Autor: Abarca Meredith E.

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The Gilded Age: Or the Hazard of New Functions

A very broad, balanced, accessible account of the Gilded Age (1865-1901) that includes all the recent scholarship on this period and offers a portrait of the economic, political, social and cultural …


geschrieben von Mark Wahlgren Summers (Autor)

Hollywood's New Deal PB

Acknowledgments Introduction 1. The New Deal and the Media 2. Hollywood and Washington 3. Cinema and the …

A ground-breaking exploration of the entertainment industry's role …


geschrieben von Giuliana Musico (Autor) und Giuliana Muscio (Autor) und Giulana Muscio (Autor)

Captain Ahab Had a Wife: New England Women and the Whalefishery, 1720-1870

A social history that uncovers the lives of maritime women in New England villages whose men were whalers during the 18th and 19th centuries. Norling draws from a variety of sources--including women's …


geschrieben von Lisa Norling (Autor)

Everyday Life in South Asia

This vivid anthology of ethnographic writing on South Asia focuses on the daily lives of people in India, Bangladesh, Nepal, Pakistan, and Sri Lanka. Firsthand accounts portray the ways ordinary …

Acknowledgements; Note on Transliteration; MapIntroductionI. The Family and the Life CourseIntroductionOne Straw from a Broom Cannot Sweep: The Ideology and Practice of the Joint Family in Rural North …


geschrieben von Diane P. Mines (Herausgeber) und Sarah Lamb (Herausgeber)

The Milltown Boys Revisited

Howard Williamson teaches in the School of Social Sciences, Cardiff University. Throughout his life he has also worked as a practising youth worker and been involved in the development of public …

How do some young people "escape" from a life of crime while others remain in it? This landmark book is the first longitudinal study of deviancy that gets to the heart of this question. During the …

Renewing Contact with the Milltown Boys * Methodology * Looking Back on Schooling * Teenage Dreams * Ducking and Diving, Dodging and Weaving: Employment 'Careers' * Criminal Careers: More Monty Python …


geschrieben von Williamson Howard (Autor) und Howard Williamson (Autor)

Coming Home?: Refugees, Migrants, and Those Who Stayed Behind

Lynellyn D. Long was Chief of Mission for International Migration in Bosnia-Herzegovina and the Country Representative for the Population Council in Vietnam. She teaches in the Department of …

The essays in "Coming Home?" examine the unique return migration experiences of refugees, migrants, …

Introduction: Toward an Ethnography of Return--Ellen Oxfeld and Lynellyn Long PART I: IMAGINED RETURNChapter 1: Illusions of Home in the Story of a Rwandan Refugee's Return--John JanzenChapter 2: …


geschrieben von Lynellyn Long (Orchester) und Lynellyn D. Long (Herausgeber) und Ellen Oxfeld (Herausgeber)

SECDEF: The Nearly Impossible Job of Secretary of Defense

Charles A. Stevenson, Ph.D., has observed the Office of the Secretary of Defense and its …

The men who struggle with Washington's …


geschrieben von Charles A. Stevenson (Autor)

Making the Americas: The United States and Latin America from the Age of Revolutions to the Era of Globalization

Thomas F. O'Brien is a professor of history at the University of Houston. He is the author of The Century of U.S. Capitalism in Latin America (UNM Press) and The Revolutionary Mission: American …

Synthesizing a range of international relations scholarship, including perspectives from gender, race, and cultural studies, this title offers the history of the Americas that ranges from the …


geschrieben von Thomas F. O'Brien (Autor)

Globalisation and Poverty: Channels and Policy Responses

World Bank, USA. University of …

The consequences of globalization for the world's poor are uncertain. This book addresses three core issues: What are the main channels of effect? What are the lessons to be learned from policy …


geschrieben von Bussolo Maurizi (Autor)


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