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Paul Lauter, an icon of American Studies who has been a primary agent in its transformation and its chief ambassador abroad, offers a wide-ranging collection of essays that demonstrate and reflect on this important and often highly politicized discipline...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781543781335Author Charles Bowi Anak MayotFormat HardbackPage Count 222Imprint Partridge Publishing SingaporePublisher Partridge Publishing...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780648914501Author Anna McHughFormat PaperbackPage Count 162Imprint Diving Bell EducationPublisher Diving Bell EducationWeight(grams) 404gDimensions(mm)...

Offer an accessible and engaging approach to studying the history of the Caribbean with full-colour, clear designs, shorter chapters, focus questions, in-text facts, key-terms and associated definitions to help students engage with content. - ...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781927625309Author John N GrantFormat PaperbackPage Count 48Imprint Quarter Castle PublishingPublisher Quarter Castle PublishingWeight(grams) 86g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781039135581Author Harley RothsteinFormat HardbackPage Count 660Imprint FriesenPressPublisher FriesenPressWeight(grams) 1116g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9798218231774Author Thomas SandersFormat PaperbackPage Count 488Imprint Thomas SandersPublisher Thomas SandersWeight(grams) 644g

This book reconstructs and discusses the research of Roger J. Williams, exploring the development of his concept of Biochemical Individuality. As a pioneer in the emerging field of biochemistry, Williams examined the biochemical differences among...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783631857984Author Nicolas MaslowskiFormat HardbackPage Count 178Imprint Peter Lang AGPublisher Peter Lang AGWeight(grams) 148g

What makes history difficult to learn is the fact that one has to travel in time. Studying events and circumstances from a time perspective different from our own is something that doesn't come naturally to people. It is an ability that has to be...

Historians argue that the years following the Emancipation Proclamation and those immediately after the Civil War were formative years in the trajectory of the United States as a country. So, why then, does this era of history not get the proper...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781543781328Author Charles Bowi Anak MayotFormat PaperbackPage Count 222Imprint Partridge Publishing SingaporePublisher Partridge Publishing...

How is history represented? As just a record of the past, as a part of a present identity or as future goals? This book explores how historical contents and narratives are presented in school textbooks and other cultural productions (museums, monuments,...

What makes history difficult to learn is the fact that one has to travel in time. Studying events and circumstances from a time perspective different from our own is something that doesn't come naturally to people. It is an ability that has to be...

As educators in the United States and Europe develop national history standards for K-12 students, the question of what to do with national history canons is a subject of growing concern. Should national canons still be the foundation for the teaching of...

Updated through the 1996 elections to reflect current historical thinking, the 8th edition A Synopsis of American History continues to provide a chronological summary of major political, economic, and diplomatic developments in American history, but it...

This book analyzes the history of the black market in Poland before the 1940s and the development of black-market phenomena in post-war Poland. The author evaluates the interrelation between black-market phenomena and historical and geographical...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9782807609723Author Muriel Le RouxFormat PaperbackPage Count 344Imprint PIE - Peter LangPublisher PIE - Peter LangWeight(grams) 474g

Memory construction and national identity are key issues in our societies, as well as it is patriotism. How can we nowadays believe and give sense to traditional narrations that explain the origins of nations and communities? How do these narrations...

As educators in the United States and Europe develop national history standards for K-12 students, the question of what to do with national history canons is a subject of growing concern. Should national canons still be the foundation for the teaching of...

Traumagenic events—episodes that have caused or are likely to cause trauma—color the experiences of K-12 students and the social studies curriculum they encounter in U.S. schools. At the same time that the global COVID-19 pandemic has heightened...

The rationale for the present text, Hollywood or History? An Inquiry-Based Strategy for Using Film to Teach About Inequality and Inequity Throughout History stems from two main things. First and foremost is the fact that the reviews of the first two...

Traumagenic events-episodes that have caused or are likely to cause trauma-color the experiences of K-12 students and the social studies curriculum they encounter in U.S. schools. At the same time that the global COVID-19 pandemic has heightened...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781927151563Author Mark SheehanFormat PaperbackPage Count 160Imprint New Zealand Council for Educational Research (NZCER) PressPublisher New Zealand Council...

The fall of 2016 saw the release of the widely popular First World War video game Battlefield 1. Upon the game's initial announcement and following its subsequent release, Battlefield 1 became the target of an online racist backlash that targeted the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781668015599Author Kenneth C DavisFormat HardbackPage Count 464Imprint ScribnerPublisher Simon & SchusterWeight(grams) 513g

Video game spaces have vastly expanded the built environment, offering new worlds to explore and inhabit. Like buildings, cities, and gardens before them, these virtual environments express meaning and communicate ideas and affects through the spatial...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781950051465Author Cynthia L SimmonsFormat PaperbackPage Count 144Imprint Elk Lake Publishing, Inc.Publisher Elk Lake Publishing, Inc.Weight(grams) 352g

This book focuses on the fate of Polish Jews and Polish-Jewish relations during the Holocaust and its aftermath, in the ill-recognized era of Eastern-European pogroms after the WW2. It is based on the author's own ethnographic research in those areas of...

For two decades, Rockstar Games have been making games that interrogate and represent the idea of America, past and present. Commercially successful, fan-beloved, and a frequent source of media attention, Rockstar's franchises are positioned as not only...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9798986944418Author David AndersonFormat PaperbackPage Count 232Imprint Fort Greene BooksPublisher Fort Greene BooksWeight(grams) 549g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9798893580440Author Captivating HistoryFormat PaperbackPage Count 190Imprint Captivating HistoryPublisher Captivating HistoryWeight(grams) 263g

The pages of this book illustrate that as instruments of socialization and sites of ideological discourse textbooks are powerful artefacts in introducing young people to a specific historical, cultural and socioeconomic order. Crucially, exploring the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9798230154129Author Joseph M QuinnFormat PaperbackPage Count 204Imprint Mayahuel BooksPublisher Mayahuel BooksWeight(grams) 304g

This book will consider how the outcomes of "doing history digitally" include different kind of sources and data, as well as new ways of researching historical questions, and innovative forms of presenting history. All contributions focus on...

This volume focuses on the depiction of women in video games set in historical periods or archaeological contexts, explores the tension between historical and archaeological accuracy and authenticity, examines portrayals of women in historical periods or...

"He used his camera like a doctor would use a stethoscope in order to diagnose the state of the heart. His own was vulnerable.", Cartier-Bresson wrote about David Seymour, who liked to be called Chim. Chim is best known as one of the cofounders...

American Studies has only gradually turned its attention to video games in the twenty-first century, even though the medium has grown into a cultural industry that is arguably the most important force in American and global popular culture today. There...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781460288665Author Curtis R McManusFormat HardbackPage Count 258Imprint FriesenPressPublisher FriesenPressWeight(grams) 535g

The volume begins with what is in common to contemporary phenomenological historians and historiographers. That is the understandings that temporality is the core of human judgment conditioning in its forms how we consciously attend and judge phenomena...