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  • Angelica’s Book and the World of Reading in Late Renaissance Italy
    Brendan Dooley
    Through the lens of a history of material culture mediated by an object, Angelica’s Book and the World of Reading in Late Renaissance Italy investigates aspects of women’s lives, culture, ideas and the history of the book in early modern Italy. Inside a badly damaged copy of Straparola’s 16th-century work, Piacevoli Notti, acquired in a Florentine antique shop in 2010, an inscr...
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    206,72 €

  • Women and the Material Culture of Death
    Examining the compelling and often poignant connection between women and the material culture of death, this collection focuses on the objects women make, the images they keep, the practices they use or are responsible for, and the places they inhabit and construct through ritual and custom. Women’s material practices, ranging from wearing mourning jewelry to dressing the dead,...
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    88,73 €

  • Before the Mayflower
    Lerone Bennett
    2016 Reprint of 1962 Edition.  Full facsimile of the original edition, not reproduced with Optical Recognition Software.  Reprint of the first edition of this landmark title.  The black experience in America—starting from its origins in western Africa up to 1961—is examined in this seminal study from a prominent African American figure. The entire historical timeline of African...
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    20,37 €

  • American Women on the Move
    Leader / Patricia Rusch Hyatt / Shelah Gilbert Leader
    This study analyzes the social and political impact of the 1977 National Women’s Conference. It provides a behind-the-scenes account of this landmark event four decades later and examines how conference delegates discussed the range of barriers to women’s equality, debated solutions, and proposed remedies. ...
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    114,11 €

  • Playing for Equality
    Allys Swanson / Diane LeBlanc
    The right to participate in sports and competitive athletics is more than an issue of fair play--it’s a matter of human rights. In 1972, Title IX of the Education Amendments became law, transforming sports opportunities for girls and women in the U.S. Based on oral histories, this book chronicles Title IX’s impact through the stories of eight women physical educators, coac...
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    42,80 €

  • Queenship, Gender, and Reputation in the Medieval and Early Modern West, 1060-1600
    This edited collection opens new ways to look at queenship in areas and countries not usually studied and reflects the increasingly interdisciplinary work and geographic range of the field. This book is a forerunner in queenship and re-invents the reputations of the women and some of the men. The contributors answers questions about the nature of queenship, reputation of queens...
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    156,97 €

  • Political Philosophies and Nation-Building in Cameroon
    Aseh Andrew
    This is a comprehensive text on the function of thought in the history and political sociology of Cameroon. The book brings out how the “hidden hand of history” fashions a political thought which, in turn, creates its own history. Instead of Cameroonians making history, history makes Cameroonians. The book shows how political ideas are fashioned in a post-colonial context in wh...
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    48,37 €

  • Descendants of William Tilden
    Hilda Saulsbury
    Around the last part of the eighteenth century or at the beginning of the nineteenth century, this family landed on the shores, in chattels, of what is now the United States of America. Since the middle name of Hilda is May, the schooner named Fabiana bought relatives in chattels by means of the slave trade across the Atlantic Ocean.  May is not necessarily the original name of...
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    23,81 €

  • Descendants of William Tilden
    Hilda Saulsbury
    Around the last part of the eighteenth century or at the beginning of the nineteenth century, this family landed on the shores, in chattels, of what is now the United States of America. Since the middle name of Hilda is May, the schooner named Fabiana bought relatives in chattels by means of the slave trade across the Atlantic Ocean.  May is not necessarily the original name of...
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    32,21 €

  • Social and Cultural Foundations in Global Studies
    Eve Stoddard / John Collins
    From the Foundations in Global Studies series, this text offers students a fresh, comprehensive, multidisciplinary entry point to the study of the social and cultural aspects of global studies. After a brief introduction to global studies, the early chapters of the book survey the key concepts and processes of globalization as well as a critical look at the meaning and role glo...
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    86,80 €

  • Minor Knowledge and Microhistory
    David Olafsson / Sigurður Gylfi Magnússon
    This book studies everyday writing practices among ordinary people in a poor rural society in the 19th and early 20th centuries. Using the abundance of handwritten material produced, disseminated and consumed some centuries after the advent of print as its research material, the book’s focus is on its day-to-day usage and on 'minor knowledge,' i.e., text matter originating and ...
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    254,48 €

  • Anti-Jewish Riots in the Crown of Aragon and the Royal Response, 1391-1392
    Benjamin R. Gampel / Benjamin RGampel
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    204,89 €

  • The Allied Air War and Urban Memory
    Jörg Arnold
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    59,60 €

  • Hot metal
    Jesse Adams Stein
    Hot Metal focuses on the experience of Australian print-workers between the 1960s and 1980s, concentrating on labour, production, design and culture in the context of deindustrialisation. ...
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    157,46 €

  • Beyond the Rope
    Karlos K. Hill / Karlos KHill
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    33,74 €

  • Memory, Forgetting and the Moving Image
    Caterina Albano
    Throughout this book we discover what our idea of memory would be without the moving image. This thought provoking analysis examines how the medium has informed modern and contemporary models of memory. The book examines the ways in which cinematic optic procedures inform an understanding of memory processes. Critical to the reciprocity of mind and screen is forgetting and the ...
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    64,88 €

  • The House of Skulls
    Nkparom C. Ejituwu / Nkparom CEjituwu / Stanley I. Okoroafor / Stanley IOkoroafor
    This is a study of the House of Skulls, one of the lost cultures of the Niger Delta. The House of Skulls was a European label for a house built by some Niger Delta communities with the skulls of their enemies killed in war. The case is used to argue that barbarism is not endemic to African Culture, but rather part of the primitive instinct of man and the House of Skulls, as evi...
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    44,69 €

  • U.S. and Them
    Patricia Bjorklund
    In this memoir of growing up in the 1960s Cold War, Patricia Bjorklund narrates a girlhood filled with John Birch Society activism, racial tensions, concepts of sin and hell, and the ominous and omnipresent fears of nuclear apocalypse—and, conversely, the glowing redemptive powers of hope and happiness. 'The naïveté and paranoia of the Cold War years are perfectly rendered in ...
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    14,03 €

  • Performing China on the London Stage
    Ashley Thorpe
    This book details the history of Chinese theatre, and British representations of Chinese theatre, on the London stage over a 250-year period.  A wide range of performance case studies - from exhibitions and British Chinese opera inspired theatre, to translations of Chinese plays and visiting troupes  - highlight the evolving nature of Sino-British trade, fashion, migration, the...
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    132,27 €

  • Blue Mountain Mist
    Yildiz Ilkin
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    39,19 €

  • The Balogun in Yoruba land The Changing Fortunes of a Military Institution
    The Balogun institution is part of an elaborate chieftaincy tradition among the Yoruba of south western Nigeria, whose antiquity predates modern times. This book examines histories of origin and significance of the chieftaincy, as well as various contexts of its evolution into a formidable traditional institution in Yoruba land. In doing so, the peculiar traits and experiences ...
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    58,54 €

  • Amatory Pleasures
    Julie Peakman
    Encompassing the long 18th century, Amatory Pleasures examines a broad and enticing variety of topics in the history of sexuality in Georgian times. It includes discussion of sexual perversion, criminal conversation, erotic gardens, gentlemen’s homosocial societies, flagellation, pornography, writings of courtesans and the world of female friendship, revealing the secret or hi...
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    193,51 €

  • Sex, Time and Place
    Simon Avery
    Sex, Time and Place extensively widens the scope of what we might mean by ’queer London studies’. Incorporating multidisciplinary perspectives - including social history, cultural geography, visual culture, literary representation, ethnography and social studies - this collection asks new questions, widens debates and opens new subject terrain. Featuring essays from an interna...
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    206,25 €

  • Christmas and the British
    Martin Johnes
    The modern Christmas was made by the Victorians and rooted in their belief in commerce, family and religion. Their rituals and traditions persist to the present day but the festival has also been changed by growing affluence, shifting family structures, greater expectations of happiness and material comfort, technological developments and falling religious belief. Christmas bec...
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    193,18 €

  • Disaster, Death and the Emotions in the Shadow of the Apocalypse, 1400-1700
    In late medieval and early modern Europe, textual and visual records of disaster and mass death allow us to encounter the intense emotions generated through the religious, providential and apocalyptic frameworks that provided these events with meaning. This collection brings together historians, art historians, and literary specialists in a cross-disciplinary collection shaped ...
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    171,88 €

  • Harold Innis Reflects
    Revealing aspects of Harold Adam Innis’s character that have largely escaped the attention of his biographers, this volume brings together Innis’s previously unpublished autobiographical memoir, a selection of his WWI correspondence, and his thesis, “The Returned Soldier.” Detailed annotations by the volume editors flesh out the original materials. ...
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    146,09 €

  • WTF?!
    Olivier Magny
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    22,66 €

  • The Machiavellian Moment
    John Greville Agard Pocock
    Originally published in 1975, The Machiavellian Moment remains a landmark of historical and political thought. Celebrated historian J.G.A. Pocock looks at the consequences for modern historical and social consciousness arising from the ideal of the classical republic revived by Machiavelli and other thinkers of Renaissance Italy. Pocock shows that Machiavelli’s prime emphasis w...
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    48,52 €

  • Women in Gray
    Lochlainn Seabrook
    Most Civil War books focus only on its male participants, but award-winning Southern historian Colonel Lochlainn Seabrook covers both genders. Having written extensively on the masculine side of the conflict, his positive, uplifting, inspiring, and educational book on Confederate females, unique in American literature, examines the feminine view of the War.Entitled Women in Gra...
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    25,14 €

  • Disaster, Death and the Emotions in the Shadow of the Apocalypse, 1400-1700
    In late medieval and early modern Europe, textual and visual records of disaster and mass death allow us to encounter the intense emotions generated through the religious, providential and apocalyptic frameworks that provided these events with meaning. This collection brings together historians, art historians, and literary specialists in a cross-disciplinary collection shaped ...
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    47,64 €


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