Social & Cultural History
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Pardons and Punishments: Judges'' Reports on Criminals: Part 4: 1800-1805 (HO 47/25-37)
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Narrating the City: Histories, Space and the Everyday
Berghahn BooksCurrent price €104.35Original price €122.76In recent decades, the insight that narration shapes our perception of reality has inspired and influenced the most innovative historical accoun...
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Music and Ceremony at the Court of Charles V: The Capilla Flamenca and the Art of Political Promotion
Mary Tiffany FererCurrent price €79.19Original price €98.99Shows how Charles V used music and ritual to reinforce his image and status as the most important and powerful sovereign in Europe. The presentati...
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Great Britain: A Short History from the Earliest Times
Edward CurrieCurrent price €12.59Original price €13.99Current price €12.59Original price €13.99Save 10% -
Ritual and Violence: Natalie Zemon Davis and Early Modern France
Oxford University PressCurrent price €16.65Original price €18.50This collection of essays, edited by Graeme Murdock, Penny Roberts, and Andrew Spicer, developed from a one-day conference 'Religion and Violence i...
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The Illustrated Guide to Viking Martial Arts
Antony CumminsCurrent price €19.54Original price €22.99Martial Arts expert Antony Cummins reveals the hitherto hidden world of Viking hand-to-hand combat, employing the sword, the spear, the axe and the...
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A Very Private Affair: A Soviet Dissident''s English Wife
Pam WardellCurrent price €31.44Original price €36.99Current price €31.44Original price €36.99Save 15% -
What is Sexual History?
Jeffrey WeeksCurrent price €47.18Original price €55.50Until the 1970s the history of sexuality was a marginalized practice. Today it is a flourishing field, increasingly integrated into the mainstream ...
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What is Sexual History?
Jeffrey WeeksCurrent price €17.99Original price €19.99Until the 1970s the history of sexuality was a marginalized practice. Today it is a flourishing field, increasingly integrated into the mainstream ...
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Seeing Green: The Use and Abuse of American Environmental Images
Finis DunawayCurrent price €84.32Original price €99.20American environmentalism is defined by its icons: the Crying Indian, who shed a tear in response to litter and pollution; the cooling towers of ...
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Ancient Marriage in Myth and Reality
Cambridge Scholars PublishingCurrent price €44.99Original price €49.99The papers in this volume were among the contributions presented at an international symposium, Ancient Marriage in Myth and Reality, which was hel...
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Between Fear and Freedom: Cultural Representations of the Cold War
Cambridge Scholars PublishingCurrent price €42.08Original price €49.50The field of Cold War studies has recently undergone a cultural turn. Scholars from many disciplines outside - but increasingly also from within - ...
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American Injustice: Inside Stories from the Underbelly of the Criminal Justice System
David S. RudolfCurrent price €16.59Original price €19.99A bracing account of abuses of power and corruption in the criminal justice system. The Guardian From the fearless defense a...
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The King and the Consul: A British Tragedy in Old Siam
Simon LandyCurrent price €18.69Original price €21.99In 1856, just months after Britain and Siam had finalised the historic Bowring trade treaty that would prevent the countries colonisation, the viol...
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A Clamor for Equality: Emergence and Exile of Californio Activist Francisco P. Ramírez
Paul Bryan GrayCurrent price €47.69Original price €52.99A dramatic response to American racism occurred in Los Angeles during 1855 when eighteen-year-old Francisco P. Ramírez published a Spanish-language...
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Voices from Tibet: Selected Essays and Reportage
Tsering WoeserCurrent price €60.02Original price €68.99Tsering Woeser and Wang Lixiong are widely regarded as the most eloquent, insightful writers on contemporary Tibet. Their reportage on the economic...
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The Caribbean: The Genesis of a Fragmented Nationalism
Franklin W. KnightCurrent price €37.79Original price €41.99Offering a rare pan-Caribbean perspective on a region that has moved from the very center of the western world to its periphery, The Caribbean: The...
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Creating a Buddhist Community: A Thai Temple in Silicon Valley
Jiemin BaoCurrent price €90.40Original price €100.44The Wat Thai Buddhist Temple in Silicon Valley was founded in 1983 by a group of predominantly middle-class men and women with different ethnic and...
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The Great Hanging at Gainesville, 1862: The Accounts of Thomas Barrett and George Washington Diamond
George Washington DiamondCurrent price €39.59Original price €43.99In what may have been the single largest outbreak of vigilante violence in American history, forty suspected Unionists were hanged at Gainesville,...
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Colette''s Republic: Work, Gender, and Popular Culture in France, 1870-1914
Patricia A. TilburgCurrent price €29.33Original price €34.50In France''s Third Republic, secularism was, for its adherents, a new faith, a civic religion founded on a rabid belief in progress and the Enli...
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One Hundred Percent American: The Rebirth and Decline of the Ku Klux Klan in the 1920s
Thomas R. PegramCurrent price €33.29Original price €36.99In the 1920s, a revived Ku Klux Klan burst into prominence as a self-styled defender of American values, a magnet for white Protestant community fo...
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Staging Marriage in Early Modern Spain: Conjugal Doctrine in Lope, Cervantes, and Calderon
Gabriela CarrionCurrent price €81.89Original price €90.99Staging Marriage in Early Modern Spain examines selected dramatic works where the vicissitudes of matrimony play center stage. Various aspects of c...
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