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Trickster: An Anthropological Memoir by Eileen Kane 9781442601789
RRP: $48.73Booksplease Price: $42.24A 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: $85.80Booksplease Price: $71.72It 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: $234.00Booksplease Price: $179.79In 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: $37.03Booksplease Price: $32.12It 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: $42.88Booksplease Price: $36.62In 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: $109.18Booksplease Price: $97.29Combines 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: $89.70Booksplease Price: $75.33Since 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: $109.20Booksplease Price: $86.68In 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: $185.06This 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...