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The Place of the Social Margins, 1350-1750 Andrew Spicer 9780367264024
RRP: $92.38$80.72This interdisciplinary volume illuminates the shadowy history of the disadvantaged, sick and those who did not conform to the accepted norms of society. It explores how marginal identity was formed, perceived and represented in Britain and Europe during... -
Philosophies of Multiculturalism: Beyond Liberalism by Luis Cordeiro-Rodrigues 9780367264017
RRP: $92.38$80.72This edited collection offers a comparative approach to the topic of multiculturalism, including different authors with contrasting arguments from different philosophical traditions and ideologies. It puts together perspectives that have been largely... -
Madness in Cold War America by Alexander Dunst 9780367264000
RRP: $88.18$77.18This book tells the story of how madness came to play a prominent part in America's political and cultural debates. It argues that metaphors of madness rise to unprecedented popularity amidst the domestic struggles of the early Cold War and become a... -
Conciliation on Colonial Frontiers: Conflict, Performance, and Commemoration in Australia and the Pacific Rim by Kate Darian-Smith 9780367263799
RRP: $88.18$77.18Spanning the late 18th century to the present, this volume explores new directions in imperial and postcolonial histories of conciliation, performance, and conflict between European colonizers and Indigenous peoples in Australia and the Pacific Rim,... -
Old World Empires: Cultures of Power and Governance in Eurasia by Ilhan Niaz 9780367208608
RRP: $88.18$78.02This book is a sweeping historical survey of the origins, development and nature of state power. It demonstrates that Eurasia is home to a dominant tradition of arbitrary rule mediated through military, civil and ecclesiastical servants and a marginal... -
Giambattista Vico on Natural Law: Rhetoric, Religion and Sensus Communis by John Schaeffer 9780367191061
RRP: $283.50$246.29This book introduces the thought of Giambattista Vico (1668-1744) into the discussion about natural law. For many critics, natural law is not natural but a facade behind which lurks the supernatural - that is, revealed religion. While current notions of... -
Sewn in Coal Country: An Oral History of the Ladies' Garment Industry in Northeastern Pennsylvania, 1945-1995 by Robert P. Wolensky 9780271084909
RRP: $195.20$167.69By the mid-1930s, Pennsylvania's anthracite coal industry was facing a steady decline. Mining areas such as the Wyoming Valley around the cities of Wilkes-Barre and Pittston were full of willing workers (including women) who proved irresistibly... -
Racial Imperatives: Discipline, Performativity, and Struggles against Subjection by Nadine Ehlers 9780253223364
RRP: $41.98$36.83Nadine Ehlers examines the constructions of blackness and whiteness cultivated in the U.S. imaginary and asks, how do individuals become racial subjects? She analyzes anti-miscegenation law, statutory definitions of race, and the rhetoric surrounding the... -
Soviet Space Culture: Cosmic Enthusiasm in Socialist Societies by Eva Maurer 9780230274358
RRP: $230.98$202.48Starting with the first man-made satellite 'Sputnik' in 1957 and culminating four years later with the first human in space, Yuri Gagarin, space became a new utopian horizon. This book explores the profound repercussions of the Soviet space exploration... -
The Disobedient Generation: Social Theorists in the Sixties by Professor Alan Sica 9780226756257
RRP: $63.00$61.43The late 1960s are remembered today as the last time wholesale social upheaval shook Europe and the United States. College students during that tumultuous period - epitomized by the events of May 1968 - were as permanently marked in their worldviews as... -
Ideology: Comparative and Cultural Status by Mostafa Rejai 9780202309934
RRP: $83.98$73.63Since the early 1950s, the "decline of ideology" hypothesis has commanded a great deal of attention in the intellectual community at large. Th e controversy has taken both empirical and polemical turns. Th is book concentrates on the empirical... -
From the Ivory Tower: 200 Years of Ghent University by Gita Deneckere 9789490880194
RRP: $81.90$55.55From the Ivory Tower: 200 Years of Ghent University tells the story of Ghent University and its societal impact, from its foundation in 1817 to the present day. From the very beginning, the university was closely involved in major social issues through... -
A Cultural History of Sexuality in the Enlightenment by Julie Peakman 9781847888037
$231.17In the period between 1650 and 1820 new worlds of sex opened up. This was a pivotal time when old religious beliefs and medical theories about sexuality and the body clashed with innovatory ideas emerging from natural science and philosophy. In... -
Tourism and the Changing Face of the British Isles by Allan Brodie 9781848023581
RRP: $126.00$81.19A week on a beach, a day at a spa, a hike in the hills -- tourism is taken for granted today, but over the past 500 years, it has played a significant role in the shaping of modern Britain. Holidays were once effectively limited to a handful of wealthy... -
Medieval Literature on Display: Heritage and Culture in Modern Germany by Alexandra Sterling-Hellenbrand 9781788316897
$230.33How is the medieval world depicted today? Two German museums serve as case studies for a vibrant, imaginative, and provocative enactment of twenty-first century medievalism: the Museum Wolfram von Eschenbach in Wolframs Eschenbach (1995) and the Nibelung... -
Historical Studies in Industrial Relations, Volume 39 2018 by Dave Lyddon 9781786941176
$220.14Historical Studies in Industrial Relations was established in 1996 by the Centre for Industrial Relations, Keele University, to provide an outlet for, and to stimulate an interest in, historical work in the field of industrial relations and the history... -
Black Orwell: Essays on the Scholarship of Ali A. Mazrui by Seifudein Adem 9781569025932
RRP: $83.90$53.82Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781569025932Author Seifudein AdemFormat PaperbackPage Count 342Imprint Red Sea Press,U.S.Publisher Red Sea Press,U.S. -
A History of Silence: From the Renaissance to the Present Day Alain Corbin (University of Paris I) 9781509517350
RRP: $105.00$67.94Silence is not simply the absence of noise. It is within us, in the inner citadel that great writers, thinkers, scholars and people of faith have cultivated over the centuries. It characterizes our most intimate and sacred spaces, from private bedrooms... -
The Invention of Celebrity by Antoine Lilti 9781509508730
RRP: $126.00$109.94Frequently perceived as a characteristic of modern culture, the phenomenon of celebrity has much older roots. In this book Antoine Lilti shows that the mechanisms of celebrity were developed in Europe during the Enlightenment, well before films, yellow... -
A Cultural History of Work in the Medieval Age by Professor Valerie L. Garver 9781474244923
$222.01Winner of the 2020 PROSE Award for Multivolume Reference/Humanities Work was central to medieval life. Religious and secular authorities generally expected almost everyone to work. Artistic and literary depictions underlined work's cultural value. The... -
A Cultural History of Work in the Early Modern Age by Professor Bert De Munck 9781474244879
$207.61Winner of the 2020 PROSE Award for Multivolume Reference/Humanities In the early modern age technological innovations were unimportant relative to political and social transformations. The size of the workforce and the number of wage dependent people... -
A Cultural History of Work in the Age of Enlightenment by Professor Anne Montenach 9781474244824
$207.61Winner of the 2020 PROSE Award for Multivolume Reference/Humanities The Enlightenment led to revised ideas about work together with new social attitudes toward work and workers. Coupled with dynamism in the economy, and the rise of the middling orders,... -
A Cultural History of Work in the Modern Age by Daniel J. Walkowitz 9781474244817
$207.61Winner of the 2020 PROSE Award for Multivolume Reference/Humanities Changes in production and consumption fundamentally transformed the culture of work in the industrial world during the century after World War I. In the aftermath of the war, the drive... -
A Cultural History of Money in the Age of Empire by Professor Federico Neiburg 9781474237406
$196.22The nineteenth century was a time of intense monetization of social life: increasingly money became the only means of access to goods and services, especially in the new metropolises; new technologies and infrastructures emerged for saving and... -
A Cultural History of Money in the Medieval Age by Rory Naismith 9781474237109
$197.06Money provides a unique and illuminating perspective on the Middle Ages. In much of medieval Europe the central meaning of money was a prescribed unit of precious metal but in practice precious metal did not necessarily change hands and indeed coinage... -
A Cultural History of Law in Antiquity by Professor Julen Etxabe 9781474212649
$197.06Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781474212649Author Professor Julen EtxabeImprint Bloomsbury AcademicPublisher Bloomsbury Academic -
A Cultural History of Law in Antiquity by Professor Julen Etxabe 9781474212533
$196.22Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781474212533Author Professor Julen EtxabeImprint Bloomsbury AcademicPublisher Bloomsbury Academic -
A Cultural History of Law in Antiquity by Professor Julen Etxabe 9781474212298
$196.22Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781474212298Author Professor Julen EtxabeImprint Bloomsbury AcademicPublisher Bloomsbury Academic -
A Cultural History of Childhood and Family in the Modern Age Joseph M. Hawes 9781472554727
RRP: $62.98$56.85Few people living in 1900 could have imagined what life would be like for children and families by the start of the 21st century. The 20th century brought improved nutrition, widespread immunization, lower mortality rates, greater access to schooling,... -
A Cultural History of Law in Antiquity by Professor Julen Etxabe 9781474212779
$197.06The period since the First World War has been a century distinguished by the loss of any unitary foundation for truth, ethics, and the legitimate authority of law. With the emergence of radical pluralism, law has become the site of extraordinary... -
A Cultural History of Law in Antiquity by Professor Julen Etxabe 9781474212656
$196.22Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781474212656Author Professor Julen EtxabeImprint Bloomsbury AcademicPublisher Bloomsbury Academic -
Images of America: A Political, Industrial and Social Portrait by R. L. Bruckberger 9781412806541
RRP: $92.38$80.72"Either America is the hope of the world, or it is nothing. Th ere are those who have begun to despair of the West. It is for them that I am writing." Bruckberger's book has been compared by many to Tocqueville's Democracy in America. In both... -
Winter Passages: Reflections on Theatre and Society by Robert Brustein 9781412854733
RRP: $283.50$246.29Winter Passages is Robert Brustein's nineteenth book of criticism. It includes his considerations of culture and politics over the past four years of American life, demonstrating how the imperfections of the government and economy have plunged the... -
Harvest of a Decade: Disraelia and Other Essays by Walter Laqueur 9781412842327
RRP: $283.50$246.29This is a selection of essays written during the first decade of the twenty-first century, by a figure widely acknowledged as the conscience of European liberalism. In Walter Laqueur's lifetime, there have been more acutely dangerous situations, such as... -
How Food Made History by B. W. Higman 9781405189484
RRP: $144.80$124.95Covering 5,000 years of global history, How Food Made History traces the changing patterns of food production and consumption that have molded economic and social life and contributed fundamentally to the development of government and complex societies... -
How Food Made History B. W. Higman (Australian National University, Australia) 9781405189477
RRP: $54.50$47.46Covering 5,000 years of global history, How Food Made History traces the changing patterns of food production and consumption that have molded economic and social life and contributed fundamentally to the development of government and complex societies... -
Men's Sexual Health in Early Modern England by Jennifer Evans 9789462986480
RRP: $224.70$214.05How did men cope with sexual health issues in early modern England? This vivid history investigates how sexual, reproductive, and genitourinary conditions were understood between 1580 and 1740. Drawing on medical sources and personal testimonies, it... -
Negotiating Development at the Margins: Natural Resources, Conflicts, and People’s Movements in Odisha by Anshuman Behera 9781032425245
RRP: $283.50$246.29This book critically examines various facets of conflicts involving people and the state arising due to the uneven distribution of natural resources. It provides an overview of the people’s movements in Odisha, a resource-rich state in eastern India... -
A Cultural History of Fairy Tales in the Long Nineteenth Century by Professor Naomi J. Wood 9781350095366
$175.60How have fairy tales from around the world changed over the centuries? What do they tell us about different cultures and societies? This volume explores the period when the European fairy tales conquered the world and shaped the global imagination in... -
A Cultural History of Fairy Tales in the Long Eighteenth Century by Professor Anne E. Duggan 9781350095229
$175.60How have fairy tales from around the world changed over the centuries? What do they tell us about different cultures and societies? This volume traces the evolution of the genre over the period known as the long eighteenth century. It explores key...