Social & Cultural History
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Directing: Behind the Silver Screen: A Modern History of Filmmaking
Bloomsbury Publishing PLCCurrent price €102.59Original price €113.99Of all the artisans who work in the American film industry, directors have been given the lion's share of attention. Yet few books in this literatu...
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Engaging the Line: How the Great War Shaped the CanadaUS Border
Brandon R. DimmelCurrent price €27.89Original price €30.99For decades, people living in adjacent communities along the CanadaUS border enjoyed close social and economic relationships with their neighbours ...
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Zion in Africa: The Jews of Zambia
Frank ShapiroCurrent price €120.59Original price €133.99This work represents the definitive account of the Jewish community in central Africa. It tells the story of the coming of the first Jews to the ar...
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Terrain of Memory: A Japanese Canadian Memorial Project
Kirsten Emiko McAllisterCurrent price €39.59Original price €43.99For communities who have been the target of political violence, the after-effects can haunt what remains of their families, their communities, and ...
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The WRNS in Wartime: The Women''s Royal Naval Service 1917-1945
Hannah RobertsCurrent price €120.59Original price €133.99The Womens Royal Naval Service (WRNS) was created in 1917, re-formed in 1938 and maintained after 1945. This book determines for the first time the...
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Who Owned Waterloo?: Battle, Memory, and Myth in British History, 1815-1852
Luke ReynoldsCurrent price €92.69Original price €102.99Between 1815 and the Duke of Wellington's death in 1852, the Battle of Waterloo became much more than simply a military victory. While other countr...
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From Homemakers to Breadwinners to Community Leaders: Migrating Women, Class, and Color
Norma Fuentes-MayorgaCurrent price €125.79Original price €147.99In From Homemakers to Breadwinners to Community Leaders, Norma Fuentes-Mayorga compares the immigration and integration experiences of Dominican an...
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White Space: Race, Privilege, and Cultural Economies of the Okanagan Valley
University of British Columbia PressCurrent price €39.59Original price €43.99Much attention has been paid to race in the Canadian metropolis, but how are the workings of whiteness manifested in the rural-urban? White Space a...
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Ferdowsi, the Mongols and the History of Iran: Art, Literature and Culture from Early Islam to Qajar Persia
Bloomsbury Publishing PLCCurrent price €129.59Original price €143.99I.B.Tauris in association with the Iran Heritage Foundation Iran's rich cultural heritage has been shaped over many centuries by its rich and even...
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Hollywood at the Intersection of Race and Identity
Rutgers University PressCurrent price €40.01Original price €45.99Hollywood at the Intersection of Race and Identity explores the ways Hollywood represents race, gender, class, and nationality at the intersection ...
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The Truth of Myth
Gregory SchremppCurrent price €26.99Original price €29.99The Truth of Myth is a thorough and accessible introduction to the study of myth, surveying the intellectual history of the topic, methods for stud...
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In Search of Us: Twelve Adventures in Anthropology
Lucy MooreCurrent price €15.75Original price €17.50***A Waterstones Best Books of 2022 pick***The story of the pioneering anthropologists and their adventures among civilisations that were first tho...
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Culture and Propaganda in World War II: Music, Film and the Battle for National Identity
John MorrisCurrent price €120.59Original price €133.99The wartime period in Britain is now seen as an extremely fertile period of British creativity in music, film and art. Often, these projects were f...
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Delft Blue to Denim Blue: Contemporary Dutch Fashion
Bloomsbury Publishing PLCCurrent price €27.83Original price €31.99Contemporary fashion in the Netherlands shows a unique mix of playful individualism, conceptual strength, and organisational innovation. Delft Blue...
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Artisans Abroad: British Migrant Workers in Industrialising Europe, 1815-1870
Fabrice BensimonCurrent price €100.79Original price €111.99Between 1815 and 1870, when European industrialisation was in its infancy and Britain enjoyed a technological lead, thousands of British workers em...
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Fatherhood in the Borderlands: A Daughter''s Slow Approach
Domino Renee PerezCurrent price €29.25Original price €32.502023 Finalist Best Academic Themed Book, College Level English, International Latino Book Awards A contemplative exploration of cultural represent...
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A Cultural History of the Senses in the Age of Empire
Bloomsbury Publishing PLCCurrent price €102.59Original price €113.99The 19th century was a time of new sensory experiences and modes of perception. The raucous mechanical intensity of the train and the factory vied ...
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Food Words: Essays in Culinary Culture
Peter JacksonCurrent price €30.59Original price €33.99Food Words is a series of provocative essays on some of the most important keywords in the emergent field of food studies, focusing on current cont...
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The Spirit of Soul Food: Race, Faith, and Food Justice
Christopher CarterCurrent price €23.38Original price €27.50Soul food has played a critical role in preserving Black history, community, and culinary genius. It is also a response to--and marker of--centurie...
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Mobilizing in Uncertainty: Collective Identities and War in Abkhazia
Anastasia ShesterininaCurrent price €53.99Original price €59.99Winner of the Davis Center Book Prize in Political and Social Studies Co-winner of the Charles Taylor Book Award How do ordinary people navigate th...
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Undocumented Motherhood: Conversations on Love, Trauma, and Border Crossing
Elizabeth Farfán-SantosCurrent price €24.75Original price €27.502023 SANA Book Award, Society for the Anthropology of North America2023 Honorable Mention, Outstanding Book Award NACCS Tejas Foco Award for Non-...
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Rebuilding Babel: Modern Architecture and Internationalism
Mark CrinsonCurrent price €49.58Original price €56.99Much of modernist architecture was inspired by the emergence of internationalism: the ethics and politics of world peace, justice and unity through...
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One Hundred Years of Struggle: The History of Women and the Vote in Canada
Joan SangsterCurrent price €24.75Original price €27.50On the eve of celebrating the 100th anniversary of womens right to vote in Canada comes a book, the first in a series on womens suffrage and the st...
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