History: specific events & topics books

233819 books were found.

A Political History of Sport in Sweden

A Political History of Sport in Sweden

Author: Jens Ljunggren
ISBN: 9783031461842
Format: Hardback
$343.17

This book presents a history of Swedish sport, highlighting in particular the relationship between sport politics...  Read More >>

The Planning Moment: Colonial and Postcolonial Histories

The Planning Moment: Colonial and Postcolonial Histories...

Author: Sarah Blacker ,  Emily Brownell
ISBN: 9781531506629
Format: Hardback
$227.99

The Planning Moment elaborates the myriad ways that plans and planning practices pervade recent global history....  Read More >>

The Threshold of Dissent: A History of American Jewish Critics of Zionism

The Threshold of Dissent: A History of American Jewish...

Author: Marjorie Feld
ISBN: 9781479829316
Format: Hardback
$75.99

Explores the long history of anti-Zionist and non-Zionist American Jews Throughout the twentieth century, American...  Read More >>

Responsible Pleasure: The Brook Advisory Centres and Youth Sexuality in Postwar Britain

Responsible Pleasure: The Brook Advisory Centres and...

Author: Caroline Rusterholz (Assistant Professor in International History and Politics, Assistant Professor in International History and Politics, Graduate Institute, Geneva)
ISBN: 9780192866271
Format: Hardback
$63.95

This book offers a historical account of the public debates, institutional monitoring, and private experiences of...  Read More >>

The Last Great Plague of Colonial India

The Last Great Plague of Colonial India

Author: Natasha Sarkar (Commissioning Editor, Humanities, Commissioning Editor, Humanities, Oxford University Press)
ISBN: 9780198873228
Format: Hardback
$161.95

This study examines the political, social, economic, and demographic dimensions of the plague pandemic which affected...  Read More >>

Neo-Nazi Terrorism and Countercultural Fascism: The Origins and Afterlife of James Mason’s Siege

Neo-Nazi Terrorism and Countercultural Fascism: The...

Author: Spencer Sunshine (Independent Scholar, USA)
ISBN: 9780367190552
Format: Hardback
$273.00

Neo-Nazi Terrorism and Countercultural Fascism, based on years of archival work and interviews, documents for the...  Read More >>

Space and Play in Japanese Videogame Arcades

Space and Play in Japanese Videogame Arcades

Author: Jérémie Pelletier-Gagnon
ISBN: 9781032226859
Format: Hardback
$273.00

This book presents a scholarly investigation of the development and culture of Japanese videogame arcades, both...  Read More >>

Deep-Sea Minerals Developments in the 20th Century

Deep-Sea Minerals Developments in the 20th Century

Author: David S. Cronan
ISBN: 9783031523410
Format: Hardback
$118.77

The book is an historical monograph on deep-sea mineral-related activities and attitudes towards deep-sea mining...  Read More >>

Chicana Liberation: Women and Mexican American Politics in Los Angeles, 1945-1981

Chicana Liberation: Women and Mexican American Politics...

Author: Marisela R. Chávez
ISBN: 9780252045707
Format: Hardback
$239.00

Mexican American women reached across generations to develop a bridging activism that drew on different methods...  Read More >>

Black Cyclists: The Race for Inclusion

Black Cyclists: The Race for Inclusion

Author: Robert J. Turpin
ISBN: 9780252045752
Format: Hardback
$239.00

Cycling emerged as a sport in the late 1870s, and from the beginning, Black Americans rode alongside and raced against...  Read More >>

Strangers No Longer: Latino Belonging and Faith in Twentieth-Century Wisconsin

Strangers No Longer: Latino Belonging and Faith in Twentieth-Century...

Author: Sergio M. González
ISBN: 9780252045844
Format: Hardback
$295.00

Hospitality practices grounded in religious belief have long exercised a profound influence on Wisconsin’s Latino...  Read More >>

Land Back: Relational Landscapes of Indigenous Resistance across the Americas

Land Back: Relational Landscapes of Indigenous Resistance...

Author: Heather Dorries ,  Michelle Daigle
ISBN: 9780884025016
Format: Hardback
$198.00

Land Back highlights the ways Indigenous peoples and anti-colonial co-resistors understand land relations for political...  Read More >>

How America Gets the News: A History of U.S. Journalism

How America Gets the News: A History of U.S. Journalism...

Author: Ford Risley ,  Ashley Walter
ISBN: 9781442235267
Format: Hardback
$70.99

This concise history of American journalism introduces readers to the news media from the first colonial newspapers...  Read More >>

A History of the Muslim World: From Its Origins to the Dawn of Modernity

A History of the Muslim World: From Its Origins to the...

Author: Michael A. Cook
ISBN: 9780691236575
Format: Hardback
$69.99

A panoramic history of the Muslim world from the age of the Prophet Muḥammad to the birth of the modern era This...  Read More >>

Project Mayflower: Building and Sailing a Seventeenth-Century Replica

Project Mayflower: Building and Sailing a Seventeenth-Century...

Author: Richard A. Stone ,  James W. Baker
ISBN: 9781493084364
Format: Hardback
$55.99

The never-before-told story of Project Mayflower--the building of the replica ship docked in Plymouth, Massachusetts--from...  Read More >>

The Driver’s Story: Labor and Power in the World of Atlantic Slavery

The Driver’s Story: Labor and Power in the World of...

Author: Randy M. Browne
ISBN: 9781512825862
Format: Hardback
$105.47

"The story of the driver is the story of Atlantic slavery. Starting in the seventeenth-century Caribbean, enslavers...  Read More >>

Jewish Refugees and the British Nursing Profession: A Gendered Opportunity

Jewish Refugees and the British Nursing Profession:...

Author: Jane Brooks
ISBN: 9781526167422
Format: Hardback
$194.99

This book bears witness to the personal experiences of Jewish refugees from Nazi Europe in the highly gendered profession...  Read More >>

Enlightenment Biopolitics: A History of Race, Eugenics, and the Making of Citizens

Enlightenment Biopolitics: A History of Race, Eugenics,...

Author: William Max Nelson
ISBN: 9780226825564
Format: Hardback
$173.95

"A wide-ranging history tracing the birth of biopolitics in Enlightenment thought and its aftermath. In Enlightenment...  Read More >>

The Librarian's Atlas: The Shape of Knowledge in Early Modern Spain

The Librarian's Atlas: The Shape of Knowledge in Early...

Author: Seth Kimmel
ISBN: 9780226833170
Format: Hardback
$74.95

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Sydney Harbour Bridge: Discover the Wonder and Facts of the World's Most Stunning Bridge

Sydney Harbour Bridge: Discover the Wonder and Facts...

Author:
ISBN: 9781760796747
Format: Hardback
$19.99

"The Sydney Harbour Bridge, an iconic steel arch bridge, attracts visitors from around the world. Stretching from...  Read More >>

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