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Island on Fire - Tom Zoellner - Bog - Harvard University Press - Plusbog.dk

In 1831 enslaved Jamaicans revolted. What began as a peaceful movement soon became a bloodbath as British troops retaliated. Tom Zoellner tells the inspiring story of the uprising that galvanized antislavery forces in Britain and led directly to abolition two years later.

DKK 183.00

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Pairs 02 - - Bog - Harvard University Press - Plusbog.dk

Pairs is a student-led journal at the Harvard University Graduate School of Design dedicated to conversations about design that are down to earth and unguarded. Pairs 02 features conversations with Rashid bin Shabib, Sara Hendren, Jorge Silvetti, and Sumayya Vally, among others.

DKK 153.00

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Racism on Trial - Ian F. Haney Lopez - Bog - Harvard University Press - Plusbog.dk

Haney López tells the compelling story of the Chicano movement in Los Angeles by following two criminal trials, including one arising from the student walkouts of 1968. He demonstrates how racial prejudice led to police brutality and judicial discrimination that in turn spurred Chicano militancy.

DKK 250.00

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Collected Papers of Kenneth J. Arrow - Kenneth J. Arrow - Bog - Harvard University Press - Plusbog.dk

A request from the Ford Foundation for a survey of health economics led to Arrow’s famous paper, “Uncertainty and the Welfare Economics of Medical Care.” Other papers included here deal with racial discrimination, the cost of oil imports, health insurance, environmental resources, and urban economics.

DKK 814.00

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Up from History - Robert J. Norrell - Bog - Harvard University Press - Plusbog.dk

This compelling biography reveals how conditions in the segregated South led Booker T. Washington to call for a less contentious path to freedom and equality. Norrell details the positive power of Washington’s vision, one that invoked hope and optimism to overcome past exploitation and present discrimination.

DKK 262.00

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Pairs 04 - - Bog - Harvard University Press - Plusbog.dk

Pairs is a student-led journal at Harvard University Graduate School of Design dedicated to design conversations. Pairs 04 features Danielle Auburt, Melanie Boehi, Fernanda Canales, Theaster Gates, Ryan W. Kennihan, Yasmeen Lari, Maeling Lokko, Sergio Lopez-Pineiro, Sharon Mattern, Jeffrey Shaw, Kate Wagner, and others.

DKK 151.00

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The Annotated Importance of Being Earnest - Oscar Wilde - Bog - Harvard University Press - Plusbog.dk

The Annotated Importance of Being Earnest provides facing-page commentary on Oscar Wilde’s greatest play. Editor Nicholas Frankel highlights the play’s relation to the author’s homosexuality and to the climate of sexual repression that led to Wilde’s imprisonment just months after the play’s London opening in 1895.

DKK 215.00

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Uncertainty in the Empire of Routine - Maura Dykstra - Bog - Harvard University Press - Plusbog.dk

Maura Dykstra shows how information overload resulting from the administrative revolution of China’s eighteenth-century Qing state led to a discourse of crisis. Slowly but surely, the thicket of imperial standards binding local offices, provincial superiors, and central ministries shifted the very foundations of the state.

DKK 399.00

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Virtue That Matters - Jungwon Kim - Bog - Harvard University Press - Plusbog.dk

Virtue That Matters is a groundbreaking exploration of chastity culture in Choson Korea that illustrates the interplay between state-led indoctrination, socio-legal changes, and gender relations. Jungwon Kim includes women’s own writings and argues that chastity culture was a product of Confucianization, social forces, and individual agency.

DKK 439.00

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Terror in the Balkans - Ben H. Shepherd - Bog - Harvard University Press - Plusbog.dk

Germany’s 1941 seizure of Yugoslavia led to a bloody insurgency, and the Wehrmacht waged a brutal campaign in response—massive reprisal shootings, destruction of entire villages, and huge mobile operations against civilians. Terror in the Balkans explores the reasons behind Germany’s extreme security measures in southern and eastern Europe.

DKK 326.00

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The Social Biology of Ropalidia marginata - Raghavendra Gadagkar - Bog - Harvard University Press - Plusbog.dk

In this book, the biologist Raghavendra Gadagkar focuses on the single species he has worked on throughout his career. His years of study have led him to believe that ecological, physiological, and demographic factors can be more important than genetic relatedness in the selection for or against social traits.

DKK 705.00

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Hidden Caliphate - Waleed Ziad - Bog - Harvard University Press - Plusbog.dk

Waleed Ziad examines the development of Sufi-led Muslim revivalist networks. From the eighteenth to the twentieth centuries, Naqshbandi-Mujaddidi Sufis inspired reformist movements and articulated responses to the fracturing of Muslim political power. They fostered a “hidden caliphate” that sustained cohesion from Afghanistan to Siberia and China.

DKK 353.00

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Migrant Teachers - Lora Bartlett - Bog - Harvard University Press - Plusbog.dk

A technocratic view of teachers as credentialed specialists has led to a growing reliance on migrant teachers, as federal mandates require K-12 schools to employ qualified teachers or risk funding cuts. Lora Bartlett investigates the result: transient teaching professionals with little opportunity to connect meaningfully with their students.

DKK 332.00

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The Black Book of Communism - Nicolas Werth - Bog - Harvard University Press - Plusbog.dk

This international bestseller plumbs archives in the former Soviet bloc to reveal the actual, practical accomplishments of Communism around the world: terror, torture, famine, mass deportations, and massacres. The authors show how and why, wherever the ideology of Communism was established, it quickly led to crime, terror, and repression.

DKK 531.00

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The Devil’s Wall - Mark Cornwall - Bog - Harvard University Press - Plusbog.dk

Heinz Rutha, pioneer of a youth movement that emphasized male bonding in its quest to reassert German dominance over Czechoslovakia, was arrested in 1937 for corrupting male adolescents. This led to an international scandal. Cornwall’s biography is the first to tackle the long-taboo intersection of youth, homosexuality, and fascist nationalism.

DKK 372.00

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The Siege of Strasbourg - Rachel Chrastil - Bog - Harvard University Press - Plusbog.dk

For six terror-filled weeks in 1870 German armies bombarded Strasbourg, killing hundreds of citizens, wounding thousands, and destroying landmarks. Rachel Chrastil tells how the city became the epicenter of a new kind of warfare whose indiscriminate violence shocked contemporaries and led to debates over the wartime protection of civilians.

DKK 378.00

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Making Civilizations - - Bog - Harvard University Press - Plusbog.dk

From the History of the World series, Making Civilizations traces the origins of large-scale organized human societies. Led by archaeologist Hans-Joachim Gehrke, a distinguished group of scholars lays out latest findings about Neanderthals, the Agrarian Revolution, the founding of imperial China, the world of Western classical antiquity, and more.

DKK 369.00

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China’s War Reporters - Parks M. Coble - Bog - Harvard University Press - Plusbog.dk

When Japan invaded China in 1937, Chinese journalists greeted the news with euphoria, convinced their countrymen, led by Chiang Kai-shek, would triumph. Parks Coble shows that correspondents underplayed China’s defeats for fear of undercutting morale and then saw their writings disappear and themselves denounced after the Communists came to power.

DKK 363.00

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The Golden Age of the Classics in America - Carl J. Richard - Bog - Harvard University Press - Plusbog.dk

Richard explores the enshrinement of the classics in American antebellum culture. For the first time, knowledge of the classics extended beyond aristocratic males to the middle class, women, African Americans, and frontier settlers, but the Civil War led to a radical alteration of the educational system that steadily eroded their preeminence.

DKK 463.00

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Slave Law and the Politics of Resistance in the Early Atlantic World - Edward B. Rugemer - Bog - Harvard University Press - Plusbog.dk

Edward Rugemer’s comparative history, spanning 200 years, reveals the political dynamic between slaves’ resistance and slaveholders’ power in two prosperous slave economies: Jamaica and South Carolina. This struggle led to the abolition of slavery through a law of British Parliament in one case and through violent civil war in the other.

DKK 338.00

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Empires and Encounters - - Bog - Harvard University Press - Plusbog.dk

Between 1350 and 1750 the world reached a tipping point of global connectedness. In this volume of the acclaimed series A History of the World, noted international scholars examine five critical geographical areas where exploration and empire building led to expanding interaction—early signals on every continent of a shrinking globe.

DKK 369.00

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The Park Chung Hee Era - - Bog - Harvard University Press - Plusbog.dk

In 1961 South Korea was mired in poverty. By 1979, it had a powerful industrial economy and a vibrant civil society that led to democracy eight years later. This volume examines the transformation as a study in the politics of modernization, contextualizing many historical ambiguities in South Korea’s trajectory toward sustainable economic growth.

DKK 253.00

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The Fissured Workplace - David Weil - Bog - Harvard University Press - Plusbog.dk

Fissuring—splitting off functions that were once managed internally—has been a successful business strategy. Large companies maintain the quality of their brand without the cost of an expensive workforce. But this approach has led to stagnation in wages and benefits and a lower standard of living for workers. David Weil proposes solutions.

DKK 233.00

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Cultures of Charity - Nicholas Terpstra - Bog - Harvard University Press - Plusbog.dk

Renaissance debates about politics and gender led to pioneering forms of poor relief, devised to help women get a start in life. These included orphanages for illegitimate children and forced labor in workhouses, but also women’s shelters and early forms of maternity benefits, unemployment insurance, food stamps, and credit union savings plans.

DKK 456.00

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Sur’s Ocean - Surdas - Bog - Harvard University Press - Plusbog.dk

Surdas, regarded as the epitome of artistry in Old Hindi religious poetry from the end of the sixteenth century to the present, refashioned the narrative of Krishna and his lover Radha into elegant, approachable lyrics. His popularity led to the proliferation, through an energetic oral tradition, of poems ascribed to him, the Sursagar.

DKK 284.00

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