Hakutulokset: Hakutulos
yhteensä 117 hakutulosta
City of Wood
How San Franciscans exploited natural resources such as redwood lumber to produce the first major metropolis of the American West. California’s 1849 gold rush triggered creation of …
Prohibition in Turkey
A social history of alcohol, identity, secularism, and modernization from the late Ottoman and early Turkish republican eras to the present day.Prohibition in Turkey investigates …
The Modern Israeli and Palestinian Diasporas
A comparative study of contemporary Israeli and Palestinian diasporas. Exilic and diasporic experience have become ubiquitous in recent decades. Jews, lacking a homeland, spread to …
France and Algeria
An examination of the complicated history between France and Algeria since the latter’s independence. While most related studies concentrate on the colonial era and Algeria's War …
Clicas
How Latina/o/x gang literature and film represent women and gay gang members’ challenges to gendered, sexual, racial, and class oppression.Clicas examines Latina/o/x literature and …
American Twilight
A master of gritty horror, Tobe Hooper captured on-screen an America in constant crisis and upended myths of prosperity to reveal the country’s internal decay. Tobe Hooper's …
Modernism’s Magic Hat
Examines the role of architecture in the history of global development and decolonization. In Modernism’s Magic Hat, Ijlal Muzaffar examines how modern architects and planners help …
The Taste of Nostalgia
An exploration of gender, race, and food in Peru in the 1950s and 1960s and today.From the late 1940s to the mid 1960s, Peru’s rapid industrialization and anti-communist …
Rick Perry
How Rick Perry navigated and shaped Texas politics as the state's longest serving governor.Rick Perry, the charming rancher, pilot, and politician from West Texas who was governor …
Reading across Borders
The dynamic and interconnected ways Afghans and Iranians invented their modern selves through literature.Contrary to the presumption that literary nationalism in the Global South …