Social & Cultural History
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The Meanings of Nudity in Medieval Art
Taylor & Francis LtdCurrent price €143.09Original price €158.99It is still routinely repeated that representations of the unclothed body in the Middle Ages connoted a site of corruption and sin, in contrast to ...
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Remembering Womens Activism
Sharon Crozier-De RosaCurrent price €42.29Original price €46.99Remembering Womens Activism examines the intersections between gender politics and acts of remembrance by tracing the cultural memories of women wh...
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Visual Representations of the Cold War and Postcolonial Struggles: Art in East and Southeast Asia
Taylor & Francis LtdCurrent price €44.99Original price €49.99The essays and artworks gathered in this volume examine the visual manifestations of postcolonial struggles in art in East and Southeast Asia, as t...
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Visual Representations of the Cold War and Postcolonial Struggles: Art in East and Southeast Asia
Taylor & Francis LtdCurrent price €147.59Original price €163.99The essays and artworks gathered in this volume examine the visual manifestations of postcolonial struggles in art in East and Southeast Asia, as t...
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All the Rage: Power, Pain, Pleasure: Stories from the Frontline of Beauty 1860-1960
Virginia NicholsonCurrent price €29.25Original price €32.50'No one else makes history this fun' AMANDA FOREMAN'All the Rage sits you at the dressing table of history: a place of dreams, doubts, self-harm an...
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The Pet Shop Boys and the Political: Queerness, Culture, Identity and Society
Bloomsbury Publishing PLCCurrent price €24.75Original price €27.50The Pet Shop Boys came of age at a time of deep socio-political tension. From the rise of sexual politics and awareness to Thatcherite neoliberalis...
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Forty Days: Quarantine and the Traveller, c. 1700 c. 1900
John BookerCurrent price €134.09Original price €148.99Forty Days: Quarantine and the Traveller, c. 1700 1900 provides a timely reminder that no traveller in past centuries could return from the East wi...
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Mid-Tudor Queenship and Memory: The Making and Re-making of Lady Jane Grey and Mary I
Springer International Publishing AGCurrent price €110.69Original price €122.99This book explores (mis)representations of two female claimants to the Tudor throne, Lady Jane Grey and Mary I of England. It places Jane's attempt...
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Infectious Diseases along the Silk Roads: The Spread of Parasitoses and Culture Past and Today
Springer International Publishing AGCurrent price €128.69Original price €142.99The heart of this volume is exploring the links between human disease spread and the broad Silk Road trading networks which connect Eurasian civili...
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Exciting the Body: Sensoriality and Capitalism in Modern Culture
Sonsoles Hernández BarbosaCurrent price €110.69Original price €122.99This book uncovers how during the origins of modernity in the nineteenth century the senses were mobilised to sell more, both through the popularis...
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Liberty, Irreverence, and the Place of Women in Early Modern Italian Culture: Essays in Honour of Letizia Panizza
Springer International Publishing AGCurrent price €128.69Original price €142.99This book brings together essays from a range of disciplines within Early Modern Italian Studies, which focus on research areas pioneered by the pr...
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Deccan in Transition, 1600 to 1800: European Dominance and Maratha Sovereignty
Umesh Ashok KadamCurrent price €44.99Original price €49.99This book presents the socio-cultural and historical trajectories of the Deccan plateau as well as the coastal areas of the current states of Andhr...
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A History of the Cultural Travels of Energy: From Aristotle to the OED
Peter HjertholmCurrent price €44.99Original price €49.99This book offers a cultural history of the travels of energy in the English language, from its origins in Aristotles ontology, where it referred to...
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Aspects of Science and Technology in Ancient India
Taylor & Francis LtdCurrent price €44.99Original price €49.99This book critically examines different aspects of scientific and technological development in Ancient India. It studies the special contribution o...
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Underground Music Cultures and Music-Making in Los Angeles: ''Imaginary Cities''
Springer International Publishing AGCurrent price €128.69Original price €142.99This book focuses on the relationships between underground urban music cultures in Los Angeles and specific urban imaginaries related to music prac...
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British Vogue: The Biography of an Icon
Julie SummersCurrent price €35.99Original price €39.99A glittering official history of British Vogue, telling the magazine's story from the first issue in 1916 right up to the present day, written with...
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Calcutta in Colonial Transition
Ranjit SenCurrent price €42.29Original price €46.99This book brings home the story of how three clustered villages grew into a primate city, in which a garrison town, a port city and the capital of ...
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St. Francis of America: How a Thirteenth-Century Friar Became America''s Most Popular Saint
Patricia AppelbaumCurrent price €27.89Original price €30.99How did a thirteenth-century Italian friar become one of the best-loved saints in America? Around the nation today, St. Francis of Assisi is embrac...
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Vengeance in the Middle Ages: Emotion, Religion and Feud
Paul R. HyamsCurrent price €44.99Original price €49.99This volume aims to balance the traditional literature available on medieval feuding with an exploration of other aspects of vengeance and culture ...
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Security, Socialisation and Affect in Indian Families: Unfamiliar Ground
Taylor & Francis LtdCurrent price €37.79Original price €41.99Sociological research on Indian families has largely focused on questions of household form and structure, to the exclusion of not only the more ne...
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Chartist Fiction: Volume 2: Ernest Jones, Woman''s Wrongs
Taylor & Francis LtdCurrent price €37.79Original price €41.99This title was first published in 2001. When the Chartist leader Ernest Jones emerged from prison in 1850, he was determined to capture the public'...
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Janelle Monáe''s Queer Afrofuturism: Defying Every Label
Dan Hassler-ForestCurrent price €62.89Original price €73.99Singer. Dancer. Movie star. Activist. Queer icon. Afrofuturist. Working class heroine. Time traveler. Prophet. Feminist. Android. Dirty Computer. ...
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Boom Crisis Heritage: King Coal and the Energy Revolutions after 1945
De GruyterCurrent price €69.29Original price €76.99Boom Crisis Heritage, these terms aptly outline the history of global coal mining after 1945. The essays collected in this volume explore this hi...
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Guide Du Touriste Et de l''Archéologue Au Pont-De-l''Arche
Sans AuteurCurrent price €16.65Original price €18.50Current price €16.65Original price €18.50Save 10% -
Voyage Dans l''Amérique Méridionale. Tome 3, Partie 1: (Le Brésil, La République Orientale de l''Uruguay, La République Argentine, La Patagonie...)
Alcide D' OrbignyCurrent price €23.85Original price €26.50Current price €23.85Original price €26.50Save 10% -
As Long as the Earth Endures: Annotated Miami-Illinois Texts
David J. CostaCurrent price €75.59Original price €83.99As Long as the Earth Endures is an annotated collection of almost all of the known Native texts in Miami-Illinois, an Algonquian language of Indian...
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Women in Gray: A Tribute to the Ladies Who Supported the Southern Confederacy
Lochlainn SeabrookCurrent price €31.03Original price €36.50Current price €31.03Original price €36.50Save 15% -
Women in the National Inventors Hall of Fame: The First 50 Years
Ilene Busch-VishniacCurrent price €110.69Original price €122.99This book features all the women inducted in the first fifty years of the US National Inventors Hall of Fame. Each entry first provides a biography...
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Myths and Places: New Perspectives in Indian Cultural Geography
Taylor & Francis LtdCurrent price €44.99Original price €49.99This volume explores the dialogic relationship between myths and places in the historically, geographically, and culturally diverse context of Indi...
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Staging the Peninsular War: English Theatres 1807-1815
Susan ValladaresCurrent price €134.09Original price €148.99From Napoleon's invasion of Portugal in 1807 to his final defeat at Waterloo, the English theatres played a crucial role in the mediation of the Pe...
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Human Exhibitions: Race, Gender and Sexuality in Ethnic Displays
Rikke AndreassenCurrent price €134.09Original price €148.99From the 1870s to the second decade of the twentieth century, more than fifty exhibitions of so-called exotic people took place in Denmark. Here la...
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Public Statues Across Time and Cultures
Taylor & Francis LtdCurrent price €44.99Original price €49.99This book explores the ways in which statues have been experienced in public in different cultures and the role that has been played by statues in ...
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