Browsing by Subject "20th century"
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Algerian chronicles
(Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2014)More than fifty years after Algerian independence, Albert Camus's Algerian Chronicles appears here in English for the first time. Published in France in 1958, the same year the Algerian War brought about the collapse of ... -
Berlin Psychoanalytic: psychoanalysis and culture in Weimar Republic Germany and beyond
(University of California Press, 2011)One hundred years after the Berlin Psychoanalytic Institute was established, this book recovers the cultural and intellectual history connected to this vibrant organization and places it alongside the London Bloomsbury ... -
Collecting evolution : the Galápagos expedition that vindicated Darwin
(Oxford University Press, 2017)In 1905, eight men from the California Academy of Sciences set sail from San Francisco for a scientific collection expedition in the Galapagos Islands, and by the time they were finished in 1906, they had completed one of ... -
International Women's Year : the greatest consciousness-raising event in history
(Oxford University Press, 2017)Amid the geopolitical and social turmoil of the 1970s, the United Nations declared 1975 as International Women's Year. The capstone event, a two-week conference in Mexico City, was dubbed by organizers and journalists as ... -
It's not like I'm poor: how working families make ends meet in a post-welfare world
(University of California Press, 2015)The world of welfare has changed radically. As the poor trade welfare checks for low-wage jobs, their low earnings qualify them for a hefty check come tax time a combination of the earned income tax credit and other refunds. ... -
Margaret Thatcher : a life and legacy
(Oxford University Press, 2017)Few modern women have had as great a political impact as Margaret Hilda Roberts, the grocer's daughter from Grantham who, as Margaret Thatcher, became Britain's first woman prime minister. The longest serving British premier ... -
The modern Middle East: a political history since the First World War
(University of California Press, 2011)Since it was first published in 2006, this concise overview of the making of the contemporary Middle East has become essential reading for students and general readers who want to gain a better understanding of this diverse ... -
The night Malcolm X spoke at the Oxford Union: a transatlantic story of antiracist protest
(University of California Press, 2014)Less than three months before he was assassinated, Malcolm X spoke at the Oxford Union the most prestigious student debating organization in the United Kingdom. The Oxford Union regularly welcomed heads of state and stars ... -
The other shore: essays on writers and writing
(University of California Press, 2013)In this book, ethnographer and poet Michael Jackson addresses the interplay between modes of writing, modes of understanding, and modes of being in the world. Drawing on literary, anthropological and autobiographical ... -
A poet's revolution: the life of Denise Levertov
(University of California Press, 2013)This first full-length biography of Anglo- American poet and activist Denise Levertov (1923-1997) brings to life one of the major voices of the second half of the twentieth century, when American poetry was a powerful ... -
Technology as human social tradition: cultural transmission among hunter-gatherers
(University of California Press, 2015)Technology as Human Social Tradition outlines a novel approach to studying variability and cumulative change in human technology—prominent research themes in both archaeology and anthropology. Peter Jordan argues that human ...
