Social History

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781439276693Author Lee IrelandFormat PaperbackPage Count 108Imprint Booksurge PublishingPublisher Booksurge PublishingWeight(grams) 154g

American Education in Popular Media explores how popular media has represented schooling in the United States over the course of the twentieth century. Terzian and Ryan examine prevalent portrayals of students and professional educators while addressing...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781419692208Author Reginald HayesFormat PaperbackPage Count 82Imprint Booksurge PublishingPublisher Booksurge PublishingWeight(grams) 95g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781593761547Author Joanna BourkeFormat PaperbackPage Count 520Imprint Shoemaker & Hoard, Div of Avalon Publishing Group IncPublisher...

Hunter Fitzhugh left St. Louis in 1897 dreaming of fortune and adventure, bound for the Yukon Territory, where it was rumored that nuggets of gold simply littered the ground, waiting to make a man rich. Hunter soon discovered the reality of the land...

In recent years the United States has witnessed major controversies surrounding past American presidents, monuments, and sites. Consider Mount Rushmore, which features the heads of the nation's most revered presidents-George Washington, Thomas Jefferson,...

State Structure and Genocide presents a theory of the universal nature of genocide. The book explores why genocides occur in various societies and explains the existence and persistence of genocide in relation to how governments function. Professor Kolin...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781546241607Author Frank N EgertonFormat PaperbackPage Count 360Imprint AuthorhousePublisher AuthorhouseWeight(grams) 481g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781545638415Author Michael S SwannFormat PaperbackPage Count 736Imprint Xulon PressPublisher Xulon PressWeight(grams) 1433g

Discovering Quacks, Utopias, and Cemeteries: Modern Lessons from Historical Themes explores two enduring issues - our age-old pursuit of better lives and how the media impacts our choices. In this unique approach to social history, each chapter opens...

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Since their enslavement in West Africa and transport to plantations of the New World, black people have made music that has been deeply entwined with their religious, community, and individual identities. Music was one of the most important constant...

In The American South: A History, Fifth Edition, William J. Cooper, Jr., Thomas E. Terrill, and Christopher Childers demonstrate their belief that it is impossible to divorce the history of the South from the history of the United States. The autIn The...

Pop Culture Goes to War, by Geoff Martin and Erin Steuter, explores the persistence of militarism in American popular culture in the war on terror, from 9/11 to the present day. The authors detail the role of Hollywood and the entertainment industries in...

An innovator in theoretical approaches in the social sciences, Stein Rokkan developed general models, developmental models, and conceptual maps that specified the main variables and important relationships in European political history. In Historical...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781312390393Author Philip JohnsonFormat PaperbackPage Count 84Imprint Lulu.comPublisher Lulu.comWeight(grams) 218g

A Cultural History of the Home presents an authoritative survey from ancient times to the present. The set of six volumes covers over 2800 years of history, charting the changing nature and uses of domestic space throughout history. This volume, A...

‘Home’ is a powerful idea throughout antiquity, from Odysseus’ epic journey to recover his own home, nostalgically longed-for through his long absence, to the implanting of Christianity in the domestic sphere in late antiquity. We can recognise the idea...

What can social spaces tell us about social relations in society? How do everyday social spaces like teashops, reading rooms, and libraries reify—or subvert—dominant social structures like caste and gender? These are the questions that this book explores...

The Routledge History of Emotions in the Modern World brings together a diverse array of scholars to offer an overview of the current and emerging scholarship of emotions in the modern world. Across thirty-six chapters, this work enters the field of...

This multi-disciplinary anthology provides new perspectives on the journalist’s role in knowledge generation in the newspaper age—covering diverse topics from fake news to new technologies.Fake news, journalistic authority, and the introduction of...

As outdoor entertainment venues in American cities, pleasure gardens were public spaces where people could explore what it meant to be American. Stubbs examines how these venues helped form American identity and argues the gardens allowed for the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781335983763Author Tom PhillipsFormat PaperbackPage Count 320Imprint Hanover Square PressPublisher Hanover Square PressWeight(grams) 590g

The question of Modern Greek identity is certainly timely. The political events of the previous years have once more brought up such questions as: What does it actually mean to be a Greek today? What is Modern Greece, apart from and beyond the bulk of...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781439235850Author Bruce Anthony BaxterFormat PaperbackPage Count 256Imprint Booksurge PublishingPublisher Booksurge PublishingWeight(grams) 381g

An exploration of how educational institutions have been portrayed in horror film, this book examines the way that scary movies have dealt with the issue of school violence, focusing on movies set in high schools, colleges, and summer camps.Book...

Through an examination of plays, actors, reviews, and audience response of the period, this study traces the development of Broadway as a source of 'mature' American drama, and the simultaneous development of Professional-Managerial Class consciousness...

Mendel's Theatre offers a new way of thinking about early twentieth-century American drama by uncovering the rich convergence of heredity theory, the American eugenics movement, and innovative modern drama from the 1890s to 1930.Book InformationISBN...

During the period of the Enlightenment, the word ‘home’ could refer to a specific and defined physical living space, the location of domestic life, and a concept related to ideas of roots, origins, and retreat. The transformations that the Enlightenment...

This book is about Zhejiang University, one of the oldest and most prestigious universities in China, which was forced to evacuate from the Hangzhou when the Japanese arrived in 1937 and began torturing civilians, raping women, bombing towns, burning...

This work examines the lives of 163 elite immigrants who have achieved the American dream while gaining fortune and fame. With this sample of immigrants, Professor Emeritus Alfred K. Ho provides a portrait of a successful candidate for U.S. immigration...

Pop Culture Goes to War, by Geoff Martin and Erin Steuter, explores the persistence of militarism in American popular culture in the war on terror, from 9/11 to the present day. The authors detail the role of Hollywood and the entertainment industries in...

Female novelists have always invested as much narrative energy in constructing their male characters-heroes and villains-as in envisioning their female protagonists, but this fact has received very little scholarly attention to date. In Women...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781419639951Author Lynn Milburn LansfordFormat PaperbackPage Count 236Imprint Booksurge PublishingPublisher Booksurge PublishingWeight(grams) 445g

Using the tools of performance studies, gender theory, and cultural history, Brenda Foley explores the striking similarities between beauty pageantry and striptease. For example, women in both project a 'normal' femininity and adhere to a strict...

Flyover Country focuses on a group of baby boomers who graduated from high school in 1969 in the Midwest before setting off into the world in a time of turbulence to fight in Vietnam, to protest against that war, to find jobs, to have families, and to...

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American Education in Popular Media explores how popular media has represented schooling in the United States over the course of the twentieth century. Terzian and Ryan examine prevalent portrayals of students and professional educators while addressing...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780692150122Author Michael EvansFormat HardbackPage Count 198Imprint Media Man ProductionsPublisher Media Man ProductionsWeight(grams) 912gDimensions(mm)...

Throughout their entire history, the sedentary civilizations of China and Europe had to deal with nomads and barbarians. This unique volume explores their drastically different responses: China 'chose' containment while Europe 'chose' expansion...