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Images of Blood in American Cinema: The Tingler to The Wild Bunch
Kjetil RødjeCurrent price €134.09Original price €148.99Through studying images of blood in film from the mid-1950s to the end of the 1960s, this path-breaking book explores how blood as an (audio)visual...
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Roma in Europe: The Politics of Collective Identity Formation
Ioana BunescuCurrent price €143.09Original price €158.99This path-breaking book explains the processes through which the heterogeneous population of Roma in Europe constitutes itself into a transnational...
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An Infantile Disorder?: The Crisis And Decline Of The New Left
Nigel YoungCurrent price €44.99Original price €49.99This book aims to provide an alternative perspective on the Western New Left (NL) as distinct from currently established right-wing and left-wing v...
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Village Life In China
SmithCurrent price €174.59Original price €193.99the urban West, it is easy to forget that most of the world's population still lives in villages, and despite increasing globalization it remains t...
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Revival: A Handbook of Modern Japan (1903)
Ernest W. ClementCurrent price €64.79Original price €71.99In this book the author has intended to portray Japan as he finds it rather than as it was in the past. However, the past is not ignored as it woul...
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Becoming Delinquent: British and European Youth, 16501950
Heather ShoreCurrent price €37.79Original price €41.99This title was first published in 2002: Becoming Delinquent: British and European Youth, 1650-1950 provides a critical synthesis of the growing bod...
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Concepts of Value in European Material Culture, 1500-1900
Bert De MunckCurrent price €134.09Original price €148.99In contemporary society it would seem self-evident that people allow the market to determine the values of products and services. For everything fr...
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Constructing the Colonial Encounter: Right and Left Hand Castes in Early Colonial South India
Niels BrimnesCurrent price €37.79Original price €41.99This book offers a systematic analysis of the violent clashes between the South Indian 'right' and 'left' hand caste divisions that repeatedly rock...
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Sensing the Sacred in Medieval and Early Modern Culture
Taylor & Francis LtdCurrent price €134.09Original price €148.99This volume traces transformations in attitudes toward, ideas about, and experiences of religion and the senses in the medieval and early modern pe...
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The Reception of Byzantium in European Culture since 1500
Taylor & Francis LtdCurrent price €143.09Original price €158.99Studies on the reception of the classical tradition are an indispensable part of classical studies. Understanding the importance of ancient civiliz...
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Religion and Society in Twentieth-Century Britain
Callum G. BrownCurrent price €134.09Original price €148.99During the twentieth century, Britain turned from one of the most deeply religious nations of the world into one of the most secularised nations. T...
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Women, Crime, and Forgiveness in Early Modern Portugal
Darlene Abreu-FerreiraCurrent price €134.09Original price €148.99Looking at the experiences of women in early modern Portugal in the context of crime and forgiveness, this study demonstrates the extent to which j...
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Dickens and the Imagined Child
Catherine WatersCurrent price €134.09Original price €148.99The figure of the child and the imaginative and emotional capacities associated with children have always been sites of lively contestation for rea...
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Religious Diaspora in Early Modern Europe: Strategies of Exile
Timothy G FehlerCurrent price €53.99Original price €59.99This collection of essays looks at the shared experience of exile across different groups in the early modern period. Contributors argue that exile...
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Mahasthan Record Revisited: Querying the Empire from a Regional Perspective
Susmita Basu MajumdarCurrent price €134.09Original price €148.99A small record consisting of six to seven lines that has been published by eminent epigraphists several times, would require a fresh interpretation...
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Affectivity and Race: Studies from Nordic Contexts
Kathrine VitusCurrent price €134.09Original price €148.99This book presents new empirical studies of social difference in the Nordic welfare states, in order to advance novel theoretical perspectives on t...
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The Greening of London, 19202000
Matti O. HannikainenCurrent price €143.09Original price €158.99The long-term development of public green spaces such as parks, public gardens, and recreation grounds in London during the twentieth century is a ...
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A Taste of Progress: Food at International and World Exhibitions in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries
Nelleke TeughelsCurrent price €134.09Original price €148.99World exhibitions have been widely acknowledged as important sources for understanding the development of the modern consumer and urbanized society...
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Icons of Space: Advances in Hierotopy
Taylor & Francis LtdCurrent price €42.29Original price €46.99Icons of Space: Advances in Hierotopy brings together important scholars of Byzantine religion, art, and architecture, to honour the work of renown...
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The Return of the Peasant: Land Reform in Post-Communist Romania
A.L. CartwrightCurrent price €80.99Original price €89.99This title was first published in 2001. Of the many far reaching issues facing post-communist states in the wake of the collapse of communist rule,...
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Changing Contours of Microfinance in India
Taylor & Francis LtdCurrent price €35.09Original price €38.99This book brings together empirical evidences and theoretical perspectives to provide a comprehensive overview of the microfinance sector in India....
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Ireland, France, and the Atlantic in a Time of War: Reflections on the BordeauxDublin Letters, 1757
Thomas M. TruxesCurrent price €134.09Original price €148.99In March 1757 early in the Seven Years War a British privateer intercepted an Irish ship, the Two Sisters of Dublin, as it returned home from Bor...
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The European World 15001800: An Introduction to Early Modern History
Taylor & Francis LtdCurrent price €125.09Original price €138.99The European World 15001800 provides a concise and authoritative textbook for the centuries between the Renaissance and the French Revolution. It p...
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Narratives of Drunkenness: Belgium, 18301914
An VleugelsCurrent price €53.99Original price €59.99Focusing on Belgium from the mid-nineteenth century until the First World War, Vleugels presents a study of the drunkard in society.
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The Politics of Reproduction in Ottoman Society, 1838-1900
Gülhan BalsoyCurrent price €60.29Original price €66.99Epidemics, migration and territorial losses led to population decline in early nineteenth-century Turkey. In response, Ottoman elites began a progr...
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Splendidly Victorian: Essays in Nineteenth- and Twentieth-Century British History in Honour of Walter L. Arnstein
Michael ShirleyCurrent price €80.99Original price €89.99This title was first published in 2001. The eminent historian of Victorian Britain, Walter L. Arnstein has, over the course of a career spanning mo...
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Narratives, Routes and Intersections in Pre-Modern Asia
Taylor & Francis LtdCurrent price €44.99Original price €49.99This book traces connections in pre-modern Asia by looking at different worlds across geography, history and society. It examines how regions were ...
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Byzantium in the Eleventh Century: Being in Between
Taylor & Francis LtdCurrent price €44.99Original price €49.99The eleventh century in Byzantium is all about being in between, whether this is between Basil II and Alexios Komnenos, between the forces of the N...
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Profit and Poverty in Rural Vietnam: Winners and Losers of a Dismantled Revolution
Eva LindskogCurrent price €32.85Original price €36.50This book, first published in 1998, studies the social impact of Doi Moi, a policy of economic renovation, on the living conditions in state forest...
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Society, Medicine and Politics in Colonial India
Taylor & Francis LtdCurrent price €44.99Original price €49.99The history of medicine and disease in colonial India remains a dynamic and innovative field of research, covering many facets of health, from gove...
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Dahomeys Royal Architecture: An Earthen Record of Construction, Subjugation, and Reclamation
Lynne Ellsworth LarsenCurrent price €134.09Original price €148.99Dahomeys Royal Architecture examines the West African kingdom of Dahomey, located in present-day Republic of Benin. The book explores the Royal Pal...
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The Science of Folk-Lore
Alexander Haggerty KrappeCurrent price €120.59Original price €133.99First published in 1930, this volume aimed to provide an overview of folk-lore which contrasted with the Anthropological school. Consciously workin...
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Greek Society in the Making, 18631913: Realities, Symbols and Visions
Taylor & Francis LtdCurrent price €111.59Original price €123.99First published in 1997, Carabott creates a volume exploring the struggle between the forces of modernity and those who resisted and denied it, pro...
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Rethinking Medieval Margins and Marginality
Taylor & Francis LtdCurrent price €134.09Original price €148.99Marginality assumes a variety of forms in current discussions of the Middle Ages. Modern scholars have considered a seemingly innumerable list of p...
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Community Media and Identity in Ireland
Jack RosenberryCurrent price €21.59Original price €23.99This book explores how Irelands community media outlets reflect and shape identity at the local level. While aspects of its culture date back centu...
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Nation and Region in Griersons Linguistic Survey of India
Javed MajeedCurrent price €44.99Original price €49.99George Abraham Griersons Linguistic Survey of India is one of the most complete sources on South Asian languages. This book is the first detailed e...
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