cornell university press jun 2015 (17 Ergebnisse)

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Mehran Kamrava is Professor and Director of the Center for International and Regional Studies at Georgetown University¿s School of Foreign Service in Qatar. He is the author of a number of books, including, most recently, Iran¿s Intellectual Revolution and The Modern Middle East: A Political History since the First World War, 3rd edition. He is also the editor of The International Politics of the Persian Gulf, Innovation in Islam: Traditions and Contributions, The Political Economy of the Persian Gulf, and The Nuclear Question in the Middle East.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - As rush hour came to a close on the evening of May 25, 1950, one of Chicago's new fast, colorful, streamlined streetcars--known as a Green Hornet--slammed into a gas truck at State Street and 62nd Place. The Hornet's motorman allegedly failed to heed the warnings of a flagger attempting to route it around a flooded underpass, and the trolley.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Ever wonder what it would be like to be a Parisian street magician A fish farmer in Norway A costume designer in Bollywood This playful and accessible book looks at different types of work around the.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - How did enlightened Russians of the eighteenth century understand society And how did they reconcile their professed ideals of equality and justice with the authoritarian political structures in which they lived Historian Elise Wirtschafter turns to literary plays to reconstruct the social thinking of the past and to discover how.

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - James Schlett is an award-winning journalist whose feature and business writing has been recognized by the New York Newspaper Publishers Association and the New York State Associated Press Association. He lives in Rotterdam, N.Y.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Brooke L. Blower is Associate Professor of History at Boston University. She is the author of Becoming Americans in Paris: Transatlantic Politics and Culture between the World Wars. Mark Philip Bradley is Bernadotte E. Schmitt Professor of History at the University of Chicago. He is the author of Vietnam at War and Imagining Vietnam and America: The Making of Postcolonial Vietnam, 1919¿1950 and coeditor of Making Sense of the Vietnam Wars: Transnational and International Perspectives and Truth Claims: Representations and Human Rights.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Matthew D. Marr compares and reveals how social contexts at various levels shape the experiences of transitional housing programs in Los Angeles and Tokyo.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - The expression 'sense of humor' was first coined in the 1840s, and the idea that such a sense was a personality trait to be valued developed only in the 1870s. What is the relationship between medieval humoral medicine and this distinctively modern idea of the sense of humor What has it meant in the past 125 years to declare that someone lacks a sense of humor Why do modern Americans say it is a good thing not to take oneself seriously How is the joke, as a twentieth-century quasi-literary form, different from the traditional folktale Wickberg addresses these questions among others and in the process uses the history of ideas to throw new light on the way contemporary Americans think and speak about humor and laughter. The context of Wickberg's analysis is Anglo-American; the specifically British meanings of humor and laughter from the sixteenth century forward provide the framework for understanding American cultural values in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. The genealogy of the sense of humor is, like the study of keywords, an avenue into a significant aspect of the cultural history of modernity. Drawing on a wide range of sources and disciplinary perspectives, Wickberg's analysis challenges many of the prevailing views of modern American culture and suggests a new model for cultural historians.

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Reto Hofmann uncovers the ideological links between the fascist governments and cultures of Japan and Italy, shedding light on the formation of fascism's global.

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - How do insurgents and governments select their targets Which discourses and policies do they adopt to win civilian loyalties and control territory This book examines the wide variety of coercive strategies adopted by both insurgents and governments in the long-running Kurdish insurgency in Turkey.

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Between 1945 and 1964, six to seven million members of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union were investigated for misconduct by local party organizations and then reprimanded, demoted from full party membership, or expelled. Party leaders viewed these investigations as a form of moral education and used humiliating public hearings to.

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Around the turn of the first millennium AD, there emerged in the former Carolingian Empire a generation of influential abbots. In this book Steven Vanderputten reevaluates the historical significance of this generation of monastic leaders through an in-depth study of one of its most prominent figures, Richard of Saint-Vanne.

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Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - This innovative, interdisciplinary volume provides a new perspective on the material, symbolic, cultural, and social meanings of the multidimensional world of the global oil and gas.

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - In this volume, twelve distinguished historians offer original readings of American icons and artifacts that model new interpretive, transnational approaches to studying American history.

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - In the late 1910s, Henry Ford relocated his industry to a Detroit suburb called Dearborn. Due to the high wages he paid, this became the first place in the nation where the modern 'American dream' was realized: it was here that the ordinary person could own a house and a car.

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Ever wonder what it would be like to be a Parisian street magician A fish farmer in Norway A costume designer in Bollywood This playful and accessible book looks at different types of work around the world.