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Cuban Counterpoint: Tobacco and Sugar by Harriet de Onis
RRP: €27.36Booksplease Price: €23.94First published in 1940 and long out of print, Fernando Ortiz's classic work, Cuban Counterpoint is recognized as one of the most important books of Latin American and Caribbean intellectual history... -
Bodily Matters: The Anti-Vaccination Movement in England, 1853-1907 by Nadja Durbach
RRP: €32.12Booksplease Price: €27.94Bodily Matters explores the anti-vaccination movement that emerged in England in the late nineteenth century and early twentieth in response to government-mandated smallpox vaccination. By requiring... -
Critique and Postcritique by Elizabeth S. Anker
RRP: €26.17Booksplease Price: €22.63Now that literary critique's intellectual and political pay-off is no longer quite so self-evident, critics are vigorously debating the functions and futures of critique. The contributors to Critique... -
Introducing Don DeLillo by Frank Lentricchia
RRP: €28.55Booksplease Price: €25.16If you want to find out what a rock critic, a syndicated columnist, and scholars of American literature have to say about one of America's most important contemporary novelists, turn to Introducing... -
Dancing in Spite of Myself: Essays on Popular Culture by Lawrence Grossberg
RRP: €32.12Booksplease Price: €27.94In Dancing in Spite of Myself, Lawrence Grossberg-well known as a pioneering figure in cultural studies-has collected essays written over the past twenty years that have also established him as one... -
Our America: Nativism, Modernism, and Pluralism by Walter Benn Michaels
RRP: €28.55Booksplease Price: €24.86Arguing that the contemporary commitment to the importance of cultural identity has renovated rather than replaced an earlier commitment to racial identity, Walter Benn Michaels asserts that the idea... -
Queer Diasporas by Cindy Patton
RRP: €32.12Booksplease Price: €27.94Queer Diasporas presents essays that explore how sexuality and sexual identity change when individuals, ideologies, and media move across literal and figurative boundaries. Speaking from a diverse... -
Cardenas Compromised: The Failure of Reform in Postrevolutionary Yucatan by Ben Fallaw
RRP: €28.55Booksplease Price: €25.16CArdenas Compromised is a political and institutional history of Mexico's urban and rural labor in the YucatAn region during the regime of LAzaro CArdenas from 1934 to 1940. Drawing on archival... -
The Cunning of Recognition: Indigenous Alterities and the Making of Australian Multiculturalism by Elizabeth A. Povinelli
RRP: €36.89Booksplease Price: €31.68The Cunning of Recognition is an exploration of liberal multiculturalism from the perspective of Australian indigenous social life. Elizabeth A. Povinelli argues that the multicultural legacy of... -
Blood, Ink, and Culture: Miseries and Splendors of the Post-Mexican Condition by Roger Bartra
RRP: €32.12Booksplease Price: €28.30Pens and swords, words and blows: for Roger Bartra, the culture of ink and the culture of blood offer two contrasting approaches to the political transformations of our time. In this compilation of... -
Confronting the American Dream: Nicaragua under U.S. Imperial Rule by Michel Gobat
RRP: €36.89Booksplease Price: €31.67Michel Gobat deftly interweaves political, economic, cultural, and diplomatic history to analyze the reactions of Nicaraguans to U.S. intervention in their country from the heyday of Manifest Destiny... -
How Nature Speaks: The Dynamics of the Human Ecological Condition by Yrjo Haila
RRP: €32.12Booksplease Price: €27.94How Nature Speaks illustrates the convergence of complexity theory in the biophysical and social sciences and the implications of the science of complexity for environmental politics and practice... -
Wall Street Women by Melissa S. Fisher
RRP: €28.55Booksplease Price: €25.16Wall Street Women tells the story of the first generation of women to establish themselves as professionals on Wall Street. Since these women, who began their careers in the 1960s, faced blatant... -
A Social History of Iranian Cinema, Volume 2: The Industrializing Years, 1941-1978 by Hamid Naficy
RRP: €36.89Booksplease Price: €31.68Hamid Naficy is one of the world's leading authorities on Iranian film, and A Social History of Iranian Cinema is his magnum opus. Covering the late nineteenth century to the early twenty-first and... -
Asian Biotech: Ethics and Communities of Fate by Aihwa Ong
RRP: €32.12Booksplease Price: €27.62Providing the first overview of Asia's emerging biosciences landscape, this timely and important collection brings together ethnographic case studies on biotech endeavors such as genetically modified... -
In the Name of Humanity: The Government of Threat and Care by Ilana Feldman
RRP: €36.89Booksplease Price: €31.67Scientists, activists, state officials, NGOs, and others increasingly claim to speak and act on behalf of "humanity." The remarkable array of circumstances in which humanity is invoked testifies to... -
Transnational Sport: Gender, Media, and Global Korea by Rachael Miyung Joo
RRP: €36.89Booksplease Price: €31.67Based on ethnographic research in Seoul and Los Angeles, Transnational Sport tells how sports shape experiences of global Koreanness, and how those experiences are affected by national cultures... -
Buena Vista in the Club: Rap, Reggaeton, and Revolution in Havana by Geoffrey Baker
RRP: €36.89Booksplease Price: €31.67In Buena Vista in the Club, Geoffrey Baker traces the trajectory of the Havana hip hop scene from the late 1980s to the present and analyzes its partial eclipse by reggaeton. While Cuban officials... -
Women's Cinema, World Cinema: Projecting Contemporary Feminisms by Patricia White
RRP: €133.28Booksplease Price: €106.98In Women's Cinema, World Cinema, Patricia White explores the dynamic intersection of feminism and film in the twenty-first century by highlighting the work of a new generation of women directors from... -
Four Decades On: Vietnam, the United States, and the Legacies of the Second Indochina War by Scott Laderman
RRP: €32.12Booksplease Price: €27.94In Four Decades On, historians, anthropologists, and literary critics examine the legacies of the Second Indochina War, or what most Americans call the Vietnam War, nearly forty years after the... -
Records Ruin the Landscape: John Cage, the Sixties, and Sound Recording by David Grubbs
RRP: €97.58Booksplease Price: €79.09John Cage's disdain for records was legendary. He repeatedly spoke of the ways in which recorded music was antithetical to his work. In Records Ruin the Landscape, David Grubbs argues that, following... -
Sex, or the Unbearable by Lauren Berlant
RRP: €22.60Booksplease Price: €21.19Sex, or the Unbearable is a dialogue between Lauren Berlant and Lee Edelman, two of our leading theorists of sexuality, politics, and culture. In juxtaposing sex and the unbearable they don't propose... -
Indigenous Intellectuals: Knowledge, Power, and Colonial Culture in Mexico and the Andes by Gabriela Ramos
RRP: €32.12Booksplease Price: €27.94Via military conquest, Catholic evangelization, and intercultural engagement and struggle, a vast array of knowledge circulated through the Spanish viceroyalties in Mexico and the Andes. This... -
Land's End: Capitalist Relations on an Indigenous Frontier by Tania Murray Li
RRP: €97.58Booksplease Price: €79.09Drawing on two decades of ethnographic research in Sulawesi, Indonesia, Tania Murray Li offers an intimate account of the emergence of capitalist relations among indigenous highlanders who privatized... -
The Republic Unsettled: Muslim French and the Contradictions of Secularism by Mayanthi L. Fernando
RRP: €32.12Booksplease Price: €27.94In 1989 three Muslim schoolgirls from a Paris suburb refused to remove their Islamic headscarves in class. The headscarf crisis signaled an Islamic revival among the children of North African... -
Shine: The Visual Economy of Light in African Diasporic Aesthetic Practice by Krista A. Thompson
RRP: €45.22Booksplease Price: €37.41In Jamaican dancehalls competition for the video camera's light is stiff, so much so that dancers sometimes bleach their skin to enhance their visibility. In the Bahamas, tuxedoed students roll into... -
Travel & See: Black Diaspora Art Practices since the 1980s by Kobena Mercer
RRP: €45.22Booksplease Price: €38.53Over the years, Kobena Mercer has critically illuminated the visual innovations of African American and black British artists. In Travel & See he presents a diasporic model of criticism that gives... -
The Voice and Its Doubles: Media and Music in Northern Australia by Daniel Fisher
RRP: €32.12Booksplease Price: €27.94Beginning in the early 1980s Aboriginal Australians found in music, radio, and filmic media a means to make themselves heard across the country and to insert themselves into the center of Australian... -
Migration and the Making of Industrial Sao Paulo by Paulo Fontes
RRP: €32.12Booksplease Price: €27.94Published in 2008 and winner of the 2011 Thomas E. Skidmore Prize, Paulo Fontes's Migration and the Making of Industrial Sao Paulo is a detailed social history of Sao Paulo's extraordinary urban and... -
An Aqueous Territory: Sailor Geographies and New Granada's Transimperial Greater Caribbean World by Ernesto Bassi
RRP: €27.36Booksplease Price: €24.23In An Aqueous Territory Ernesto Bassi traces the configuration of a geographic space he calls the transimperial Greater Caribbean between 1760 and 1860. Focusing on the Caribbean coast of New Granada... -
Never Alone, Except for Now: Art, Networks, Populations by Kris Cohen
RRP: €32.12Booksplease Price: €27.94How is it that one can be connected to a vast worldwide network of other people and places via digital technologies and yet also be completely alone? Kris Cohen tackles this philosophical question in... -
Cooking Data: Culture and Politics in an African Research World by Cal (Crystal) Biruk
RRP: €133.28Booksplease Price: €106.98In Cooking Data Crystal Biruk offers an ethnographic account of research into the demographics of HIV and AIDS in Malawi to rethink the production of quantitative health data. While research... -
Sisters in the Life: A History of Out African American Lesbian Media-Making by Yvonne Welbon
RRP: €32.12Booksplease Price: €27.94From experimental shorts and web series to Hollywood blockbusters and feminist porn, the work of African American lesbian filmmakers has made a powerful contribution to film history. But despite its... -
Trans- Political Economy by Dan Irving
RRP: €10.70Booksplease Price: €9.65This issue of TSQ: Transgender Studies Quarterly, "Trans-Political Economy," edited by Dan Irving and Vek Lewis, addresses how capitalism differentially and unequally affects trans and... -
Earworm and Event: Music, Daydreams, and Other Imaginary Refrains by Eldritch Priest
RRP: €23.79Booksplease Price: €20.52In Earworm and Event Eldritch Priest questions the nature of the imagination in contemporary culture through the phenomenon of the earworm: those reveries that hijack our attention, the shivers that... -
Reframing Todd Haynes: Feminism's Indelible Mark by Theresa L. Geller
RRP: €27.36Booksplease Price: €24.23For three decades, award-winning independent filmmaker Todd Haynes, who emerged in the early 1990s as a foundational figure in New Queer Cinema, has gained critical recognition for his outsider... -
The Spectacular Generic: Pharmaceuticals and the Simipolitical in Mexico by Cori Hayden
RRP: €23.79Booksplease Price: €20.78In The Spectacular Generic, Cori Hayden examines how generic drugs have transformed public health politics and everyday experiences of pharmaceutical consumption in Latin America. Focusing on the... -
The Robert Bellah Reader by Robert N. Bellah
RRP: €36.89Booksplease Price: €32.02Perhaps best known for his coauthored bestselling books Habits of the Heart and The Good Society, Robert N. Bellah is a truly visionary leader in the social study of religion. For more than four... -
Relative Races: Genealogies of Interracial Kinship in Nineteenth-Century America by Brigitte Fielder
RRP: €32.12Booksplease Price: €27.94In Relative Races, Brigitte Fielder presents an alternative theory of how race is ascribed. Contrary to notions of genealogies by which race is transmitted from parents to children, the examples... -
Sensory Experiments: Psychophysics, Race, and the Aesthetics of Feeling by Erica Fretwell
RRP: €32.12Booksplease Price: €27.94In Sensory Experiments, Erica Fretwell excavates the nineteenth-century science of psychophysics and its theorizations of sensation to examine the cultural and aesthetic landscape of feeling in...