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  • Technology in the Industrial Revolution

    by Barbara Hahn ...
    Series series New Approaches to the History of Science and Medicine
    Technological change is about more than inventions. This concise history of the Industrial Revolution places the eighteenth-century British Industrial Revolution in global context, locating its causes in government protection, global competition, and colonialism. Inventions from spinning jennies to steam engines came to define an age that culminated in the acceleration of the fashion cycle, the ... Read more

    $23.79 USD

  • Rahel Varnhagen

    The Life of a Jewish Woman

    by Hannah Arendt ...
    Translated by Clara Winston, Richard Winston ...
    A biography of a Jewish woman, a writer who hosted a literary and political salon in late eighteenth- and early nineteenth-century Germany, written by one of the twentieth century's most prominent intellectuals, Hannah Arendt.Rahel Varnhagen: The Life of a Jewish Woman was Hannah Arendt’s first book, largely completed when she went into exile from Germany in 1933, though not published until the ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

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  • Moving Crops and the Scales of History

    by Francesca Bray, Barbara Hahn, John Bosco Lourdusamy ...
    Series series Yale Agrarian Studies Series
    A bold redefinition of historical inquiry based on the “cropscape”—the people, creatures, technologies, ideas, and places that surround a cropHuman efforts to move crops from one place to another have been a key driving force in history. Crops have been on the move for millennia, from wildlands into fields, from wetlands to dry zones, from one imperial colony to another. This book is a bold but ... Read more

    $28.99 USD

  • Moving Crops and the Scales of History

    by Francesca Bray, Barbara Hahn, John Bosco Lourdusamy ...
    Series series Yale Agrarian Studies Series
    A bold redefinition of historical inquiry based on the “cropscape”—the people, creatures, technologies, ideas, and places that surround a cropHuman efforts to move crops from one place to another have been a key driving force in history. Crops have been on the move for millennia, from wildlands into fields, from wetlands to dry zones, from one imperial colony to another. This book is a bold but ... Read more

    $32.79 USD

  • The U.S. City in Transition

    by Barbara Hahn ...
    Series series Earth and Environmental Science (R0)
    The U.S. city is undergoing constant change. In the East and Midwest, most cities were founded as trading posts on waterways. They boomed during the industrial era and reached their population peak in the mid-20th century, before suburbanization and deindustrialization caused them to decline in importance. Traces of decay were everywhere, and the prognosis for the future was conceivably poor.As ... Read more

    $62.99 USD

  • The Jewess Pallas Athena

    This Too a Theory of Modernity

    by Barbara Hahn ...
    "The Jewess Pallas Athena"--a line from a poem by Paul Celan. It is a provocative phrase, cutting across cultures and traditions. But it poses questions: How to reconstruct a culture that has been destroyed? How to conceive of history after the catastrophes of the twentieth century?This book begins in the mid-eighteenth century with the first Jewish women to raise their voices in German. It ends ... Read more

    $26.99 USD

  • The Cotton Kings

    Capitalism and Corruption in Turn-of-the-Century New York and New Orleans

    by Bruce E. Baker, Barbara Hahn ...
    The Cotton Kings relates a colorful economic drama with striking parallels to contemporary American economic debates. At the turn of the twentieth century, dishonest cotton brokers used bad information to lower prices on the futures market, impoverishing millions of farmers. To fight this corruption, a small group of brokers sought to control the price of cotton on unregulated exchanges in New ... Read more

    $23.79 USD

  • The Land of the white Birds

    by Volker Schmidt ...
    Illustrated by Bilder Barbara Hahn, Begleitaufgaben Erika Steinle, Pictures Barbara Hahn, Activities Erika Steinle ...
    THE LAND OF THE WHITE BIRDS presents a chance for children aged 6-12 and their parents to increase their environmental awareness together. It is a book for reading on your own as well as for reading aloud. The book contains a section with a varied range of activities, based on the super learning system, that help to deepen the children's knowledge about processes of cause and effect in our natural ... Read more

    $6.99 USD

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  • Men in Dark Times

    by Hannah Arendt ...
    "Each [essay is] a model of clarity, weight, gravity . . . each superbly centered on the moods, manners, works . . . of ten exemplary men and women" ( Kirkus Reviews, starred review)."Dark times" is Brecht's phrase, and Hannah Arendt uses it suggest that those she writes about are not "mouthpieces of the Zeitgeist", but, rather, that the routine repetitive horrors of the twentieth century form the ... Read more

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  • Franz Kafka (1883-1983)

    His Craft and Thought

    Edited by Roman Struc, John Yardley ...
    The eight papers in this volume were originally presented at the centennial conference on Franz Kafka held at the University of Calgary in October 1983. As diverse in approach and methodology as these papers are “the general drift of the volume is away from Germanistik towards ‘state-of-the-art’ methods.”The opening articles by Charles Bernheimer and James Rolleston both deal with the similarities ... Read more

    $27.39 USD

  • Unlearning with Hannah Arendt

    by Marie Luise Knott ...
    Short-listed for the Tractatus Essay Prize, an examination of the innovative strategies Arendt used to achieve intellectual freedomAfter observing the trial of Adolf Eichmann, Hannah Arendt articulated her controversial concept of the “banality of evil,” thereby posing one of the most chilling and divisive moral questions of the twentieth century: How can genocidal acts be carried out by non ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

  • Franz Werfel: The Faith of an Exile

    From Prague to Beverly Hills

    by Lionel Steiman ...
    Franz Werfel was born in Prague in 1890 and died in Beverly Hills in 1945, a popular and artistic success in Europe and America. Despite his Jewish birth and upbringing, he was attracted to Christianity at any early age, and although he never formally converted, he celebrated his own vision of it in his entire life's work. The origina sof that peculiar faith and the response it engendered in ... Read more

    $15.89 USD