Social History

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780999428320Author Jack LondonFormat PaperbackPage Count 240Imprint Antipodes PressPublisher Antipodes PressWeight(grams) 277g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780955577727Author Len WilliamsFormat PaperbackImprint Framecharge PressPublisher Framecharge PressWeight(grams) 626g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780994601599Author Ron WilliamsFormat PaperbackPage Count 160Imprint Boom BooksPublisher Boom Books

During the latter half of the nineteenth century and the first decades of the twentieth, colonial expansion prompted increasing numbers of genteel women to establish their family homes in far-flung corners of the world. This work explores ways in which...

The idea of Britain has been understood largely in terms of sectarian conflict and state formation, whereas emigration has most often been explored in terms of economic and social history. This book explores the relationship between two subjects normally...

Immediately after the Second World War, the radio was the best-preserved medium of mass communication in Germany. This book explores the implications of this dominance by asking how everyday broadcasting constructed ideas of 'normal' times, people and...

The first comprehensive study in English of the earliest and largest 'Third-World' migration into pre-war Europe. Full attention is given to the relationship between the society of emigration, undermined by colonialism, and processes of ethnic...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780995354982Author Ron WilliamsFormat PaperbackPage Count 164Imprint Boom BooksPublisher Boom BooksWeight(grams) 204g

The transnationalism of ordinary lives threatens the stability of national identity and unsettles the framework of national histories and biography. This book takes mobility, not nation, as its frame, and captures a rich array of lives, from the elite to...

After the Great War some texts by British Army veterans portrayed the Anglican chaplains who had served with them in an extremely negative light. This book examines the realities of Anglican chaplains' wartime experiences and presents a compelling...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780987544261Author Ruth BonettiFormat PaperbackPage Count 202Imprint Words and Musica BonettiPublisher Words and Musica BonettiWeight(grams) 152g

Braiding together strands of literary, phenomenological and art historical reflection, Modernism and Phenomenology explores the ways in which modernist writers and artists return us to wonder before the world. Taking such wonder as the motive for...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780983560920Author Daryl Lamar AndrewsFormat PaperbackPage Count 144Imprint Andrews PressPublisher Andrews PressWeight(grams) 200g

This collection of essays focuses attention on how medieval gender intersects with other categories of difference, particularly religion and ethnicity. It treats the period c.800-1500, with a particular focus on the era of the Gregorian reform movement,...

The Middle Ages was a time of great upheaval - the period between the seventh and fourteenth centuries saw great social, political and economic change. The radically distinct cultures of the Christian West, Byzantium, Persian-influenced Islam, and...

The Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars affected millions of people's lives across Europe and beyond. Yet the extent to which the constant warfare of the period 1792-1815 shaped everyday experience has been little studied. This volume of essays discusses...

This book offers a detailed examination of the living arrangements and material circumstances of the poor betweeen 1650 and 1850. Chapters investigate poor households in urban, rural and metropolitan contexts, and contribute to wider investigations into...

Looks at the political and social history of the Gold Coast in West Africa from the early 16th century to the second half of the 18th. The book examines how political entities in Nzema were structured territorially, as well as the formation of ruling...

Angie Sandhu examines the relation between intellectuals and society through political theory and a consideration of contemporary debates in both Britain and the US. She sets out a new argument that calls for intellectuals to address their own elite...

Early Modern Europe was teeming with impostors. Identity theft was only one form of misrepresentation: royal pretenders, envoys from imaginary lands, religious dissimulators, cross-dressers, false Gypsies - all these caused deep anxiety, leading...

This book uses oral history methodology to record stories of people who experienced the brunt of racist forced removals in the city of Cape Town, South Africa. Through life stories and community case studies, it traces the human impact of this...

Examining a range of fantasy films released in the past decade, Pheasant-Kelly looks at why these films are meaningful to current audiences. The imagery and themes reflecting 9/11, millennial anxieties, and environmental disasters have furthered...

This book explores the 'Black Horror' campaign as an important chapter in the popularisation of racialised discourse in European history. Originating in early 1920s Germany, this international racist campaign was promoted through modern media, targeting...

Cinematic depictions of real U.S. presidents from Abraham Lincoln to George W. Bush explore how Hollywood movies represent American history and politics on screen. Morgan and his contributors show how films blend myth and reality to present a positive...

A Cultural History of Gardens presents an authoritative survey from ancient times to the present. This set of six volumes covers over 2500 years of gardens as physical, social and artistic spaces. 1. A Cultural History of Gardens in Antiquity (600 BCE -...

The Big Show looks at the role played by cinema in British cultural life during World War One. In writing the definitive account of film exhibition and reception in Britain in the years 1914 to 1918, Michael Hammond shows how the British film industry...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781013292354Author R Bin WongFormat HardbackPage Count 344Imprint Saint Philip Street PressPublisher Saint Philip Street PressWeight(grams) 216g

Analyzing action at the Holocaust memorial in Berlin, this first ethnography of the site offers a fresh approach to studying the memorial and memory work as potential civic engagement of visitors with themselves and others rather than with history itself...

Media Literacy and Semiotics provides helpful tools to help readers think critically about the meaning of the media images they are exposed to on a daily basis. In this comprehensive book, a basic model of semiotic logic is applied to a variety of media...

An annotated edition of an American's engaging account of culture and politics in England during a crucial period in British history. This new edition features an extensive introduction, numerous primary-source appendices, and other critical apparatus...

Examines a range of texts commemorating European holy women from the ninth through fifteenth centuries. Explores the relationship between memorial practices and identity formation. Draws upon much of the recent scholarly interest in the nature and uses...

Offering the first comparative survey of public houses in pre-industrial Europe and drawing on a vast range of primary sources, this study establishes inns and taverns as principal communication sites in local communities. Contested and continuously...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780578919836Author Michael OstrogorskyFormat HardbackPage Count 164Imprint Blue Parrot BooksPublisher Blue Parrot BooksWeight(grams) 216g

This book explores the 'Black Horror' campaign as an important chapter in the popularisation of racialised discourse in European history. Originating in early 1920s Germany, this international racist campaign was promoted through modern media, targeting...

Paul Harvey illustrates how black Christian traditions provided theological, institutional, and personal strategies for cultural survival during bondage and into an era of partial freedom. At the same time, he covers the ongoing tug-of-war between themes...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780806154176Author Herbert G RuffinFormat PaperbackPage Count 354Imprint University of Oklahoma PressPublisher University of Oklahoma PressWeight(grams) 517g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780674334151Author Giles FletcherFormat HardbackPage Count 223Imprint Harvard University PressPublisher Harvard University PressWeight(grams) 680g

Bringing together new research, this book advances current theoretical understandings of punishment and control in society. It provides a critical analysis of institutions, punishment and the law, and explores the delivery of punishment and experience of...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780852236079Author Brian BraithwaiteFormat HardbackPage Count 192Imprint Ebury PressPublisher Ebury PublishingWeight(grams) 1053g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781909446229Author Sue StopsFormat PaperbackPage Count 80Imprint Bristol Books CICPublisher Bristol Books CIC