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  • 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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    206,59 €

  • 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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    225,85 €

  • 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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    206,25 €

  • 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 €

  • Golden Harvest
    Jan Tomasz Gross
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    17,82 €

  • The Solution
    Jay Morrison
    The Solution is an intentional blueprint and 21st-century handbook designed to help today's African-American community achieve long overdue Unity, Justice, and Repair. Unlike many books tackling such complex subject matter, The Solution is an easy read, carefully crafted to engage the reader with its conversational tone, shocking truths, and bold remedies. This handbook is ...
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    16,65 €

  • American Justice On Trial
    Lise Pearlman
    ABOUT THE BOOKOn the 50th anniversary of the Black Panther Party, Pearlman’s new book American Justice on Trial: People v. Newton compares the explosive state of American race relations in 1968 to race relations today with insights from key participants and observers of the internationally-watched Oakland, California death-penalty trial that launched the Panther Party and trans...
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    32,36 €

  • Jewish Histories of the Holocaust
    Norman J W Goda
    “Highly Recommended.” · Choice“…provides an excellent model in how to interweave multiple contexts and multiple sources: by studying interethnic relations in local and regional frameworks, by exploring the infl uence of non-Jewish cultural contexts, and by broadening chronological scopes not limited only to the history of antisemitism.” · Slavic Review“Norman Goda’s Jewish Hist...
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    37,69 €

  • The Cooperative Society
    E.G. Nadeau / Luc Nadeau
    In this book, we present the hypothesis that humans may be on the threshold of a new historical stage, one characterized by cooperation, democracy, the equitable distribution of resources and a sustainable relationship with nature. Our history for more than 200,000 years has included cooperation with one another, with other species and with our physical environment. But it has ...
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    9,94 €

  • Italian Modernities
    Bjørn Thomassen / Rosario Forlenza
    This book argues that Italy represents a privileged entry point into the comparative analysis of ideologies and experiences of modernity. The book compares how thinkers and politicians belonging to different ideological clusters - Liberalism, Communism, Fascism, Chistian Democracy - came to formulate multiple and often antagonistic visions of Italy’s road to the modern. By revi...
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    144,44 €

  • Voices of Medieval England, Scotland, Ireland, and Wales
    Linda Mitchell
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    151,28 €

  • Negotiating Palestinian Womanhood
    Enaya Hammad Othman
    This book examines the American Quaker educational enterprise in Palestine since its establishment in the late nineteenth century during the Ottoman rule and into the British Mandate period. Quaker education intersected with national and social forces and allowed for Palestinian girls’ negotiation of discourses about nationalism. ...
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    136,03 €

  • Prostitutes and Matrons in the Roman World
    Anise K. Strong / Anise KStrong
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    153,36 €

  • Ted Strong Jr.
    JENKINS / Sherman L. Jenkins / Sherman LJenkins
    Ted Strong Jr. was a two-sport athlete, a major star of the Negro Leagues and one of the original Harlem Globetrotters. This book shares the fascinating story of a man who played in seven Negro League Baseball All-Star games and was a key member of the Harlem Globetrotter team that won the World Professional Basketball Championship. ...
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    55,97 €

  • Organized Crime Queens
    Jerry Bader
    Organized Crime QueensThe Secret World of Female GangstersFrom the bizarre world of female Japanese motorcycle gangs to the historic rise and fall of London’s Forty Elephants, the history of female organized crime is both fascinating and strange. These are the stories, both true and legendary of the female crime bosses that broke the mould of feminine gentility. This is The Sec...
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    21,07 €

  • Women in Imperial China
    Bret Hinsch
    This clear and accessible text offers a comprehensive survey of women’s history in China from the Neolithic period through the Qing Dynasty (10,200 BC–1911 AD). ...
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    142,66 €

  • Women in Imperial China
    Bret Hinsch
    This clear and accessible text offers a comprehensive survey of women’s history in China from the Neolithic period through the Qing Dynasty (10,200 BC–1911 AD). ...
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    59,62 €

  • A History of the Hasmonean State
    Kenneth Atkinson
    Kenneth Atkinson tells the exciting story of the nine decades of the Hasmonean rule of Judea (152 - 63 BCE) by going beyond the accounts of the Hasmoneans in Josephus in order to bring together new evidence to reconstruct how the Hasmonean family transformed their kingdom into a state that lasted until the arrival of the Romans. Atkinson reconstructs the relationships between t...
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    226,25 €

  • The Industrial Turn in World History
    Peter Stearns
    In The Industrial Turn in World History, Peter N. Stearns presents a concise yet far reaching overview of the worldwide shift from agricultural societies to industrial societies over the past two centuries. Putting the implications for individuals and societies in global context while simultaneously considering the limits of generalization across cultures, Stearns’s text explor...
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    69,45 €

  • The Place of the Social Margins, 1350-1750
    This volume crosses geographical as well as chronological divides in order to emphasise the mutability of the social margins, making an important contribution to research on social and urban history by considering a variety of groups identified as 'marginal'. ...
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    268,15 €

  • Surviving Aberfan
    Bevan Jones / Steve Humphries / Sue Elliott
    Britain and the world were shocked in October 1966 by live television pictures coming from a small mining village in Wales. They showed a human tragedy unfolding after thousands of tons of coal waste fell from a mountainside onto its primary school and surrounding houses. The majority of the 144 people killed were children under 12. After more than 50 years the survivors of tha...
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    16,50 €

  • Fortune, Fame, and Desire
    Sharon Hartman Strom
    This book sets out to explore the promotion of the self in the rapidly growing economy and political flux of the nineteenth century. ...
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    127,65 €


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