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Understanding Actors and Processes Shaping Transgender Subjectivities - A Case Study of Kazakhstan (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2022):... Understanding Actors and Processes Shaping Transgender Subjectivities - A Case Study of Kazakhstan (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2022)
Zhanar Sekerbayeva
R3,124 Discovery Miles 31 240 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

This book introduces the policies surrounding legal gender recognition of trans people in Kazakhstan. Generally, the research in this sphere focuses on medical professions, described as gatekeepers or judges deciding who fit the prescriptions of being a woman or a man, and on trans people themselves, who are often portrayed as victims. However, this process is more complex than only describing the interaction of these two groups or by labelling them either as gatekeepers or victims. The project provides a critical approach and attempts to expand our understanding of the process, the dynamics and the actors involved. This study will be of interest to scholars of contemporary Kazakhstan, and of feminism and LGBTQ activism more generally.

The Indus - Lost Civilizations (Paperback): Andrew Robinson The Indus - Lost Civilizations (Paperback)
Andrew Robinson
R345 R284 Discovery Miles 2 840 Save R61 (18%) Ships in 9 - 15 working days

The Indus civilization flourished for half a millennium from about 2600 to 1900 BC, when it mysteriously declined and vanished from view. It remained invisible for almost four thousand years, until its ruins were discovered in the 1920s by British and Indian archaeologists. Today, after almost a century of excavation, it is regarded as the beginning of Indian civilization and possibly the origin of Hinduism. The Indus: Lost Civilizations is an accessible introduction to every significant aspect of an extraordinary and tantalizing 'lost' civilization, which combined artistic excellence, technological sophistication and economic vigour with social egalitarianism, political freedom and religious moderation. The book also discusses the vital legacy of the Indus civilization in India and Pakistan today.

Distorted Descent - White Claims to Indigenous Identity (Paperback): Darryl Leroux Distorted Descent - White Claims to Indigenous Identity (Paperback)
Darryl Leroux
R827 R681 Discovery Miles 6 810 Save R146 (18%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Distorted Descent examines a social phenomenon that has taken off in the twenty-first century: otherwise white, French descendant settlers in Canada shifting into a self-defined 'Indigenous' identity. This study is not about individuals who have been dispossessed by colonial policies, or the multi-generational efforts to reconnect that occur in response. Rather, it is about white, French-descendant people discovering an Indigenous ancestor born 300 to 375 years ago through genealogy and using that ancestor as the sole basis for an eventual shift into an 'Indigenous' identity today. After setting out the most common genealogical practices that facilitate race shifting, Leroux examines two of the most prominent self-identified 'Indigenous' organizations currently operating in Quebec. Both organizations have their origins in committed opposition to Indigenous land and territorial negotiations, and both encourage the use of suspect genealogical practices. Distorted Descent brings to light to how these claims to an 'Indigenous' identity are then used politically to oppose actual, living Indigenous peoples, exposing along the way the shifting politics of whiteness, white settler colonialism, and white supremacy.

Records of the Moravians in North Carolina, Volume 12 - 1856-1866 (Hardcover): C. Daniel Crews, Lisa D Bailey Records of the Moravians in North Carolina, Volume 12 - 1856-1866 (Hardcover)
C. Daniel Crews, Lisa D Bailey
R1,501 Discovery Miles 15 010 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
North Carolina's First Ladies, 1891-2001 (Hardcover): Marie Sharpe Ham, Debra A Blake, C Edward Morris North Carolina's First Ladies, 1891-2001 (Hardcover)
Marie Sharpe Ham, Debra A Blake, C Edward Morris
R785 R665 Discovery Miles 6 650 Save R120 (15%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days
The Marion Thompson Wright Reader - Edited and with a Biographical Introduction by Graham Russell Gao Hodges (Paperback):... The Marion Thompson Wright Reader - Edited and with a Biographical Introduction by Graham Russell Gao Hodges (Paperback)
Graham Russell Gao Hodges
R1,273 Discovery Miles 12 730 Ships in 12 - 17 working days
As a City on a Hill - The Story of America's Most Famous Lay Sermon (Hardcover): Daniel T. Rodgers As a City on a Hill - The Story of America's Most Famous Lay Sermon (Hardcover)
Daniel T. Rodgers
R762 R658 Discovery Miles 6 580 Save R104 (14%) Ships in 12 - 17 working days

How an obscure Puritan sermon came to be seen as a founding document of American identity and exceptionalism "For we must consider that we shall be as a city upon a hill," John Winthrop warned his fellow Puritans at New England's founding in 1630. More than three centuries later, Ronald Reagan remade that passage into a timeless celebration of American promise. How were Winthrop's long-forgotten words reinvented as a central statement of American identity and exceptionalism? In As a City on a Hill, leading American intellectual historian Daniel Rodgers tells the surprising story of one of the most celebrated documents in the canon of the American idea. In doing so, he brings to life the ideas Winthrop's text carried in its own time and the sharply different yearnings that have been attributed to it since. As a City on a Hill shows how much more malleable, more saturated with vulnerability, and less distinctly American Winthrop's "Model of Christian Charity" was than the document that twentieth-century Americans invented. Across almost four centuries, Rodgers traces striking shifts in the meaning of Winthrop's words-from Winthrop's own anxious reckoning with the scrutiny of the world, through Abraham Lincoln's haunting reference to this "almost chosen people," to the "city on a hill" that African Americans hoped to construct in Liberia, to the era of Donald Trump. As a City on a Hill reveals the circuitous, unexpected ways Winthrop's words came to lodge in American consciousness. At the same time, the book offers a probing reflection on how nationalism encourages the invention of "timeless" texts to straighten out the crooked realities of the past.

An Unseen Unheard Minority - Asian American Students at the University of Illinois (Hardcover): Sharon S. Lee An Unseen Unheard Minority - Asian American Students at the University of Illinois (Hardcover)
Sharon S. Lee; Foreword by Joy Williamson- Lott
R3,404 Discovery Miles 34 040 Ships in 12 - 17 working days
North Carolina Troops, 1861-1865: A Roster, Volume 1 - Artillery (Hardcover): Louis Manarin North Carolina Troops, 1861-1865: A Roster, Volume 1 - Artillery (Hardcover)
Louis Manarin
R1,683 Discovery Miles 16 830 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
The Red Thread - The Passaic Textile Strike (Hardcover): Jacob A Zumoff The Red Thread - The Passaic Textile Strike (Hardcover)
Jacob A Zumoff
R1,705 Discovery Miles 17 050 Ships in 12 - 17 working days
A History of Australia, New Zealand and the Pacific - The Formation of Identities (Paperback): D Denoon A History of Australia, New Zealand and the Pacific - The Formation of Identities (Paperback)
D Denoon
R1,219 Discovery Miles 12 190 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

This book provides an arresting interpretation of the history of Australia, New Zealand and the Pacific from the earliest settlements to the present. Usually viewed in isolation, these societies are covered here in a single account, in which the authors show how the peoples of the region constructed their own identities and influenced those of their neighbours.
By broadening the focus to the regional level, this volume develops analyses - of economic, social and political history - which transcend
national boundaries. The result is a compelling work which both describes the aspirations of European settlers and reveals how the dispossessed and marginalized indigenous peoples negotiated their own lives as best they could. The authors demonstrate that these stories are not separate but rather strands of a single history.

A Wretched and Precarious Situation - In Search of the Last Arctic Frontier (Hardcover): David Welky A Wretched and Precarious Situation - In Search of the Last Arctic Frontier (Hardcover)
David Welky
R743 Discovery Miles 7 430 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

In 1906, from the ice fields northwest of Greenland, Commander Robert E. Peary spotted an unknown land in the distance. He called it "Crocker Land". Scientists and explorers agreed that Peary had found a new continent. Several years later, two of his disciples, George Borup and Donald MacMillan-with the sponsorship of the American Museum of Natural History-assembled a team to investigate. They pitched their two-year mission as a scientific tour de force to fill in the last blank space on the globe. But the Crocker Land Expedition became a five-year ordeal that endured a fatal boating accident, a drunken captain, a shipwreck, marooned rescue parties, disease, dissension and a crewman-turned-murderer. Based on a trove of unpublished letters, diaries and field notes, A Wretched and Precarious Situation is a harrowing adventure.

North Carolina Troops, 1861-1865: A Roster, Volume 12 - Infantry (49th-52nd Regiments) (Hardcover): Weymouth T. Jordan Jr. North Carolina Troops, 1861-1865: A Roster, Volume 12 - Infantry (49th-52nd Regiments) (Hardcover)
Weymouth T. Jordan Jr.
R1,620 Discovery Miles 16 200 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
A History of Ancient Greece (Paperback): C Orrieux A History of Ancient Greece (Paperback)
C Orrieux
R1,622 Discovery Miles 16 220 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

This is a major, single-volume introduction to the whole of Ancient Greek History. It covers the period from the Golden Age of Knossos and Mycenae to the incorporation of Greece into the Roman empire in the second century BC. The book combines narrative and socio-economic history to cover all regions of Greece, including territories on the edge of the Greek and Hellenistic worlds, as well as the traditional centres such as Athens and Sparta.

"A History of Ancient Greece" provides students with an accessible history of the region, combining accounts of the major events with in-depth analyses of the underlying issues. The book is designed explicitly for student use and contains numerous pedagogic features including summaries of key issues, balanced accounts of controversial points, useful discussions of Greek institutions, chronologies and a glossary.

The Great War and the Romanians - Notes and Documents on World War I (Paperback): Nicolae Petrescu-Comnene, Mircea Chelaru The Great War and the Romanians - Notes and Documents on World War I (Paperback)
Nicolae Petrescu-Comnene, Mircea Chelaru
R613 Discovery Miles 6 130 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Written during the First World War, this book describes Romania's role in World War I during the critical years of 1916 and 1917. The book analyzes the situation of the Romanians living within the borders of the Austro-Hungarian Empire at the time and the causes for Romania's entry into the war. The author then discusses Romania's contribution to the war effort during 1916 and the first half of 1917. An important record of events for historians interested in the First World War on the Eastern Front, it includes several essential historical documents that illustrate the author's account of the events of the time. The book also has a preface by Albert Thomas, French minister of Armaments and War Production at that time, and Maurice Muret. It is a valuable first-hand account of Romania's involvement in World War I. The author, Nicolae Petrescu-Comnene was an important Romanian diplomat of the interwar period. He served as ambassador to Switzerland, Germany, and the Vatican, as well as a delegate at the League of Nations, before becoming foreign minister from 1938 to 1939. He authored numerous studies on history, law, and politics.

Changing on the Fly - Hockey through the Voices of South Asian Canadians (Hardcover): Courtney Szto Changing on the Fly - Hockey through the Voices of South Asian Canadians (Hardcover)
Courtney Szto
R3,409 Discovery Miles 34 090 Ships in 12 - 17 working days
Changing on the Fly - Hockey through the Voices of South Asian Canadians (Paperback): Courtney Szto Changing on the Fly - Hockey through the Voices of South Asian Canadians (Paperback)
Courtney Szto
R878 Discovery Miles 8 780 Ships in 12 - 17 working days
Searching for Black Confederates - The Civil War's Most Persistent Myth (Paperback): Kevin M Levin Searching for Black Confederates - The Civil War's Most Persistent Myth (Paperback)
Kevin M Levin
R672 R555 Discovery Miles 5 550 Save R117 (17%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days

More than 150 years after the end of the Civil War, scores of websites, articles, and organizations repeat claims that anywhere between 500 and 100,000 free and enslaved African Americans fought willingly as soldiers in the Confederate army. But as Kevin M. Levin argues in this carefully researched book, such claims would have shocked anyone who served in the army during the war itself. Levin explains that imprecise contemporary accounts, poorly understood primary-source material, and other misrepresentations helped fuel the rise of the black Confederate myth. Moreover, Levin shows that belief in the existence of black Confederate soldiers largely originated in the 1970s, a period that witnessed both a significant shift in how Americans remembered the Civil War and a rising backlash against African Americans' gains in civil rights and other realms. Levin also investigates the roles that African Americans actually performed in the Confederate army, including personal body servants and forced laborers. He demonstrates that regardless of the dangers these men faced in camp, on the march, and on the battlefield, their legal status remained unchanged. Even long after the guns fell silent, Confederate veterans and other writers remembered these men as former slaves and not as soldiers, an important reminder that how the war is remembered often runs counter to history.

Friendship and Devotion, or Three Months in Louisiana (Paperback): Camille Lebrun, E. Joe Johnson, Robin Anita White Friendship and Devotion, or Three Months in Louisiana (Paperback)
Camille Lebrun, E. Joe Johnson, Robin Anita White
R1,046 R759 Discovery Miles 7 590 Save R287 (27%) Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Parisian Pauline Guyot (1805-1886), who wrote under the nom de plume Camille Lebrun, published many novels, translations, collections of tales, and articles in French magazines of her day. Yet she has largely been forgotten by contemporary literary critics and readers. Among her works is a hitherto-untranslated 1845 French novel, Amitie et devouement, ou Trois mois a la Louisiane, or Friendship and Devotion, or Three Months in Louisiana, a moralizing, educational travelogue meant for a young adult readership of the time. Lebrun's novel is one of the few perspectives we have by a mid-nineteenth-century French woman writer on the matters of slavery, abolition, race relations, and white supremacy in France's former Louisiana colony. E. Joe Johnson and Robin Anita White have recovered this work, providing a translation, an accessible introduction, extensive endnote annotations, and period illustrations. After a short preface meant to educate young readers about the geography, culture, and history of the southern reaches of the Louisiana Purchase, the novel tells the tale of two teenaged, orphaned Americans, Hortense Melvil and Valentine Arnold. The two young women, who characterize one another as "sisters," have spent the majority of their lives in a Parisian boarding school and return to Louisiana to begin their adult lives. Almost immediately upon arrival in New Orleans, their close friendship faces existential threats: grave illness in the form of yellow fever, the prospect of marriage separating the two, and powerful discrimination in the form of racial prejudice and segregation.

Information Hunters - When Librarians, Soldiers, and Spies Banded Together in World War II Europe (Hardcover): Kathy Peiss Information Hunters - When Librarians, Soldiers, and Spies Banded Together in World War II Europe (Hardcover)
Kathy Peiss
R948 R875 Discovery Miles 8 750 Save R73 (8%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days

While armies have seized enemy records and rare texts as booty throughout history, it was only during World War II that an unlikely band of librarians, archivists, and scholars traveled abroad to collect books and documents to aid the military cause. Galvanized by the events of war into acquiring and preserving the written word, as well as providing critical information for intelligence purposes, these American civilians set off on missions to gather foreign publications and information across Europe. They journeyed to neutral cities in search of enemy texts, followed a step behind advancing armies to capture records, and seized Nazi works from bookstores and schools. When the war ended, they found looted collections hidden in cellars and caves. Their mission was to document, exploit, preserve, and restitute these works, and even, in the case of Nazi literature, to destroy them. In this fascinating account, cultural historian Kathy Peiss reveals how book and document collecting became part of the new apparatus of intelligence and national security, military planning, and postwar reconstruction. Focusing on the ordinary Americans who carried out these missions, she shows how they made decisions on the ground to acquire sources that would be useful in the war zone as well as on the home front. These collecting missions also boosted the postwar ambitions of American research libraries, offering a chance for them to become great international repositories of scientific reports, literature, and historical sources. Not only did their wartime work have lasting implications for academic institutions, foreign-policy making, and national security, it also led to the development of today's essential information science tools. Illuminating the growing global power of the United States in the realms of intelligence and cultural heritage, Peiss tells the story of the men and women who went to Europe to collect and protect books and information and in doing so enriches the debates over the use of data in times of both war and peace.

Mardi Gras Indians (Paperback): Nikesha Williams Mardi Gras Indians (Paperback)
Nikesha Williams
R547 R446 Discovery Miles 4 460 Save R101 (18%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Mardi Gras Indians explores how sacred and secular expressions of Carnival throughout the African diaspora came together in a gumbo-sized melting pot to birth one of the most unique traditions celebrating African culture, Indigenous peoples, and Black Americans. Williams ties together the fragments of the ancient traditions with the expressed experiences of the contemporary. From the sangamentos of the Kongolese and the calumets of the various tribes of the lower Mississippi River valley to one-on-one interviews with today's Black masking tribe members, this book highlights the spirit of resistance and rebellion upon which this culture was built.

Rural America in a Globalizing World - Problems and Prospects for the 2010's (Paperback): Conner Bailey, Leif Jensen Rural America in a Globalizing World - Problems and Prospects for the 2010's (Paperback)
Conner Bailey, Leif Jensen; Elizabeth Ransom
R1,440 Discovery Miles 14 400 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

This fourth Rural Sociological Society decennial volume provides advanced policy scholarship on rural North America during the 2010's, closely reflecting upon the increasingly global nature of social, cultural, and economic forces and the impact of neoliberal ideology upon policy, politics, and power in rural areas. The chapters in this volume represent the expertise of an influential group of scholars in rural sociology and related social sciences. Its five sections address the changing structure of North American agriculture, natural resources and the environment, demographics, diversity, and quality of life in rural communities.

WBAA - 100 Years as the Voice of Purdue (Hardcover): Angie Klink, John Norberg WBAA - 100 Years as the Voice of Purdue (Hardcover)
Angie Klink, John Norberg
R1,295 Discovery Miles 12 950 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

WBAA: 100 Years as the Voice of Purdue documents the fascinating history of WBAA, Indiana's first radio station founded at Purdue University in West Lafayette, Indiana, on April 4, 1922. Richly illustrated with more than 150 photos, the book chronicles the station's evolution over the years, while highlighting the staff, students, and volunteers significant to WBAA's success. WBAA began as a lab experiment conducted by Purdue electrical engineering students in 1910. Later, the station became a vital method for Purdue's Cooperative Extension Service to broadcast the knowledge of the university, particularly agricultural news, to the people of the state. From the 1960s to 1980s, WBAA aired Purdue basketball and football games, with station manager John DeCamp as the "Voice of the Boilermakers." In 1971, WBAA became a member station of National Public Radio (NPR), offering popular programming such as All Things Considered and Morning Edition. Listeners tuned into WBAA to hear classical, jazz, and international music, along with in-depth news reporting. Mayors and Purdue presidents aired weekly programs. WBAA gave a voice to arts and community organizations. Read about the invention of the first all-electronic television by pioneering Purdue scientist Roscoe George; WBAA's long-running School of the Air educational program deemed the "invisible textbook"; and the Midwest Program on Airborne Television Instruction (MPATI), an airplane that transmitted videos to schools while flying over six Midwestern states in the 1960s. Famous WBAA alumni include NBC sportscaster Chris Schenkel, comedian Durward Kirby, Today Show newscaster Lew Wood, Indiana State Representative Sheila Klinker, actress Karen Black, and actor George Peppard, among others. From the vacuum tube era to the digital age, this thoroughly researched book brings to light the intriguing backstories of the esteemed one hundred-year history of WBAA.

The Story of Scotland (Paperback): Pat Morgan The Story of Scotland (Paperback)
Pat Morgan
R293 Discovery Miles 2 930 Ships in 12 - 17 working days
Unheard Voices - A tranquebarian Stroll (Paperback): P. S. Ramanujam Unheard Voices - A tranquebarian Stroll (Paperback)
P. S. Ramanujam
R868 Discovery Miles 8 680 Ships in 12 - 17 working days
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