Social & Cultural History
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Transcendence: How Humans Evolved through Fire, Language, Beauty, and Time
Gaia VinceCurrent price €15.75Original price €17.50* A TIMES BEST SCIENCE BOOK OF THE YEAR *From the prize-winning author of Adventures in the Anthropocene, the astonishing story of how culture enab...
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Indispensable Reading: 1001 Books From The Arabian Nights to Zola
Wm Roger LouisCurrent price €45.89Original price €50.99The world of books can seem like a trackless forest stretching to the horizon in all directions, full of wrong turns, dead ends, and pitfalls. But ...
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East of Delhi: Multilingual Literary Culture and World Literature
Francesca OrsiniCurrent price €76.49Original price €84.99Like many societies across the world, the region of Awadh in North India has been bilingual throughout its history. But literary histories of the r...
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Banking and Politics in the Age of Democratic Revolution
Niccolò ValmoriCurrent price €80.09Original price €88.99This book uncovers the complex interconnections between politics and finance in the midst of the French Revolution. Charting the trajectories of me...
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In the Footsteps of Flora Tristan: A Political Biography: 2020
Máire Fedelma CrossCurrent price €104.54Original price €122.99In the Footsteps of Flora Tristan is the first ever study devoted to Jules Puech (18791957), and is a double biography that examines his lifes work...
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Growing Up Bank Street: A Greenwich Village Memoir
Donna FlorioCurrent price €23.38Original price €27.50A vivid memoir of life in one of New York Citys most dynamic neighborhoods Growing Up Bank Street is an evocative, tender account of life in Greenw...
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Enlightened Oxford: The University and the Cultural and Political Life of Eighteenth-Century Britain and Beyond
Nigel AstonCurrent price €120.59Original price €133.99Enlightened Oxford aims to discern, establish, and clarify the multiplicity of connections between the University of Oxford, its members, and the w...
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Considérations Sur Les Destinées Humaines. Ruine de Paris. Démembrement de la France: Mort Ou Expulsion de Louis-Philippe Ier. Massacre d''Un Grand Nombre d''Hommes
La Gervaisais-N L M MCurrent price €23.85Original price €26.50Current price €23.85Original price €26.50Save 10% -
Courage, Resistance, and Women in Ciudad Juárez: Challenges to Militarization
Kathleen StaudtCurrent price €24.75Original price €27.50Ciudad Juárez has recently become infamous for its murder rate, which topped 3,000 in 2010 as competing drug cartels grew increasingly violent and ...
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The Medieval Prison: A Social History
G. GeltnerCurrent price €29.25Original price €32.50The modern prison is commonly thought to be the fruit of an Enlightenment penology that stressed man's ability to reform his soul. The Medieval Pri...
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Sanctuary and Asylum: A Social and Political History
Linda RabbenCurrent price €94.49Original price €104.99The practice of sanctuarygiving refuge to the threatened, vulnerable strangermay be universal among humans. From primate populations to ancient rel...
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A Time to Gather: Archives and the Control of Jewish Culture
Jason LustigCurrent price €75.59Original price €83.99How do people link the past to the present, marking continuity in the face of the fundamental discontinuities of history? A Time to Gather argues t...
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The Life and Death of the Spanish Republic: A Witness to the Spanish Civil War
Henry BuckleyCurrent price €23.39Original price €25.99In 1940, Daily Telegraph correspondent Henry Buckley published his eyewitness account of his experiences reporting form the Spanish Civil War. The ...
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Why So Easily . . . Some Family Reasons for the Velvet Revolution: A Sociological Essay
Ivo MonýCurrent price €19.79Original price €21.99A famed essay examines the Velvet Revolution from a sociological perspective. Thirty-two years after its initial publication, this respected soci...
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Irish Artisans and Radical Politics, 1776-1820: Apprenticeship to Revolution
Timothy MurtaghCurrent price €98.09Original price €108.99Irish Artisans and Radical Politics, 1776-1820: Apprenticeship to Revolution is a comparative study of the political activities of workers in three...
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Brewing for Victory: Brewers, Beers and Pubs in World War II
Brian GloverCurrent price €23.85Original price €26.50'In the black out visit a bright inn.' So read stickers on the windows of Watney's pubs all over London. In Brewing for Victory, Brian Glover shows...
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Uhtreds Feast: Inside the world of the Last Kingdom
Bernard CornwellCurrent price €24.23Original price €28.50WELCOME TO UHTREDS FEAST . . . Over the course of writing the Last Kingdom series, Bernard Cornwell discovered an...
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Relations de Divers Voyages Curieux Données Au Public Par M. Melchisédec Thévenot. Tome 1: Routier Pour La Navigation Des Indes Orientales, Description Des Isles, Barres, Entrées de Ports
Aleixo Da MottaCurrent price €16.19Original price €17.99Current price €16.19Original price €17.99Save 10% -
The Jews of Libya: Coexistence, Persecution, Resettlement
Maurice M. RoumaniCurrent price €39.59Original price €43.99This book investigates the transformative period in the history of the Jews of Libya (1938-52), a period crucial to understanding Libyan Jewry's ev...
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Indian Sex Life: Sexuality and the Colonial Origins of Modern Social Thought
Durba MitraCurrent price €107.09Original price €118.99How British authorities and Indian intellectuals developed ideas about deviant female sexuality to control and organize modern society in IndiaDuri...
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The Apache Wars: The Hunt for Geronimo, the Apache Kid, and the Captive Boy Who Started the Longest War in American History
Paul Andrew HuttonCurrent price €20.39Original price €23.99Current price €20.39Original price €23.99Save 15% -
Filipino Studies: Palimpsests of Nation and Diaspora
New York University PressCurrent price €31.49Original price €34.99After years of occupying a vexed position in the American academy, Philippine studies has come into its own, emerging as a trenchant and dynamic sp...
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The Crypto-Jewish Mashhadis: The Shaping of Religious and Communal Identity in their Journey from Iran to New York
Hilda NissimiCurrent price €39.59Original price €43.99This book tells the little-known story of a fascinating crypto-Jewish community through two centuries and three continents. Beginning as a precario...
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All Together Different: Yiddish Socialists, Garment Workers, and the Labor Roots of Multiculturalism
Daniel KatzCurrent price €31.49Original price €34.99In the early 1930s, the International Ladies Garment Workers Union (ILGWU) organized large numbers of Black and Hispanic workers through a broadly ...
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