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Telling Complexions: The Nineteenth-Century English Novel and the Blush by Mary Ann O'Farrell 9780822318958
Booksplease Price: £30.07In Telling Complexions Mary Ann O'Farrell explores the frequent use of "the blush" in Victorian novels as a sign of characters' inner emotions and desires. Through lively and textured readings of... -
Lessons of Romanticism: A Critical Companion by Thomas Pfau 9780822320913
Booksplease Price: £40.26Moving beyond views of European Romanticism as an essentially poetic development, Lessons of Romanticism strives to strengthen a critical awareness of the genres, historical institutions, and... -
Ladies Errant: Wayward Women and Social Order in Early Modern Italy by Deanna Shemek 9780822321675
RRP: £20.99Booksplease Price: £18.24The issue of a woman's place-and the possibility that she might stray from it-was one of early modern Italy's most persistent social concerns. Ladies Errant takes as its starting point the vast... -
The Worm in the Wheat: Rosalie Evans and Agrarian Struggle in the Puebla-Tlaxcala Valley of Mexico, 1906-1927 by Timothy J. Henderson 9780822322160
Booksplease Price: £34.36The Worm in the Wheat is a compelling tale of political intrigue, violence, shifting allegiances, extreme poverty, and the recalcitrance of one woman. Above all, it is a multileveled interpretation... -
Popular Movements and State Formation in Revolutionary Mexico: The Agraristas and Cristeros of Michoacan by Jennie Purnell 9780822323143
Booksplease Price: £34.27In Popular Movements and State Formation in Revolutionary Mexico Jennie Purnell reconsiders peasant partisanship in the cristiada of 1926-29, one episode in the broader Mexican Revolution and the... -
Living Up to the Ads: Gender Fictions of the 1920s by Simone Weil Davis 9780822324461
Booksplease Price: £34.03In Living Up to the Ads Simone Weil Davis examines commodity culture's impact on popular notions of gender and identity during the 1920s. Arguing that the newly ascendant advertising industry... -
Wedded to the Land?: Gender, Boundaries, and Nationalism in Crisis by Mary N. Layoun 9780822325451
Booksplease Price: £31.26In Wedded to the Land? Mary N. Layoun offers a critical commentary on the idea of nationalism in general and on specific attempts to formulate alternatives to the concept in particular. Narratives... -
Powerless by Design: The Age of the International Community by Michel Feher 9780822326137
RRP: £23.99Booksplease Price: £20.89In Powerless by Design Michel Feher addresses Western officials' responses to post-Cold War conflicts and analyzes the reactions of the Left to their governments' positions. Sometime in the early... -
Unveiling Traditions: Postcolonial Islam in a Polycentric World by Anouar Majid 9780822326236
Booksplease Price: £31.26In Unveiling Traditions Anouar Majid issues a challenge to the West to reimagine Islam as a progressive world culture and a participant in the building of a multicultural and more egalitarian world... -
Generation and Degeneration: Tropes of Reproduction in Literature and History from Antiquity through Early Modern Europe by Valeria Finucci 9780822326441
Booksplease Price: £34.61This distinctive collection explores the construction of genealogies-in both the biological sense of procreation and the metaphorical sense of heritage and cultural patrimony. Focusing specifically... -
The Space In-Between: Essays on Latin American Culture by Silviano Santiago 9780822327493
RRP: £23.99Booksplease Price: £20.89Silviano Santiago has been a pioneer in the development of concepts crucial to the discourse of contemporary critical and cultural theory, especially postcolonial theory. The notions of "hybridity"... -
Disenchanting Les Bons Temps: Identity and Authenticity in Cajun Music and Dance by Charles J. Stivale 9780822330202
Booksplease Price: £26.97The expression laissez les bons temps rouler-"let the good times roll"-conveys the sense of exuberance and good times associated with southern Louisiana's vibrant cultural milieu. Yet, for Cajuns,... -
Shoveling Smoke: Advertising and Globalization in Contemporary India by William Mazzarella 9780822331452
RRP: £31.00Booksplease Price: £26.61A leading Bombay advertising agency justifies as traditionally Indian the highly eroticized images it produces to promote the KamaSutra condom brand. Another agency struggles to reconcile the global... -
Lucchesi and The Whale by Frank Lentricchia 9780822331711
Booksplease Price: £27.68Lucchesi and The Whale is an unusual work of fiction by noted author and critic Frank Lentricchia. Its central character, Thomas Lucchesi Jr., is a college professor in the American heartland whose... -
Landscapes of Devils: Tensions of Place and Memory in the Argentinean Chaco by Gaston R. Gordillo 9780822333913
RRP: £26.99Booksplease Price: £23.21Landscapes of Devils is a rich, historically grounded ethnography of the western Toba, an indigenous people in northern Argentina's Gran Chaco region. In the early twentieth century, the Toba were... -
New Jersey Dreaming: Capital, Culture, and the Class of '58 by Sherry B. Ortner 9780822335986
RRP: £31.00Booksplease Price: £26.61Pioneering anthropologist Sherry B. Ortner is renowned for her work on the Sherpas of Nepal. Now she turns her attention homeward to examine how social class is lived in the United States and,... -
Singing the Classical, Voicing the Modern: The Postcolonial Politics of Music in South India by Amanda J. Weidman 9780822336204
RRP: £31.00Booksplease Price: £26.61While Karnatic music, a form of Indian music based on the melodic principle of raga and time cycles called tala, is known today as South India's classical music, its status as "classical" is an... -
Las hijas de Juan: Daughters Betrayed by Josie Mendez-Negrete 9780822338963
Booksplease Price: £30.77Las hijas de Juan shatters the silence surrounding experiences of incest within a working-class Mexican American family. Both a feminist memoir and a hopeful meditation on healing, it is Josie... -
Transborder Lives: Indigenous Oaxacans in Mexico, California, and Oregon by Lynn M. Stephen 9780822339908
Booksplease Price: £39.19Lynn Stephen's innovative ethnography follows indigenous Mexicans from two towns in the state of Oaxaca-the Mixtec community of San Agustin Atenango and the Zapotec community of Teotitlan del... -
Creating Ourselves: African Americans and Hispanic Americans on Popular Culture and Religious Expression by Anthony B. Pinn 9780822345664
Booksplease Price: £39.63Creating Ourselves is a unique effort to lay the cultural and theological groundwork for cross-cultural collaboration between the African and Latino/a American communities. In the introduction, the... -
The Limits of Ferocity: Sexual Aggression and Modern Literary Rebellion by Daniel Fuchs 9780822350057
Booksplease Price: £39.34The Limits of Ferocity is a powerful critique of the culture of extremity represented in the works of D. H. Lawrence, Georges Bataille, Henry Miller, and Norman Mailer. Daniel Fuchs provides close... -
Empire's Garden: Assam and the Making of India by Jayeeta Sharma 9780822350491
Booksplease Price: £33.57In the mid-nineteenth century the British created a landscape of tea plantations in the northeastern Indian region of Assam. The tea industry filled imperial coffers and gave the colonial state a... -
Fado Resounding: Affective Politics and Urban Life by Lila Ellen Gray 9780822354710
Booksplease Price: £38.31Fado, Portugal's most celebrated genre of popular music, can be heard in Lisbon clubs, concert halls, tourist sites, and neighborhood bars. Fado sounds traverse the globe, on internationally marketed... -
Sex Scene: Media and the Sexual Revolution by Eric Schaefer 9780822356424
Booksplease Price: £109.95Sex Scene suggests that what we have come to understand as the sexual revolution of the late 1960s and early 1970s was actually a media revolution. In lively essays, the contributors examine a range... -
Bill and Hillary: The Politics of the Personal by William H. Chafe 9780822357193
Booksplease Price: £28.60In Bill and Hillary, one of our preeminent historians, William H. Chafe, boldly argues that the trajectory of the Clintons' political lives can be understood only through the prism of their personal... -
Machiavelli: The Chief Works and Others, Vol. III by Allan Gilbert 9780822309475
Booksplease Price: £40.35From praise for the 1965 edition:Allan Gilbert is unquestionably the most accurate and reliable translator of Machiavelli into English; the publication of this edition is an altogether happy occasion... -
Cochabamba, 1550-1900: Colonialism and Agrarian Transformation in Bolivia by Brooke Larson 9780822320883
Booksplease Price: £40.17Winner of the 1990 Best Book Award from the New England Council on Latin American StudiesThis study of Bolivia uses Cochabamba as a laboratory to examine the long-term transformation of native Andean... -
Failing the Future: A Dean Looks at Higher Education in the Twenty-first Century by Annette Kolodny 9780822324706
Booksplease Price: £34.47Both revealing and compelling, Annette Kolodny's Failing the Future: A Dean Looks at Higher Education in the Twenty-first Century is drawn from the author's experience as a distinguished teacher, a... -
Gender and Slave Emancipation in the Atlantic World by Pamela Scully 9780822335948
RRP: £31.00Booksplease Price: £26.91This groundbreaking collection provides the first comparative history of gender and emancipation in the Atlantic world. Bringing together essays on the United States, Brazil, Cuba, Puerto Rico, West... -
Genes in Development: Re-reading the Molecular Paradigm by Eva M. Neumann-Held 9780822336679
RRP: £31.00Booksplease Price: £26.61In light of scientific advances such as genomics, predictive diagnostics, genetically engineered agriculture, nuclear transfer cloning, and the manipulation of stem cells, the idea that genes carry... -
Biocapital: The Constitution of Postgenomic Life by Kaushik Sunder Rajan 9780822337201
RRP: £31.00Booksplease Price: £26.32Biocapital is a major theoretical contribution to science studies and political economy. Grounding his analysis in a multi-sited ethnography of genomic research and drug development marketplaces in... -
Never Say I: Sexuality and the First Person in Colette, Gide, and Proust by Michael Lucey 9780822338970
RRP: £26.99Booksplease Price: £23.48Never Say I reveals the centrality of representations of sexuality, and particularly same-sex sexual relations, to the evolution of literary prose forms in twentieth-century France. Rethinking the... -
Undead TV: Essays on Buffy the Vampire Slayer by Elana Levine 9780822340430
RRP: £23.99Booksplease Price: £20.89When the final episode of Buffy the Vampire Slayer aired in 2003, fans mourned the death of the hit television series. Yet the show has lived on through syndication, global distribution, DVD release,... -
A Place in Politics: Sao Paulo, Brazil, from Seigneurial Republicanism to Regionalist Revolt by James P. Woodard 9780822343295
Booksplease Price: £39.40A Place in Politics is a thorough reinterpretation of the politics and political culture of the Brazilian state of SAo Paulo between the 1890s and the 1930s. The world's foremost coffee-producing... -
Children of Fate: Childhood, Class, and the State in Chile, 1850-1930 by Nara B. Milanich 9780822345749
RRP: £31.00Booksplease Price: £26.61In modern Latin America, profound social inequalities have persisted despite the promise of equality. Nara B. Milanich argues that social and legal practices surrounding family and kinship have... -
Backward Glances: Contemporary Chinese Cultures and the Female Homoerotic Imaginary by Fran Martin 9780822346807
RRP: £26.99Booksplease Price: £23.21Backward Glances reveals that the passionate love one woman feels for another occupies a position of unsuspected centrality in contemporary Chinese mass cultures. By examining representations of... -
Beyond the Sacred Forest: Complicating Conservation in Southeast Asia by Michael R. Dove 9780822347965
RRP: £31.00Booksplease Price: £26.61Reflecting new thinking about conservation in Southeast Asia, Beyond the Sacred Forest is the product of a unique, decade-long, interdisciplinary collaboration involving research in Indonesia,... -
Making a New World: Founding Capitalism in the Bajio and Spanish North America by John Tutino 9780822349891
Booksplease Price: £45.12Making a New World is a major rethinking of the role of the Americas in early world trade, the rise of capitalism, and the conflicts that reconfigured global power around 1800. At its center is the... -
The Lettered Mountain: A Peruvian Village's Way with Writing by Frank Salomon 9780822350446
RRP: £31.00Booksplease Price: £26.61Andean peoples joined the world of alphabetic literacy nearly 500 years ago, yet the history of their literacy has remained hidden until now. In The Lettered Mountain, Frank Salomon and Mercedes... -
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Chocolate and Corn Flour: History, Race, and Place in the Making of "Black" Mexico by Laura A. Lewis 9780822351320
RRP: £31.00Booksplease Price: £26.61Located on Mexico's Pacific coast in a historically black part of the Costa Chica region, the town of San Nicolas has been identified as a center of Afromexican culture by Mexican cultural...