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Peasants in Russia from Serfdom to Stalin
The peasantry accounted for the large majority of the Russian population during the Imperialist and Stalinist periods – it is, for the most part, how people lived. Peasants in …
Modern Argentine Masculinities
Modern Argentine Masculinities gathers essays that explore the social construction of gender from the nineteenth century to the present. Authors analyze literary and cinematic …
Berlin Coquette
During the late nineteenth century the city of Berlin developed such a reputation for lawlessness and sexual licentiousness that it came to be known as the "Whore of Babylon." Out …
Growth, Decline, and Regeneration in Large Cities
Growth, Decline, and Regeneration in Large Cities sheds light on why some cities prosper, others implode, and still others are able to reverse their downward trajectories. The book …
Caroline, or Change
The book and lyrics of the extraordinary musical from the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Angels in America. 1963, Louisiana. The destruction of a Confederate statue might just …
The Masculine Modern Woman
This book takes a fresh approach to one of the most popular cultural symbols of modernity in the 1920s—the "masculine" modern woman. Uncovering discourses on female masculinity in …
Les Temps modernes de Charlie Chaplin
Une fiche de référence sur Les Temps modernes, un chef-d''oeuvre de Charlie Chaplin.Fort du triomphe, cinq ans plus tôt, d''un film encore muet, Les Lumières de la ville (City …
The Magician of Lublin
Yasha the magician - sword swallower, fire eater, acrobat and master of escape - is famed for his extraordinary Houdini-like skills. Half Jewish, half Gentile, a free thinker who …
Tecnologias médicas multidisciplinares modernas, biotecnologias
Modernity and Cultural Decline
This book argues that despite the many real advantages that industrial modernity has yielded—including large gains in wealth, longevity, and (possibly) happiness—it has occurred …
Cambridge Economic History of Modern Britain: Volume 2, Growth and Decline, 1870 to the Present
A new edition of the leading textbook on the economic history of Britain since industrialization. Combining the expertise of more than thirty leading historians and economists, …
On Time, Punctuality, and Discipline in Early Modern Calvinism
In On Time, Punctuality and Discipline in Early Modern Calvinism, Max Engammare explores how the sixteenth-century Protestant reformers of Geneva, France, London, and Bern …