Western History – Bücher, CDs, LPs und mehr, Seite 9

Howard Blum

When the Night Comes Falling

"Timed for a trial that will capture national attention, [this book] examines the mysterious murders of ... four University of Idaho students. Having covered this case from its start, Edgar Award-winning …

Keja L Valens

Culinary Colonialism, Caribbean Cookbooks, and Recipes for National Independence

Culinary Colonialism is the first book-length analysis of Caribbean cookbooks, tracing the multitude of ways they represent national identity, creolization, and working-class women’s food culture. Includi…

Josephine Quinn

How the World Made the West

A Guardian, Financial Times, New Statesman, The Rest is Politics and Waterstones Highlight for 2024 'Quinn has done a lot more than reinvent the wheel. What we have here is a truly encyclopaedic and monum…

Pope Benedict Xvi

The True Europe

"The ecological movement discovered that 'nature' prescribes for us a moderation that we cannot ignore with impunity. Unfortunately, 'human ecology' has still not been made concrete. A human being, too, h…

Werner Pfennig

Geteilte Nationen

Chancen für die gewaltlose Vereinigung geteilter Nationen bestehen, wenn alle Beteiligten sie wollen: diejenigen, die von der Teilung bislang profitierten, ebenso wie alle von ihr Betroffenen, zumeist die…

John King

Portal

Conceived in the Gilded Age, the Ferry Building opened in 1898 as San Francisco's portal to the world-the terminus of the transcontinental railway and a showcase of civic ambition. In silent films and Wor…

Ernesto Che Guevara

Reminiscences of the Cuban Revolutionary War

Che Guevara's definitive account of the Cuban revolutionary war, in an updated edition. Includes photos and new foreword by Aleida Guevara—Che's eldest daughter who is a physician. There is no better ac…

Minutemen

Double Nickels On The Dime

Philippe Thirault

Hacendado

Mexiko, Staat Sonora im Jahr 1863. Oft ist Blut das Einzige, was den Boden dieses trockenen, von Gewalt und Kriminalität verseuchten Landstrichs benetzt. Doch die Hacendados, Besitzer der großen Landgüter…

Agustín Lage Dávila

The Knowledge Economy and Socialism

Originally published in 2013 in Spanish as: La economâia del conocimiento y el socialismo.

Joana Salém Vasconcelos,

Agrarian History of the Cuban Revolution

In Agrarian History of the Cuban Revolution, the Brazilian historian Joana Salém Vasconcelos presents in clear language the complicated challenge of overcoming the condition of Latin America's underdevelo…

Smithsonian Asian Pacific American History, Art, and Culture in 101 Objects

"A rich and compelling introduction to the history of Asian Pacific American communities as told through 101 objects from the Smithsonian collections"--

Jonathan Clegg, Joshua Robinson

Messi vs. Ronaldo

Essential World Cup Reading | Featured in The New York Times' ?What to Read During the World Cup? Wall Street Journal reporters Joshua Robinson and Jonathan Clegg offer a deeply reported account of the in…

Carine Mccandless

The Wild Truth LP

In April 1992, a young man named Chris McCandless walked into the Alaska wilderness, where he survived for more than 100 days before perishing in an abandoned bus. For over twenty years his story has capt…

Bertrand Galic

Das Mädchen und der Postreiter

Im Jahr 1906 kostete das katastrophale Erdbeben an der Ostküste der USA zahllose Menschen das Leben. Die kleine Jenny verlor ihre Mutter unter den Trümmern und ist nun allein mit ihrem Stiefvater in den R…

Tiburce Oger

Indians!

1922, irgendwo in Amerika. White Wolf, ein ehemaliger Häuptling der Chippewa, sitzt als Zirkusattraktion vor Publikum und erzählt aus seinen Erinnerungen. Es sind Geschichten aus einem langen Leben, das b…

Sasha Abramsky

Chaos Comes Calling

"Donald Trump's November 2015 electoral victory was, to many, ominously validated by four years of demagogy, presidential name-calling, and-ten months into a pandemic-an incitement to violence that led a …

William L Fox

Playa Works

In eight brilliant essays, Fox explores many of the major playas of the American West, examining locations as diverse as Nellis Air Force Base and Frenchman Flat, where the federal government has tested e…

David Boriau,

Wanted

Der junge Cheyenne Dull und sein Mentor Oscar, ein reisender Fotograf, streifen im Jahre 1877 mehr oder weniger ziellos durch den Wilden Westen. Seit sein Stamm von einem Unbekannten massakriert wurde, si…