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Die Fehlerziehung des Negers
Raises questions that readers were trying to answer in 1933 and are still trying to answer today. Explores the impact of slavery on the Black psyche and raises questions about our educational system, such as what and who African Americans are educated for, the difference between education and training, and which of these African Americans are receiving. Provides solutions to these challenges, but…
Gemeinsame Themen: Conditions sociales, Education, Social conditions, Psychology
Kultur und Anarchie: Ein Essay in politischer und sozialer Kritik
"Matthew Arnold's famous series of essays, which were first published in book form under the title Culture and Anarchy in 1869, debate important questions about the nature of culture and society. Arnold seeks to find out what culture really is, what good it can do, and if it is really necessary. He contrasts culture, which he calls the study of perfection, with anarchy, the mood of unrest and…
Gemeinsame Themen: Conditions sociales, Social conditions
Ein scharfes Auge für Schurkerei
A Victorian gentleman . . . A brutal killing . . . When a neighbour is murdered in his own home, Inspector Ben Ross and his wife Lizzie dig deep into his tragic past to find out who is behind the bludgeoning. A Particular Eye for Villainy is the fourth crime novel in Ann Granger's historical mystery series. The perfect read for fans of Sherlock Holmes and Hercule Poirot. 'The book's main strength…
Gemeinsame Themen: Social conditions, History
Unsere androzentrische Kultur, oder die von Menschen gemachte Welt
In this probing critique of "androcentric culture," pioneering feminist Charlotte Perkins Gilman analyzes with wit and insight the many negative effects of male domination, not only on women in particular but on the welfare of the human race as a whole. Society's long history of male hegemony and female subservience has not enhanced the natural qualities of the human race but rather distorted…
Gemeinsame Themen: Conditions sociales, Social conditions, History
Geschichten amerikanischer Indianer
Collection of American Indian stories by Zitkala-Sa, an Sioux Indian. Many of the stories are of an autobiographical nature.
Gemeinsame Themen: Conditions sociales, Social conditions, History
Keine Durchfahrt
No Thoroughfare is a stage play and novel by Charles Dickens and Wilkie Collins, both released in December 1867.
Gemeinsame Themen: Mœurs et coutumes, Social life and customs
Bleak House
As the interminable case of Jarndyce and Jarndyce grinds its way through the Court of Chancery, it draws together a disparate group of people: Ada and Richard Clare, whose inheritance is gradually being devoured by legal costs; Esther Summerson, a ward of court, whose parentage is a source of deepening mystery; the menacing lawyer Tulkinghorn; the determined sleuth Inspector Bucket; and even Jo,…
Gemeinsame Themen: Social problems, Social conditions, Social life and customs, History
Über die Freiheit
Book digitized by Google from the library of the New York Public Library and uploaded to the Internet Archive by user tpb.
Gemeinsame Themen: Utilitarianism, Social conditions
Die Rückkehr des Eingeborenen
The native of the title is Clym Yeobright, who returns to the area from the bright society of Paris and, as any reader of Hardy knows, all is not smooth. He is quickly taken by and marries the one woman he should not--Eustacia Vye. The suffering that follows is mitigated somewhat by the ending.
Gemeinsame Themen: Married people, Social conditions, Social life and customs, History