Social & Cultural History
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Ferdowsi, the Mongols and the History of Iran: Art, Literature and Culture from Early Islam to Qajar Persia
Bloomsbury Publishing PLCCurrent price €129.59Original price €143.99I.B.Tauris in association with the Iran Heritage Foundation Iran's rich cultural heritage has been shaped over many centuries by its rich and even...
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Hollywood at the Intersection of Race and Identity
Rutgers University PressCurrent price €40.01Original price €45.99Hollywood at the Intersection of Race and Identity explores the ways Hollywood represents race, gender, class, and nationality at the intersection ...
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The Truth of Myth
Gregory SchremppCurrent price €26.99Original price €29.99The Truth of Myth is a thorough and accessible introduction to the study of myth, surveying the intellectual history of the topic, methods for stud...
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In Search of Us: Twelve Adventures in Anthropology
Lucy MooreCurrent price €15.75Original price €17.50***A Waterstones Best Books of 2022 pick***The story of the pioneering anthropologists and their adventures among civilisations that were first tho...
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Culture and Propaganda in World War II: Music, Film and the Battle for National Identity
John MorrisCurrent price €120.59Original price €133.99The wartime period in Britain is now seen as an extremely fertile period of British creativity in music, film and art. Often, these projects were f...
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Delft Blue to Denim Blue: Contemporary Dutch Fashion
Bloomsbury Publishing PLCCurrent price €27.83Original price €31.99Contemporary fashion in the Netherlands shows a unique mix of playful individualism, conceptual strength, and organisational innovation. Delft Blue...
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Artisans Abroad: British Migrant Workers in Industrialising Europe, 1815-1870
Fabrice BensimonCurrent price €100.79Original price €111.99Between 1815 and 1870, when European industrialisation was in its infancy and Britain enjoyed a technological lead, thousands of British workers em...
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Fatherhood in the Borderlands: A Daughter''s Slow Approach
Domino Renee PerezCurrent price €29.25Original price €32.502023 Finalist Best Academic Themed Book, College Level English, International Latino Book Awards A contemplative exploration of cultural represent...
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A Cultural History of the Senses in the Age of Empire
Bloomsbury Publishing PLCCurrent price €102.59Original price €113.99The 19th century was a time of new sensory experiences and modes of perception. The raucous mechanical intensity of the train and the factory vied ...
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Food Words: Essays in Culinary Culture
Peter JacksonCurrent price €30.59Original price €33.99Food Words is a series of provocative essays on some of the most important keywords in the emergent field of food studies, focusing on current cont...
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The Spirit of Soul Food: Race, Faith, and Food Justice
Christopher CarterCurrent price €23.38Original price €27.50Soul food has played a critical role in preserving Black history, community, and culinary genius. It is also a response to--and marker of--centurie...
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Mobilizing in Uncertainty: Collective Identities and War in Abkhazia
Anastasia ShesterininaCurrent price €53.99Original price €59.99Winner of the Davis Center Book Prize in Political and Social Studies Co-winner of the Charles Taylor Book Award How do ordinary people navigate th...
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Undocumented Motherhood: Conversations on Love, Trauma, and Border Crossing
Elizabeth Farfán-SantosCurrent price €24.75Original price €27.502023 SANA Book Award, Society for the Anthropology of North America2023 Honorable Mention, Outstanding Book Award NACCS Tejas Foco Award for Non-...
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Rebuilding Babel: Modern Architecture and Internationalism
Mark CrinsonCurrent price €49.58Original price €56.99Much of modernist architecture was inspired by the emergence of internationalism: the ethics and politics of world peace, justice and unity through...
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One Hundred Years of Struggle: The History of Women and the Vote in Canada
Joan SangsterCurrent price €24.75Original price €27.50On the eve of celebrating the 100th anniversary of womens right to vote in Canada comes a book, the first in a series on womens suffrage and the st...
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Merry Laughter and Angry Curses: The Shanghai Tabloid Press, 1897-1911
Juan WangCurrent price €92.69Original price €102.99The end of the Qing dynasty in China saw an unprecedented explosion of print journalism. By the turn of the twentieth century, not only had Chinese...
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Merry Laughter and Angry Curses: The Shanghai Tabloid Press, 1897-1911
Juan WangCurrent price €27.89Original price €30.99The end of the Qing dynasty in China saw an unprecedented explosion of print journalism. By the turn of the twentieth century, not only had Chinese...
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One Hundred Years of Struggle: The History of Women and the Vote in Canada
Joan SangsterCurrent price €31.49Original price €34.99On the eve of celebrating the 100th anniversary of womens right to vote in Canada comes a book, the first in a series on womens suffrage and the st...
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Authorizing Early Modern European Women: From Biography to Biofiction
Amsterdam University PressCurrent price €108.89Original price €120.99The essays in this volume analyze strategies adopted by contemporary novelists, playwrights, screenwriters, and biographers interested in bringing ...
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Norway in the Second World War: Politics, Society and Conflict
Emeritus Professor Ole Kristian GrimnesCurrent price €29.25Original price €32.50Covering political, military, economic and social history, Norway in the Second World War is the most authoritative book on the subject in the Engl...
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A History of Popular Culture in Japan: From the Seventeenth Century to the Present
E. Taylor AtkinsCurrent price €28.79Original price €31.99The phenomenon of 'Cool Japan' is one of the distinctive features of global popular culture of the millennial age. A History of Popular Culture in ...
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Builders of the Third Reich: The Organisation Todt and Nazi Forced Labour
Dr. Charles DickCurrent price €25.65Original price €28.50This is the first comprehensive critical study of the Organisation Todt (OT), a key institution which oversaw the Third Reichs vast slave labour pr...
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Erotic Love in Sociology, Philosophy and Literature: From Romanticism to Rationality
Finn BowringCurrent price €111.59Original price €123.99Why is love taken for granted as a part of human experience? And why is sexual or romantic love in particular so important to us? This book aims to...
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Heiter bis wolkig (German Edition): Eine Deutschlandreise
Frank GoosenCurrent price €20.67Original price €26.50Fair to cloudy is a prognostication regularly made on the evening weather report, promising everything and nothing. Homelandwhat is this, and how d...
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Sociology of the Renaissance
Alfred von MartinCurrent price €53.09Original price €58.99This classic work marks the culmination of a definite stage in the socio-economic historiography from the late Middle Ages to the rise of the haute...
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Historical Understanding: Past, Present, and Future
Bloomsbury Publishing PLCCurrent price €28.79Original price €31.99The first decades of the new century shake old certainties. In a whirlwind of profound changes, do we have more history or less? Does history overw...
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The Cinema of Jia Zhangke: Realism and Memory in Chinese Film
Cecília MelloCurrent price €28.28Original price €32.50Shorlisted for the BAFTSS 2020 Award for Best Monograph Starting out as an independent filmmaker, and despite his films being subjected to censors...
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Electrified Voices: How the Telephone, Phonograph, and Radio Shaped Modern Japan, 18681945
Kerim YasarCurrent price €88.73Original price €101.99Long before karaokes ubiquity and the rise of global brands such as Sony, Japan was a place where new audio technologies found eager users and cont...
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The Personality of Paris: Landscape and Society in the Long-Nineteenth Century
Dr Alan R. H. BakerCurrent price €93.59Original price €103.99What was the personality of 19th-century Paris? To answer that question, this book eschews the conventional narrative and chronological route taken...
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The Spirits of Crossbones Graveyard: Time, Ritual, and Sexual Commerce in London
Sondra L. HausnerCurrent price €77.39Original price €85.99Every month, a ragtag group of Londoners gather in the site known as Crossbones Graveyard to commemorate the souls of medieval prostitutes believed...
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A Cultural History of Food in the Modern Age
Bloomsbury Publishing PLCCurrent price €96.89Original price €113.99In the modern age (19202000), vast technological innovation spurred greater concentration, standardization, and globalization of the food supply. A...
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I methoni kai i istoria: I Venetia kai i eksousia (Greek language edition)
Panayotis FoutakisCurrent price €76.49Original price €84.99This Greek-language monograph on the castle of Modon (Peloponnese, Greece) leads us on a journey from Homer to the 20th century, and concentrates p...
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Cinematic Style: Fashion, Architecture and Interior Design on Film
Professor Jess BerryCurrent price €81.77Original price €93.99From cinemas silent beginnings, fashion and interior design have been vital to character development and narrative structure. Despite spectacular t...
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The Fashion Forecasters: A Hidden History of Color and Trend Prediction
Bloomsbury Publishing PLCCurrent price €94.82Original price €108.99The fashion business has been collecting and analyzing information about colors, fabrics, silhouettes, and styles since the 18th century - activiti...
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A Cultural History of Gardens in the Modern Age
Bloomsbury Publishing PLCCurrent price €102.59Original price €113.99Landscape architecture and garden-making have witnessed huge changes during the twentieth-century, and the impact of these will continue to be disc...
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Conservative Moments: Reading Conservative Texts
Bloomsbury Publishing PLCCurrent price €29.25Original price €32.50This book is available as open access through the Bloomsbury Open Access programme and is available on www.bloomsburycollections.com. As a compl...
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Eating the Empire: Food and Society in Eighteenth-Century Britain
Troy BickhamCurrent price €29.25Original price €32.50When students gathered in a London coffeehouse and smoked tobacco, Yorkshire women sipped sugar-infused tea, or a Glasgow family ate a bowl of Indi...
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The Persistence of Technology Histories of Repair, Reuse, and Disposal
Heike WeberCurrent price €50.39Original price €55.99Repair, reuse and disposal are closely interlinked phenomena related to the service lives and persistence of technologies. When technical artefacts...
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Representations of Islam in United States Comics, 1880-1922
Maryanne A. RhettCurrent price €111.59Original price €123.99Representations of Islam in United States Comics, 1880-1922 examines the depiction of Islam, Muslims, and the Islamic world in U.S. popular culture...
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Narrating Muslim Sicily: War and Peace in the Medieval Mediterranean World
Prof. William GranaraCurrent price €111.59Original price €123.99In 902 the last Byzantine stronghold in Sicily fell, and the island would remain under Muslim control until the arrival of the Normans in the eleve...
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American Missionaries in the Ottoman Empire A Conceptual Metaphor Analysis of Missionary Narrative, 18201898
Hami Inan GumusCurrent price €43.19Original price €47.99This book is a metaphor based analysis of the texts produced by the missionaries of the American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions in the...
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A Cultural History of Work in the Medieval Age
Bloomsbury Publishing PLCCurrent price €30.59Original price €33.99Winner of the 2020 PROSE Award for Multivolume Reference/Humanities Work was central to medieval life. Religious and secular authorities generally...
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Archive of Kindness: Stories of Everyday Heroism During the South African Lockdown
Jess AuberbachCurrent price €21.59Original price €23.99Archive of kindness documents micro-kindnesses collected by Jess Auerbach and her studnets at North-West University. The book will act as a reminde...
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Jo van Gogh-Bonger: The Woman Who Made Vincent Famous
Hans LuijtenCurrent price €26.00Original price €32.50It is so good, after so many years of public indifference, even hostility towards Vincent and his work, to feel towards the end of my life that the...
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Troubled Waters: A Social and Cultural History of Ireland''s Sea Fisheries
Jim Mac LaughlinCurrent price €51.29Original price €56.99Current price €51.29Original price €56.99Save 10% -
World Histories from Below: Disruption and Dissent, 1750 to the Present
Bloomsbury Publishing PLCCurrent price €29.25Original price €32.50History has traditionally privileged elites and their accomplishments. World Histories from Below provides an antidote, placing ordinary people and...
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European Women''s Letter-writing from the 11th to the 20th Centuries
Barbara CaineCurrent price €123.29Original price €136.99This book reveals the importance of personal letters in the history of European women between the year 1000 and the advent of the telephone. It exp...
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