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Lessons from a dark time
And other essays
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 296 páginas
PVP: 27,45 €
ISBN 978-0-520-29724-1
EAN 9780520297241
In this rich collection, bestselling author Adam Hochschild has selected and updated over two dozen essays and pieces of reporting from his long career. Threaded through them all is his concern for social justice and the people who have fought for it. The articles here range from a California gun show to a Finnish prison, ...
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They said NO to Nixon
Republicans Who Stood Up to the President's Abuses of Power
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 240 páginas
PVP: 29,95 €
ISBN 978-0-520-29905-4
EAN 9780520299054
In more than three thousand recorded conversations, the Nixon tapes famously exposed a president's sinister views of governance that would eventually lead to his downfall. Despite Richard Nixon's best efforts, his vision of a government where he could use his power to punish his political enemies never came to fruition because there were those in ...
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Gruenewald, Tim; Laderman, Scott
Imperial benevolence
U.S. Foreign Policy and American Popular Culture since 9/11
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 288 páginas
PVP: 29,95 €
ISBN 978-0-520-29918-4
EAN 9780520299184
This is a necessary and urgent read for anyone concerned about the United States' endless wars. Investigating multiple genres of popular culture alongside contemporary U.S. foreign policy and political economy, Imperial Benevolence shows that American popular culture continuously suppresses awareness of U.S.imperialism while assuming American exceptionalism and innocence. This is despite the fact that it ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 384 páginas
PVP: 29,95 €
ISBN 978-0-520-29707-4
EAN 9780520297074
An American Language is a tour de force that revolutionizes our understanding of U.S. history. It reveals the origins of Spanish as a language binding residents of the Southwest to the politics and culture of an expanding nation in the 1840s.As the West increasingly integrated into the United States over the following century, struggles over ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 440 páginas
PVP: 24,90 €
ISBN 978-0-520-29721-0
EAN 9780520297210
The most important study of Charlemagne in a generation, this biography by distinguished medievalist Alessandro Barbero illuminates both the man and the world in which he lived. Charles the Great--Charlemagne--reigned from a.d. 768 to a.d.814. At the time if his death, his empire stretched across Europe to include Bavaria, Saxony, parts of Spain, and Italy. ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 301 páginas
PVP: 35,65 €
ISBN 978-0-520-29614-5
EAN 9780520296145
Since March 2015, a Saudi-led international coalition of forces-supported by Britain and the United States-has waged devastating war in Yemen. Largely ignored by the world's media, the resulting humanitarian disaster and full scale famine threatens millions. Destroying Yemen offers the first in-depth historical account of the transnational origins of this war, placing it in the ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 294 páginas
PVP: 34,90 €
ISBN 978-0-520-29618-3
EAN 9780520296183
This fascinating cultural and intellectual history focuses on education as practiced by the imperial age Romans, looking at what they considered the value of education and its effect on children. W. Martin Bloomer details the processes, exercises, claims, and contexts of liberal education from the late first century BCE to the third century CE--the epoch ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 284 páginas
PVP: 28,50 €
ISBN 978-0-520-29313-7
EAN 9780520293137
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 232 páginas
PVP: 35,65 €
ISBN 978-0-520-29030-3
EAN 9780520290303
Economic and social development is a major topic of discussion in courses across the social sciences, particularly those focused on Latin America. Many scholars and instructors have tried to pinpoint, explain, and define the problem of underdevelopment in Latin America. New ideas have led to new strategies that have, by and large, failed to reduce ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 352 páginas
PVP: 31,15 €
ISBN 978-0-520-29519-3
EAN 9780520295193
hat is fascism and what is populism? What are their connections in history and theory, and how should we address their significant differences? What does it mean when pundits call Donald Trump a fascist, or label as populist politicians who span left and right such as Hugo Chavez, Juan Peron, Rodrigo Duterte, and Marine Le ...
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Enclosure
Palestinian Landscapes in a Historical Mirror
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 424 páginas
PVP: 31,30 €
ISBN 978-0-520-29105-8
EAN 9780520291058
Enclosure marshals bold new and persuasive arguments about the ongoing dispossession of Palestinians. Revealing the Israel-Palestine landscape primarily as one of enclosure, geographer Gary Fields sheds fresh light on Israel's actions. He places those actions in historical context in a broad analysis of power and landscapes across the modern world.Examining the process of land-grabbing in ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 224 páginas
PVP: 31,45 €
ISBN 978-0-520-29126-3
EAN 9780520291263
This rich history of Palestine in the last decade of the Ottoman Empire reveals the nation emerging as a cultural entity-a vibrant intellectual, political, and social exchange of ideas and initiatives. Through a phenomenal ethnography, rare autobiographies, and unpublished maps and photos, The Great War and the Remaking of Palestine discerns a particular bourgeois Palestinian ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 261 páginas
PVP: 60,30 €
ISBN 978-0-520-29394-6
EAN 9780520293946
From even before the time of Alexander the Great, the Greek gods spread throughout the Mediterranean, carried by settlers and largely adopted by the indigenous populations. By the third century BC, gods bearing Greek names were worshipped everywhere from Spain to Afghanistan, with the resulting religious systems a variable blend of Greek and indigenous elements. ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 248 páginas
PVP: 39,65 €
ISBN 978-0-520-28432-6
EAN 9780520284326
The tragic and mysterious circumstances surrounding the deaths of Elizabeth Short, or the Black Dahlia, and Marilyn Monroe ripped open Hollywood's glitzy facade, exposing the city's ugly underbelly of corruption, crime, and murder. These two spectacular dead bodies, one found dumped and posed in a vacant lot in January 1947, the other found dead in ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 264 páginas
PVP: 44,40 €
ISBN 978-0-520-29215-4
EAN 9780520292154
Across the Middle East in the post-World War I era, European strategic moves converged with late Ottoman political practice and a newly emboldened Zionist movement to create an unprecedented push to physically divide ethnic and religious minorities from Arab Muslim majorities. States of Separation tells how the interwar Middle East became a site for internationally ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 328 páginas
PVP: 39,65 €
ISBN 978-0-520-29211-6
EAN 9780520292116
Mainstreaming Black Power upends the narrative that the Black Power movement provided a catharsis for black rage but achieved little institutional transformation or black uplift. Retelling the story of the 1960s and 1970s across the United States in New York, Atlanta, and Los Angeles, this book reveals how the War on Poverty cultivated black self-determination ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 420 páginas
PVP: 36,45 €
ISBN 978-0-520-29135-5
EAN 9780520291355
Why would anybody believe that God could sanction terrorism? Why has the rediscovery of religion's power in recent years manifested in such a bloody way? What, if anything, can be done about it? Terror in the Mind of God, now in its fourth edition, answers these questions and more. Thoroughly revised and expanded, the book ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 456 páginas
PVP: 44,40 €
ISBN 978-0-520-29483-7
EAN 9780520294837
This pioneering study examines a pivotal period in the history of Europe and the Near East. Spanning the ancient and medieval worlds, it investigates the shared ideal of sacred kingship that emerged in the late Roman and Persian empires. Bridging the traditional divide between classical and Iranian history, this book brings to life the dazzling ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 432 páginas
PVP: 44,40 €
ISBN 978-0-520-29487-5
EAN 9780520294875
Homer the Preclassic considers the development of the Homeric poems - in particular the Iliad and Odyssey-during the time when they were still part of the oral tradition. Gregory Nagy traces the evolution of rival "Homers" and the different versions of Homeric poetry in this pretextual period, reconstructed over a time frame extending back from ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 336 páginas
PVP: 39,65 €
ISBN 978-0-520-29412-7
EAN 9780520294127
Most people understand Judaism to be the Torah and the Torah to be Judaism. However, in The Invention of Judaism, John J. Collins persuasively argues this was not always the case. The Torah became the touchstone for most of Judaism's adherents only in the hands of the rabbis of late antiquity. For 600 years prior, ...
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