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Victor Hugo meets Papillon in this effervescent memoir of war, slavery, and self-discovery, told with aplomb and humor in…

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Produkt Challenging the Myths of US History - Egnal, Marc zakoupíte na Bookshop.cz od nakladatele University of California…

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"Superbly acute and unashamedly complex."—The Telegraph "Rich and provocative."—Times Literary Supplement "An engaging…

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This sweeping history reorients our understanding of the Middle East, placing the Gulf at the heart of globalized trade and…

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"This slim yet insightful and entertaining volume documents the many instances where wine drinkers did not get what they…

Dissolves the logic of a beginning based on writing, civilization, or historical consciousness and offers a model for a…

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Produkt Black Lives, White Lives - Blauner, Bob zakoupíte na Bookshop.cz od nakladatele University of California Press.…

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Elegant Legal Writing od výrobce University of California Press.…

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A cultural history of how Christianity was born from its martyrs. Though it promises eternal life, Christianity was forged…

What is fascism and what is populism? What are their connections in history and theory, and how should we address their…

This autobiography of mathematician Stanislaw Ulam, one of the great scientific minds of the twentieth century, tells a…

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Arthur Fellig, better known as Weegee, and his 1945 photography book, "Naked City" - with its lurid tabloid-style images of…

In the early part of this century, the discovery of a walled-up cave in northwest China led to the retrieval of a lost early…

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The New York loft jazz scene of the 1970s was a pivotal period for uncompromising, artist-produced work. This book-length…

The Devil in History is a provocative analysis of the relationship between communism and fascism. Reflecting the authors…

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A history of Jewish life in Europe from the fourteenth through the nineteenth century that breaks through the boundaries of…

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Born to a prominent family in Havana but exiled to the United States as a girl, Ana Mendieta (1948-1985) is regarded as one…

A work on Alexander the Great. It combines analyses of terrain, climate, and supply requirements that account for…

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A trilogy of atlases, that conveys the experiences of New York City through twenty-six maps and informative essays. It…

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Rachel Laudan tells the remarkable story of the rise and fall of the worlds great cuisines - from the mastery of grain…

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The Final Pagan Generation recounts the fascinating story of the lives and fortunes of the last Romans born before the…

What makes a place? This title searches out the answer by examining the many layers of meaning in one place, the San…

No one knows more about the material culture of the Silk Road than Susan Whitfield. With this book it's now clear that no…

Shows the significant contributions of people of African descent to London's rich social and cultural history, masterfully…

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A cultural clearinghouse of the American 1960s and '70s told through the story of the period's most important forgotten…

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Of the six Impressionist painters whose first exhibition scandalized and fascinated Paris in 1874, Berthe Morisot was the…

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In this magisterial account of the Great Depression, MIT economist Charles Kindleberger emphasizes three factors that…

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During the period from Rome's Stone Age beginnings on the Tiber River to its conquest of the Italian peninsula in 264 B.C.,…

In the period between 1200 and 1500 in western Europe, a number of religious women gained widespread veneration and even…

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Cassiodorus—famed throughout history as one of the great Christian exegetes of antiquity—spent most of his life as a…

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Failure of Empire is the first comprehensive biography of the Roman emperor Valens and his troubled reign (A.D. 364-78).…

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Offering insight and equal consideration into the societies of the "civilized" and "uncivilized" world, "Europe and the…

This historical study traces the process of state-building in Colombia from the struggle for independence, territorial…

Beginning with the intriguing case of Herod the Great's Jewishness, this title discusses what made or did not make Jewish…

• Rok vydání 1992

Includes the recollections of the author's childhood in Bern, his relations with his family and such friends as Kandinsky,…

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Produkt Seeing Race Again zakoupíte na Bookshop.cz od nakladatele University of California Press.…

\nExplores the history of Palestinian collaboration with Israelis - and of the Arab resistance to it. This book focuses on…

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This study was first published in 1983. It traces the social disintegration of "Ballybran", a small village on the Dingle…

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Produkt Texts from the Middle zakoupíte na Bookshop.cz od nakladatele University of California Press.…

Studies the life and career of the Austrian composer, providing a critical analysis of his contributions to the music world.…

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A History of Cookbooks provides a sweeping literary and historical overview of the cookbook genre, exploring its development…

How do ordinary people respond to prolonged terror? The convulsion of Japan's "Warring States" period between 1467 and 1568…

• Rok vydání 1992

'An impressive achievement in a task of extraordinary difficulty...The outstanding asset of this work does not consist in…

When the famous anthropologist Claude Levi-Strauss arrived in Rio de Janeiro, he had one book in his pocket: "Jean de Lery's…