Social & Cultural History
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The Making of Eretz Israel in the Modern Era: A Historical-Geographical Study (17991949)
Yehoshua Ben-AriehCurrent price €131.39Original price €145.99Napoleons invasion of the Middle East marks the beginning of the modern era in the region. This book traces the developments that led to the makin...
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The Oxford Illustrated History of the Renaissance
Oxford University PressCurrent price €26.99Original price €29.99The Renaissance is one of the most celebrated periods in European history. But when did it begin? When did it end? And what did it include? Tradit...
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Lady Astronauts, Lady Engineers, and Naked Ladies: Women and the American Space Community during the Cold War, 1960s-1980s
Karin HilckCurrent price €89.99Original price €99.99The book Lady Astronauts, Lady Engineers, and Naked Ladies is a gender history of the American space community and by extension a social history of...
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Blackface Minstelsy in Aurora, Illinois
Alejandro BenavidesCurrent price €17.37Original price €21.99Current price €17.37Original price €21.99Save 21% -
St Catharine''s College: 550 Years in the Making
Scala Arts & Heritage Publishers LtdCurrent price €16.65Original price €18.50This new official history of St Catharines College has been published in celebration of its 550th anniversary on the Feast of St Catharine, 25 Nove...
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Histories of Everyday Life: The Making of Popular Social History in Britain, 1918-1979
Laura CarterCurrent price €29.25Original price €32.50Histories of Everyday Life is a study of the production and consumption of popular social history in mid-twentieth century Britain. It explores how...
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Iran: A Modern History
Abbas AmanatCurrent price €25.65Original price €28.50A masterfully researched history of Iran from 1501 to 2009The defiant spirit of [Iran] is brought to life in this monumental history of the past 50...
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Portrait of a Woman in Silk: Hidden Histories of the British Atlantic World
Zara AnishanslinCurrent price €24.75Original price €27.50Through the story of a portrait of a woman in a silk dress, historian Zara Anishanslin embarks on a fascinating journey, exploring and refining deb...
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Everyday Fashion: Interpreting British Clothing Since 1600
Bloomsbury Publishing PLCCurrent price €89.09Original price €98.99Ordinary clothes have extraordinary stories. In contrast to academic and curatorial focus on the spectacular and the luxurious, Everyday Fashion ma...
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Stigma: Marking Skin in the Early Modern World
Pennsylvania State University PressCurrent price €28.79Original price €31.99The early modern period opened a new era in the history of dermal marking. Intensifying global travel and trade, especially the slave trade, bought...
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There Are No Hispanic Stars!: Collected Writings of a Latino Film Critic in Hollywood, 19211939
Gabriel NavarroCurrent price €21.59Original price €23.99Selected writings by early LA cultural critic Gabriel Navarro, in English for the first timeIn the 1920s and 1930s a uniquely Mexican American ente...
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Pumpkin: The Curious History of an American Icon
Cindy OttCurrent price €24.75Original price €27.50Why do so many Americans drive for miles each autumn to buy a vegetable that they are unlikely to eat? While most people around the world eat pumpk...
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LatCrit: From Critical Legal Theory to Academic Activism
Francisco ValdesCurrent price €26.99Original price €29.99Examines LatCrits emergence as a scholarly and activist community within and beyond the US legal academy Emerging from the US legal academy in 1995...
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The Residential Is Racial: A Perceptual History of Mass Homeownership
Adrienne BrownCurrent price €26.99Original price €29.99Housing experts and activists have long described the foundational role race has played in the creation of mass homeownership. This book insistentl...
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The Residential Is Racial: A Perceptual History of Mass Homeownership
Adrienne BrownCurrent price €101.69Original price €112.99Housing experts and activists have long described the foundational role race has played in the creation of mass homeownership. This book insistentl...
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The Golden Thread: How Fabric Changed History
Kassia St ClairCurrent price €16.65Original price €18.50** A RADIO 4 BOOK OF THE WEEK **'Fascinating . . . The history of the world through the eye of a needle . . . I recommend this book to anyone' THE ...
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Hebridean Healers: The Beatons of Mull
Andrea CameronCurrent price €16.99Original price €19.99The discovery of a long-forgotten physic garden and the restoration of an old weathered Celtic cross on a coastal headland on the beautiful Scottis...
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Jinnah''s Pakistan: Formation and Challenges of a State
Farooq Ahmad DarCurrent price €29.25Original price €32.50Written from a historian's perspective, this book analyses the role Mohammad Ali Jinnah played as the first Governor General of Pakistan. In the br...
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Maritime Culture and Everyday Life in Nineteenth and TwentiethCentury Coastal Ghana
K NtiCurrent price €35.09Original price €38.99The communities along the coastline of Ghana boast a long and vibrant maritime culture. In the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, the region...
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The Fuggerei: Social home since 1521
Schnell & Steiner GmbH VerlagCurrent price €10.79Original price €11.99In 1521 Jakob Fugger laid the foundation-stone for the existence of the Fuggerei in eternity, with a deed of foundation. Today, the Fuggerei still ...
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US History in 15 Foods
Anna ZeideCurrent price €23.39Original price €25.99From whiskey in the American Revolution to Spam in WWII, food reveals a great deal about the society in which it exists. Selecting 15 foods that re...
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Chicana Liberation: Women and Mexican American Politics in Los Angeles, 1945-1981
Marisela R. ChávezCurrent price €24.75Original price €27.50Mexican American women reached across generations to develop a bridging activism that drew on different methods and ideologies to pursue their goal...
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Forgotten Bodies: Imperialism, Chuukese Migration, and Stratified Reproduction in Guam
Sarah A. SmithCurrent price €133.19Original price €147.99Women from Chuuk, Federated States of Micronesia, who migrate to Guam, a U.S. territory, suffer disproportionately poor reproductive health outcome...
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Luxembourg Court Cultures in the Long Fourteenth Century: Performing Empire, Celebrating Kingship
Boydell & Brewer LtdCurrent price €35.09Original price €38.99The first collection of essays in the English language dedicated to the cultural achievements and politics of one of the most important ruling hous...
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Badass Feminist Politics: Exploring Radical Edges of Feminist Theory, Communication, and Activism
Rutgers University PressCurrent price €31.49Original price €34.99In the late 2010s, the United States experienced a period of widespread silencing. Protests of unsafe drinking water have been met with tear gas; n...
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Herrschaftsumbruch und Historiographie: Zeitgeschichtsschreibung als Krisenbewältigung bei Alexander von Telese und Falco von Benevent
Markus KrummCurrent price €129.59Original price €143.99Mit der Gründung des Königreichs Sizilien durch Roger II. ( 1154) ist eine ambivalente Meistererzählung verbunden: Einerseits galt das neue Königre...
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Kontingenz und Zufall in den altisländischen Königssagas
Jan Alexander Van NahlCurrent price €110.69Original price €122.99Die altisländischen Königssagas sind einzigartige Erzählungen über Entstehung und Etablierung des skandinavischen Königtums von mythischen Anfängen...
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Race for Citizenship: Black Orientalism and Asian Uplift from Pre-Emancipation to Neoliberal America
Helen Heran JunCurrent price €26.99Original price €29.99Helen Heran Jun explores how the history of U.S. citizenshiphas positioned Asian Americans and African Americans in interlocking socio-political re...
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Doing Time in the Depression: Everyday Life in Texas and California Prisons
Ethan BlueCurrent price €64.79Original price €71.99As banks crashed, belts tightened, and cupboards emptied across the country, American prisons grew fat. Doing Time in the Depression tells the stor...
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Soft Soil, Black Grapes: The Birth of Italian Winemaking in California
Simone CinottoCurrent price €69.29Original price €76.99Winner of the 2013 New York Book Show Award in Scholarly/Professional Book Design From Ernest and Julio Gallo to Francis Ford Coppola, Italians hav...
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THE LAST YEARS OF COAL MINING IN SOUTH WALES: VOLUME TWO: FROM ABERDARE TO PEMBROKESHIRE
Steve GrudgingsCurrent price €29.25Original price €32.50Current price €29.25Original price €32.50Save 10% -
Oxford AQA History for A Level: Wars and Welfare: Britain in Transition 1906-1957
J ThomasCurrent price €37.79Original price €41.99Please note this title is suitable for any student studying: Exam Board: AQA Level/Subject: AS and A Level History First teaching: 2015 First exams...
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Gender and Cultural Mediation in the Long Eighteenth Century: Women across Borders
Springer International Publishing AGCurrent price €39.59Original price €43.99This open access book explores the transnational and transoceanic dimensions of the debate on gender and women's cultural agency and mediation in t...
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Millennial Style: The Politics of Experiment in Contemporary African Diasporic Culture
Aliyyah I. Abdur-RahmanCurrent price €24.75Original price €27.50In Millennial Style, Aliyyah I. Abdur-Rahman looks at recent experiments in black expressive culture that begin in the place of ruin. By ruin, Abdu...
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Vanished Arizona: Recollections of the Army Life of a New England Woman
Martha SummerhayesCurrent price €14.53Original price €17.50Current price €14.53Original price €17.50Save 17% -
A Cultural History of Democracy in Antiquity
Bloomsbury Publishing PLCCurrent price €29.25Original price €32.50This volume surveys democracy broadly as a cultural phenomenon operating in different ways across a very wide range of ancient societies throughout...
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A Cultural History of Democracy in the Age of Enlightenment
Bloomsbury Publishing PLCCurrent price €29.25Original price €32.50This volume surveys the burst of political imagination that created multiple Enlightenment cultures in an era widely understood as an age of democr...
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A History of Bread: Consumers, Bakers and Public Authorities since the 18th Century
Peter ScholliersCurrent price €26.99Original price €29.99For a long time, everything revolved around bread. Providing more than half of peoples daily calories, bread was the life-source of Europe for cent...
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