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Yawn: Adventures in Boredom by Mary Mann 9780374535841
RRP: $33.60$19.85Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780374535841Author Mary MannFormat PaperbackPage Count 176Imprint Farrar, Strauss & Giroux-3plPublisher Farrar, Strauss & Giroux-3plWeight(grams)... -
A Cultural History of Color in the Age of Enlightenment by Carole P. Biggam 9781350460140
RRP: $54.58$47.48A Cultural History of Color in the Age of Enlightenment covers the period 1650 to 1800. From the Baroque to the Neo-classical, color transformed art, architecture, ceramics, jewelry, and glass. Newton, using a prism, demonstrated the seven separate hues,... -
A Cultural History of Objects in the Modern Age by Professor Laurie Wilkie 9781350463639
$61.05A Cultural History of Objects in the Modern Age covers the period 1900 to today, a time marked by massive global changes in production, transportation, and information-sharing in a post-colonial world. New materials and inventions - from plastics to the... -
A Cultural History of Objects in the Age of Industry by Dr Carolyn White 9781350463622
$61.05A Cultural History of Objects in the Age of Industry covers the period 1760 to 1900, a time of dramatic change in the material world as objects shifted from the handmade to the machine made. The revolution in making, and in consuming the things which... -
A Cultural History of Objects in the Medieval Age by Professor Julie Lund 9781350463356
RRP: $54.58$47.48A Cultural History of Objects in the Medieval Age covers the period 500 to 1400, examining the creation, use and understanding of human-made objects and their consequences and impacts. The power and agency of objects significantly evolved over this time... -
A Cultural History of Color in the Modern Age by Dr Anders Steinvall 9781350460348
RRP: $54.58$47.48A Cultural History of Color in the Modern Age covers the period 1920 to the present, a time of extraordinary developments in colour science, philosophy, art, design and technologies. The expansion of products produced with synthetic dyes was accelerated... -
Celebrities, Heroes and Champions: Popular Politicians in the Age of Reform, 1810–67 by Simon James Morgan 9781526178817
RRP: $52.50$37.63Celebrities, heroes and champions explores the role of the popular politician in British and Irish society from the Napoleonic Wars to the Second Reform Act of 1867. Covering movements for parliamentary reform up to and including Chartism, Catholic... -
Voices from the Back Stairs: Interpreting Servants' Lives at Historic House Museums by Jennifer Pustz 9780875806228
RRP: $56.68$48.97Historic house museums-one of the most prevalent types of history museums in the country-have long depicted the owners of the house and their families, but representing the servants has introduced a unique set of challenges. While museum professionals... -
The Game of Hearts: True Stories of Regency Romance by Felicity Day 9781785120886
RRP: $23.08$15.69'Endlessly captivating' - Tracy Borman'Tantalising' - Gill Hornby'More scandal than Bridgerton's Lady Whistledown' - Helena KellyThe carriages have rolled back into town, cards of invitation are propped up on chimney-pieces, and match-making mamas are... -
The Powerful Women of Outremer: Forgotten Heroines of the Crusader States by Helena P Schrader 9781526787552
RRP: $52.50$37.00In the mild climate of the Mediterranean, a rare blossom once bloomed: a prosperous, urbanised society inhabited by various ethnic and religious groups living harmoniously together for nearly two-hundred years. At the apex of this society, ruled a feudal... -
Hoops: A Cultural History of Basketball in America by Thomas Aiello 9781538147115
RRP: $63.00$56.03From its early days as a sport to build "muscular Christianity" among young men flooding nineteenth-century cities to its position today as a global symbol of American culture, basketball has been a force in American society. It grew through high school... -
Rethinking Historical Distance by Mark Salber Phillips 9780230284081
$99.71The idea of distance is one of the defining principles of modern historical method. This volume gives the discussion of historical distance new breadth, flexibility and importance by incorporating diverse modes of representation including photography,... -
Environmental Justice in a Moment of Danger by Julie Sze 9780520300736
RRP: $168.00$129.97"Let this book immerse you in the many worlds of environmental justice."-Naomi Klein We are living in a precarious environmental and political moment. In the United States and in the world, environmental injustices have manifested across... -
The Ugly History of Beautiful Things: Essays on Desire and Consumption by Katy Kelleher 9781982179366
RRP: $23.08$14.70Paris Review contributor Katy Kelleher explores our obsession with gorgeous things, unveiling the fraught histories of makeup, flowers, perfume, silk, and other beautiful objects. April recommended reading by the New York Times Book Review, Vanity Fair,... -
A History of Bread: Consumers, Bakers and Public Authorities since the 18th Century by Peter Scholliers 9781350361775
RRP: $157.50$148.07For a long time, everything revolved around bread. Providing more than half of people’s daily calories, bread was the life-source of Europe for centuries. In the middle of 19th century, a third of household expenditure was spent on bread. Why, then, does... -
Making Men Moral: Social Engineering During the Great War by Nancy K. Bristow 9780814713082
$62.16On May 29, 1917, Mrs. E. M. Craise, citizen of Denver, Colorado, penned a letter to President Woodrow Wilson, which concluded, We have surrendered to your absolute control our hearts' dearest treasures--our sons. If their precious bodies that have cost... -
Blood and Money: War, Slavery, Finance and Empire by David McNally 9781773632735
$56.34Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781773632735Author David McNallyFormat PaperbackPage Count 320Imprint Fernwood PublishingPublisher Fernwood PublishingWeight(grams) 152g -
Come Together: Trades Councils 1920–50 by Jethro Bor 9781915603685
RRP: $29.38$20.48Think global, act local! Trades councils are the place workers and unemployed trade unionists, in local and national forums, can come together to pass resolutions and plan actions; in workplaces and on the streets; to change laws, change minds, show... -
Student-Centered Oral History: An Ethical Guide by Summer Cherland 9781032325187
RRP: $77.68$68.31Student-Centered Oral History explores the overlaps of culturally relevant teaching, student-centered teaching, and oral history to demonstrate how this method empowers students, especially those from historically underrepresented communities. With... -
An Almost Impossible Thing: The radical lives of Britain's pioneering women gardeners by Fiona Davison 9781915068378
RRP: $25.20$17.72The paperback edition of the bestselling, acclaimed book. While working at the Royal Horticultural Society, Fiona Davison came across a cache of letters from a young gardener who was denied a scholarship by the RHS, on the grounds that she was female... -
A Cultural History of Comedy in the Modern Age by Ms Louise Peacock 9781350440838
$64.76Drawing together contributions by scholars from a variety of fields, including theater, film and television, sociology, and visual culture, this volume explores the range and diversity of comedic performance and comic forms in the modern age. It covers a... -
Spectacles of Waste by Warwick Anderson 9781509557417
RRP: $31.48$28.52The modern bathroom is an ingenious compilation of locked doors, smooth porcelain, 4-ply tissue and antibacterial hand soap, but despite this miracle of indoor plumbing, we still can’t bear the thought that anyone else should know that our bodies produce... -
A Cultural History of Comedy in the Age of Enlightenment by Elizabeth Kraft 9781350440715
$64.76This volume highlights the variety of forms comedy took in England, with reference to developments in Europe, particularly France, during the European Enlightenment. It argues that comedy in this period is characterized by wit, satire, and humor,... -
Spectacles of Waste by Warwick Anderson 9781509557400
RRP: $105.00$91.37The modern bathroom is an ingenious compilation of locked doors, smooth porcelain, 4-ply tissue and antibacterial hand soap, but despite this miracle of indoor plumbing, we still can’t bear the thought that anyone else should know that our bodies produce... -
Free Love: The Story of a Great American Scandal by Robert Shaplen 9781946022912
RRP: $31.48$20.58On the night of July 3, 1870, Elizabeth Tilton confessed to her husband that she’d had an affair with their pastor, Henry Ward Beecher. This secret would soon transfix America, for Beecher was the most famous preacher of the day, founder of the most... -
Late Industrialization, Tradition, and Social Change in South Korea by Yong-Chool Ha 9780295752266
RRP: $191.10$166.57South Korea's rapid industrialization occurred with the rise of powerful chaebǒl (family-owned business conglomerates) that controlled vast swaths of the nation's economy. Leader Park Chung Hee's sense of backwardness and urgency led him to rely on... -
Biocosmism: Vitality and the Utopian Imagination in Postrevolutionary Mexico by Jorge Quintana Navarrete 9780826506511
$63.88Most scholars study postrevolutionary Mexican culture as a period in which cultural production significantly shaped national identity through murals, novels, essays, and other artifacts that registered the changing political and social realities in the... -
The Undesirables: The Law that Locked Away a Generation by Sarah Wise 9780861544554
RRP: $46.20$32.00Through the early twentieth century, the British Government locked away over 50,000 innocent people. Their ‘crimes’? Being poor and unyielding. This is their story. 'The heartrending stories Sarah Wise has unearthed beggar belief… beautifully researched... -
Jack and Eve: Two Women In Love and At War by Wendy Moore 9781838958091
RRP: $46.20$31.73Vera Holme, known as Jack, left a career as a jobbing actress to become Emmeline Pankhurst's chauffeur and mechanic. Evelina Haverfield was a classic beauty, the daughter of a Scottish baron and fourteen years older than Jack. They met in 1908, fell in... -
Blunt Instruments: Recognizing Racist Cultural Infrastructure in Memorials, Museums, and Patriotic Practices by Kristin Ann Hass 9780807013328
RRP: $35.68$24.23Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780807013328Author Kristin Ann HassFormat PaperbackPage Count 256Imprint Beacon PressPublisher Beacon Press -
Frontline Bodies: Sports and Black Struggles for Justice since the Late Nineteenth Century by Nicolas Martin-Breteau 9781421448640
RRP: $105.00$101.33A captivating exploration of Black American civil rights activism through the lens of sport.In Frontline Bodies, Nicolas Martin-Breteau argues that sports are not—and have never been—purely about entertainment for Black Americans. Instead, beginning in... -
Impossible City: Paris in the Twenty-First Century by Simon Kuper 9781800816480
RRP: $39.88$28.58From the bestselling author of Chums comes an explorer's tale of a naïf getting to understand a complex, glittering, beautiful and often cruel city. Simon Kuper has experienced Paris both as a human being and as a journalist. He has grown middle-aged... -
Thanks for Typing: Remembering Forgotten Women in History Juliana Dresvina (University of Oxford, UK) 9781350150065
RRP: $157.50$139.23This collection uncovers the wives, daughters, mothers, companions and female assistants who laboured in the shadows of famous men. Revealing the reality of uncredited female contributions throughout history, this book highlights the work of neglected... -
An American Stand: Senator Margaret Chase Smith and the Communist Menace, 1948-1972 by Eric R. Crouse 9780739144428
RRP: $193.20$169.11Margaret Chase Smith was the first woman in American history elected in both the House of Representatives and the Senate, the first politician to take a public stand against McCarthyism, and the first woman of a major political party to run for president... -
Regional History as Cultural Identity by Kenneth J Bindas 9788867288526
RRP: $79.80$69.89Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9788867288526Author Kenneth J BindasFormat PaperbackPage Count 224Imprint ViellaPublisher ViellaWeight(grams) 204g -
From Central Space to Urban Place: Urbanisation processes in Viking Age and Medieval Odense and Aalborg, Denmark by Mads Runge 9788790267513
RRP: $57.54$49.83Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9788790267513Author Mads RungeFormat HardbackPage Count 367Imprint Museum OdensePublisher Museum OdenseWeight(grams) 1772g -
Affluence and Activism: Organized Consumers in the Post-War Era by Even Lange 9788274771864
RRP: $42.00$34.52Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9788274771864Author Even LangeFormat PaperbackPage Count 104Imprint Oslo Academic PressPublisher Oslo Academic PressWeight(grams) 166g -
Displacement and Citizenship - Histories and Memories of Exclusion by Mallarika Sinha Roy 9788193926956
RRP: $94.50$75.01Displacement and citizenship are intricately connected in the contemporary flows of forced migration, internal displacement due to conflict situations, and development-induced migration. A primary site on which claims to cultural citizenship are... -
Scandinavian Middle Classes 1840-1940 by Jan Eivind Myhre 9788274771369
RRP: $52.50$42.61Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9788274771369Author Jan Eivind MyhreFormat PaperbackPage Count 320Imprint Oslo Academic PressPublisher Oslo Academic PressWeight(grams) 398g -
Names on Svalbard by Eli Johanne Ellingsve 9788251920117
RRP: $47.25$38.58Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9788251920117Author Eli Johanne EllingsveFormat HardbackPage Count 186Imprint Tapir Academic PressPublisher Tapir Academic PressWeight(grams) 468g