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• Rok vydání 1959

Blake takes a detailed look, based almost exclusively on original source material, at the public health history of the town…

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Shows how the collective purposes and meanings that had framed social debate became unhinged and uncertain. This title…

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The definitive biography of Hu Yaobang, who, as general secretary of the Chinese Communist Party in the 1980s, promoted…

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• Rok vydání 1992

Challenging the formidable tradition that places early New England Puritanism at the center of the American religious…

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• Rok vydání 2023

From the Alien Friends Act to the Cold War and the War on Terror, the US has used ideological exclusions and deportations to…

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Attilio Teruzzi, Mussolini's commander of the Black Shirts, exemplified fascism's obsession with male strength. Through the…

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Liner Notes for the Revolution offers a startling new perspective on Black women musicians from Bessie Smith to BeyoncĂ©.…

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Friction, the force that resists motion, has shaped technological progress for millennia. Jennifer Vail shows how the quest…

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• Rok vydání 2019

Focusing on the 17th-century play of mourning, Walter Benjamin identifies allegory as the constitutive trope of modernity,…

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Dignity plays a central role in thinking about law and human rights, but there is sharp disagreement about its meaning.…

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Avant-Garde Post- follows seven Russophone poets as they reinvigorate leftist art in the wake of state socialism. Rejecting…

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An authoritative biography of Jozef Pilsudski, a key figure in interwar Europe regarded as the founding hero of a…

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The thirteenth-century Persian poet and scholar Rumi is revered to this day. Jamal J. Elias sheds light on the Sufi…

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Luna Sabastian traces the evolution of Hindutva since the 1920s, arguing that it is a form of fascism. Influenced by…

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• Rok vydání 1991

Festivals and the French Revolution-the subject conjures up visions of goddesses of Liberty, strange celebrations of Reason,…

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• Rok vydání 1993

Sociologist Robert Wuthnow notes remarkable similarities in the social conditions surrounding three of the greatest…

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• Rok vydání 1983

Contemporary Afro-American theatre is an exciting spectacle of an emerging black identity during a period when blacks have…

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In Renaissance Italy, the Galenic "wonder drug" theriac became a vehicle for political, pharmaceutical, and commercial…

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It is common to regard rights and wrongs as mirror images: to be wronged is to have one's rights violated. Nicolas Cornell…

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• Rok vydání 2024

Long before Greeks dominated the ancient Mediterranean, Phoenicians were the lords of the sea. Setting out from their…

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• Rok vydání 2008

Plenty Coups, last great Chief of the Crow Nation, said, "When the buffalo went away the hearts of my people fell to the…

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• Rok vydání 2012

Human rights offer a vision of international justice that idealistic millions hold dear. Yet the very concept on which the…

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• Rok vydání 2022

Tony Rothman offers a primer on the science of the big bang and the questions we still can't answer about the origins of the…

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• Rok vydání 2012

In a brisk revisionist history, William Rowe challenges the standard narrative of Qing China as a decadent, inward-looking…

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• Rok vydání 2014

Produkt Two Faces of American Freedom - Rana, Aziz zakoupíte na Bookshop.cz od nakladatele Harvard University Press.…

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• Rok vydání 1997

Looking beyond the view of the plague as unmitigated catastrophe, Herlihy finds evidence for its role in the advent of new…

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• Rok vydání 2011

One of the most momentous stories of the last century is China's rise from a self-satisfied, anti-modern, decaying society…

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• Rok vydání 1993

Taking three artists - Beckett, Rothko and Resnais, the book demonstrates that these artists train us in new modes of…

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• Rok vydání 2014

Art, William Kentridge says, is its own form of knowledge. It does not simply supplement the real world, and cannot be…

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Far from a stagnant "Middle Ages," the years 600-1350 witnessed globalization and social innovation. Entangled Worlds…

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In Shinto Shrines in Prewar and Wartime Japan, Helen Hardacre uses shrine records, personal diaries, contemporary…

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In Rethinking Japan's Modernity, M. William Steele takes a new look at the people, places, and events associated with…

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• Rok vydání 2014

Stephen Neff tells the story of how international law has been formulated, debated, contested, and put into practice from…

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Sana Aiyar chronicles the strategies by which Indians sought a political voice in Kenya, from the beginning of colonial rule…

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Sara B. Pritchard traces the RhĂ´ne's remaking since 1945, showing how state officials, technical elites, and citizens…

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In a work as much about the present as the past, Gregory identifies the unintended consequences of the Reformation for the…

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The Writer's Lot explores the working lives of eighteenth-century French authors-celebrities and unknowns-at a time when…

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• Rok vydání 2023

James Hankins challenges the view that the Renaissance was the seedbed of modern republicanism, with Machiavelli as…

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• Rok vydání 2003

Stories pervade our daily lives. We use them to make sense of the world. But how does this work? In Making Stories, the…

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• Rok vydání 2012

In the spring of 1929, Martin Heidegger and Ernst Cassirer met for a public conversation in Davos, Switzerland. They were…

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• Rok vydání 1991

By the late 19th century Odessa was the most polyglot and cosmopolitan city in the empire. In the first decades of the 20th…

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• Rok vydání 1998

Our notion of the self depends on it; cultural identities have frequent recourse to its boundary-policing powers; and love…

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\nIn Lesia Ukrainka’s rendering, Cassandra’s prophecies are uttered in highly poetic language and are not believed for that…

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• Rok vydání 1967

Produkt Vocal Songs in the Plays of Shakespeare - Seng, Peter J zakoupíte na Bookshop.cz od nakladatele Harvard University…

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• Rok vydání 1964

Produkt Origins of Entrepreneurship in Meiji Japan - Hirschmeier, Johannes zakoupíte na Bookshop.cz od nakladatele Harvard…

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• Rok vydání 1990

Produkt Song Among the Ruins - Schull, William J zakoupíte na Bookshop.cz od nakladatele Harvard University Press.…

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Produkt Influence of the Commons on Early Legislation - Gray, Howard Levi zakoupíte na Bookshop.cz od nakladatele Harvard…

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Produkt Berlin Secession - Paret, Peter (Princeton University, New Jersey) zakoupíte na Bookshop.cz od nakladatele Harvard…