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  • Gender
    Susan Kingsley Kent
    Gender exists in almost every society as a way of organizing its people. Gender is used to assign certain responsibilities, obligations, and privileges to some, and to deny them to others. In Gender: A World History, Susan Kingsley Kent tells the story of this seemingly simple but in fact quite complex concept. With historical perspective she critically examines our everyday un...
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    44,90 €

  • Making Peace
    Susan Kingsley Kent
    Making Peace provides a fresh context for understanding gender relations in interwar Britain, seeing in the emergence of a powerful ideology of motherhood and a reemphasis on separate spheres for men and women a corollary to the political and economic restructuring designed to reestablish social order after World War I. The war had often been explained and justified to the Brit...
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    51,29 €

  • The Global 1930s
    Marc Matera / Susan Kingsley Kent
    Decentering the traditional narrative of American breadlines, Soviet show trials and German fascists, The Global 1930s takes a truly international approach to exploring this turbulent decade, illlustrating how the familiar events of this decade shaped and were shaped by a much wider global context. Chapters discuss topics such as the rivalry between imperial powers, colonial mi...
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    77,38 €

  • Africans and Britons in the Age of Empires, 1660-1980
    Myles Osborne / Susan Kingsley Kent
    Africans and Britons in the Age of Empires, 1660-1980 is the first textbook that specifically addresses the history of this empire on this continent. Written by two experts in the field, one on British imperial history and one on African history, the book offers a uniquely balanced look at both the African and British perspectives. Including a range of maps and illustrations, t...
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    94,83 €

  • Gender and Power in Britain 1640-1990
    Susan Kingsley Kent
    Gender and Power in Britain is a new history of Britain from the early modern period to the present, focusing on gender and power in political, social, cultural and economic life. ...
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    88,86 €

  • Sex and Suffrage in Britain, 1860-1914
    Susan Kingsley Kent
    Although other historians have viewed the suffrage movement as aimed at exclusively political ends, she argues that such a categorization ignores many of the most compelling reasons why thousands of middle and upper-class women risked ostracism, obloquy, and, often, physical harm in the pursuit of the right to vote and why their efforts met with such intense opposition. The all...
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    67,77 €

  • Gender and History
    Susan Kingsley Kent
    This stimulating volume presents an overview of key gender theories and debates, tracing the development of gender as an analytic category in the writing of history. Covering a broad timespan, Kent makes the origins, concepts and methods of gender history accessible to students, showing how they can use gender in their own historical studies. ...
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    47,60 €

  • Aftershocks
    Susan Kingsley Kent
    Aftershocks studies how meanings of shellshock and imagery presenting the traumatized psyche as shattered contributed to Britons’ understandings of their political selves in the 1920s. It connects the force of emotions to the political culture of a decade which saw extraordinary violence against those regarded as ’un-English’. ...
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    66,67 €

  • Aftershocks
    Susan Kingsley Kent
    Aftershocks studies how meanings of shellshock and imagery presenting the traumatized psyche as shattered contributed to Britons’ understandings of their political selves in the 1920s. It connects the force of emotions to the political culture of a decade which saw extraordinary violence against those regarded as ’un-English’. ...
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    48,08 €

  • Sex and Suffrage in Britain 1860-1914
    Susan Kingsley Kent
    Analyses the issues and concerns about sexuality that permeated women’s suffrage in Britain from its inception in the 1860s right up to 1914. ...
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    77,23 €