Bøger i A Quadrant Book serien
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- Bog
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- The Rise of Public Dining in Boston
260,95 - 733,95 kr. Before the 1820s, the vast majority of Americans ate only at home. As the nation began to urbanize and industrialize, home and work became increasingly divided, resulting in new forms of commercial dining.In this fascinating book, Kelly Erby explores the evolution of such eating alternatives in Boston during the nineteenth century.
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- Reading a West African Road
270,95 - 993,95 kr. Sometimes a road is more than just a road
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- The Architectures of Unilateral Unification
409,95 kr. The first architectural history of post-1967 Jerusalem, revealing the ways architectural modernism and Zionism have intertwined to imagine and reshape the city
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- 409,95 kr.
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- Civics and Sympathy in Post-Welfare Chicago
243,95 - 873,95 kr. In 1995 a half-vacant public housing project on Chicago's Near West Side fell to the wrecking ball. The demolition and reconstruction of the Henry Horner housing complex ushered in the most ambitious urban housing experiment of its kind: smaller, mixed-income, and partially privatized developments that, the thinking went, would mitigate the insecur
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- Collective Pseudonyms from the Luddites to Anonymous
270,95 kr. Bridging gaps among thehistory of the labor movement, cinema studies, art history, media activism, andhacking, Improper Names examines the contentious politics and thestruggles for the control of a shared alias from the early nineteenth centuryto the age of networks.
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- Activism and Community in San Francisco Public Housing
281,95 - 763,95 kr. By looking closely at three public housing projects in San Francisco, Amy L. Howard brings to light the dramatic measures tenants have taken to create communities that mattered to them. These stories challenge assumptions about public housing and its tenants--and make way for a broader, more productive and inclusive vision of the public housing program in the United States.
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- Places and Agents in Contemporary Health Care
309,95 - 628,95 kr. Analyzing the medical clinic after neoliberalism.
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- Extracting Nature and Identity in the Appalachian Coalfields
325,95 - 698,95 kr. An ethnography of coal country in southern West Virginia.
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- Performing Leisure, Liberalism, and Race in New Zealand
348,95 - 738,95 kr. Examining the role of performance in state-making
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- The Afropolitan Ethics of Malian Music
281,95 - 808,95 kr. "Sponsored by the Quadrant Global Cultures group ... and by the Institute for Global Studies at the University of Minnesota."
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- 281,95 kr.
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- Development through Disease in Sierra Leone
260,95 kr. "Sponsored by Quadrant's Health and Society group (advisory board: Susan Craddock, Jennifer Gunn, Alex Rothman, and Karen-Sue Taussig), and by the Center for Bioethics at the University of Minnesota."
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- The Emergence of an Affective Medium in China, 1915-1945
302,95 kr. In Fiery Cinema, Weihong Bao traces the permutations of cinema as an affective medium in China from the early through the mid-twentieth century, exploring its role in aesthetics, politics, and social institutions.
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- White Flight and the Animal Ghetto
267,95 kr. Why do we feel bad at the zoo? In a fascinating counterhistory of American zoos in the 1960s and 1970s, Lisa Uddin revisits the familiar narrative of zoo reform, from naked cages to more naturalistic enclosures. She argues that reform belongs to the story of cities and feelings toward many of their human inhabitants. In "Zoo Renewal, " Uddin demon
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- Pious Neoliberalism and Islamic Charity in Egypt
281,95 kr. Originally presented as the author's thesis (doctoral)--University of Washington, 2008.
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- Oil, Freedom, and the Forces of Capital
273,95 kr. Looking beyond the usual culprits, Lifeblood finds a deeper and more complex explanation in everyday practices of oil consumption in American culture. Matthew T. Huber uses oil to retell American political history from the triumph of New Deal liberalism to the rise of the New Right, from oil's celebration as the lifeblood of postwar capitalism to increasing anxieties over oil addiction.
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- 273,95 kr.