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In the Shadow of Fear
'At the midpoint of the twentieth century, Sir Winston Churchill called the United States 'this gigantic capitalist organization, with its vast and superabundant productive power.' The dollar reigned supreme and Pittsburgh and Detroit...
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Im Schatten des Schweigens
Was ein Geheimnis ist, ist wohlbekannt - was Geheimnisse aber bewirken, bleibt häufig im Dunklen. Lotte Warnsholdt legt einen Schwerpunkt auf die sozialen und historischen Effekte des Geheimen und adressiert die ambivalenten...
45,00 €
Zwischen Rom und Mailand - Liturgische...
Liturgien waren gemeinschaftsstiftende, multimediale Ritenhandlungen, die monumentale Kirchenräume modellierten, liturgische Schauplätze bildlich-akustisch inszenierten und städtische Topographien bespielten. In ihren wiederkehrenden,...
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200 Jahre Physikalischer Verein
Der Physikalische Verein feiert sein 200-jähriges Bestehen am 24. Oktober 2024! In den vergangenen zwei Jahrhunderten hat der Verein eine faszinierende Reise mit den und durch die Wissenschaften unternommen. Dabei haben wir zahlreiche...
28,00 €
The Gilded Age in New York, 1870-1910
Mark Twain coined the term the 'Gilded Age' for this period of growth and extravagance, experienced most dramatically in New York City from the 1870s to 1910. In forty short years, the city suddenly became a city of skyscrapers, subways,...
38,50 €
Fantasy Island
For the last century, Puerto Rico has served as a testing ground for the most aggressive and exploitative U.S. economic, political, and social policies. The devastation was laid bare by Hurricane Mar'a in 2017, which exposed how the...
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The Contest over National Security
National security once was not limited to physical defense. FDR equated national security with safety from foreign attack and economic want; conservatives, fearful of costs and federal expansion, stripped out domestic policy. The Contest...
48,00 €
Well Beings
James Riley, author of the cult hit The Bad Trip: Dark Omens, New Worlds and the End of the Sixties, returns with another incisive and thought-provoking cultural history, turning his trenchant eye to the wellness industry that emerged in...
31,50 €
Kunstgeschichten im Dialog. Deutsche...
Die Geschichte der beiden Institute wird zusammen mit der Wissensgeschichte untersucht: Den sozialen, ökonomischen und kulturpolitischen Kontext der Institutionsgeschichte werden auf einer epistemischen Ebene mit Fragen wie denen der...
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Our God Is Marching On
A beautiful commemorative edition of Dr. Martin Luther King's speech 'Our God Is Marching On, part of Dr. King's archives published exclusively by HarperCollins.
23,00 €
Magyar Warriors
The Hungarian armed forces (known as the Honvédség) were built up from the 1920s, their expansion gaining momentum once Hungary became free of the strict post-First World War Trianon treaty limitations in August 1938. Politically,...
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Die Frauengesundheitsbewegung
In den 1970er Jahren trat die Frauengesundheitsbewegung als kreative feministische Strömung in Erscheinung, die das männlich dominierte Gesundheitssystem radikal infrage stellte. Ausgehend von aktivistischen Selbstzeugnissen und...
45,00 €
Wer redet von der Reinheit?
Von den Predigten der Bettelorden vor 600 Jahren bis zu den Werbekampagnen von heute gibt es kaum ein Feld, das ohne Berufungen auf Reinheit auskommt. Vom reinen Gewissen bis zum naturreinen Bio-Saft dient der Begriff dazu,...
14,00 €
Sexual and Gender Difference in the British...
This volume is a collection of a variety of important records that will give readers insight into key themes into the history of what its criminal code called 'the unnatural and detestable sin of buggery'- sex between males - in the...
156,50 €
Importreliquien in Rom von Damasus I. bis...
Obwohl Rom durch seinen Reichtum an Reliquien alle anderen Städte des Römischen Reiches bei weitem übertraf, wurden schon bald weitere Reliquien von auswärtigen Heiligen nach Rom importiert und in die römische Kultpraxis und...
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A History of the World in 100 Objects
A paperback reader's edition of this original and very successful history of humanity. The book's range is enormous, with each chapter immersing the reader in a past civilisation, not just describing the objects and how they were made,...
21,50 €
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The Great Sea
For over three thousand years, the Mediterranean Sea has been one of the great centres of world civilisation. From the time of historical Troy until the middle of the nineteenth century, human activity here decisively shaped much of the...
24,00 €
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Congo
An epic history of one of the world's most devastated countries, the Democratic Republic of Congo. Ranges from the slave trade and ivory boom to Belgian colonisation, Mobutu's brutal rule and the civil war over natural resources that...
19,00 €
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Spice
The story of the sixteenth-century’s epic contest for the spice trade, which propelled European maritime exploration and conquest across Asia and the Pacific
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Empire of the Summer Moon
In the tradition of 'Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee', a stunningly vivid historical account of the 40 year battle between Comanche Indians and white settlers for control of the American West, focusing on Quanah, the greatest Comanche...
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Life Unseen
Imagine a world without sight. Is it dark and gloomy Is it terrifying and isolating Or is it simply a state of not seeing, which we have demonised and sentimentalized over the centuries And why is blindness so frightening In this...
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Sweet Taste of Liberty
The author focuses on the experience of Henrietta Wood, a freed slave who was sold back into slavery, eventually freed again, and who then sued the man who had sold her back into bondage-and won.
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The Pirate Menace
This new account explores the most notorious pirates in history and how their rise and fall can be traced back to a single pirate haven, Nassau.Angus Konstam, one of the world's leading pirate experts, has brought his 30 years of...
32,00 €
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Als Rotkäppchen Frankreich verlassen mußte
Der Journalist und Filmautor Volker Hildisch erzählt amüsant und kenntnisreich die vielfach verflochtene Geschichte von Sekt und Champagner. Sein wohlwollender Blick über die deutsch-französische Grenze zeigt, dass Sekt und Champagner...
24,90 €
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Dürer under your skin
Das Buch zur partizipativen Ausstellung zeigt Fotografien aktueller internationaler Tattoo-Kunst und erzählt die persönlichen Geschichten, die hinter den einzelnen Tattoos stehen. Durch einen öffentlichen Aufruf gelang es den...
16,95 €
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Everest 24
Published on the 100th anniversary of the 1924 British Mount Everest Expedition, Everest 24 presents a newly curated portfolio of images from the Royal Geographical Society’s collections.
32,00 €
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In Search of Fatima
An intimate memoir of the 1948 Nakba, exile and the dispossession of Palestinian lands
19,00 €
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Brooklyn Heights: The Rise, Fall and Rebirth of...
Settled in the 1600s, Brooklyn Heights is one of New York s most historic neighborhoods. Its strategic location overlooking the harbor proved instrumental during the Revolutionary War s Battle of Brooklyn. In the 1830s, steam ferries...
39,50 €
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Battle of Ink and Ice
'A sixty-year saga of frostbite and fake news that follows the no-holds-barred battle between two legendary explorers to reach the North Pole, and the newspapers which stopped at nothing to get-and sell-the story. In the fall of 1909, a...
30,50 €
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The Penguin Book of Pirates
'Real-life accounts of the world's most notorious pirates-both men and women, from the Golden Age of Piracy and beyond-compiled by the New York Times bestselling author of A True Account: Hannah Masury's Sojourn Amongst the Pyrates,...
21,00 €
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The Aztec Myths
The essential guide to the world of Aztec mythology, based on Nahuatl-language sources that challenge the colonial history passed down to us by the Spanish.
19,00 €
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The Patriots' Dilemma
A provocative interpretation of early US history arguing that abolitionism among the founders was motivated by white racism
25,50 €
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Feminismus als Denkstil
Der polnische Feminismus der Transformationszeit blickt auf eine 40-jährige Geschichte zurück und prägt bis heute international relevante soziale, politische und wissenschaftliche Praktiken und Diskurse. Feminismus als Denkstil geht den...
89,00 €
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Nuclear War
The Sunday Times bestselling edge-of-your-seat non-fiction thriller, perfect for readers of American Prometheus: The Triumph and Tragedy of J. Robert Oppenheimer by Kai Bird and Midnight in Chernobyl by Adam Higginbotham.'Essential' New...
19,00 €
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Wohnen - Sammeln - Erinnern - Visualisieren
Gedächtnispraktiken sind vielschichtig. Wie können sie jeweils bei den verschiedenen museologischen Problemstellungen angewendet werden Die Beiträger:innen greifen wissensgeschichtlich fundierte Ansätze zu Archiv, Depot und Display auf...
30,00 €
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Outrageous
From Mae West through Johnny Carson, Amos 'n' Andy through Beavis and Butt-Head, a celebrated cultural historian chronicles the controversies of American show business and the ongoing attempts to change what we watch, read and hear.
28,00 €
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Ignorance
A rich, wide-ranging history of ignorance in all its forms, from antiquity to the present day
15,50 €
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A History of the Muslim World
'In Michael Cook's words, this book is 'about a substantial slice of human history delimited by a particular cultural characteristic: adherance to Islam in some form or other. [...] A commitment to Islam makes a difference. Wherever a...
44,50 €
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