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Global Rome: Changing Faces of the Eternal City by Isabella Clough Marinaro 9780253012951
RRP: £23.99Booksplease Price: £21.14Is 21st-century Rome a global city? Is it part of Europe's core or periphery? This volume examines the "real city" beyond Rome's historical center, exploring the diversity and challenges of life in... -
Critical Perspectives on Suburban Infrastructures: Contemporary International Cases by Pierre Filion 9781487504953
RRP: £68.00Booksplease Price: £55.82Most new urban growth takes place in the suburbs; consequently, infrastructures are in a constant state of playing catch-up, creating repeated infrastructure crises in these peripheries. However, the... -
Post-imperial Literature: Translatio Imperii in Kafka and Coetzee by Vladimir Biti 9783111539737
RRP: £18.50Booksplease Price: £13.32This book proposes a new departure point for the investigation of transnational literary alliances: the traumatic constellation of translatio imperii, which followed the dissolution of the... -
Global Rome: Changing Faces of the Eternal City by Isabella Clough Marinaro
RRP: £68.00Booksplease Price: £55.82Is 21st-century Rome a global city? Is it part of Europe's core or periphery? This volume examines the "real city" beyond Rome's historical center, exploring the diversity and challenges of life in... -
Artron Art Center: Urbanus (Masterpiece Series) by Oscar Riera Ojeda
RRP: £40.00Booksplease Price: £29.69Artron is the foremost printing enterprise in China. As the core project of Artron’s printing culture industry, the Artron art website is actively setting up to create archives for artists. Moreover,... -
The US Constitution in Five Minutes by Joseph L Smith 9781800502857
RRP: £18.99Booksplease Price: £15.28The U.S. Constitution was written more than 230 years ago for a new country on the periphery of the world. Two centuries later, it governs the most powerful nation on earth, and its meaning is... -
A Malleable Map: Geographies of Restoration in Central Japan, 1600-1912 Karen Wigen 9780520272767
RRP: £31.00Booksplease Price: £29.42Karen Wigen probes regional cartography, choerography, and statecraft to redefine restoration (ishin) in modern Japanese history. As developed here, that term designates not the quick coup d'etat of... -
The Dignity of Every Human Being: New Brunswick Artists and Canadian Culture between the Great Depression and the Cold War by Kirk Niergarth 9781442613898
RRP: £28.99Booksplease Price: £24.76"The Dignity of Every Human Being" studies the vibrant New Brunswick artistic community which challenged "the tyranny of the Group of Seven" with socially-engaged realism in the 1930s and 40s. Using... -
Boundaries Undermined: the Ruins of Progress on the Bangladesh/India Border by Delwar Hussain 9781849042321
RRP: £45.00Booksplease Price: £36.55When anthropologist Delwar Hussain arrived in a remote coal mining village on the Bangladesh/India border to research the security fence India is building around its neighbour, he discovered more... -
On the Margins of Great Housing Estates by Andrew Duncan 9781848619968
RRP: £12.95Booksplease Price: £10.39This follows a 12-year year halt, and the first product of the new phase was With Feathers on Glass (2023). 'A history of shopping' was started around 2003 and falls on both sides of the gap. That... -
Cultures of Mobility and Alterity: Crossing the Balkans and Beyond 9781836244585
Booksplease Price: £35.54Advancing public dialogue surrounding the issues of migrants and refugees, the volume explores the dynamic representations of the recent movement of people from and through the Balkans. It... -
Europe Entrapped Claus Offe (Humboldt University, Berlin, Germany) 9780745687520
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £9.62Today Europe finds itself in a crisis that casts a dark shadow over an entire generation. The seriousness of the crisis stems from one core political contradiction at the heart of the European... -
The Mercenary: An Instrument of State Coercion by Christopher Kinsey 9780198872788
RRP: £88.00Booksplease Price: £84.95Ever since the French Revolution and the rise of the rise of national armies, the mercenary has been viewed as a maligned and marginalized actor in international relations. The Mercenary challenges... -
Deep Mexico, Silent Mexico: An Anthropology of Nationalism by Claudio Lomnitz 9780816632909
RRP: £19.99Booksplease Price: £17.76In Mexico, as elsewhere, the national space, that network of places where the people interact with state institutions, is constantly changing. How it does so, how it develops, is a historical... -
The Original by Nell Stevens 9781324110699
Booksplease Price: £23.70An unwanted guest of her uncle's family since childhood, Grace has grown up on the periphery of a once-great household. She has unusual predilections: for painting, particularly forgery; for... -
Building Schools, Making Doctors: Architecture and the Coming of Age of American Physicians by Katherine L. Carroll 9780822947059
Booksplease Price: £59.25In the late nineteenth century, medical educators intent on transforming American physicians into scientifically trained, elite professionals swiftly recognized the value of medical school design for... -
Multilingualism and Pluricentricity: A Tale of Many Cities by John Hajek 9781501527418
RRP: £23.00Booksplease Price: £16.43This volume explores linguistic diversity and complexity in different urban contexts, many of which have never been subject to significant sociolinguistic inquiry. A novel mixture of cities of... -
Cultural Citizenship in Island Southeast Asia: Nation and Belonging in the Hinterlands by Renato Rosaldo 9780520227484
RRP: £30.00Booksplease Price: £27.84Nation-building and the construction of citizenship, so often conducted--or coerced--from the center, are all too commonly studied from the center as well. This book moves the view of cultural... -
Pacific Asia – in the Global System by PW Preston
RRP: £110.95Booksplease Price: £101.17This introduction will serve as a 'first stop' for those interested in Japan, its role in the Pacific Asian region and, in turn, that region's role in the evolving global system. In this volume, P. W... -
Recent Investigations in the Puuc Region of Yucatan by Meghan Rubenstein 9781784915445
Booksplease Price: £55.70The scholarship assembled in this volume was first presented at the 79th Annual Meeting of the Society for American Archaeology (SAA) in Austin, Texas, in April 2014. Some of the authors have chosen... -
Futebol: Urban Euphoria in Brazil Leonardo Finotti 9783037784310
RRP: £18.00Booksplease Price: £13.86In Brazil soccer is more than just a sport. It is hope for a better future, a distraction from everyday life, creator of identity and community. If there is no ball around, people kick fruit or cans;... -
Vitality And Dynamism: Interstitial Dialogues of Language, Politics, and Religion in Morocco's Literary Tradition by Kirstin Bratt 9789087282134
RRP: £36.00Booksplease Price: £30.20"Anti-colonial literature is not necessarily 'combat literature' as Fanon and Dejeux have both suggested in their own writings. While it is often combative, there is also anti-colonial literature... -
Escape from the Staple Trap: Canadian Political Economy after Left Nationalism by Paul Kellogg 9780802099419
RRP: £54.00Booksplease Price: £44.89From fur and fish to oil and minerals, Canadian development has often been understood through its relationship to export staples. This understanding, argues Paul Kellogg, has led many political... -
Transnational French Studies: Postcolonialism and Littérature-monde by Alec G. Hargreaves 9781846318108
Booksplease Price: £35.54The 2007 manifesto in favour of a “Littérature-monde en français” has generated new debates in both “francophone” and “postcolonial” studies. Praised by some for breaking down the hierarchical... -
Between Dreams and Ghosts: Indian Migration and Middle Eastern Oil by Andrea Wright 9781503629516
RRP: £88.00Booksplease Price: £71.14More than one million Indians travel annually to work in oil projects in the Gulf, one of the few international destinations where men without formal education can find lucrative employment. Between... -
Tribal Society in India: An Anthropo-historical Perspective by K.S. Singh 9789388540858
RRP: £48.99Booksplease Price: £39.59Tribes have been either romanticized as 'delightful primitives' or given up as 'lost' people on the periphery of Indian society. The autonomy of tribes, the uniqueness of their social structure, and... -
Early Cinema, Modernity and Visual Culture: The Imaginary of the Balkans Ana Grgic 9781041178408
RRP: £45.99Booksplease Price: £45.04Based on original archival research, Early Cinema, Modernity and Visual Culture: The Imaginary of the Balkans is the first study on early cinema in the region from a transnational and cross-cultural... -
City of Shadows: Slums and Informal Work in Bangalore by Supriya RoyChowdhury
RRP: £78.00Booksplease Price: £74.63Alongside debates over rising inequalities, the stubbornness of urban poverty, globally, has emerged as a major academic and policy concern. Urban poverty policy positions are typically framed by... -
Negotiating Formalities: Everyday Rule in Berlin's Allotment Gardens by Hilbrandt
RRP: £60.00Booksplease Price: £54.90Housing in the Margins offers a theoretically informed and empirically detailed exploration of unruly housing practices and their governance at the periphery of Berlin. An original empirical... -
Serbia Since 1989: Politics and Society under Milosevic and After by Sabrina Petra Ramet 9780295986500
RRP: £34.95Booksplease Price: £33.52During their thirteen years in power, Slobodan Milosevic and his cohorts plunged Yugoslavia into wars of ethnic cleansing, leading to the murder of thousands of civilians. The Milosevic regime also... -
Hollywood's Hawaii: Race, Nation, and War by Delia Malia Caparoso Konzett 9780813587448
RRP: £120.00Booksplease Price: £98.40Whether presented as exotic fantasy, a strategic location during World War II, or a site combining postwar leisure with military culture, Hawaii and the South Pacific figure prominently in the U.S... -
New Frontier: The Origins And Development Of West London by Richard Brown 9780904220803
Booksplease Price: £11.30Oxford Street, Paddington Station, Soho; these are some of the most iconic landmarks of the capital and famous throughout the world, but the telling of their history is frequently an aside to the... -
The Subject(s) of Human Rights: Crises, Violations, and Asian/American Critique by Cathy J. Schlund-Vials
RRP: £85.00Booksplease Price: £68.80Human rights violations have always been part of Asian American studies. From Chinese immigration restrictions, the incarceration of Japanese Americans, yellow peril characterizations, and recent... -
Birds of Verhovina Adam Bodor 9781914990038
RRP: £25.00Booksplease Price: £21.05The reader arrives in Adam Bodor's world, the periphery of civilization, at the break of dawn. Adam, the foster son of Brigadier Anatol Korkodus is waiting at the dilapidated station for a boy who is... -
Frontier Fieldwork: Building a Nation in China’s Borderlands, 1919–45 by Andres Rodriguez 9780774867566
RRP: £28.99Booksplease Price: £24.76The centre may hold, but borders can fray. Frontier Fieldwork explores the work of social scientists, agriculturists, photographers, students, and missionaries who took to the field on China's... -
The Subject(s) of Human Rights: Crises, Violations, and Asian/American Critique by Cathy J. Schlund-Vials 9781439915738
RRP: £31.00Booksplease Price: £26.61Human rights violations have always been part of Asian American studies. From Chinese immigration restrictions, the incarceration of Japanese Americans, yellow peril characterizations, and recent... -
Latina Outsiders Remaking Latina Identity by Grisel Y. Acosta 9780367729172
RRP: £45.99Booksplease Price: £43.08Latina Outsiders Remaking Latina Identity is an exploration of Latinas on the periphery of both Latina culture and mainstream culture in the United States. Whether they are deliberately rejected or... -
One Job Town: Work, Belonging, and Betrayal in Northern Ontario by Steven High 9781442640832
RRP: £66.00Booksplease Price: £54.26There’s a pervasive sense of betrayal in areas scarred by mine, mill and factory closures. Steven High’s One Job Town delves into the long history of deindustrialization in the paper-making town of... -
The Political Economy of Global Restructuring: Volume II: Trade and Finance by Ingrid H. Rima 9781852788087
Booksplease Price: £118.51The Political Economy of Global Restructuring argues that the study of political economy, and the classical perspective it offers, will become increasingly relevant as we approach the 21st century. ... -
The Soft City: Sex for Business and Pleasure in New York City by Terry Williams 9780231177948
RRP: £100.00Booksplease Price: £78.51There is no rawer human experience than sex, and in a city as diverse as New York, sexual experiences come in many forms. In the pre-Giuliani days, temptation flooded Times Square on theater marquees...