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Americans’ long and restless search for identity through family trees illuminates the story of America itself, according to François Weil, as preoccupation... Læs mere
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The father of Indian independence, Gandhi was also a political theorist who challenged mainstream ideas. Sovereignty, he said, depends on the consent of citizens willing to challenge... Læs mere
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Gentlemen Bankers focuses on the social and economic circles of one of America’s most renowned and influential financiers, J. P. Morgan, to tell a closely... Læs mere
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Century of Struggle tells the story of one of the great social movements in American history. The struggle for women's voting rights was one of the longest, most successful, and in some respects most radical challenges ever posed to the American system of electoral politics.
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Although cerebral dominance was discovered in the 1860s, almost nothing was known for many years about its biological foundations, the study of which has... Læs mere
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This unique account of the life of Charles Follen--German nationalist and revolutionary, Harvard professor, Unitarian minister, and abolitionist--opens a window on several worlds during the first half of the nineteenth century.
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Described as one of the most influential American literary figures of the mid-20th century and a near-prophet of the Black Mountain School, Olson was highly regarded as... Læs mere
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Chernyshevskii (1828–1889), a pivotal figure in the Russian protest movement after the Crimean War, was esteemed by Marx and Lenin. This first thorough treatment... Læs mere
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Thornton surveys research from a broad range of perspectives in order to explore why successful problem-solving depends less on how smart we are—or, as the pioneering... Læs mere
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The authors in this book, taking full advantage of the new freedom of inquiry, shed light on the Chinese experience, elaborating not only on the vast changes sweeping all sectors of Chinese society, but also on the tradition that has persisted.
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From a wealth of previously unexamined material, Roger R. Thompson demonstrates the energy and significance of late-Qing... Læs mere
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The complex cultural status of Chopin—he was a native Pole and adopted Frenchman, a male composer writing in “feminine” genres—is the subject of... Læs mere