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The Making of the Humanities: Volume 1 - Early Modern Europe by PROF. DR. Rens Bod
RRP: £71.99Booksplease Price: £67.18This book is the first step towards the development of a comparative history of the humanities. Specialists in philology, musicology, art history, linguistics, literary theory, and other disciplines... -
Cinema Beyond Film: Media Epistemology in the Modern Era by Francois van den Albera
RRP: £49.99Booksplease Price: £44.79This thoughtful exploratory study deals with three seminal issues in film theory, notably the relationship of image and sound, early manifestations of the moving image, and new connections between... -
Fabricating the Absolute Fake - Revised Edition by Jaap Kooijman
RRP: £46.95Booksplease Price: £44.79When rock star Bono told Oprah Winfrey that America is an ideal that is supposed to be contagious, the talk show host was moved to tears. Such an imagined America, rather than the nation-state USA,... -
Citizenship Policies in the New Europe: Expanded and Updated Edition by Rainer Baubock
RRP: £71.99Booksplease Price: £67.18The two most recent EU enlargements in May 2004 and in January 2007 have greatly increased the diversity of historic experiences and contemporary conceptions of statehood, nation-building and... -
AIDS, Intimacy and Care in Rural KwaZulu-Natal: A Kinship of Bones by Patricia C. Henderson
RRP: £46.95Booksplease Price: £44.79In 2003-2006, Patricia Henderson lived in the South African province of KwaZulu-Natal where she recorded the experiences of people living with HIV/AIDS. In this illuminating study, she recounts the... -
Improvising Cinema by Gilles Mouellic
RRP: £125.00Booksplease Price: £114.71Gilles Mouellic examines improvisational practices that can be specifically attributed to the cinema and argues in favors of their powers as instigators of unprecedented forms of expression... -
Digital Material: Tracing New Media in Everyday Life and Technology by Ann-Sophie Lehmann
RRP: £46.95Booksplease Price: £44.79Three decades of societal and cultural alignment of new media have yielded a host of innovations, trials, and problems, accompanied by versatile popular and academic discourse. New Media Studies... -
Rebels with a cause: Five centuries of social history collected by the International Institute of Social History by Jaap Kloosterman
RRP: £38.99Booksplease Price: £35.74Every age has had its rebels: socialists, peace activists, sexual reformers, fundamentalists, and more. The collections of the International Institute of Social History (IISH) in Amsterdam are full... -
Contesting the Foreshore: Tourism, Society and Politics on the Coast by Jeremy Boissevain
RRP: £66.99Booksplease Price: £59.24This collection of essays is about tourism and social, political, and economic relations in coastal locations in various parts of the world. The starting point of each chapter is the ethnographic... -
Perfect Worlds: Utopian Fiction in China and the West by Douwe W. Fokkema
RRP: £71.99Booksplease Price: £67.18Perfect Worlds offers an extensive historical analysis of utopian narratives in the Chinese and Euro-American traditions. This comparative study discusses, among other things, More's criticism of... -
The Javanese Way of Law: Early Modern Sloka Phenomena by Mason Hoadley
RRP: £130.00Booksplease Price: £114.69Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789462989337Author Mason HoadleyFormat HardbackPage Count 276Imprint Amsterdam University... -
Genocide: New Perspectives on its Causes, Courses and Consequences by Ugur Umit Ungor
RRP: £130.00Booksplease Price: £114.69The twentieth century has been called, not inaccurately, a century of genocide. And the beginning of the twenty-first century has seen little change, with genocidal violence in Darfur, Congo, Sri... -
Astronomer, Cartographer and Naturalist of the New World: The Life and Scholarly Achievements of Georg Marggrafe (1610-1643) in Colonial Dutch Brazil. Volume 1: Life, Work and Legacy by Huib Zuidervaart
RRP: £65.95Booksplease Price: £61.79This volume, Volume 1, presents Marggrafe’s stunning biography. Volume 2 consists of a text edition of his astronomical legacy, prepared for the printing press in the 1650s, but only now finalized... -
Queer Festivals: Challenging Collective Identities in a Transnational Europe by Konstantinos Eleftheriadis
RRP: £125.00Booksplease Price: £110.40Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789462982741Author Konstantinos EleftheriadisFormat HardbackPage Count 216Imprint Amsterdam... -
Documentary Industrial Novels and the Sociology of Work in the Twentieth Century: The United States, the Soviet Union and Western Europe by Erik de Gier 9789463721943
RRP: £105.00Booksplease Price: £91.55In several European countries, the United States, and the Soviet Union, remarkable industrial novels based on empirical observations were written between 1900 and 1970. With two successive world wars... -
Logic and the Foundations of Game and Decision Theory (LOFT 7) by Giacomo Bonanno 9789089640260
RRP: £46.95Booksplease Price: £44.79Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789089640260Author Giacomo BonannoFormat PaperbackPage Count 240Imprint Amsterdam University... -
Multiregionalism and Multilateralism: Asian-European Relations in a Global Context by Sebastian Bersick 9789053569290
RRP: £71.99Booksplease Price: £66.88multiregionalismregionalisminterregionalismmultilateralismAsian-European relationsintegration in Asiainternational systemsecurity in AsiaASEMASEANIndiaChinaAceh Monitoring MissionBook InformationISBN... -
Micro-foundations for Innovation Policy by E. Stam 9789053565827
RRP: £69.95Booksplease Price: £65.19Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789053565827Author Bart NooteboomFormat PaperbackPage Count 368Imprint Amsterdam University... -
Space, Images, and Art Perception in Napoleonic Paris: Setting the Gaze by Camilla Murgia 9789463724142
RRP: £117.00Booksplease Price: £114.69This book examines the impact of space on the perception of art and visual culture in early nineteenth-century Paris. It turns its attention to the way in which space determines the understanding and... -
Geology of the Netherlands: Second Edition by Johan ten Veen 9789463728362
RRP: £89.99Booksplease Price: £80.38Below the famously flat surface of the Netherlands lies a fascinating world of buried mountains and valleys, which can only be unraveled with drillings, geophysical techniques and geological... -
Soeda and the Making of Modern Japan: Power, Religion and Industry in Northern Kyushu by Ian Neary 9789048563678
RRP: £111.00Booksplease Price: £110.40Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789048563678Author Ian NearyFormat HardbackPage Count 246Imprint Amsterdam University PressPublisher... -
Affect in Fandom: Fan Creators and Productivity by Dominica Ciesielska 9789463725668
RRP: £122.00Booksplease Price: £118.97Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789463725668Author Dominika CiesielskaFormat HardbackPage Count 290Imprint Amsterdam University... -
The Ayatollahs and Democracy in Contemporary Iraq by Juan Cole 9789053568897
RRP: £37.95Booksplease Price: £36.28Iraqi Shiism is undergoing profound changes, leading to new elaborations of the relationship between clerics and democratic principles in an Islamic state. The Najaf tradition of thinking about... -
Writing India Anew: Indian English Fiction 2000-2010 by Rituparna Roy 9789089645333
RRP: £68.99Booksplease Price: £60.94This groundbreaking study assesses the genre of Indian-English fiction in the first decade of the twenty-first century. Some of the most prominent scholars in the field, including Rimi B. Chatterjee,... -
After the Break: Television Theory Today by Marijke de Valck 9789089645227
RRP: £37.95Booksplease Price: £36.28Television as we knew it is irrevocably changing. Some are gleefully announcing the death of television, others have been less sanguine but insist that television is radically changing underneath our... -
The European Second Generation Compared: Does the Integration Context Matter? by Maurice Crul 9789089644435
RRP: £75.99Booksplease Price: £67.18Integration of newcomers is a foremost challenge for contemporary Europe. The 'second generation' - children born of immigrant parentage - is crucial in this process, for they constitute a growing... -
Social Media Activism: Water as a Common Good by Matteo Cernison 9789462980068
RRP: £111.00Booksplease Price: £110.40Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789462980068Author Matteo CernisonFormat HardbackPage Count 244Imprint Amsterdam University... -
Darling Queen - Dear old Bones: Queen Wilhelmina's correspondence with her English governess Miss Saxton Winter, 1886-1935 by Emerentia Heuven-van Nes 9789462984387
RRP: £49.99Booksplease Price: £44.79This book presents a remarkable collection of letters from Queen Wilhelmina of the Netherlands (1880-1962) and her governess, Elizabeth Saxton Winter (1855-1936), an Englishwoman. The earliest... -
Bastard Culture!: How User Participation Transforms Cultural Production by Mirko Tobias Schafer
RRP: £46.95Booksplease Price: £44.79New online technologies have brought with them a great promise of freedom. The computer and particularly the Internet have been represented as enabling technologies, turning consumers into users and... -
Landscape Archaeology between Art and Science: From a Multi- to an Interdisciplinary Approach by Sjoerd J. Kluiving
RRP: £82.95Booksplease Price: £77.89Researchers in landscape archaeology use two different definitions of landscape. One definition (landscape as territory) is used by the processual archaeologists, earth scientists, and most... -
Raphael's Poetics: Art and Poetry in High Renaissance Rome by David Rijser
RRP: £59.99Booksplease Price: £54.09Raphael's Poetics applies strategies of interpretation implicit in antique poetry to the visual art of the Renaissance, concentrating on Raphael's Roman works and their cultural context. Until... -
Re:Thinking Europe: Thoughts on Europe: Past, Present and Future by Yoeri Albrecht
Booksplease Price: £26.09What is Europe? This question is ever more pressing, as present day Europe wallows in crisis - its deepest since the process of European integration took off in the 1950s. The current state of... -
Emerging Memory: Photographs of Colonial Atrocity in Dutch Cultural Remembrance by Paul de Bijl
RRP: £130.00Booksplease Price: £114.69This incisive volume brings together postcolonial studies, visual culture and cultural memory studies to explain how the Netherlands continues to rediscover its history of violence in colonial... -
Data-Gathering in Colonial Southeast Asia 1800-1900: Framing the Other by Farish A. Noor
RRP: £118.00Booksplease Price: £114.69Colonial Southeast Asia, Data-Gathering, Colonial Policing, OrientalismBook InformationISBN 9789463724418Author Farish A. NoorFormat HardbackPage Count 266Imprint Amsterdam University PressPublisher... -
Rembrandt and the Female Nude by Eric Jan Sluijter
Booksplease Price: £38.68Rembrandt's extraordinary paintings of female nudes - Andromeda, Susanna, Diana and Her Nymphs, Danae, Bathsheba - as well as his etchings of nude women, have fascinated many generations of art... -
Women's Writing from the Low Countries 1200-1875: A Bilingual Anthology by Dieuwke van der Poel
RRP: £87.99Booksplease Price: £77.89This landmark bilingual Dutch-English anthology introduces women's writing in the Low Countries from 1200 to 1875 through a variety of texts characterised by the religious, social, political and... -
Looking for Lines: Theories on the Essence of Art and the Problem of Mannerism by Paul van den Akker
RRP: £71.99Booksplease Price: £67.68Studies of Old Masters are often implicitly based on modern notions, which do not necessarily tally with ideas contemporary with their art. According to one such tacit assumption a work of art gains... -
Hizbullah's Identity Construction by Joseph Alagha
RRP: £66.99Booksplease Price: £59.24As the dominant political force in Lebanon and one of the most powerful post-Islamist organizations in the world, Hizbullah is a source of great controversy and uncertainty in the West. Despite the... -
Exhibiting Cinema in Contemporary Art by Erika Balsom
RRP: £49.99Booksplease Price: £46.82Whether it involves remaking an old Hollywood movie, projecting a quiet 16mm film, or constructing a bombastic multi-screen environment, cinema now takes place not just in the movie theatre and the... -
Ecstatic Encounters: Bahian Candombl and the Quest for the Really Real by Mattijs van de Port
RRP: £66.99Booksplease Price: £59.24Ecstatic Encounters takes its readers to the threshold of Candomble temples in Bahia, Brazil, where - for many generations -- members of this spirit-possession cult and curious outsiders have been...