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Cambridge Social and Cultural Histories Voices of the People in Nineteenth-Century France Book 18 (Hardcover)

This innovative study of the lives of ordinary people - peasants fishermen textile workers - in nineteenth-century France demonstrates how folklore collections can be used to shed new light on the socially marginalized. David Hopkin explores the... more

A comparative study of elite English-medium schools public schools and Islamic madaris in contemporary Pakistan (Paperback)

This ethnographic study examines the role of differing school knowledge in reproducing various social classes in the society. It was observed that an unequal availability of capital resources agents class habitus and the type of their cultural... more

Quebec Questions - Quebec Studies for the Twenty-First Century 9780195432480 Used / Pre-owned

Quebec Questions: Quebec Studies for the Twenty-First Century is a contributed multidisciplinary text that examines Quebec history from social cultural and political perspectives. CONDITION – USED: Books sold are in GOOD or better condition. Good... more

World History and National Identity in China (Hardcover)

Nationalism is pervasive in China today. Yet nationalism is not entrenched in China s intellectual tradition. Over the course of the twentieth century the combined forces of cultural social and political transformations nourished its development but... more

Scouse : A Social and Cultural History (Paperback)

Nowhere in Britain is more closely associated with a form of language than Liverpool. Yet the history of language in Liverpool has been obscured by misrepresentation and myth-making and narratives of Liverpool s linguistic past have scarcely done... more

Cambridge Studies in Social and Cultural The Political Organization of Unyamwezi Book 1 (Paperback)

A detailed study of the political organization in an important area of Tanzania shortly before Independence. Unyamwezi covers 35 000 square miles and has a population of 400 000. Dr Abrahams outlines the social and economic framework and examines... more

The New Encyclopedia of Southern Culture : Volume 4: Myth Manners and Memory 9780807856925 Used / Pre-owned

Part of the The New Encyclopedia of Southern Culture this volume addresses the cultural social and intellectual terrain of myth manners and historical memory in the American South. It evaluates how a distinct southern identity has been created and... more

Early Elizabethan England 1558-88 (Paperback)

Elizabethan England 1558-1588 investigates how England was ruled under Queen Elizabeth I. The course focuses on the first 30 years of Elizabeth s reign. You will focus on crucial events during this period and study the different social cultural... more

CENTRAL ASIA: Regional Affairs and U.S. Interests and Policies (Asian Economic and Polititcal Issues: Russia China and Eurasia: Social Historical and Cultural Issues) by JUSTIN MORSE (New)

U.S. policy toward the Central Asian states has aimed at facilitating their co-operation with U.S. and NATO stabilisation efforts in Afghanistan and their efforts to combat terrorism proliferation and trafficking in arms drugs and persons. Other... more

Studies in Early Modern Cultural Political and Social Histo: God Duty and Community in English Economic Life 1660-1720 (Hardcover)

An analysis of later Stuart economic culture that contributes significantly to our understanding of early modern society. The English economy underwent profound changes in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries yet the worldly affairs of ordinary... more

Blackwell History of the Contemporary Wo Contemporary Latin America (Paperback)

Contemporary Latin America presents the epochal political economic social and cultural changes in Latin America over the last 40 years and comprehensively examines their impact on life in the region and beyond. Provides a fresh approach and a new... more

Blackwell History of the Contemporary Wo Contemporary Latin America: 1970 to the Present (Hardcover)

Contemporary Latin America presents the epochal political economic social and cultural changes in Latin America over the last 40 years and comprehensively examines their impact on life in the region and beyond. Provides a fresh approach and a new... more

Late Editions: Cultural Studies for the End of the Century: Paranoia within Reason : A Casebook on Conspiracy as Explanation (Series #6) (Hardcover)

Like the McCarthy era of the 1950s there is a strong current of paranoid social thought as the end of the century approaches. Conspiracy theories abound not only in extremist ideologies and groups but in commerce science and economics-arenas where a... more

Pre-Owned Ireland : A Social and Cultural History 1922 to the Present 9780801417313 Used

Terence Brown juxtaposes such key topics as nationalism industrialization religion language revival and censorship with his assessments of the major literary and artistic advances to give us a lively and perceptive view of the Irish past. In the...... more

Pre-Owned Atlas of African-American History Hardcover James Ciment

With authoritative text and a wealth of colour maps and illustrations this volume details the cultural historical political and social histories and experiences of African Americans. The book covers such areas as the slave trade the American Civil... more

Cultural History of Bengali Proverbs - Sudeshna Basak

Bengali proverbs are found from the earliest literary specimens down to the present day. They encompass a wide range of subjects dealing with gods and goddesses mythical characters folkloric figures and historical persons social and family life love... more

Interdisciplinary German Cultural Studies: Violent Waters: Literary Border Crossings in a Global Age (Hardcover)

The experience of witnessing and undertaking border crossings has become a pillar of the contemporary human condition. In order to respond to our global multidimensional social reality writers need to generate innovative forms of narration that... more

Pre-Owned American Experiences Volume II: From 1877 (Paperback) 032148701X 9780321487018

This diverse and distinctive collection of secondary sources written by a variety of authors emphasizes social and cultural history. Each article illuminates the complexity and richness of the nation s past by focusing on the people themselves-- how... more

Global Africa Borders Sociocultural Encounters and Contestations: Southern African Experiences in Global View (Hardcover)

This book examines the enduring significance of borders in Southern Africa covering encounters between people ideas and matter and the new spatialities and transformations they generate in their historical social economic and cultural contexts.... more

Cultural Histories: A Cultural History of Disability in the Middle Ages (Hardcover)

The Middle Ages was an era of dynamic social transformation and notions of disability in medieval culture reflected how norms and forms of embodiment interacted with gender class and race among other dimensions of human difference. Ideas of... more

Webs of trade: dynamics of business communities in western India - Philippe Cadene Denis Vidal

By individual case studies based on fieldwork in different locations of western India this explores processes by which social cultural and economic factors are woven together into webs of trade. Author has tried to avoid traps of sociological... more

Pre-Owned The Santee Sioux Indians (Library Binding) 0791016714 9780791016718

Shades of Difference addresses the widespread but little studied phenomenon of colorism the preference for lighter skin and the ranking of individual worth according to skin tone. Examining the social and cultural significance of skin color in a... more

Pre-Owned Takin It to the Streets : A Sixties Reader 9780195142907

Providing a synthetic overview of a tumultous decade Taking it to the Streets contains a substantial collection of primary and secondary readings on political social and cultural aspects of the 1960s. While individual documents highlight particular... more

Pre-Owned Modern East Asia Vol. 2 : A Cultural Social and Political History 9780547005362

CONDITION – USED: Books sold are in GOOD or better condition. Good Condition: Minimal damage to the cover dust jacket may not be included minimal wear to binding most of the pages undamaged(e.g. minimal creases or tears) highlighting / underlining... more

A Continent Of Islands : Searching For The Caribbean Destiny (Paperback)

A penetrating analysis of the social political sexual and cultural worlds that exist behind the four-color Caribbean travel posters. . . . Page after page of highly original insights. --Kirkus Reviews In this richly detailed portrait of the... more

South Asian History and Culture Women Speak Nation: Gender Culture and Politics (Paperback)

Women Speak Nation underlines the centrality of gender within the ideological construction of nationalism. The volume locates itself in a rich scholarship of feminist critique of the relationship between political economic cultural and social... more

Introductions to History: Black Civil Rights in America (Hardcover)

This book is the authoritative introduction to the history of black civil rights in the USA. It provides a clear and useful guide to the political social and cultural history of black Americans and their pursuit of equal rights and recognition from... more

Brief History A Brief History of Egypt (Hardcover)

Ancient Egypt was one of the longest-lasting civilizations the world has ever known. This book explores Egypt s broad political economic social and cultural developments from the mighty civilization of the past to the diverse cultural and political... more

Studies in European Cultural Transition The Thriller and Northern Ireland since 1969 (Paperback)

For the past 30 years the so-called Troubles thriller has been the dominant fictional mode for representing Northern Ireland leading to the charge that the crudity of this popular genre appropriately reflects the social degradation of the North.... more

Studies in American Popular History and Labor and Laborers of the Loom: Mechanization and Handloom Weavers 1780-1840 (Hardcover)

Labor and Laborers of the Loom: Mechanization and Handloom Weavers 1780-1840 develops several themes important to understanding the social cultural and economic implications of industrialization. The examination of these issues within a population... more

Studies in the Social and Cultural Histo State Society and Mobilization in Europe During the First World War Book 3 (Hardcover)

This is a volume of comparative essays on the First World War that focuses on one central feature: the political and cultural mobilization of the populations of the main belligerent countries in Europe behind the war. It explores how and why they... more

The Mexican Experience: The Civilizing Machine : A Cultural History of Mexican Railroads 1876-1910 (Paperback)

In late nineteenth-century Mexico the Mexican populace was fascinated with the country s booming railroad network. Newspapers and periodicals were filled with art poetry literature and social commentaries exploring the symbolic power of the... more

Culture and Crisis: The Case of Germany and Sweden (Hardcover)

It is often argued that Germany and Scandinavia stand at two opposite ends of a spectrum with regard to their response to social-economic disruptions and cultural challenges. Though in many respects they have a shared cultural inheritance it is... more

In the Spirit of a New People: The Cultural Politics of the Chicano Movement (Hardcover)

Reexamining the Chicano civil rights movement of the 1960s and 1970s In the Spirit of a New People brings to light new insights about social activism in the twentieth-century and new lessons for progressive politics in the twenty-first. Randy J.... more

In the Spirit of a New People: The Cultural Politics of the Chicano Movement (Paperback)

Reexamining the Chicano civil rights movement of the 1960s and 1970s In the Spirit of a New People brings to light new insights about social activism in the twentieth-century and new lessons for progressive politics in the twenty-first. Randy J.... more

A Revolution in Taste : The Rise of French Cuisine 1650-1800 9780521821995 Used / Pre-owned

Traces the roots and development of the French culinary revolution to many different historical trends including changes in material culture social transformations medical theory and practice and the Enlightenment. Illuminates the complex cultural... more

Western civilization (Hardcover - Used) 0314828974 9780314828972

Best-selling book WESTERN CIVILIZATION has helped over one million users learn about the present by exploring the past. Jackson Spielvogel s engaging chronological narrative weaves the political economic social religious intellectual cultural and... more

A History of Western Society Volume 1 Seventh Edition (Paperback - Used) 0618170480 9780618170487

With an emphasis on social history this text provides a high-interest narrative for students integrating political and cultural phenomena into its socially oriented narrative. Highlights of the new seventh edition include: * New Images in... more