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The influence of baseball heritage in society and culture Baseball’s past has been lauded, romanticized, and idealized, and much has been written about both the sport and its history. This is the first volume to explore the understudied side of baseball—how its heritage is understood, interpreted, commodified, and performed for various purposes today. These essays reveal how baseball’s heritage can be a source of great enjoyment and inspiration, tracing its influence on constructed environments, such as stadiums and monuments, and food and popular culture. The contributors discuss how its heritage can be used to address social, political, and economic aims and agendas and can reveal te...
Conceiving Freedom: Women of Color, Gender, and the Abolition of Slavery in Havana and Rio de Janeiro
Ten original essays discuss changes in the life, politics, and culture of Bolivia since the revolution of 1952.
Frisch verheirateter, schwerreicher Kunstsammler verschenkt mehrere Millionen teures Bild an Assistentin! Lesen Sie, warum der Geliebte der Assistentin ein Unglück darin sieht, was der Millionär mit dem Geschenk erreichen will und wie eine kleine Serviererin aus dem Osten sämtliche Pläne aller Beteiligten zerstört. Der zweite Teil "Recht" erzählt, wie Carlos sich der Wahrheit annähert und diese durchaus unangenehm für ihn ist, warum das vermisste Bild nicht mehr ausgestellt werden darf und wer größtes Interesse daran hat, es dennoch zu zerstören.
The aim of Current Biography Yearbook is to provide reference librarians, students, and researchers with objective, accurate, and well-documented biographical articles about living leaders in all fields of human accomplishment. Whenever feasible, obituary notices appear for persons whose biographies have been published in Current Biography. - Publisher.
The association's Report of the executive council, 1913/15, includes papers prepared for a proposed 1914 conference at the Hague.