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Einstein of Sex
Dr. Magnus Hirschfeld, Visionary of Weimar Berlin
Av Daniel Brook
Inbunden, 2025
339 kr
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More than a century ago, Dr. Magnus Hirschfeld first argued that gender and sexuality were fluid. Dubbed “the Einstein of Sex,” Hirschfeld grew famous (and infamous) for his liberating theory of sexual relativity. Today, he’s been largely forgotten.Journalist Daniel Brook reinvigorates Hirschfeld’s …
Accident of Color
A Story of Race in Reconstruction
Av Daniel Brook
Inbunden, 2019
277 kr
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In The Accident of Color, Daniel Brook journeys to nineteenth-century New Orleans and Charleston and introduces us to cosmopolitan residents who elude the racial categories the rest of America takes for granted. Before the Civil War, these free, openly mixed-race urbanites enjoyed some rights of …
History of Future Cities
Av Daniel Brook
Häftad, 2014
368 kr
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Hailed as an “original and fascinating book” (Times Literary Supplement), A History of Future Cities is Daniel Brook’s captivating investigation of four “instant cities”—St. Petersburg, Shanghai, Mumbai, and Dubai—that sought to catapult themselves into the future by emulating the West.
Accident of Color
A Story of Race in Reconstruction
Av Daniel Brook
Häftad, 2020
187 kr
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Brutal slavery existed all over the New World, but only America followed emancipation with a twisted system of segregation. The Accident of Color asks why. Searching for answers, Daniel Brook journeys to the places that resisted Jim Crow the longest. In the cosmopolitan port cities of New Orleans …
Modern Revolution
Social Change and Cultural Continuity in Czechoslovakia and China
Av Daniel Brook
Häftad, 2005
808 kr
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Using a comparative historical methodology, this book analyzes the causal convergence of the 1989 Velvet Revolution in Czechoslovakia from socio-cultural and political economic perspectives, and contrasts it with China's Tiananmen Square rebellion during same year. The key strategy in tracking the …
The Trap: Selling Out to Stay Afloat in Winner-Take-All America
Av Daniel Brook
Häftad, 2010
214 kr
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