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White Métisse
Kim Lefe?vre · University of Hawaii Press
Pages: 270
Format: Paperback
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In this evocative memoir, Kim Lefèvre recounts her childhood and adolescence growing up in colonial Viet Nam. As a little girl living with her Vietnamese mother, she doesn't understand the reactions of others toward her, their open mistrust, contempt, and rejection. Though she feels... |
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The Goths: Lost Civilizations
David M. Gwynn · Reaktion Books
Pages: 208
Format: Hardcover
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The Goths are truly a "lost civilization. " Sweeping down from the north, ancient Gothic tribes sacked the imperial city of Rome and set in motion the decline and fall of the western Roman empire. Ostrogothic and Visigothic kings ruled over Italy and Spain, dominating early medieval... |
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Thomas Jefferson - Revolutionary: A Radical's Struggle to Remake America
Kevin R C Gutzman · St Martin'S Press
Pages: 304
Format: Print book
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Though remembered chiefly as author of the Declaration of Independence and the president under whom the Louisiana Purchase was effected, Thomas Jefferson was a true revolutionary in the way he thought about the size and reach of government, which Americans who were full citizens and the role... |
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Bad Rabbi: And Other Strange but True Stories from the Yiddish Press
Eddy Portnoy · Stanford University Press
Pages: 265
Format: Paperback
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Stories abound of immigrant Jews on the outside looking in, clambering up the ladder of social mobility, successfully assimilating and integrating into their new worlds. But this book is not about the success stories. It's a paean to the bunglers, the blockheads, and the just plain... |
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I'd Fight the World: A Political History of Old-Time, Hillbilly, and Country Music
Peter La Chapelle · University of Chicago Press
Pages: 336
Format: Hardcover
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Long before the United States had presidents from the world of movies and reality TV, we had scores of politicians with connections to country music. In I'd Fight the World, Peter La Chapelle traces the deep bonds between country music and politics, from the nineteenth-century rise... |
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Icons of Style: A Century of Fashion Photography
Paul Martineau · J. Paul Getty Museum
Pages: 368
Format: Hardcover
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In 1911 the French couturier Paul Poiret challenged Edward Steichen to create the first artistic, rather than merely documentary, fashion photographs, a moment that is now considered to be a turning point in the history of fashion photography. As fashion changed over the next century,... |
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The Hippies: A 1960s History
John Moretta · McFarland
Pages: 420
Format: Paperback
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Among the most significant subcultures in modern U.S. history, the hippies had a far-reaching impact. Their influence essentially defined the 1960s--hippie antifashion, divergent music, dropout politics and "make love not war" philosophy extended to virtually every corner of the world... |
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Immunization: How Vaccines became Controversial
Stuart S Blume · Reaktion Books
Pages: 288
Format: Hardcover
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One of the most important tools in the public health arsenal, vaccines are to thank for the global eradication of smallpox, and for allowing us to defeat the dire threat of infectious disease for more than one hundred years. Vaccine development is where scientists turn when faced with the frightening... |
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Liberated Spirits: Two Women Who Battled Over Prohibition
Hugh Ambrose · Berkley
Pages: 368
Format: Hardcover
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A provocative new take on the women behind a perennially fascinating subject--Prohibition--by bestselling author and historian Hugh Ambrose.The passage of the 18th Amendment (banning the sale of alcohol) and the 19th (women's suffrage) in the same year is no coincidence. These... |
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Praetorian: The Rise and Fall of Rome's Imperial Bodyguard
Guy De La Be?doye?re · Yale University Press
Pages: 336
Format: Hardcover
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A riveting account of ancient Rome's imperial bodyguard, the select band of soldiers who wielded the power to make - or destroy - the emperors they served Founded by Augustus around 27 B.C., the elite Praetorian Guard was tasked with the protection of the emperor and his family. As the centuries... |
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Cultural Dementia
David Andress · Head of Zeus
Pages: 176
Format: Hardcover
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David Andress argues that we are suffering from an attack of social and cultural dementia. The former great powers of the historic "West" - especially Britain, the U.S. and France - seem to be abandoning the wisdom of maturity for senile daydreams of recovered youth. Along the way they... |
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On the Shoulders of Giants
Umberto Eco · Belknap Press
Pages: 336
Format: Hardcover
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A posthumous collection of essays by one of our greatest contemporary thinkers that provides a towering vision of Western culture.In Umberto Eco's first novel, The Name of the Rose, Nicholas of Morimondo laments, "We no longer have the learning of the ancients, the age of giants... |
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The Wonders: The Extraordinary Performers Who Transformed the Victorian Age
John Woolf · Pegasus Books
Pages: 336
Format: Hardcover
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A radical new history that rediscovers the remarkable freak performers whose talents and charisma helped define an era. On March 23, 1844, General Tom Thumb, just 25 inches tall, entered the Picture Gallery at Buckingham Palace and bowed low to Queen Victoria. On both sides of the Atlantic,... |
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