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Weston Fulton in Tennessee - Edison of the South (Hardcover): Dewaine A Speaks Weston Fulton in Tennessee - Edison of the South (Hardcover)
Dewaine A Speaks
R720 Discovery Miles 7 200 Ships in 12 - 19 working days
Harper's Pictorial Library of the World War, Volume 8 - Inventive And Industrial Triumphs Of The War (Hardcover): Albert... Harper's Pictorial Library of the World War, Volume 8 - Inventive And Industrial Triumphs Of The War (Hardcover)
Albert Bushnell 1854-1943 Hart
R1,040 Discovery Miles 10 400 Ships in 12 - 19 working days
Youth and Popular Culture in 1950s Ireland (Hardcover): Eleanor O'Leary Youth and Popular Culture in 1950s Ireland (Hardcover)
Eleanor O'Leary
R4,239 Discovery Miles 42 390 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

Focusing on a decade in Irish history which has been largely overlooked, Youth and Popular Culture in 1950s Ireland provides the most complete account of the 1950s in Ireland, through the eyes of the young people who contributed, slowly but steadily, to the social and cultural transformation of Irish society. Eleanor O'Leary presents a picture of a generation with an international outlook, who played basketball, read comic books and romance magazines, listened to rock'n'roll music and skiffle, made their own clothes to mimic international styles and even danced in the street when the major stars and bands of the day rocked into town. She argues that this engagement with imported popular culture was a contributing factor to emigration and the growing dissatisfaction with standards of living and conservative social structures in Ireland. As well as outlining teenagers' resistance to outmoded forms of employment and unfair work practices, she maps their vulnerability as a group who existed in a limbo between childhood and adulthood. Issues of unemployment, emigration and education are examined alongside popular entertainments and social spaces in order to provide a full account of growing up in the decade which preceded the social upheaval of the 1960s. Examining the 1950s through the unique prism of youth culture and reconnecting the decade to the process of social and cultural transition in the second half of the 20th century, this book is a valuable contribution to the literature on 20th-century Irish history.

Principal Events, 1914-1918 (Hardcover): Great Britain Committee of Imperial D Principal Events, 1914-1918 (Hardcover)
Great Britain Committee of Imperial D; Henry Terence Skinner; Created by Harry Fitz Maurice Stacke
R1,041 Discovery Miles 10 410 Ships in 12 - 19 working days
The Australian Victories in France in 1918 - the Battles of the Australian Army on the Western Front During the Final Year of... The Australian Victories in France in 1918 - the Battles of the Australian Army on the Western Front During the Final Year of the First World War (Hardcover)
John Monash
R912 Discovery Miles 9 120 Ships in 12 - 19 working days
Operation Barbarossa - the Complete Organisational and Statistical Analysis, and Military Simulation, Volume I (Hardcover):... Operation Barbarossa - the Complete Organisational and Statistical Analysis, and Military Simulation, Volume I (Hardcover)
Nigel Askey
R1,132 Discovery Miles 11 320 Ships in 12 - 19 working days
Shaping Claims to Urban Land - An Ethnographic Guide to Governmentality in Bukavu's Hybrid Spaces (Hardcover): Fons van... Shaping Claims to Urban Land - An Ethnographic Guide to Governmentality in Bukavu's Hybrid Spaces (Hardcover)
Fons van Overbeek
R3,106 Discovery Miles 31 060 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

The concept of 'hybridity' is often still poorly theorized and problematically applied by peace and development scholars and researchers of resource governance. This book turns to a particular ethnographic reading of Michel Foucault's Governmentality and investigates its usefulness to study precisely those mechanisms, processes and practices that hybridity once promised to clarify. Claim-making to land and authority in a post-conflict environment is the empirical grist supporting this exploration of governmentality. Specifically in the periphery of Bukavu. This focus is relevant as urban land is increasingly becoming scarce in rapidly expanding cities of eastern Congo, primarily due to internal rural-to-urban migration as a result of regional insecurity. The governance of urban land is also important analytically as land governance and state authority in Africa are believed to be closely linked and co-evolve. An ethnographic reading of governmentality enables researchers to study hybridization without biasing analysis towards hierarchical dualities. Additionally, a better understanding of hybridization in the claim-making practices may contribute to improved government intervention and development assistance in Bukavu and elsewhere.

Sixteen Months in Four German Prisons - Wesel, Sennelager, Klingelputz, Ruhleben (Hardcover): Henry Charles Mahoney Sixteen Months in Four German Prisons - Wesel, Sennelager, Klingelputz, Ruhleben (Hardcover)
Henry Charles Mahoney; Created by Frederick Arthur Ambrose 1880 Talbot
R972 Discovery Miles 9 720 Ships in 12 - 19 working days
Reporting - Immigrants (Hardcover): Thomas Streissguth Reporting - Immigrants (Hardcover)
Thomas Streissguth
R558 Discovery Miles 5 580 Ships in 12 - 19 working days
The Queen's Gift Book - in Aid of Queen Mary's Convalescent Auxiliary Hospitals for Soldiers and Sailors Who Have... The Queen's Gift Book - in Aid of Queen Mary's Convalescent Auxiliary Hospitals for Soldiers and Sailors Who Have Lost Their Limbs in the War (Hardcover)
Arthur Conan Doyle
R865 Discovery Miles 8 650 Ships in 12 - 19 working days
Forgotten 1970 Chicago Cubs - Go and Glow (Hardcover): William S. Bike Forgotten 1970 Chicago Cubs - Go and Glow (Hardcover)
William S. Bike
R688 Discovery Miles 6 880 Ships in 12 - 19 working days
Screening Bosnia - Geopolitics, Gender and Nationalism in Film and Television Images of the 1992-95 War (Hardcover): Stephen... Screening Bosnia - Geopolitics, Gender and Nationalism in Film and Television Images of the 1992-95 War (Hardcover)
Stephen Harper
R4,230 Discovery Miles 42 300 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

The Bosnian war of 1992-1995 was one of the most brutal conflicts to have erupted since the end of the Second World War. But although the war occurred in 'Europe's backyard' and received significant media coverage in the West, relatively little scholarly attention has been devoted to cultural representations of the conflict. Stephen Harper analyses how the war has been depicted in global cinema and television over the past quarter of a century. Focusing on the representation of some of the war's major themes, including humanitarian intervention, the roles of NATO and the UN, genocide, rape and ethnic cleansing, Harper explores the role of popular media culture in reflecting, reinforcing -- and sometimes contesting -- nationalist ideologies.

An Autobiography by Theodore Roosevelt - Complete and Unabridged with Appendices and Notes (Hardcover) (Hardcover): Theodore... An Autobiography by Theodore Roosevelt - Complete and Unabridged with Appendices and Notes (Hardcover) (Hardcover)
Theodore Roosevelt
R1,036 Discovery Miles 10 360 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

The acclaimed autobiography of Theodore 'Teddy' Roosevelt is brought to the reader anew in this well-produced edition, inclusive of all notes and appendices. Written over years and published in 1913, this lengthy yet engrossing biography sees one of the United States finest Presidents recount his life in his own words. Theodore Roosevelt sets out events in a way which clarify how he came to possess his beliefs. We hear of his love of the great outdoors which would in turn result in the establishment of America's national parks, and his belief in commerce as an engine for progress which would lead to the state-sponsored construction of the Panama Canal during his presidency. Seldom straying to dryness or heady description of the many and varied events of his life, Theodore Roosevelt instead imbues every chapter with keynote personality and liveliness. Personal letters with influential figures are shared, placing the reader deep in the political world which this popular, charismatic leader was immersed.

1913 (Paperback, 4th Revised edition): Charles Emmerson 1913 (Paperback, 4th Revised edition)
Charles Emmerson
R588 R548 Discovery Miles 5 480 Save R40 (7%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Today, 1913 is inevitably viewed through the lens of 1914: as the last year before a war that would shatter the global economic order and tear Europe apart, undermining its global pre-eminence. Our perspectives narrowed by hindsight, the world of that year is reduced to its most frivolous features--last summers in grand aristocratic residences--or its most destructive ones: the unresolved rivalries of the great European powers, the fear of revolution, violence in the Balkans.
In this illuminating history, Charles Emmerson liberates the world of 1913 from this "prelude to war" narrative, and explores it as it was, in all its richness and complexity. Traveling from Europe's capitals, then at the height of their global reach, to the emerging metropolises of Canada and the United States, the imperial cities of Asia and Africa, and the boomtowns of Australia and South America, he provides a panoramic view of a world crackling with possibilities, its future still undecided, its outlook still open.
The world in 1913 was more modern than we remember, more similar to our own times than we expect, more globalized than ever before. The Gold Standard underpinned global flows of goods and money, while mass migration reshaped the world's human geography. Steamships and sub-sea cables encircled the earth, along with new technologies and new ideas. Ford's first assembly line cranked to life in 1913 in Detroit. The Woolworth Building went up in New York. While Mexico was in the midst of bloody revolution, Winnipeg and Buenos Aires boomed. An era of petro-geopolitics opened in Iran. China appeared to be awaking from its imperial slumber. Paris celebrated itself as the city of light--Berlin as the city of electricity.
Full of fascinating characters, stories, and insights, "1913: In Search of the World before the Great War" brings a lost world vividly back to life, with provocative implications for how we understand our past and how we think about our future.

The Story of One Marine - The World War I Letters of Pvt. Thomas L. Stewart (Hardcover): James Gregory The Story of One Marine - The World War I Letters of Pvt. Thomas L. Stewart (Hardcover)
James Gregory
R736 R689 Discovery Miles 6 890 Save R47 (6%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days
A History of Harrodsburg - Saratoga of the South (Paperback): Bobbi Dawn Rightmyer A History of Harrodsburg - Saratoga of the South (Paperback)
Bobbi Dawn Rightmyer
R534 R494 Discovery Miles 4 940 Save R40 (7%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Memories of the Currituck Outer Banks - As Told by Ernie Bowden (Hardcover): Clark Twiddy Memories of the Currituck Outer Banks - As Told by Ernie Bowden (Hardcover)
Clark Twiddy
R692 Discovery Miles 6 920 Ships in 12 - 19 working days
Luke Air Force Base (Paperback): Rick Griset Luke Air Force Base (Paperback)
Rick Griset
R622 R566 Discovery Miles 5 660 Save R56 (9%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Wilber's War - An American Family's Journey through World War II (Hardcover, Hard-Cover ed.): Hale Bradt Wilber's War - An American Family's Journey through World War II (Hardcover, Hard-Cover ed.)
Hale Bradt; Edited by Frances B King; Designed by Lisa Carta
R930 R819 Discovery Miles 8 190 Save R111 (12%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Now It Can Be Told - World War One's True History, Revealed by a Journalist Present at the Western Front and the Battle of... Now It Can Be Told - World War One's True History, Revealed by a Journalist Present at the Western Front and the Battle of the Somme (Hardcover) (Hardcover)
Philip Gibbs
R956 Discovery Miles 9 560 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Now It Can Be Told comprises of Philip Gibbs recollections regarding the First World War, in which he served as an officially commissioned war reporter. Titled in reference to the relieving of censorship laws following the conclusion of World War One in 1918, this book is noticeably different from the censored or dumbed-down accounts published under Gibbs' byline in popular newspapers as the conflict wore on. In this book, the full scale of the horror wrought in Europe is told unflinchingly with the aim of showing the depravity of conflict and the destruction that results. Early in the war, Gibbs' frank and accurate accounts of the carnage of modern warfare unnerved the British government, who were concerned his accounts would demoralize citizens and turn them against the war effort. Gibbs was ordered home; on refusing to cease reporting, he was arrested and forcibly brought back to Britain.

From Allies to Enemies - Spain, Japan and the Axis in World War II (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2023): Florentino Rodao From Allies to Enemies - Spain, Japan and the Axis in World War II (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2023)
Florentino Rodao
R3,546 Discovery Miles 35 460 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

To understand the turnaround in Spain's stance towards Japan during World War II, this book goes beyond mutual contacts and explains through images, representations, and racism why Madrid aimed at declaring war on Japan but not against the III Reich -as London ironically replied when it learned of Spain's warmongering against one of the Axis members.

Inside Camp David - The Private World of the Presidential Retreat (Hardcover, Large type / large print edition): Michael... Inside Camp David - The Private World of the Presidential Retreat (Hardcover, Large type / large print edition)
Michael Giorgione
R1,289 Discovery Miles 12 890 Ships in 12 - 19 working days
Hidden History of Jefferson City (Hardcover): Michelle Brooks Hidden History of Jefferson City (Hardcover)
Michelle Brooks
R723 Discovery Miles 7 230 Ships in 12 - 19 working days
Letters from Home and War 1943 - 1945 Charles E. Skidmore Jr. World War II Flight Officer - Glider Pilot - A World War II... Letters from Home and War 1943 - 1945 Charles E. Skidmore Jr. World War II Flight Officer - Glider Pilot - A World War II Glider Pilot F/O Charles E. Skidmore Jr. - 1943-1945 Letters from Home and War (Hardcover)
Michael G Skidmore, Charles E Skidmore, Leon B Spencer
R1,204 Discovery Miles 12 040 Ships in 12 - 19 working days
Mary Hunter Austin: A Female Writer's Protest Against the First World War in the United States (Paperback): Jowan A.... Mary Hunter Austin: A Female Writer's Protest Against the First World War in the United States (Paperback)
Jowan A. Mohammed
R1,447 Discovery Miles 14 470 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
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