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The new Negro - his political, civil, and mental status; and related essays (Hardcover): William Pickens The new Negro - his political, civil, and mental status; and related essays (Hardcover)
William Pickens
R904 R822 Discovery Miles 8 220 Save R82 (9%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Tales From the Fjeld - a Series of Popular Tales From the Norse of P. Ch. Asbjornsen (Hardcover): Peter Christen 1812-1885... Tales From the Fjeld - a Series of Popular Tales From the Norse of P. Ch. Asbjornsen (Hardcover)
Peter Christen 1812-1885 Asbjornsen; Created by George Webbe Dasent
R1,094 Discovery Miles 10 940 Ships in 12 - 19 working days
Fox and Kelly's Fashion Catalogue Illustrated - Fall and Winter 1888-9. (Hardcover): N. y. ). Fox and Kelly (New York Fox and Kelly's Fashion Catalogue Illustrated - Fall and Winter 1888-9. (Hardcover)
N. y. ). Fox and Kelly (New York
R745 Discovery Miles 7 450 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Lemuria - The lost continent of the Pacific (Large print, Hardcover, Large type / large print edition): Wishar S Cerve Lemuria - The lost continent of the Pacific (Large print, Hardcover, Large type / large print edition)
Wishar S Cerve
R572 Discovery Miles 5 720 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Samaritan Cookbook (Hardcover): Avishay Zelmanovich Samaritan Cookbook (Hardcover)
Avishay Zelmanovich; Benyamim Tsedaka; Edited by Ben Piven
R1,233 R1,037 Discovery Miles 10 370 Save R196 (16%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Nationalism (Hardcover): Rabindranath Tagore Nationalism (Hardcover)
Rabindranath Tagore
R801 Discovery Miles 8 010 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Marriage, As It Was, As It Is, and As It Should Be - A Plea for Reform (Hardcover): Annie Besant Marriage, As It Was, As It Is, and As It Should Be - A Plea for Reform (Hardcover)
Annie Besant
R694 Discovery Miles 6 940 Ships in 12 - 19 working days
Christmas in Ritual and Tradition, Christian and Pagan [microform] (Hardcover): Clement A. Miles Christmas in Ritual and Tradition, Christian and Pagan [microform] (Hardcover)
Clement A. Miles
R1,094 Discovery Miles 10 940 Ships in 12 - 19 working days
Who Are Our Heroes? - A Reminder to Say Thank You! in the Time of Coronavirus and Beyond (Large print, Hardcover, Large type /... Who Are Our Heroes? - A Reminder to Say Thank You! in the Time of Coronavirus and Beyond (Large print, Hardcover, Large type / large print edition)
Eliana Melmed; Illustrated by Amy Tian
R448 Discovery Miles 4 480 Ships in 12 - 19 working days
Shattered - Surviving the Loss of a Child (Hardcover): Gary Roe Shattered - Surviving the Loss of a Child (Hardcover)
Gary Roe
R674 R610 Discovery Miles 6 100 Save R64 (9%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days
The Negroes in Negroland; the Negroes in America; and Negroes Generally. Also, the Several Races of White men, Considered as... The Negroes in Negroland; the Negroes in America; and Negroes Generally. Also, the Several Races of White men, Considered as the Involuntary and Predestined Supplanters of the Black Races. A Compilation (Hardcover)
Hinton Rowan Helper
R950 Discovery Miles 9 500 Ships in 12 - 19 working days
Charles Godfrey Leland and His Magical Tales (Hardcover, Annotated edition): Jack Zipes Charles Godfrey Leland and His Magical Tales (Hardcover, Annotated edition)
Jack Zipes
R2,557 Discovery Miles 25 570 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Born into a wealthy and privileged family in Philadelphia, Charles Godfrey Leland (1824-1903) showed a clear interest in the supernatural and occult literature during his youth. Legend has it that, soon after his birth, an old Dutch nurse carried him up to the garret of the house and performed a ritual to guarantee that Leland would be fortunate in his life and eventually become a scholar and a wizard. Whether or not this incident ever occurred, we do know that his interest in fairy tales, folklore, and the supernatural would eventually lead him to a life of travel and documentation of the stories of numerous groups across the United States and Europe. Jack Zipes selected the tales in Charles Godfrey Leland and His Magical Talesfrom five different books- The Algonquin Legends (1884), Legends of Florence (1895-96), The Unpublished Letters of Virgil (1901), The English Gypsies (1882), and Gypsy Sorcery and Fortune-Telling (1891)-and has arranged them thematically. Though these tales cannot be considered authentic folk tales-not written verbatim from the lips of Romani, Native Americans, or other sources of the tales-they are highly significant because of their historical and cultural value. Like most of the aspiring American folklorists of his time, who were mainly all white, male, and from the middle classes, Leland recorded these tales in personal encounters with his informants or collected them from friends and acquaintances, before grooming them for publication so that they became translations of the original narratives. What distinguishes Leland from the major folklorists of the nineteenth century is his literary embellishment to represent his particular regard for their poetry, purity, and history. Readers with an interest in folklore, oral tradition, and nineteenth-century literature will value this curated and annotated glimpse into a breadth of work.

Resident Strangers - Immigrant Laborers in New South Alabama (Hardcover): Jennifer E. Brooks Resident Strangers - Immigrant Laborers in New South Alabama (Hardcover)
Jennifer E. Brooks
R1,366 Discovery Miles 13 660 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Immigrant laborers who came to the New South in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries found themselves poised uncomfortably between white employers and the Black working class, a liminal and often precarious position. Campaigns to recruit immigrants primarily aimed to suppress Black agency and mobility. If that failed, both planters and industrialists imagined that immigrants might replace Blacks entirely. Thus, white officials, citizens, and employers embraced immigrants when they acted in ways that sustained Jim Crow. However, when they directly challenged established political and economic power structures, immigrant laborers found themselves ostracized, jailed, or worse, by the New South order. Both industrial employers and union officials lauded immigrants' hardworking and noble character when it suited their purposes, and both denigrated and racialized them when immigrant laborers acted independently. Jennifer E. Brooks's Resident Strangers restores immigrant laborers to their place in the history of the New South, considering especially how various immigrant groups and individuals experienced their time in New South Alabama. Brooks utilizes convict records, censuses, regional and national newspapers, government documents, and oral histories to construct the story of immigrants in New South Alabama. The immigrant groups she focuses on appeared most often as laborers in the records, including the Chinese, southern Italians, and the diverse nationals of the Austro-Hungarian Empire, along with a sprinkling of others. Although recruitment crusades by Alabama's employers and New South boosters typically failed to bring in the vast numbers of immigrants they had envisioned, significant populations from around the world arrived in industries and communities across the state, especially in the coal- and ore-mining district of Birmingham. Resident Strangers reveals that immigrant laborers' presence and individual agency complicated racial categorization, disrupted labor relations, and diversified southern communities. It also presents a New South that was far from isolated from the forces at work across the nation or in the rest of the world. Immigrant laborers brought home to New South Alabama the turbulent world of empire building, deeply embedding the region in national and global networks of finance, trade, and labor migration.

Hausa Folk-tales - the Hausa Text of the Stories in Hausa Superstitions and Customs, in Folk-lore, and in Other Publications... Hausa Folk-tales - the Hausa Text of the Stories in Hausa Superstitions and Customs, in Folk-lore, and in Other Publications (Hardcover)
A J N (Arthur John Newm Tremearne
R950 Discovery Miles 9 500 Ships in 12 - 19 working days
The Book of Comfort (Hardcover): J.R. Miller The Book of Comfort (Hardcover)
J.R. Miller
R952 Discovery Miles 9 520 Ships in 12 - 19 working days
The Pleiades and Our Secret Destiny (Hardcover): Frederick Dodson The Pleiades and Our Secret Destiny (Hardcover)
Frederick Dodson
R853 Discovery Miles 8 530 Ships in 12 - 19 working days
Fashion Book - Novelties, Costumes, Mantles, Millinery, Etc. (Hardcover): England) Debenham &. Freebody (London Fashion Book - Novelties, Costumes, Mantles, Millinery, Etc. (Hardcover)
England) Debenham &. Freebody (London
R750 Discovery Miles 7 500 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
WHO WILL ROCK THE CRADLE - The Battle for control of Child Care in America (Paperback): Phyllis Schlafly WHO WILL ROCK THE CRADLE - The Battle for control of Child Care in America (Paperback)
Phyllis Schlafly
R465 R383 Discovery Miles 3 830 Save R82 (18%) Out of stock

Who will control the raising of our children: the government or the family? What kind of care would children choose? Is a child's place in the home? Can changes in financial incentives of $1,000 a year make a difference in family choices. How can we cope with the modern epidemic of daycare diseases? Can the mother's role in the home be replaced? What is "quality" child care? These are some of the questions answered in Who Will Rock the Cradle?

It's A Strange Place, England (Hardcover, 2nd ed.): Jack Strange It's A Strange Place, England (Hardcover, 2nd ed.)
Jack Strange
R653 Discovery Miles 6 530 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Folklore Figures of French and Creole Louisiana (Hardcover): Nathan Rabalais Folklore Figures of French and Creole Louisiana (Hardcover)
Nathan Rabalais
R1,221 Discovery Miles 12 210 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

In Folklore Figures of French and Creole Louisiana, Nathan J. Rabalais examines the impact of Louisiana's remarkably diverse cultural and ethnic groups on folklore characters and motifs during the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. Establishing connections between Louisiana and France, West Africa, Canada, and the Antilles, Rabalais explores how folk characters, motifs, and morals adapted to their new contexts in Louisiana. By viewing the state's folklore in the light of its immigration history, he demonstrates how folktales can serve as indicators of sociocultural adaptation as well as contact among cultural communities. In particular, he examines the ways in which collective traumas experienced by Louisiana's major ethnic groups-slavery, the grand d? (R)rangement, linguistic discrimination-resulted in fundamental changes in these folktales in relation to their European and African counterparts. Rabalais points to the development of an altered moral economy in Cajun and Creole folktales. Conventional heroic qualities, such as physical strength, are subverted in Louisiana folklore in favor of wit and cunning. Analyses of Black Creole animal tales like those of Bouki et Lapin and Tortie demonstrate the trickster hero's ability to overcome both literal and symbolic entrapment through cleverness. Some elements of Louisiana's folklore tradition, such as the rougarou and cauchemar, remain an integral presence in the state's cultural landscape, apparent in humor, popular culture, regional branding, and children's books. Through its adaptive use of folklore, French and Creole Louisiana will continue to retell old stories in innovative ways as well as create new stories for future generations.

Genetic Genesis - DNA Manipulation of Our Ancient Ancestors From the Original Biblical Text (Hardcover): Albert E Potts Genetic Genesis - DNA Manipulation of Our Ancient Ancestors From the Original Biblical Text (Hardcover)
Albert E Potts
R772 R691 Discovery Miles 6 910 Save R81 (10%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Antigone Rising - The Subversive Power of the Ancient Myths (Paperback): Helen Morales Antigone Rising - The Subversive Power of the Ancient Myths (Paperback)
Helen Morales
R406 R376 Discovery Miles 3 760 Save R30 (7%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Economic Reason and Political Reason: Deliberation  and the Construction of Public Space in the Socie ty of Communication... Economic Reason and Political Reason: Deliberation and the Construction of Public Space in the Socie ty of Communication (Hardcover)
Ythier
R3,961 Discovery Miles 39 610 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

The public space of democracies is constructed in a context that is marked by the digital transformation of the economy and society. This construction is carried out primarily through deliberation. Deliberation informs and guides both individual and collective action. To shed light on the concept of deliberation, it is important to consider the rationality of choice; but what type of rationality is this? References to economic reason are at once widespread, crucial and controversial. This book therefore deals with arguments used by individuals based on the notions of preferential choice and rational behavior, and also criticizes them. These arguments are examined in the context of the major themes of public debate that help to construct the contemporary public space: "populism", social insurance, social responsibility and environmental issues. Economic Reason and Political Reason underlines the importance of the pragmatist shift of the 2000s and revisits, through the lens of this new approach, the great utilitarian and Rawlsian normative constructs that dominated normative political economics at the end of the 20th century. Alternative approaches, based on the concept of deliberative democracy, are proposed and discussed.

The New Possible - Visions of Our World beyond Crisis (Hardcover): Philip Clayton, Kelli M Archie, Jonah Sachs The New Possible - Visions of Our World beyond Crisis (Hardcover)
Philip Clayton, Kelli M Archie, Jonah Sachs
R974 R841 Discovery Miles 8 410 Save R133 (14%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days
The Principles of Masonic Law - A Treatise on the Constitutional Laws, Usages and Landmarks of Freemasonry (Hardcover): Albert... The Principles of Masonic Law - A Treatise on the Constitutional Laws, Usages and Landmarks of Freemasonry (Hardcover)
Albert G MacKey
R637 Discovery Miles 6 370 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
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