Gods of the Upper Air: How a Circle of Renegade Anthropologists Reinvented Race, Sex, and Gender in the Twentieth Century (King Charles)(Paperback)

Gods of the Upper Air: How a Circle of Renegade Anthropologists Reinvented Race, Sex, and Gender in the Twentieth Century (King Charles)(Paperback)

2020 Anisfield-Wolf Book Award WinnerFinalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award From an award-winning historian comes a dazzling history of the birth of cultural anthropology and the adventurous scientists who pioneered it--a sweeping chronicle of discovery and the fascinating origin story

Reinvention of Humanity - How a Circle of Renegade Anthropologists Remade Race, Sex and Gender (King Charles)(Paperback / softback)

The Reinvention of Humanity : A Story of Race, Sex, Gender and the Discovery of Culture - Charles King

The Reinvention of Humanity tells the story of a small circle of renegade scientist-explorers who changed something profound: what it means to be normal. In the early twentieth century, these pioneering anthropologists, most of them women, made intrepid journeys that overturned our assumptions

The Masterworks of Charles M. Russell, Volume 6: A Retrospective of Paintings and Sculpture (Troccoli Joan Carpenter)(Paperback)

In the decades bracketing the turn of the twentieth century, Charles M. Russell depicted the American West in a fresh, personal, and deeply moving way. To this day, Russell is celebrated for his paintings and sculptures of cowboys at work and play, his sensitive portrayals of American Indians, and

After the Map: Cartography, Navigation, and the Transformation of Territory in the Twentieth Century (Rankin William)(Paperback)

For most of the twentieth century, maps were indispensable. They were how governments understood, managed, and defended their territory, and during the two world wars they were produced by the hundreds of millions. Cartographers and journalists predicted the dawning of a 'map-minded age,' where

Trans: Gender and Race in an Age of Unsettled Identities (Brubaker Rogers)(Paperback)

How the transgender experience opens up new possibilities for thinking about gender and race In the summer of 2015, shortly after Caitlyn Jenner came out as transgender, the NAACP official and political activist Rachel Dolezal was 'outed' by her parents as white, touching off a heated debate in the

Beyond the Binary: Thinking about Sex and Gender (Dea Shannon)(Paperback)

How many sexes are there? What is the relationship between sex and gender? Is gender a product of nature, or nurture, or both? In Beyond the Binary, Shannon Dea addresses these questions while introducing readers to evidence and theoretical perspectives from a range of cultures and disciplines, and

Elvis in Vegas: How the King Reinvented the Las Vegas Show (Zoglin Richard)(Paperback)

'Outstanding pop-culture history.' --Newsday The 'smart and zippy account' (The Wall Street Journal) of how Las Vegas saved Elvis and Elvis saved Las Vegas in the greatest musical comeback of all time. Elvis's 1969 opening night in Vegas was his first time back on a live stage in more than eight

The Biopolitics of Feeling: Race, Sex, and Science in the Nineteenth Century (Schuller Kyla)(Paperback)

In The Biopolitics of Feeling Kyla Schuller unearths the forgotten, multiethnic sciences of impressibility--the capacity to be transformed by one's environment and experiences--to uncover how biopower developed in the United States. Schuller challenges prevalent interpretations of biopower and

Intimate Frontiers: Sex, Gender, and Culture in Old California (Hurtado Albert L.)(Paperback)

This book reveals how powerful undercurrents of sex, gender, and culture helped shape the history of the American frontier from the 1760s to the 1850s. Looking at California under three flags--those of Spain, Mexico, and the United States--Hurtado resurrects daily life in the missions, at mining

Charles Schwab: How One Company Beat Wall Street and Reinvented the Brokerage Industry (Kador John)(Paperback)

Schwab's revolutionary approach to success in the face of adversity Since its founding in 1973, Schwab has led the full-brokerage market by stressing customer service. Today, Schwab has established itself as a company with a unique identity: old-fashioned integrity meets technology-empowered

London in the Twentieth Century - A City and Its People (White Jerry)(Paperback / softback)

Jerry White's London in the Twentieth Century, Winner of the Wolfson Prize, is a masterful account of the city's most tumultuous century by its leading expert. In 1901 no other city matched London in size, wealth and

That Middle World: Race, Performance, and the Politics of Passing (Charles Julia S.)(Paperback)

In this study of racial passing literature, Julia S. Charles highlights how mixed-race subjects invent cultural spaces for themselves--a place she terms that middle world--and how they, through various performance strategies, make meaning in the interstices between the Black and white worlds

How Did the Persian King of Kings Get His Wine? the Upper Tigris in Antiquity (C.700 Bce to 636 Ce) (Comfort Anthony)(Paperback)

How did the Persian King of Kings Get His Wine? the upper Tigris in antiquity (c.700 BCE to 636 CE)' explores the upper valley of the Tigris during antiquity. The area is little known to scholarship, and study is currently handicapped by the security situation in southeast Turkey and by the

Rakes of the Old Court (Caragiale Mateiu I.)(Paperback)

Widely regarded as the greatest Romanian novel of the twentieth century, Mateiu Caragiale's Rakes of the Old Court (Craii de Curtea-Veche) follows four characters through the bars and brothels of Bucharest. Guided by an amoral opportunist, the shadowy narrator and his two affluent friends drink and

Gaga Feminism: Sex, Gender, and the End of Normal (Halberstam J. Jack)(Paperback)

A roadmap to sex and gender for the twenty-first century, using Lady Gaga as a symbol for a new kind of feminism Why are so many women single, so many men resisting marriage, and so many gays and lesbians having babies? In Gaga Feminism: Sex, Gender, and the End of Normal, J. Jack Halberstam

Reforging a Forgotten History: Iraq and the Assyrians in the Twentieth Century (Donabed Sargon)(Paperback)

Traces the dynamic history of Iraq in the 20th century and reinserts the modern remnants of these peoples into its day-to-day

Re-Enchanted: The Rise of Children's Fantasy Literature in the Twentieth Century (Cecire Maria Sachiko)(Paperback)

From The Hobbit to Harry Potter, how fantasy harnesses the cultural power of magic, medievalism, and childhood to re-enchant the modern world Why are so many people drawn to fantasy set in medieval, British-looking lands? This question has immediate significance for millions around the world: from

The Invisible Flneuse?: Gender, Public Space and Visual Culture in Nineteenth Century Paris (Meskimmon Marsha)(Paperback)

This collection of essays revisits gender and urban modernity in nineteenth-century Paris in the wake of changes to the fabric of the city and social life. In rethinking the figure of the fl�neur, the contributors apply the most current thinking in literature and urban studies to an examination

Black London, 22: The Imperial Metropolis and Decolonization in the Twentieth Century (Matera Marc)(Paperback)

This vibrant history of London in the twentieth century reveals the city as a key site in the development of black internationalism and anticolonialism. Marc Matera shows the significant contributions of people of African descent to London's rich social and cultural history, masterfully weaving

No Women Jump Out!: Gender Exclusion, Labour Organization and Political Leadership in Antigua 1917-1970 (Phelan Craig)(Paperback)

This book provides a history of twentieth-century labour in the British colony of Antigua and Barbuda. It contains documented evidence of class struggle between landowners and peasants both before and after the formal, legal introdudction of trade and labour unions in 1940. It shows that women were

The Mah Circle (Simenon Georges)(Paperback)

'One of the greatest writers of the twentieth century . . . Simenon was unequaled at making us look inside, though the ability was masked by his brilliance at absorbing us obsessively in his stories.' --The GuardianThe first-ever English publication of Georges Simenon's compelling novel about

One Hundred Years of Socialism: The West European Left in the Twentieth Century (Sassoon Donald)(Paperback)

This new edition of Donald Sassoon's magisterial history of the Left in the twentieth century includes a substantial new introduction by the author. With unique authority and unparalleled scholarship, Sassoon traces the fortunes of the political parties of the left in Western Europe across 14

Children born of war in the twentieth century (Lee Sabine)(Paperback)

This book explores the life courses of children born of war in different twentieth-century conflicts, including the Second World War, the Vietnam War, the Bosnian War, the Rwandan Genocide and the LRA conflict. It investigates both governmental and military policies vis- -vis children born of war