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Museum Skepticism: A History of the Display of Art in Public Galleries by David Carrier
RRP: £21.99Booksplease Price: £18.78In Museum Skepticism, art historian David Carrier traces the birth, evolution, and decline of the public art museum as an institution meant to spark democratic debate and discussion. Carrier contends... -
Warring Souls: Youth, Media, and Martyrdom in Post-Revolution Iran by Roxanne Varzi
RRP: £26.99Booksplease Price: £23.51With the first Fulbright grant for research in Iran to be awarded since the Iranian revolution in 1979, Roxanne Varzi returned to the country her family left before the Iran-Iraq war. Drawing on... -
The Politics of Memory in Postwar Europe by Richard Ned Lebow
RRP: £31.00Booksplease Price: £26.61For sixty years, different groups in Europe have put forth interpretations of World War II and their respective countries' roles in it consistent with their own political and psychological needs. The... -
Beyond Belief: India and the Politics of Postcolonial Nationalism by Srirupa Roy
RRP: £26.99Booksplease Price: £23.21Beyond Belief is a bold rethinking of the formation and consolidation of nation-state ideologies. Analyzing India during the first two decades following its foundation as a sovereign nation-state in... -
The Making of Our Bodies, Ourselves: How Feminism Travels across Borders by Kathy Davis
RRP: £26.99Booksplease Price: £23.48The book Our Bodies, Ourselves is a feminist success story. Selling more than four million copies since its debut in 1970, it has challenged medical dogmas about women's bodies and sexuality, shaped... -
The French Atlantic Triangle: Literature and Culture of the Slave Trade by Christopher L. Miller
RRP: £32.00Booksplease Price: £27.40The French slave trade forced more than one million Africans across the Atlantic to the islands of the Caribbean. It enabled France to establish Saint-Domingue, the single richest colony on earth,... -
Other Cities, Other Worlds: Urban Imaginaries in a Globalizing Age by Andreas Huyssen
RRP: £26.99Booksplease Price: £23.48Other Cities, Other Worlds brings together leading scholars of cultural theory, urban studies, art, anthropology, literature, film, architecture, and history to look at non-Western global cities. The... -
The Quality of Home Runs: The Passion, Politics, and Language of Cuban Baseball by Thomas F. Carter
RRP: £26.99Booksplease Price: £23.48In parks and cafes, homes and stadium stands, Cubans talk baseball. Thomas F. Carter contends that when they are analyzing and debating plays, games, teams, and athletes, Cubans are exchanging ideas... -
The Speed Handbook: Velocity, Pleasure, Modernism by Enda Duffy
RRP: £26.99Booksplease Price: £23.48Speed, the sensation one gets when driving fast, was described by Aldous Huxley as the single new pleasure invented by modernity. The Speed Handbook is a virtuoso exploration of Huxley's claim. Enda... -
Reproducing the French Race: Immigration, Intimacy, and Embodiment in the Early Twentieth Century by Elisa Camiscioli
RRP: £23.99Booksplease Price: £20.89In Reproducing the French Race, Elisa Camiscioli argues that immigration was a defining feature of early-twentieth-century France, and she examines the political, cultural, and social issues... -
Intimate Indigeneities: Race, Sex, and History in the Small Spaces of Andean Life by Andrew Canessa
RRP: £26.99Booksplease Price: £23.21Drawing on extended ethnographic research conducted over the course of more than two decades, Andrew Canessa explores the multiple identities of a community of people in the Bolivian highlands... -
Exceptional Violence: Embodied Citizenship in Transnational Jamaica by Deborah A. Thomas
RRP: £26.99Booksplease Price: £23.48Exceptional Violence is a sophisticated examination of postcolonial state formation in the Caribbean, considered across time and space, from the period of imperial New World expansion to the... -
The Vanguard of the Atlantic World: Creating Modernity, Nation, and Democracy in Nineteenth-Century Latin America by James E. Sanders
RRP: £22.99Booksplease Price: £20.36In the nineteenth century, Latin America was home to the majority of the world's democratic republics. Many historians have dismissed these political experiments as corrupt pantomimes of governments... -
Medicating Race: Heart Disease and Durable Preoccupations with Difference by Anne Pollock
RRP: £26.99Booksplease Price: £23.48In Medicating Race, Anne Pollock traces the intersecting discourses of race, pharmaceuticals, and heart disease in the United States over the past century, from the founding of cardiology through the... -
Israel/Palestine and the Queer International by Sarah Schulman
RRP: £19.99Booksplease Price: £16.65In this chronicle of political awakening and queer solidarity, the activist and novelist Sarah Schulman describes her dawning consciousness of the Palestinian liberation struggle. Invited to Israel... -
Entanglements of Empire: Missionaries, Maori, and the Question of the Body by Tony Ballantyne
RRP: £94.00Booksplease Price: £76.14The first Protestant mission was established in New Zealand in 1814, initiating complex political, cultural, and economic entanglements with Maori. Tony Ballantyne shows how interest in missionary... -
Migrants and City-Making: Dispossession, Displacement, and Urban Regeneration by Ayse Caglar
RRP: £26.99Booksplease Price: £23.48In Migrants and City-Making Ayse Caglar and Nina Glick Schiller trace the participation of migrants in the unequal networks of power that connect their lives to regional, national, and global... -
Bodyminds Reimagined: (Dis)ability, Race, and Gender in Black Women's Speculative Fiction by Sami Schalk
RRP: £19.99Booksplease Price: £17.24In Bodyminds Reimagined Sami Schalk traces how black women's speculative fiction complicates the understanding of bodyminds-the intertwinement of the mental and the physical-in the context of race,... -
The Impossible Triangle: Mexico, Soviet Russia, and the United States in the 1920s by Daniela Spenser
RRP: £19.99Booksplease Price: £17.46During the 1920s, Mexico was caught in a diplomatic struggle between the ideologies of two strong states. In The Impossible Triangle Daniela Spenser explores the tangled relationship between Russia... -
Crip Temporalities by Ellen Samuels
RRP: £11.99Booksplease Price: £10.41This special issue brings together explorations of crip temporality: the ways in which bodily and mental disabilities shape the experience of time. These include needing to use time-consuming... -
Gay Liberation after May '68 by Guy Hocquenghem
RRP: £19.99Booksplease Price: £17.24In Gay Liberation after May '68, first published in France in 1974 and appearing here in English for the first time, Guy Hocquenghem details the rise of the militant gay liberation movement alongside... -
Art as Information Ecology: Artworks, Artworlds, and Complex Systems Aesthetics by Jason A. Hoelscher
RRP: £20.99Booksplease Price: £18.24In Art as Information Ecology, Jason A. Hoelscher offers not only an information theory of art but an aesthetic theory of information. Applying close readings of the information theories of Claude... -
Anomalous States: Irish Writing and the Post-Colonial Moment by David Lloyd
RRP: £23.99Booksplease Price: £20.89Anomalous States is an archeology of modern Irish writing. David Lloyd commences with recent questioning of Irish identity in the wake of the northern conflict and returns to the complex terrain of... -
Utopia and Cosmopolis: Globalization in the Era of American Literary Realism by Thomas Peyser
RRP: £23.99Booksplease Price: £21.14When did Americans first believe they were at the center of a truly global culture? How did they envision that culture and how much do recent attitudes toward globalization owe to their often utopian... -
En-Gendering India: Woman and Nation in Colonial and Postcolonial Narratives by Sangeeta Ray
RRP: £23.99Booksplease Price: £20.89En-Gendering India offers an innovative interpretation of the role that gender played in defining the Indian state during both the colonial and postcolonial eras. Focusing on both British and Indian... -
The Other Side of Silence: Voices from the Partition of India by Urvashi Butalia
RRP: £20.99Booksplease Price: £18.24The partition of India into two countries, India and Pakistan, caused one of the most massive human convulsions in history. Within the space of two months in 1947 more than twelve million people were... -
Cherry Grove, Fire Island: Sixty Years in America's First Gay and Lesbian Town by Esther Newton
RRP: £21.99Booksplease Price: £19.08First published in 1993, the award-winning Cherry Grove, Fire Island tells the story of the extraordinary gay and lesbian resort community near New York City. This new paperback edition includes a... -
From the Revolution to the Maquiladoras: Gender, Labor, and Globalization in Nicaragua by Jennifer Bickham Mendez
RRP: £26.99Booksplease Price: £23.48From the Revolution to the Maquiladoras is a major contribution to the study of globalization, labor, and women's movements. Jennifer Bickham Mendez presents a detailed ethnographic account of the... -
Liberalism without Democracy: Nationhood and Citizenship in Egypt, 1922-1936 by Abdeslam M. Maghraoui
RRP: £23.99Booksplease Price: £20.89The history of Western intervention in the Middle East stretches from the late eighteenth century to the present day. All too often, the Western rationale for invading and occupying a country to... -
The Urban Generation: Chinese Cinema and Society at the Turn of the Twenty-First Century by Zhen Zhang
RRP: £31.00Booksplease Price: £26.62Since the early 1990s, while mainland China's state-owned movie studios have struggled with financial and ideological constraints, an exciting alternative cinema has developed. Dubbed the "Urban... -
The Will to Improve: Governmentality, Development, and the Practice of Politics by Tania Murray Li
RRP: £23.99Booksplease Price: £20.89The Will to Improve is a remarkable account of development in action. Focusing on attempts to improve landscapes and livelihoods in Indonesia, Tania Murray Li carefully exposes the practices that... -
Waves of Decolonization: Discourses of Race and Hemispheric Citizenship in Cuba, Mexico, and the United States by David Luis-Brown
RRP: £22.99Booksplease Price: £20.36In Waves of Decolonization, David Luis-Brown reveals how between the 1880s and the 1930s, writer-activists in Cuba, Mexico, and the United States developed narratives and theories of decolonization,... -
Globalization and the Post-Creole Imagination: Notes on Fleeing the Plantation by Patricia Marie Northover
RRP: £26.99Booksplease Price: £23.48Globalization and the Post-Creole Imagination is a major intervention into discussions of Caribbean practices gathered under the rubric of "creolization." Examining sociocultural, political, and... -
The Provocative Joan Robinson: The Making of a Cambridge Economist by Nahid Aslanbeigui
RRP: £21.99Booksplease Price: £19.02One of the most original and prolific economists of the twentieth century, Joan Robinson (1903-83) is widely regarded as the most important woman in the history of economic thought. Robinson studied... -
The Spectacular State: Culture and National Identity in Uzbekistan by Laura L. Adams
RRP: £26.99Booksplease Price: £23.21Laura L. Adams offers unique insight into nation building in Central Asia during the post-Soviet era through an exploration of Uzbekistan's production of national culture in the 1990s. As she... -
The Deaths of the Author: Reading and Writing in Time by Jane Gallop
Booksplease Price: £29.63For thirty years the "death of the author" has been a familiar poststructuralist slogan in literary theory, widely understood and much debated as a dismissal of the author, a declaration of the... -
Animacies: Biopolitics, Racial Mattering, and Queer Affect by Mel Y. Chen
RRP: £21.99Booksplease Price: £18.78In Animacies, Mel Y. Chen draws on recent debates about sexuality, race, and affect to examine how matter that is considered insensate, immobile, or deathly animates cultural lives. Toward that end,... -
How Immigrants Impact Their Homelands by Susan Eva Eckstein
RRP: £26.99Booksplease Price: £23.48How Immigrants Impact Their Homelands examines the range of economic, social, and cultural impacts immigrants have had, both knowingly and unknowingly, in their home countries. The book opens with... -
The Battle of the Sexes in French Cinema, 1930-1956 by Noel Burch
RRP: £23.99Booksplease Price: £20.89In The Battle of the Sexes in French Cinema, 1930-1956, Noel Burch and Genevieve Sellier adopt a sociocultural approach to films made in France before, during, and after World War II, paying... -
Rendering Life Molecular: Models, Modelers, and Excitable Matter by Natasha Myers
Booksplease Price: £39.19What are living bodies made of? Protein modelers tell us that our cells are composed of millions of proteins, intricately folded molecular structures on the scale of nanoparticles. Proteins twist and...