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Memory and the Impact of Political Transformation in Public Space
Av Daniel J. Walkowitz, Lisa Maya Knauer
Häftad, 2004
579 kr
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Memory and the Impact of Political Transformation in Public Space explores the effects of major upheavals-wars, decolonization, and other social and economic changes-on the ways in which public histories are presented around the world. Examining issues related to public memory in twelve countries, …
Bodily Matters
The Anti-Vaccination Movement in England, 1853–1907
Inbunden, 2004
1621 kr
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Bodily Matters explores the anti-vaccination movement that emerged in England in the late nineteenth century and early twentieth in response to government-mandated smallpox vaccination. By requiring a painful and sometimes dangerous medical procedure for all infants, the Compulsory Vaccination Act …
Bodily Matters
The Anti-Vaccination Movement in England, 1853–1907
Häftad, 2004
396 kr
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Bodily Matters explores the anti-vaccination movement that emerged in England in the late nineteenth century and early twentieth in response to government-mandated smallpox vaccination. By requiring a painful and sometimes dangerous medical procedure for all infants, the Compulsory Vaccination Act …
Nation of Realtors®
A Cultural History of the Twentieth-Century American Middle Class
Häftad, 2005
396 kr
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How is it that in the twentieth century virtually all Americans came to think of themselves as “middle class”? In this cultural history of real estate brokerage, Jeffrey M. Hornstein argues that the rise of the Realtors as dealers in both domestic space and the ideology of home ownership provides …
Courage Tastes of Blood
The Mapuche Community of Nicolás Ailío and the Chilean State, 1906-2001
Häftad, 2005
563 kr
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Until now, very little about the recent history of the Mapuche, Chile’s largest indigenous group, has been available to English-language readers. Courage Tastes of Blood helps to rectify this situation. It tells the story of one Mapuche community-NicolÁs AilÍo, located in the south of the …
Specters of Mother India
The Global Restructuring of an Empire
Häftad, 2006
632 kr
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Specters of Mother India tells the complex story of one episode that became the tipping point for an important historical transformation. The event at the center of the book is the massive international controversy that followed the 1927 publication of Mother India, an exposÉ written by the …
Femininity in Flight
A History of Flight Attendants
Inbunden, 2007
1621 kr
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“In her new chic outfit, she looks like anything but a stewardess working. But work she does. Hard, too. And you hardly know it.” So read the text of a 1969 newspaper advertisement for Delta Airlines featuring a picture of a brightly smiling blond stewardess striding confidently down the aisle of …
Femininity in Flight
A History of Flight Attendants
Häftad, 2007
396 kr
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“In her new chic outfit, she looks like anything but a stewardess working. But work she does. Hard, too. And you hardly know it.” So read the text of a 1969 newspaper advertisement for Delta Airlines featuring a picture of a brightly smiling blond stewardess striding confidently down the aisle of …
Grand Designs
Labor, Empire, and the Museum in Victorian Culture
Av Lara Kriegel
Inbunden, 2008
1362 kr
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With this richly illustrated history of industrial design reform in nineteenth-century Britain, Lara Kriegel demonstrates that preoccupations with trade, labor, and manufacture lay at the heart of debates about cultural institutions during the Victorian era. Through aesthetic reform, Victorians …
Grand Designs
Labor, Empire, and the Museum in Victorian Culture
Av Lara Kriegel
Häftad, 2008
454 kr
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With this richly illustrated history of industrial design reform in nineteenth-century Britain, Lara Kriegel demonstrates that preoccupations with trade, labor, and manufacture lay at the heart of debates about cultural institutions during the Victorian era. Through aesthetic reform, Victorians …
Finding the Movement
Sexuality, Contested Space, and Feminist Activism
Av Finn Enke
Häftad, 2007
441 kr
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In Finding the Movement, Anne Enke reveals that diverse women’s engagement with public spaces gave rise to and profoundly shaped second-wave feminism. Focusing on women’s activism in Detroit, Chicago, and Minneapolis-St. Paul during the 1960s and 1970s, Enke describes how women across race and …
Contested Histories in Public Space
Memory, Race, and Nation
Av Daniel J. Walkowitz, Lisa Maya Knauer
Inbunden, 2009
1362 kr
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Contested Histories in Public Space brings multiple perspectives to bear on historical narratives presented to the public in museums, monuments, texts, and festivals around the world, from Paris to Kathmandu, from the Mexican state of Oaxaca to the waterfront of Wellington, New Zealand. Paying …
Contested Histories in Public Space
Memory, Race, and Nation
Av Daniel J. Walkowitz, Lisa Maya Knauer
Häftad, 2009
628 kr
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Contested Histories in Public Space brings multiple perspectives to bear on historical narratives presented to the public in museums, monuments, texts, and festivals around the world, from Paris to Kathmandu, from the Mexican state of Oaxaca to the waterfront of Wellington, New Zealand. Paying …
We Cannot Remain Silent
Opposition to the Brazilian Military Dictatorship in the United States
Häftad, 2010
454 kr
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In 1964, Brazil’s democratically elected, left-wing government was ousted in a coup and replaced by a military junta. The Johnson administration quickly recognized the new government. The U.S. press and members of Congress were nearly unanimous in their support of the “revolution” and the coup …
Laws of Chance
Brazil's Clandestine Lottery and the Making of Urban Public Life
Av Amy Chazkel
Häftad, 2011
651 kr
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The lottery called the jogo do bicho, or “animal game,” originated as a raffle at a zoo in Rio de Janeiro in 1892. During the next decade, it became a cultural phenomenon all over Brazil, where it remains popular today. Laws of Chance chronicles the game’s early history, as booking agents, dealers, …
Empire's Garden
Assam and the Making of India
Häftad, 2011
579 kr
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In the mid-nineteenth century the British created a landscape of tea plantations in the northeastern Indian region of Assam. The tea industry filled imperial coffers and gave the colonial state a chance to transform a jungle-laden frontier into a cultivated system of plantations. Claiming that …
Making of the Middle Class
Toward a Transnational History
Av A. Ricardo López-Pedreros, Barbara Weinstein
Inbunden, 2012
1506 kr
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In this important and timely collection of essays, historians reflect on the middle class: what it is, why its struggles figure so prominently in discussions of the current economic crisis, and how it has shaped, and been shaped by, modernity. The contributors focus on specific middle-class …
Making of the Middle Class
Toward a Transnational History
Av A. Ricardo López-Pedreros, Barbara Weinstein
Häftad, 2012
454 kr
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In this important and timely collection of essays, historians reflect on the middle class: what it is, why its struggles figure so prominently in discussions of the current economic crisis, and how it has shaped, and been shaped by, modernity. The contributors focus on specific middle-class …
Foreign Front
Third World Politics in Sixties West Germany
Häftad, 2012
396 kr
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It is often asserted that West German New Leftists "discovered the Third World" in the pivotal decade of the 1960s. Quinn Slobodian upsets that storyline by beginning with individuals from the Third World themselves: students from Africa, Asia, and Latin America who arrived on West German campuses …
New Deal for All?
Race and Class Struggles in Depression-Era Baltimore
Häftad, 2012
441 kr
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In A New Deal for All? Andor Skotnes examines the interrelationships between the Black freedom movement and the workers' movement in Baltimore and Maryland during the Great Depression and the early years of the Second World War. Adding to the growing body of scholarship on the long civil rights …
La Frontera
Forests and Ecological Conflict in Chile's Frontier Territory
Inbunden, 2014
1852 kr
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In La Frontera, Thomas Miller Klubock offers a pioneering social and environmental history of southern Chile, exploring the origins of today’s forestry "miracle" in Chile. Although Chile's forestry boom is often attributed to the free-market policies of the Pinochet dictatorship, La Frontera shows …
La Frontera
Forests and Ecological Conflict in Chile's Frontier Territory
Häftad, 2014
454 kr
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In La Frontera, Thomas Miller Klubock offers a pioneering social and environmental history of southern Chile, exploring the origins of today’s forestry "miracle" in Chile. Although Chile's forestry boom is often attributed to the free-market policies of the Pinochet dictatorship, La Frontera shows …
Unreasonable Histories
Nativism, Multiracial Lives, and the Genealogical Imagination in British Africa
Inbunden, 2014
1362 kr
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In Unreasonable Histories, Christopher J. Lee unsettles the parameters and content of African studies as currently understood. At the book's core are the experiences of multiracial Africans in British Central Africa-contemporary Malawi, Zimbabwe, and Zambia-from the 1910s to the 1960s. Drawing on a …
Unreasonable Histories
Nativism, Multiracial Lives, and the Genealogical Imagination in British Africa
Häftad, 2014
454 kr
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In Unreasonable Histories, Christopher J. Lee unsettles the parameters and content of African studies as currently understood. At the book's core are the experiences of multiracial Africans in British Central Africa-contemporary Malawi, Zimbabwe, and Zambia-from the 1910s to the 1960s. Drawing on a …
Color of Modernity
São Paulo and the Making of Race and Nation in Brazil
Inbunden, 2015
1621 kr
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In The Color of Modernity, Barbara Weinstein focuses on race, gender, and regionalism in the formation of national identities in Brazil; this focus allows her to explore how uneven patterns of economic development are consolidated and understood. Organized around two principal episodes-the 1932 …
Color of Modernity
São Paulo and the Making of Race and Nation in Brazil
Häftad, 2015
454 kr
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In The Color of Modernity, Barbara Weinstein focuses on race, gender, and regionalism in the formation of national identities in Brazil; this focus allows her to explore how uneven patterns of economic development are consolidated and understood. Organized around two principal episodes-the 1932 …
FBI in Latin America
The Ecuador Files
Av Marc Becker
Häftad, 2017
396 kr
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During the Second World War, the FDR administration placed the FBI in charge of political surveillance in Latin America. Through a program called the Special Intelligence Service (SIS), 700 agents were assigned to combat Nazi influence in Mexico, Brazil, Chile, and Argentina. The SIS’s mission, …
FBI in Latin America
The Ecuador Files
Av Marc Becker
Inbunden, 2017
1621 kr
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During the Second World War, the FDR administration placed the FBI in charge of political surveillance in Latin America. Through a program called the Special Intelligence Service (SIS), 700 agents were assigned to combat Nazi influence in Mexico, Brazil, Chile, and Argentina. The SIS’s mission, …
Street Archives and City Life
Popular Intellectuals in Postcolonial Tanzania
Inbunden, 2017
1621 kr
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In Street Archives and City Life Emily Callaci maps a new terrain of political and cultural production in mid- to late twentieth-century Tanzanian urban landscapes. While the postcolonial Tanzanian ruling party (TANU) adopted a policy of rural socialism known as Ujamaa between 1967 and 1985, an …
Street Archives and City Life
Popular Intellectuals in Postcolonial Tanzania
Häftad, 2017
396 kr
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In Street Archives and City Life Emily Callaci maps a new terrain of political and cultural production in mid- to late twentieth-century Tanzanian urban landscapes. While the postcolonial Tanzanian ruling party (TANU) adopted a policy of rural socialism known as Ujamaa between 1967 and 1985, an …
