Social & Cultural History
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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 €16.99Original 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 €19.79Original 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 €45.04Original 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 €62.09Original 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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On the Land of My Father: A Farm Upbringing in Segregated Mississippi
Bevelyn Charlene ExposeCurrent price €17.99Original price €19.99This is a book that evokes a time and place that no longer exists, but is central to the American experience. A past that is handed down to be reme...
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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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Jewish Education in England, 1944-1988: Between Integration and Separation
David MendelssonCurrent price €53.09Original price €58.99Today, the dominant model for Jewish education is the community-wide, technologically advanced day school, where the Judaic subjects are taught by ...
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Esthetic Experiments: Interdisciplinary Challenges in American Studies
Cambridge Scholars PublishingCurrent price €42.08Original price €49.50Contemporary American landscape is wrought with ongoing processes and phenomena of technicization observable at the intersections of multiple layer...
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Morrison''''s Strangers'''' Guide and Etiquette for Washington City
O H MorrisonCurrent price €9.87Original price €12.99Current price €9.87Original price €12.99Save 24% -
In the Footsteps of Abraham Ulrikab: The Events of 1880-1881
France RivetCurrent price €20.69Original price €22.99Current price €20.69Original price €22.99Save 10% -
The Golden Chain: Family, Civil Society and the State
Berghahn BooksCurrent price €104.35Original price €122.76The family can be viewed as one of the links in a golden chain connecting individuals, the private sphere, civil society, and the democratic s...
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