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Information Hunters
When Librarians, Soldiers, and Spies Banded Together in World War II Europe
Av Kathy Peiss
Inbunden, 2020
525 kr
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While armies have seized enemy records and rare texts as booty throughout history, it was only during World War II that an unlikely band of librarians, archivists, and scholars traveled abroad to collect books and documents to aid the military cause. Galvanized by the events of war into acquiring …
Information Hunters
When Librarians, Soldiers, and Spies Banded Together in World War II Europe
Av Kathy Peiss
E-bok, 2019
281 kr
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While armies have seized enemy records and rare texts as booty throughout history, it was only during World War II that an unlikely band of librarians, archivists, and scholars traveled abroad to collect books and documents to aid the military cause. Galvanized by the events of war into acquiring …
Information Hunters
When Librarians, Soldiers, and Spies Banded Together in World War II Europe
Av Kathy Peiss
E-bok, 2019
281 kr
Lägg i varukorg
While armies have seized enemy records and rare texts as booty throughout history, it was only during World War II that an unlikely band of librarians, archivists, and scholars traveled abroad to collect books and documents to aid the military cause. Galvanized by the events of war into acquiring …
Zoot Suit
The Enigmatic Career of an Extreme Style
Av Kathy Peiss
E-bok, 2011
386 kr
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ZOOT SUIT (n.): the ultimate in clothes. The only totally and truly American civilian suit.-Cab Calloway, The Hepster's Dictionary, 1944Before the fashion statements of hippies, punks, or hip-hop, there was the zoot suit, a striking urban look of the World War II era that captivated the …
Hope in a Jar
The Making of America's Beauty Culture
Av Kathy Peiss
E-bok, 2011
386 kr
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How did powder and paint, once scorned as immoral, become indispensable to millions of respectable women? How did a "kitchen physic," as homemade cosmetics were once called, become a multibillion-dollar industry? And how did men finally take over that rarest of institutions, a woman's business?In …
Hope in a Jar
The Making of America's Beauty Culture
Av Kathy Peiss
Häftad, 2011
284 kr
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How did powder and paint, once scorned as immoral, become indispensable to millions of respectable women? How did a "kitchen physic," as homemade cosmetics were once called, become a multibillion-dollar industry? And how did men finally take over that rarest of institutions, a woman's business?In …
Zoot Suit
The Enigmatic Career of an Extreme Style
Av Kathy Peiss
Häftad, 2014
284 kr
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ZOOT SUIT (n.): the ultimate in clothes. The only totally and truly American civilian suit.-Cab Calloway, The Hepster's Dictionary, 1944Before the fashion statements of hippies, punks, or hip-hop, there was the zoot suit, a striking urban look of the World War II era that captivated the …
Cheap Amusements
Av Kathy Peiss
Häftad, 1987
339 kr
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What did young, independent women do for fun and how did they pay their way into New York City's turn-of-the-century pleasure places? Cheap Amusements is a fascinating discussion of young working women whose meager wages often fell short of bare subsistence and rarely allowed for entertainment …
Passion and Power
Sexuality in History
Av Kathy Peiss
Häftad, 1989
374 kr
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Innovative writings on the history of sexuality
