Social and cultural history

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.

The world of medieval chivalry is at once glamorous and violent, alluring yet alien.

Nach dem ersten Band mit Erinnerungen an das DRK der DDR stellt dieser zweite Band nun etwa 30 Lebensgeschichten aus dem Hamburger Roten Kreuz vor.

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.

Was gut und böse ist, besagen die Gesetze, die entweder Gott, ein historischer Herrscher oder der Wille des Volkes festgelegt haben.

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.

The history books are full of heroes and villains but what about all the idiots?

Die beiden Schriften zu Axel Hägerström und Thomas Thorild hat Cassirer im schwedischen Exil verfasst.

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.

Eigentlich weiß es jeder: Fehlbare Menschen können nicht über die Fehler anderer zu Gericht sitzen.

Este libro recorre los temas y desafíos fundamentales del pensamiento y la practica de la iglesia Metodista en el mundo.

Die urkundlich gesicherte Geschichte des wohl schon im 9.

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.

Este volumen se une a tres que le anteceden.

'A fascinating journey into our relationship with the physical book.

A comprehensive account of the media's coverage of social movements in the United StatesA new view of twentieth-century US social movements, Rough Draft of History examines how national newspapers covered social movements and the organizations driving them.

A masterful history of the queer workforce in AmericaWorkplaces have traditionally been viewed as ';straight spaces' in which queer people passed.

Time Must-Read Books of 2024Independent Best Non-Fiction Books 2024Mojo Books of the Year 2024"e;A vibrant, multifaceted portrait of a music enigma"e; Guardian"e;A powerful portrait"e; Irish Independent"e;Displays a bracing rigour and an exhilarating curiosity about its subject, coming closer than most to catching up with Mitchell on her lonely road"e; TimesCelebrated music critic Ann Powers explores the life and career of the legendary Joni Mitchell.

Nirgendwo entwickelte sich der Sprachnationalismus des 19.

DDR, November 1956: Eine Abiturklasse reagiert auf die Niederschlagung des Ungarn-Aufstandes mit einer Schweigeminute.

Their motto was political liberalism and modern culture , Arthur Koestler wrote of the Ullstein family.

A uniquely personal account of the life and enduring legacy of the Renaissance libraryWith the advent of print in the fifteenth century, Europe's cultural elite assembled personal libraries as refuges from persecutions and pandemics.

Die Zeit vergeht im Fluge, doch tat sie das immer schon?

*LONGLISTED FOR THE 2025 WINGATE PRIZE***A GUARDIAN AND OBSERVER GRAPHIC NOVEL OF THE YEAR**This is the story of the ordinary extraordinary life of Dr Elena Zadik.

Dieses eBook: "Wie Anne Bäbi Jowäger haushaltet und wie es ihm mit dem Doktern geht" ist mit einem detaillierten und dynamischen Inhaltsverzeichnis versehen und wurde sorgfältig korrekturgelesen.

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Useful for academic and recreational archaeologists alike, this book identifies and describes over 200 projectile points and stone tools used by prehistoric Native American Indians in Texas.

The definitive look at one of the most famous American generals of the American Indian Wars.

A vivid history of life in Princeton, New Jersey, told through the voices of its African American residentsI Hear My People Singing shines a light on a small but historic black neighborhood at the heart of one of the most elite and world-renowned Ivy-League towns-Princeton, New Jersey.

New York City witnessed unparalleled growth in the first half of the nineteenth century, its population rising from thirty thousand people to nearly a million in a matter of decades.

In September 1979, at age fifty-six, writer and artist Arturo Benvenuti fueled up his motor home and set forth on what he knew would be an emotional journey.

A sweeping history of twentieth-century Europe that examines its unprecedented destruction-and abiding promiseA sweeping history of twentieth-century Europe, Out of Ashes tells the story of an era of unparalleled violence and barbarity yet also of humanity, prosperity, and promise.

The brank may be described simply as an iron framework; which was placed on the head, closing it in a kind of cage; it had in front a plate of iron, which, either sharpened or covered with spikes, was so situated as to be placed in the mouth of the victim, and if she attempted to move her tongue in any way whatever, it was certain to be shockingly injured.

After decades of denying racism and underplaying cultural diversity, Latin American states began adopting transformative ethno-racial legislation in the late 1980s.

An ambitious global history that fundamentally alters our understanding of MalthusThe New Worlds of Thomas Robert Malthus is a sweeping global and intellectual history that radically recasts our understanding of Malthus's Essay on the Principle of Population, the most famous book on population ever written or ever likely to be.

A landmark study of racism, inequality, and police violence that continues to hold important lessons todayThe Kerner Report is a powerful window into the roots of racism and inequality in the United States.

The first in-depth look at Stael's political life and writingsGermaine de Stael (1766-1817) is perhaps best known today as a novelist, literary critic, and outspoken and independent thinker.

How American childhood and parenting have changed from the nation's founding to the presentThe End of American Childhood takes a sweeping look at the history of American childhood and parenting, from the nation's founding to the present day.

How New York intellectuals interpreted and wrote about Castro's revolution in the 1960sNew York in the 1960s was a hotbed for progressive causes of every stripe, including women's liberation, civil rights, opposition to the Vietnam War-and the Cuban Revolution.

How the New Deal was a unique historical moment and what this reveals about U.

In the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, as German Jews struggled for legal emancipation and social acceptance, they also embarked on a program of cultural renewal, two key dimensions of which were distancing themselves from their fellow Ashkenazim in Poland and giving a special place to the Sephardim of medieval Spain.

How a group of Iranian students sought love and learning in Jane Austen's LondonIn July 1815, six Iranian students arrived in London under the escort of their chaperone, Captain Joseph D'Arcy.

The pivotal and troubling role of progressive-era economics in the shaping of modern American liberalismIn Illiberal Reformers, Thomas Leonard reexamines the economic progressives whose ideas and reform agenda underwrote the Progressive Era dismantling of laissez-faire and the creation of the regulatory welfare state, which, they believed, would humanize and rationalize industrial capitalism.

The history of New Orleans at the turn of the nineteenth centuryIn 1795, New Orleans was a sleepy outpost at the edge of Spain's American empire.

A panoramic social history of hurricanes in the CaribbeanThe diverse cultures of the Caribbean have been shaped as much by hurricanes as they have by diplomacy, commerce, or the legacy of colonial rule.

A major history of the shtetl's golden ageThe shtetl was home to two-thirds of East Europe's Jews in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, yet it has long been one of the most neglected and misunderstood chapters of the Jewish experience.