Sociaal economische geschiedenis (6)
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Vivienne Westwood A to Z
The Life of an Icon: From Anglomania to Zips
2024 || Hardcover || Nadia Bailey || Smith Street Books
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Anatolian Livestock Trade in the Late Ottoman Empire
2024 || Hardcover || Yonca Köksal Özyaşar e.a. || Leiden University Press
This book analyzes the expansion of the Anatolian livestock trade, focusing on sheep and cattle, during the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries— a period marked by significant changes in state policies, society and environment. It examines the impact of these changes on both human and non-human actors, maps trade routes and networks, and explores their transformations over time, thereby contributing to the literature on Ottoman environmental and socioeconomic history.
The book identif...
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The Autobiography of Malcolm X
2024 || Paperback || Alex Haley e.a. || Van Ditmar Boeken B.V.
From hustling, drug addiction and armed violence in America's black ghettos Malcolm X turned to the puritanical fervour of the Black Muslims. He became identified in the white press as a teacher of race hatred. This autobiography reveals his integrity and the fierce idealism which led him to reject both liberal hypocrisies and black racialism.
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Amateur
A Reckoning With Gender, Identity and Masculinity
2024 || Paperback || Thomas Page McBee || Canongate Books
An exploration of modern masculinity by the first transgender man to box at Madison Square Garden, shortlisted for the Baillie Gifford Prize
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The Little Book of Pride Heroes
Icons of the LGBTQIA+ community
2024 || Hardcover || Jared Richards || Smith Street Books
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My Story
2024 || Paperback || Munroe Bergdorf || Bloomsbury Publishing
?A riveting blend of memoir and manifesto ... I found myself dog-earing every page' Elizabeth Day
'Profoundly articulate. Entirely wise. Beautifully real.' Attitude
?Transitional is a clever, moving book that packs a lot into its 194 pages' Guardian
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Transitioning is an alignment of the invisible and the physical. It is truth rising to the surface. It is one of the most fundamental aspects of the human condition - a part of our experience as a conscious being,...