American Sports, now in its ninth edition, is a comprehensive, analytical introduction to the history of American sports from the precolonial era to the present.
This book investigates how educational anxiety shapes the everyday lives and moral worlds of China's middle-class parents, revealing how emotion, modernity, and meritocracy intersect in a rapidly changing society.
As global campus protests attract academic and public attention, interest in student movements continues to grow; however, very little is known about the Canadian context.
As global campus protests attract academic and public attention, interest in student movements continues to grow; however, very little is known about the Canadian context.
This book examines the place of women in Soviet Russia from the 1917 Revolution through the post-World War II period, discussing how the Soviet construction of gender perpetuated inequality even as it dramatically expanded women's roles in society.
Schlafwandeln fasziniert Menschen damals wie heute als Grenzphanomen zwischen Schlafen und Wachsein, Traum und Realitat, Genialitat und gefahrlichem Wahnsinn.
Die Geschichte der europaischen Juden ist eine Geschichte von Gelehrsamkeit, Kultur und Glauben - aber auch von Verfolgung, Enteignung und Vernichtung.
Gotha stand oft im Schatten von Weimar, aber wies um 1800 ebenfalls eine intellektuelle Vielfalt aufGotha war in den Jahrzehnten um 1800 eine Residenzstadt mit gro er Ausstrahlung, ein Zentrum der Spataufklarung.
Schlafwandeln fasziniert Menschen damals wie heute als Grenzphanomen zwischen Schlafen und Wachsein, Traum und Realitat, Genialitat und gefahrlichem Wahnsinn.
"e;En el relato historico, las mujeres han estado representadas desde el discurso de los hombres, digamos que han sido 'habladas', en tanto que su voz 'brilla por su ausencia'.
Die nationalsozialistische Verfolgung bedrohte die deutschen Judinnen und Juden in sich steigernden Formen, durch soziale, kulturelle und okonomische Ausgrenzung, Emigration oder Zwangsumsiedlung, Zwangsarbeit, Deportation und Konzentrationslager.
Reframes dance as an intersectional practice of community-building and just world-makingThrough empowered movement that centers the lives, stories, and dreams of marginalized women, Ananya Dance Theatre has revealed how the practice of and commitment to artistic excellence can catalyze social justice.
Winner of the Outstanding Achievement in History Award for 2023, presented by the Association for Asian American StudiesDefying the AIDS epidemic, Asian American activists sparked a sex-affirming movementThe AIDS crisis reshaped life in Los Angeles in the 1980s and 1990s and radicalized a new generation of queer Asian Americans with a broad vision of health equity and sexual freedom.
Transformative change through unruly resistance, defiant love, and radical careIn the struggles for prison abolition, global anti-imperialism, immigrant rights, affordable housing, environmental justice, fair labor, and more, twenty-first-century Asian American activists are speaking out and standing up to systems of oppression.
The failure of American education to achieve racial diversity has resulted from the inability of educational researchers, policy makers and judicial officials to disentangle the complex definitions that have emerged in a post-segregated society.
Reframes dance as an intersectional practice of community-building and just world-makingThrough empowered movement that centers the lives, stories, and dreams of marginalized women, Ananya Dance Theatre has revealed how the practice of and commitment to artistic excellence can catalyze social justice.
Winner of the Outstanding Achievement in History Award for 2023, presented by the Association for Asian American StudiesDefying the AIDS epidemic, Asian American activists sparked a sex-affirming movementThe AIDS crisis reshaped life in Los Angeles in the 1980s and 1990s and radicalized a new generation of queer Asian Americans with a broad vision of health equity and sexual freedom.
Transformative change through unruly resistance, defiant love, and radical careIn the struggles for prison abolition, global anti-imperialism, immigrant rights, affordable housing, environmental justice, fair labor, and more, twenty-first-century Asian American activists are speaking out and standing up to systems of oppression.
Moving beyond the view of brokers as logistical intermediaries, this book reconceptualises cross border marriage brokers in South Korea as actors who facilitate mobility while simultaneously reproducing and reinforcing dominant narratives about gender, family, and national belonging in contemporary Asia.
Women in the First World War and the Russian Civil War explores how Russian literature and autobiographical writing portrayed nurses, women soldiers, and commanders who served in the First World War and the Russian Civil War.
Involving contributions from archaeology, geology, ethnography, anthropology and prehistory, The World at 18 000 BP: High Latitudes (first of the two volumes, and originally published in 1990) surveys the world scene 18,000 years ago.
Women in the First World War and the Russian Civil War explores how Russian literature and autobiographical writing portrayed nurses, women soldiers, and commanders who served in the First World War and the Russian Civil War.
This collection examines how linguistically diverse diaspora communities experienced and translated the COVID-19 pandemic in London, exploring nuances of difference across them to better understand how these communities mediate public health discourses in the globalized city.
Involving contributions from archaeology, geology, ethnography, anthropology and prehistory, The World at 18 000 BP: High Latitudes (first of the two volumes, and originally published in 1990) surveys the world scene 18,000 years ago.
Evolutionary algorithms that imitate nature to solve technical problems, synthetic DNA that turns plants into living data archives, and the use of autonomous machines inside living bodies are just a few examples suggesting that the boundaries between life and technology have become fundamentally blurred in the early 21st century.
Across the early modern world (late 1400s to mid-1900s), oceans provided the key connection between far-flung communities in an age of empire and colonial expansion, while also serving as an increasingly important source of resources, from salted fish to whale oil to luxurious pearls.
Moving beyond the view of brokers as logistical intermediaries, this book reconceptualises cross border marriage brokers in South Korea as actors who facilitate mobility while simultaneously reproducing and reinforcing dominant narratives about gender, family, and national belonging in contemporary Asia.
