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Blood Narrative: Indigenous Identity in American Indian and Maori Literary and Activist Texts by Chadwick Allen 9780822329473
Booksplease Price: £34.09Blood Narrative is a comparative literary and cultural study of post-World War II literary and activist texts by New Zealand Maori and American Indians-groups who share much in their responses to... -
Transforming the Public Sphere: The Dutch National Exhibition of Women's Labor in 1898 by Maria Grever 9780822332961
RRP: £35.00Booksplease Price: £29.74In 1898, the year Queen Wilhelmina of the Netherlands was inaugurated, five hundred women organized an enormous public exhibition showcasing women's contributions to Dutch society as workers in a... -
Histories of the Future by Susan Harding 9780822334859
RRP: £94.00Booksplease Price: £76.14We live in a world saturated by futures. Our lives are constructed around ideas and images about the future that are as full and as flawed as our understandings of the past. This book is a conceptual... -
Disciplining Statistics: Demography and Vital Statistics in France and England, 1830-1885 by Libby Schweber 9780822338253
RRP: £90.00Booksplease Price: £72.71In Disciplining Statistics Libby Schweber compares the science of population statistics in England and France during the nineteenth century, demonstrating radical differences in the interpretation... -
The Cultivation of Whiteness: Science, Health, and Racial Destiny in Australia by Warwick Anderson 9780822338406
RRP: £31.00Booksplease Price: £26.61The Cultivation of Whiteness is an award-winning history of scientific ideas about race and place in Australia from the time of the first European settlement through World War II. Chronicling the... -
The Afro-Latin@ Reader: History and Culture in the United States by Miriam Jimenez Roman 9780822345725
RRP: £26.99Booksplease Price: £23.78The Afro-Latin@ Reader focuses attention on a large, vibrant, yet oddly invisible community in the United States: people of African descent from Latin America and the Caribbean. The presence of... -
The Life and Traditions of the Red Man: A rediscovered treasure of Native American literature by Joseph Nicolar 9780822340096
RRP: £102.00Booksplease Price: £82.08Joseph Nicolar's The Life and Traditions of the Red Man tells the story of his people from the first moments of creation to the earliest arrivals and eventual settlement of Europeans. Self-published... -
Becoming Beside Ourselves: The Alphabet, Ghosts, and Distributed Human Being by Brian Rotman 9780822341833
RRP: £88.00Booksplease Price: £71.14Becoming Beside Ourselves continues the investigation that the renowned cultural theorist and mathematician Brian Rotman began in his previous books Signifying Nothing and Ad Infinitum...The Ghost in... -
How to Be French: Nationality in the Making since 1789 by Patrick Weil 9780822343318
RRP: £27.99Booksplease Price: £26.38How to Be French is a magisterial history of French nationality law from 1789 to the present, written by Patrick Weil, one of France's foremost historians. First published in France in 2002, it is... -
Life and Death on the New York Dance Floor, 1980-1983 by Tim Lawrence 9780822361862
RRP: £108.00Booksplease Price: £87.07As the 1970s gave way to the 80s, New York's party scene entered a ferociously inventive period characterized by its creativity, intensity, and hybridity. Life and Death on the New York Dance Floor... -
Life Within Limits: Well-being in a World of Want by Michael D. Jackson 9780822349150
RRP: £23.99Booksplease Price: £21.14The sense that well-being remains elusive, transitory, and unevenly distributed is felt by the rich as well as the poor, and in all societies. To explore this condition of existential... -
Vampire Nation: Violence as Cultural Imaginary by Tomislav Z. Longinovic 9780822350224
RRP: £102.00Booksplease Price: £82.08Vampire Nation is a nuanced analysis of the cultural and political rhetoric framing 'the serbs' as metaphorical vampires in the last decades of the twentieth century, as well as the cultural... -
Spectacular Digital Effects: CGI and Contemporary Cinema by Kristen Whissel 9780822355748
RRP: £90.00Booksplease Price: £76.07By developing the concept of the "digital effects emblem," Kristen Whissel contributes a new analytic rubric to cinema studies. An "effects emblem" is a spectacular, computer-generated visual effect... -
Tropicopolitans: Colonialism and Agency, 1688-1804 by Srinivas Aravamudan 9780822323150
RRP: £31.00Booksplease Price: £26.62In Tropicopolitans Srinivas Aravamudan reconstructs the colonial imagination of the eighteenth century. By exploring representations of peoples and cultures subjected to colonial discourse, he makes... -
The Invention of Capitalism: Classical Political Economy and the Secret History of Primitive Accumulation by Michael Perelman 9780822324546
RRP: £104.00Booksplease Price: £83.95The originators of classical political economy-Adam Smith, David Ricardo, James Steuart, and others-created a discourse that explained the logic, the origin, and, in many respects, the essential... -
Organizing Empire: Individualism, Collective Agency, and India by Purnima Bose 9780822327684
RRP: £26.99Booksplease Price: £23.48Organizing Empire critically examines how concepts of individualism functioned to support and resist British imperialism in India. Through readings of British colonial and Indian nationalist... -
Che on My Mind by Margaret Randall 9780822355922
RRP: £22.99Booksplease Price: £20.36Che on My Mind is an impressionistic look at the life, death, and legacy of Che Guevara by the renowned feminist poet and activist Margaret Randall. Recalling an era and this figure, she writes, "I... -
After Love: Queer Intimacy and Erotic Economies in Post-Soviet Cuba by Noelle M. Stout 9780822356738
RRP: £90.00Booksplease Price: £72.71Focused on the intimate effects of large-scale economic transformations, After Love illuminates the ways that everyday efforts to imagine, resist, and enact market reforms shape sexual desires and... -
Bad Water: Nature, Pollution, and Politics in Japan, 1870-1950 by Robert Stolz 9780822356905
RRP: £112.00Booksplease Price: £89.90Bad Water is a sophisticated theoretical analysis of Japanese thinkers and activists' efforts to reintegrate the natural environment into Japan's social and political thought in the late nineteenth... -
Cachita's Streets: The Virgin of Charity, Race, and Revolution in Cuba by Jalane D. Schmidt 9780822359371
RRP: £31.00Booksplease Price: £26.61Cuba's patron saint, the Virgin of Charity of El Cobre, also called Cachita, is a potent symbol of Cuban national identity. Jalane D. Schmidt shows how groups as diverse as Indians and African... -
Plastic Bodies: Sex Hormones and Menstrual Suppression in Brazil by Emilia Sanabria 9780822361428
RRP: £90.00Booksplease Price: £72.71In Plastic Bodies Emilia Sanabria examines how sex hormones are enrolled to create, mold, and discipline social relations and subjectivities. She shows how hormones have become central to... -
Fractivism: Corporate Bodies and Chemical Bonds by Sara Ann Wylie 9780822363828
RRP: £128.00Booksplease Price: £102.70From flammable tap water and sick livestock to the recent onset of hundreds of earthquakes in Oklahoma, the impact of fracking in the United States is far-reaching and deeply felt. In Fractivism Sara... -
Energy without Conscience: Oil, Climate Change, and Complicity by David McDermott Hughes 9780822363064
RRP: £88.00Booksplease Price: £71.14In Energy without Conscience David McDermott Hughes investigates why climate change has yet to be seen as a moral issue. He examines the forces that render the use of fossil fuels ordinary and... -
Mothering through Precarity: Women's Work and Digital Media by Julie Wilson 9780822363361
RRP: £102.00Booksplease Price: £82.08In Mothering through Precarity Julie A. Wilson and Emily Chivers Yochim explore how working- and middle-class mothers negotiate the difficulties of twenty-first-century mothering through their... -
Photography and the Optical Unconscious by Shawn Michelle Smith 9780822363811
Booksplease Price: £102.92Photography is one of the principal filters through which we engage the world. The contributors to this volume focus on Walter Benjamin's concept of the optical unconscious to investigate how... -
The Race of Sound: Listening, Timbre, and Vocality in African American Music by Nina Sun Eidsheim 9780822368564
RRP: £82.00Booksplease Price: £66.46In The Race of Sound Nina Sun Eidsheim traces the ways in which sonic attributes that might seem natural, such as the voice and its qualities, are socially produced. Eidsheim illustrates how... -
Neoliberalism from Below: Popular Pragmatics and Baroque Economies by Veronica Gago 9780822368830
RRP: £112.00Booksplease Price: £89.90In Neoliberalism from Below-first published in Argentina in 2014-VerOnica Gago examines how Latin American neoliberalism is propelled not just from above by international finance, corporations, and... -
The Critical Surf Studies Reader by Dexter Zavalza Hough-Snee 9780822369578
RRP: £104.00Booksplease Price: £83.95The evolution of surfing-from the first forms of wave-riding in Oceania, Africa, and the Americas to the inauguration of surfing as a competitive sport at the 2020 Tokyo Olympics-traverses the age of... -
Conditions of the Present: Selected Essays by Lindon Barrett 9780822370321
RRP: £128.00Booksplease Price: £102.70Conditions of the Present collects essays by the late Lindon Barrett, whose scholarship centers African American literature as a site from which to theorize race and liberation in the United States... -
Conditions of the Present: Selected Essays by Lindon Barrett 9780822370512
RRP: £31.00Booksplease Price: £26.61Conditions of the Present collects essays by the late Lindon Barrett, whose scholarship centers African American literature as a site from which to theorize race and liberation in the United States... -
A Primer for Teaching African History: Ten Design Principles by Trevor R. Getz 9780822371038
RRP: £88.00Booksplease Price: £71.14A Primer for Teaching African History is a guide for college and high school teachers who are teaching African history for the first time, for experienced teachers who want to reinvigorate their... -
Terrorist Assemblages: Homonationalism in Queer Times by Jasbir K. Puar 9780822371113
RRP: £92.00Booksplease Price: £74.57Tenth Anniversary Expanded Edition Ten years on, Jasbir K. Puar's pathbreaking Terrorist Assemblages remains one of the most influential queer theory texts and continues to reverberate across... -
Nature in Translation: Japanese Tourism Encounters the Canadian Rockies by Shiho Satsuka 9780822358671
RRP: £90.00Booksplease Price: £72.71Nature in Translation is an ethnographic exploration in the cultural politics of the translation of knowledge about nature. Shiho Satsuka follows the Japanese tour guides who lead hikes, nature... -
Negro Soy Yo: Hip Hop and Raced Citizenship in Neoliberal Cuba by Marc D. Perry 9780822359852
RRP: £90.00Booksplease Price: £72.71In Negro Soy Yo Marc D. Perry explores Cuba's hip hop movement as a window into the racial complexities of the island's ongoing transition from revolutionary socialism toward free-market capitalism... -
Religious Affects: Animality, Evolution, and Power by Donovan O. Schaefer 9780822359821
RRP: £86.00Booksplease Price: £69.59In Religious Affects Donovan O. Schaefer challenges the notion that religion is inextricably linked to language and belief, proposing instead that it is primarily driven by affects. Drawing on affect... -
Metroimperial Intimacies: Fantasy, Racial-Sexual Governance, and the Philippines in U.S. Imperialism, 1899-1913 by Victor Mendoza 9780822360193
RRP: £112.00Booksplease Price: £89.90In Metroimperial Intimacies Victor Roman Mendoza combines historical, literary, and archival analysis with queer-of-color critique to show how U.S. imperial incursions into the Philippines enabled... -
Victorian Jamaica by Tim Barringer 9780822360537
RRP: £116.00Booksplease Price: £95.42Victorian Jamaica explores the extraordinary surviving archive of visual representation and material objects to provide a comprehensive account of Jamaican society during Queen Victoria's reign over... -
Radiation Brain Moms and Citizen Scientists: The Gender Politics of Food Contamination after Fukushima by Aya Hirata Kimura 9780822361824
RRP: £90.00Booksplease Price: £72.71Following the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant disaster in 2011 many concerned citizens-particularly mothers-were unconvinced by the Japanese government's assurances that the country's food... -
Third World Studies: Theorizing Liberation by Gary Y. Okihiro 9780822362098
RRP: £82.00Booksplease Price: £66.46In 1968 the Third World Liberation Front at San Francisco State College demanded the creation of a Third World studies program to counter the existing curricula that ignored issues of power-notably,... -
The Borders of Dominicanidad: Race, Nation, and Archives of Contradiction by Lorgia Garcia-Pena 9780822362470
RRP: £82.00Booksplease Price: £66.46In The Borders of Dominicanidad Lorgia Garcia-Pena explores the ways official narratives and histories have been projected onto racialized Dominican bodies as a means of sustaining the nation's...