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Una de las consecuencias del excesivo uso del patrimonialismo como herramienta de dominación desde el siglo XIX fue la homogeneización y la uniformidad social. Hoy las estrategias giran al reconocimiento de la diversidad en la modernidad neoliberal e intercultural, con una tendencia creciente hacia la patrimonialización de la cultura. Pero al intervenir instituciones y gestores culturales en la declaración patrimonial de prácticas culturales,...
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Si hay un fenómeno de la historia de los Estados Unidos que se ha explotado hasta la saciedad en la cultura popular occidental, este ha sido la conquista del Oeste y el conflicto con las tribus de nativos que lo habitaban, denominado como las Guerras Indias. De una demonización del indio o nativo norteamericano, el péndulo basculó a partir de la década de 1970 a su santificación, y a menudo se echan en falta visiones más ecuánimes, capaces...
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This is the first modern history for general readers of the entire Jacobite movement in Scotland, England and Ireland, from the 'Glorious Revolution' of 1688 that drove James II into exile to the death of his grandson, Cardinal Henry, Duke of York, in 1807. The Battle of Culloden and Bonnie Prince Charlie's flight through the heather are well known, but not the other risings and plots that involved half of Europe and even revolutionary America. Based...
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Its landscaped ground, chosen by Frederick Law Olmsted and dotted with Tudor mansions, could belong to a New England prep school. There are no fences, no guards, no locked gates. But McLean Hospital is a mental institution-one of the most famous, most elite, and once most luxurious in America. McLean "alumni" include Olmsted himself, Robert Lowell, Sylvia Plath, James Taylor and Ray Charles, as well as (more secretly) other notables from among the...
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This "carefully argued and well-written study" examines French royal statecraft in the globalizing economy of the early modern Mediterranean (Choice).
This is the story of how the French Crown and local institutions accommodated one another as they sought to forge acceptable political and commercial relationships. Junko Thérèse Takeda tells this tale through the particular experience of Marseille, a port the monarchy saw as key to commercial expansion...
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El mundo sobrenatural forma parte de lo cotidiano por muy racionales y escépticos que pretendamos ser, puesto que no sólo siguen activas creencias y prácticas, sino que forman parte de nuestra cultura y de nuestra historia. "Historia de la hechicería y de las brujas" nos presenta a hechiceros y brujas de todas las latitudes y épocas, pero también de su impacto en las sociedades donde se han manifestado. Aborda el tema desde una doble perspectiva:...
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By the end of 1914, 15,000 Yorkshire miners had volunteered for the army, with around 1,000 from a single Castleford pit. Over the next four years these courageous men would write home from the killing fields of France, Gallipoli, Italy, Mesopotamia and Africa. As the men marched away, the families they left behind were about to experience a war that reached into every home, touching every man, woman and child in the country. This was total war.
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This is the story of the border: a place of beginnings and endings, of differences and similarities. It is the story of England and Scotland, told not from the remoteness of London or Edinburgh or in the tired terms of national histories, but up close and personal, toe to toe and eyeball to eyeball across the tweed, the Cheviots, the Esk, and the tidal races of the upper Solway. This is a tale told in blood, fun, and granite-hard memory. This is the...
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A concise illustrated history of North Carolina, from its dubious beginnings as a pirate-filled colony to a popular tourist destination.
Author and illustrator Ben Fortson presents North Carolina's history in the form of off-the-wall anecdotes, poignant insights and sublimely silly illustrations. Take a hilarious look at Daniel Boone's larger-than-life Carolina personality. Peruse an uproarious account of the Andrew Jackson birthplace controversy...
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In Twelve Who Don't Agree, journalist Valery Panyushkin profiles twelve Russians from across the country's social spectrum, including: a politician, a journalist, an army officer, an author, a bank manager, a laborer, and a university student. Despite varied backgrounds, they all have one thing in common participation in the historic March of the Dissidents. Held in 2007 to protest the eroding state of affairs in Russia, the march was held in flagrant...
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A dramatic history of a group of families in post-gold rush California who turned to agriculture when mining failed.
"It is a glorious country," exclaimed Stephen J. Field, the future U.S. Supreme Court justice, upon arriving in California in 1849. Field's pronouncement was more than just an expression of exuberance. For an electrifying moment, he and another 100,000 hopeful gold miners found themselves face-to-face with something commensurate to...
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An illustrated history of World War II-era women's fashions, featuring ladies from all nations involved in conflict.
What would you wear to war?
How would you dress for a winter mission in the open cockpit of a Russian bomber plane? At a fashion show in Occupied Paris? Singing in Harlem, or on fire watch in Tokyo? Women's Lives and Clothes in WW2 is a unique, illustrated insight into the experiences of women worldwide during World War II and...
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At the height of the Vietnam War protests, twenty-eight-year-old Judith Nies and her husband lived a seemingly idyllic life. Both were building their respective careers in Washington-Nies as the speechwriter and chief staffer to a core group of antiwar congressmen, her husband as a Treasury department economist. But when her husband brought home a list of questions from an FBI file with Judith's name on the front, Nies soon realized that her life...
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D'une ville, Bruxelles, au fil des cent dernières années.
De Paul Otlet, un architecte de la connaissance, monomaniaque et brillantissime, qui a Imaginé le Palais mondial, un temple de l'information et de la paix universelle.
D'une amitié entre Paul, Léonie et Henri La Fontaine, couronné du prix Nobel de la paix en 1913, qui ont pensé ensemble une préfiguration de Wikipédia, il y a tout juste cent ans, en créant pas moins de dix-huit...
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A historical analysis of the contribution of Great Britain's public schools to the conduct of World War II.
Following their ground-breaking book on Public Schools and the Great War, David Walsh and Anthony Seldon now examine how those same schools fared in the Second World War. They use eye-witness testimony to recount stories of resilience and improvisation in 1940 as the likelihood of invasion and the terrors of the Blitz threatened the very survival...
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A social historian examines the use of technology in modern U.S. history and offers a different way to group American generations.
The G.I. Generation. Silents. Baby Boomers. Gen Xers. Millenials. Generation Z. Every generation has its label and box. But the real question is: Why? Enter GenTech. It's a whole new way to look at American generations. Instead of the conventional fixed and linear dates for generational cohorts, Dr. Rick Chromey proposes...
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A study of what American cookbooks from the 1790s to the 1960s can show us about gender roles, food, and culture of their time.
From the first edition of The Fannie Farmer Cookbook to the latest works by today's celebrity chefs, cookbooks reflect more than just passing culinary fads. As historical artifacts, they offer a unique perspective on the cultures that produced them. In Manly Meals and Mom's Home Cooking, Jessamyn Neuhaus offers a perceptive...
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The film critic's sweeping analysis of American cinema in the Cold War era.
An Army of Phantoms is a major work of film history and cultural criticism by leading film critic J. Hoberman.
Hoberman demonstrates how the nation's deep-seated fears and wishes were projected onto the big screen. In this far-reaching work of historical synthesis, Cecil B. DeMille rubs shoulders with Douglas MacArthur, atomic tests are shown on live TV, God talks on...
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The Verdict of Reason explains why same-sex "marriage" can't be the real thing and shouldn't be recognized in law. Part I focuses on the limited task of showing that there is a rational basis for recognizing only marriage between a man and a woman. Marriage is a way of binding oneself. Society does not recognize in individuals an unlimited power to bind themselves. Sometimes it makes promises and contracts legally binding and requires people to fulfill...
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