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  • Micro-blogging Memories

    Weibo and Collective Remembering in Contemporary China

    by Eileen Le Han ...
    Series series Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
    This book offers an in-depth account of social media, journalism and collective memory through a five-year analysis of Weibo, a leading Chinese micro-blogging platform, and prism of transitional China in a globalizing world.How does society remember public events in the rapidly changing age of social media?Eileen Le Han examines how various kinds of public events are shared, debated, and their ... Read more

    $49.49 USD

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  • Dangerous Games

    The Uses and Abuses of History

    by Margaret MacMillan ...
    Series Book 31 - Modern Library Chronicles
    Acclaimed historian Margaret MacMillan explores here the many ways in which history affects us all. She shows how a deeper engagement with history, both as individuals and in the sphere of public debate, can help us understand ourselves and the world better. But she also warns that history can be misused and lead to misunderstanding. History is used to justify religious movements and political ... Read more

    $10.99 USD

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  • The Strange Non-death of Neo-liberalism

    by Colin Crouch ...
    The financial crisis seemed to present a fundamental challenge to neo liberalism, the body of ideas that have constituted the political orthodoxy of most advanced economies in recent decades. Colin Crouch argues in this book that it will shrug off this challenge. The reason is that while neo liberalism seems to be about free markets, in practice it is concerned with the dominance over public life ... Read more

    $16.00 USD

  • Doing Oral History

    by Donald A. Ritchie ...
    Oral history is vital to our understanding of the cultures and experiences of the past. Unlike written history, oral history forever captures people's feelings, expressions, and nuances of language. But what exactly is oral history? How reliable is the information gathered by oral history? And what does it take to become an oral historian? Donald A. Ritchie, a leading expert in the field, answers ... Read more

    $13.29 USD

  • What Islam Did For Us

    Understanding Islam's Contribution to Western Civilization

    by Tim Wallace-Murphy ...
    In these troubled times, when Islam is under seemingly perpetual attack, it is imperative to consider how much the West owes to the religion’s spiritual insights. Bestselling author Tim Wallace-Murphy presents the first major popular book to examine the common roots of Judaism, Christianity, and Islam and to reveal Islam’s immense contributions to our society—which included laying the foundations ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • Siege Warfare

    The Fortress in the Early Modern World 1494-1660

    by Christopher Duffy ...
    This classic text is the first integrated survey of the phenomenon of siege warfare during its most creative period. Duffy demonstrates the implications of the fortress for questions of military organization, strategy, geography, law, architectural values, town life and symbolism and imagination. The book is well illustrated, and will be a valuable companion for enthusiasts of military and ... Read more

    $57.99 USD

  • Historical Theory

    by Mary Fulbrook ...
    Practising historians claim that their accounts of the past are something other than fiction, myth or propaganda. Yet there are significant challenges to this view, most notably from postmodernism. In Historical Theory, a prominent historian develops a highly original argument that evaluates the diversity of approaches to history and points to a constructive way forward.Mary Fulbrook argues that ... Read more

    $57.99 USD

  • Afro-Latin America

    Black Lives, 1600–2000

    by George Reid Andrews ...
    Series series The Nathan I. Huggins Lectures
    Of the almost 11 million Africans who came to the Americas between 1500 and 1870, two-thirds came to Spanish America and Brazil. Over four centuries, Africans and their descendants—both free and enslaved—participated in the political, social, and cultural movements that indelibly shaped their countries’ colonial and post-independence pasts. Yet until very recently Afro-Latin Americans were ... Read more

    $34.49 USD

  • The Classical Debt

    Greek Antiquity in an Era of Austerity

    by Johanna Hanink ...
    Ever since the International Monetary Fund’s first bailout of Greece’s sinking economy in 2010, the phrase “Greek debt” has meant one thing to the country’s creditors. But for millions who claim to prize culture over capital, it means something quite different: the symbolic debt that Western civilization owes to Greece for furnishing its principles of democracy, philosophy, mathematics, and fine ... Read more

    $30.29 USD

  • History and Popular Memory

    The Power of Story in Moments of Crisis

    by Paul Cohen ...
    When people experience a traumatic event, such as war or the threat of annihilation, they often turn to history for stories that promise a positive outcome to their suffering. During World War II, the French took comfort in the story of Joan of Arc and her heroic efforts to rid France of foreign occupation. To bring the Joan narrative more into line with current circumstances, however, popular ... Read more

    $31.99 USD

  • Thomas Aquinas on Bodily Identity

    by Antonia Fitzpatrick ...
    This is a study of the union of matter and the soul in the human being in the thought of the Dominican Thomas Aquinas. At first glance this issue might appear arcane, but it was at the centre of polemic with heresy in the thirteenth century and at the centre of the development of medieval thought more broadly. The book argues that theological issues, especially the need for an identical body to be ... Read more

    $80.99 USD

  • LUZON –French Morocco (The U.S. Army Campaigns of World War II)

    by Dale Andrade ...
    Series series The U.S. Army Campaigns of World War II
    LUZON –French Morocco (The U.S. Army Campaigns of World War II)-This ebook Included TOC for Reader.-This sample in this ebook ;World War II was the largest and most violent armed conflict in the history of mankind. However, the half century that now separates us from that conflict has exacted its toll on our collective knowledge. While World War II continues to absorb the interest of military ... Read more

    $2.99 USD