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Чарльз Кинг

Charles King

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Чарльз Кинг — новинки

  • Gods of the Upper Air: How a Circle of Renegade Anthropologists Reinvented Race, Sex, and Gender in the Twentieth Century Чарльз Кинг
    ISBN: 0385542194
    Год издания: 2019
    Издательство: Doubleday Books
    Язык: Английский

    A dazzling group portrait of Franz Boas, the founder of cultural anthropology, and his circle of women scientists, who upended American notions of race, gender, and sexuality in the 1920s and 1930s--a sweeping chronicle of how our society began to question the basic ways we understand other cultures and ourselves. At the end of the 19th century, everyone knew that people were defined by their race and sex and were fated by birth and biology to be more or less intelligent, able, nurturing, or warlike. But one rogue researcher looked at the data and decided everyone was wrong. Franz Boas was the very image of a mad scientist: a wild-haired…

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  • Midnight at the Pera Palace: The Birth of Modern Istanbul Чарльз Кинг
    ISBN: 978-0-393-08914-1
    Год издания: 2014
    Издательство: W. W. Norton & Company
    Язык: Английский
    At midnight, December 31, 1925, citizens of the newly proclaimed Turkish Republic celebrated the New Year. For the first time ever, they had agreed to use a nationally unified calendar and clock. Yet in Istanbul-an ancient crossroads and Turkey's largest city-people were looking toward an uncertain future. Never purely Turkish, Istanbul was home to generations of Greeks, Armenians, and Jews, as well as Muslims. It welcomed White Russian nobles ousted by the Russian Revolution, Bolshevik assassins on the trail of the exiled Leon Trotsky, German professors, British diplomats, and American entrepreneurs-a multicultural panoply of performers and poets, do-gooders and ne'er-do-wells. During the Second World War, thousands of Jews fleeing occupied Europe found passage through Istanbul, some with the help of the future Pope John XXIII. At the Pera Palace, Istanbul's most luxurious hotel, so many spies mingled in the lobby that the manager posted a sign asking them to relinquish their seats to paying guests. In beguiling prose and rich character portraits, Charles King brings to life a remarkable era when a storied city stumbled into the modern world and reshaped the meaning of cosmopolitanism.
  • Одесса. Величие и смерть города грез Чарльз Кинг
    ISBN: 978-5-98695-054-9
    Год издания: 2013
    Издательство: Издательство Ольги Морозовой
    Язык: Русский
    Книга американского историка и публициста Чарльза Кинга - интереснейший и долгожданный труд по истории Одессы, города, который, по словам Марка Твена, представляет собой Америку в миниатюре. Одесса всегда была отдельным и совершенно интернациональным явлением. Не имея древней истории, Одесса стала центром особой жизни, полной романтики, юмора и драматических событий. Чарльзу Кингу блестяще удалось показать своеобразие Одессы, авантюрный дух этого города и его непростую историческую участь.
  • Odessa: Genius and Death in a City of Dreams Чарльз Кинг
    ISBN: 9780393070842
    Год издания: 2011
    Издательство: W. W. Norton & Company
    Язык: Английский
    Italian merchants, Greek freedom fighters, and Turkish seamen; a Russian empress and her favorite soldier-bureaucrats; Jewish tavern keepers, traders, and journalists―these and many others seeking fortune and adventure rubbed shoulders in Odessa, the greatest port on the Black Sea.

    Here a dream of cosmopolitan freedom inspired geniuses and innovators, from Alexander Pushkin and Isaac Babel to Zionist activist Vladimir Jabotinsky and immunologist Ilya Mechnikov. Yet here too was death on a staggering scale: not only the insidious plagues common to seaports but also the mass murder of Jews carried out by the Romanian occupation during World War II. Drawing on a wealth of original source material, Odessa is an elegy for the vibrant, multicultural tapestry of which a thriving Jewish population formed an essential part, as well as a celebration of the survival of Odessa's dream in a diaspora reaching all the way to Brighton Beach.
  • The Black Sea: A History Чарльз Кинг
    ISBN: 978-0199283941
    Год издания: 2005
    Издательство: OUP Oxford

    The lands surrounding the Black Sea share a colourful past. Though in recent decades they have experienced ethnic conflict, economic collapse, and interstate rivalry, their common heritage and common interests go deep. Now, as a region at the meeting point of the Balkans, Central Asia, and the Middle East, the Black Sea is more important than ever. In this lively and entertaining book, which is based on extensive research in multiple languages, Charles King investigates the myriad connections that have made the Black Sea more of a bridge than a boundary, linking religious communities, linguistic groups, empires, and later, nations and states.