Social & Cultural History
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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
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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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Re-Imagining Black Women: A Critique of Post-Feminist and Post-Racial Melodrama in Culture and Politics
Nikol G. Alexander-FloydCurrent price €29.25Original price €32.50WINNER OF THE W.E.B. DUBOIS DISTINGUISHED BOOK AWARD, GIVEN BY THE NATIONAL CONFERENCE OF BLACK POLITICAL SCIENTISTS A wide-ranging Black feminist ...
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The Windrush Betrayal: Exposing the Hostile Environment
Amelia GentlemanCurrent price €15.75Original price €17.50A NEW STATESMAN AND SPECTATOR BOOK OF THE YEARSHORTLISTED FOR THE ORWELL PRIZE FOR POLITICAL WRITINGLONGLISTED FOR THE BAILLIE GIFFORD PRIZEA seari...
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Invisible Weapons: Liturgy and the Making of Crusade Ideology
M. Cecilia GaposchkinCurrent price €31.49Original price €34.99Throughout the history of the Crusades, liturgical prayer, masses, and alms were all marshaled in the fight against Muslim armies. In Invisible Wea...
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The Typewriter Century: A Cultural History of Writing Practices
Martyn LyonsCurrent price €28.79Original price €31.99This book captures the intensity of the relationship between writers and their typewriters from the 1880s, when the machine was first commercialize...
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Les Pays-Bas, Impressions de Voyage Et d''Art. 2e Édition
Montegut-ECurrent price €24.75Original price €27.50Current price €24.75Original price €27.50Save 10% -
Géographie Générale, Classe de Seconde, Sections A, B, C Et D. Nouvelle Édition
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Margins and Mainstreams: Asians in American History and Culture
Gary Y. OkihiroCurrent price €24.75Original price €27.50In this classic book on the meaning of multiculturalism in larger American society, Gary Okihiro explores the significance of Asian American experi...
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Birthing Liberation: How Reproductive Justice Can Set Us Free
Sabia WadeCurrent price €27.63Original price €32.50Black maternal mortality statistics have not shifted in the past thirty years. The maternal mortality rate for Black patients is four to five times...
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