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6 produkter
Smithsonian's History of America in 101 Objects
E-bok, 2013
245 kr
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The Smithsonian Institution is America''s largest, most important, and most beloved repository for the objects that define our common heritage. Now Under Secretary for Art, History, and Culture Richard Kurin, aided by a team of top Smithsonian curators and scholars, has assembled a literary …
Madcap May
Mistress of Myth, Men, and Hope
E-bok, 2012
336 kr
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May Yohe was a popular entertainer from humble American origins who married and then abandoned a wealthy English Lord who owned the fabled Hope diamond--one of the most valuable objects in the world and now exhibited at the Smithsonian Institution in Washington, D.C. May was a romantic who had …
Reflections of a Culture Broker
A View from the Smithsonian
E-bok, 2014
309 kr
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Is culture brokered like stocks, real estate, or marriage? In this engaging book, Richard Kurin shows that cultures are also mediated and indeed brokered by countries, organizations, communities, and individuals -- all with their own vision of the truth and varying abilities to impose it on others. …
History by a Hair
Thomas Jefferson, Sally Hemings & Solving a 200-Year-Old Mystery
Inbunden, 2026
403 kr
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The definitive account of how a discarded strand of hair found in Thomas Jefferson’s Bible led to a sweeping, multi-year genomic investigation, drawing on technological advances in DNA to finally resolve a 200-year national controversy. “Written with the gravitas of history and the pace of a …
