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Sexuality by Robert A. Nye 9780192880192
RRP: $107.25Booksplease Price: $94.07Sexuality has always been an obsessive human concern; it has often been the real subject of cultural, religious, and political discourses that did not dare to mention it or did not have the language... -
Beowulf: A New Telling by Robert E Nye Nye
RRP: $13.63Booksplease Price: $12.23Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780440905608Author Robert NyeFormat PaperbackPage Count 112Imprint Random House USA IncPublisher... -
Masculinity and Male Codes of Honor in Modern France by Robert A. Nye 9780520215108
Booksplease Price: $65.21In this study of upper-class masculinity from the end of the ancien regime in 1789 to the end of World War I, Robert Nye argues that manhood, masculinity, and male sexuality is, like femininity, a... -
Masculinity and Male Codes of Honor in Modern France by Robert A. Nye 9780195046496
Booksplease Price: $122.93After a decade of works on women's history, historians are becoming aware of the dearth of literature on men's history. Professor Nye addresses this gap in a study of evolving definitions of... -
Crime, Madness and Politics in Modern France: The Medical Concept of National Decline by Robert A. Nye 9780691612614
RRP: $113.10Booksplease Price: $91.24Robert A. Nye places in historical context a medical concept of deviance that developed in France in the last half of the nineteenth century, when medical models of cultural crisis linked thinking... -
Baseball in Newark by Robert L Cvornyek 9780738513263
RRP: $48.73Booksplease Price: $31.96Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780738513263Author Robert CvornyekFormat PaperbackPage Count 128Imprint Arcadia PublishingPublisher... -
Baseball in Newark by Robert Louis Cvornyek 9781531609009
RRP: $48.73Booksplease Price: $39.88Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781531609009Author Robert Louis CvornyekFormat HardbackPage Count 130Imprint Arcadia Publishing... -
God with Us, God Within Us: Reflections on the Liturgy by Roberta J Nye 9780595199358
RRP: $38.98Booksplease Price: $30.95Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780595199358Author Roberta J NyeFormat PaperbackPage Count 276Imprint iUniversePublisher... -
The Crowd Gustave Le Bon 9781560007883
RRP: $99.43Booksplease Price: $88.98Gustav Le Bon's The Crowd is not only a classic, but one of the best-selling scientific books in social psychology and collective behavior ever written. Here, Le Bon analyzes the nature of crowds and... -
War, Peace and International Order?: The Legacies of the Hague Conferences of 1899 and 1907 Maartje Abbenhuis (University of Auckland, New Zealand) 9781138332027
RRP: $95.53Booksplease Price: $85.68The exact legacies of the two Hague Peace Conferences remain unclear. On the one hand, diplomatic and military historians, who cast their gaze to 1914, traditionally dismiss the events of 1899 and... -
Pierrot and His World: Art, Theatricality, and the Marketplace in France, 1697–1945 Marika Takanishi Knowles 9781526194718
RRP: $48.75Booksplease Price: $46.43Pierrot, a theatrical stock character known by his distinctive costume of loose white tunic and trousers, is a ubiquitous figure in French art and culture. This richly illustrated book offers an... -
Faces of Degeneration: A European Disorder, c.1848-1918 by Daniel Pick
RRP: $46.80Booksplease Price: $44.69This book investigates the specific conception and descent of a language of 'degeneration' from 1848-1918, with particular reference to France, Italy and England. Daniel Pick shows how in the... -
Homosexuality in Modern France by Jeffrey Merrick 9780195093032
Booksplease Price: $136.13This volume explores the realities and representations of same-sex sexuality in France in the eighteenth, nineteenth, and twentieth centuries, the period that witnessed the emergence of... -
The Dreyfus Affair's Literary Politics Roderick Cooke 9781802077988
Booksplease Price: $232.48The Dreyfus Affair's Literary Politics offers a new interpretation of writers' political engagements in the crisis that ended the French nineteenth century, following the wrongful treason conviction... -
The Dreyfus Affair’s Literary Politics by Roderick Cooke 9781836244332
RRP: $68.23Booksplease Price: $64.17The Dreyfus Affair's Literary Politics offers a new interpretation of writers' political engagements in the crisis that ended the French nineteenth century, following the wrongful treason conviction... -
French Masculinities: History, Politics and Culture by Christopher E. Forth 9780230006614
RRP: $222.30Booksplease Price: $199.29This volumes offers a comprehensive and critical overview of ideas of how virilite has been imagined in France from the Eighteenth century. Incorporating insights of cultural and social historians,... -
Secular Spirituality: Reincarnation and Spiritism in Nineteenth-Century France by Lynn L. Sharp 9780739113394
Booksplease Price: $87.28Secular Spirituality challenges the traditional dichotomy between Enlightenment reason and religion. It follows French romantic socialists' and spiritists' search for a new spirituality based on... -
Homosexuality in French History and Culture by Jeffrey Merrick 9781560232636
RRP: $91.63Booksplease Price: $82.37Deconstruct changing representations of homosexuality with this important new work of cultural criticism! Homosexuality in French History and Culture explores episodes, patterns, and images of... -
Jewishness and Masculinity from the Modern to the Postmodern Neil R. Davison 9781138878495
RRP: $103.33Booksplease Price: $92.31This study examines the impact of racial, gender, and religious constructs of Jewish masculinity on a select group of male writers including George Du Maurier, Theodor Herzl, Ernest Hemingway, James... -
The Battle for Children: World War II, Youth Crime, and Juvenile Justice in Twentieth-Century France by Sarah Fishman
RRP: $150.05Booksplease Price: $121.66The Battle for Children links two major areas of historical inquiry: crime and delinquency with war and social change. In a study based on impressive archival research, Sarah Fishman reveals the... -
Homosexuality in Modern France by Jeffrey Merrick 9780195093049
RRP: $85.78Booksplease Price: $62.42This volume explores the realities and representations of same-sex sexuality in France in the eighteenth, nineteenth, and twentieth centuries, the period that witnessed the emergence of... -
Twentieth-Century Sexuality: A History Angus McLaren (University of Victoria, Canada) 9780631208136
RRP: $85.70Booksplease Price: $80.67This book provides a fascinating history of sexuality in twentieth-century Europe and North America. Angus McLaren draws upon legal, medical and literary sources to demonstrate how modern sexuality... -
Midlife Crisis: The Feminist Origins of a Chauvinist Cliche by Susanne Schmidt
Booksplease Price: $42.88The phrase "midlife crisis" today conjures up images of male indulgence and irresponsibility--an affluent, middle-aged man speeding off in a red sports car with a woman half his age--but before it... -
The Science of Proof: Forensic Medicine in Modern France by E. Claire Cage 9781009198332
RRP: $171.60Booksplease Price: $162.81The Science of Proof traces the rise of forensic medicine in late eighteenth- and nineteenth-century France and examines its implications for our understanding of expert authority. Tying real life... -
Cultures of the Abdomen: Diet, Digestion, and Fat in the Modern World by Christopher E. Forth 9781349528806
Booksplease Price: $91.14We live in a world obsessed with abdomens. Whether we call it the belly, tummy, or stomach, we take this area of the body for granted as an object of our gaze, the subject of our obsessions, and the... -
The Face of Medicine: Visualising Medical Masculinities in Late Nineteenth-Century Paris Mary Hunter 9781526118820
RRP: $48.75Booksplease Price: $38.10This book examines the overlapping worlds of art and medicine in late-nineteenth-century France. It sheds new light on the relevance of the visual in medical and scientific cultures, and on the... -
Violette Noziere: A Story of Murder in 1930s Paris by Sarah Maza
RRP: $97.50Booksplease Price: $79.31On an August evening in 1933, in a quiet, working-class neighborhood in Paris, eighteen-year-old Violette Noziere gave her mother and father glasses of barbiturate-laced 'medication', which she told... -
Violette Noziere: A Story of Murder in 1930s Paris by Sarah Maza 9780520272729
RRP: $48.75Booksplease Price: $41.44On an August evening in 1933, in a quiet, working-class neighborhood in Paris, eighteen-year-old Violette Noziere gave her mother and father glasses of barbiturate-laced "medication", which she told... -
Bourdieu and Historical Analysis by Philip S. Gorski
Booksplease Price: $75.76The French sociologist Pierre Bourdieu had a broader theoretical agenda than is generally acknowledged. Introducing this innovative collection of essays, Philip S. Gorski argues that Bourdieu's... -
Hysterical Men: The Hidden History of Male Nervous Illness by Mark S. Micale 9780674031661
RRP: $75.95Booksplease Price: $63.92Over the course of several centuries, Western masculinity has successfully established itself as the voice of reason, knowledge, and sanity-the basis for patriarchal rule-in the face of massive... -
Sex, Violence, and the Avant-Garde: Anarchism in Interwar France by Richard D. Sonn
Booksplease Price: $64.27By the end of World War I, the conflict between anarchism and the state had largely been eclipsed by the competing forces of liberalism, fascism, and communism. To combat their slide into... -
What is Gender History? Sonya O. Rose (University of Michigan) 9780745646152
RRP: $31.18Booksplease Price: $29.91This book provides a short and accessible introduction to the field of gender history, one that has vastly expanded in scope and substance since the mid 1970s. Paying close attention to both classic... -
What is Gender History? Sonya O. Rose (University of Michigan) 9780745646145
Booksplease Price: $90.27This book provides a short and accessible introduction to the field of gender history, one that has vastly expanded in scope and substance since the mid 1970s. Paying close attention to both classic... -
Blessed Motherhood, Bitter Fruit: Nelly Roussel and the Politics of Female Pain in Third Republic France by Elinor Accampo
RRP: $86.78Booksplease Price: $64.74Nelly Roussel (1878-1922)-the first feminist spokeswoman for birth control in Europe-challenged both the men of early twentieth-century France, who sought to preserve the status quo, and the women... -
French Salons: High Society and Political Sociability from the Old Regime to the Revolution of 1848 by Steven Kale 9780801877292
Booksplease Price: $89.31Among the most enduring of French cultural institutions, the salon, is among the most misunderstood. Seen primarily as a venue for apolitical social gatherings, the salon's influence is generally... -
Playboys and Mayfair Men: Crime, Class, Masculinity, and Fascism in 1930s London by Angus McLaren 9781421423470
RRP: $41.93Booksplease Price: $32.25In December 1937, four respectable young men in their twenties, all products of elite English public schools, conspired to lure to the luxurious Hyde Park Hotel a representative of Cartier, the... -
French Salons: High Society and Political Sociability from the Old Regime to the Revolution of 1848 by Steven Kale
Booksplease Price: $52.85Among the most enduring of French cultural institutions, the salon, is among the most misunderstood. Seen primarily as a venue for apolitical social gatherings, the salon's influence is generally... -
Contested Paternity: Constructing Families in Modern France by Rachel G. Fuchs 9780801888328
Booksplease Price: $110.08This groundbreaking study examines complex notions of paternity and fatherhood in modern France through the lens of contested paternity. Drawing from archival judicial records on paternity suits,... -
Contested Paternity: Constructing Families in Modern France by Rachel G. Fuchs
Booksplease Price: $64.37This groundbreaking study examines complex notions of paternity and fatherhood in modern France through the lens of contested paternity. Drawing from archival judicial records on paternity suits,... -
Sexual Revolution in Early America Richard Godbeer 9780801878916
RRP: $47.78Booksplease Price: $36.86In 1695, John Miller, a clergyman traveling through New York, found it appalling that so many couples lived together without ever being married and that no one viewed "ante-nuptial fornication" as...