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The Black Sea
A History
Av Charles King
Häftad, 2005
633 kr
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The lands surrounding the Black Sea share a colourful past. Though in recent decades they have experienced ethnic conflict, economic collapse, and interstate rivalry, their common heritage and common interests go deep. Now, as a region at the meeting point of the Balkans, Central Asia, and the …
Horror Halloween Coloring Book
Zombies, Witches, Clowns, Aliens And More!
Av Charles King
Häftad, 2023
127 kr
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Gods of the Upper Air
How a Circle of Renegade Anthropologists Reinvented Race, Sex, and Gender in the Twentieth Century
Av Charles King
Häftad, 2020
3,0 utav 5 stjärnor. Totalt antal röster: (1)
222 kr
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NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER 2020 Anisfield-Wolf Book Award Winner Finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award From an award-winning historian comes a dazzling history of the birth of cultural anthropology and the adventurous scientists who pioneered it—a sweeping chronicle of discovery and …
Den övre luftens gudar : hur en grupp nytänkande antropologer förändrade vår syn på ras och kön
Av Charles King
Inbunden, 2022
4,0 utav 5 stjärnor. Totalt antal röster: (1)
257 kr
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Charles Kings "Den övre luftens gudar" är något så ovanligt som en vetenskapshistorisk kollektivbiografi, där tanke och liv oupphörligt flätas in i varandra på olika intrikata vis. Boken handlar om den amerikanske antropologen Franz Boas (1858–1942) och fyra av hans mest framstående elever, …
Black Sea
A History
Av Charles King
E-bok, 2005
521 kr
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The lands surrounding the Black Sea share a colourful past. Though in recent decades they have experienced ethnic conflict, economic collapse, and interstate rivalry, their common heritage and common interests go deep. Now, as a region at the meeting point of the Balkans, Central Asia, and the …
The Ghost of Freedom
A History of the Caucasus
Av Charles King
Inbunden, 2008
846 kr
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The Caucasus mountains rise at the intersection of Europe, Russia, and the Middle East. A land of astonishing natural beauty and a dizzying array of ancient cultures, the Caucasus has often been the object of imperial ambition. South of the mountains, Persia and Ottoman Turkey vied for control of …
Extreme Politics
Essays on Nationalism, Violence, and Eastern Europe
Av Charles King
Inbunden, 2010
1243 kr
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Why do some violent conflicts endure across the centuries, while others become dimly remembered ancient struggles among forgotten peoples? Is nationalism really the powerful force that it appeared to be in the 1990s? In this wide-ranging and readable set of essays, Charles King examines the …
Extreme Politics
Essays on Nationalism, Violence, and Eastern Europe
Av Charles King
Häftad, 2010
504 kr
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Why do some violent conflicts endure across the centuries, while others become dimly remembered ancient struggles among forgotten peoples? Is nationalism really the powerful force that it appeared to be in the 1990s? In this wide-ranging and readable set of essays, Charles King examines the …
The Ghost of Freedom
A History of the Caucasus
Av Charles King
Häftad, 2009
509 kr
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Named by Moscow Times "the History Book of the Year," The Ghost of Freedom combines riveting storytelling with insightful analysis, in the first general history of the modern Caucasus, stretching from the beginning of Russian imperial expansion up to the rise of new countries after the Soviet …
Ghost of Freedom
A History of the Caucasus
Av Charles King
E-bok, 2008
336 kr
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The Caucasus mountains rise at the intersection of Europe, Russia, and the Middle East. A land of astonishing natural beauty and a dizzying array of ancient cultures, the Caucasus for most of the twentieth century lay inside the Soviet Union, before movements of national liberation created newly …
Extreme Politics
Nationalism, Violence, and the End of Eastern Europe
Av Charles King
E-bok, 2010
385 kr
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Why do some violent conflicts endure across the centuries, while others become dimly remembered ancient struggles among forgotten peoples? Is nationalism really the powerful force that it appeared to be in the 1990s? This wide-ranging work examines the conceptual intersection of nationalist …
Ghost of Freedom
A History of the Caucasus
Av Charles King
E-bok, 2008
336 kr
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The Caucasus mountains rise at the intersection of Europe, Russia, and the Middle East. A land of astonishing natural beauty and a dizzying array of ancient cultures, the Caucasus for most of the twentieth century lay inside the Soviet Union, before movements of national liberation created newly …
Extreme Politics
Nationalism, Violence, and the End of Eastern Europe
Av Charles King
E-bok, 2010
385 kr
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Why do some violent conflicts endure across the centuries, while others become dimly remembered ancient struggles among forgotten peoples? Is nationalism really the powerful force that it appeared to be in the 1990s? This wide-ranging work examines the conceptual intersection of nationalist …
Frank Martin
A Bio-Bibliography
Av Charles King
Inbunden, 1990
837 kr
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Appropriately, this work written on the year of the 100th birthday of Frank Martin, is the first English language resource dealing with work by and about the Swiss composer. Charles King provides access to a great deal of critical substantive writing about Martin's work and to the considerable body …
Nations Abroad
Diaspora Politics And International Relations In The Former Soviet Union
Inbunden, 2019
2526 kr
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Based on new field research by an international team of post-Soviet specialists, this is the first comparative study to examine the complexities of trans-border ethnic groups and state-building in the former Soviet Union.The collapse of the Soviet state transformed internal administrative …
Odessa
Genius and Death in a City of Dreams
Av Charles King
Häftad, 2012
190 kr
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From Alexander Pushkin and Isaac Babel to Zionist renegade Vladimir Jabotinsky and filmmaker Sergei Eisenstein, an astonishing cast of geniuses helped shape Odessa, a legendary haven of cosmopolitan freedom on the Black Sea. Drawing on a wealth of original sources and offering the first detailed …
Midnight at the Pera Palace
The Birth of Modern Istanbul
Av Charles King
Häftad, 2015
192 kr
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When the Ottoman Empire collapsed, so many spies mingled in the lobby of Istanbul’s Pera Palace Hotel that the manager put up a sign asking them to relinquish seats to paying guests.As the multi-ethnic empire became a Turkish republic, Russian émigrés sold family heirlooms, an African American …
Nations Abroad
Diaspora Politics And International Relations In The Former Soviet Union
E-bok, 2018
883 kr
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This book discusses trans-border ethnic populations in the former Soviet Union in a broader conceptual context, highlighting the importance of diaspora issues both for post-Sovietologists and for scholars of comparative politics and international relations in general.
Nations Abroad
Diaspora Politics And International Relations In The Former Soviet Union
E-bok, 2018
883 kr
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This book discusses trans-border ethnic populations in the former Soviet Union in a broader conceptual context, highlighting the importance of diaspora issues both for post-Sovietologists and for scholars of comparative politics and international relations in general.
Every Valley
The Desperate Lives and Troubled Times That Made Handel's Messiah
Av Charles King
Häftad, 1900
186 kr
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NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK • NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW EDITORS' CHOICE • From the bestselling historian and National Book Critics Circle Award finalist, the moving untold story of the eighteenth-century men and women behind the making of Handel’s Messiah. “A work of vivid social and cultural …
Campaigning with Crook
Av Charles King
Häftad, 1983
153 kr
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The Big Horn and Yellowstone Expedition in 1876 was successful in scattering the united and victorious Indians of the Custer massacre. Commanded by General George Crook and covering eight hundred miles in ten weeks, the campaign was a hard one on Indians and soldiers alike. Before it ended, many of …
Nations Abroad
Diaspora Politics And International Relations In The Former Soviet Union
Häftad, 1999
754 kr
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This book discusses trans-border ethnic populations in the former Soviet Union in a broader conceptual context, highlighting the importance of diaspora issues both for post-Sovietologists and for scholars of comparative politics and international relations in general.
Campaigning With Crook
the War Against the Sioux, 1876
Av Charles King
Inbunden, 2012
356 kr
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Campaigning With Crook
the War Against the Sioux, 1876
Av Charles King
Häftad, 2012
208 kr
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Treaty Ports of China and Japan
A Complete Guide to the Open Ports of Those Countries, Together With Peking, Yedo, Hongkong and Macao. Forming a Guide Book & Vade Mecum for Travellers, Merchants, and Residents in General
Av Nicholas Belfield Dennys, Charles King m. fl.
Inbunden, 2022
602 kr
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Treaty Ports of China and Japan
A Complete Guide to the Open Ports of Those Countries, Together With Peking, Yedo, Hongkong and Macao. Forming a Guide Book & Vade Mecum for Travellers, Merchants, and Residents in General
Av Nicholas Belfield Dennys, Charles King m. fl.
Häftad, 2022
455 kr
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Memoir of the Construction, Cost, and Capacity of the Croton Aqueduct, Compiled From Official Documents
Together With an Account of the Civic Celebration of the Fourteenth October, 1842, On Occasion of the Completion of the Great Work: Preceded by a Pr
Av Charles King, Horace Howard Furness m. fl.
Inbunden, 2022
398 kr
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Memoir of the Construction, Cost, and Capacity of the Croton Aqueduct, Compiled From Official Documents
Together With an Account of the Civic Celebration of the Fourteenth October, 1842, On Occasion of the Completion of the Great Work: Preceded by a Pr
Av Charles King, Horace Howard Furness m. fl.
Häftad, 2022
294 kr
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