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American Imperialist
Cruelty and Consequence in the Scramble for Africa
Inbunden, 2023
280 kr
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This biography of “African explorer” Richard Dorsey Mohun, written by one of his descendants, reveals how American greed and state power helped shape the new imperial order in Africa. Richard Dorsey Mohun spent his career circulating among the eastern United States, the cities and courts of Europe, …
Steam Laundries
Gender, Technology, and Work in the United States and Great Britain, 1880–1940
Häftad, 2003
430 kr
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Laundries were once ubiquitous in British and American cities-products of the same historical process that created steel mills and railroads. Unlike the more familiar examples of industrialization, these cleanliness factories remained powerfully identified with domesticity. In Steam Laundries, …
Gender and Technology
A Reader
Av Nina Lerman, Ruth Oldenziel m. fl.
Häftad, 2003
528 kr
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For most of human experience, certainly of late, the artifacts of technological civilization have become closely associated with gender, sometimes for physiological reasons (brassieres or condoms, for example) but more often because of social and cultural factors, both obvious and obscure. Because …
Risk
Negotiating Safety in American Society
Inbunden, 2013
567 kr
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"Risk" is a capacious term used to describe the uncertainties that arise from physical, financial, political, and social activities. Practically everything we do carries some level of risk-threats to our bodies, property, and animals. How do we determine when the risk is too high? In considering …
