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Exhibiting Maori: A History of Colonial Cultures of Display Conal McCarthy 9781845204754
RRP: £39.99Booksplease Price: £37.99This richly illustrated book presents a comprehensive assessment of the display of Maori culture from the nineteenth century to today. In doing so, Exhibiting Maori traces the long journey from curio... -
Persons and Powers of Women in Diverse Cultures Shirley Ardener 9780854968664
RRP: £41.99Booksplease Price: £39.69This volume presents important essays inspired by the pioneering works of three leading women anthropologists. The title may therefore be read in more than one way. The three biographical essays in... -
The Smell Culture Reader Jim Drobnick 9781845202132
RRP: £39.99Booksplease Price: £38.29Smell is fundamental to experience but mired in paradox. Stigmatized as animalistic, it nonetheless feeds a vast fragrance and marketing industry. Considered ephemeral, scents have survived... -
The Culture of Knitting by Joanne Turney
Booksplease Price: £117.41From booties and scarves to art and fashion, The Culture of Knitting addresses knitting as art, craft, design, fashion and performance, and as an aspect of the everyday. Drawing on a variety of... -
The Meaning of Water Veronica Strang 9781859737538
RRP: £39.99Booksplease Price: £37.99Water is the most valuable resource and the most passionately contested. Drought has become an increasingly extreme problem in many parts of the world, and it is predicted that 60% of the major... -
Migrants of Identity: Perceptions of 'Home' in a World of Movement Andrew Dawson 9781859739990
RRP: £41.99Booksplease Price: £39.69Global movement is commonly characterized as one of the quintessential experiences of our age. Market forces, territorial conflicts and environmental changes uproot an increasing number of people,... -
The Migration Process: Capital, Gifts and Offerings among British Pakistanis Pnina Werbner 9781859736647
RRP: £41.99Booksplease Price: £39.69This study, which breaks new ground in urban research, is a comprehensive and definitive account of one of the many communities of South Asians to emerge throughout the Western industrial world since... -
The Internet: An Ethnographic Approach Daniel Miller 9781859733899
RRP: £36.99Booksplease Price: £35.44This pathbreaking book is the first to provide a rigorous and comprehensive examination of Internet culture and consumption. A rich ethnography of Internet use, the book offers a sustained account... -
Skintight: An Anatomy of Cosmetic Surgery by Dr. Meredith Jones 9781845206697
Booksplease Price: £40.38Cosmetic surgery is everywhere: we are surrounded by altered, enhanced, skinny and stretched celebrities, in a hyped media culture that focuses increasingly on the body beautiful. Once only... -
Genocide and Rescue: The Holocaust in Hungary 1944 by David Cesarani 9781859731260
Booksplease Price: £36.44Why didn't the Hungarian Jews do more to resist the 'Final Solution'? Why didn't the Allies bomb the gas chambers at Auschwitz? Why did the Allies sabotage schemes to save the Jews?In this... -
The Banham Lectures: Essays on Designing the Future by Harriet Atkinson 9781847883025
Booksplease Price: £87.54The Banham Lectures presents a series of essays by leading critics on art, design, architecture and culture. All are inspired by the revolutionary work of Reyner Banham, who continues to be one of... -
Gender and Ethnicity in Contemporary Europe by Jacqueline Andall 9781859736524
Booksplease Price: £41.78Contemporary Europe is in the midst of a cultural and social crisis. Debates over how European societies should respond to their changing ethnic profile lie at the heart of this crisis, whilst the... -
Fashion Classics from Carlyle to Barthes by Michael Carter 9781859736067
Booksplease Price: £38.10With so much focus on contemporary theory, it is easy to forget that the serious analysis of clothing and fashion has a long history. In fact, they have been the subject of intense cultural debate... -
The History of the German Labour Movement: A Survey by Helga Grebing 9780907582311
Booksplease Price: £41.78Helga GrebingSet against the background of the economic, social and political conditions in Germany from 1890 to the end of the Nazi era, this classic study traces the emergence and development of... -
The Great War and the French People by Jean-Jacques Becker 9780907582533
Booksplease Price: £41.78Translated from the French by Arnold PomeransA well-known authority in the field provides a wide-ranging exploration of the repercussions of the First World War upon the French people.Also available... -
Emily Dickinson by Donna Dickenson 9780907582694
Booksplease Price: £40.79Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780907582694Author Donna DickensonFormat PaperbackPage Count 132Imprint -
Margaret Fuller: An American Romantic by David Watson 9780854961818
Booksplease Price: £103.11Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.About the AuthorDavid WatsonBook InformationISBN 9780854961818Author David WatsonFormat Hardback< -
The Spanish Civil War: A Cultural and Historical Reader by Alun Kenwood 9780854963386
Booksplease Price: £43.76The Spanish Civil War became the pivotal political and cultural event of the 1930s and inspired a generation of writers and artists. This book brings together an unprecedented wealth of historical... -
DIY Style by Brent Luvaas 9780857850409
Booksplease Price: £34.47Armed with cheap digital technologies and a fiercely independent spirit, millions of young people from around the world have taken cultural production into their own hands, crafting their own... -
Identities Through Fashion by Ana Martha Gonzalez 9780857850584
Booksplease Price: £43.25Fashion has become a fertile field of study for academics across disciplines, now that the rules, once tightly fixed, have been deconstructed. This volume brings together academics from various... -
Racism and Migration in Western Europe by John Solomos 9780854963324
Booksplease Price: £112.13In contemporary European societies the question of racism, linked to the politicisation of migration, is a major issue in social and political debate. Developments in a number of European societies... -
A Cultural History of Gardens in the Age of Enlightenment by Stephen Bending 9780857850324
Booksplease Price: £112.13The Enlightenment raised fundamental questions about what it meant to be human in a truly global world. At the heart of debates about nature, culture and history, the garden offered itself as a... -
The Politics of Citizenship in Germany by Eli Nathans 9781859737811
Booksplease Price: £36.82Why did German states for so long make it extraordinarily difficult for foreigners who were not ethnic Germans to become citizens? To what extent was this policy a product of popular national... -
The Shorn Women: Gender and Punishment in Liberation France by Fabrice Virgili 9781859735848
Booksplease Price: £36.82At the end of World War II, over 20,000 French people accused of collaboration with Germany endured a particularly humiliating act of revenge: their heads were shaved in public. Nearly all those... -
Qualitative Methods in Sports Studies by Daniel S. Mason 9781859737842
Booksplease Price: £113.11Sports studies is becoming an increasingly popular discipline, but the most effective research methods used to investigate the multi-faceted nature of the empirical sporting world have yet to be... -
London Calling by Garry Robson 9781859736289
Booksplease Price: £33.84Symbolizing both commerce and culture, London has always been a magnet for the ambitions of the middle classes. However, the past three decades have witnessed a dramatic fragmentation in inner-city... -
Children of World War II by Kjersti Ericsson 9781845202071
Booksplease Price: £39.87There is a hidden legacy of war that is rarely talked about: the children of native civilians and enemy soldiers. What is their fate?This book unearths the history of the thousands of forgotten... -
A Beautiful Game: International Perspectives on Women's Football by Jean Williams 9781845206758
Booksplease Price: £34.47FIFA, the world governing body of association football, declared 'The Future is Feminine' in a 1995 press release. Since then, football has been claimed as the fastest growing participation sport... -
No One Likes Us, We Don't Care: The Myth and Reality of Millwall Fandom by Garry Robson 9781859733677
Booksplease Price: £113.11Shortlisted for the Philip Abrams Memorial Book Prize 2001 'No one likes us, we dont care' is the anthem of the most notorious fans in British football. But little is known about the actual people... -
Teen Film by Catherine Driscoll 9781847886866
Booksplease Price: £37.07What makes a film a teen film? And why, when it represents such powerful and enduring ideas about youth and adolescence, is teen film usually viewed as culturally insignificant?Teen film is usually... -
Terrorism by Stephen Sloan 9781845203443
Booksplease Price: £31.86When we think "terrorism," our minds conjure up dramatic and horrifying images of hijackings, suicide bombings, assassinations and various other forms of brutal carnage. Placing terrorist acts within... -
Contemporary Jewellers: Interviews with European Artists by Roberta Bernabei 9781845207700
Booksplease Price: £43.25This book offers an essential reference for anyone interested in contemporary European jewellery design. Through guided conversations with the major designers of today, Roberta Bernabei reveals the... -
Art, Time and Technology by Charlie Gere 9781845201357
Booksplease Price: £31.52Art, Time and Technology examines the role of art in an age of 'real time' information systems and instantaneous communication. The increasing speed of technology and of technological development... -
Filming Women in the Third Reich by Jo Fox 9781859733967
Booksplease Price: £38.10In 1936, Goebbels stated that 'a government that controls art will remain forever', and the German film industry became inextricably linked with National Socialist propaganda. This book is an... -
Representing East Germany since Unification by Paul Cooke 9781845201890
Booksplease Price: £31.86When the Berlin Wall came down and the two Germanies were reunited, culture was held up to be one of the keys to national unity. Ironically, however, Cooke argues it is the realm of culture that, at... -
Postcolonialisms: An Anthology of Cultural Theory and Criticism by Gaurav Desai 9781845203320
Booksplease Price: £42.58Postcolonialisms brings together the key texts which define the study of colonial and postcolonial cultures. This expansive and clearly organized anthology offers the most up-to-date and in-depth... -
Fashioning Socialism: Clothing, Politics and Consumer Culture in East Germany by Judd Stitziel 9781845202828
RRP: £34.99Booksplease Price: £33.49Fashioning Socialism is the first history of communist fashion in East Germany. Using clothing as a lens to read society, the author unveils wider tensions between the regime and the population and... -
The Birth of Cool: Style Narratives of the African Diaspora by Carol Tulloch 9781859734650
Booksplease Price: £102.21From the zoot suit and Black dandy through to Rastafarianism and beyond, Black style has had a profound influence on the history of dress in the twentieth century. Yet despite this high profile, the... -
When Clothes Become Fashion by Ingrid Loschek 9781847883667
Booksplease Price: £36.04When, how and why do clothes become fashion? Fashion is more than mere clothing. It is a moment of invention, a distillation of desire, a reflection of a zeitgeist. It is also a business relying on... -
Design History: Understanding Theory and Method by Kjetil Fallan 9781847885388
Booksplease Price: £113.11Design History has become a complex and wide-ranging discipline. It now examines artefacts from conception to development, production, mediation, and consumption. Over the last few decades, the...