How cable television upended American political life in the pursuit of profits and influenceAs television began to overtake the political landscape in the 1960s, network broadcast companies, bolstered by powerful lobbying interests, dominated screens across the nation.
How the US crusade against prostitution became a tool of empireBetween the 1870s and 1930s, American social reformers, working closely with the US government, transformed sexual vice into an international political and humanitarian concern.
Award-winning writer Richard Williams tells the remarkable story of the 24 Hours of Le Mans, one of the worlds most iconic motorsports events, which celebrates its centenary in 2023.
Hacia el final de su vida, el historiador Jorge Basadre afirmó que «el fenómeno más importante en la cultura peruana del siglo XX fue el aumento de la toma de conciencia acerca del indio entre escritores, artistas, hombres de ciencia y políticos».
A fascinating account combining the rigour of the historian with the powerful emotions of someone who was a twenty-year-old student at the time UncutIt was the year of sex and drugs and rock and roll.
** WINNER OF THE WOLFSON HISTORY PRIZE 2024 **** LONGLISTED FOR THE WOMEN S PRIZE FOR NON-FICTION 2024 **This is the authoritative history of South Asia in the 20th century.
'We're all now self-makers, whether we like it or not - and this witty, sceptical book is the thought-provoking story of how we got here'GUARDIAN'A fast-moving train of a book'NEW YORK TIMES'Gripping'TIMES LITERARY SUPPLEMENT'Funny, startling .
Der Soziologe Uwe Schimank erklärt, dass man die an Konflikten nicht arme Ampel-Koalition positiv sehen könnte: nämlich als Ausdruck real existierender Probleme der gesellschaftlichen Integration.
Longlisted for the Andrew 2024 Carnegie Medal for Non-FictionThe shocking, never-before-told story of America's thalidomide victimsIn Germany on Christmas Day 1956 a baby girl was born without ears.
Como parte de la celebración de los 120 años de la Academia, se realiza esta publicación con el fin de recorrer su historia mostrando lo que se ha hecho y lo que no, lo que ha salido bien y lo que podría ser mejor, las limitaciones y los triunfos, así como las buenas y malas opiniones que ha suscitado esta labor en el ámbito del estudio y la cultura de Colombia.
Drawing on Scripture, church history, and his own story, Shane Claiborne explores how a passion for social justice issues surrounding life and death--such as war, gun ownership, the death penalty, racial injustice, abortion, poverty, and the environment--intersects with our faith as we advocate for life in its totality.
The Oxford History of Mexico is a narrative history of the events, institutions and characters that have shaped Mexican history from the reign of the Aztecs through the twenty-first century.
Die Theologie der Strafe prägte das gesamte »christliche« Abendland, aber sie verfälschte Jesu Botschaft: Anstelle des gütigen Gottes wurde staatliche Autorität etabliert, abstrakt-grausam »Gerechtigkeit« zu üben.
On the morning of August 5, 1984, four of the greatest marathoners of all time lined up for one of the most important and long-awaited races in history.
On the morning of August 5, 1984, four of the greatest marathoners of all time lined up for one of the most important and long-awaited races in history.
The Age of Dissent argues that the defining feature of the Age of Revolutions in Latin America was the emergence of dissent as an inescapable component of political life.
"Das erste Opfer des Krieges ist die Wahrheit"Diese Erkenntnis aus dem Ersten Weltkrieg ist bis heute gültig, denn immer wieder haben seither Kriegsanlasslügen zu militärischen Konflikten geführt.
In Spital am Pyhrn (Oberösterreich) war von 1943 bis 1945 in einem aufgelassenen Gasthof ein sogenanntes "fremdvölkisches" Kinderheim eingerichtet, betrieben von der "Nationalsozialistischen Volkswohlfahrt" (NSV).
If countless books and movies are to be believed, Americas Wild West was, at heart, a world of cowboys and Indians, sheriffs and gunslingers, scruffy settlers and mountain mena mans world.
If countless books and movies are to be believed, Americas Wild West was, at heart, a world of cowboys and Indians, sheriffs and gunslingers, scruffy settlers and mountain mena mans world.
American Book Award Winner: A ';mesmerizing' memoir about identity from the daughter of an Irish-Catholic mother and a Sindhi-Indian father (Chandra Prasad, editor of Mixed).
A panoramic narrative that places ancient Africa on the stage of world historyThis book brings together archaeological and linguistic evidence to provide a sweeping global history of ancient Africa, tracing how the continent played an important role in the technological, agricultural, and economic transitions of world civilization.
Waren die Götter der Antike tatsächlich übernatürliche Wesen oder könnten sie fortgeschrittene außerirdische Besucher gewesen sein, die die Entwicklung der Menschheit beeinflussten?
