Cultural And Social History – Bücher, CDs, Diverse und mehr, Seite 8

Kyle Conway
At Home in the Petromodern Paradox

Boomtowns are difficult places to live. North Dakota, long familiar with oil's boom-and-bust cycle, became the epicentre of an extraordinary rush in 2008: towns doubled in size almost overnight, and commu…

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Kyle Paoletta
American Oasis

An expansive and revelatory historical exploration of the multicultural, water-seeking, land-destroying settlers of the most arid corner of North America, arguing that in order to know where the United St…

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Revolutionary Natures

Uncovers China's tangled legacies of environmental destruction, resistance, and conservation This volume offers a groundbreaking reassessment of the environmental history of Mao-era China, a period often …

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John R Tilghman
Jim Crow from the Harbor

How do poor Black communities co-exist with downtown revitalization? How do Black social movements respond to urban renewal to ensure access to better housing and city spaces? John Tilghman investigates t…

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75 Years After Partition

This book explores how the 1947 Partition of British India not only divided people and territories but also deepened cultural rifts in postcolonial India, Pakistan and Bangladesh, especially between Hindu…

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Ashla C Hill Roseboro
History of Black Women Deans, College Alumnae Organizations, and Activism

This historical account uncovers the lived experiences and history of pioneering Black women deans.Few scholars have studied the origins of Black deans of women and college graduates who were at the inter…

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Donatella Galella
Feeling Yellow

Feeling Yellow examines how yellowface has persisted on the contemporary musical stage and how Asian Americans have contested yellowface, as they stake their own claim to the theatrical stage and nation s…

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David Perlis
Morning in Marin

A revelatory cultural history of free spirits and wild ideas from Alan Watts to George Lucas and far beyond."Those of us who grew up in Marin always knew it was a special place. Just how special, and…

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Armgard Goo-Grauer
Colors of Nubia

An intimate historical portrait of the women of Nubia and their unique house decorations including over 400 full color and black and white photographs"A superb book."---Anne M. Jennings, Univers…

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Darién J Davis
Black Orpheus and the Globalization of Afro-Brazilian Culture

"Black Orpheus" and the Globalization of Afro-Brazilian Culture is the first historical study in English to examine the development, production, and reception of the 1958 film Black Orpheus and …

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Darién J Davis
Black Orpheus and the Globalization of Afro-Brazilian Culture

"Black Orpheus" and the Globalization of Afro-Brazilian Culture is the first historical study in English to examine the development, production, and reception of the 1958 film Black Orpheus and …

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The Routledge Companion to Asian Cinemas

Balancing leading scholars with emerging trendsetters, this Companion offers fresh perspectives on Asian cinemas and charts new constellations in the field with significance far beyond Asian cinema studie…

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Lewis Porter
John Coltrane: His Life and Music

John Coltrane was a key figure in jazz, a pioneer in world music, and an intensely emotional force whose following continues to grow. This new biography, the first by a professional jazz scholar and perfo…

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Michael Bennet
The Land of Flickering Lights

From Colorado Senator Michael Bennet, a powerful up-to-the-minute book that lifts the veil on the dysfunctional inner workings of the U.S. Senate through five critically important case studies out of toda…

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Camille Suárez
Dreams of Small Countries

Prior to US conquest, a group of elite, mixed-race Mexicans called Californios nurtured the dream of patria chica ("small homeland") in what is now the state of California. Californios' settler …

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Bernadette Ludwig
Unwelcome Shores

Unwelcome Shores is an ethnographic study of the Liberian refugee community in Staten Island, New York, home to the largest per capita concentration of Liberians in the U.S., that sheds light on the racia…

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Bernadette Ludwig
Unwelcome Shores

Unwelcome Shores is an ethnographic study of the Liberian refugee community in Staten Island, New York, home to the largest per capita concentration of Liberians in the U.S., that sheds light on the racia…

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Sheng-Mei Ma
Chinese Serial

Sustaining Chinese culture like the ritual of breakfast cereal, one of the earliest classic chapter novels, Monkey, unfolds as a pilgrimage over 81 calamities revolving around the pilgrim's flesh that giv…

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Gary A Hoover
Ladder or Lottery

Who really gets ahead in a market-based economy.This book asks the reader a simple question: Is our economy a ladder or a lottery? Are people able to control their position on the economic spectrum by the…

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Amber N Wiley
Model Schools in the Model City

Winner of the 2026 Joe William Trotter, Jr. Prize for Best First Book in Urban History, Urban History Association Finalist for the 2026 ASALH Book Award Finalist for the 2026 Association of American Publi…

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