Social & Cultural History
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Work: The Last 1,000 Years
Andrea KomlosyCurrent price €16.65Original price €18.50Andrea Komlosy argues in this important intervention that, when we examine it closely, work changes its meanings according to different historical ...
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Island X: Taiwanese Student Migrants, Campus Spies, and Cold War Activism
Wendy ChengCurrent price €29.25Original price €32.50Illuminates a Cold War transpacific drama played out across US campusesIsland X delves into the compelling political lives of Taiwanese migrants wh...
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Barbara Earl Thomas: The Illuminated Body
Marquand Books IncCurrent price €24.75Original price €27.50Features work across a wide range of artistic mediums including paper, glass, and TyvekA talented visual storyteller, Barbara Earl Thomas has drawn...
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Socio-Economic Crises in Black and Brown Communities in the United States
Lexington BooksCurrent price €78.29Original price €86.99Socio-Economic Crises in Black and Brown Communities in the United States provides insight and awareness concerning crises that exist in underserve...
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The Inhuman Empire: Wildlife, Colonialism, Culture
Sadhana NaithaniCurrent price €129.59Original price €143.99This book is a study of selected texts of British writings on Indian wildlife published between 1860 and 1960.Set in the context of British coloni...
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Settler Cannabis: From Gold Rush to Green Rush in Indigenous Northern California
Kaitlin P. ReedCurrent price €85.84Original price €100.99Connects California cannabis production to the violence and dispossession of Indigenous land and peopleYoung countercultural back-to-the-land settl...
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Beethoven: Variations on a Life
Mark Evan BondsCurrent price €18.69Original price €21.99Despite the ups and downs of his personal life and professional career-even in the face of deafness-Beethoven remained remarkably consistent in his...
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The Hardhat Riot: Nixon, New York City, and the Dawn of the White Working-Class Revolution
David Paul KuhnCurrent price €25.65Original price €28.50In May 1970, four days after Kent State, construction workers chased students through downtown Manhattan, beating scores of protestors bloody. As h...
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Centers of Progress: 40 Cities That Changed the World
Chelsea FollettCurrent price €17.09Original price €18.99Current price €17.09Original price €18.99Save 10% -
How to Design a Revolution: The Chilean Road to Design
Lars Muller PublishersCurrent price €49.58Original price €56.99With essays by Pedro Alonso, Pedro Álvarez, Nicole Cristi, Francisca Espinosa, Mario Garcés, Michael Lemon, Eden Medina, Carlos Montes de Oca, Hugo...
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Gateway to Freedom: The Hidden History of America''s Fugitive Slaves
Eric FonerCurrent price €25.65Original price €28.50When slavery was a routine part of life in America's South, a secret network of activists and escape routes enabled slaves to make their way to fre...
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Opera: Passion, Power and Politics
V & A PublishingCurrent price €45.89Original price €50.99Opera is traditionally regarded as an elitist art form far removed from reality by its fantastical plots and melodramatic divas. This book shows th...
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Museum of Childhood
Sarah WoodCurrent price €15.29Original price €16.99The Museum of Childhood traces the history of childhood through some of the museum's most cherished objects. The book reveals how children have pla...
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A Supernatural War: Magic, Divination, and Faith during the First World War
Owen DaviesCurrent price €30.59Original price €33.99It was a commonly expressed view during the First World War that the conflict had seen a major revival of 'superstitious' beliefs and practices. C...
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The Teahouse under Socialism: The Decline and Renewal of Public Life in Chengdu, 19502000
Di WangCurrent price €116.99Original price €129.99To understand a city fully, writes Di Wang, we must observe its most basic units of social life. In The Teahouse under Socialism, Wang does just th...
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American Labyrinth: Intellectual History for Complicated Times
Cornell University PressCurrent price €37.79Original price €41.99American Labyrinth contains a stimulating and useful collection of essays by historians reflecting on American intellectual history.... As a whole,...
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American Labyrinth: Intellectual History for Complicated Times
Cornell University PressCurrent price €116.99Original price €129.99American Labyrinth contains a stimulating and useful collection of essays by historians reflecting on American intellectual history.... As a whole,...
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Who Needs Gay Bars?: Bar-Hopping through America''s Endangered LGBTQ+ Places
Greggor MattsonCurrent price €29.25Original price €32.50Gay bars have been closing by the hundreds. The story goes that increasing mainstream acceptance of LGBTQ+ people, plus dating apps like Grindr and...
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The Twentieth Century: A World History
R. Keith SchoppaCurrent price €23.85Original price €26.50Never before had any century in history known the continually accelerating rate and scope of change experienced in the twentieth century -- with it...
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Insurgent Aesthetics: Security and the Queer Life of the Forever War
Ronak K. KapadiaCurrent price €29.25Original price €32.50In Insurgent Aesthetics Ronak K. Kapadia theorizes the world-making power of contemporary art responses to US militarism in the Greater Middle East...
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An Edible History of Humanity
Tom StandageCurrent price €16.65Original price €18.50Throughout history, food has done more than simply provide sustenance. It has acted as a tool of social transformation, political organization, geo...
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Railway Towns: An Overview of Towns That Developed Through Railways
David BrandonCurrent price €27.63Original price €32.50The railways changed the world. They initiated a revolution in communications which continues to this day, ever more profoundly influencing our liv...
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American Linguistics in Transition: From Post-Bloomfieldian Structuralism to Generative Grammar
Frederick J. NewmeyerCurrent price €117.89Original price €130.99This volume is devoted to a major chapter in the history of linguistics in the United States, the period from the 1930s to the 1980s, and focuses p...
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From Sleepwear to Sportswear: How Beach Pajamas Reshaped Women''s Fashion
Hannah SchiffCurrent price €31.76Original price €36.50How did women begin wearing pants? Prior to the 1920s it was a rarity to see women in pants in the Western world, but as the silk pajama trouser su...
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