Home > History
History
True Sex: The Lives of Trans Men at the Turn of the Twentieth Century by Emily Skidmore
epub |eng | 2017-09-19 | Author:Emily Skidmore

Conclusion As this chapter has shown, newspapers throughout the early twentieth century found that foreignness was a convenient means to pathologize nonnormative gender and sexual formations. Foreignness provided a framework ...
( Category: LGBT January 19,2020 )
The Great Partition: The Making of India and Pakistan by Yasmin Khan
epub |eng | 2017-01-15 | Author:Yasmin Khan [Khan, Yasmin]

Revealing the borderline Still, few, if any, were contemplating a mass migration of any description. Some leaders mooted the idea of moving people long before 1947. ‘Quite a number of ...
( Category: Asian January 19,2020 )
A History of the World in Seven Cheap Things: A Guide to Capitalism, Nature, and the Future of the Planet by Raj Patel & Jason W. Moore
epub |eng | 2017-09-19 | Author:Raj Patel & Jason W. Moore [Patel, Raj & Moore, Jason W.]

THE DUTCH DISEASE Let’s begin with the words of Peter Voser, who in 2012 was the CEO of Royal Dutch Shell: In the United States, for example, the American Petroleum ...
( Category: Human Geography January 19,2020 )
Money and Government by Skidelsky Robert
epub |eng | 2018-01-15 | Author:Skidelsky, Robert [Skidelsky, Robert]

Figure 36. Post-crash outcomes: Germany, Greece and Eurozone47 Figure 37. UK austerity – counterfactual medicine48 Simon Wren-Lewis of Oxford University calculates the cost of austerity up to 2017 as between ...
( Category: Economic Policy January 19,2020 )
The Witch: A History of Fear, From Ancient Times to the Present by Ronald Hutton
epub |eng | 2017-01-15 | Author:Ronald Hutton [Hutton, Ronald]

Bloodsuckers, Wolf-riders and Ladies In the Alps and Pyrenees, and the lands immediately south of them, a rich crop of folkloric motifs features in prosecutions for witchcraft, one of them ...
( Category: Folklore & Mythology January 19,2020 )
Death in the City: Suicide and the Social Imaginary in Modern Mexico by Kathryn A. Sloan
epub |eng | 2017-01-15 | Author:Kathryn A. Sloan [Sloan, Kathryn A.]

DEGENERATION AND THE MORAL DECLINE OF SOCIETY Dr. Beard’s discourse on neurasthenia did not address degeneration per se, but Mexican medical specialists agreed with French and German experts, who believed ...
( Category: Women in History January 19,2020 )
Against Dharma by Wendy Doniger
epub, pdf |eng | 2017-01-15 | Author:Wendy Doniger [Doniger, Wendy]

6 Skepticism and Materialism in Ancient India Who Were the Lokayatikas and the Charvakas? I have argued that the Kamasutra and the Arthashastra often deviated significantly from dharma in ways ...
( Category: Karma January 19,2020 )
The Talmud: A Biography by Barry Scott Wimpfheimer
epub, pdf |eng | 2018-04-17 | Author:Barry Scott Wimpfheimer [Wimpfheimer, Barry Scott]

Jewish Philosophy It can be difficult to properly apprehend the long-ago impact of Greek philosophy on theories of nature, the function of the world, and the roles of human beings ...
( Category: Talmud January 19,2020 )
The Hand of God: Claude Ryan and the Fate of Canadian Liberalism, 1925-1971 by Michael Gauvreau
epub |eng | 2017-01-15 | Author:Michael Gauvreau [Gauvreau, Michael]

9 “We Choose the Canadian Hypothesis” Defining the Ethics of Federalism, 1964 Those who have never lived this ideal are now compelled to grope towards its achievement. Those who have ...
( Category: Historical January 19,2020 )
American Oligarchy: The Permanent Political Class by Ron Formisano
epub |eng | 2017-09-27 | Author:Ron Formisano [Formisano, Ron]

Copyright Ed Gamble. Reprinted with permission. Part of the Virginia settlement went to reimburse state Medicaid programs, but Kentucky refused an offer to settle for $500,000 and filed its own ...
( Category: Economic Policy January 19,2020 )
Unfinished Business: The Unexplored Causes of the Financial Crisis and the Lessons Yet to Be Learned by Tamim Bayoumi
epub |eng | 2017-01-15 | Author:Tamim Bayoumi [Bayoumi, Tamim]

Chapter 6 A HISTORY OF THE INTERNATIONAL MONETARY SYSTEM IN FIVE CRISES A strong belief in the virtues of open global capital markets amplified and—in particular—globalized the costs of the ...
( Category: Banks & Banking January 19,2020 )
Nuclear Summer by Louise Krasniewicz
epub |eng | 2017-09-23 | Author:Louise Krasniewicz

Between the ritual processes of separation and reintegration, the encampment offered participants an opportunity to pass through a state of liminality as well, a state of transition and reflection. As ...
( Category: Americas January 19,2020 )
Steven Spielberg by Molly Haskell
epub |eng | 2017-01-15 | Author:Molly Haskell [Haskell, Molly]

10 Empire of the Sun SHANGHAI, ON THE EVE of Pearl Harbor. The camera tracks along a muddy river where wreaths of flowers and wooden coffins are carried along by ...
( Category: Actors & Entertainers January 19,2020 )
Russian Cosmism by Groys Boris; & Russian Cosmism
epub |eng | 2018-03-08 | Author:Groys, Boris; & Russian Cosmism

Hence, it is clear that if we completely destroyed the albedo, which is impossible, Earth’s average temperature would climb to 104 degrees Celsius. But even a slight decrease in the ...
( Category: Criticism January 19,2020 )
The Rules of the Game Series, Volume 3 by Michel Leiris
epub |eng | 2017-01-15 | Author:Michel Leiris [Leiris, Michel]

III I must have been fourteen or fifteen years old when I saw, at the Alhambra in Paris, the following act. Dressed in a dark suit of very correct cut, ...
( Category: Arts & Literature January 19,2020 )

First Prev [3143] [3144] [3145] [3146] 3147 [3148] [3149] [3150] [3151] [3152] [3153] Next Last