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Ever since their arrival in North America, European colonists and their descendants have struggled to explain the... Læs mere
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Exploring the political struggles inspired by mass educational tests, McDonnell analyzes the design and implementation of statewide testing in California,... Læs mere
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Race, ethnicity, and nation, Lie argues, are modern notions, associated with the rise of the modern state, the industrial economy, and Enlightenment ideas. The state is responsible for... Læs mere
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Magic, During suggests, has helped shape modern culture. Devoted to this deceptively simple proposition, During's work gets at the aesthetic... Læs mere
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For this updated edition of her acclaimed work on historians and historiography, Himmelfarb adds four new essays. In examining... Læs mere
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The angry emotions, and the problems they presented, were an ancient Greek preoccupation from Homer to late antiquity. Drawing on a wide range of ancient texts, and on recent work in anthropology and psychology, Harris explains the rise and persistence of this concern.
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Fear overturns the dominant understanding of German management as “backward” relative to the U.S. and uncovers an... Læs mere
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In a book addressing those interested in the transformation of monarchy into the modern state and in intersections of gender and political power, Crawford examines the roles of female regents in early modern France.
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Using original sources as well as the findings of demographers, ethnologists, and cultural anthropologists, Main compares the family life of the English colonists in Southern New England with the lives of comparable groups remaining in England and of native Americans.
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Drawing upon a generation of research on self-fulfilling prophecies in education, Weinstein argues that our expectations of children are often too... Læs mere
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Haney López tells the compelling story of the Chicano movement in Los Angeles by following two criminal trials, including one arising from the student... Læs mere
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Since the mid-19th century, imperial reformers, Republicans, Guomindang party cadres, and Communists have all prioritized science and technology. Elman... Læs mere