Social & Cultural History
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Civic Performance: Pageantry and Entertainments in Early Modern London
Taylor & Francis LtdCurrent price €134.09Original price €148.99Civic Performance: Pageantry and Entertainments in Early Modern London brings together a group of essays from across multiple fields of study that ...
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Queer Newark: Stories of Resistance, Love, and Community
Rutgers University PressCurrent price €25.49Original price €29.99Histories of gay and lesbian urban life typically focus on major metropolitan areas like San Francisco and New York, opportunity-filled destination...
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European Theatre Performance Practice, 17501900
Taylor & Francis LtdCurrent price €282.59Original price €313.99This volume contains key articles and chapters which represent both seminal and innovative scholarship on European theatre performance practice fro...
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The Coming of the Book: The Impact of Printing, 1450-1800
Henri-Jean MartinCurrent price €26.99Original price €29.99The emergence of the book was not merely an event of world historical importance, but the dawn of modernity. In this much praised work, Lucien Febv...
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European Theatre Performance Practice, 1580-1750
Robert HenkeCurrent price €282.59Original price €313.99This volume presents foundational and representative essays of the last half century on theatre performance practice during the period 1580 to 1750...
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John Maitland of Thirlestane and the Foundation of the Stewart Despotism in Scotland
Jr.Current price €45.89Original price €50.99When John Maitland accepted the office of Secretary of State to James VI of Scotland in 1584, he accepted the challenge of three of the most extrao...
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The Words and Wares of David Drake: Revisiting I Made This Jar and the Legacy of Edgefield Pottery
University of South Carolina PressCurrent price €35.09Original price €38.99David Drake, also known as Dave the Potter, was born enslaved in Edgefield, South Carolina, at the turn of the nineteenth century. Despite laws pro...
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The Passengers: Shortlisted for The Rathbones Folio Prize 2023
Will AshonCurrent price €15.29Original price €16.99An original and profound portrait of contemporary Britain told through the testimonies of its inhabitants.'A spectacularly enjoyable and compelling...
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Cuba: Between Reform and Revolution
Louis A. PérezCurrent price €89.09Original price €98.99Spanning the history of the island from pre-Columbian times to the present, this highly acclaimed survey examines Cuba's political and economic dev...
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Gathering Places: Aboriginal and Fur Trade Histories
University of British Columbia PressCurrent price €39.59Original price €43.99British traders and Ojibwe hunters. Cree women and their metis daughters. Explorers and anthropologists and Aboriginal guides and informants. These...
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Strong, Beautiful and Modern: National Fitness in Britain, New Zealand, Australia and Canada, 1935-1960
Charlotte MacdonaldCurrent price €39.59Original price €43.99In the late 1930s and early 1940s, a wave of state-sponsorednational fitness programs swept Britain and its formersettler colonies, laying the foun...
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Colonialism, Institutional Change, and Shifts in Global Labour Relations
Amsterdam University PressCurrent price €157.49Original price €174.99This book offers a view of shifts in labour relations in various parts of the world over a breathtaking span, from 1500 to 2000, with a particular ...
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Sensing Changes: Technologies, Environments, and the Everyday, 1953-2003
Joy ParrCurrent price €27.89Original price €30.99Our bodies are archives of sensory knowledge that shape how we understand the world. But if global environmental changes continue at their present ...
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Rebel Youth: 1960s Labour Unrest, Young Workers, and New Leftists in English Canada
Ian MilliganCurrent price €92.69Original price €102.99During the long sixties, baby boomers raised on democratic postwar ideals demanded a more egalitarian society for all. While a few became vocal lea...
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Sporting Gender: Women Athletes and Celebrity-Making during Chinas National Crisis, 1931-45
Yunxiang GaoCurrent price €26.34Original price €30.99Sporting Gender is the first book to explore the rise to fame of female athletes in China during its national crisis of 1931-45 brought on by the J...
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At Translation''s Edge
Rutgers University PressCurrent price €128.75Original price €147.99Since the 1970s, the field of Translation Studies has entered into dialogue with an array of other disciplines, sustaining a close but contentious ...
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From Bricks to Brains: The Embodied Cognitive Science of LEGO Robots
Brian DupuisCurrent price €50.39Original price €55.99From Bricks to Brains introduces embodied cognitive scienceand illustrates its foundational ideas through the construction andobservation of LEGO M...
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Reclaiming Indigenous Research in Higher Education
Rutgers University PressCurrent price €133.19Original price €147.99Indigenous students remain one of the least represented populations in higher education. They continue to account for only one percent of the total...
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Exhibiting Nation: Multicultural Nationalism (and Its Limits) in Canadas Museums
Caitlin Gordon-WalkerCurrent price €26.96Original price €30.99Canadas brand of nationalism celebrates diversity as long as it doesnt challenge the unity, authority, or legitimacy of the state. In Exhibiting N...
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Black Resonance: Iconic Women Singers and African American Literature
Emily J. LordiCurrent price €42.29Original price €46.99Ever since Bessie Smiths powerful voice conspired with the race records industry to make her a star in the 1920s, African American writers have mem...
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The New Politics of the Handmade: Craft, Art and Design
Bloomsbury Publishing PLCCurrent price €26.09Original price €29.99Contemporary craft, art and design are inseparable from the flows of production and consumption under global capitalism. The New Politics of the Ha...
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Empire and Environment in the Making of Manchuria
University of British Columbia PressCurrent price €92.69Original price €102.99Since the seventeenth century, Chinese, Japanese, Manchu, Russian, and other imperial forces have defied Manchurias unrelenting summers and unforgi...
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Blood, Sweat, and Fear: Violence at Work in the North American Auto Industry, 196080
Jeremy MilloyCurrent price €63.98Original price €80.99Going postal. We think of the rogue employee who snaps. But in Blood, Sweat, and Fear, Jeremy Milloy demonstrates that workplace violence never occ...
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