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An Eye for the Tropics: Tourism, Photography, and Framing the Caribbean Picturesque by Krista A. Thompson 9780822337515
RRP: £100.00Booksplease Price: £80.60Images of Jamaica and the Bahamas as tropical paradises full of palm trees, white sandy beaches, and inviting warm water seem timeless. Surprisingly, the origins of those images can be traced back to... -
Modernity Disavowed: Haiti and the Cultures of Slavery in the Age of Revolution by Sibylle Fischer 9780822332527
RRP: £100.00Booksplease Price: £80.10Modernity Disavowed is a pathbreaking study of the cultural, political, and philosophical significance of the Haitian Revolution (1791-1804). Revealing how the radical antislavery politics of this... -
The Body Multiple: Ontology in Medical Practice by Annemarie Mol 9780822329022
RRP: £80.00Booksplease Price: £64.30The Body Multiple is an extraordinary ethnography of an ordinary disease. Drawing on fieldwork in a Dutch university hospital, Annemarie Mol looks at the day-to-day diagnosis and treatment of... -
Guide to Sustainable Development and Environmental Policy by William L. Ascher 9780822327356 [USED COPY]
RRP: £108.00Booksplease Price: £9.66The Guide to Sustainable Development and Environmental Policy is a comprehensive presentation of definitions, philosophies, policies, models, and analyses of global environmental and developmental... -
Children of Ezekiel: Aliens, UFOs, the Crisis of Race, and the Advent of End Time by Michael Lieb 9780822321378 [USED COPY]
RRP: £94.00Booksplease Price: £22.20Are Milton's Paradise Lost, Ronald Reagan's "Star Wars" missile defense program, our culture's fascination with UFOs and alien abductions, and Louis Farrakhan's views on racial Armageddon somehow... -
Crime and Punishment in Latin America: Law and Society Since Late Colonial Times by Ricardo Donato Salvatore 9780822327349 [USED COPY]
RRP: £104.00Booksplease Price: £10.95Crowning a decade of innovative efforts in the historical study of law and legal phenomena in the region, Crime and Punishment in Latin America offers a collection of essays that deal with the... -
Cortijo's Wake / El entierro de Cortijo by Edgardo Rodriguez Julia 9780822332039 [USED COPY]
RRP: £26.99Booksplease Price: £2.31A bilingual edition of a renowned work of Puerto Rican literature, Cortijo's Wake/El entierro de Cortijo is novelist Edgardo Rodriguez Julia's vivid description of the funeral of legendary Puerto... -
The Poetics of Transition: Emerson, Pragmatism, and American Literary Modernism by Jonathan Levin 9780822322771 [USED COPY]
RRP: £90.00Booksplease Price: £5.31The Poetics of Transition examines the connection between American pragmatism and literary modernism by focusing on the concept of transition as a theme common to both movements. Jonathan Levin... -
Reclaiming the Political in Latin American History: Essays from the North by Gilbert M. Joseph 9780822327790 [USED COPY]
RRP: £100.00Booksplease Price: £22.36Reclaiming the Political in Latin American History is a collection that embraces a new social and cultural history of Latin America that is not divorced from politics and other arenas of power. True... -
An Aesthetic Occupation: The Immediacy of Architecture and the Palestine Conflict by Daniel Bertand Monk 9780822328032 [USED COPY]
RRP: £90.00Booksplease Price: £8.34In An Aesthetic Occupation Daniel Bertrand Monk unearths the history of the unquestioned political immediacy of "sacred" architecture in the conflict between Palestinians and Israelis. Monk combines... -
Beyond Exoticism: Western Music and the World by Timothy Dean Taylor 9780822339571 [USED COPY]
RRP: £116.00Booksplease Price: £31.04In Beyond Exoticism, Timothy D. Taylor considers how western cultures' understandings of racial, ethnic, and cultural differences have been incorporated into music from early operas to contemporary... -
Fragments of a Golden Age: The Politics of Culture in Mexico Since 1940 by Gilbert M. Joseph 9780822327073 [USED COPY]
RRP: £108.00Booksplease Price: £19.64During the twentieth century the Mexican government invested in the creation and promotion of a national culture more aggressively than any other state in the western hemisphere. Fragments of a... -
Mute Dreams, Blind Owls, and Dispersed Knowledges: Persian Poesis in the Transnational Circuitry by Michael M. J. Fischer 9780822332855 [USED COPY]
RRP: £104.00Booksplease Price: £8.85Over the past decade Iranian films have received enormous international attention, garnering both critical praise and popular success. Combining his extensive ethnographic experience in Iran and his... -
City of Suspects: Crime in Mexico City, 1900-1931 by Pablo Piccato 9780822327509 [USED COPY]
RRP: £94.00Booksplease Price: £30.37In City of Suspects Pablo Piccato explores the multiple dimensions of crime in early-twentieth-century Mexico City. Basing his research on previously untapped judicial sources, prisoners' letters,... -
Emperors in the Jungle: The Hidden History of the U.S. in Panama by John Lindsay-Poland 9780822331001 [USED COPY]
RRP: £90.00Booksplease Price: £33.70Emperors in the Jungle is an expose of key episodes in the military involvement of the United States in Panama. Investigative journalism at its best, this book reveals how U.S. ideas about taming... -
Living with the Alabama/Mississippi Shore by Wayne F. Canis 9780822305118 [USED COPY]
RRP: £19.99Booksplease Price: £8.23The Alabama-Mississippi shoreline along the Gulf of Mexico boasts some of the world's most beautiful beaches and balmiest climes. Ever-increasing numbers of retirees, recreation lovers, and... -
Ghouls, Gimmicks, and Gold: Horror Films and the American Movie Business, 1953-1968 by Kevin Heffernan 9780822332022 [USED COPY]
RRP: £112.00Booksplease Price: £34.35The Creature from the Black Lagoon, the Tingler, the Mole People-they stalked and oozed into audiences' minds during the era that followed Boris Karloff's Frankenstein and preceded terrors like... -
Resolving Disputes Between Nations: Coercion or Conciliation? by Martin Patchen 9780822308195 [USED COPY]
RRP: £31.00Booksplease Price: £2.16The use of force and coercion to settle disputes between nations is a central problem of our time. Martin Patchen considers the circumstances that lead nations to use coercive means in disputes with... -
Subject Without Nation: Robert Musil and the History of Modern Identity by Stefan Jonsson 9780822325512 [USED COPY]
RRP: £100.00Booksplease Price: £12.09This innovative study of the works of Robert Musil opens a new window on the history of modern identity in western culture. Stefan Jonsson argues that Musil's Austria was the first postimperial state... -
Controlling East-West Trade and Technology Transfer: Power, Politics, and Policies by Gary K. Bertsch 9780822308294 [USED COPY]
RRP: £108.00Booksplease Price: £7.31Western efforts to control trade and technological relations with communist countries affect many interests and political groups in both Eastern and Western blocs. Although there is general agreement... -
Orientations: Mapping Studies in the Asian Diaspora by Kandice Chuh 9780822327295 [USED COPY]
RRP: £94.00Booksplease Price: £8.77Asian and Asian American studies emerged, respectively, from Cold War and social protest ideologies. Yet, in the context of contemporary globalization, can these ideological distinctions remain in... -
Gerald Gray's Wife and Lily: A Novel by Susan Petigru King 9780822314073 [USED COPY]
RRP: £100.00Booksplease Price: £16.86Susan Petigru King wrote and published virtually all of her novels and short stories just before and during the American civil war, although her fiction deals neither with slavery nor sectional... -
Being Governor: The View from the Office by Thad L. Beyle 9780822305064 [USED COPY]
RRP: £96.00Booksplease Price: £7.77This book examines the changing role of the governor in our federal system, giving particular attention to recent developments. The expansion of gubernatorial responsibilities into managerial,... -
Kids' Media Culture by Marsha Kinder 9780822323501 [USED COPY]
RRP: £92.00Booksplease Price: £8.46Television shows, comic strips, video games, and other forms of media directed at children are the subject of frequent and rancorous debate. In Kids' Media Culture some of the most prominent cultural... -
In Search of the Rain Forest by Candace Slater 9780822332053 [USED COPY]
RRP: £94.00Booksplease Price: £11.65The essays collected here offer important new reflections on the multiple images of and rhetoric surrounding the rain forest. The slogan "Save the Rain Forest!"-emblazoned on glossy posters of tall... -
Getting Medieval: Sexualities and Communities, Pre- and Postmodern by Carolyn Dinshaw 9780822323303 [USED COPY]
RRP: £128.00Booksplease Price: £13.15In Getting Medieval Carolyn Dinshaw examines communities-dissident and orthodox-in late-fourteenth and early-fifteenth-century England to create a new sense of queer history. Reaching beyond both... -
A Society for International Development: Prospectus 1984 by Ann Mattis 9780822305613 [USED COPY]
RRP: £88.00Booksplease Price: £12.12A Society for International Development: Prospectus 1984 is a collection of studies that examines the current problems of world development in light of the past twenty-five years but goes beyond an... -
Postmodernism and China by Xudong Zhang 9780822325062 [USED COPY]
RRP: £104.00Booksplease Price: £9.57Few countries have been so transformed in recent decades as China. With a dynamically growing economy and a rapidly changing social structure, China challenges the West to understand the nature of... -
Borrowed Time: Photographs by Caroline Vaughan by Caroline Vaughan 9780822318170 [USED COPY]
RRP: £26.99Booksplease Price: £4.10Caroline Vaughan's photographs offer inspired and surprising visions of landscapes, still lifes, and the human form. In Borrowed Time, her images of nature and people, sometimes surreal and often... -
Race, Place, and Medicine: The Idea of the Tropics in Nineteenth-Century Brazil by Julyan G. Peard 9780822323761 [USED COPY]
RRP: £94.00Booksplease Price: £17.46Race, Place, and Medicine examines the impact of a group of nineteenth-century Brazilian physicians who became known posthumously as the Bahian Tropicalista School of Medicine. Julyan G. Peard... -
Cultures in Orbit: Satellites and the Televisual by Lisa Parks 9780822334613
RRP: £90.00Booksplease Price: £72.05In 1957 Sputnik, the world's first man-made satellite, dazzled people as it zipped around the planet. By the beginning of the twenty-first century, more than eight thousand satellites orbited the... -
Afroindigenization: A Theory of Grassroots Cultural Practice by Catherine A. John 9781478038986
RRP: £23.99Booksplease Price: £20.89Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781478038986Author Catherine A. JohnFormat PaperbackPage Count 248Imprint -
Border Abolitionism: Migrant Struggles and the Law by Nicholas De Genova 9781478038917
RRP: £21.99Booksplease Price: £18.78Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781478038917Author Nicholas De GenovaFormat PaperbackPage Count 264Imprin -
Movement and the Ordering of Freedom: On Liberal Governances of Mobility by Hagar Kotef
RRP: £23.99Booksplease Price: £21.14We live within political systems that increasingly seek to control movement, organized around both the desire and ability to determine who is permitted to enter what sorts of spaces, from gated... -
Modernism and the Nativist Resistance: Contemporary Chinese Fiction from Taiwan by Sung-Sheng Yvonne Chang
Booksplease Price: £31.34The first comprehensive English-language study of literary trends in the fiction of Taiwan over the last forty years, this pioneering work explores a rich tradition of literary Modernism in its... -
Wake the Town and Tell the People: Dancehall Culture in Jamaica by Norman C. Stolzoff
RRP: £26.99Booksplease Price: £23.78Jamaican dancehall has long been one of the most vital and influential cultural and artistic forces within contemporary global music. Wake the Town and Tell the People presents, for the first time, a... -
Returning the Gaze: A Genealogy of Black Film Criticism, 1909-1949 by Anna Everett
RRP: £31.00Booksplease Price: £26.91In Returning the Gaze Anna Everett revises American film history by recuperating the extensive and all-but-forgotten participation of black film critics during the early twentieth century. While much... -
That Affair Next Door and Lost Man's Lane by Anna Katherine Green
RRP: £31.00Booksplease Price: £26.91Anna Katharine Green was the most famous and prolific writer of detective fiction in the United States prior to Dashiell Hammett. Her first novel, The Leavenworth Case, was the bestseller of 1878... -
The Argentina Reader: History, Culture, Politics by Gabriela Nouzeilles
RRP: £23.99Booksplease Price: £21.13Excessively European, refreshingly European, not as European as it looks, struggling to overcome a delusion that it is European. Argentina-in all its complexity-has often been obscured by variations... -
Suffering for Territory: Race, Place, and Power in Zimbabwe by Donald S. Moore
RRP: £31.00Booksplease Price: £26.91Since 2000, black squatters have forcibly occupied white farms across Zimbabwe, reigniting questions of racialized dispossession, land rights, and legacies of liberation. Donald S. Moore probes these...