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Engine of Modernity: The Omnibus and Urban Culture in Nineteenth-Century Paris by 9781526160218
RRP: $32.25Booksplease Price: $30.37Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781526160218Format PaperbackImprint Manchester University PressPublisher Man -
Francophone Africa at Fifty by Tony Chafer 9781526122858
RRP: $45.15Booksplease Price: $41.47France's presence on the African continent has often been presented as 'cooperation' and part of French cultural policy by policy-makers in Paris - and quite as often been denounced as 'the longest... -
Migrants Shaping Europe, Past and Present: Multilingual Literatures, Arts, and Cultures by Helen Solterer 9781526166166
RRP: $32.25Booksplease Price: $30.37This pioneering volume explores the contribution of migrants to European culture from the early modern era to today. It takes culture as an aesthetic and social activity of making, one practised by... -
The Jewish Pedlar: An Untold Criminal History 9781526178022
RRP: $32.25Booksplease Price: $25.59Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781526178022Format HardbackImprint Manchester University PressPublisher Manc -
My Voice: Marianne Philipps by The Fed 9781526186645
RRP: $18.05Booksplease Price: $13.73This is My voice, My Life recounts the life story of Marianne Phillips, born in 1924 in Berlin.Growing up happily in a Jewish household, Marianne’s life changed drastically with Hitler’s rise to... -
Taking Travel Home: The Souvenir Culture of British Women Tourists, 1750–1830 by Emma Gleadhill 9781526191618
RRP: $32.25Booksplease Price: $30.37In the late eighteenth-century, elite British women had an unprecedented opportunity to travel. Taking travel home uncovers the souvenir culture these women developed around the texts and objects... -
Five Elizabethan Progress Entertainments by Leah Scragg 9781526109477
RRP: $109.65Booksplease Price: $97.01Designed to introduce the student or general reader to a largely unfamiliar area of Elizabethan theatrical activity, Five Elizabethan progress entertainments focuses on a group of entertainments... -
The Elephant and the Dragon in Contemporary Life Sciences: A Call for Decolonising Global Governance by Joy Y. Zhang 9781526159526
RRP: $109.65Booksplease Price: $97.01This book provides a powerful diagnosis of why the global governance of science struggles in the face of emerging powers. Through unpacking critical events in China and India over the past twenty... -
Chartist Drama by Gregory Vargo 9781526142061
RRP: $109.65Booksplease Price: $97.01The first collection of its kind, Chartist Drama makes available four plays written or performed by members of the Chartist movement of the 1840s. Emerging from the lively counter-culture of this... -
Intimacy and Mobility in the Era of Hardening Borders: Gender, Reproduction, Regulation by 9781526150219
RRP: $116.10Booksplease Price: $102.56Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781526150219Format HardbackImprint Manchester University PressPublisher Manc -
Back to the Futurists: The Avant-Garde and its Legacy by Elza Adamowicz 9781526116871
RRP: $32.25Booksplease Price: $30.37In 1909 the Italian poet Filippo Tommaso Marinetti's Founding Manifesto of Futurism was published on the front page of Le Figaro. Between 1909 and 1912 the Futurists published over thirty manifestos,... -
A History of the Greek Resistance in the Second World War: The People's Armies by Spiros Tsoutsoumpis 9781784992514
RRP: $109.65Booksplease Price: $97.01A history of the Greek resistance in the Second World War discusses one of the most troubled and fascinating aspects of modern Greek and European history: the anti-axis resistance. It is a pioneering... -
Subjects of Modernity: Time-Space, Disciplines, Margins by Saurabh Dube 9781526105110
RRP: $109.65Booksplease Price: $97.01This book thinks through modernity and its representations by exploring critical considerations of time and space. Drawing on anthropology, history and social theory, it investigates the oppositions... -
Global Biographies: Lived History as Method by Laura Almagor 9781526161161
RRP: $109.65Booksplease Price: $97.01Global biographies provides an advanced and comprehensive analytical framework for historians to use biography as a method to write global history. Moving beyond the state-of-the-art, the volume... -
The Aesthetic Exception: Essays on Art, Theatre, and Politics by Tony Fisher 9781526191151
RRP: $32.25Booksplease Price: $30.37The aesthetic exception theorises anew the relation between art and politics. It challenges critical trends that discount the role of aesthetic autonomy, to impulsively reassert art as an effective... -
Mrs Dalloway: Biography of a Novel 9781526176813
RRP: $24.50Booksplease Price: $19.05Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781526176813Format HardbackImprint Manchester University PressPublisher Manc -
Wildly Different: How Five Women Reclaimed Nature in a Man's World 9781526168696
RRP: $25.80Booksplease Price: $19.97Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781526168696Format HardbackImprint Manchester University PressPublisher Manc -
Local Government and Democracy in Britain by Neil Barnett 9781526191335
RRP: $32.25Booksplease Price: $30.37Local government in the UK is in crisis. It is now neither local in terms of the geography and populations of its principle units, nor does it truly govern in these areas. As this book reveals, over... -
Displacement: Global Conversations on Refuge by Silvia Pasquetti 9781526123466
RRP: $109.65Booksplease Price: $97.01This book is a collective effort by sociologists, geographers, anthropologists, political scientists, historians, migration studies scholars to develop new ways of thinking about forced displacement... -
Didi-Huberman and the Image by Chari Larsson 9781526149268
RRP: $109.65Booksplease Price: $97.01Philosopher and art historian Georges Didi-Huberman is one of the most innovative and influential critical thinkers writing today. This book is the first English-language study of his writing on... -
Dido, Queen of Carthage: By Christopher Marlowe by Ruth Lunney 9781526191175
RRP: $32.25Booksplease Price: $30.37A city burns, and a queen burns for love: Dido, Queen of Carthage re-imagines one of the great legendary stories. The encounter between a wandering hero and an African queen engenders love and loss,... -
My Voice: Chaim Ferster by The Fed 9781526186256
RRP: $15.47Booksplease Price: $15.20Chaim Ferster was born in Sosnowiec, Poland on 18 July 1922. He lived with his parents and three sisters above the brush factory owned by his father. They were religious Jews and only spoke Yiddish... -
Conrad'S Marlow: Narrative and Death in 'Youth', Heart of Darkness, Lord Jim and Chance by Paul Wake 9781784992477
Booksplease Price: $30.37Variously described as 'the average pilgrim', a 'wanderer', and 'a Buddha preaching in European clothes', Charlie Marlow is the voice behind Joseph Conrad's Youth (1898), Heart of Darkness (1899),... -
Bulletin of the John Rylands Library 98/2 by Stephen Mossman 9781526170613
RRP: $45.15Booksplease Price: $39.98The John Rylands Library houses one of the finest collections of rare books, manuscripts and archives in the world. The collections span five millennia and cover a wide range of subjects, including... -
A Sociology of Kindness as Everyday Enchantment: On Making the World Go Our Way Julie Brownlie 9781526165152
RRP: $109.65Booksplease Price: $97.90This book asks us to consider how and why the notion of random acts of kindness and the idea of kindness more generally have come to take a hold in many contemporary English-speaking societies. By... -
Becoming Couture: The Italian Fashion Industry After the Second World War Chiara Faggella 9781526198143
RRP: $32.25Booksplease Price: $30.37Becoming couture is the first book to examine the history of the Italian fashion industry during the global transition brought about by the Second World War. It draws on a wide range of primary... -
Geoffrey Hill and the Ends of Poetry Tom Docherty 9781526198266
RRP: $38.70Booksplease Price: $35.91The idea of the end is an essential motivic force in the poetry of Geoffrey Hill (1932–2016). This book shows that Hill’s poems are characteristically ‘end-directed’. They tend towards consummations... -
Home Front Heroism: Civilians and Conflict in Second World War London Ellena Matthews 9781526197955
RRP: $32.25Booksplease Price: $30.37Home front heroism investigates how civilians were recognised and celebrated as heroic during the Second World War. Through a focus on London, this book explores how heroism was manufactured as... -
Flappers and the Jazz Age: Women and Leisure in Ireland, 1920s–30s Eileen Hogan 9781526181794
RRP: $116.10Booksplease Price: $102.56People’s ordinary, everyday lives – and more specifically, their leisure activities – are often obscured within existing academic research on 1920s-30s Ireland. This book seeks to redress that... -
The Limits of Performance in the French Romantic Theatre by Susan McCready 9780719081910
Booksplease Price: $30.37This volume analyses major French plays of the 1830s, focusing on their theatricality, and on the ways in which they expose the workings of the theatre rather than conceal them. Through an... -
Arctic State Identity: Geography, History, and Geopolitical Relations by Dr Ingrid A. Medby 9781526198020
RRP: $32.25Booksplease Price: $30.37This book sets out to answer what it means to hold a formal title as one of the eight ‘Arctic states’; is there such a thing as an Arctic state identity, and if so, what does this mean for state... -
'Ten Pound Poms': A Life History of British Postwar Emigration to Australia by A. James Hammerton
RRP: $20.63Booksplease Price: $16.73More than a million Britons emigrated to Australia between the 1940s and 1970s. They were the famous 'ten pound Poms' and this is their story. Illuminated by the fascinating testimony of migrant life... -
Redefining the French Republic Alistair Cole 9780719071515
RRP: $25.79Booksplease Price: $25.21Newly available in paperback, Redefining the French Republic is an innovative work. Explicitly adopting a multidisciplinary approach, the book investigates continuity and change in contemporary... -
Jimmy Perry and David Croft by Simon Morgan-Russell
Booksplease Price: $30.37This book explores the collaborative sitcoms of two of British television's most well-known comedy writers. Written over a period of twenty-five years, the four series 'Dad's Army', 'It Ain't Half... -
Exploring the Explorers: Spaniards in Oceania, 1519-1794 by Mercedes Maroto Camino
RRP: $109.65Booksplease Price: $97.01Exploring the Explorers: Spaniards in Oceania 1519-1794 is the first study of cross-cultural engagements between the indigenous peoples of the Pacific and Spanish explorers during the early modern... -
Intertextuality in Modern Arabic Literature Since 1967 by Luc Deheuvels
Booksplease Price: $30.37This volume of essays is the first to be dedicated to the subject of intertextuality in modern Arabic literature. Beginning with a general overview of the topic by Roger Allen, it brings together... -
Piercing the Bamboo Curtain: Tentative Bridge-Building to China During the Johnson Years by Michael Lumbers
RRP: $32.25Booksplease Price: $30.37This is the first comprehensive study of U.S. policy toward China during the presidency of Lyndon Johnson, a critical phase of the Cold War immediately preceding the dramatic Sino-American... -
The Culture of Fashion: A New History of Fashionable Dress Christopher Breward 9780719041259
RRP: $25.79Booksplease Price: $25.59This illustrated survey of 600 years of fashion investigates its cultural and social meanings from medieval Europe to 20th-century America. It provides a guide to the changes in style and taste, and... -
The White Devil: By John Webster by John Brown
RRP: $14.18Booksplease Price: $12.82In this study of sexual and political intrigue, a fascinating but dangerous woman consents to the murder of her ineffectual husband. Her defence against the charge of adultery transforms the lurid... -
The Lost Ireland of Stephen Gwynn: Irish Consitutional Nationalism and Cultural Politics, 1864-1950 Colin Reid 9780719097522
RRP: $38.70Booksplease Price: $35.91Through the rich and engrossing life of Stephen Gwynn (1864-1950), an alternative history of Ireland can be traced, one which envisaged a moderate form of Irish self-government, nationalist...