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Conversion to Christianity: Historical and Anthropological Perspectives on a Great Transformation (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)This study of the conversion of tribal peoples to Christianity combines case studies with the contributors' theories, challenging anthropologists and sociologists to reassess the varieties of religious experience and the convergent processes involved in religious change.
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Down on Their Luck: A Study of Homeless Street People (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)Shows us the wretched face of homelessness in late twentieth-century America in countless cities across the nation. This title reveals who the... Læs mere
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Domestic Individualism: Imagining Self in Nineteenth-Century America (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)Explores the key relationship between domestic ideology and formulations of the self in 19th-century America. Arguing that domesticity not only presumes but institutes distinctions of gender, class and race, Brown reveals how these distinctions in turn inform identity.
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Chinese Families in the Post-Mao Era (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)This collection of essays concerns both urban and rural Chinese communities, ranging from professional to working-class families. The contributors attempt to determine whether and to what extent the policy shifts that followed Mao Zedong's death affected Chinese families.
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Chinese Historical Microdemography (Bog, Hardback, Engelsk)Using local studies to answer global questions, this compilation challenges traditional notions concerning historical Chinese population trends. The important issues of fertility, mortality, family structure and migration patterns are examined.
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Dr. Strangelove's America: Society and Culture in the Atomic Age (Bog, Hardback, Engelsk)Although many scientists and other Americans protested the pursuit of nuclear superiority after World War II ended, they were drowned out by... Læs mere
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Claims to Fame: Celebrity in Contemporary America (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)Moving from "People" magazine to publicists' offices to tours of stars' homes, this work deals with the larger-than-life terrain of American celebrity... Læs mere
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Dreams of Difference: The Japan Romantic School and the Crisis of Modernity (Bog, Hardback, Engelsk)A study of an early 20th-century intellectual movement which explored issues of politics, literature and nationalism in a manner... Læs mere
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California Progressivism Revisited (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)Embracing issues of ethnicity, gender and ideology, this collection of essays demonstrates how California was an important focus for the development of the progressive reform movement in the USA during the early part of the 20th century.
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Broken Silence: Voices of Japanese Feminism (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)Exemplifies the diversity of Japanese feminism. This book features feminists including Kanazumi Fumiko, a lawyer who assists women in a legal system that has... Læs mere
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Cecil B. DeMille and American Culture: The Silent Era (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)In this work - which blends cultural history and cultural studies - the author examines how DeMille articulated middle-class ideology across class and ethnic barriers to appeal to an increasingly female audience. By the 1920s he had become a trendsetter.
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City for Sale: The Transformation of San Francisco (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)San Francisco is perhaps the most exhilarating of all American cities - its beauty, cultural and political avant-gardism, and history are legendary. This... Læs mere
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