Social History

Like many societies across the world, the region of Awadh in North India has been bilingual throughout its history. But literary histories of the region often indicate otherwise. In the early twentieth century, colonists recodified literary histories...

The concept that oral history can give voice to people or allow "hidden voices" to become part of history is one of its most celebrated achievements. However, the standard practice of transcribing or summarizing interviews has meant that oral historians...

Anticommunism in French Society and Politics, 1945-1953 evaluates the prevalence of anticommunism among the French population in 1945 to 1953, and examines its causes, character, and consequences through a series of case studies on different segments of...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789391050269Author Humra QuraishiFormat PaperbackPage Count 192Imprint Oxford University Press IndiaPublisher Oxford University Press IndiaWeight(grams) 376g

History of Universities XXXVI/2 contains the customary mix of learned articles and book reviews which makes this publication an indispensable tool for the historian of higher education.Book InformationISBN 9780198901730Author Mordechai FeingoldFormat...

The Communist Women's Movement (CWM), virtually unknown today, was the world's first truly international revolutionary organisation of women. Formed in 1920, the CWM mapped out a programme for women's emancipation; participated in struggles for women's...

In Italy, the powerful Borromeo family of Milan have long been held up as a rare example of paternalist aristocrats who withstood the temptations of self-enrichment so many of their peers succumbed to during the period of Spanish rule. Aristocratic Power...

Richard Jefferies (1848-87) remains one of the most thoughtful and most lyrical writers on the English countryside. He had aspirations to make a living as a novelist, but it was his short, factually based articles for The Live Stock Journal and other...

If democracy liberates individuals from their inherited bonds, what can reunite them into a sovereign people? In The Virtues of Violence, Kevin Duong argues that one particular answer captivated modern French thinkers: popular violence as social...

An iconic figure in the movement for Greek independence, Adamantios Korais (1748-1833) also played a major role in the development and transmission of Enlightenment ideals. From his early education in Amsterdam and medical studies in Montpellier, he...

It has often been said that nowhere in the United States can one find a greater collection of magnificent and historic synagogues than on New York's Lower East Side. As the ultimate destination for millions of immigrant eastern European Jews during the...

Video gaming: it's a boy's world, right? That's what the industry wants us to think. Why and how we came to comply are what Carly A. Kocurek investigates in this provocative consideration of how an industry's craving for respectability hooked up with...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781681777900Author Max DecharneFormat PaperbackPage Count 352Imprint Pegasus BooksPublisher Pegasus BooksWeight(grams) 363gDimensions(mm) 226mm * 142mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781590170908Author P.V. GlobFormat PaperbackPage Count 216Imprint The New York Review of Books, IncPublisher The New York Review of Books, IncWeight(grams)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781570273032Author Alan MooreFormat PaperbackPage Count 374Imprint Minor CompositionsPublisher AutonomediaWeight(grams) 509g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781668002421Author Marion GibsonFormat HardbackPage Count 320Imprint ScribnerPublisher Simon & SchusterWeight(grams) 435g

The Sunjata epic is a foundational oral narrative for Manding populations of West Africa and claims to describe the origins of the famed medieval empire of Mali. It is both a historical source and an artistic creation of West African oral specialists,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781771512855Author May Q WongFormat PaperbackPage Count 344Imprint TouchWood EditionsPublisher TouchWood Editions

The era of the German Occupation of France constituted, surprisingly, a golden age for the arts: literature, theater, popular music and cinema. These works of art seem to be devoid of political impact. The widespread trend of unrealistic and fantastic...

This collection of essays brings together theories of play and game with theatre and performance to produce new understandings of the history and design of early modern English drama. Through literary analysis and embodied practice, an international team...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781623719029Author Carles TornerFormat HardbackImprint Interlink BooksPublisher Interlink BooksWeight(grams) 300g

This collection of fourteen essays by American and English scholars -- many of them hitherto unpublished and all of them selected with a view to avoiding the duplication of essays already familiar and available -- offers new testimony of the range and...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780826505330Author Luis Martin-EstudilloFormat HardbackPage Count 288Imprint Vanderbilt University PressPublisher Vanderbilt University PressWeight(grams)...

Debates about the possibility of an open culture--or indeed about the possibility of an open debate about the openness of culture--often turn on questions of standards. But since no benchmark can be absolute, judgement is a proliferation of comparisons...

Labor Activism and Colonial Governance in Hong Kong chronicles a long neglected yet formative social and political movement in Hong Kong between the 1930s and 1950s. Drawing upon a range of British and Chinese sources, the book reveals the complex links...

Many believed the twentieth century would be the century of the child: an era in which modern societies would value and protect children, sheltering them from violence and poverty. Yet this hopeful vision was marred by the harsh realities of migration,...

This book tells ten urban histories of science from nine cities—Athens, Barcelona, Budapest, Buenos Aires, Dublin (2 articles), Glasgow, Helsinki, Lisbon, and Naples—situated on the geographical margins of Europe and beyond. Ranging from the...

This book brings together a collection of original articles on the transnational relations between Brazil and European countries, especially Britain and France, in the domain of literature and print culture from the beginning of the nineteenth century...

Explores the history of scrapbook-making, its origins, uses, changing forms and purposes as well as the human agents behind the books themselvesExplores the history of scrapbook-making, its origins, uses, changing forms and purposes as well as the human...

Domestic advice literature is rich in information about design, ideals of domesticity, consumption and issues of identity, yet this literature remains a relatively neglected resource in comparison with magazines and film. Design at Home brings together...

This pioneering volume explores the Arctic as an important and highly endangered archive of knowledge about natural as well as human history of the anthropocene.Focusing on the Arctic as an archive means to investigate it not only as a place of human...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781913087272Author Margaret Flanders DarbyFormat HardbackPage Count 220Imprint Edward Everett Root Publishers Co. Ltd.Publisher Edward Everett Root...

Combining archival research with ethnographic fieldwork, The Boundary of Laughter explores how spaces of popular performance have changed with the emergence of national borders in modern South Asia. The author traces the making of the popular theater...

This book presents two systems of censorship and literary promotion, revealing how literature can be molded to support authoritarian regimes. The issue is complex in that at a descriptive level the strategies and methods new states use to control...

Provincial governance under the Roman republic has long been notorious for its corrupt officials and greedy tax-farmers, though this is far from being the whole story. This book challenges the traditional picture, contending that leading late republican...

Humour can be used as a "weapon" or as a means of coping with problematic historical events, especially in times of war and crisis. The book presents examples from different cultures (Russia, Europe, USA), from different historical epochs (from...

This book brings together fresh insights into the relationships between missions and indigenous peoples, and the outcomes of mission activities in the processes of imperial conquest and colonisation. Bringing together the work of leading international...

In ancient Greece, the spoken word connoted power, whether in the free speech accorded to citizens or in the voice of the poet, whose song was thought to know no earthly bounds. But how did silence fit into the mental framework of a society that valued...

The 1960s marked a transformation of human rights activism in the United States. At a time of increased concern for the rights of their fellow citizens-civil and political rights, as well as the social and economic rights that Great Society programs...

Superior Women examines the claims of abbesses of the abbey of Sainte-Croix in medieval Poitiers to authority from the abbey's foundation to its 1520 reform. These women claimed to hold authority over their own community, over dependent chapters of male...