of Jim Crow
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The Strange Career of Jim Crow


William S. Mcfeely , C. Vann Woodward


C. Vann Woodward, who died in 1999 at the age of 91, was America's most eminent Southern historian, the winner of a Pulitzer Prize for Mary Chestnut's Civil War and a Bancroft Prize for The Origins of the New South. Now, to honor his long and truly distinguished career,...

Parution : 2001-11-29
Format(s) : ePub
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