Old Is Gold
Discover old books and books of old at our online bookstore. Shop old classic books, best-selling books, and timeless treasures—perfect for collectors and book lovers alike!
-
Jewish Men and the Holocaust: Sexuality, Emotions, Masculinity: An Intimate HistoryDuring the Holocaust, amid death and violence, Jewish men were not mere powerless victims. Linking gender studies with a history of sexuality and emotions will highlight intimate agency, power struggles, negotiations of relationships, social dynamics, and representations of masculinities. Considering the agency and vulnerability...
- $315.54 AUD
- $315.54 AUD
- Unit price
- per
-
Rwanda, Un Deuil Impossible: Effacement Et TracesIn 1994, when Dady de Maximo Mwicira-Mitali was twelve years old, the worst possible thing happened to him. During the Tutsi genocide, thousands of tortured victims, thrown into the rivers of Rwanda, were pulled from Lake Victoria. The author follows their invisible trace on...
- $314.94 AUD
- $314.94 AUD
- Unit price
- per
-
The Making of Modern America: The Nation from 1945 to the PresentThe third edition of Dr. Gary A. Donaldson's highly successful textbook The Making of Modern America, introduces students to the cultural, social and political paths the United States has traveled from the end of WWII to the present day.Author: Gary A. DonaldsonPublisher: Rowman &...
- $314.94 AUD
- $314.94 AUD
- Unit price
- per
-
Women's Roles in Nineteenth-Century AmericaThe nineteenth century has been referred to as the Woman's Century, and it was a period of amazing change and progress for American women. There were great leaps forward in women's legal status, their entrance into higher education and the professions, and their roles...
- $314.94 AUD
- $314.94 AUD
- Unit price
- per
-
Reforming Urban Labor: Routes to the City, Roots in the CountryReforming Urban Labor is a history of the nineteenth-century social reforms designed by middle-class progressives to domesticate the labor force. Industrial production required a concentrated labor force, but the swelling masses of workers in the capitals of Britain and Belgium, the industrial powerhouses of...
- $314.71 AUD
- $314.71 AUD
- Unit price
- per
-
The Idea of EpilepsyEpilepsy has a fascinating history. To the medical historian Oswei Temkin it was 'the paradigm of the suffering of both body and soul in disease'. It is justifiably considered a window on brain function. And yet its story is more than simply a medical...
- $311.66 AUD
- $311.66 AUD
- Unit price
- per
-
Why Mothers Died and How Their Lives Are Saved: The Story of Confidential Enquiries Into Maternal DeathsOne of the most dramatic changes to women's lives in the twentieth century was the advent of safe childbirth, reducing the maternal mortality rate from 1 in 400 births to 1 in 10,000 in just 80 years. The impetus behind this change was the...
- $311.66 AUD
- $311.66 AUD
- Unit price
- per
-
In the Shadow of War: The United States Since the 1930sIn this magisterial book, a prize-winning historian shows how war has defined modern America. Michael Sherry argues that America's intense preoccupation with war emerged on the eve of World War II, marking a turning point as important as the Revolution, the end of the...
- $310.63 AUD
- $310.63 AUD
- Unit price
- per
-
Collected Epiphanies of James Joyce: A Critical EditionJoyce's early texts, which informed his later masterpieces, available for the first time in a comprehensive critical edition This book offers the first critical edition of the forty short texts James Joyce called "epiphanies." Among Joyce's earliest literary compositions, although published posthumously, the epiphanies...
- $310.63 AUD
- $310.63 AUD
- Unit price
- per
-
An Archaeology of Structural Violence: Life in a Twentieth-Century Coal TownDrawing on material evidence from daily life in a Pennsylvania coal-mining town, this book offers an up-close view of the political economy of the United States over the course of the twentieth century. This community's story illustrates the great ironies of this era, showing...
- $310.63 AUD
- $310.63 AUD
- Unit price
- per
-
Freedom: A Documentary History of Emancipation, 1861-1867: Series 3, Volume 1: Land and Labor, 1865Land and Labor, 1865 examines the transition from slavery to free labor during the tumultuous first months after the Civil War. Letters and testimony by the participants--former slaves, former slaveholders, Freedmen's Bureau agents, and others--reveal the connection between developments in workplaces across the South...
- $310.63 AUD
- $310.63 AUD
- Unit price
- per
-
Beating the Bounds: Excess and Restraint in Joyce's Later WorksExploring the role of boundaries and limits in thewriting of James Joyce Beating the Bounds examines the roleof boundaries and limits in James Joyce's later works, primarily Finnegans Wake but also Ulysses and other texts. Building on theideas of philosophers Friedrich Nietzsche, Giordano Bruno,...
- $310.63 AUD
- $310.63 AUD
- Unit price
- per
-
Joyce and GeometryIn a paradigm shift away from classical understandings of geometry, nineteenth-century mathematicians developed new systems that featured surprising concepts such as the idea that parallel lines can curve and intersect. Providing evidence to confirm much that has largely been speculation, Joyce and Geometry reveals...
- $310.63 AUD
- $310.63 AUD
- Unit price
- per
-
It's Our Movement Now: Black Women's Politics and the 1977 National Women's ConferenceProfiles of influential Black womenactivists at a historic moment Thisvolume offers a panoramic view of Black feminist politics through the storiesof a remarkable cross section of Black women who attended the 1977 NationalWomen's Conference. Thesewomen advocated for civil and women's rights but also for...
- $310.63 AUD
- $310.63 AUD
- Unit price
- per
-
Enterprising Women: Gender, Race, and Power in the Revolutionary AtlanticIn the Caribbean colony of Grenada in 1797, Dorothy Thomas signed the manumission documents for her elderly slave Betty. Thomas owned dozens of slaves and was well on her way to amassing the fortune that would make her the richest black resident in the...
- $310.43 AUD
- $310.43 AUD
- Unit price
- per
-
The Literary Gift in Early AmericaSome of the most meaningful moments in early American literature relied on historical patterns of gift exchange, David Faflik argues in this compelling book. Gift exchange kept a surprising variety of literary objects in circulation across the diverse societies, economies, and cultures of the...
- $307.40 AUD
- $307.40 AUD
- Unit price
- per
-
The Banat of Temesvar: Borderland Colonization in the Habsburg MonarchyThis book explores the establishment and development of a multi-ethnic frontier society on the Habsburg-Ottoman border, in the historic region of the Banat (today divided between Romania, Yugoslavia, and Hungary). After it passed from Ottoman to Habsburg control in the early eighteenth century, the...
- $307.40 AUD
- $307.40 AUD
- Unit price
- per
-
Daily Life in 1990s AmericaWith the end of the Cold War, the invention of the World Wide Web, the widespread availability to cellphones and personal computers, and remarkable advances in space exploration-the 1990s introduced a new era in human history. During that decade, the United States experienced changes...
- $307.40 AUD
- $307.40 AUD
- Unit price
- per
-
The Order and Disorder of Communication: Pamphlets and Polemics in the Seventeenth-Century Ottoman EmpireThe seventeenth-century Ottoman Empire was rife with polemical debate, around worshipping at saints' graves, medical procedures, smoking tobacco, and other everyday practices. Fueling these debates was a new form of writing--the pamphlet, a cheap, short, and mobile text that provided readers with simplified legal...
- $307.40 AUD
- $307.40 AUD
- Unit price
- per
-
Stalin's Usable Past: A Critical Edition of the 1937 Short History of the USSRAt the height of the Great Terror in 1937, Joseph Stalin took a break from the purges to edit a new textbook on the history of the USSR. Published shortly thereafter, the Short History of the USSR amounted to an ideological sea change. Stalin...
- $307.40 AUD
- $307.40 AUD
- Unit price
- per
