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Art and Design in 1960s New York explores the mutual influence between fine art and graphic design in New York City during the long decade of the 1960s. Beginning with advertising's "creative revolution" and its relationship to pop artists, the book...

This new edited volume of critical essays examines designs for modern living in Asia between 1945 and 1990. Focusing particularly on the post-World War II and postcolonial years, this book advances multidisciplinary knowledge on approaches to and designs...

No Place Like Home chronicles a little-known episode in Canada's national history: when internment was first employed during the Great War under the War Measures Act.Highlighting the problem of immigrant fit and belonging, Bohdan Kordan shows how legal,...

How artists build and shape a myriad of knowledge forms, spanning the decolonial to the transnational and the multilingual What types of knowledge do artists produce? How do they give that knowledge form? Featuring works by 11 artists from 9 different...

Walking the Footsteps of a Forgotten Revolution details the bold and audacious insurrection in the opening phase of the German Revolution of 1848-1849. Friedrich Hecker, the most gifted young politician of his day, attempted to lead a group of rebels...

This book introduces readers to the rich and diverse experiences of women across the African continent, covering their socio-cultural, political, and economic realities from the precolonial era right up to the modern day.In many precolonial African...

What do nineteenth-century fiction, early twentieth-century popular music, 1930s soccer, 1950s film comedy, 1960s experimental art and 1970s soap operas have in common with one another? Each reveal the deep patterns structuring social and cultural life...

Not Just Another Cold War considers how the emerging superpower rivalry between the US and China compares to the Cold War, and what that means for the future of global politics. By contrasting the current US-China rivalry with a well-understood conflict,...

What do nineteenth-century fiction, early twentieth-century popular music, 1930s soccer, 1950s film comedy, 1960s experimental art and 1970s soap operas have in common with one another? Each reveal the deep patterns structuring social and cultural life...

This study benefits from the terminology of geocriticism - a literary criticism that suggests an interdisciplinary approach to the exploration of literature in relation to space and place, and refers to the spatial theories of Lefebvre, Foucault,...

In James Cowles Prichard of the Red Lodge Margaret M. Crump offers the first in-depth biography of the early Victorian British scientist James Cowles Prichard (1786-1848). An intellectual giant in the developing human sciences, he was a pioneering...

The smell of leather. The flash of a harness. The snap of a latex glove. Welcome to the radical, vibrant world of sexual fetishists. In 21st century commodity culture, we are all intimately involved with objects: we covet a Birkin bag; we keep...

How an engineering crisis threatened a career, a building, and the lives of countless New Yorkers The Citicorp Center, a fifty-nine-story skyscraper built in 1977, immediately became one of the most recognizable features on the New York City skyline...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789888876853Author Yoshiko NakanoFormat PaperbackPage Count 216Imprint Hong Kong University PressPublisher Hong Kong University Press

Turkism as an idea which emphasizes the Turkic ethnic component in national identity is widely associated with Turks and Turkey. However, many millions of Turkic peoples with distinctive histories, cultures, social and political traditions live outside...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781837732425Author Nick DawsonFormat HardbackPage Count 288Imprint Icon BooksPublisher Icon Books

From the Gilded Age to World War II, elite collectors and museums in the United States transformed from owning a smattering of Chinese porcelain as curios, to possessing some of the world's largest and most sophisticated collections of Chinese art...

A sweeping history of the violence perpetrated by governments committed to extreme forms of secularism in the twentieth century A popular truism derived from the Enlightenment holds that violence is somehow inherent to religion, to which political...

From the Gilded Age to World War II, elite collectors and museums in the United States transformed from owning a smattering of Chinese porcelain as curios, to possessing some of the world's largest and most sophisticated collections of Chinese art...

Using Palestine as a case study, Recognition Politics in Settler Colonial States shows how recognition politics operate to legitimize long-standing colonial power structures.In existing scholarship, recognition has been seen as an asset coveted by...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780252088698Author Louis P CainFormat PaperbackPage Count 304Imprint University of Illinois PressPublisher University of Illinois PressWeight(grams) 454g

The breakneck adventure of war, romance, politics, and betrayal, where noble gentleman privateer William Kidd becomes a scapegoat, and Crown and crew sink to unfathomable depths to brand him pirate enemy #1.Captain William Kidd stands as one of the most...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780700638642Author Jon K LauckFormat HardbackPage Count 400Imprint University Press of KansasPublisher University Press of Kansas

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781625348616Author Liam RiordanFormat HardbackPage Count 245Imprint University of Massachusetts PressPublisher University of Massachusetts...

A compelling, expansive history of the relationship between China and Russia, from the seventeenth century to the present Russia and China, the largest and most populous countries in the world, respectively, have maintained a delicate relationship for...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781625348753Author Carol R GardnerFormat HardbackPage Count 256Imprint University of Massachusetts PressPublisher University of Massachusetts...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781643365794Author Associate Professor Angela G RayFormat HardbackPage Count 192Imprint University of South Carolina PressPublisher University of South...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781643365923Author Rebecca Capobianco ToyFormat PaperbackPage Count 288Imprint University of South Carolina PressPublisher University of South Carolina Press

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781804517130Author Simon ClarkeFormat PaperbackPage Count 160Imprint Helion & CompanyPublisher Helion & Company

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781804516782Author Ivanovich BogdanovichFormat PaperbackPage Count 424Imprint Helion & CompanyPublisher Helion & Company

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781804516720Author Gabriel NevilleFormat PaperbackPage Count 416Imprint Helion & CompanyPublisher Helion & Company

Brazilian Belonging examines a century of Brazilian Jewish political activism, from the onset of Jewish mass migration to Brazil in the early 1920s to the present. The home of the largest Jewish community living in a nonwhite-majority country in the...

Who organized numerous exhibitions of American art in the Cold War Soviet Union - and why? Did Americans truly want to "subvert" the Soviet regime with abstraction, and were the Soviets really "afraid" of non-figurative art? And, most noteworthy, can we...

"It is glorious to see such courage in one so young!" So exclaimed Confederate General Robert E. Lee on December 13, 1862, during the battle of Fredericksburg as he watched Major John Pelham fight at least five Union batteries with just one lone gun...

As a repository for old soldiers' writings, The National Tribune is unequaled yet remains mostly unused. Indeed, it is so good one might call it the Confederate Veteran for Billy Yank. From 1877 to 1943, The National Tribune served as a compendium for...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781804516812Author Alberto Raul Esteban RibasFormat PaperbackPage Count 120Imprint Helion & CompanyPublisher Helion & Company

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781804516690Author Dermot RooneyFormat HardbackPage Count 272Imprint Helion & CompanyPublisher Helion & Company

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781804516836Author Michael Fredholm Von EssenFormat PaperbackPage Count 184Imprint Helion & CompanyPublisher Helion & Company

June 1940: France surrenders to Germany. The Gestapo is searching for Heinrich Mann and Franz Werfel, Hannah Arendt, Lion Feuchtwanger and many other writers and artists who had sought asylum in France since 1933. The young American journalist Varian Fry...

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 Spices drove the early modern world economy, and for Europeans they represented riches on an...