166 títulos para "University Of Virginia"
-
Segregation's Science
Dorr, Gregory Michael
978-0-8139-4149-3Blending social, intellectual, legal, medical, gender, and cultural history, Segregation's Science: Eugenics and Society in Virginia examines how eugenic theory and practice bolstered Virginia's various cultures of segregation--rich from poor, sick from well, able from disabled, male from fe...
47.18€ (45.37€ sin IVA) -
Retelling the Siege of Jerusalem in Early Modern England
Neelakanta, Vanita
978-1-64453-012-2This compelling book explores sixteenth- and seventeenth-century English retellings of the Roman siege of Jerusalem and the way they informed and were informed by religious and political developments. The siege featured prominently in many early modern English sermons, ballads, plays, histories, and...
Precio desconocido -
-
Sol Plaatje
Willan, Brian
978-0-8139-4209-4While the story of modern South Africa has long captured global attention, the story of one of its key forefathers has been eclipsed by those of more iconic political figures. In Sol Plaatje: A Life, Brian Willan restores to history the importance of a remarkable man whose contributions as an intel...
59.14€ (56.87€ sin IVA) -
Stranger America
Toth, Josh
978-0-8139-4111-0Contradictory ideals of egalitarianism and self-reliance haunt America's democratic state. We need look no further than Donald Trump's 2016 presidential campaign and victory for proof that early twentieth-century anxieties about individualism, race, and the foreign or intrusive "other&q...
53.49€ (51.43€ sin IVA) -
-
-
Memory at Bay
Trouillot, Evelyne
978-0-8139-3809-7Winner of the prestigious Prix Carbet--an award won by such distinguished authors as Maryse Condé, Jamaica Kincaid, and Raphaël Confiant-- Memory at Bay is now available in an English translation that brings to life this powerful novel by one of Haiti's most vital authors, Éve...
33.28€ (32.00€ sin IVA) -
Of Land, Bones, and Money
McGiffin, Emily
978-0-8139-4276-6The South African literature of iimbongi, the oral poets of the amaXhosa people, has long shaped understandings of landscape and history and offered a forum for grappling with change. Of Land, Bones, and Money examines the shifting role of these poets in South African society and the ways in which t...
43.93€ (42.24€ sin IVA) -
-
Hope Without Optimism
Terry Eagleton
978-0-8139-4728-0In his latest book, Terry Eagleton, one of the most celebrated intellects of our time, considers the least regarded of the virtues. His compelling meditation on hope begins with a firm rejection of the role of optimism in lifes course. Like its close relative, pessimism, it is more a system of ratio...
21.27€ (20.45€ sin IVA) -
Twice-Divided Nation
Graber, Samuel
978-0-8139-4238-4The first thoroughly interdisciplinary study to examine how thetransatlantic relationship between the United States and Britain helped shape the conflicts between North and South in the decade before the American Civil War, Twice-Divided Nation addresses that influence primarily as a problem of nati...
94.35€ (90.72€ sin IVA)