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Дополнительные действия Combee: Harriet Tubman, the Combahee River Raid, and Black Freedom during the Civil War
Edda L. Fields-Black
ISBN:9780197552797, 019755279X
Год издания:2024
Издательство:Oxford University Press
Язык:Русский

The story of the Combahee River Raid, one of Harriet Tubman's most extraordinary accomplishments, based on original documents and written by a descendant of one of the…

Дополнительные действия Voice, Slavery, and Race in Seventeenth-Century Florence
Emily Wilbourne
ISBN:9780197646915, 0197646913
Год издания:2024
Издательство:Oxford University Press
Язык:Английский

Grounded in new archival research documenting a significant presence of foreign and racially-marked individuals in Medici Florence, this book argues for the relevance of such…

Дополнительные действия Crimean Quagmire: Tolstoy, Russell and the Birth of Modern Warfare
Gregory Carleton
ISBN:0197798861, 978-0197798867
Год издания:2024
Издательство:Oxford University Press

The Crimean War was the greatest international crisis of the Victorian era, and a modern war of rifles, railroads and telegraphs. As it raged, two writers embedded in the…

Дополнительные действия Serpent in Eden: Foreign Meddling and Partisan Politics in James Madison's America
Tyson Reeder
ISBN:9780197628591, 0197628591
Год издания:2024
Издательство:Oxford University Press
Язык:Английский

A story of espionage, shadow diplomacy, foreign scheming, and domestic backstabbing in the formative years of the American republic.

Tyson Reeder's book traces early America's…

Дополнительные действия Learn Faster, Perform Better: A Musician's Guide to the Neuroscience of Practicing
Molly Gebrian
ISBN:978-0197680070
Год издания:2024
Издательство:Oxford University Press
Язык:Английский

Practicing is an essential part of every musician's life, but we are rarely taught how to practice in the most effective and efficient way. Many of us find ourselves frustrated…

Дополнительные действия Empire of Rags and Bones: Waste and War in Nazi Germany
Anne Berg
ISBN:9780197744000, 0197744001
Год издания:2024
Издательство:Oxford University Press
Язык:Английский

Paper, bottles, metal scrap, kitchen garbage, rubber, hair, fat, rags, and bones--the Nazi empire demanded its population obsessively collect anything that could be reused or…

Дополнительные действия The Self: A Very Short Introduction
Мария Шехтман
ISBN:9780198835257
Год издания:2024
Издательство:Oxford University Press
Язык:Английский

'Know thyself' is said to have been one of the maxims carved into the Temple of Apollo at Delphi. On the face of it, this does not seem like a very difficult task. My self is with…

Дополнительные действия Collisions: The Origins of the War in Ukraine and the New Global Instability
Michael Kimmage
ISBN:978-0197751794
Год издания:2024
Издательство:Oxford University Press
Язык:Английский

One war: three collisions--in this vividly written, narrative history of the war in Ukraine, Michael Kimmage puts together the pieces of a complicated international puzzle to…

Дополнительные действия When Left Moves Right: The Decline of the Left and the Rise of the Populist Right in Postcommunist Europe
Maria Snegovaya
ISBN:9780197699034
Год издания:2024
Издательство:Oxford University Press
Язык:Английский

Over the past two decades, postcommunist countries have witnessed a sudden shift in the electoral fortunes of their political parties: previously successful center-left parties…

Дополнительные действия Peerless among Princes: The Life and Times of Sultan Süleyman
Kaya Şahin
ISBN:0197531636
Год издания:2023
Издательство:Oxford University Press

Süleyman, who ruled the Ottoman Empire between 1520 and 1566, was a globally recognized figure during his lifetime. His domain extended from Hungary to Iran, and from the Crimea…

Дополнительные действия Broadway Bodies: A Critical History of Conformity
Ryan Donovan
ISBN:9780197551073, 0197551076
Год издания:2023
Издательство:Oxford University Press
Язык:Английский

Broadway has body issues.

What is a Broadway Body? Broadway has long preserved the ideology of the "Broadway Body": the hyper-fit, exceptionally able, triple-threat performer…

Дополнительные действия Uncle silas
Джозеф Шеридан Ле Фаню
ISBN:9780198864356
Год издания:2023
Издательство:Oxford University Press
Язык:Английский

'The old woman opened the door, and the next moment I was in the presence of Uncle Silas.'

In Victorian Derbyshire, 17 year old orphan and heiress Maud Ruthyn is sent to live…

Дополнительные действия Sparks
Ian Johnson
ISBN:978-0197575505, 0197575501
Год издания:2023
Издательство:Oxford University Press
Язык:Английский

Sparks: China's Underground Historians and their Battle for the Future describes how some of China's best-known writers, filmmakers, and artists have overcome crackdowns and…

Дополнительные действия Suharto's Cold War: Indonesia, Southeast Asia, and the World
Mattias Fibiger
ISBN:9780197667224, 0197667228
Год издания:2023
Издательство:Oxford University Press
Язык:Английский

After the murder of senior generals in the Indonesian army by elements of the country's communist party in 1965, General Suharto orchestrated the mass killing of some half a…

Дополнительные действия The Poverty of the World: Rediscovering the Poor at Home and Abroad, 1941-1968
Sheyda F.A. Jahanbani
ISBN:9780199765911, 019976591X
Год издания:2023
Издательство:Oxford University Press
Язык:Английский

In the middle of the twentieth century, liberal intellectuals and policymakers in the United States came to see poverty as a global problem. Applying Progressive era and…

Дополнительные действия Murder in a Mill Town: Sex, Faith, and the Crime That Captivated a Nation
Bruce Dorsey
ISBN:9780197633090, 0197633099
Год издания:2023
Издательство:Oxford University Press
Язык:Английский

A master storyteller presents a riveting drama of America's first "crime of the century"--from murder investigation to a church sex scandal to celebrity trial--and its aftermath.…

Дополнительные действия In Blood and Ashes: Curse Tablets and Binding Spells in Ancient Greece
Jessica Lamont
ISBN:9780197517789, 0197517781
Год издания:2023
Издательство:Oxford University Press
Язык:Английский

From binding spells and incantations to curse-writing rituals, magic pervaded the ancient Greek world. In Blood and Ashes provides the first historical study of the development…

Дополнительные действия The Renaissance of the Saints After Reform
Gina M. Di Salvo
ISBN:9780192865915, 0192865919
Год издания:2023
Издательство:Oxford University Press
Язык:Английский

The age of miracles was not yet past on the Shakespearean stage. In the first book-length study of the English saint play across the Reformation divide, The Renaissance of the…

Дополнительные действия How the Movies Got a Past: A Historiography of American Cinema, 1894-1930
Dimitrios Latsis
ISBN:9780197689271, 0197689272
Год издания:2023
Издательство:Oxford University Press
Язык:Английский

How the Movies Got a Past presents a comprehensive survey of the rise of historiographical discourse on cinema in North America as it is reflected in publications, exhibitions,…

Дополнительные действия The Hijacking of American Flight 119: How D.B. Cooper Inspired a Skyjacking Craze and the FBI's Battle to Stop It
John Wigger
ISBN:9780197695753
Год издания:2023
Издательство:Oxford University Press
Язык:Английский

In 1971, "D. B. Cooper" pulled off what some call the crime of the century, skyjacking a Boeing 727 and parachuting into history and legend. Here's a book that offers a gripping…

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