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Trickster: An Anthropological Memoir by Eileen Kane 9781442601789
RRP: £24.99Booksplease Price: £21.66A young trainee anthropologist leaves her violent Mafia-run hometown-Youngstown, Ohio-to study an "exotic" group, the Paiute Indians of Nevada. This is 1964; she'll be "the expert," and they'll be... -
Sightlines: Beyond the Beyond in Ireland by Eileen Kane
RRP: £44.00Booksplease Price: £36.78It is the 1960s, and Ireland is hoping to join what will later become the European Union. The government has devised a plan to stem emigration and save the Irish language by supporting small... -
Russian Hajj: Empire and the Pilgrimage to Mecca by Eileen Kane
RRP: £120.00Booksplease Price: £92.20In the late nineteenth century, as a consequence of imperial conquest and a mobility revolution, Russia became a crossroads of the hajj, the annual Muslim pilgrimage to Mecca. The first book in any... -
Sightlines: Beyond the Beyond in Ireland by Eileen Kane 9781487544997
RRP: £18.99Booksplease Price: £16.47It is the 1960s, and Ireland is hoping to join what will later become the European Union. The government has devised a plan to stem emigration and save the Irish language by supporting small... -
Russian Hajj: Empire and the Pilgrimage to Mecca by Eileen Kane 9781501748509
RRP: £21.99Booksplease Price: £18.78In the late nineteenth century, as a consequence of imperial conquest and a mobility revolution, Russia became a crossroads of the hajj, the annual Muslim pilgrimage to Mecca. The first book in any... -
Personalities, War and Diplomacy: Essays in International History by T. G. Otte
RRP: £55.99Booksplease Price: £49.89Combines essays on the "personality dimension" in the 19th and 20th century international history, placing in a proper historical perspective the impact of individual diplomats, politicians and... -
Russia in Motion: Cultures of Human Mobility since 1850 by John Randolph
RRP: £46.00Booksplease Price: £38.63Since its rapid imperial expansion in the seventeenth century, Russia's politics, society, and culture have exerted a profound influence on movement throughout Eurasia. The circulation of people,... -
Becoming Muslim in Imperial Russia: Conversion, Apostasy, and Literacy by Agnes Nilufer Kefeli
RRP: £56.00Booksplease Price: £44.45In the nineteenth century, the Russian Empire's Middle Volga region (today's Tatarstan) was the site of a prolonged struggle between Russian Orthodoxy and Islam, each of which sought to solidify its... -
Legacy of Blood: Jews, Pogroms, and Ritual Murder in the Lands of the Soviets by Elissa Bemporad 9780190466459
Booksplease Price: £94.90This book traces the legacies of the two most extreme manifestations of tsarist antisemitism-pogroms and blood libels-in the Soviet Union, from 1917 to the early 1960s. Closely intertwined in history...