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Out of the Underground: Homosexuality, The Radical Press, and the Rise and Fall of the Gay Liberation Front by St Sukie De La Croix 9780578442389
RRP: $35.68$31.73Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780578442389Author St Sukie De La CroixFormat PaperbackPage Count 338Imprint Rattling Good Yarns PressPublisher Rattling Good Yarns PressWeight(grams) 494g -
History of Old Age by Georges Minois 9780745662138
RRP: $48.28$47.99This book is the first major study of the ways in which old age was perceived in Western culture and society. Beginning from ancient Palestine and Classical Greece, Minois traces the changing conceptions of the nature, value and burden of the old. He... -
The Landscape of Consumption: Shopping Streets and Cultures in Western Europe, 1600-1900 by Cle Lesger 9780230355644
RRP: $94.48$94.44This volume brings together research on retailing, shopping and urban space; themes that have attracted wide interest in recent decades. The authors argue that the 'modernity' of the nineteenth century is often over-emphasised at the expense of... -
The Manchester Directories 1772, 1773 & 1781 by Elizabeth Raffald by Suze Appleton 9780244017811
RRP: $30.41$27.36Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780244017811Author Suze AppletonFormat HardbackImprint Lulu.comPublisher Lulu.comWeight(grams) 152g -
The Early Baroque Era: From the late 16th century to the 1660s by Curtis Price 9780333516003
$189.57This work begins with the innovations of Monteverdi and developments in Northern Italy. By the end of the period under discussion the Baroque spirit is flourishing north of the Alps, at the courts in Paris, Vienna, London and the German states. Spain and... -
Memory of War in France, 1914-45: Cesar Fauxbras, the Voice of the Lowly by M. Perry 9780230594418
RRP: $94.48$94.44Memory of War in France examines France in the era of world war through the unconventional eyes of the veteran, activist and novelist, Cesar Fauxbras. It encompasses the French navy at war, the naval mutinies of 1919, the experience of unemployment,... -
The Little Immigrants: The Orphans Who Came to Canada [Standard Large Print 16 Pt Edition] by Kenneth Bagnell 9780369372871
RRP: $56.68$50.06Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780369372871Author Kenneth BagnellFormat PaperbackPage Count 584Imprint ReadHowYouWantPublisher ReadHowYouWantWeight(grams) 726g -
The World of Silk Priscilla Lowry 9780994106308
RRP: $37.78$29.17Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780994106308Author Priscilla LowryFormat PaperbackPage Count 266Imprint St John's PressPublisher St John's PressWeight(grams) 467gDimensions(mm) 254mm *... -
Sexual Perversions, 1670-1890 by Julie Peakman 9780230555105
RRP: $94.48$94.44A fascinating glimpse into the history of sexual perversions and diversions including fetishism, cross-dressing, 'effeminate' men and 'masculinized' women, sodomy, tribadism, masturbation, necrophilia, rape, paedophilia, flagellation, and sado-masochism,... -
Born in 1964?: What Else Happened? by Ron Williams 9780648651147
RRP: $18.90$13.80Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780648651147Author Ron WilliamsFormat PaperbackPage Count 178Imprint Boom BooksPublisher Boom Books -
Born in 1943?: What Else Happened? by Ron Williams 9780987543608
RRP: $18.90$13.80Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780987543608Author Ron WilliamsFormat PaperbackPage Count 184Imprint Boom BooksPublisher Boom Books -
Born in 1958?: What Else Happened? by Ron Williams 9780994601582
RRP: $18.90$13.80Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780994601582Author Ron WilliamsFormat PaperbackPage Count 160Imprint Boom BooksPublisher Boom Books -
A Cultural History of Gardens in the Age of Empire by Sonja Dumpelmann 9780857850331
$210.25As much as the nineteenth and early twentieth century gardens and their designs were a product and representation of industrialisation and urbanisation, they were also motors of change. Gardens became an industry in and of themselves. They were both the... -
Anglo-American Media Interactions, 1850-2000 by Joel H. Wiener 9780230521254
RRP: $94.48$94.44This volume reveals the complicated ways in which British and American media have influenced each other over the past two centuries. In doing so, it adds an important transatlantic dimension to media scholarship, while demonstrating the crucial and... -
France From 1851 to the Present: Universalism in Crisis by Roger Celestin 9780312295240
RRP: $104.98$95.28Bringing together history, literature, and popular culture, this book provides a cultural history of France from a period of dominance in the mid-19th century to one of decline or crisis in the first few years of the third millennium. Contains both... -
Public Speaking in the City: Debating and Shaping the Urban Experience by Janet Stewart 9780230218093
RRP: $94.48$94.44Providing a compelling analysis of debates in and about the modern city, this book draws upon architecture, history, literary studies, new media and sociology to explore the multiple connections between location, speech and the emerging modern metropolis... -
On Bended Knees The Night Rider Story by Bill Cunningham 9780998405124
RRP: $42.50$37.42Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780998405124Author Bill CunninghamFormat PaperbackPage Count 258Imprint Cunningham BooksPublisher Cunningham BooksWeight(grams) 349g -
Hitler - Films from Germany: History, Cinema and Politics since 1945 by Karolin Machtans 9780230229907
RRP: $94.48$94.44The first book-length study to critically examine the recent wave of Hitler biopics in German cinema and television. A group of international experts discuss films like Downfall in the context of earlier portrayals of Hitler and draw out their... -
Fundamentalism and Education in the Scopes Era: God, Darwin, and the Roots of America's Culture Wars by Adam Laats 9780230623729
RRP: $94.48$94.44This book takes a new look at one of the most contentious periods in American history. The battles over schools that surrounded the famous Scopes "monkey" trial in 1925 were about much more than evolution. Fundamentalists fought to maintain... -
Law and Politics in British Colonial Thought: Transpositions of Empire by S. Dorsett 9780230104556
RRP: $94.48$94.44A collection that focuses on the role of European law in colonial contexts and engages with recent treatments of this theme in known works written largely from within the framework of postcolonial studies, which implicitly discuss colonial deployments of... -
Nationalism and Classicism by Athena S. Leoussi 9780333691496
$189.57This is a comparative study of the national significance of the classical revival which marked English and French art during the second half of the nineteenth century. It argues that the main focus of artists' interest in classical Greece, was the body... -
Purity and Pollution: Gender, Embodiment and Victorian Medicine by Alison Bashford 9780333682487
RRP: $188.98$188.73Like medical knowledge and practice itself, most medical histories are fascinated with the bodies of patients. Bashford examines practitioners of medicine, as well as patients, as embodied and sexed subjects. She brings together recent cultural and... -
Sharecropper's Troubadour: John L. Handcox, the Southern Tenant Farmers' Union, and the African American Song Tradition by Michael K. Honey 9780230111271
RRP: $94.48$94.44Folk singer and labor organizer John Handcox was born to illiterate sharecroppers, but went on to become one of the most beloved folk singers of the prewar labor movement. This beautifully told oral history gives us Handcox in his own words, recounting a... -
Queen and Country: Same-Sex Desire in the British Armed Forces, 1939-45 by Emma Vickers 9780719082948
RRP: $178.50$156.47The first study of its kind in the UK, Queen and country examines the complex intersection between same-sex desire and the British Armed Forces during the Second World War. It illuminates how men and women lived, loved and survived in an institution... -
France From 1851 to the Present: Universalism in Crisis by Roger Celestin 9780312239084
$95.28Bringing together history, literature, and popular culture, this book provides a cultural history of France from a period of dominance in the mid-19th century to one of decline or crisis in the first few years of the third millennium. Contains both... -
Shaping a Global Women's Agenda: Women's Ngos and Global Governance, 1925-85 by Karen Garner 9780719088988
RRP: $52.50$45.76Available in paperback for the first time, and drawing on a wide range of archival sources, Shaping a global women's agenda documents international women's history through the lens of the long-established Western-led international organisations that... -
Life among the Ruins: Cityscape and Sexuality in Cold War Berlin by J. Evans 9780230202023
RRP: $104.98$94.44As home to 1920s excess and Hitler's Final Solution, Berlin's physical and symbolic landscape was an important staging ground for the highs and lows of modernity. In Cold War Berlin, social and political boundaries were porous, and the rubble gave refuge... -
Walter Benjamin and the Aesthetics of Change by Anca M. Pusca 9780230580862
RRP: $188.98$188.73Following the spirit of Benjamin's Arcades Project, this book acts as a kaleidoscope of change in the 21st century, tracing its different reflections in the international contemporary while seeking to understand individual/collective reactions to change... -
Queer 1950s: Rethinking Sexuality in the Postwar Years by Heike Bauer 9780230300699
$212.92Leading sexuality scholars explore queer lives and cultures in the first full post-war decade through an array of sources and a range of perspectives. Drawing out the particularities of queer cultures from the Finland and New Zealand to the UK and the... -
Transnational Blackness: Navigating the Global Color Line by Manning Marable 9780230602687
RRP: $104.98$94.44Black intellectuals in the US have long thought of racism as a global phenomenon. This book presents, for the first time, a full overview of the history, critical analysis and theoretical perspectives of key black scholars and activists on the... -
Books Without Borders, Volume 2: Perspectives from South Asia by R. Fraser 9780230210332
RRP: $94.48$94.44This volume focuses on the publisher's series as a cultural formation - a material artifact and component of cultural hierarchies. Contributors engage with archival research, cultural theory, literary and bibliometric analysis (amongst a range of other... -
Life among the Ruins: Cityscape and Sexuality in Cold War Berlin by Jennifer V. Evans 9780230202016
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Conservative Intellectuals and Richard Nixon: Rethinking the Rise of the Right by Sarah Katherine Mergel 9780230619944
RRP: $94.48$94.44Conservative Intellectuals and Richard Nixon explores the relationship between postwar conservatives and the president from 1968 to 1974. Seemingly casting those years out of their history, conservatives have never fully explored how Richard Nixon... -
Transnational Blackness: Navigating the Global Color Line by Manning Marable 9780230602670
$95.28Black intellectuals in the US have long thought of racism as a global phenomenon. This book presents, for the first time, a full overview of the history, critical analysis and theoretical perspectives of key black scholars and activists on the... -
The Life of Herbert Hoover: Imperfect Visionary, 1918-1928 by Kendrick A. Clements 9780230103085
RRP: $188.98$170.16This latest volume in the definitive six-volume biography of Herbert Hoover tracks Hoover's life and career from 1918 to 1928 - a period defined largely by his role as United States Secretary of Commerce and leading directly to his election as the... -
Iran and the Muslim World: Resistance and Revolution by Nikki R. Keddie 9780333618882
RRP: $94.48$94.44This book consists of a series of interrelated chapters analyzing why Iran, among all countries, has seen so many revolutionary movements in the past century; the degree to which its religion, Shi'ism, is revolutionary; and the history of revolutionary... -
Recovering Bishop Berkeley: Virtue and Society in the Anglo-Irish Context by Scott Breuninger 9780230102804
RRP: $94.48$94.44Through a close analysis of key texts and the larger historical contexts within which they were composed, this study explores George Berkeley's engagement with the social and economic threats facing Ireland and Britain, highlighting his belief that... -
Daughters of the Anglican Clergy: Religion, Gender and Identity in Victorian England by Midori Yamaguchi 9780230354074
$214.10A Victorian parsonage was a 'religious family enterprise', a showcase of ruling ideas, the headquarters of parish charities and a point of connection for multilayered networks in and outside the parish. This book focuses on the lives of women brought up... -
Taiwan Cinema: A Contested Nation on Screen by G. Hong 9780230111622
RRP: $94.48$94.44A groundbreaking study of Taiwan cinema, Hong provides helpful insight into how it is taught and studied by taking into account not only the auteurs of New Taiwan Cinema, but also the history of popular genre films before the 1980s. The book is essential... -
Learning How to Feel: Children's Literature and Emotional Socialization, 1870-1970 by Ute Frevert 9780199684991
RRP: $257.25$196.56Learning How to Feel explores the ways in which children and adolescents learn not just how to express emotions that are thought to be pre-existing, but actually how to feel. The volume assumes that the embryonic ability to feel unfolds through a complex...