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Dispossession: Anthropological Perspectives on Russia's War Against Ukraine |
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Catherine Wanner/ 9781032466224/ Price:GBP 35.99
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The Treaty on Conventional Armed Forces in Europe: Russian Foreign and Security Policy, from the End of the USSR to the War in Ukraine |
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Mark Wilcox/ 9783111332000/ Price:EUR 89.95
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Seeing History: Public History in China |
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LI Na/ 9783110996180/ Price:EUR 104.95
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The Anxieties of White Supremacy: Hendrik Verwoerd and the Apartheid Mindset |
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Christoph Marx/ 9783110787269/ Price:EUR 99.95
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Managing Migration in Italy and the United States |
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Lauren Braun-Strumfels/ 9783110996289/ Price:EUR 84.95
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Children and Youth at Risk in Times of Transition: International and Interdisciplinary Perspectives |
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Baard Herman Borge/ 9783111009636/ Price:EUR 84.95
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Japanese Diplomacy and East Asian International Politics, 1918-1931 |
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Ryuji Hattori/ 9781032675930/ Price:GBP 130.00
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Chinese Revolution in Practice: From Movement to the State |
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Guo Wu/ 9781032576206/ Price:GBP 130.00
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A History of American Thought 1860-2000: Thinking the Modern |
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Daniel Wickberg/ 9780367633110/ Price:GBP 34.99
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Sociology and the Holocaust: A Discipline Grapples with History |
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Ronald J. Berger/ 9781032605821/ Price:GBP 34.99
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Globalization in World History |
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Peter N. Stearns/ 9781032572987/ Price:GBP 34.99
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Putin's Dark Ages: Political Neomedievalism and Re-Stalinization in Russia |
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Dina Khapaeva/ 9781032571485/ Price:GBP 35.99
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Fathers of the Lega: Populist Regionalism and Populist Nationalism in Historical Perspective |
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George Newth/ 9781032285658/ Price:GBP 130.00
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Reparations for Slavery and the Slave Trade: A Transnational and Comparative History |
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Ana Lucia Araujo/ 9781350297661/ Price:GBP 24.99
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From World War to Postwar: Revolution, Cold War, Decolonization, and the Rise of American Hegemony, 1943-1958 |
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Andrew N. Buchanan/ 9781350240209/ Price:GBP 21.99
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Stalin and War, 1918-1953: Patterns of Repression, Mobilization, and External Threat |
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David R. Shearer/ 9781032043555/ Price:GBP 35.99
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Great Trade Walls in Imperial China and Spain: Global goods, power struggles and bankruptcy, 1644-1840 |
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Manuel Perez-Garcia/ 9781032459936/ Price:GBP 130.00
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The Routledge Atlas of the Holocaust |
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Martin Gilbert/ 9781032052977/ Price:GBP 24.99
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China in Seven Banquets: A Flavourful History |
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Thomas David DuBois/ 9781789148619/ Price:GBP 18.00
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China in Seven Banquets ranges through 5,000 years of China’s food history in seven iconic meals, from the opulent Eight Treasures fete to the ‘Tail-Burning’ banquet of the Tang Dynasty and the Qing court’s extravagant ‘complete Manchu-Han feast’. We also experience lavish repasts from literature and film, a New Year’s buffet from 1920s Shanghai and a delivery menu from the hyper-global twenty-first century, and even peek at the tables of the not-so-distant future. Drawing upon decades of experience eating his way around China, Beijing-based historian Thomas David DuBois explains why culinary fashions come and go, as well as recreates dozens of historical recipes in a modern kitchen. From fermented elk to absinthe cocktails, this is Chinese food as you’ve never seen it before. |
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Saving the World: How Forests Inspired Global Efforts to Stop Climate Change from 1770 to the Present |
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Brett M. Bennett/ 9781789148749/ Price:GBP 18.00
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Saving the World tells the forgotten history of climatic botany, the idea that forests are essential for creating and recycling rain. Long before the spectre of global warming, societies recognized that deforestation caused drastic climate shifts – as early as 1770, concerns over deforestation spurred legislation to combat human-induced climate change.
Across the twentieth century, climatic botany experienced fluctuating fortunes, influenced by technological advancements and evolving meteorological theories. Remarkably, contemporary scientists are rediscovering the crucial role of forests in rainfall recycling, unaware of the long history of climatic botany.
This enlightening exploration is essential reading for anyone passionate about conserving the world’s forests and preserving our climate for future generations. |
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The Three Kingdoms of Korea: Lost Civilizations |
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Richard D. McBride II/ 9781789148756/ Price:GBP 18.00
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Korea’s Three Kingdoms period is a genuine ‘lost civilization’, during which ancient realms vied for supremacy during the first millennium CE. Nobles from this period’s feuding states adopted and adapted Buddhism and Confucianism through interactions with early medieval Chinese dynasties. In the mid-seventh century, with the assistance of the mighty Chinese Tang empire, the aristocratic Silla state ultimately unified the Three Kingdoms by conquering the militaristic northern kingdom of Kogury? and the culturally sophisticated state of Paekche.
Weaving together legends of founding kings, tales of wars and political intrigue, and narratives of fascinating individuals – including flower boys, wise monks, loyal scholars and virtuous women – this exploration sheds new light on a foundational period that continues to shape Korean identity today. |
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The Teutonic Knights: Rise and Fall of a Religious Corporation |
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Aleksander Pluskowski/ 9781789148688/ Price:GBP 16.95
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This book provides a concise and incisive introduction to the Teutonic Knights, or Teutonic Order, the last of the great military orders established in the twelfth century. Evolving into a powerful religious institution, the Knights left a profound and enduring legacy. Aleksander Pluskowski traces the Order’s journey from a field hospital outside the walls of Acre during the Third Crusade to its remarkable rise as a major territorial ruler and power in northeastern Europe. He charts the three centuries of theocratic rule by this remarkable religious corporation and examines the Order’s notable accomplishments, as well as its failures.
From constructing distinctive fortified convents, including the largest castle in Western Christendom as its headquarters, to the Order’s decline in the fifteenth century due to a devastating war with Poland-Lithuania and the secularization of its Prussian and Livonian branches during the Reformation, The Teutonic Knights is a compelling look at a pivotal force in European history. |
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In the Service of the Shogun: The Real Story of William Adams |
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Frederik Cryns/ 9781789148640/ Price:GBP 16.00
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In 1600, English helmsman William Adams washed ashore in Japan, and was interrogated by Tokugawa Ieyasu, Japan’s most powerful warlord and soon-to-be shogun. Far from executing Adams as a pirate, Ieyasu made him one of his most trusted advisers. This biography traces Adams’s rise from humble pilot to a position of immense influence in Japan’s foreign relations. It unravels the subsequent diplomatic manoeuvres of the Western powers in the shogun’s empire, and Adams’s eventual downfall.
This is the first full biography of Adams based on original Dutch, English, Spanish, Portuguese and Japanese sources, and includes much previously unknown information. Frederik Cryns tells the authentic story of Adams’s chequered life in its historical context, taking us on a compelling journey into Adams’s complex inner feelings and cosmopolitan heart. |
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Nether World: Crime and the Police Courts in Victorian London |
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Drew D. Gray/ 9781789148541/ Price:GBP 16.99
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Nether World presents a fascinating glimpse into the everyday lives of Victorian Londoners through the city’s police courts. These courts were where Londoners of all classes came to complain about those who had hurt, abused or stolen from them. To the courts were brought the capital’s drunks, pickpockets, wife-beaters and fraudsters, and they were judged by magistrates who wielded wide-ranging, summary powers. The courts provide a rich, sometimes moving, often humorous glimpse into everyday life in Victorian London, told through the underexamined court records and the pages of a fast-developing newspaper industry. Nether World provides a picture of a vibrant, ever-changing metropolis and its people, and considers issues that still blight our modern city, such as poverty and homelessness, violence, substance abuse, prostitution and crime. |
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Strike Up the Band: New York City in the Roaring Twenties |
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Helen Crisp/ 9781789148565/ Price:GBP 20.00
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This is the story of the zest for life that gripped New York in the post-war years of the 1920s. The decade ushered in an era of almost unprecedented prosperity and economic expansion that made New York the powerhouse of America and fuelled a wave of creativity in music, fashion, literature and architecture. Strike Up the Band explores how the city became a magnet for a host of outstanding personalities, from literary figures to sports stars, musicians, composers and journalists, and pays a visit to the places they frequented, such as The Cotton Club and Broadway theatres. From skyline to sidewalk the city was redeveloped in the 1920s building boom, with Art Deco becoming the style that dominated the new era. This book is a spirited chronicle of an outstanding decade. |
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Andreas Vesalius: Anatomy and the World of Books |
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Sachiko Kusukawa/ 9781789148527/ Price:GBP 17.95
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In 1543 the young and ambitious physician Andreas Vesalius published what became the most famous book in the history of medicine, On the Fabric of the Human Body. While we tend to think of dissection as a form of destroying the body, Vesalius believed that it helped establish how the human body was constructed. Sachiko Kusukawa shows how Vesalius’s book presented this view through innovative use of Renaissance art, printing technology and the classical tradition. She replaces the conventional view of Vesalius as a proto-modern, anti-authoritarian father of anatomy with a more nuanced account of how Vesalius exploited cultural and technological developments to create an astounding, beautiful book that propelled him to the post of imperial physician and secured his enduring fame. |
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The English Soul: Faith of a Nation |
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Peter Ackroyd/ 9781789148459/ Price:GBP 20.00
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The English Soul portrays the spirit and nature of English Christianity as it has developed over the last 1,400 years. As the predominant faith of the people, Christianity has been the reflection, perhaps the embodiment, of the English soul. This fascinating new history argues that Christianity has been the anchoring and defining doctrine of England, while accepting respectfully that other powerful and significant faiths have also influenced the religious sensibility of this nation.
Peter Ackroyd surveys the lives and faith of the most important figures of English Christianity, from the Venerable Bede to C. S. Lewis, exploring the mysticism of Julian of Norwich and William Blake, the tumultuous years of the Reformation, the emergence of the English Bible, the evangelical tradition, including John Wesley, and the contemporary contest between tradition, revival and atheism. This is an essential, comprehensive and accessible survey of English Christianity. |
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Libertine London: Sex in the Eighteenth-Century Metropolis |
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Julie Peakman/ 9781789148473/ Price:GBP 25.00
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Libertine London investigates the sex lives of women from 1680 to 1830, the period known as the long eighteenth century. It uncovers the various experiences of women, whether mistresses, adulteresses or those involved in the sex trade. From renowned courtesans to downtrodden streetwalkers, Julie Peakman examines the multifaceted lives of these women within brothels, on stage and even behind bars.
Based on new research into court transcripts, asylum records, magazines, pamphlets, satires, songs, theatre plays and erotica, we learn of the gruesome treatment of women who were sexually active outside of marriage. Julie Peakman looks at sex from women’s points of view, undercutting the traditional image of the bawdy eighteenth century to expose a more sordid side, of women left distressed, ostracized and vilified for their sexual behaviour. |
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Outposts of Diplomacy: A History of the Embassy |
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G. R. Berridge/ 9781789148497/ Price:GBP 25.00
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This compelling history traces the evolution of the embassy from its ancient origins to its enduring presence in the modern world. Beginning with the embassy’s precursors in antiquity, Outposts of Diplomacy explores its emergence on the cusp of the Italian Renaissance, its pinnacle during the nineteenth century and its navigation through the challenges of twentieth-century conference diplomacy.
G. R. Berridge investigates how this European institution adapted its staffing, architecture and communication methods to changing international landscapes, including the tumultuous wars of religion and encounters in East Asia. He also describes the expansion of the embassy’s responsibilities, such as providing diplomatic cover for intelligence operations. Infused with vibrant anecdotes of remarkable individuals and influential family dynasties, this book offers a profusely illustrated exploration of the embassy’s rich history. |
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A Devilish Kind of Courage: Anarchists, Aliens and the Siege of Sidney Street |
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Andrew Whitehead/ 9781789148442/ Price:GBP 15.99
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On 3 January 1911, in the heart of London’s mainly Jewish East End, police discovered Latvian revolutionaries wanted for the murder of three officers. A six-hour gunfight ensued, with a fire consuming the besieged building. Winston Churchill, then Home Secretary, arrived at the scene and ordered the blaze not to be extinguished. Afterwards two charred bodies were found; the elusive Peter the Painter, believed to have been the ringleader, remained at large. This gripping episode, known as the ‘Siege of Sidney Street’, was a nationwide sensation and ignited fierce debates on immigration to Britain, political extremism and law enforcement. This book unravels the full story of the siege, the Latvian emigres and their ties to the vibrant anarchist movement in London’s East End. |
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All Mapped Out: How Maps Shape Us |
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Mike Duggan/ 9781789148367/ Price:GBP 16.00
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Maps go far beyond just showing us where things are located. All Mapped Out is an exploration of how maps impact our lives on social and cultural levels. This book takes readers on a journey through the fascinating history of maps, from ancient cave paintings and stone carvings to the digital interfaces we rely on today. But it’s not just about the maps themselves; it’s about the people behind them. Discover how maps have affected societies, influenced politics and economies, impacted the environment, and even shaped our sense of personal identity. Mike Duggan uncovers the incredible power of maps to shape the world and the knowledge we consume. This is a unique and eye-opening perspective on the significance of maps in our daily lives. |
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How the Spanish Empire Was Built: A 400-Year History |
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Felipe Fernandez-Armesto/ 9781789148404/ Price:GBP 25.00
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Sixteenth-century Spain was small, poor, disunited and sparsely populated. Yet the Spaniards and their allies built the largest empire the world had ever seen. How did they achieve this?
Felipe Fernandez-Armesto and Manuel Lucena Giraldo argue that Spain’s engineers were critical to this venture. The Spanish invested in infrastructure to the advantage of local power brokers, enhancing the abilities of incumbent elites to grow wealthy on trade and widening the arc of Spanish influence.
Bringing to life stories of engineers, prospectors, soldiers and priests, the authors paint a vivid portrait of Spanish America in the age of conquest. This is a dazzling new history of the Spanish Empire, and a new understanding of empire itself, as a venture marked as much by collaboration as oppression. |
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Analyzing Black History From Slavery Through Racial Profiling by Police |
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Janelle Christine Simmons/ 9781668485422/ Price:US$ 165.00
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Around the world, Black individuals still fight for their rights. It is important to see the roots, the progression, and current state of both Black discrimination and Black liberation. In order to gain a complete understanding of this journey, a complete view of Black history is needed.
Analyzing Black History From Slavery Through Racial Profiling by Police gives a historical overview of the transatlantic slave trade and police brutality. This book addresses various systemic injustices that have not only build the foundation of the land of the United States of America, but also lands like Australia and South Africa. Covering topics such as police brutality, slave mutinies, and traffic stops, this premier reference source is a dynamic resource for sociologists, historians, government officials, professionals, law enforcement officers, policymakers, students and educators of higher education, researchers, and academicians.
Coverage:
The many academic areas covered in this publication include, but are not limited to:
•Islam and Slavery
•Police Brutality
•Politics of Servitude
•Pretext Stops
•Racial Profiling
•Slave Mutinies
•Slave Patrols
•Stop and Frisk
•Traffic Stops
•Transatlantic Slavery |
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Life Course, Work, and Labour in Global History |
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Josef Ehmer/ 9783111145907/ Price:EUR 24.95
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Moving Workers: Historical Perspectives on Labour, Coercion and Im/Mobilities |
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Claudia Bernardi/ 9783111136516/ Price:EUR 49.95
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RecordCovid19: Historicizing Experiences of the Pandemic |
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Kristopher Lovell/ 9783110735390/ Price:EUR 84.95
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Graffiti Scratched, Scrawled, Sprayed: Towards a Cross-Cultural Understanding |
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Ondrej Skrabal/ 9783111326283/ Price:EUR 139.95
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Comparative and Global Framing of Enslavement |
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Stephan Conermann/ 9783111293165/ Price:EUR 74.95
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Cultural Heritage and Slavery: Perspectives from Europe |
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Stephan Conermann/ 9783111327785/ Price:EUR 94.95
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Family Values: Divorce, Working Women, and Reproductive Rights in Twentieth-Century America |
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Isabel Heinemann/ 9783111035536/ Price:EUR 89.95
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Fragile Families: Marriage and Domestic Life in the Age of Bourgeois Modernity (1750-1900) |
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Joachim Eibach/ 9783111080888/ Price:EUR 79.95
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Genocidal Violence: Concepts, Forms, Impact |
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Frank Jacob/ 9783110780703/ Price:EUR 99.95
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History of Intellectual Culture 2/2023: Modes of Publication |
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Charlotte A. Lerg/ 9783111077833/ Price:EUR 39.95
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Inequality Knowledge: The Making of the Numbers about the Gap between Rich and Poor in Contemporary Britain |
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Felix Romer/ 9783111100142/ Price:EUR 59.95
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A Cultural History of Postwar Japan: Rethinking Kasutori Society |
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Oliviero Frattolillo/ 9781032532059/ Price:GBP 130.00
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The Soviet-Polish War and its Legacy: Lenin's Defeat and the Rise of Stalinism |
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Peter Whitewood/ 9781350238947/ Price:GBP 85.00
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U.S. Presidents during Wartime: A History of Leadership |
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Sean N. Kalic/ 9781440865985/ Price:GBP 95.00
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The Dark Side of Early Soviet Childhood, 1917-1941: Children's Tragedy |
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Boris B. Gorshkov/ 9781350098671/ Price:GBP 85.00
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Enemies of the People under Stalinism |
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Alexey Vinogradov/ 9780761874072/ Price:US$ 19.99
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Beneath Heavy Pines in World War II Louisiana: The Japanese American Internment Experience at Camp Livingston |
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Hayley Johnson/ 9781666923360/ Price:US$ 120.00
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Finding China's Lost Generation: The Beijing Fifty-five |
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John Israel/ 9781538174258/ Price:US$ 35.00
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Interracial Lovers in Revolutionary China |
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D. E. Mungello/ 9781538176269/ Price:US$ 39.00
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Tibet's Fate |
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Warren W. Smith Jr./ 9781538173985/ Price:US$ 39.00
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Civil War Torpedoes and the Global Development of Landmine Warfare |
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Earl J. Hess/ 9781538174289/ Price:US$ 39.00
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Rethinking the Gay and Lesbian Movement |
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Marc Stein/ 9780367761981/ Price:GBP 32.99
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National Perspectives on the Global Second World War |
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Ashley Jackson/ 9780367679538/ Price:GBP 120.00
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Eighteenth-Century Engravings and Visual History in Britain |
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Isabelle Baudino/ 9781032153643/ Price:GBP 120.00
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British Internment and the Internment of Britons: Second World War Camps, History and Heritage |
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Gilly Carr/ 9781350266254/ Price:GBP 85.00
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Fighting Japan's Cold War: Prime Minister Yasuhiro Nakasone and His Times |
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Ryuji Hattori/ 9781032399096/ Price:GBP 120.00
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East Central Europe and Communism: Politics, Culture, and Society, 1943-1991 |
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Sabrina P. Ramet/ 9781032318202/ Price:GBP 34.99
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British Humour and the Second World War: ‘Keep Smiling Through’ |
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Juliette Pattinson/ 9781350201668/ Price:GBP 85.00
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Mountbatten, Cold War and Empire, 1945-79 |
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Adrian Smith/ 9781350230262/ Price:GBP 85.00
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Reinventing Europe: The History of the European Union, 1945 to the Present |
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Brigitte Leucht/ 9781350213074/ Price:GBP 27.99
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Leftist Internationalisms: A Transnational Political History |
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Michele Di Donato/ 9781350247918/ Price:GBP 85.00
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The Humanist Movement in Modern Britain: A History of Ethicists, Rationalists and Humanists |
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Callum G. Brown/ 9781350136601/ Price:GBP 19.99
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Nationalism in Modern Europe: Politics, Identity, and Belonging since the French Revolution |
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Derek Hastings/ 9781350303584/ Price:GBP 24.99
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Inventing the Third World: In Search of Freedom for the Postwar Global South |
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Gyan Prakash/ 9781350268159/ Price:GBP 85.00
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Spain: The Trials and Triumphs of a Modern European Country |
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Michael Reid/ 9780300260397/ Price:US$ 30.00
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Stories Old Towns Tell: A Journey through Cities at the Heart of Europe |
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Marek Kohn/ 9780300267846/ Price:US$ 30.00
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How the West Lost the Peace: The Great Transformation Since the Cold War |
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Philipp Ther/ 9781509550609/ Price:US$ 24.95
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Oxford Revise: GCSE Edexcel History: Anglo-Saxon and Norman England, c1060-88 |
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Aaron Wilkes/ 9781382043007/ Price:GBP 5.99
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Former Neighbors, Future Allies?: German Studies and Ethnography in Dialogue |
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A. Dana Weber/ 9781800738966/ Price:US$ 145.00
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Geriatrics and Ageing in the Soviet Union: Medical, Political and Social Contexts |
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Susan Grant/ 9781350273795/ Price:GBP 85.00
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The Ruling Families of Rus: Clan, Family and Kingdom |
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Christian Raffensperger/ 9781789147155/ Price:GBP 25.00
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This is a new history of the region known as Kyivan Rus’, a state in eastern and northern Europe from the late ninth to the mid-sixteenth century that encompassed a variety of polities and peoples, including Lithuanian, Polish, Ottoman and others. This account for the first time focuses on the history of the region via families, which allows the discussion of a wider region and a larger group of people than has been possible before. The book examines the development of Rus, Lithuania, Muscovy and Tver, and their relations and interconnections with the Mongols, Byzantines and many other peoples. This readable yet thoroughly scholarly book will appeal to anyone with an interest in the history of eastern Europe, a region that is crucial in world politics today. |
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The Art of Anatomy in Medieval Europe |
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Taylor McCall/ 9781789146813/ Price:GBP 16.95
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This book is the first modern history of medieval European anatomical images. Richly illustrated, it explores the many ways in which medieval surgeons, doctors, monks and artists understood and depicted human anatomy. Taylor McCall refutes the common misconception that Renaissance artists and anatomists such as Leonardo da Vinci and Andreas Vesalius were the ‘fathers’ of anatomy, and the first to perform scientific human dissection; on the contrary, she proves these Renaissance figures drew upon centuries of visual and written tradition in their works.
This interdisciplinary book will appeal to general audiences interested in the history of the body and medical professionals curious about the history of their discipline, as well as historians of art, medicine and medieval culture. |
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The Pirates' Code: Laws and Life Aboard Ship |
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Rebecca Simon/ 9781789147117/ Price:GBP 15.99
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Pirates have long captured the imagination with images of cutlass-wielding swashbucklers, eye patches and buried treasure. But what was life really like on a pirate ship? Piracy was a risky, sometimes deadly occupation, and strict orders were essential for everyone’s survival. These ‘Laws’ were sets of rules that determined everything from how much each pirate earned from their plunder to compensation for injuries, punishments and even the entertainment allowed on ships. These rules became known as the ‘Pirates’ Code’, which all pirates had to publicly swear by.
Using primary sources such as eyewitness accounts, trial proceedings and maritime logs, this book explains how these codes were the key to pirates’ success in battle, both on sea and on land. |
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Astray: A History of Wandering |
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Eluned Summers-Bremner/ 9781789147049/ Price:GBP 16.00
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This book explores how, far from being limited to deviation from known pathways or desirable plans of action, wandering is an abundant source of meaning, as intimately involved in the history of our universe as it will be in the future of our planet. In ancient Australian Aboriginal cosmology, in works about the origins of democracy and surviving disasters in ancient Greece, in Eurasian steppe nomadic culture, in the lifeways of the Rom, in the movements of today’s refugees and in our attempts to preserve spaces of untracked online freedom, wandering is the means by which creativity and skills of adaptation are preserved in the interests of ongoing life. Astray is an enthralling look at belonging, and at notions of alienation and hope. |
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Arc of Feeling: The History of the Swing |
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Javier Moscoso/ 9781789146936/ Price:GBP 25.00
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In Arc of Feeling Javier Moscoso investigates the pleasure of oscillation and explores the surprising history of the swing through its meanings and metaphors, noting echoes and coincidences in remote times and places, from the witch’s broom to aerial yoga, and from the gallows to sexual mores.
Taking in cultural history, science, art, anthropology and philosophy, Moscoso explores the presence and role of this artefact in the West, such as in the works of Watteau, Fragonard and Goya, as well as in Eastern traditions, including those from India, Korea, Thailand and China. Linked since ancient times with sex and death, used by gods and madmen and as an erotic and therapeutic instrument, the swing is revealed to be an essential but neglected object in the history of human experience. |
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Travellers through Time: A Gypsy History |
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Jeremy Harte/ 9781789147162/ Price:GBP 20.00
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Romany Gypsies have been variously portrayed as exotic strangers or as crude, violent delinquents; this book is the first real history of the Romany people, from the inside. Jeremy Harte vividly portrays the hardships of the travelling life, the skills of woodland crafts, the colourful artistic traditions, the mysteries of a lost language and the flamboyant displays of weddings and funerals, which are all still present in this secretive culture.
Travellers through Time tells the dramatic story of life on the margin of society from Tudor times to today, offering vivid insights into the hidden world of England’s large Gypsy population. It will appeal to those who are curious about other cultures, as well as those who want to understand the reality behind the prejudice. |
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Alle Thyng Hath Tyme: Time and Medieval Life |
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Gillian Adler/ 9781789146790/ Price:GBP 16.95
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Alle Thyng Hath Tyme recreates medieval people’s experience of time: as continuous and discontinuous, linear and cyclical, embracing Creation and Judgement, shrinking to ‘atoms’ or ‘droplets’ and extending to the silent spaces of eternity. They might measure time by natural phenomena such as sunrise and sunset, the motion of the stars or the progress of the seasons, even as the late medieval invention of the mechanical clock was making time-reckoning more precise. Negotiating these mixed and competing systems, medieval people gained a nuanced and expansive sense of time that rewards attention today. |
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The English Actor: From Medieval to Modern |
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Peter Ackroyd
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The English Actor charts the uniquely English approach to stagecraft. In thirty chapters, Peter Ackroyd describes, with superb narrative skill, the genesis of acting – deriving from the Church tradition of Mystery Plays – through the flourishing of the craft in the Renaissance to modern methods that followed the advent of film and television. The biographies of the most notable and celebrated actors are also explored, right up to the present day. In this book, Ackroyd gives us an original and superbly entertaining appraisal of how actors have acted – and how audiences have responded – since the medieval period, and what we mean by the ‘magic of the stage’. |
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The Hittites: Lost Civilizations |
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Damien Stone/ 9781789146844/ Price:GBP 18.00
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Famed for their skill in battle, the Hittites flourished in central Anatolia from the seventeenth to the thirteenth century BCE. They were much more than a military power, however – their religion held particular reverence for the sun and storms that provided fertility to their land, and their eclectic art produced some of the most unique rock-cut relief carvings of the Bronze Age.
The Hittites is a fine introduction to the culture and art of this vibrant civilization. The book narrates the colourful succession of Hittite kings and their queens, complete with assassinations, intrigues and an evil stepmother banished for witchcraft. It also looks at the Hittite language, the first known example of the Indo-European language from which English descends, and considers the Hittites’ legacy today. |
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Pan: The Great God's Modern Return |
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Paul Robichaud/ 9781789146905/ Price:GBP 12.99
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Pet Revolution: Animals and the Making of Modern British Life |
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Jane Hamlett/ 9781789146868/ Price:GBP 20.00
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Pet Revolution tracks the British love affair with pets over the last two centuries, showing how the kinds of pets we keep, as well as how we relate to and care for them, has changed radically. The book describes the growth of pet foods and medicines, the rise of pet shops, and the development of veterinary care, creating the pet economy. Most importantly, pets have played a powerful emotional role in families across all social classes, creating new kinds of relationships and home lives.
For the first time, through a history of companion animals and the humans who lived with them, this book puts the story of the ‘pet revolution’ alongside other revolutions – industrial, agricultural, political – to highlight how animals contributed to modern British life. |
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Decadent Women: Yellow Book Lives |
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Jad Adams/ 9781789147896/ Price:GBP 20.00
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During the 1890s, British women for the first time began to leave their family homes to seek work, accommodation, and financial and sexual freedom. Decadent Women is an account of some of these women who wrote for the innovative art and literary journal The Yellow Book.
For the first time, based on original research, Jad Adams describes the lives and work of these vibrant and passionate women, from well-connected and fashionable aristocrats to the desperately poor. He narrates the challenges they faced in a literary marketplace, and within a society that overwhelmingly favoured men, showing how they were pioneers of a new style, living lives of lurid adventure and romance, as well as experiencing poverty, squalor, disease and unwanted pregnancy. |
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Radicals and Rogues: The Women Who Made New York Modern |
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Lottie Whalen/ 9781789147865/ Price:GBP 20.00
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This is the story of a group of women whose experiments in art and life set the tone for the rise of New York as the twentieth century’s capital of modern culture. Across the 1910s and ’20s, through provocative creative acts, shocking fashion, political activism and dynamic social networks, these women reimagined modern life and fought for the chance to realize their visions. Taking the reader on a journey through the city’s salons and bohemian hangouts, Radicals and Rogues celebrates the tastemakers, collectors, curators, artists and poets at the forefront of the early avant-garde scene. Focusing on the women trailblazers at the centre of artistic innovation, Lottie Whalen offers a lively new history of remarkable women in early twentieth-century New York City. |
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Aldus Manutius: The Invention of the Publisher |
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Oren Margolis/ 9781789147797/ Price:GBP 17.95
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Aldus Manutius is perhaps the greatest figure in the history of the printed book: in Venice, Europe’s capital of printing, he invented the italic type and issued more first editions of the classics than anyone before or since, as well as Hypnerotomachia Poliphili, the most beautiful and mysterious printed book of the Italian Renaissance.
This is the first monograph in English on Aldus Manutius in over forty years. It shows how Aldus redefined the role of a book printer, from mere manual labourer to learned publisher. As a consequence Aldus participated in the same debates as contemporaries such as Leonardo da Vinci and Erasmus of Rotterdam, making this book an insight into their world too. |
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The Point of the Needle: Why Sewing Matters |
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Barbara Burman/ 9781789147193/ Price:GBP 15.95
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Tens of millions of people sew for necessity or pleasure every day, yet the craft is surprisingly under-appreciated. The Point of the Needle redresses the balance: this is a book that argues for sewing’s place in our lives. It celebrates not only sewing’s recent resurgence but sewists’ creativity, well-being and community. Barbara Burman chronicles new voices of people who sew today, by hand or machine, to explore what they sew, what motivates them, what they value and why they mend things, revealing insights into sewing’s more intimate stories. In our age of superfast fashion with its environmental and social injustices, this eloquent book makes a passionate case for identity, diversity, resilience and memory – what people create for themselves as they stitch and make. |
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Making the Renaissance Man: Masculinity in the Courts of Renaissance Italy |
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Timothy McCall/ 9781789147858/ Price:GBP 25.00
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Making the Renaissance Man explores the images, objects and experiences that fashioned men and masculinity in the courts of fifteenth-century Italy. Across the peninsula, Italian princes fought each other in fierce battles and spectacular jousts; they seduced mistresses, flaunted splendour in lavish rituals of knighting and demonstrated prowess through the hunt, in ostentatious performances of masculinity and rule. Hardly frivolous pastimes, these activities were essential displays of privilege and virility; indeed, violence underlay the cultural veneer of the Italian Renaissance. Timothy McCall investigates representations and ideals of manhood and provides a historically grounded and gorgeously illustrated account of how male identity and sexuality proclaimed power, in a century crucial to the formation of early modern Europe. |
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Squirrel Nation: Reds, Greys and the Meaning of Home |
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Peter Coates/ 9781789147704/ Price:GBP 16.99
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Squirrel Nation is a history of Britain’s two species of squirrel over the past two hundred years. The red squirrel, although rare, is among the most cherished of native species. Grey squirrels, by contrast, are one of the most frequently seen wild creatures in our gardens, parks, towns and countryside, and many Britons consider it to be a foreign interloper, introduced from North America in the late nineteenth century. By examining this animal’s colonization of Britain, Peter Coates also explores timely issues of belonging, nationalism, citizenship and the defence of borders within Britain today. Ultimately, though people are swift to draw distinctions between British squirrels and squirrels in Britain, Squirrel Nation shows that Britain’s two squirrel species have much more in common than at first appears. |
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How the Country House Became English |
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Stephanie Barczewski/ 9781789147605/ Price:GBP 25.00
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Country houses have come to be regarded as quintessentially English, not only in terms of their architectural style but because they appear to embody national values of continuity and insularity. The histories of country houses and England, however, have featured episodes of violence and disruption, so how did country houses come to represent one version of English history, when in reality they reflect its full range of contradictions and complexities? This book explores the evolution of the country house, beginning with the violent impact of the Reformation and Civil War and showing how the political events of the eighteenth century, which culminated in the reaction against the French Revolution, led to country houses being recast as symbols of England’s political stability. |
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The Globe: How the Earth Became Round |
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James Hannam/ 9781789147582/ Price:GBP 16.99
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The Globe tells the story of humanity's quest to discover the form of the world. Philosophers in ancient Greece deduced the true shape of the Earth in the fourth century BCE; the Romans passed the knowledge to India, and from there it spread to Baghdad and Central Asia. In early medieval Europe, Christians debated the matter but long before the time of Columbus, the Catholic Church had accepted that the Earth is round and not flat. However, it wasn’t until the seventeenth century that Jesuit missionaries finally convinced the Chinese that their traditional square-earth cosmology was mistaken. An accessible challenge to long-established beliefs about the history of ideas, The Globe shows how the realization that our planet is a sphere deserves to be considered the first great scientific achievement.
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The Etruscans: Lost Civilizations |
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Lucy Shipley/ 9781789148329/ Price:GBP 12.95
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In the Mind of Stalin |
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James Greensmith/ 9781399063579/ Price:GBP 20.00
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Craftworkers in Nineteenth Century Scotland: Making and Adapting in an Industrial Age. |
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Stana Nenadic/ 9781474493079/ Price:GBP 85.00
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Nuclear Russia: The Atom in Russian Politics and Culture |
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Paul R. Josephson/ 9781350272552/ Price:GBP 12.99
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Creating the Cape Colony: The Political Economy of Settler Colonization |
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Erik Green/ 9781350258235/ Price:GBP 85.00
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Figurations animalieres a travers les textes et l'image en Europe: Du Moyen-Age a nos jours Essais en hommage a Paul J. Smith |
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Alisa van de Haar/ 9789004472006/ Price:EUR 139.00
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Poissons qui grimpent aux arbres, cigognes qui prennent soin de leurs parents… A l’ere premoderne, les textes et les arts visuels forment un fabuleux bestiaire qui revele l’inventivite et la richesse de la reflexion sur les animaux. Les etudes de ce volume vous font decouvrir l’animal dans tous ses etats : est-il une simple image anthropomorphique de l’homme ? Un modele a suivre ? Ou meme un etre autonome, egal ou superieur a l’homme ? Explorant une diversite de textes – fables, poesie, roman, recits de voyage, emblemes – et de medias visuels – peinture, tapisserie, bijouterie, ce volume montre les fructueux echanges premodernes entre l’histoire naturelle et les arts. En interrogeant implicitement la necessite de depasser l’anthropocentrisme et l’anthropomorphisme regnants, il s’inscrit dans les nouvelles tendances de la critique culturelle.
Fish climbing trees, storks taking care of their parents… Premodern textual and visual culture presents us with a fabulous bestiary that reveals ingenious and rich reflections on the animal kingdom. The studies united in this volume will allow you to discover animals in all their possible states: are they simple anthropomorphic images of man? Models to follow? Or autonomous beings, equal or even superior to man? By exploring a large diversity of texts – fables, poetry, novels, travel narratives, emblematic works – and visual media – paintings, tapestries, jewellery, this richly illustrated volume displays the fruitful premodern exchanges between natural history and culture. It follows new trends in cultural criticism by implicitly interrogating the need to move beyond the reigning paradigms of anthropocentrism and anthropomorphism. |
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The Chinese Gazette in European Sources: Joining the Global Public in the Early and Mid-Qing Dynasty |
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Nicolas Standaert/ 9789004472709/ Price:EUR 115.00
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The Chinese gazette as a publicly available government publication was distributed in a variety of formats since the twelfth century. Little is known, however, about its form and content before 1800. By looking at China from the periphery, this study shows how European sources offer a unique way of expanding the knowledge about the gazette of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. Its interconnected history illustrates how the Chinese gazette, as translated by European missionaries, became a major source for reflections on state and society by Enlightenment thinkers. It thus joined a global public much earlier than so far assumed. |
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The Taiji Government and the Rise of the Warrior State: The Formation of the Qing Imperial Constitution |
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Lhamsuren Munkh-Erdene/ 9789004461697/ Price:EUR 190.00
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Read The Taiji Government and you will discover a bold and original revisionist interpretation of the formation of the Qing imperial constitution. Contrary to conventional wisdom, which portrays the Qing empire as a Chinese bureaucratic state that colonized Inner Asia, this book contends quite the reverse. It reveals the Qing as a Warrior State, a Manchu-Mongolian aristocratic union and a Buddhist caesaropapist monarchy. In painstaking detail, brushstroke by brushstroke, the author urges you to picture how the Mongolian aristocratic government, the Inner Asian military-oriented numerical divisional system, the technique of conquest rule, and the Mongolian doctrine of a universal Buddhist empire together created the last of the Inner Asian empires that conquered and ruled what is now China. |
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The Legend of Charlemagne: Envisioning Empire in the Middle Ages |
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Jace Stuckey/ 9789004335646/ Price:EUR 134.00
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There are few historical figures in the Middle Ages that cast a larger shadow than Charlemagne. This volume brings together a collection of studies on the Charlemagne legend from a wide range of fields, not only adding to the growing corpus of work on this legendary figure, but opening new avenues of inquiry by bringing together innovative trends that cross disciplinary boundaries. This collection expands the geographical frontiers, and extends the chronological scope beyond the Middle Ages from the heart of Carolingian Europe to Spain, England, and Iceland. The Charlemagne found here is one both familiar and strange and one who is both celebrated and critiqued. |
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Discourses of Decline: Essays on Republicanism in Honor of Wyger R.E. Velema |
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Joris Oddens/ 9789004435421/ Price:EUR 99.00
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This volume explores the relevance of decline within the republican tradition. While scholarship on republicanism thrives, the idea of decline, which has been prominent in republican theory since antiquity, has received relatively little attention. The essays in this volume take a broad cultural perspective and study a wide variety of authors and (con)texts to situate decline among the key concepts in the history of republicanism. Most contributions focus on the Dutch Republic during the Age of Enlightenment and Revolutions, the area of expertise of Wyger Velema, to whom this volume is dedicated. Other case studies include early modern Spain and Venice, the German Enlightenment, and the Weimar Republic. |
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The Creation of National Identities: Europe, 18th-20th Centuries |
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Anne-Marie Thiesse/ 9789004366701/ Price:EUR 111.00
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There is nothing more international than the formation of national identities. From barbarian epics to ethnographic museums, from national languages to emblematic landscapes or typical costumes, this book retraces the cultural fabrication of the European nations, documenting how national identities are not facts of nature but constructions.
The list of basic elements of a national identity is well known: ancestral founders, a history, heroes, a language, monuments, landscapes, and folklore. Compiling this list was the great enterprise carried out throughout Europe during the last two centuries. Patriotic militancy and the transnational exchanges of ideas and know-how created identities that are very specific, but similar precisely in their difference. |
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Connecting Territories: Exploring People and Nature, 1700-1850 |
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Simona Boscani Leoni/ 9789004412460/ Price:EUR 119.00
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The book analyses from a comparative perspective the exploration of territories, the histories of their inhabitants, and local natural environments during the long eighteenth century. The eleven chapters look at European science at home and abroad as well as at global scientific practices and the involvement of a great variety of local actors in the processes of mapping and recording. Dealing with landlocked territories with no colonies (like Switzerland) and places embedded in colonial networks, the book reveals multifarious entanglements connecting these territories. |
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Slavery in the Black Sea Region, c.900–1900: Forms of Unfreedom at the Intersection between Christianity and Islam |
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Felicia Rosu/ 9789004470712/ Price:EUR 179.00
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Slavery in the Black Sea Region, c.900–1900 explores the Black Sea region as an encounter zone of cultures, legal regimes, religions, and enslavement practices. The topics discussed in the chapters include Byzantine slavery, late medieval slave trade patterns, slavery in Christian societies, Tatar and cossack raids, the position of Circassians in the slave trade, and comparisons with the Mediterranean and the Atlantic. This volume aims to stimulate a broader discussion on the patterns of unfreedom in the Black Sea area and to draw attention to the importance of this region in the broader debates on global slavery. |
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World Fairs and the Global Moulding of National Identities: International Exhibitions as Cultural Platforms, 1851-1958 |
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Joep Leerssen/ 9789004498822/ Price:EUR 118.00
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This volume examines the role of the broad variety of international exhibitions between 1851 and 1958 in two programmatic essays and twelve case studies, covering not just France and the United States, but also, among others, Sweden, Romania, Colombia, Japan and the nascent European Community.
World fairs were global platforms for the construction of national identities. The mix of national self-profiling and commercial exoticism turned the nation into a “brand”, while reframing the nation-state from its nineteenth-century positioning amidst neighbouring enemies towards being a competitor in a global, consumer-oriented trade and entertainment economy. By presenting national identities in “banal” form as feelgood factors, world fairs helped the nation to maintain its grassroots appeal across the century of totalitarianism and internationalism. |
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Ethnography and Encounter: The Dutch and English in Seventeenth-Century South Asia |
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Guido van Meersbergen/ 9789004471696/ Price:EUR 105.00
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The global operations of the East India Companies were profoundly shaped by European perceptions of foreign lands. Providing a cultural perspective absent from existing economic and institutional histories, Ethnography and Encounter is the first book to systematically explore how Company agents’ understandings of and attitudes towards Asian peoples and societies informed institutional approaches to trade, diplomacy, and colonial governance. Its fine-grained comparisons of Dutch and English activities in seventeenth-century South Asia show how corporate ethnography was produced, how it underpinned given modes of conduct, and how it illuminates connections across space and time. Ethnography and Encounter identifies deep commonalities between Dutch and English discourses and practices, their indebtedness to pan-European ethnographic traditions, and their centrality to wider histories of European expansion. |
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Transmissions and Translations in Medieval Literary and Material Culture |
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Megan Henvey/ 9789004499324/ Price:EUR 143.00
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Bringing together the work of scholars from disparate fields of enquiry, this volume provides a timely and stimulating exploration of the themes of transmission and translation, charting developments, adaptations and exchanges – textual, visual, material and conceptual – that reverberated across the medieval world, within wide-ranging temporal and geographical contexts. Such transactions generated a multiplicity of fusions expressed in diverse and often startling ways – architecturally, textually and through peoples’ lived experiences – that informed attitudes of selfhood and ‘otherness’, senses of belonging and ownership, and concepts of regionality, that have been further embraced in modern and contemporary arenas of political and cultural discourse.
Contributors are Tarren Andrews, Edel Bhreathnach, Cher Casey, Katherine Cross, Amanda Doviak, Elisa Foster, Matthias Friedrich, Jane Hawkes, Megan Henvey, Aideen Ireland, Alison Killilea, Ross McIntire, Lesley Milner, John Mitchell, Nino Simonishvili, and Rachael Vause. |
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Printing and Publishing Chinese Religion and Philosophy in the Dutch Republic, 1595-1700: The Chinese Imprint |
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Trude Dijkstra/ 9789004426399/ Price:EUR 127.00
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This book discusses how Chinese religion and philosophy were represented in printed works produced in the Dutch Republic between 1595 and 1700. By focusing on books, newspapers, learned journals, and pamphlets, Trude Dijkstra sheds new light on the cultural encounter between China and western Europe in the early modern period. Form, content, and material-technical aspects of different media in Dutch and French are analysed, providing novel insights into the ways in which readers could take note of Chinese religion and philosophy. This study thereby demonstrates that there was no singular image of China and its religion and philosophy, but rather a varied array of notions on the subject. |
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Petrarch: Everywhere a Wanderer |
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Christopher S. Celenza/ 9781789146738/ Price:GBP 14.95
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Italian poet Francesco Petrarca is widely considered one of the fathers of the modern Italian language. This is the first general account of Petrarch’s life and work in English in over thirty years, and considers how his reputation and identity have changed over the centuries. The book examines Petrarch’s unrequited love for his poetic muse, Laura, the experiences of his university years, his anti-institutional attitude and his endless focus on himself.
Drawing on Petrarch’s Italian and Latin writings, this is a revealing portrait of a paradoxical figure: a man of mystique, historical importance and endless fascination. |
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Nubia: Lost Civilizations |
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Sarah M. Schellinger/ 9781789146592/ Price:GBP 18.00
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Nubia, the often overlooked southern neighbour of Egypt, has been home to groups of vibrant and adaptive peoples for millennia. This book explores the Nubians’ religious, social, economic and cultural histories, from their nomadic origins during the Stone Ages to their rise to power during the Napatan and Meroitic periods, and it concludes with the recent struggles for diplomacy in North Sudan.
Situated among the ancient superpowers of Egypt, Aksum and the Graeco-Roman world, Nubia’s connections with these cultures shaped the country’s history through colonialism and cultural entanglement. Sarah M. Schellinger presents the Nubians through their archaeological and textual remains, reminding readers that they were a rich and dynamic civilization in their own right. |
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The Fires of Lust: Sex in the Middle Ages |
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Katherine Harvey/ 9781789146561/ Price:GBP 12.99
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The medieval humoral system of medicine suggested that it was possible to die from having too much – or too little – sex, while the Roman Catholic Church taught that virginity was the ideal state. Holy men and women committed themselves to lifelong abstinence in the name of religion. Everyone was forced to conform to restrictive rules about whom they could have sex with, in what way, how often, and even when, and could be harshly punished for getting it wrong. Other experiences are more familiar. Like us, medieval people faced challenges in finding a suitable partner or trying to get pregnant (or trying not to). They also struggled with many of the same social issues, such as whether prostitution should be legalized. Above all, they shared our fondness for dirty jokes and erotic images.
By exploring their sex lives, the book brings ordinary medieval people to life, and reveals details of their most personal thoughts and experiences. Ultimately, it provides us with an important and intimate connection to the past. |
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The Full-Length Mirror: A Global Visual History |
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Wu Hung/ 9781789146103/ Price:GBP 25.00
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This book tells two stories about the full-length mirror. One story, through time and space, crisscrosses the globe to introduce a broad range of historical actors: kings and slaves, artists and writers, merchants and craftsmen, courtesans and commoners. The other story explores the connections between object, painting and photography, the full-length mirror providing a new perspective on historical artefacts and their images in art and visual culture.
The Full-Length Mirror represents a new kind of global art history in which ‘global’ is understood in terms of both geography and visual medium, a history encompassing Europe, Asia and North America, and spanning over two millennia from the fourth century BCE to the early twentieth century. |
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Stethoscope: The Making of a Medical Icon |
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Anna Harris/ 9781789146332/ Price:GBP 20.00
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This book explores the colourful past, present and future of an instrument that is, quite literally, close to our hearts. The stethoscope has become the symbol of medicine itself, but how did this come to be? What makes the stethoscope such a familiar and yet charismatic object?
Drawing from a range of fields including history, anthropology, science, technology and sound studies, the book illustrates the variety of roles the stethoscope has played over time. It shows that the stethoscope is not, and has never been, a single entity. It is used to a variety of ends, serves a number of purposes and is open to many interpretations. This is the key to the stethoscope’s enduring presence in the medical and popular imagination. |
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Out of the Depths: A History of Shipwrecks |
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Alan G. Jamieson/ 9781789146196/ Price:GBP 25.00
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Out of the Depths explores all aspects of shipwrecks across 4,000 years, examining their historical context and significance, and showing how shipwrecks can be time capsules, shedding new light on long-departed societies and civilizations. Alan G. Jamieson not only informs readers of the technological developments over the last sixty years that have made the true appreciation of shipwrecks possible, but covers shipwrecks in culture, maritime archaeology, treasure hunters and their environmental impacts.
Although shipwrecks have become less common in recent decades, their implications have become more wide-ranging: since the 1960s, foundering supertankers have caused massive environmental disasters, and in 2021 the blocking of the Suez Canal by the giant container ship Ever Given had a serious impact on global trade. |
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Cloven Country: The Devil and the English Landscape |
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Jeremy Harte/ 9781789146509/ Price:GBP 15.99
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According to legend, the English landscape – so calm on the surface – is really the Devil’s work. Cloven Country tells of rocks hurled into place and valleys carved out by infernal labour. The Devil’s hideous strength laid down great roads in one night, and left scars everywhere as the hard stone melted like wax under those burning feet.
With roots in medieval folklore, this is not the Satan of prayer, but a clumsy ogre, easily fooled by humankind. When a smart cobbler or cunning young wife outwitted him, they struck a blow for the underdog. Only the wicked squire and grasping merchant were beyond redemption, carried off by a black huntsman in the storm. |
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Calling the Spirits: A History of Seances |
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Lisa Morton/ 9781789146493/ Price:GBP 10.99
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Calling the Spirits investigates the eerie history of our conversations with the dead, from necromancy in Homer’s Odyssey to the emergence of Spiritualism – when Victorians were entranced by mediums and the seance was born.
Among our cast are the Fox sisters, teenagers surrounded by ‘spirit rappings’; Daniel Dunglas Home, the ‘greatest medium of all time’; Houdini and Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, whose unlikely friendship was forged, then riven, by the afterlife; and Helen Duncan, the medium whose trial in 1944 for witchcraft proved more popular to the public than news about the war. The book also considers Ouija boards, modern psychics and paranormal investigations, and is illustrated with engravings, fine art (from beyond) and photographs. Hugely entertaining, it begs the question: is anybody there . . .? |
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The Index of Prohibited Books: Four Centuries of Struggle over Word and Image for the Greater Glory of God |
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Robin Vose/ 9781789146578/ Price:GBP 25.00
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For more than four hundred years, the Catholic Church’s Index Librorum Prohibitorum struck terror into the hearts of authors, publishers and booksellers around the world, while arousing ridicule and contempt from many others, especially those in Protestant and non-Christian circles. Biased, inconsistent and frequently absurd in its attempt to ban objectionable texts of every conceivable description – with sometimes fatal consequences – the Index also reflected the deep learning and careful consideration of many hundreds of intellectual contributors over the long span of its storied evolution.
This book constitutes the first full study of the Index of Prohibited Books to be published in English. It examines the reasons behind the Church’s attempts to censor religious, scientific and artistic works, and considers not only why this most sustained of campaigns failed, but what lessons can be learned for today’s debates over freedom of expression and cancel culture. |
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States of Incarceration: Rebellion, Reform, and America's Punishment System |
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Jarrod Shanahan/ 9781789146660/ Price:GBP 15.95
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Inspired by the George Floyd Rebellion, States of Incarceration examines the ongoing reconfiguration of mass incarceration as crucial for understanding how race, class and punishment shape America today. The rise of mass incarceration has coincided with a massive disinvestment in working-class communities, particularly communities of colour, and a commitment to criminalize poverty, addiction and interpersonal violence. As Jarrod Shanahan and Zhandarka Kurti argue, the present is a moment of transition and potential reform of incarceration and, by extension, the American justice system. States of Incarceration provides insights into the rise of mass incarceration and its recent history while focusing on the needs of campaigners struggling with the issues of police and prison abolition, as well as the challenges that lie ahead. It is essential reading for anyone concerned with these questions. |
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Napoleon at Peace: How to End a Revolution |
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William Doyle/ 9781789146172/ Price:GBP 15.99
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The French Revolution facilitated the rise of Napoleon Bonaparte, but after gaining power he knew that his first task was to end it. In this book William Doyle describes how he did so, beginning with the three large issues that had destabilized revolutionary France: war, religion and monarchy. Doyle shows how, as First Consul of the Republic, Napoleon resolved these issues: first by winning the war, then by forging peace with the Church and finally by making himself a monarch.
Napoleon at Peace ends by discussing Napoleon’s one great failure – his attempt to restore the colonial empire destroyed by war and slave rebellion. By the time this was abandoned, the fragile peace with Britain had broken down, and the Napoleonic wars had begun. |
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A Short History of Tomb-Raiding: The Epic Hunt for Egypt's Treasures |
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Maria Golia/ 9781789146295/ Price:GBP 20.00
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To secure a comfortable afterlife, ancient Egyptians built fortress-like tombs and filled them with precious goods, a practice that generated staggering quantities of artefacts over the course of many millennia, but one which has also drawn thieves and tomb-raiders to Egypt since antiquity.
Drawing on modern scholarship, reportage and period sources, this book tracks the history of treasure-seekers in Egypt and the social contexts in which they operated, revealing striking continuities throughout time. Readers will recognize the foibles of today’s politicians and con artists, the perils of materialism, and the cycles of public compliance and dissent in the face of injustice. In describing an age-old pursuit and its timeless motivations, A Short History of Tomb-Raiding shows how much we have in common with our Bronze Age ancestors. |
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Ashoka and the Maurya Dynasty: The History and Legacy of Ancient India's Greatest Empire |
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Colleen Taylor Sen/ 9781789145960/ Price:GBP 25.00
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At its peak in 250 BCE the Maurya Empire was the wealthiest and largest empire in the world, extending across much of modern India, Pakistan and Afghanistan. In this book Colleen Taylor Sen explores the life, achievements and legacy of the Maurya emperor Ashoka, one of the greatest leaders in Indian history. The book relates how, after a bloody war in 261 bce, Ashoka renounced violence and spent the rest of his life promoting religious tolerance, animal rights, environmental protection, peace and multiculturalism – a policy he called Dhamma.
This well-illustrated book explores the legacy and influence of the Mauryas in politics throughout Southeast Asia, China and India, as well as in contemporary popular culture. |
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Shadowland: The Story of Germany Told by Its Prisoners |
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Sarah Colvin/ 9781789146271/ Price:GBP 18.00
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A nation, in the words of Nelson Mandela, ‘should not be judged by how it treats its highest citizens, but its lowest ones’. Shadowland tells the sometimes inspiring, often painful stories of Germany’s prisoners, and thereby shines new light on Germany itself. The story begins at the end of the Second World War, in a defeated country on the edge of collapse, in which orphaned and lost children are forced to live rough, scavenging and stealing to stay alive, often laying the foundations of a ‘criminal career’. While East Germany developed detention facilities for its secret police, West Germany passed prison reform laws, which erected, in the words of a prisoner, ‘little asbestos walls in Hell’. When the Wall fell in 1989 there was the promise of a new start, but how strongly did the wind of change really blow on the inside?
Shadowland is Germany as seen through the lives, experiences, triumphs and tragedies of its lowest citizens. |
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Winters in the World: A Journey through the Anglo-Saxon Year |
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Eleanor Parker/ 9781789146721/ Price:GBP 14.99
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Winters in the World is a beautifully observed journey through the cycle of the year in Anglo-Saxon England, exploring the festivals, customs and traditions linked to the different seasons. Drawing on a wide variety of source material, including poetry, histories and religious literature, Eleanor Parker investigates how Anglo-Saxons felt about the annual passing of the seasons and the profound relationship they saw between human life and the rhythms of nature.
Many of the festivals we celebrate in Britain today have their roots in the Anglo-Saxon period, and this book traces their surprising history, as well as unearthing traditions now long forgotten. It celebrates some of the finest treasures of medieval literature and provides an imaginative connection to the Anglo-Saxon world. |
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Disgrace: Global Reflections on Sexual Violence |
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Joanna Bourke/ 9781789145991/ Price:GBP 20.00
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Disgrace is the first truly global history of sexual violence. The book explores how sexual violence varies widely across time and place, from nineteenth-century peasant women in Ireland who were abducted as a way of forcing marriage, to date-raped high-school students in twentieth-century America, and from girls and women violated by Russian soldiers in 1945 to Dalit women raped by men of higher castes today. It delves into the factors that facilitate violence – including institutions, ideologies and practices – but also gives voice to survivors and activists, drawing inspiration from their struggles. Ultimately, Joanna Bourke intends to forge a transnational feminism that will promote a more harmonious, equal and rape- and violence-free world. |
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Sub Culture: The Many Lives of the Submarine |
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John Medhurst/ 9781789146370/ Price:GBP 16.00
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Sub Culture explores the crucial role of the submarine in modern history, its contribution to scientific progress and maritime exploration, and how it has been portrayed in art, literature, fantasy and film. Ranging from the American Civil War to the destruction of the Kursk, the book examines the submarine’s activities in the First and Second World Wars, the Cold War, and in covert operations and marine exploration to the present day. Citing the submarine, particularly the nuclear submarine, as both ultimate deterrent and doomsday weapon, Sub Culture examines how its portrayal in popular culture has reinforced, and occasionally undermined, the military and political agendas of the nation states that deploy it. |
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Duel Without End: Mankind's Battle with Microbes |
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Stig S. Froland/ 9781789145052/ Price:GBP 25.00
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In this panoramic and up-to-date account, we learn how the Black Death, smallpox, the Spanish flu and other great epidemics have led to enormous suffering and mass death, as well as contributing to the fall of empires and changing the course of history. We also discover how new infectious diseases such as HIV/AIDS and COVID-19 emerge.
Man has struck back at microbes – antibiotics and vaccines have saved millions of lives – but the battle with these relentless, silent enemies is far from won. We face increasing threats from new and unavoidable pandemics, antibiotic resistance and extra-terrestrial microbes. Duel Without End is a fascinating journey through the long history of infection, from the dawn of life to humanity’s future exploration of deep space. |
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The Maya: Lost Civilizations |
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Megan E. O'Neil/ 9781789145502/ Price:GBP 18.00
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The Maya reveals how this ancient civilization – its buildings, ideas, objects and identities – has been perceived, portrayed and exploited over five hundred years in the Americas, Europe and beyond. Megan E. O’Neil summarizes ancient Maya art and history from the Preclassic period to the Spanish invasion, as well as the history of engagement with the ancient Maya, from Spanish invaders in the sixteenth century to later explorers and archaeologists. Taking in scientific literature, visual arts, architecture, world’s fairs and Indigenous activism, she looks at the decipherment of Maya inscriptions, Maya museum exhibitions and artists’ responses, and contemporary Maya people’s engagements with their ancestral past, to explore the history and legacy of this fascinating culture. |
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Opium's Orphans: The 200-Year History of the War on Drugs |
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P. E. Caquet/ 9781789145588/ Price:GBP 25.00
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Opium's Orphans is the first full history of drug prohibition and the ‘war on drugs’. A no-holds-barred but balanced account, it shows that drug suppression was born of historical accident, not rational design. The war on drugs did not originate in Europe or the USA, and even less with President Nixon, but in China. Two Opium Wars, followed by Western attempts to atone for them, gave birth to an anti-narcotics order that has come to span the globe. But has the war on drugs succeeded? As opioid deaths and cartel violence run rampant, contestation becomes more vocal and marijuana is slated for legalization in many places, Opium's Orphans proposes that it is time to go back to the drawing board. |
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The House of Orange in Revolution and Wa:r A European History, 1772-1890 |
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Jeroen Koch/ 9781789145427/ Price:GBP 30.00
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Three rulers from the House of Orange-Nassau reigned over the Netherlands from 1813 to 1890: King William I from 1813 to 1840, King William II from 1840 to 1849 and King William III from 1849 to 1890. Theirs is an epic tale of joy and tragedy, progress and catastrophe, disappointment and glory – all set against the backdrop of a Europe plagued by war and revolution.
The House of Orange in Revolution and War relates one and a half centuries of House of Orange history in a gripping narrative, leading the reader from the last stadholders of the Dutch Republic to the modern monarchy of the early twentieth century, from the French Revolution and the Napoleonic wars to the First World War and the European revolutions that came after it. |
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Where Light in Darkness Lies: The Story of the Lighthouse |
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Veronica della Dora/ 9781789145496/ Price:GBP 25.00
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Suspended between sea and sky, battered by the waves and the wind, lighthouses mark the battlelines between the elements. They guard the boundaries between the solid human world and the primordial chaos of the waters; between stability and instability; between the known and the unknown. As such, they have a strange, universal appeal that few other manmade structures possess.
Engineered to draw the gaze of sailors, lighthouses have likewise long attracted the attention of soldiers and saints, artists and poets, novelists and film-makers, colonizers and migrants, and, today more than ever, heritage tourists and developers. Their evocative locations, their isolation and resilience have turned these structures into complex metaphors, magnets for stories. This book explores the rich story of the lighthouse in the human imagination. |
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The Inca: Lost Civilizations |
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Kevin Lane/ 9781789145465/ Price:GBP 18.00
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In their heyday the Inca ruled over the largest land empire in the Americas, reaching the pinnacle of South American civilization. Known as the ‘Romans of the Americas’, these fabulous engineers converted the vertiginous, challenging landscapes of the Andes into a fertile region able to feed millions, alongside building royal estates such as Machu Picchu and a 40,000-kilometre road network crisscrossed by elegant braided-rope suspension bridges.
Beautifully illustrated, this book examines the mythical origins and history of the Inca, as well as their economy, society, technology and beliefs. Kevin Lane reconsiders previous theories while proposing new interpretations concerning the timeline of Inca expansion, their political organization and the role of women in their society, while showcasing how their legacy endures today. |
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Egypt: Lost Civilizations |
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Christina Riggs/ 9781789145878/ Price:GBP 12.95
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Often characterized as a ‘lost’ civilization that was ‘discovered’ by adventurers and archaeologists, ancient Egypt has fascin--ated and inspired many other cultures. Classical Greek and Roman writers admired ancient Egyptian philosophy; in the eighteenth century, secret societies like the Freemasons still upheld the wisdom of ancient Egypt. But why? Christina Riggs introduces the history, art and religion of Egypt from its earliest dynasties to its final fall to Rome, and explores the influence ancient Egypt has had through the centuries.
Today, ancient Egypt is ubiquitous in museums, television documentaries and tattoo parlours – wherever people look for a past as ancient and impressive as they come. Looking for a vanished past, Riggs argues, always serves some purpose in the present. |
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Hope and Fear: Modern Myths, Conspiracy Theories and Pseudo-History |
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Ronald H. Fritze/ 9781789145397/ Price:GBP 20.00
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Is a secret and corrupt Illuminati conspiring to control world affairs and bring about a New World Order? Was Donald Trump a victim of massive voter fraud? Is Elizabeth II a shape-shifting reptilian alien? Who is doing all this plotting?
In Hope and Fear, Ronald H. Fritze explores the fringe ideas and conspiracy theories people have turned to in order to make sense of the world around them, from myths about the Knights Templar and the Ten Lost Tribes of Israel to Nazis and the occult, the Protocols of Zion and UFOs. As Fritze reveals, when conspiracy theories, myths and pseudo-history dominate a society’s thinking, facts, reality and truth fall by the wayside. |
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Blood, Sweat and Earth: The Struggle for Control over the World's Diamonds Throughout History |
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Tijl Vanneste/ 9781789144352/ Price:GBP 25.00
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Blood, Sweat and Earth is a hard-hitting historical expose of the diamond industry, focusing on the exploitation of workers and the environment, and the monopolization of uncut diamonds, and how little this has changed over time. It describes the use of forced labour and political oppression by Indian sultans, the Portuguese in Brazil, and South African industrialists, as well as the hoarding of diamonds to maintain high prices, from the English East India Company to De Beers.
While recent discoveries of diamond deposits in Siberia, Canada and Australia have brought an end to monopolization, the book shows that advances in the production of synthetic diamonds have not yet been able to eradicate the exploitation caused by the world’s unquenchable thirst for sparkle. |
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Most Unimaginably Strange: An Eclectic Companion to the Landscape of Iceland |
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Chris Caseldine/ 9781789144727/ Price:GBP 25.00
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Described by William Morris as ‘Most Unimaginably Strange’, the landscape of Iceland has fascinated and inspired travellers, scientists, artists and writers throughout history. This book provides a contemporary understanding of the landscape as a whole, not only its iconic glaciers and volcanoes, but also its deserts, canyons, plants and animals.
The book takes in historic and modern scientific explications of the landscape and animals, as well as accounts of early visitors to the land. These were fascinating people, some eccentric but most drawn to Iceland by a fascination with all things northern, a desire to experience the land of the sagas, or plain scientific and touristic curiosity. Featuring many spectacular illustrations, this is a fine exploration of a most singular landscape. |
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History of Catalonia and Its Implications for Contemporary Nationalism and Cultural Conflict |
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Antonio Cortijo Ocana/ 9781799866145/ Price:US$ 215.00
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Recent political developments in Spain regarding Catalonia have prompted scholars from several disciplines to research the singularity of this region and of the territories of the old Crown of Aragon. Against the backdrop of the pro-independence movement, those in favor and against have insisted on the particularity or commonality of Catalonia and the Paisos Catalans (Catalan-speaking areas) within the Spanish State. From the Catalan point of view, their singularity is not sufficiently recognized, and respect for their institutions and their autonomy is at stake to the point that many prefer to secede from Spain. Singularity or its absence play a relevant role in the construction of identity, which seems to be key in understanding many Catalans' attitudes towards the central government, a fluid concept that allows for a variety of interpretations.
History of Catalonia and Its Implications for Contemporary Nationalism and Cultural Conflict is a critical reference book that centers around the topic of Catalan cultural and linguistic identity. With input from renowned scholars in several fields, the chapters explore the issue of Catalan identity from a variety of perspectives. While highlighting the legal and historical component to identity and also sociolinguistics and political linguistics, this book is ideally intended for scholars in the fields of Hispanic studies, history, linguistics, political science, and literary studies as well as practitioners, stakeholders, researchers, academicians, and students interested in contemporary politics and the political developments in Spain regarding Catalonia.
Topics Covered
The many academic areas covered in this publication include, but are not limited to:
•Catalan Culture
•Catalan Identity
•Catalan Sociolinguistics
•Contemporary Politics
•Cultural Studies
•Hispanic Studies
•History
•Linguistics
•Political Science
•Sociology
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Asian Tragedies in the Americas: Chinese, Japanese, and Korean Stories |
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Won K. Yoon/ 9781793628558/ Price:US$ 39.99
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The Workers' Opposition in the Russian Communist Party: Documents, 1919-30 |
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Barbara C. Allen/ 9789004248502/ Price:EUR 245.00
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The Russian Workers’ Opposition in 1919-21 advocated trade union management of the Soviet economy and worker dominance of the Russian Communist Party’s leading bodies. The Workers’ Opposition in the Russian Communist Party: Documents, 1919-30 comprises articles, speeches, theses, memoranda, protocols, resolutions, letters, diary entries, and other documents pertaining to the activity of the Workers’ Opposition group during its existence and of its individual former members after the group dissolved and until its key members ceased their participation in dissenting political activities by 1930. Most of the documents in the collection have never before been published in English and many have not been published in Russian. It will appeal to those who study Marxism, trade unions, and Soviet history. |
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The Diplomatic Enlightenment: Spain, Europe, and the Age of Speculation |
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Edward Jones Corredera/ 9789004469068/ Price:EUR 107.00
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This book reconfigures the study of the origins of the Enlightenment in the Spanish Empire. Challenging dominant interpretations of the period, this book shows that early eighteenth-century Spanish authors turned to Enlightenment ideas to reinvent Spain’s role in the European balance of power. And while international law grew to provide a legal framework that could safeguard peace, Spanish officials, diplomats, and authors, hardened by the failure of Spanish diplomacy, sought instead to regulate international relations by drawing on investment, profit, and self-interest. The book shows, on the basis of new archival research, that the Diplomatic Enlightenment sought to turn the Spanish Empire into a space for closer political cooperation with other European and non-European states and empires. |
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Medieval and Modern Civil Wars: A Comparative Perspective |
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Jon Viear Siguresson/ 9789004461475/ Price:EUR 167.00
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Most medieval historians have explained the ‘civil wars’ in Scandinavia in the 12th and 13th centuries as internal conflicts within a predominantly national and implicitly state-centered politico-constitutional framework. This book argues that the conflicts during this period should be viewed as less disruptive, less internal and less state-centered than in previous research. It does so through six articles comparing the civil wars in Scandinavia with civil wars in Afghanistan and Guinea-Bissau in the last decades, applying theories and perspectives from anthropology and political science. Finally, four articles discuss civil wars in a broader perspective. |
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Jesuit Mission and Submission: Qing Rulership and the Fate of Christianity in China, 1644-1735 |
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Litian Swen/ 9789004447004/ Price:EUR 39.00
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Visualizing the Past in Italian Renaissance Art: Essays in Honor of Brian A. Curran |
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Jennifer Cochran Anderson/ 9789004391529/ Price:EUR 149.00
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Global Commodity Chains and Labor Relations |
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Andrea Komlosy/ 9789004448032/ Price:EUR 126.00
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The First World War and the Nationality Question in Europe: Global Impact and Local Dynamics |
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Xose M. Nunez Seixas/ 9789004437951/ Price:EUR 137.00
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Before Enlightenment: Play and Illusion in Renaissance Humanism |
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Timothy Kircher/ 9789004442696/ Price:EUR 111.00
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Japan's Private Spheres: Autonomy in Japanese History, 1600-1930 |
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William Puck Brecher/ 9789004447547/ Price:EUR 130.00
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Landscape as Weapon: Cultures of Exhaustion and Refusal |
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John Beck/ 9781789143058/ Price:GBP 18.00
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Once the playgrounds and raw material for the avant-garde, abandoned places and things – decommissioned military sites, post-industrial spaces, contested and forgotten edgelands – are now just as likely to be seen as assets for entrepreneurs or connoisseurs of the authentically worn-out. This is the age of patina, where the material remains of times past – the fields and factories, test sites, back alleys, machines and statues – are coveted, adored, mourned and commemorated, as well as sometimes despised. Through an exploration of a wide range of recent film, photography, art and writing about place, Landscape as Weapon argues that these abandoned sites are a critical arena for debate about the meaning of space and time under late capitalism. |
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Material World: The Intersection of Art, Science, and Nature in Ancient Literature and its Renaissance Reception |
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Guy Hedreen/ 9789004423763/ Price:EUR 125.00
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Battlefield Emotions in Late Antiquity: A Study of Fear and Motivation in Roman Military Treatises |
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?ukasz Ro?ycki/ 9789004462410/ Price:EUR 145.00
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De l’office a la dignite: L’ecolatre cathedral en France septentrionale du ixe au xiiie siecle |
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Thierry Kouame/ 9789004447806/ Price:EUR 138.00
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Fate and Fortune in European Thought, ca. 1400-1650 |
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Ovanes Akopyan/ 9789004359727/ Price:EUR 115.00
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The Aztecs: Lost Civilizations |
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Frances F. Berdan/ 9781789143607/ Price:GBP 18.00
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In this rich and surprising book, Frances F. Berdan shines fresh light on the enigmatic, ancient Aztecs, the Nahuatl-speaking people living in the Basin of Mexico from ad 1325 to 1521. She casts her net wide, covering topics as diverse as ethnicity, empire-building, palace life, etiquette, origin myths and human sacrifice. While sometimes described as ‘stone age’, the Aztecs’ achievements were remarkable. They built wondrous city-states such as Tenochtitlan and Texcoco, constructed lofty temples and produced fine arts in precious stones, gold and shimmering feathers. They crafted beautiful poetry and studied the sciences. They had schools and libraries, entrepreneurs and money, and a bewildering array of deities and dramatic ceremonies. Based on the latest research and lavishly illustrated, this book reveals the Aztecs to be a civilization of sophistication and finesse. |
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Strange Bright Blooms: A History of Cut Flowers |
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Randy Malamud/ 9781789144017/ Price:GBP 29.00
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Virginia Woolf’s novel famously begins – ‘Mrs Dalloway said she would buy the flowers herself.’ Of course she would: why would anyone surrender the best part of the day to someone else? Flowers grace our lives at moments of celebration and despair. ‘We eat, drink, sing, dance, and flirt with them’, writes Kakuzo Okakura. Flowers brighten our homes, our parties, and our rituals with incomparable notes of natural beauty, but the ‘nature’ in these displays is tamed and conscribed. This book analyzes the transplanted nature of cut flowers – of our relationship with them and the careful curation of their very existence.
It is a picaresque, unpredictable ramble through the world of flowers, encompassing paintings, murals, fashion, and public art, glass flowers, pressed flowers, flowery church hats, weaponized flowers, deconstructed flowers, flower power. . . and much more. |
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The Sumerians: Lost Civilizations |
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Paul Collins/ 9781789144154/ Price:GBP 18.00
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The Sumerians are widely believed to have created the world’s earliest civilization on the fertile floodplains of southern Iraq from about 3500 to 2000 BC. They have been credited with the invention of nothing less than cities, writing and the wheel, and therefore hold an ancient mirror to our own urban, literate world. But is this picture correct? Paul Collins reveals how the idea of a Sumerian people was assembled from the archaeological and textual evidence uncovered in Iraq and Syria over the last 150 years. Reconstructed through the biases of those who unearthed them, the Sumerians were never simply lost and found, but reinvented a number of times, both in antiquity and in the more recent past. |
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Tibet: A History Between Dream and Nation State |
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P. Christiaan Klieger/ 9781789144024/ Price:GBP 25.00
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The history of Tibet has long intrigued the world, as well as the dilemma of its future – will it ever return to independence or will it always remain part of China? Is a ‘Tibet outside of Tibet’ a viable expression of self-determination? How will the succession of the aging and revered Dalai Lama affect Tibet and the world?
This book makes the case for a fully Tibetan independent state for much of its 2,500-year existence; a great empire from the seventh to ninth centuries; in 1249, then a territory of the Mongol Empire that annexed China itself in 1279. Tibet reclaimed its independence from China in 1368. The Manchus later exerted their direct influence in Tibetan affairs but by 1840 Tibet began to resume its independent course until communist China invaded in 1950. Since that time, Tibetan nationalism has been maintained primarily by over 100,000 refugees living abroad. |
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An Inky Business: A History of Newspapers from the English Civil Wars to the American Civil War |
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Matthew J. Shaw/ 9781789143867/ Price:GBP 15.95
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An Inky Business is a book about the making and printing of news. It is a history of ink, paper, printing press and type, and of those who made and read newspapers in Britain, continental Europe and America from the British Civil Wars to the Battle of Gettysburg in the United States nearly 200 years later. But it is also an account of what news was and how the idea of news became central to public life. Newspapers ranged from purveyors of high seriousness to carriers of scurrilous gossip.
Our current obsession with ‘fake news’ – the worrying revelations or hints about how money, power and technology shape and control the press, and circulation of what is believed to be genuine information – has dark early-modern echoes. |
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Paths of Fire: The Gun and the World It Made |
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Andrew Nahum/ 9781789143973/ Price:GBP 25.00
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If you squeeze the trigger of a Kalashnikov a bullet is kicked up the barrel by an archaic chemical explosion that would have been quite familiar to Oliver Cromwell or General Custer.
The gun, antique, yet contemporary, still dominates the world. Political and international structures and consumer culture have been moulded by research that firearms have provoked; the new science of Galileo and Newton owed much to the Renaissance study of ballistics as well as more recent mass production and artificial intelligence. This book follows the history of the gun from the first cannons, to modern gunnery, to Star Wars and the yet to be realised electrical futures of rays and beams. |
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Broken Dreams: An Intimate History of the Midlife Crisis |
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Mark Jackson/ 9781789143959/ Price:GBP 25.00
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The midlife crisis has become a cliche in modern society. Since the mid-twentieth century, the term has been used to explain infidelity in middle-aged men, disillusionment with personal achievements, the pain and sadness associated with separation and divorce, and the fear of approaching death. This book provides a meticulously researched account of the social and cultural conditions in which middle-aged men and women began to re-evaluate their hopes and dreams, reassess their relationships, and seek new forms of identity and fresh pathways to self-satisfaction. Drawing on a rich seam of literary, medical, media and cinematic sources, as well as personal accounts, it explores how the crises of middle-aged men and women were shaped by increased life expectancy, changing family structures, shifting patterns of work, and the rise of individualism. |
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Twins: Superstitions and Marvels, Fantasies and Experiments |
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William Viney/ 9781789144086/ Price:GBP 20.00
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Human twins have many meanings and different histories. They have been seen as gods and monsters, signs of danger, death and sexual deviance. They are taken as objects of wonder and violent repression, the subjects of scientific experiment. Now millions are born through fertility technologies. Their history is often buried in philosophies and medical theories, religious and scientific practices, and countless stories of devotion and tragedy.
In this history of superstitions and marvels, fantasies and experiments William Viney – himself a twin – shows how the use and abuse of twins has helped to shape the world in which we live. This book has been written for twins and for anyone interested in their historical, global and political impact. |
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The Devil and His Advocates |
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Erik Butler/ 9781789143737/ Price:GBP 20.00
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Satan is not God’s enemy in the Bible, and he’s not always bad – much less evil. Through the lens of the Old and New Testaments, Erik Butler explores the Devil through literature, theology, visual art, and music from antiquity up to the present, discussing canonical authors (Dante, Milton, Goethe) and a wealth of lesser-known sources. Since his first appearance in the Book of Job, Satan has pursued a single objective: to test human beings, whose moral worth and piety leave plenty of room for doubt. Satan can be manipulative, but at worst he facilitates what mortals are inclined to do, anyway. ‘The Devil made me do it’ does not hold up in the court of cosmic law. With wit and surprising examples, this book explains why. |
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News in Times of Conflict: The Development of the German Newspaper, 1605-1650 |
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Jan Hillgartner/ 9789004432482/ Price:EUR 112.00
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News in Times of Conflict traces the development and spread of the newspaper and the development of the printing industry in Germany in the first half of the seventeenth century. Based on an inspection of all printed newspapers of this period, the book offers an overview of regional and thematic reporting and the development of journalistic styles and ethics.
The book offers an examination of the coverage of two major events: the death of the Swedish king Gustavus Adolphus, and the execution of King Charles I of England. These case studies provide the opportunity for a comparison with the newspaper markets in France, England and the Low Countries, and with the provision of news through manuscript newsletters. |
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Pan: The Great God's Modern Return |
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Paul Robichaud/ 9781789144765/ Price:GBP 15.99
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Pan – he of the cloven hoof and lustful grin, beckoning through the trees. From classical myth to modern literature, film and music, the god Pan has fascinated and terrified the western imagination. ‘Panic’ is the name given to the peculiar feeling we experience in his presence. Still, the ways in which Pan has been imagined have varied wildly – fitting for a god even whose name the ancients confused with the Greek word meaning ‘all’.
Part-goat, part-man, Pan bridges the divide between the human and animal worlds. In exquisite prose, Paul Robichaud explores how he has been imagined in mythology, art, literature, music, spirituality and popular culture through the centuries. At times, Pan is a dangerous, destabilizing force; at others, a source of fertility and renewal. His portrayals reveal shifting anxieties about our own animal impulses and our relationship to nature. Always the outsider, he has been the god of choice for gay writers, occult practitioners, and New Age mystics. Though ancient sources announced his death, he has lived on through the work of Arthur Machen, Gustav Mahler, Kenneth Grahame, D. H. Lawrence and countless others. Pan: The Great God’s Modern Return traces his intoxicating dance. |
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Policing the Big Apple: The Story of the NYPD |
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Jules Stewart/ 9781789144826/ Price:GBP 20.00
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Policing the Big Apple is the story of America’s largest and most celebrated law enforcement agency. The book covers the history of policing New York City from 1625 in then New Amsterdam, to the formation of the NYPD in 1845, through 1930s battles with the Mafia, to 1990s Zero Tolerance. Along the way, it examines episodes of political influence, corruption, and reform including Tammany Hall, the Mafia, New York City mayors and the police, and the enrolment in the force of women and people of colour. It tells the story both through its commissioners, and the visions they had for the force and the city, and at the level of cops on the beat. |
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Miracles of Our Own Making: A History of Paganism |
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Liz Williams/ 9781789144710/ Price:GBP 9.99
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Now available in B-format paperback, Miracles of Our Own Making is a historical overview of magic in the British Isles, from the ancient peoples of Britain to the rich and cosmopolitan landscape of contemporary paganism. We explore the beliefs of the Druids, Anglo-Saxons and Vikings, the alchemy of the Elizabethan Court and the witch trials. We encounter grimoires, ceremonial magic and the Romantic revival of arcane deities. The influential and well known – the Golden Dawn, Wicca and figures such as Aleister Crowley – are considered alongside the everyday ‘cunning folk’ who formed the magical fabric of previous centuries.
Ranging widely across literature, art, science and beyond, Liz Williams debunks many of the prevailing myths surrounding magical practice, past and present, while offering a rigorously researched and highly accessible account of what it means to be a pagan today. |
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Freud's Patients: A Book of Lives |
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Mikkel Borch-Jacobsen/ 9781789144550/ Price:GBP 20.00
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Everyone knows the characters described by Freud in his case histories: ‘Dora’, the ‘Rat Man’, the ‘Wolf Man’. But what do we know of the people, the lives behind these famous pseudonyms: Ida Bauer, Ernst Lanzer, Sergius Pankejeff? Do we know the circumstances that led them to Freud’s consulting-room, or how they fared – how they really fared – following their treatments?
And what of those patients about whom Freud wrote nothing, or very little: Pauline Silberstein, who threw herself from the fourth floor of her analyst’s building; Elfriede Hirschfeld, Freud’s ‘grand-patient’ and ‘chief tormentor’; the fashionable architect Karl Mayreder; the psychotic millionaire Carl Liebmann; and so many others?
In an absorbing sequence of portraits, Mikkel Borch-Jacobsen offers the stories of these men and women – some comic, many tragic, all of them deeply moving. In total, thirty-eight lives tell us as much about Freud’s clinical practice as his celebrated case studies, revealing too a darker and more complex Freud than is usually portrayed: the doctor as his patients, their friends and their families saw him. |
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Basilisks and Beowulf: Monsters in the Anglo-Saxon World |
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Tim Flight/ 9781789144338/ Price:GBP 15.95
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Why were the Anglo-Saxons obsessed with monsters, many of which did not exist? Drawing on literature and art, theology and a wealth of first-hand evidence, Basilisks and Beowulf reveals a people huddled at the edge of the known map, using the fantastic and the grotesque as a way of comprehending the world around them.
For the Anglo-Saxons, monsters helped to distinguish the sacred and the profane; they carried God’s message to mankind, exposing His divine hand in creation itself. At the same time, monsters were agents of disorder, seeking to kill people, conquer their lands and challenge what it meant to be human even. Learning about where monsters lived and how they behaved allowed the Anglo-Saxons to understand their place in the world, as well as to apprehend something of the divine plan. It is for these reasons that monsters were at the very centre of the Anglo-Saxon worldview. From map monsters to demons, dragons to Leviathan, we neglect them at our peril. |
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The Phoenicians: Lost Civilizations |
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Vadim S. Jigoulov/ 9781789144789/ Price:GBP 18.00
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The Phoenicians is a fascinating exploration of this much-mythologized people: their history, artistic heritage and the scope of their maritime and colonizing activities in the Mediterranean.
Vadim S. Jigoulov describes and analyses various artefacts (epigraphic, numismatic and material remains) and considers how historians have derived information about a people with little surviving literature. This includes a critical look at classical, Near Eastern and biblical primary texts, the relationship between the Phoenician and Punic worlds, Phoenician interactions with the Greeks and others, and the repurposing of Phoenician heritage in modernity. Detailed and engrossing, The Phoenicians casts new light on this most enigmatic of civilizations. |
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Strange Fruit: Racism and Community Life in the Chesapeake—1850 to the Present |
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John R. Wennersten/ 9781735937847/ Price:US$ 24.00
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This is a book about Somerset County and the surrounding region, which traces the course of racism and society in a tidewater county in Maryland’s Chesapeake Bay country from 1850 to the present. Tidewater Somerset provides us with a palette for understanding racism and the evolution of racial ideas often overlooked by scholars. The book examines specific influences and trends, as well as political and cultural developments, which have played out at the micro-level in Maryland over time, and which might test or call into question assumptions about the nature of race relations at the national level. |
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Not Irish Enough: An Anglo-Irish Family’s Three Centuries in Ireland |
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Sara Day/ 9781734865974/ Price:US$ 34.00
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Not Irish Enough is an engaging, richly annotated account of three hundred turbulent years of Irish history, highlighting the experiences of an Anglo-Irish Protestant family and their relations and friends who lived through and contributed to that history. Drawn in part from family records and memories, the book is the product of intense factual research into events from the mid-seventeenth century through the Irish War of Independence, 1919-21, when the author’s family, the Heads, were among the Anglo-Irish landowners forced to flee for their lives as their homes went up in flames. Examining these fraught centuries from the unique perspective and varied experiences of generations of Anglo-Irish Protestant landowners with deep roots in Ireland, and more specifically in predominantly Catholic County Tipperary, the book addresses many questions still debated today. This deeply researched and balanced narrative—which affirms the veracity of William Butler Yeats’ statement that the Anglo-Irish “are no petty people,”—is an important addition to the existing body of work on Irish and world history. |
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Not Irish Enough: An Anglo-Irish Family’s Three Centuries in Ireland |
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Sara Day/ 9781955835367/ Price:US$ 48.00
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Leaping Over The Ocean: Re-Reading Black Women's Mobility in the 19th and Early 20th Century Trans-Atlantic World |
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Willi Coleman/ 9781735937823/ Price:US$ 22.00
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Leaping Over The Ocean is a deliberate attempt to include/intrude specific Black women into existing narratives on race, gender and travel. My focus here is on the lives and specific motivations that pushed and pulled four Black women across the Atlantic Ocean before and into the turn of the 20th century. That Sarah Mar’gru Kinson Green, Anna Julia Cooper, Sarah Parker Remond and Mary Church Terrell were all born between the early 1830’s and 1863 renders their travels all the more worthy of note. In an era when women across the globe were expected or required to remain tethered to hearth and home, three of this quartet found her own reasons to travel across the Atlantic Ocean more than one time. In doing so Mar’gru, Anna Julia, Sarah and Mary each provide insight into the many ways that the institution of slavery and new found freedom/s unfolded in the lives of Black women. It is from this group that we hear some of the earliest Black female interrogation of race and gender issues both at home and abroad. With apparent fearlessness each found her own reasons to step aboard a steamship and with deliberation move well beyond the boundaries of her known world. |
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The History of Science, 6-Vols/Set. |
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Massimo Mazzotti/ 9780415744416/ Price:GBP 1300.00
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Science is one of the main features of the contemporary world, and shapes our lives to an extent that has no precedents in history. Yet science as we know it today is the outcome of contingent social processes, and its global success is far from self-explanatory. How did it happen? How did science emerge in history and became the most authoritative source of knowledge available in late modern societies? This set of volumes addresses these crucial questions through a selection of exemplary publications spanning antiquity to the present day. The reader will find an effective survey of the best scholarship in this rapidly growing field, and a map of the main revolutions as well as the long-term continuities that have characterized our understanding the world and our attempts to control it. The collection brings together areas of inquiry that have become increasingly distant and specialized, such as the history of antique science or Cold War studies, within broader narratives of the making of the modern world. They also reassess the traditional assumption of the exclusively Greek and Western origins of modern science, situating relevant knowledge, practices, and artefacts within the global networks that sustained them: in ancient as well as in modern times. The gathered materials address key historiographical issues, such as the relationship between science, magic, and religion; the role of science in nation-building processes; and the relationship between science and technology. |
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Picturing Genocide in the Independent State of Croatia: Atrocity Images and the Contested Memory of the Second World War in the Balkans |
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Jovan Byford/ 9781350015968/ Price:GBP 90.00
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Chinese Character Manipulation in Literature and Divination: The Zichu by Zhou Lianggong (1612–1672) |
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Anne Schmiedl/ 9789004422360/ Price:EUR 131.00
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Powerful Arguments: Standards of Validity in Late Imperial China |
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Martin Hofmann/ 9789004422803/ Price:EUR 153.00
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The essays in Powerful Arguments reconstruct the standards of validity underlying argumentative practices in a wide array of late imperial Chinese discourses, from the Song through the Qing dynasties. The fourteen case studies analyze concrete arguments defended or contested in areas ranging from historiography, philosophy, law, and religion to natural studies, literature, and the civil examination system. By examining uses of evidence, habits of inference, and the criteria by which some arguments were judged to be more persuasive than others, the contributions recreate distinct cultures of reasoning. Together, they lay the foundations for a history of argumentative practice in one of the richest scholarly traditions outside of Europe and add a chapter to the as yet elusive global history of rationality. |
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Lu Jia's New Discourses: A Political Manifesto from the Early Han Dynasty |
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Paul R. Goldin/ 9789004419599/ Price:EUR 71.00
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Lu Jia's New Discourses: A Political Manifesto from the Early Han Dynasty is a readable yet accurate translation by Paul R. Goldin and Elisa Levi Sabattini.
Celebrated as “a man-of-service with a mouth [skilled] at persuasion”, Lu Jia (c. 228-140 BCE) became one of the leading figures of the early Han dynasty, serving as a statesman and diplomat from the very beginning of the Han empire. This book is a translation of Lu Jia’s New Discourses, which laid out the reasons for rise and fall of empires. Challenged by the new Emperor to produce a book explaining why a realm that was conquered on horseback cannot also be ruled on horseback, Lu Jia produced New Discourses, to great acclaim. |
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Mountain Rivers, Mountain Roads: Transport in Southwest China, 1700-1850 |
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Nanny Kim/ 9789004415096/ Price:EUR 153.00
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The commercialized economy of late imperial China depended on efficient transport, yet transport technologies, transport economics as well as its role in local societies and in interdependencies of environments and human activities are acutely under-researched. Nanny Kim analyses two transports systems into the Southwest of Qing China through the long eighteenth century and up to the mid-nineteenth century civil wars. The case studies explore shipping on the Upper Changjiang in Sichuan and through the Three Gorges into Hubei, and road transport out of the Sichuan Basin across northeastern Yunnan and northwestern Guizhou into central Yunnan. Specific and concrete investigations of a river that presented extreme dangers to navigation and carriage across the crunch zone of the Himalayan Plateau provides a basis for a systematic reconstruction of transport outside the lowland centres and their convenient networks of water transport. |
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Physiognomy in Ming China: Fortune and the Body |
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Xing Wang/ 9789004429543/ Price:EUR 108.00
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In Physiognomy in Ming China: Fortune and the Body, Xing Wang investigates the intellectual and technical contexts in which the knowledge of physiognomy ( xiangshu) was produced and transformed in Ming China (1368-1644 C.E.). Known as a fortune-telling technique via examining the human body and material objects, Xing Wang shows how the construction of the physiognomic body in many Ming texts represent a unique, unprecedented ‘somatic cosmology’. Applying an anthropological reading to these texts and providing detailed analysis of this technique, the author proves that this physiognomic cosmology in Ming China emerged as a part of a new body discourse which differs from the modern scholarly discourse on the body. |
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Women, Family and the Chinese Socialist State, 1950-2010 |
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Xiaofei Kang/ 9789004415928/ Price:EUR 153.00
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This volume includes 14 articles translated from the leading academic history journal in China, Historical Studies of Contemporary China (Dangdai Zhongguo shi yanjiu). It offers a rare window for the English speaking world to learn how scholars in China have understood and interpreted central issues pertaining to women and family from the founding of the PRC to the reform era. Chapters cover a wide range of topics, from women’s liberation, women’s movement and women’s education, to the impact of marriage laws and marriage reform, and changing practices of conjugal love, sexuality, family life and family planning. The volume invites further comparative inquiries into the gendered nature of the socialist state and the meanings of socialist feminism in the global context. |
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The Mythistorical Chinese Scholar-Rebel-Advisor Li Yan: A Global Perspective, 1606-2018 |
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Roger V. Des Forges/ 9789004421059/ Price:EUR 215.00
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Roger Des Forges here examines the puzzle of Li Yan, a Chinese scholar who advised the rebel Li Zicheng (1605-1645), and helped him to overthrow the Ming, only to die at his hands. For more than three centuries, Li Yan’s identity and even existence were seriously questioned. Then, in 2004, there was discovered a genealogical manuscript which includes a Li Yan (1606-1644). He now appears to be the principal historical reality behind the Li Yan story, which became a powerful metaphor for the rise and fall of Li Zicheng’s rebellion. Offering a fresh theory of Chinese and world history, the author elucidates Li Yan’s historical significance by comparing and contrasting him with similar figures in other times and places around the globe. |
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Finding Allies and Making Revolution: The Early Years of the Chinese Communist Party |
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Tony Saich/ 9789004423442/ Price:EUR 136.00
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What does a Dutchman have to do with the rise of the Chinese Communist Party? Finding Allies and Making Revolution by Tony Saich reveals how Henk Sneevliet (alias Maring), arriving as Lenin’s choice for China work, provided the communists with two of their most enduring legacies: the idea of a Leninist party and the tactic of the united front. Sneevliet strived to instill discipline and structure for the left-leaning intellectuals searching for a solution to China’s humiliation. He was not an easy man and clashed with the Chinese comrades and his masters in Moscow. This new analysis is based on Sneevliet’s diaries and reports, together with contemporary materials from key Chinese figures, and important documents held in the Comintern’s China archive. |
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Foreign Devils and Philosophers: Cultural Encounters between the Chinese, the Dutch, and Other Europeans, 1590-1800 |
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Thijs Weststeijn/ 9789004418882/ Price:EUR 181.00
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What was the cultural impact of early meetings between Chinese and Europeans? This book explores visual, literary, and scholarly representations of the Celestial Empire and Western countries against the backdrop of actual encounters. Based on rare Chinese and, correspondingly, European (especially Dutch) sources and archival documents, the volume covers a range of cultural expressions from the applied arts to philosophy. Special attention goes to the ideals and realities of trade and diplomacy of the Dutch East India Company in China. Foreign Devils and Philosophers approaches global history from a cultural perspective and illuminates the reciprocal dynamic of aversion and admiration: Chinese and Westerners could appear as sages or savages in each other’s eyes. |
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Describing the City, Describing the State: Representations of Venice and the Venetian Terraferma in the Renaissance |
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Sandra Toffolo/ 9789004415904/ Price:EUR 162.00
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In Describing the City, Describing the State Sandra Toffolo presents a comprehensive analysis of descriptions of the city of Venice and the Venetian Terraferma in the Renaissance, when the Venetian mainland state was being created. Working with an extensive variety of descriptions, the book demonstrates that no one narrative of Venice prevailed in the early modern European imagination, and that authors continuously adapted geographical descriptions to changing political circumstances. This in turn illustrates the importance of studying geographical representation and early modern state formation together. Moreover, it challenges the long-standing concept of the myth of Venice, by showing that Renaissance observers never saw the city of Venice and the Venetian Terraferma in a monolithic way. |
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Euroscepticisms: The Historical Roots of a Political Challenge |
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Mark Gilbert/ 9789004375345/ Price:EUR 119.00
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Euroscepticism has become a political challenge of imposing size. The belief that the EU would continue, inexorably, to increase its responsibilities, its membership, and its credibility with the electorates of Europe seems like a pipedream. Almost every major European country now has a political party (whether of the left or right) that is openly opposed to the EU’s institutions and core policies. However, a political phenomenon on this scale did not spring up, mushroom-like, overnight. Sentiments, attitudes and political standpoints against the European Union have deep roots in the national histories of the various member states. This book assembles a group of scholars from across Europe to investigate the long-term origins and causes of Euroscepticism in an apposite range of EU countries. |
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Religion and Prison Art in Ming China (1368-1644): Creative Environment, Creative Subjects |
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Ying Zhang/ 9789004432604/ Price:EUR 96.00
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Approaching the prison as a creative environment and imprisoned officials as creative subjects in Ming China (1368-1644), Ying Zhang introduces important themes at the intersection of premodern Chinese religion, poetry, and visual and material culture. The Ming is known for its extraordinary cultural and economic accomplishments in the increasingly globalized early modern world. For scholars of Chinese religion and art, this era crystallizes the essential and enduring characteristics in these two spheres. Drawing on scholarship on Chinese philosophy, religion, aesthetics, poetry, music, and visual and material culture, Zhang illustrates how the prisoners understood their environment as creative and engaged it creatively. She then offers a literature survey on the characteristics of premodern Chinese religion and art that helps situate the questions of “creative environment” and “creative subject” within multiple fields of scholarship. |
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European Small States and the Role of Consuls in the Age of Empire |
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Aryo Makko/ 9789004414372/ Price:EUR 149.00
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In European Small States and the Role of Consuls in the Age of Empire Aryo Makko argues that Sweden and Norway participated in the New Imperialism in the late 18th and early 19th centuries through consular services. Usually portrayed as nations without an imperial past, Makko demonstrates that their role in the processes of imperialism and colonialism during that period can be understood by including consular affairs and practices of informal imperialism into the analysis. With this, he contributes to our understanding of the role of smaller states in the so-called Age of Empire. |
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The Matica and Beyond: Cultural Associations and Nationalism in Europe |
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Krisztina Lajosi/ 9789004423749/ Price:EUR 130.00
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Nineteenth-century national movements perceived the nation as a community defined by language, culture and history. Part of the infrastructure to spread this view of the nation were institutions publishing literary and scientific texts in the national language. Starting with the Matica srpska (Pest, 1826), a particular kind of society was established in several parts of the Habsburg Empire – inspiring each other, but with often major differences in activities, membership and financing. Outside of the Slavic world analogues institutions played a similar key role in the early stages of national revival in Europe. The Matica and Beyond is the first concerted attempt to comparatively investigate both the specificity and commonality of these cultural associations, bringing together cases from differing regional, political and social circumstances. |
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Censorship in Colonial Indonesia, 1901-1942 |
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Nobuto Yamamoto/ 9789004362543/ Price:EUR 140.00
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In Censorship in Colonial Indonesia, 1901–1942 Nobuto Yamamoto examines the institutionalization of censorship and its symbiosis with print culture in the Netherlands Indies. Born from the liberal desire to promote the well-being of the colonial population, censorship was not practiced exclusively in repressive ways but manifested in constructive policies and stimuli, among which was the cultivation of the “native press” under state patronage. Censorship in the Indies oscillated between liberal impulse and the intrinsic insecurity of a colonial state in the era of nationalism and democratic governance. It proved unpredictable in terms of outcomes, at times being co-opted by resourceful activists and journalists, and susceptible to international politics as it transformed during the Sino-Japanese war of the 1930s. |
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Blood Rush: The Dark History of a Vital Fluid |
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Jan Verplaetse/ 9781789141962/ Price:GBP 15.00
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As a young man Jan Verplaetse saw a hare suspended from a meat hook, skinned and gutted. What struck him so forcefully at the time was not the animal but the blood gently dripping from its mouth. His reaction prompted the start of a quest he undertakes in this book – to investigate our fascination with blood, the most vital of fluids.
Blood Rush shows how, throughout history, blood has had the capacity to intoxicate us. In his deeply researched and provocative narrative, Verplaetse moves from antiquity to the present, from magic to experimental psychology, from philosophy to religion and scientific discoveries, to demonstrate why blood both repels and attracts us. |
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Seeing into the Future: A Short History of Prediction |
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Martin van Creveld/ 9781789142297/ Price:GBP 17.00
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If there is anything that distinguishes us from animals, it is our ability to understand that such a thing as the future exists and our willingness to try and look into it.
But how have people through the ages gone about making predictions? What were their underlying assumptions, and what methods did they use? Have increased computer power and the newest algorithms improved our success in anticipating the future, or are we still only as good (or as bad) at it as our ancestors?
From the ancients watching the flight of birds to the murky activities of Google and Facebook today, Seeing into the Future gives us an insight into the past, present and future of prediction. |
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Those They Called Idiots: The Idea of the Disabled Mind from 1700 to the Present Day |
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Simon Jarrett/ 9781789143010/ Price:GBP 25.00
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Those They Called Idiots traces the little-known lives of people with learning disabilities from the communities of eighteenth-century England to the nineteenth-century asylum and care in today’s society. Using evidence from civil and criminal court-rooms, joke books, slang dictionaries, novels, art and caricature, it explores the explosive intermingling of ideas about intelligence and race, while bringing into sharp focus the lives of people often seen as the most marginalized in society. |
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Russia as Empire: Past and Present |
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Kees Boterbloem/ 9781789142914/ Price:GBP 20.00
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Covering more than 1,000 years of tumultuous history, Russia as Empire shows how the medieval empire of Kyivan Rus’ metamorphosed into today’s Russian Federation. Kees Boterbloem vividly and lucidly describes Russia’s various incarnations and considers how the concept of empire evolved from tsarist Russia to the Soviet Union, and how and why it survives today. He discusses the ideological architects of these empires and the ideas of their political leaders – the tsars, Lenin, Stalin, Boris Yeltsin and Vladimir Putin. Russia as Empire considers the role of the various empires’ inhabitants, from nobility to clergy to communist party members, revealing how and why they adhered to, or believed in, their country’s imperial mission. What emerges is a highly original overview that illuminates the continuities and discontinuities in Russian history. |
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Assassins' Deeds: A History of Assassination from Ancient Egypt to the Present Day |
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John Withington/ 9781789143515/ Price:GBP 18.00
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Assassins have been murdering the powerful and famous for at least 4,000 years. At first, the most common reason was personal ambition, and the perpetrators were often close family, like the Turkish sultan who had nineteen of his brothers strangled. More recent motives include religion and political ideology.
For centuries, methods changed little – stabbing, poison, strangling. All required getting right up to the target, and even when firearms appeared, assassins usually preferred the handgun at close quarters to the sniper’s rifle. And many victims were surprisingly careless: Abraham Lincoln had let his bodyguard go for a drink.
So does assassination work? Assassins’ Deeds delves into some of history’s most notorious acts, unveiling an intriguing cast of characters, nail-biting drama and many unintended consequences. |
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The People's Porn: A History of Handmade Pornography in America |
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Lisa Z. Sigel/ 9781789142266/ Price:GBP 30.00
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The People’s Porn is the first history of American handmade and homemade pornography, which offers the back story to the explosion of amateur pornography on the Internet. In doing so, it is a much-needed counterweight to the ahistorical and ideological arguments that dominate most discussions about pornography. Critics focus on mass-produced materials and make claims about pornography as plasticized or commodified. In contrast, this book looks at what people made rather than what they bought, revealing how people thought about sexuality for themselves. Whalers and craftsmen, prisoners and activists, African Americans and feminists, all made their own pornography. The People’s Porn challenges preconceptions as it tells a new and fascinating story about American sexual history. |
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Power on the Inside: A Global History of Prison Gangs |
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Mitchel P. Roth/ 9781789143232/ Price:GBP 25.00
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Power on the Inside is the first book to examine the historical development of prison gangs worldwide, from those that emerged inside the mid-nineteenth-century Neapolitan prisons to the new generation of younger inmates challenging the status quo within gang subcultures today. Historian-criminologist Mitchel P. Roth examines prison gangs throughout the world, from the Americas, Oceania and South Africa to Southeast Asia, Europe and beyond. The book examines the many variables that influence the evolution of prison subcultures, from colonialism and population demographics to prison architecture and staff-prisoner relations. Power on the Inside features eighty historical and contemporary images, and will inform professionals in the field as well as general readers who want to know more about the realities of prison gangs today. |
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Calling the Spirits: A History of Seances |
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Lisa Morton/ 9781789142808/ Price:GBP 15.99
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Calling the Spirits investigates the eerie history of our conversations with the dead, from necromancy in Homer’s Odyssey to the emergence of Spiritualism – when Victorians were entranced by mediums and the seance was born.
Among our cast are the Fox sisters, teenagers surrounded by ‘spirit rappings’; Daniel Dunglas Home, the ‘greatest medium of all time’; Houdini and Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, whose unlikely friendship was forged, then riven, by the afterlife; and Helen Duncan, the medium whose trial in 1944 for witchcraft proved more popular to the public than news about the war. The book also considers Ouija boards, modern psychics and paranormal investigations, and is illustrated with engravings, fine art (from beyond) and photographs. Hugely entertaining, it begs the question: is anybody there . . .? |
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Patterns of Russia: History, Culture, Spaces |
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Robin Milner-Gulland/ 9781789142259/ Price:GBP 25.00
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Patterns of Russia shows how the public face of Russia developed and evolved through its distinct architecture, its astonishing art and its varied spaces. What emerges is a clear picture of how Russians fashioned their identity and the national monuments associated with it, in their setting – the Russian landscape – as well as elements of traditional material culture. Written in a concise and jargon-free style, tellingly illustrated, this book will appeal to all those with an interest in the history and culture of this complex country. |
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Wanderers: A History of Women Walking |
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Kerri Andrews/ 9781789143423/ Price:GBP 14.95
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This is a book about ten women over the past three hundred years who have found walking essential to their sense of themselves, as people and as writers.
Wanderers traces their footsteps, from eighteenth-century parson’s daughter Elizabeth Carter – who desired nothing more than to be taken for a vagabond in the wilds of southern England – to modern walker-writers such as Nan Shepherd and Cheryl Strayed. For each, walking was integral, whether it was rambling for miles across the Highlands, like Sarah Stoddart Hazlitt, or pacing novels into being, as Virginia Woolf did around Bloomsbury.
Offering a beguiling view of the history of walking, Wanderers guides us through the different ways of seeing – of being – articulated by these ten pathfinding women. |
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Masters of the Pearl: A History of Qatar |
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Michael Quentin Morton/ 9781789143119/ Price:GBP 25.00
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Qatar is a country of spectacular contrasts: from pearl fishing, its main industry until the 1930s, to gas and oil, which generate immense wealth today; it has famously been at the centre of both triumph and controversy in recent years for hosting the 2022 fifa World Cup. Almost a lifetime since he grew up in Qatar, Michael Quentin Morton writes about the country’s colourful past and its astonishing present. The book is filled with stories about the people of this land: the tribes and the travellers, the seafarers and slaves – as much a part of Qatar’s history as its rulers and their wealth.
The opaque Arabian world guards its secrets well, but Masters of the Pearl penetrates the veil to shed light on a country that until now has defied explanation. |
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Storyworlds of Robin Hood: The Origins of a Medieval Outlaw |
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Lesley Coote/ 9781789142327/ Price:GBP 20.00
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Robin Hood is one of the most enduring and well-known figures of English folklore. Yet who was he? Lesley Coote re-examines the early tales about Robin in light of the stories, both English and French, that surrounded them. In the process, she returns to questions such as ‘Where did Robin come from?’ and ‘What did these stories mean?’
The Robin who reveals himself is as spiritual as he is secular and as much an insider as he is an outlaw. And in the context of current debates about national identity and Britain’s relationship with the wider world, Robin emerges to be as European as he is English – or perhaps, as the author suggests, that is precisely the quality that made him fundamentally English all along. |
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Tycho Brahe and the Measure of the Heavens |
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John Robert Christianson/ 9781789142341/ Price:GBP 17.95
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The Danish aristocrat and astronomer Tycho Brahe personified the inventive vitality of Renaissance life in the sixteenth century. Brahe lost his nose in a student duel, wrote Latin poetry and built one of the most astonishing villas of the period, as well as the observatory Uraniborg, while virtually inventing team research and establishing the fundamental rules of empirical science.
This illustrated biography presents a new and dynamic view of Tycho’s life, reassessing his gradual separation of astrology from astronomy, and his key relationships with Johannes Kepler, his sister, Sophie, and his kinsmen at the court of King Frederick II. |
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Merpeople: A Human History |
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Vaughn Scribner/ 9781789143140/ Price:GBP 20.00
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People have been fascinated by merpeople since ancient times. From the sirens of Homer’s Odyssey to Hans Christian Andersen’s The Little Mermaid and the film Splash (1984), myths, stories and legends of half-human, half-fish creatures abound. In modern times ‘mermaiding’ has gained popularity among cosplayers throughout the world.
In Merpeople: A Human History, Vaughn Scribner traces the long history of mermaids and mermen, taking in a wide variety of sources and using 117 striking images. From film to philosophy, church halls to coffee houses, ancient myth to modern science, Scribner shows that mermaids and tritons are – and always have been – everywhere. |
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Heroes and Marvels of the Middle Ages |
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Jacques Le Goff/ 9781789142129/ Price:GBP 14.95
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Heroes and Marvels of the Middle Ages is a history like no other: it is a history of the imagination, presented through two celebrated groups of the period. One group consists of heroes: Charlemagne, El Cid, King Arthur, Orlando, Pope Joan, Melusine, Merlin the Wizard, and also the fox and the unicorn. The other is the miraculous, represented here by three forms of power that dominated medieval society: the cathedral, the castle and the cloister.
This imaginative history is a continuing story that presents the heroes and marvels of the Middle Ages as the times defined them: venerated, then bequeathed to future centuries where they have continued to live and transform through remembrance of the past, adaptation to the present and openness to the future. |
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Miracles of Our Own Making: A History of Paganism |
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Liz Williams/ 9781789142211/ Price:GBP 15.95
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Miracles of Our Own Making is a historical overview of magic in the British Isles, from the ancient peoples of Britain to the rich and cosmopolitan landscape of contemporary paganism. We explore the beliefs of the Druids, Anglo-Saxons and Vikings, the alchemy of the Elizabethan Court and the witch trials. We encounter grimoires, ceremonial magic and the Romantic revival of arcane deities. The influential and well known – the Golden Dawn, Wicca and figures such as Aleister Crowley – are considered alongside the everyday ‘cunning folk’ who formed the magical fabric of previous centuries.
Ranging widely across literature, art, science and beyond, Liz Williams debunks many of the prevailing myths surrounding magical practice, past and present, while offering a rigorously researched and highly accessible account of what it means to be a pagan today. |
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Acts Against God: A Short History of Blasphemy |
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David Nash/ 9781789142013/ Price:GBP 20.00
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A phenomenon that spans human experience, from the ancient world right up to today’s ferocious religious debates, blasphemy is an act of individuals, but also a widespread and constant presence in cultural, political and religious life. Acts Against God is the first accessible history of this crime – its prosecution, its impact and its punishment and suppression.
The book begins in ancient Greece with the genesis of blasphemy’s link with the state. From here we move on to blasphemy in the medieval world, in the Reformation and the Enlightenment. The book concludes with the twenty-first century, with individuals and the state seeking to adopt blasphemy as the means to resist the secular and the globalization of culture. |
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A History of Russo-Japanese Relations: Over Two Centuries of Cooperation and Competition |
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Dmitry V. Streltsov/ 9789004400009/ Price:EUR 142.00
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This publication is the result of a three-year research project between eminent Russian and Japanese historians. It offers an an in-depth analysis of the history of relations between Russia and Japan from the 18th century until the present day. The format of the publication as a parallel history presents views and interpretations from Russian and Japanese perspectives that showcase the differences and the similarities in their joint history. The fourteen core sections, organized along chronological lines, provide assessments on the complex and sensitive issues of bilateral Russo-Japanese relations, including the territory problem as well as economic exchange. |
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The Portuguese Slave Trade in Early Modern Japan: Merchants, Jesuits and Japanese, Chinese, and Korean Slaves |
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Lucio De Sousa/ 9789004365803/ Price:EUR 185.00
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In The Portuguese Slave Trade in Early Modern Japan: Merchants, Jesuits and Japanese, Chinese, and Korean Slaves Lucio de Sousa offers a study on the system of traffic of Japanese, Chinese, and Korean slaves from Japan. Using the Portuguese mercantile networks, de Sousa reconstructs the Japanese communities in the Habsburg Empire; and analyses the impact of the Japanese slave trade on the Iberian legislation produced in the 16th and first half of the 17th centuries. |
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Engaging the Other: 'Japan' and Its Alter-Egos, 1550-1850 |
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Ronald P. Toby/ 9789004390621/ Price:EUR 142.00
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In Engaging the Other: “Japan and Its Alter-Egos”, 1550-1850 Ronald P. Toby examines new discourses of identity and difference in early modern Japan, a discourse catalyzed by the “Iberian irruption,” the appearance of Portuguese and other new, radical others in the sixteenth century. The encounter with peoples and countries unimagined in earlier discourse provoked an identity crisis, a paradigm shift from a view of the world as comprising only “three countries” ( sangoku), i.e., Japan, China and India, to a world of “myriad countries” ( bankoku) and peoples. In order to understand the new radical alterities, the Japanese were forced to establish new parameters of difference from familiar, proximate others, i.e., China, Korea and Ryukyu. Toby examines their articulation in literature, visual and performing arts, law, and customs. |
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The Atlantic World and the Manila Galleons: Circulation, Market, and Consumption of Asian Goods in the Spanish Empire, 1565–1650 |
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Jose L. Gasch-Tomas/ 9789004369283/ Price:EUR 129.00
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BStudies of the trade between the Atlantic World and Asia during the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries typically focus on the exchanges between Atlantic European countries – especially Portugal, the Netherlands and England – and Asia across the Cape route. In The Atlantic World and the Manila Galleons. Circulation, Market, and Consumption of Asian Goods in the Spanish Empire, 1565-1650, Jose L. Gasch-Tomas offers a new approach to understanding the connections between the Atlantic World and Asia. By drawing attention to the trans-Pacific trade between the Americas and the Philippines, the re-exportation of Asian goods from New Spain to Castile, and the consumption of Chinese silk, Chinese porcelain and Japanese furnishings in New Spain and Seville, this book discloses how New Spanish cities and elites were main components of the spread of taste for Asian goods in the Spanish Empire. This book reveals how New Spanish family and commercial networks channelled the market formation of Asian goods in the Atlantic World around 1600. |
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The Making of the Human Sciences in China: Historical and Conceptual Foundations |
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Howard Chiang/ 9789004397613/ Price:EUR 176.00
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This volume provides a history of how “the human” has been constituted as a subject of scientific inquiry in China from the seventeenth century to the present. Organized around four themes—“Parameters of Human Life,” “Formations of the Human Subject,” “Disciplining Knowledge,” and “Deciphering Health”—it scrutinizes the development of scientific knowledge and technical interest in human organization within an evolving Chinese society. Spanning the Ming-Qing, Republican, and contemporary periods, its twenty-four original, synthetic chapters ground the mutual construction of “China” and “the human” in concrete historical contexts. As a state-of-the-field survey, a definitive textbook for teaching, and an authoritative reference that guides future research, this book pushes Sinology, comparative cultural studies, and the history of science in new directions. |
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The Price and Promise of Specialness: The Political Economy of Overseas Chinese Policy in the People's Republic of China, 1949–1959 |
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Jin Li Lim/ 9789004400702/ Price:EUR 119.00
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In The Price and Promise of Specialness, Jin Li Lim revises narratives on the overseas Chinese and the People’s Republic of China by analysing the Communist approach to ‘overseas Chinese affairs’ in New China’s first decade as a function of a larger political economy.
Jin Li Lim shows how the party-state centred its approach towards the overseas Chinese on a perception of their financial utility and thus sought to offer them a special identity and place in New China, so as to unlock their riches. Yet, this contradicted the quest for socialist transformation, and as its early pragmatism fell away, the radicalising party-state abandoned its promises to the overseas Chinese, who were left to pay the price for their difference. |
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Science and Confucian Statecraft in East Asia |
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Francesca Bray/ 9789004390577/ Price:EUR 81.00
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Science and Confucian Statecraft in East Asia explores science and technology as practiced in the governments of premodern China and Korea. Contrary to the stereotypical image of East Asian bureaucracy as a generally negative force having hindered free enquiries and scientific progress, this volume offers a more nuanced picture of how science and technology was deployed in the service of state governance in East Asia. Presenting richly documented cases of the major state-sponsored sciences, astronomy, medicine, gunpowder production, and hydraulics, this book illustrates how rulers’ and scholar-officials’ concern for efficient and legitimate governance shaped production, circulation, and application of natural knowledge and useful techniques. |
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A World at War, 1911-1949: Explorations in the Cultural History of War |
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Catriona Pennell/ 9789004276673/ Price:EUR 128.00
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Europe and China in the Cold War: Exchanges Beyond the Bloc Logic and the Sino-Soviet Split |
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Janick Marina Schaufelbuehl/ 9789004385597/ Price:EUR 118.00
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Europe and China in the Cold War studies Sino-European relations from the establishment of the People’s Republic of China (PRC) in 1949 to the Tiananmen Square protests of 1989. Based on new multi-archival research, the international authorship presents and analyses diplomatic and personal relationships between Europe and China at the political, economic, military, cultural, and technological levels.
In going beyond existing historiography, the book comparatively focuses on the relations of both Eastern and Western Europe with the PRC, and adopts a global history approach that also includes non-state and transnational actors. This will allow the reader to learn that the bloc logic and the Sino-Soviet split were indeed influential, yet not all-determining factors in the relations between Europe and China. |
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US State Department Bureau of Intelligence & Research: Country Intelligence Reports on Korea (1941-1961), 3-Vols/Set. |
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This collection contains facsimile reproductions of 68 research and intelligence reports pertaining to Korea, prepared between 1941 and 1961 by the United States Department of State's Bureau of Intelligence and Research and preceding organizations. Totaling 1763 images and arranged numerically with various office symbols preceding the numbers the reports vary from short memorandums to detailed, documented studies. The topics also vary from individual commodities or countries to the economic and political characteristics of whole regions. Numbers were issued when the reports were assigned.
Key topics covered in this collection include: activities of Korean independence groups; economics surveys of Korea; the united Korean Committee in America; the Korean Provisional Government in Chongqing; administration of railroads; analyses of major ports; Korea's trade and industry; post-WWII land reform; labor movements and communist activities; political and economic conditions in the North and South; biographic reports on politicians and key figures; Soviet and Chinese influence; the Korean War and truce; North Korea's Three-year plan; South Korea's international relations; and Syngman Rhee's rise to power.
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Human Memory: Solid Evidence of the Nanjing Massacre |
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Zhang Xianwen/ 9789814839600/ Price:US$ 300.00
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On December 13, 1937, the Japanese army captured Nanjing and went on to wantonly massacre disarmed Chinese soldiers and defenseless civilians in flagrant violation of international conventions. The Nanjing Massacre forms one of the darkest chapters in 20th-century world history.
Researching this major historical event requires scholars worldwide to collect a variety of primary source material in different languages. Compiled by a group of historians from about ten universities and research institutions based in China and abroad, Human Memory: Solid Evidence of The Nanjing Massacre represents a major effort in this regard. Consisting of textual and pictorial evidence reproduced from major archives and libraries around the world, the book falls into four parts—Chinese, Japanese, English, and other Western languages. The book covers material created by victims, perpetrators, and important third parties in a diversity of formats: diaries, petitions, investigation reports, news articles, tribunal documents, and photographs. To help readers to better understand the wide range of evidence, the editors have provided very useful annotations for each document or photograph. Without a doubt, this publication holds some of the most vivid and sobering scenes in humanity’s collective memory. |
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A History of the Nanjing Massacre |
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Zhang Xianwen/ 9789814839068/ Price:US$ 200.00
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A History of the Nanjing Massacre is the first comprehensive narrative of the massacre written by a group of Chinese scholars from Nanjing. From the fall of the city, to the atrocities themselves, to the international community’s efforts to save refugees, and finally to the trials of the war criminals, the book offers a complete story of the massacre from the Chinese, Japanese, and Western perspective. The book is based on a substantial amount of primary source material collected by a group of Chinese and foreign scholars led by Professor Zhang Xianwen of Nanjing University from major archives and libraries around the world. |
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Arthur: God and Hero in Avalon |
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Christopher Fee/ 9781780239996/ Price:GBP 16.00
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For fifteen centuries, legends of King Arthur have inspired generations. In the misty past of a Britain under siege, half-remembered events became shrouded in ancient myth and folklore. The resulting tales were told and retold, until over time Arthur, Camelot, Avalon, the Round Table, the Holy Grail, Excalibur, Lancelot and Guinevere all became instantly recognizable icons. Along the way, Arthur’s life and times were recast in the mould of the hero’s journey: his miraculous conception at Tintagel through the magical intercession of his shaman guide, Merlin; the childhood deed of pulling the Sword from the Stone through which Arthur was anointed King; the Quest for the Holy Grail, the most sacred object in Christendom; the betrayal of Arthur by his wife and champion; and the apocalyptic battle between Good and Evil, ending with Arthur’s journey to the Otherworld.
Arthur: God and Hero in Avalon views Arthur in terms of comparative mythology, and argues that the Once and Future King remains relevant because his story speaks so eloquently about universal human needs and anxieties. The book discusses the tales of King Arthur, from the very earliest versions to the most recent film and television adaptations, and offers readers an insight into why Arthur remains so popular. |
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The Political and Economic History of China (1977–1992), 3-vols/set |
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Hu Angang/ 9781623201494/ Price:US$ 374.00
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A detailed chronicle of an era of chaos and political turbulence, The Political and Economic History of China is a must-read series for anyone interested in the history of modern China. Continuing on from his first series, which covered the years 1949–1976, Hu Angang returns with a new installment detailing the political and economic development in the People’s Republic of China from 1977 to 1992.
This period saw the political transition from the end of the Cultural Revolution to the Reform and Opening-up era under Deng Xiaoping. Hu explains the numerous policy changes that transformed China during this period from an isolated and underdeveloped country to a global political and economic power, as well as the Politburo’s management of domestic political challenges as it set the precedence for future leadership transitions. |
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Economic Development during Reform and Opening-Up (1977–1991), Volume 2: Economic Development during Reform and Opening-up |
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A detailed chronicle of an era of chaos and political turbulence, The Political and Economic History of China is a must-read series for anyone interested in the history of modern China. Continuing on from his first series, which covered the years 1949–1976, Hu Angang returns with a new installment detailing the political and economic development in the People’s Republic of China from 1977 to 1992.
This period saw the political transition from the end of the Cultural Revolution to the Reform and Opening-up era under Deng Xiaoping. Hu explains the numerous policy changes that transformed China during this period from an isolated and underdeveloped country to a global political and economic power, as well as the Politburo’s management of domestic political challenges as it set the precedence for future leadership transitions. |
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The Political and Economic History of China (1977–1992), Volume 1: Political Transition from Mao to Deng (1977–1981) |
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Hu Angang/ 9781623201432/ Price:US$ 138.00
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A detailed chronicle of an era of chaos and political turbulence, The Political and Economic History of China is a must-read series for anyone interested in the history of modern China. Continuing on from his first series, which covered the years 1949–1976, Hu Angang returns with a new installment detailing the political and economic development in the People’s Republic of China from 1977 to 1992.
This period saw the political transition from the end of the Cultural Revolution to the Reform and Opening-up era under Deng Xiaoping. Hu explains the numerous policy changes that transformed China during this period from an isolated and underdeveloped country to a global political and economic power, as well as the Politburo’s management of domestic political challenges as it set the precedence for future leadership transitions. |
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The Political and Economic History of China (1977–1992), Volume 3: Political Reform and Political Crisis |
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Hu Angang/ 9781623201470/ Price:US$ 138.00
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A detailed chronicle of an era of chaos and political turbulence, The Political and Economic History of China is a must-read series for anyone interested in the history of modern China. Continuing on from his first series, which covered the years 1949–1976, Hu Angang returns with a new installment detailing the political and economic development in the People’s Republic of China from 1977 to 1992.
This period saw the political transition from the end of the Cultural Revolution to the Reform and Opening-up era under Deng Xiaoping. Hu explains the numerous policy changes that transformed China during this period from an isolated and underdeveloped country to a global political and economic power, as well as the Politburo’s management of domestic political challenges as it set the precedence for future leadership transitions. |
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Licentious Worlds: Sex and Exploitation in Global Empires |
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Julie Peakman/ 9781789141405/ Price:GBP 25.00
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Licentious Worlds is a history of sexual attitudes and behaviour through five hundred years of empire-building around the world. In a graphic and sometimes unsettling account, Julie Peakman examines colonization and the imperial experience puttting women back in the picture, showing their role in the building of empires, but also how marginalized men and women were almost invariably exploited.
Women acted as negotiators, brothel-keepers, traders and peacekeepers, but they were also oppressed, forced into marriages and raped. The book describes daily life in Turkish harems, Mughal zenanas and Japanese geisha houses, as well as in royal palaces, private households and on board ships. The stories are drawn from many sources – from captains’ logs, missionary reports and cannibals’ memoirs to travellers’ letters, traders’ accounts and reports on prostitution. From debauched clerics and hog-sodomizing Pilgrims to sexually fluid cannibals and homosexual samurai, Licentious Worlds takes history where it has never been before. |
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The Braganzas: The Rise and Fall of the Ruling Dynasties of Portugal and Brazil, 1640-1910 |
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Malyn Newitt/ 9781789141252/ Price:GBP 25.00
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For 270 years, the House of Braganza provided the kings and queens of Portugal. During a period of momentous change, from 1640 to 1910, this influential family helped to establish Portuguese independence from their powerful Spanish neighbours. They ruled the vast empire of Brazil from 1822 to 1889, successfully creating a unified nation and preventing the country from splitting into small warring states, and they saved the monarchy and government from total destruction by the marauding armies of Napoleon.
In his fascinating reappraisal of the Braganza dynasty, Malyn Newitt traces the rise and fall of one of the world’s most important royal families. He introduces us to a colourful cast of innovators, revolutionaries, villains, heroes and charlatans, from the absolutist Dom Miguel to the ‘Soldier King’ Dom Pedro I, and recounts in vivid detail the major social, economic and political events that defined their rule. Featuring an extensive selection of artworks and photographs, Newitt offers a timely look at Britain’s ‘oldest ally’ and the role of monarchy in the early modern European world. |
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Paracelsus: An Alchemical Life |
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Bruce T. Moran/ 9781789141443/ Price:GBP 16.95
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Throughout his controversial life the alchemist, physician and social radical known as Paracelsus combined traditions that were magical and empirical, scholarly and folk, learned and artisanal. He endorsed both Catholic and Reformation beliefs, but believed devoutly in a female deity. He travelled constantly, learning and teaching a new form of medicine based on the experience of miners, bathers, alchemists, midwives, barber-surgeons and executioners. He argued for changes in the way the body was understood, how disease was defined and how treatments were created, but he was also moved by mystical speculations, an alchemical view of nature and an intriguing concept of creation.
Bruce T. Moran tells the story of how alchemy refashioned medical practice, and brings to light the ideas, workings and major texts of an important Renaissance figure, showing how his tenacity and endurance changed the medical world for the better, and brought new perspectives to the study of nature. |
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Radio: Making Waves in Sound |
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Alasdair Pinkerton/ 9781789140781/ Price:GBP 18.00
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Radio is a medium of seemingly endless contradictions. Now in its third century of existence, the technology still seems startling modern; despite frequent predictions of its demise, radio continues to evolve and flourish in the age of the internet and social media. This book explores the history of the radio, describing its technological, political and social evolution, and how it emerged from Victorian experimental laboratories to become a near-ubiquitous presence in our lives. The book is shaped by radio’s multiple characters and characteristics – radio waves occur in nature, but have been harnessed and moulded by human beings to bridge oceans and reconfigure our experience of space and time.
This is an informative and thought-provoking book for all enthusiasts of an old technology that still has the capacity to enthuse, entertain, entice and enrage today |
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Mexico City: Cradle of Empires |
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Nick Caistor/ 9781789140736/ Price:GBP 14.95
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Mexico City has always been a seat of empire. In its grandiose pretentions and sheer swagger, it gives the impression of power exercised over great distances. And yet this power has frequently been contested, lending the city a tough, battle-hardened look. At the same time, life in the Mexican capital can be carefree and intoxicating, and it continues to offer any visitor not only glimpses of past grandeur, but a fascinating wealth of the culture of Mexico today. This book explores how the city has grown over the centuries from the Tenochtitlan city-state, to the capital of the Spanish empire’s ‘New Spain’, to French intervention, revolution, to the newly branded CDMX. Nick Caistor leads us through centuries of history and into the material city of today: from recently constructed museums and shopping malls, to neighbourhoods where centuries-old traditions still appear to be the norm. Whether sampling ice cream at Xochimilco, watching freestyle wrestling at the Arena Mexico, or savouring long Mexican breakfasts, Nick Caistor reveals why the city continues to fascinate. |
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Fabulosa!: The Story of Polari, Britain's Secret Gay Language |
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Paul Baker/ 9781789141320/ Price:GBP 15.99
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Polari was a language used chiefly by gay men in the first half of the twentieth century. At a time when being gay could result in criminal prosecution – or worse – Polari offered its speakers a degree of public camouflage, a way of expressing humour, and a means of identification and of establishing a community. Its roots are colourful and varied – from eighteenth-century Cant to Lingua Franca to prostitutes’ slang – and in the mid-1960s it was thrust into the limelight by the characters Julian and Sandy, voiced by Hugh Paddick and Kenneth Williams, on the BBC radio show Round the Horne. (‘Oh Mr Horne, how bona to vada your dolly old eke!’)
Paul Baker recounts the story of Polari with skill, erudition and tenderness. He traces its historical origins and describes its linguistic nuts and bolts, explores the ways and the environments in which it was spoken, explains the reasons for its decline, and tells of its unlikely re-emergence in the twenty-first century.
With a cast of drag queens and sailors, Dilly boys and macho clones, Fabulosa! is both an essential document of recent history and a fascinating and fantastically readable account of this funny, filthy and ingenious language. |
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Shapeshifters: A History |
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John B. Kachuba/ 9781789140798/ Price:GBP 16.00
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There is something about a shapeshifter – a person who can transform into an animal – that captures our imagination; that causes us to want to howl at the moon, or flit through the night like a bat. Werewolves, vampires, demons and other weird creatures appeal to our animal nature, our ‘dark side’, our desire to break free of the bonds of society and proper behaviour. Rituals in early cultures worldwide seemingly allowed shamans, sorcerers, witches and wizards to transform at will into animals and back again. Today, there are millions of people who believe that shapeshifters walk among us and may even be world leaders. Real or imaginary, shapeshifters lurk deep in our psyches and remain formidable cultural icons.
The myths and magic surrounding shapeshifters is brought vividly to life in John Kachuba’s compelling and original cultural history. Featuring a fantastic and goulish array of examples from history, literature, film, TV and computer games, Shapeshifters explores our secret desire to become something other than human. |
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Corridors: Passages of Modernity |
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Roger Luckhurst/ 9781789140538/ Price:GBP 25.00
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We spend our lives moving through passages, hallways, corridors and gangways, yet they do not feature in architectural histories, monographs or guidebooks. They are overlooked, undervalued and unregarded; seen as unlovely parts of a building’s infrastructure rather than ‘architecture’.
This book is the first definitive history of the corridor, from its origins in country houses and utopian communities in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, through reformist Victorian prisons, hospitals and asylums, to the ‘corridors of power’, bureaucratic labyrinths, and housing estates of the twentieth century.
The book takes in wide range of sources, from architectural history to fiction, film and TV, to explore how the corridor went from a utopian ideal to a place of unease: the archetypal stuff of nightmares. |
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Fat: A Cultural History of the Stuff of Life |
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Christopher E. Forth/ 9781789140620/ Price:GBP 25.00
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Fat: such a little word evokes big responses. While ‘fat’ describes the size and shape of bodies, our negative reactions to corpulent bodies also depend on something tangible and tactile; as this book argues, there is more to fat than meets the eye. Fat: A Cultural History of the Stuff of Life offers a historical reflection on how fat has been perceived and imagined in the West since antiquity. Featuring fascinating historical accounts, philosophical, religious and cultural arguments, including discussions of status, gender and race, the book digs deep into the past for the roots of our current notions and prejudices. Three central themes emerge: how we have perceived and imagined obesity over the centuries; how fat as a substance has elicited disgust and how it evokes perceptions of animality; but also how it has been associated with vitality and fertility. By exploring the complex ways in which fat, fatness and fattening have been perceived over time, this book provides rich insights into the stuff our stereotypes are made of. |
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The Europe Illusion: Britain, France, Germany and the Long History of European Integration |
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Stuart Sweeney/ 9781789140606/ Price:GBP 25.00
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In The Europe Illusion, Stuart Sweeney considers Britain’s relationships with France and Prussia-Germany since the map of Europe was redrawn at Westphalia in 1648. A timely and far-sighted study, it argues that integration in Europe has evolved through diplomatic, economic and cultural links cemented between these three states, and that – as wars became increasingly destructive and economic expectations were elevated – states struggled to survive alone. Yet it has been rare for all three to be friends at the same time.
While common trends can be seen within the European states, there is an illusion of unity, since cultural particularisms have always tempered full integration. In this broader context, setbacks like Brexit can be seen as predictable and manageable. After all, the federal project has a strong pedigree, with roots in the Holy Roman Empire, and the EU remains a formidable institution of twenty-seven states. While Britain is left to forge a role outside the EU, Sweeney identifies a familiar semi-detachment, highlighting pragmatism and historical constancy at the heart of Europe. |
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Gilded Youth: Privilege, Rebellion and the British Public School |
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James Brooke-Smith/ 9781789140668/ Price:GBP 18.00
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The British public school is an iconic institution, a training ground for the ruling elite and a symbol of national identity and tradition. But beyond the elegant architecture and evergreen playing fields is a turbulent history of teenage rebellion, sexual dissidence and political radicalism. James Brooke-Smith wades into the wilder shores of public-school life over the last 300 years in Gilded Youth. He uncovers armed mutinies in the late-eighteenth century, a Victorian craze for flagellation, dandy-aesthetes of the 1920s, quasi-scientific discourse on masturbation, Communist scares in the 1930s and the salacious tabloid scandals of the present day.
Drawing on personal experience, extensive research and public school representations in poetry, school slang, spy films, popular novels and rock music, Brooke-Smith offers a fresh account of upper-class adolescence in Britain and the role of elite private education in shaping youth culture. He shows how this central British institution has inspired a counter-culture of artists, intellectuals, and radicals – from Percy Shelley and George Orwell, to Peter Gabriel and Richard Branson – who have rebelled against both the schools themselves and the wider society for which they stand. Written with verve and humour, this is a highly original cultural history in the tradition of Owen Jones’s The Establishment: And How They Get Away With It. |
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A History of Feelings |
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Rob Boddice/ 9781789140675/ Price:GBP 25.00
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What does it mean to feel something? What stimulates our desires, aspirations and dreams? Did our ancestors feel in the same way to us? Historians have tried to make sense of our feelings, passions, moods, emotions and sentiments over the last decade in a wave of new research. For the first time, however, Rob Boddice brings together the latest findings to trace the complex history of feelings from antiquity to the present.
A History of Feelings is a compelling account of the unsaid – the gestural, affective and experiential. Rob Boddice argues that how we feel is the dynamic product of the existence of our minds and bodies in moments of time and space. Using a progressive approach that integrates biological, anthropological and social and cultural factors, he describes the evolution of emotional encounters and individual experiences across the globe. Written by one of the world’s leading scholars of the history of emotions, this epic exploration of our affective life is essential reading for all those fascinated by our own well-being. |
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Saint-Making In Early Modern Rissia: Religious Tradition and Innovation in the Cult of Nil Stolobenskii |
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Isolde Thyret/ 9781733040808/ Price:US$ 66.00
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Based on a case study of the formation of the cult of the Russian saint Nil Stolobenskii in the seventeenth century, this book provides insight into the complex dynamics of the saint-making process in early modern Russia. Utilizing a large array of documentary, literary, and visual sources, the author investigates the importance of a growing patronage network for the cults of early Russian saints and the role that local laymen and monks and high-ranking Russian Orthodox church officials played in the development of the hagiographic, liturgical, and iconographic image of individual saints and in the creation of the physical infrastructure of their cults. Saint-Making in Early Modern Russia challenges the prevailing view that the Russian Orthodox Church hierarchy determined the success of a saint’s cult in the Muscovite period by demonstrating the crucial contribution of the leaders of the Nilov Hermitage to the development of Nil Stolobenskii’s cult in the seventeenth century. By placing the achievements of these monastic figures within the wider theological, spiritual, and artistic framework of Eastern Orthodoxy that they operated in, this study affords the reader a rare view into the creativity of native Russian religious culture before the influx of Western ideas started to reshape the Russian Orthodox spiritual experience in the later seventeenth century. In light of its interdisciplinary and comparative approach to the topic, this book will appeal to historians, art historians, and experts in religious studies who are interested in the cult of saints in both Russia and the West. |
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Modern Times in Southeast Asia, 1920s-1970s |
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Susie Protschky/ 9789004372610/ Price:EUR 105.00
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An Historical Sketch of Chinese Historiography |
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Huaiqi Wu/ 9783662562529/ Price:EUR 129.99
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Lesser Dragons: Minority Peoples of China |
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Michael Dillon/ 9781780239118/ Price:GBP 25.00
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Lesser Dragons is a timely introduction to the fascinating and complex world of China’s ‘national minorities’. Based on detailed research, including the author’s first-hand fieldwork in several minority areas, it introduces the major non-Han peoples of China, including the Mongols, the Tibetans, the Uyghurs of Xinjiang and the Manchus, and traces the evolution of their relationship with the Han Chinese majority. Each chapter discusses one of the most important minority groups, while an additional chapter is devoted to the parallel but different world of inter-ethnic relations in Taiwan.
Lesser Dragons will interest anyone who wishes to understand the reality behind the region’s conflicts that are increasingly being reported in the Western media, including the tense security situation in Xinjiang, China’s attitude to Tibet and the Dalai Lama, and the resistance of Mongolian herders to the loss of their grasslands. It examines cliches, such as those found in the Chinese press that portray the ethnic minorities as colourful but marginal people, and shows how their religions, cultures and above all their languages mark them out as distinct from the Chinese majority yet endangered by forces of integration. |
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China's Path Toward National Rejuvenation: Review and Reflections |
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Chuanjia, Zhang/ 9789814698191/ Price:US$ 150.00
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China's Path Toward National Rejuvenation: Review and Reflections presents the tortuous journey the Chinese nation has gone through in pursuing and achieving the socio-political ideal of national rejuvenation for more than 100 years since the first Opium War (1840-1842). Beginning with a critical account of the late-Qing historical events such as the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom Movement, the Westernization Movement, the Hundred Days' Reform of 1898, and the Revolution of 1911, it goes on to focus on how the Communist Party of China (CPC), through integrating the theory of Marxism with the actual conditions and concrete practices in China, eventually led the Chinese people to win the victory in the New Democratic Revolution (1919-1949). The founding of the People's Republic ushered in a new era of building socialism with Chinese characteristics, as aptly represented by the country's reform and opening up program undertaken since 1978.
Divided into four parts, the book examines the entire historical process of and reveals the basic patterns behind such a huge endeavor and achievement of the Chinese nation, and also reflects upon the experiences and lessons learned in the course of pursuing national rejuvenation.
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- Documents China's path toward national rejuvenation and the lessons learned.
- Allows international readers to better understand China's reemergence as an international power through the lens of an insider.
- Covers various major events in modern Chinese history, including the two Opium Wars, the Revolution of 1911, and the epochal reform and opening up since 1978. |
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Dragon: Fear and Power |
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Martin Arnold/ 9781780238975/ Price:GBP 25.00
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Dragons are a global phenomenon, one that has troubled mankind for thousands of years. From the fire-breathing beasts of North European myth and legend to the Book of Revelation’s Great Red Dragon of Hell, from those supernatural agencies of imperial authority in ancient China to those dragon-women posing a threat to male authority, dragons have a wide variety of forms and meanings. But there is one thing they all have in common: our fear of their formidable power and, as a consequence, our need to overcome them, to appease them or in some way to assume their power as our own. How can this be explained? Is it our need to impose order on chaos in the person of a dragon-slaying hero? Is it our terror of Nature unleashed in its most destructive form? Or is the dragon nothing less than an expression of that greatest and most disturbing mystery of all – our mortality?
Martin Arnold traces the history of ideas about dragons, from the earliest of times to Game of Thrones, and asks what exactly it might be in our imaginations that appears to have necessitated such a creature. |
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The Mummy's Foot and the Big Toe: Feet and Imaginative Promise |
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Alan Krell/ 9781780239156/ Price:GBP 15.00
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In this quirky and surprising history, Alan Krell addresses the absurd and abject, the banal and the nastily subversive, and the romantic and fetishistic, as he describes the appearance of the foot in literature, photography, art, sport and film. Discover the gothic tales of French writer Theophile Gautier, the disturbing photographs of Jacques-Andre Boiffard and the religious paintings by Giotto, Tintoretto and Caravaggio that exalt the foot. Marvel at the sporting exploits of elite runners such as Abebe Bikila and Zola Budd, and the surprising representation of the foot in films such as The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (1939) and Kill Bill: Vol. 1 (2003). Presenting new images and ideas of the foot in a tantalizing way, The Mummy’s Foot and the Big Toe is for all those with an interest in the humanities, languages, social sciences and anthropology. |
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Ugliness: A Cultural History |
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Gretchen E. Henderson/ 9781780239316/ Price:GBP 11.99
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‘Ugly as sin’, ‘ugly duckling’, ‘rear its ugly head’. The word ‘ugly’ is used freely, yet it is a loaded term: from the simply plain and unsightly to the repulsive and even offensive, definitions slide all over the place. Hovering around ‘feared and dreaded’, ugliness both repels and fascinates. But the concept of ugliness has a lineage that has long haunted our cultural imagination.
In this riveting book, Gretchen E. Henderson explores perceptions of ugliness through history, from ancient Roman feasts to medieval grotesque gargoyles, from Mary Shelley’s monster cobbled from corpses to the Nazi Exhibition of Degenerate Art. Covering literature, art, music and even Uglydolls, Henderson reveals how ugliness has long posed a challenge to aesthetics and taste.
Henderson digs into the muck of ugliness, moving beyond the traditional philosophic argument or mere opposition to beauty, and emerges with more than a selection of fascinating tidbits. Following ugly bodies and dismantling ugly senses across periods and continents, Ugliness: A Cultural History draws on a wealth of fields to cross cultures and times, delineating the changing map of ugliness as it charges the public imagination. Illustrated with a range of artefacts, this book offers a refreshing perspective that moves beyond the surface to ask what ‘ugly’ truly is, even as its meaning continues to shift. |
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Bountiful Empire: A History of Ottoman Cuisine |
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Priscilla Mary Isin/ 9781780239040/ Price:GBP 35.00
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he Ottoman Empire was one of the largest and longest-lasting empires in history. In this powerful and complex empire, the production and consumption of food reflected the lives of people from sultans to soldiers. Food bound people of different classes and background together, defining identity and serving symbolic functions in the social, religious, political and military spheres. Bountiful Empire: A History of Ottoman Cuisine examines the foodways of the Ottoman Empire as they changed and evolved over more than five centuries.
The book starts with an overview of the earlier culinary traditions in which Ottoman cuisine was rooted, such as those of the Central Asian Turks, Abbasids, Seljuks and Byzantines, and goes on to focus on diverse aspects of this rich culinary culture, including etiquette, cooks, restaurants, military food, food laws and food trade. This meticulously researched account draws on more than six hundred primary and secondary sources, ranging from archive documents to poetry, and includes over one hundred illustrations. It is a fresh and lively insight into an empire that until recent decades has been sidelined or viewed through orientalist spectacles. Readers interested in food history and Ottoman history will enjoy this beautiful volume. |
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The Waterless Sea: A Curious History of Mirages |
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Christopher Pinney/ 9781780239323/ Price:GBP 18.00
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Mirages have long astonished travellers and beguiled thirsty desert voyagers. Chinese and Japanese poetry and images depicted mirages as the exhalations of clam-monsters. Indian sources related them to the ‘thirst of gazelles’, a metaphor for the futility of desire. From the late eighteenth century to the present, mirages became a symbol of ‘Oriental despotism’, a malign, but also enchanted, emblem. But the mirage motif is rarely simply condemnatory. More commonly it conveys a sense of escape, of fascination, of a desire to be deceived.
The Waterless Sea is the first book devoted to the theories and history of mirages. Christopher Pinney navigates a sinuous pathway through a mysterious and evanescent terrain, showing how mirages have impacted politics, culture, science, and religion, and how we can continue to learn from their sublimity. |
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Dinomania: Why We Love, Fear and Are Utterly Enchanted by Dinosaurs |
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Boria Sax/ 9781789140040/ Price:GBP 20.00
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At once reptilian and avian, dinosaurs enable us to imagine a world far beyond the usual boundaries of time, culture and physiology. We have envisioned them in diverse and contradictory ways, reflecting, in part, our changing conceptions of ourselves. Their discovery, around the start of the nineteenth century, was intimately tied to our awareness of geological time; their vast size and power called to mind railroads, battleships and factories, making dinosaurs, paradoxically, emblems of modernity. At the same time, their world was nature at its most pristine, and they simultaneously symbolized childhood innocence and wonder. Dinosaurs provided a sort of code that has enabled people to speak indirectly about the possibility of our own extinction. Not unlike humans today, dinosaurs seem both powerful – almost godly – and helpless in the face of cosmic forces even mightier than themselves.
Dinomania tells the story of our romance with the titanic saurians, from early stories that were inspired by their bones to the dinosaur theme parks of today. It concludes that, in our imaginations, dinosaurs are, and always have been, essentially dragons, and their contemporary representation is once again blending with the myth and legend from which it emerged at the start of the modern period. |
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Company Curiosities: Nature, Culture and the East India Company, 1600-1874 |
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Arthur MacGregor/ 9781789140033/ Price:GBP 40.00
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For nearly three hundred years, the East India Company dominated British trade and relations with Asia. It made handsome profits for shareholders but also provided collectors in Europe with natural specimens and man-made rarities that were prized for their scientific, aesthetic or cultural value. An array of administrators, soldiers and surveyors spent much of their lives attempting to inventory and to comprehend India’s vast country, its teeming populations and its myriad rituals and wildlife: nearly forty species of mammals and over 120 species of birds were discovered in the Katmandu valley alone; astonishing wall paintings from the fifth-century were unearthed in caves at Ajanta; and spectacular fossil fauna arrived from the Siwalik Hills.
Company Curiosities: Nature, Culture and the East India Company, 1600–1874 offers the first-ever overview of the remarkable role of the East India Company and its servants in collecting and showcasing a treasure-house of natural specimens and man-made objects – craft materials, paintings and sculptures, weapons, costumes, jewels and ornaments – that established the look and the feel of India for those who had never ventured abroad. Arthur MacGregor tells the stories behind the remarkable discoveries and collections, and those responsible 20 for them, and their impact on natural science, commerce and industry, and personal taste. |
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The Mafia: A Cultural History |
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Roberto M. Dainotto/ 9781780239934/ Price:GBP 10.99
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What makes Tony Soprano so likeable? Why would we rather leave the cannoli and take the gun? Do we truly want Scarface’s Tony Montana to succeed? Is Michael Corleone a misunderstood hero or a despicable villain?
In The Mafia, now available in paperback, Roberto M. Dainotto traces the complex and fascinating development of the mafia: its rural beginnings in Western Sicily; its growth into what has been aptly described as a global multinational of crime; and its parallel evolution in music, print and on the big screen. The book probes the tension between the real mafia – its brutal and often violent reality – and how we imagine it to be: a mythical assembly of codes of honour, family values and chivalric masochism. Rather than dismissing such mafia stereotypes as untrue, Dainotto sets out to understand what needs and desires, material and psychic longings, are satisfied by our mafia fantasies.
Exploring the rich array of films, books, television, music and even video games portraying and inspired by the mafia, this book offers not only a social, economic and political history of the mafia but a new way of understanding our enduring fascination with what lurks behind the sinister omerta of the 22 family business. |
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Darkness: A Cultural History |
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Nina Edwards/ 9781780239828/ Price:GBP 20.00
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Darkness divides opinion. Some are frightened of the dark, or at least prefer to avoid it, and there are many who dislike what it appears to stand for. Others are drawn to its strange domain, delighting in its uncertainties, lured by all the associations of folklore and legend, by the call of the mysterious and of the unknown. The history of attitudes to what we cannot quite make out, in all its physical and metaphorical manifestations, challenges the notion that the world is possible to fully comprehend.
Nina Edwards explores darkness as both physical feature and cultural image, through themes of sight, blindness, consciousness, dreams, fear of the dark, night blindness, and the in-between states of dusk or fog, twilight and dawn, the point or period of obscuration and clarification. Taking readers through different historical periods, she interrogates humanity’s various attempts to harness and suppress the dark, from our early use of fire to the later discovery of electricity. She reveals how the idea of darkness pervades art, literature, religion and every aspect of our everyday language.
Darkness: A Cultural History shows us how darkness has fed our imagination. Whether a shifting concept or real physical presence, it always conveys complex meaning. |
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Inventing American Tradition: From the Mayflower to Cinco de Mayo |
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Jack David Eller/ 9781780239866/ Price:GBP 30.00
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What really happened on the first Thanksgiving? How did a British drinking song become the national anthem of the United States? And what makes Superman so darned American? Every tradition, even the noblest and most cherished, has a history, nowhere more so than in the usa, which was born with a relative indifference, if not hostility, to the past. Most Americans would be surprised to learn just how recent – and controversial – the origins of their traditions are, as well as how those origins are often related to the trauma of the Civil War and to fears for American identity stemming from immigration and socialism.
Inventing American Tradition explores a wide range of beloved traditions, including political symbols, holidays, lifestyles and fictional characters, and looks at the people who conceived of and adapted them into the forms familiar to Americans – and the innumerable people around the world influenced by American culture – today.
What emerges is the realization that all traditions are invented by particular people at particular times for particular reasons, and that the process of ‘traditioning’ is forever ongoing. |
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The Anatomy of Riches: Sir Robert Paston's Treasure |
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Spike Bucklow/ 9781780239798/ Price:GBP 20.00
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The Anatomy of Riches tells the story of one family’s long rise from rags to riches, and their rapid reversal of fortune. It focuses on the life of Sir Robert Paston, who experienced the family’s fall from grace at a time of momentous change, the beginning of the modern world.
The Paston wealth had brought luxuries from across the globe to an idyllic retreat in rural Norfolk. The family commissioned Europe’s finest craftsmen to enhance their rarities, and their lavish hospitality was famed throughout England. But the Civil War and plague tore the country apart, and peaceloving Sir Robert was assailed by what he called a ‘whirlpool of misadventures’, although he kept his faith and worked tirelessly to protect his wife and children. Encouraged by his friend Dr Thomas Browne, he even found time to pursue his interests, employing both an alchemist in search of the Philosopher’s Stone and an artist to capture his favourite treasures in an enigmatic stilllife, The Paston Treasure. |
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Monsters under Glass: A Cultural History of Hothouse Flowers from 1850 to the Present |
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Jane Desmarais/ 9781780239750/ Price:GBP 25.00
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Monsters under Glass explores our enduring fascination with hothouses and exotic blooms, from their rise in ancient times, through the Victorian vogue for plant collecting, to the present day.
Our interest in hothouses can be traced back to the Roman emperor Tiberius, but it was in the early nineteenth century that a boom in exotic plant collecting and new glasshouse technologies stimulated the imagination of novelists, poets and artists, and the hothouse entered the creative language in a highly charged way. Decadent writers in England and on the Continent – including Charles Baudelaire and Oscar Wilde – transformed the notion of the hothouse from a functional object to a powerful metaphor, of metropolitan life, sexuality and being, replete with a dark underside of decay and death; of consciousness itself, nurtured and dissected under glass.
In this beautifully illustrated, wide-ranging and vivid study, Jane Desmarais charts the history and influence of these humid, tropical worlds and their creations, providing a steamy window on our recent past. |
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Sex in the World of Myth |
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David Leeming/ 9781780239774/ Price:GBP 20.00
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In Sex in the World of Myth, David Leeming argues that sex is as important in myths as it is in our lives. Myths are our cultural dreams, and sex is pervasive in all mythologies because it has obsessed and confused us like nothing else – what’s more, sexual myths, like all myths, can serve many purposes. The reproductive acts of the ancient Greek goddess Gaia perhaps reflect a pre-Olympian matriarchal social system. The tales of the unbridled sexual deeds of the Polynesian Maui, and many others, speak to a natural fascination with the power and mystery of sexual drives.
Leeming demonstrates how even when such myths are meant to elicit laughter or titillation, the participation in them of sacred heroes and deities means they are in some sense religious – partial answers to the nature of existence in general, and human sexuality in particular. |
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Ukraine: A Nation on the Borderland |
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Karl Schlogel/ 9781780239781/ Price:GBP 30.00
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The Euromaidan uprising in Kiev, followed by radical regime change, the annexation of the Crimea and the war in Eastern Ukraine, have shattered European security. The Western response to Russian aggression has been uncertain and hesitant in handling the unfamiliar yet large nation of Ukraine, a country with a complicated past, and one whose history is little known in the rest of Europe.
In Ukraine: A Nation on the Borderland, Karl Schlogel presents a picture of a country which lies on Europe’s borderland and in Russia’s shadow. In recent years, Ukraine has been faced, along with Western Europe, with the political conundrum resulting from Russia’s actions and the ongoing Information War. As well as exploring this present-day confrontation, Schlogel provides detailed, fascinating historical portraits of a panoply of Ukraine’s major cities: Lviv, Odessa, Czernowitz, Kiev, Kharkov, Donetsk, Dnepropetrovsk and Yalta – cities whose often troubled and war-torn histories are as varied as the nationalities and cultures which have made them what they are today, survivors with very particular identities and aspirations. Schlogel feels the pulse of life in these cities, analysing their more recent pasts and their challenges for the future. |
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Burned Alive: Bruno, Galileo and the Inquisition |
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Alberto A. Martinez/ 9781780238968/ Price:GBP 30.00
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In 1600 the Catholic Inquisition condemned the philosopher Giordano Bruno for his heretical beliefs. He was then burned alive in a public place in Rome. Historians, scientists and teachers usually deny that Bruno was condemned for his beliefs about the universe and that his trial was linked to the later confrontations between the Inquisition and Galileo in 1616 and 1633. Based on new evidence, however, Burned Alive asserts that Bruno’s beliefs about the universe were indeed the primary factors that led to Bruno’s condemnation: his beliefs that the stars are suns surrounded by planetary worlds like our own, and that the Earth moves because it has a soul.
Alberto A. Martinez shows how some of the same Inquisitors who judged Bruno also confronted Galileo in 1616. Ultimately the one clergyman who wrote the most critical reports used by the Inquisition to condemn Galileo in 1633 immediately wrote an unpublished manuscript, in which he denounced Galileo and other followers of Copernicus for believing that many worlds exist and that the Earth moves because it has a soul. This book challenges the accepted history of astronomy and shows how cosmology led Bruno bravely to his death. |
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History of the European Oil and Gas Industry. |
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J. Craig/ 9781786203632/ Price:GBP 125.00
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This volume focuses on the history, pioneers and heritage of the oil and gas industry in Europe from the earliest onshore digging and drilling to its rapid development into the contemporary industry over the past century. It also examines the transition from conventional to unconventional resource plays in the onshore arena. |
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THEN AND NOW: Egypt's Story |
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Hussein Shabka/ 9780998147758/ Price:US$ 34.00
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The rise and fall of civilizations has been a fact of history since before it was recorded. It is a normal process. So what is the particular significance of Egypt’s descent from a wealthy, organized, sophisticated society into the chaotic milieu that reigns today? Perhaps it relates to the nature of the yawning gap that exists between that sophistication that endured for more than four thousand years and earned Egypt the title, om el donya, mother of the world, as Egyptians refer to her, and the social and cultural degradation over the last two thousand years since the last pharaoh, Cleopatra, departed the scene.
As the living gods, the pharaohs were the pivots around which all social institutions turned, creating stability, prosperity, and security for four millennia. The death of the last pharaoh, therefore, was not merely an event that signaled loss of independence and a transfer of power to Rome. It signaled the collapse of the foundations of society and the beginning of a steep decline into chaos.
For the following two millennia, a succession of foreign occupations and despotic rulers undermined Egypt’s national identity, exported her wealth to far away seats of power, imported a new language and culture and spawned social values that are inimical to the very notion of modernity. Understanding these developments provides one possible route to getting a handle on the social and cultural deterioration and its effects in Egypt. This may also allow insight into developments today not only in Egypt, but also in the greater Middle East that surrounds her. |
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The Triple Whammy And Other Russian Stories: A Memoir |
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Louis Menashe/ 9780999557204/ Price:US$ 26.00
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A captivating lifetime of personal and professional experiences by an American historian, film specialist and documentary filmmaker in the Soviet Union and post-Soviet Russia. The author’s experiences as a radical in the turbulent 1960s, and his eventual disenchantment offer some precedents and perspectives to all those on the Left, Center or Right interested in the fluctuations of American politics. The vivid log of hopes and disillusions is related in a candid, non-academic style, and set against a panorama of history and politics in the late 20th century. |
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The Triple Whammy And Other Russisn StoriesIES: A Memoir |
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Louis Menashe/ 9780999557211/ Price:US$ 38.00
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A Broken Propeller: Baz Bagby and America's First Transcontinental Air Race |
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Betty Goerke/ 9780998643397/ Price:US$ 24.00
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A Broken Propeller is the story of America’s first transcontinental air race. Pilots in this dangerous adventure flew WWI planes with open cockpits and no parachutes.
In October 1919 fifty-nine pilots competed in a round trip race that began simultaneously on Long Island and in San Francisco with predetermined stops 150 miles apart at airfields across the United States. Newspapers gave it front-page press: who was ahead, who was missing, who made an unexpected emergency landing, who crashed, and who was felled by blinding snowstorms.
The race was conceived by Brig. Gen. Billy Mitchell to promote the future of flight in the United States, but all did not go as planned. There were 54 crashes and seven deaths. Pilots landed on rooftops, in Lake Eire, and the front-runner had his dog with him. The predominant plane in the race, the DH-4, had life-threatening flaws. Pilots faced heavy rain, gale winds, snow, ice, and treacherous landing fields. As a result they lost their way, and made courageous and foolhardy decisions. There were comic moments, and poignant ones. The future head of the Air Force, Gen. Carl A. Spaatz was a feisty participant. The heroes were the ranchers and farmers who helped downed airmen with food, lodging and fuel. |
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Fairies: A Dangerous History |
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Richard Sugg/ 9781780238999/ Price:GBP 20.00
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How dangerous were fairies? In the late seventeenth century, they could still scare people to death. Little wonder, as they were thought to be descended from fallen angels, and to have the power to destroy the world itself. Despite their modern image as gauzy playmates, the fairies feared by ordinary people caused them to flee their homes, to revere fairy trees and paths, and to abuse or even kill infants or adults held to be fairy changelings. Such beliefs, along with some remarkably detailed sightings, lingered on in places well into the twentieth century. Often associated with witchcraft and black magic, fairies were also closely involved with reports of ghosts and poltergeists.
In literature and art fairies often retained this edge of danger. From the wild magic of A Midsummer Night’s Dream, through the dark glamour of Keats, to the improbably erotic poem ‘Goblin Market’ or the paintings inspired by opium dreams, the amoral otherness of the fairies ran side-by-side with the newly delicate or feminized creations of the Victorian world. In the past thirty years the enduring link between fairies and nature has been robustly exploited by eco-warriors and conservationists, from Ireland to Iceland. This book tells the story of the many fairy terrors which lay behind Titania or Tinkerbell. |
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Afghanistan: A History from 1260 to the Present |
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Jonathan L. Lee/ 9781789140101/ Price:GBP 30.00
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Located at the intersection of Asia and the Middle East, Afghanistan has been strategically important for thousands of years. Its ancient trade routes and strategic position between India, Inner Asia, China, Persia and beyond has meant the region has been subject to frequent invasions. Modern Afghanistan is a culturally and ethnically diverse country, but one divided by conflict, political instability and by mass displacements of its people.
Jonathan L. Lee places the current conflict in Afghanistan in its historical context and challenges many of the West’s preconceived ideas about the country. Lee chronicles the region’s monarchic rules and the Durrani dynasty, focusing on the reigns of each ruler and their efforts to balance tribal, ethnic, regional and religious factions, moving on to the struggle for social and constitutional reform and the rise of Islamic and Communist factions. He offers new cultural and political insights from Persian histories, the memoirs of Afghan government officials, British government and India Office archives, recently released CIA reports and WikiLeaks documents. Lee also sheds new light on the country’s foreign relations, its internal power struggles and the impact of foreign military interventions such as the ‘War on Terror’. |
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Revolt in the Netherlands: The Eighty Years War, 1568-1648 |
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Anton van der Lem/ 9781789140866/ Price:GBP 30.00
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In 1568 the Seventeen Provinces in the Netherlands rebelled against the colonial rule of the king of Spain. A confederation of duchies, counties and lordships, they demanded the right of self-determination, the freedom of conscience and religion, and the right to be represented in government. Their long struggle for liberty and the subsequent rise of the Dutch Republic was a decisive episode in world history and an important step on the path to the Universal Declaration of Human Rights.
In his compelling retelling of the conflict, Anton van der Lem explores the main issues at stake on both sides of the struggle and why it took eighty years to achieve peace. He recounts in vivid detail the roles of the key protagonists, the decisive battles and the war’s major turning points, from the Spanish governor’s Council Of Blood to the Twelve Years Truce, while all the time unraveling the shifting political, religious and military alliances that would entangle the foreign powers of France, Italy and England. Featuring striking illustrations that have rarely been seen before, this is a timely and balanced account of one of the most historically important conflicts of the early modern period. |
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Vast Expanses: A History of the Oceans |
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Helen M. Rozwadowski/ 9781780239972/ Price:GBP 20.00
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Vast Expanses is a cultural, environmental and geopolitical history that examines the relationship between humans and oceans, reaching back across geological and evolutionary time and exploring different cultures around the globe.
Our ancient connections with the sea have developed and multiplied with industrialization and globalization, a trajectory that runs counter to Western depictions of the ocean as a place remote from and immune to human influence. This book argues that knowledge about the ocean – discovered through work and play, scientific investigation, and also through the ambitions people have harboured for the sea – has played a central role in defining our relationship with this vast, trackless and opaque place. It has helped people exploit marine resources, control ocean space, extend imperial or national power, and attempt to refashion the sea into a more tractable arena for human activity.
An understanding of the ocean has animated and strengthened connections between people and their seas. To comprehend this history we must address questions of how, by whom and why knowledge of the ocean was created and used, in both the past and the present; through this, we can forge a healthier relationship with the sea for the future. |
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Military History, 4-Vols/Set. |
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Black, Jeremy/ 9781138185364/ Price:GBP 1050.00
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Addressing the need for an authoritative reference work to make sense of a rapidly growing and ever more complex corpus of literature, Military History is a new title from Routledge’s Critical Concepts in Military, Strategic, and Security Studies series. Edited by Jeremy Black (‘the most prolific historical scholar of our age’), it is a four-volume collection which brings together the very best scholarship in a one-stop ‘mini library’ of major works.
Black avers that military history is increasingly seen as a global enterprise and Eurocentric/Western perspectives and paradigms often now appear questionable, if not redundant. Moreover, a teleology of warfare leading towards the total warfare of the twentieth century—the two world wars and the Cold War—appears far less convincing, he says, in light of developments since 1990. This kind of re-examination of long-held assumptions about military history has guided the selection of materials, which are organized chronologically, but with abundant cross-referencing to enable users to pursue thematic approaches. The focus is on major works published since 1990, first to centre on current research, questions, and perspectives and, secondly, because earlier literature can be followed through these pieces.
Military History is fully indexed and includes a comprehensive introduction, newly written by the editor, which places the collected material in its historical and intellectual context. It is an essential reference work and is destined to be valued by scholars and students as a vital research and pedagogic resource.
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Origins of Chinese Political Philosophy. |
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Martin Kern/ 9789004343498/ Price:EUR 133.00
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Slums: The History of a Global Injustice. |
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Mayne, Alan/ 9781780238098/ Price:GBP 25.00
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More than half of the world’s population now lives in urban areas, but a billion of these people reside in neighbourhoods characterized by entrenched disadvantage. These neighbourhoods, known as ‘slums’, are often seen as a debilitating and even subversive presence within society. In reality, however, it is often the host societies and their public policies that are at fault.
In this comprehensive global history, Alan Mayne explores the evolution and meaning of the word ‘slum’, from its origins in London in the early nineteenth century to its use to describe favela communities in the lead up to the Rio de Janeiro Olympic Games in 2016. The word ‘slum’ has been extensively used for two hundred years to condemn and disperse poor communities. Mounting a case for the word’s elimination from the language of progressive urban social reform, Slums is a must-read book for all those interested in social history and the importance of these vibrant and vital neighbourhoods. |
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Health Cooperation with Russia: An Example of Engagement that Really Worked |
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Edward J. Burger Jr./ 9780998643335/ Price:US$ 22.00
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Shortly following the fall of the Soviet Union, The Eurasian Medical Education Program of the American College of Physicians was established to make a contribution to the health challenge in Russia following seventy years of relative isolation of the Russian medical profession from Western medicine. Over the next 17 years, the program brought American physician experts to share medical scientific knowledge and contemporary standards of care with Russian practitioners. The program ultimately interacted with over 10,000 Russian physicians in 13 Russian regional academic medical centers across most of the eleven time zones of Russia. The 17-year period of the program of the program was notable for nearly constant political and economic turmoil in Russia and very volatile US-Russian relations. Against this environment, the Eurasian Medical Education Program not only performed unperturbed but with professional enthusiasm from the Russian medical establishment and leadership, proving again that health and medicine are outstanding instruments of engagement politically. |
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The Goths: Lost Civilizations |
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David M. Gwynn/ 9781780238456/ Price:GBP 18.00
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The Goths are truly a ‘lost civilization’. Sweeping down from the north, ancient Gothic tribes sacked the imperial city of Rome and set in motion the decline and fall of the western Roman Empire. Ostrogothic and Visigothic kings ruled over Italy and Spain, dominating early medieval Europe. Yet the last Gothic kingdom fell more than a thousand years ago, and the Goths disappeared as an independent people. Over the centuries that followed, the vanished Goths were remembered both as barbaric destroyers and as heroic champions of liberty.
This engaging history brings together the interwoven stories of the original Goths and the diverse Gothic legacy: a legacy that continues to shape our modern world. From the ancient migrations to contemporary Goth culture, through debates over democratic freedom and European nationalism and across the work of writers from Shakespeare to Bram Stoker, David M. Gwynn explores the ever-widening gulf between the Goths of history and the Goths of popular imagination. Historians, students of architecture and literature and general readers alike will learn something new from The Goths. |
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John Evelyn: A Life of Domesticity |
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John Dixon Hunt/ 9781780238364/ Price:GBP 16.95
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The work of English writer, gardener and diarist John Evelyn is of great historical value. His most famous work, his Diary, which he kept throughout his life, is considered an invaluable source of information on more than fifty years of social, cultural, religious and political life in seventeenth-century England. But Evelyn’s work is often overshadowed by the literary contributions of his contemporary and friend Samuel Pepys.
John Dixon Hunt’s biography takes a fresh look at the life and work of one of England’s greatest diarists, focusing particularly on the seventeenth-century notion of ‘domesticity’. He explores Evelyn’s domestic life and, more importantly, the domestication of foreign ideas and practices in England. From his early, extensive European travels, Evelyn imbibed ideas above all on the management of estate design and developed an understanding of how to explore English topography. The book puts Evelyn’s great accomplishment – making European garden art available in the UK – into context alongside a range of social and ethical ideas. |
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Cuba: A Cultural History |
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Alan West-Duran/ 9781780238395/ Price:GBP 18.00
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Cuba is a rare and fascinating place. In a world where revolutionary socialism seems an almost quaint reminder of the Cold War, the island remains one of the few nations on the planet guided by a Communist party, still committed to fighting imperialism, opposed to the injustices of globalization and wedded to the dream of one day building a classless society, albeit in a distant future. But Cuba is more than a struggling socialist country: it is a nation with a complex and turbulent history and a rich and varied culture.
This book is neither simply a timeline narrative of Cuban history nor a traditional history of Cuban culture. Instead, it invites the reader to enter Cuban history from the perspective of the island’s uniquely creative cultural forms. As it does so, it traces that restless island as it ebbs and flows with the power, beauty and longings of its culture and history. All those who have visited this captivating place, or been inspired by its history and culture, should read this fascinating account. |
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The Etruscans: Lost Civilizations |
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Lucy Shipley/ 9781780238326/ Price:GBP 18.00
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The book explores Etruscan culture through a series of stories that also reveal the biases and prejudices of the present day. It describes the journey of Etruscan objects from the point of their creation through the story of their use, loss, rediscovery and reinvention. From the wrappings of an Egyptian mummy displayed in a fashionable salon to the extra-curricular activities of a member of the Bonaparte family, it takes us on an extraordinary voyage through Etruscan archaeology that leads to surprising and intriguing places. |
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Revenge: A Short Enquiry into Retribution |
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Stephen Fineman/ 9781780238401/ Price:GBP 14.99
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In this bold new book, Stephen Fineman lifts the lid on revenge, exposing its intriguing contours across the workplace, intimate relationships, societal justice, wars and politics. He explores the psychology and experience of revenge and some of its more recent manifestations, such as cyber-stalking and revenge pornography. When should retribution be tolerated, or even celebrated? If we are all potential avengers, what does that say about us? Revenge tackles one of society’s greatest challenges. |
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Petrarch: Everywhere a Wanderer |
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Christopher S. Celenza/ 9781780238388/ Price:GBP 16.95
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Born in Tuscany in 1304, Italian poet Francesco Petrarca is widely considered one of the fathers of the modern Italian language. His writings inspired the Humanist movement and, subsequently, the Renaissance, but few figures are as complex or as misunderstood. He was a devotee of the ancient pagan Roman world and a devout Christian, a lover of friendship and sociability, yet at times an intensely private and almost misanthropic man. He believed life on earth was little more than a transitory pilgrimage, and took himself as his most important subject-matter.
Christopher S. Celenza provides the first general account of Petrarch’s life and work in English in over thirty years, and considers how his reputation and identity have changed over the centuries. He brings to light Petrarch’s unrequited love for his poetic muse, Laura, the experiences of his university years, the anti-institutional attitude he developed as he sought a path to modernity by looking toward antiquity, and his endless focus on himself.
Drawing on both Petrarch’s Italian and Latin writings, this is a revealing portrait of a paradoxical figure: a man of mystique, historical importance and endless fascination. |
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The Last of the Light: About Twilight |
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Peter Davidson/ 9781780238272/ Price:GBP 15.95
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The Last of the Light is a meditation on twilight in the Western arts and imagination, in thought, painting and literature. It takes us across the threshold of day into dusk, an uncertain world haunted by Romantic poets and painters and the twilight lives of minority and ‘overshadowed’ communities. The melancholy of smoky English autumn evenings is balanced by the midnight sun of summers in northern latitudes, and the darkly oppressive heat of August in mid-twentieth-century Spain is ranged against the spectral grandeur of winter in London.
Peter Davidson touches on diverse literary and artistic traditions as he considers the borderlands of the light and the dark: the ‘invention of evening’ in Rome by the ancients; the science of the Victorian evening sky; the urban sunsets of Whistler, Hammershoi and Tiepolo; the twilit modernities of Sebald, Eliot and Baudelaire. He reflects on the sense of longing, decay and loss that motivates so many of these works as well as the particular luminosity and brilliance generated by shadow, penumbra and half-light.
This ambitious account of the arts of the evening, now available in paperback, deftly combines prose-poetry, memoir, philosophy and art history. Intertwining personal, cultural and artistic histories, it is a richly rewarding book written in a unique voice. |
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Empires and Anarchies: A History of Oil in the Middle East |
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Michael Quentin Morton/ 9781780238104/ Price:GBP 30.00
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The Middle East has the greatest oil reservoirs in the world. But, having created immense wealth, oil has not brought universal happiness to the region. The history of oil is about not only the great discoveries but the transformation of people and societies, the empires built on oil and the anarchies it has engendered.
From the first explorers trudging through the desert wastes to the excesses of the Peacock Throne and the high stakes of OPEC, the burnt-out remains of Saddam Hussein’s armies and the human tragedy of the Arab Spring, Empires and Anarchies describes the history of oil in all its aspects: how it enriched and fractured the Middle East, eroding traditional ways of life and facilitating the rise of Islamic radicalism.
Michael Quentin Morton’s account presents a fascinating insight into the historical background of the region through the people and politics of oil. It is essential reading for anyone intrigued by the promise and the curse of oil, as well as for those interested in how oil has played a crucial part in shaping the modern Middle East. |
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Ghosts: A Haunted History |
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Lisa Morton/ 9781780238432/ Price:GBP 10.99
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Tracing the ghost’s constantly shifting contours, Morton asks ‘What exactly is a ghost?’, and examines related entities such as poltergeists, wraiths and revenants. She asks how a ghost is related to a soul, and describes the different varietys of ghosts that seem to be. To do so, she visits the spirits of the classical world, including the five-part Egyptian soul and the first haunted house, conceived in the Roman playwright Plautus’s comedy, Mostellaria. She confronts us with the frightening phantoms of the Middle Ages – who could incinerate priests and devour children – and reminds us of the nineteenth-century rise of Spiritualism, a religion essentially devoted to ghosts. She visits with the Indian bh?ta, goes to the Hungry Ghost Festival in China, and spends time in Mexico, where ghosts have a particularly strong grip on belief and culture. Along the way she gathers the ectoplasmic residues seeping from books and film reels: from the Gothic novel The Castle of Otranto to the 2007 blockbuster Paranormal Activity, and from the stories of Ann Radcliffe to those of Stephen King. |
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Immunization: How Vaccines became Controversial |
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Stuart Blume/ 9781780238371/ Price:GBP 30.00
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In this controversial new book, Stuart Blume argues that the processes of globalization and people’s unsatisfied healthcare needs are eroding faith in the institutions producing and providing vaccines. He tells the history of immunization practices, from the work of early pioneers such as Louis Pasteur and Robert Koch to the establishment of the World Health Organization and the introduction of genetic engineering.
Immunization exposes the limits of public health authorities while suggesting how they can restore our confidence. Public health experts and all those considering vaccinations should read this timely history. |
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Strokes of Genius: A History of Swimming |
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Eric Chaline/ 9781780238197/ Price:GBP 18.00
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‘Pleasure beckons at the water’s edge.’ With these words, Eric Chaline celebrates the physicality and sensuality of swimming – attributes that might have contributed to the evolution of the human species. Chaline’s comprehensive account surveys swimming from prehistory to the present day. He decodes the earliest human myths to reconstruct swimming’s prehistory and history; he explains its role in religious rituals, trade and manufacture, warfare and medicine, and chronicles its transformation into the leisure activity and competitive sport that together have made it the most commonly practiced physical pastime in the developed world.
Swimming is now a cultural marker that stands for eroticism, leisure, endurance, adventure, exploration and excellence, and latterly, like other disciplines that use repetitive movements to discipline the body and still the mind, it is held by wild swimmers to be a lane to spiritual awakening – one stroke at a time.
There is no single story of human swimming, but many currents that merge, diverge and remerge towards a future in which our survival may depend on our ability to adapt to life in an aquatic world. |
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The Muse of Urban Delirium: How the Performing Arts Paradoxically Transform Conflict-Ridden Cities Into Centers of Cultural Innovation |
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Blair A Ruble/ 9780997496291/ Price:US$ 38.00
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his collection of essays seeks answers to the challenges of urban diversity, conflict, and creativity by examining the emergence of musical and theatrical originality in a series of specific cities at particular times. It does so by using various performing arts – opera, dance, theater, music – as windows onto the creativity of urban life. These were urban societies in which the socio-economic and political transformations were taking place at such rapid speed as to force consideration of their meaning and identity. This volume explores the relationship between those creative minds who sought to define their communities and their urban muses rather than examining the arts that they have produced. In other words, it is a book about urban place, not about the performing arts. |
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Communist Posters |
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Mary Ginsberg/ 9781780237244/ Price:GBP 39.95
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One of the common features of communist regimes is the use of art for revolutionary means. Posters in particular have served as beacons of propaganda – vehicles of coercion, instruction, censure and debate – in every communist nation. They have promoted the authority of state and revolution, but have also been used as an effective means of protest. By their nature posters are ephemeral, tied to time and place, but many have had far-reaching, long-lasting impact. They are imbued with both artistic integrity and personal conviction – Bolshevik posters, for example, are among the most vibrant, passionate graphics in art history.
This is the first truly global survey of the history and variety of communist poster art. Each chapter is written by an expert in the field, and examines a different region of the world: Russia, China, Mongolia, Eastern Europe, North Korea, Vietnam and Cuba. This beautifully illustrated, comprehensive survey examines the broad range of political and visual cultures of communist posters, and will appeal to a wide audience interested in art, history and politics. |
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Echoes of Valhalla: The Afterlife of the Eddas and Sagas |
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Jon Karl Helgason/ 9781780237152/ Price:GBP 25.00
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Echoes of Valhalla is a unique account of modern adaptations of the Icelandic eddas (poems of Norse mythology) and sagas (ancient prose accounts of Viking history, voyages and battles). Jon Karl Helgason looks at comic books, plays, music and films, exploring reincarnations of the Nordic gods Thor and Odin and the saga characters Hallgerd Long-legs, Gunnar of Hlidarendi and Leif the Lucky, as well as the works of the medieval writer Snorri Sturluson. He looks at Scandinavian, British and American cases, as well as German, Italian and Japanese adaptions. Examples include the cartoonists Jack Kirby and Peter Madsen, playwrights Henrik Ibsen and Gordon Bottomley, travellers Frederick Metcalfe and Poul Vad, composers Richard Wagner and Edward Elgar, rock musicians Jimmy Page and Robert Plant and film directors Roy William Neill and Richard Fleischer.
Echoes of Valhalla shows how disparate, age-old poems and prose from medieval rural Iceland have become a part of our shared cultural experience today – how the eddas and sagas themselves live on. The book will appeal to the wide audience interested in Viking mythology and history, as well as films, books, music, graphic novels. |
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Death: From Dust to Destiny |
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Richard Brilliant/ 9781780237251/ Price:GBP 20.00
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The terms ‘birth’ and ‘death’ have long denoted the apparent boundaries of our biological lives, situating in time the moments of coming to be and passing away. Yet the specific trajectory of a life can surpass its temporal boundaries. Long after the perishing of the body, and of its physical remains, the individual’s ethos can endure in the collective memories of survivors and subsequent generations. Such remnants have been created by rituals, reinforced through commemorations and obituaries, and projected through art and architecture. These powerful inducements to remember counter the finality of physical death, bridging the gap between absence
and presence.
Death: From Dust to Destiny, featuring a wide-ranging collection of texts and images together with the author’s guiding commentary, offers a reflective meditation on the methods that artists, architects and writers have developed to activate memory, and animate their subjects into a – possibly – unending afterlife. In this process death need no longer be a terminal departure but can become a new form of existence in the minds of others. |
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Levitation: The Science, Myth and Magic of Suspension |
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Peter Adey/ 9781780237374/ Price:GBP 20.00
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Levitation tells the peculiar story of those who have dreamed, believed or practised levitation, whether they were successful or not. Levitation could be thought of best as a pre- and parallel history of aviation, but it is not really about flights of the aeronautical kind. Instead, the book tracks the long-standing belief that we could float relatively unaided. Early modern scientists believed in the force of levity as an opposing force to gravity. Traditional societies have held deep-rooted shamanic traditions of spirit- and dream-flight through storytelling. Ancient religious movements have long believed in the power of ascetic saints to hover in sublime ecstasy. Magicians and mesmerists have employed the tricks of stage, cinema and the enigma of Eastern traditions to convince audiences of their power to lift through thought alone. And science-fiction novelists and urban planners have speculated on floating cities hovering high above the earth. Many artists have experimented with levitation too, from the Surrealists to Yves Klein.
In this book Peter Adey explores the idea of levitation within our cultural, scientific and spiritual lives. From science to illustration, poetry, philosophy, law, technology and a wider popular, spiritual and visual imagin-ation, Levitation casts the levitator as a far more vulnerable figure than we may have thought. |
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Flatness |
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B. W. Higman/ 9781780237299/ Price:GBP 16.95
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The modern world is dominated by flat surfaces. We write, print and project on flat paper or flat screens, which we stare at all day. We inhabit spaces constructed from flat materials. We play sport on level fields. Engineered planar surfaces have become so pervasive and fundamental to behaviour and thought that we barely notice their existence. But flat landscapes are also often disparaged, viewed as featureless, empty and monotonous. Metaphorically, to ‘feel flat’ is to be bored, dull, lacking energy or inspiration.
So what is it about flatness that makes it so desirable and practical in everyday life, yet so unattractive in landscape and as an idea? How has the construction of flat surfaces contributed to a degradation of visual diversity? Flatness attacks these questions by looking first at the ways humans have perceived the natural world around them, from Flat Earth theories to abstract geometric concepts and the Flatness Problem in modern cosmology. It also traces the long historical trajectory of flatness as an engineering ideal, and the representation of the concept in art, music and literature.
Flatness is a truly original study, drawing together many strands of thought and practice, from the everyday to the most profound, as it builds a new way of understanding the platform on which the drama of modern life has been played out. Written with wit and wisdom, and splendidly illustrated throughout, the book will appeal to all who are interested in the topography of the modern world. |
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Psyche on the Skin: A History of Self-harm |
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Sarah Chaney/ 9781780237503/ Price:GBP 20.00
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Self-harm is thought by many to be a modern epidemic: a phenomenon of the late twentieth century, a symptom of extreme emotional turmoil in young people, particularly young women. Yet it was 150 years ago, within early asylum psychiatry, that self-mutilation was first codified as a category of behaviour, and explanations for a variety of self-injurious acts were conceived very differently.
Psyche on the Skin charts the secret history of self-harm. The book describes its many forms, from sexual self-mutilation and hysterical malingering in the late Victorian period, to self-castrating religious sects, to self-mutilation and self-destruction in art, music and popular culture. Sarah Chaney’s refreshing historical approach refutes the notion that self-harm has any universal meaning – that it necessarily says something specific about an individual or group, or that it can ever be understood outside the historical and cultural context of a particular era.
Drawing on her personal experiences, written in an engaging style and containing many powerful images, Psyche on the Skin challenges the misconceptions and controversies surrounding self-harm. The book is crucial reading for professionals in the field as well as all those affected by this act. |
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Mao and the Cultural Revolution, Volume 3: Battling for China's Future |
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Hu Angang/ 9781623201555/ Price:US$ 138.00
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A culmination of Mao Zedong’s political ambitions, the Cultural Revolution restored his power and prestige as paramount leader, albeit at great costs to the economic and social development to the country. The impact of the movement — more significantly, the politics that drove it — deeply influences political philosophy in China today. |
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Mao and the Cultural Revolution, Volume 2: The Red Guards March for Mao |
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Hu Angang/ 9781623201531/ Price:US$ 128.00
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Acclaimed national researcher Hu Angang presents Mao and the Cultural Revolution, an immensely rich account of the massive political event of 1966 that brought seismic changes to the landscape of New China.
A culmination of Mao Zedong’s political ambitions, the Cultural Revolution restored his power and prestige as paramount leader, albeit at great costs to the economic and social development to the country. The impact of the movement — more significantly, the politics that drove it — deeply influences political philosophy in China today. |
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The Reliquary Effect: Enshrining the Sacred Object |
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Cynthia Hahn/ 9781780236551/ Price:GBP 40.00
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Relics take many forms, from dust to stones, cloth, bodies and body parts. They are usually of little apparent intrinsic worth but are nonetheless invested with great spiritual and memorial value. Reliquaries are the means by which the cultural value of relics is asserted. Once established as a sacred object through the act of enshrinement, the relic is empowered to commemorate religious and historical ideas, produce veneration and awe, and inspire faith and even ‘miracles’.
The Reliquary Effect is the first full survey in English to investigate the societal value of reliquaries. It focuses on relics and reliquaries of the Christian tradition, from the earliest moments of the cult of saints, to the post-Reformation response, to Protestant scepticism about and rejection of relic veneration. Relic footprints, incorrupt bodies, the Crown of Thorns, the Turin Shroud and many other renowned Christian relics are examined. Strategies such as the architectural creation of sacred space and the evocation of the biblical tradition of the Temple are revealed as central to the power of reliquaries. Hahn also discusses relics from other faith traditions, including Buddhism and Islam, and considers how the ‘reliquary effect’ finds its place as a powerful force in more secular times, as well as reliquaries’ transformations in contemporary art.
Featuring a fascinating mixture of inexplicably obscure objects and older artworks that demand our attention, The Reliquary Effect is a must-read for students of art history, as well as all those interested in the enduring power of sacred objects. |
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Imperialism and China 1800-1945, 4-Vols/Set. |
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Huenemann, Ralph/ 9781138814349/ Price:GBP 1150.00
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The history of imperialism in China is a complex, contentious history. In modern times, China’s experience with imperialism has entailed two parallel stories during the 19th and 20th centuries—stories that are different in their geographic location, in their motivations, and in their outcomes. The facet of imperialism that has received the most attention is that of aggression against China by capitalist nations, culminating in the Japanese invasion of the 1930s. This story evolved in a low-key way before the 19th century, but then entered a more aggressive phase with military action by the British in the First Opium War (1839-1842). Both economic issues and cultural issues have received attention in this story, and are thoroughly explored in two volumes of this Major Work.
The simultaneous story of Qing Imperialism in Eurasia (stretching from Tibet through Central Asia and Mongolia around to Korea), as explored in the third volume, entailed a multilateral rivalry, with China, Great Britain, Russia, and Japan jockeying for position. Again, the origins lay well before the 19th century, and again significant military action was important—in this case, led primarily by the Han (Chinese) official Zuo Zongtang on behalf of the Qing (Manchu) dynasty. An important aspect of this second story is that the territories in dispute were inhabited by non-Han peoples. For the most part, Chinese writings do not treat this episode as an example of imperialism, much as American history books do not generally treat the incorporation of the swath of Mexican territory from Texas to California into the United States as an act of imperialism. This reference work gathers together in one place a multitude of academic sources on the history of imperialism and China, providing an essential overview of the many sides of the topic. |
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Urban History, 4-Vols/Set. |
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Sweet, Rosemary/ 9781138797956/ Price:GBP 290.00
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With over half the world’s population now living in cities, urbanization is one of the defining features of the contemporary world, and urban history – the study of the processes and consequences of urbanization – is one of the most dynamic fields of modern and contemporary history. But the dynamism of urban history is not confined to the modern era and the study of urban societies in the less recent past equally represents a highly fertile field of scholarship.
This collection will provide an expert overview of the field of urban history and a representative synthesis of past and current scholarship in urban history. The articles selected will explore key debates and conceptual issues in urban history from a global perspective highlighting the benefits of comparative historical research and of interdisciplinary approaches drawn from the humanities and social sciences . The recent expansion of global history and transnational perspectives in historical research is particularly suited to the study of urban history, given the importance of cities as nodal points in the networks of global exchange and communication and this volume. The collection will also adopt a deliberately broad chronological span from antiquity to the twentieth century in order to facilitate diachronic comparisons and to emphasize the continuities, as well as discontinuities in urban history. The volumes differ from the several ‘urban studies’ readers that are already available on the market in that the long term historical perspective is central to their conception. They will address theories of urbanization and methodological and conceptual issues of urban history, including questions of definition, as well as covering wider thematic issues that are representative of the different disciplinary approaches that have influenced urban history and which reflect the wider questions that urban historians have, historically, sought to address. |
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The History of Nursing, 4-Vols/Set. |
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Hallett, Christine/ 9780415712002/ Price:GBP 1150.00
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The History of Nursing is a complex, shifting discipline engaged in an ongoing search for identity and purpose. If its earliest works were celebratory narratives of ‘great deeds’ and ‘influential nurses’, dominated by biographies of Florence Nightingale and tropes of imperial womanhood, then from at least the 1970s, academics—drawn mainly from Women’s History and Nursing—have argued for a move from such uncritical stances and towards more analytical and nuanced approaches. Lately, Nursing History has been characterized by the ‘cultural turn’, with a shift in focus from class, gender, and race, to the study of practices, ideologies, and life-worlds. Characterized by an emphasis on history ‘from below’, it aims to recapture the experiences of both nurses and patients, and to recover voices that never found their way into mainstream histories of healthcare or society.
Now, a new title from Routledge’s Major Themes in Health and Social Welfare series meets the need for an authoritative reference work to make sense of this evolution. Edited by the Director of the UK Centre for the History of Nursing and Midwifery at the University of Manchester, The History of Nursing offers both a historiographical overview of disciplinary trends and a definitive omnibus of classic scholarship and rigorous research studies. Avoiding material which is tendentious, superficial, and otiose, it will be welcomed as an ‘uber-anthology’of the most significant and valuable major works in the History of Nursing. |
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War Comes to Garmser: Thirty Years of Conflict on the Afghan Frontier |
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Carter Malkasian/ 9780199390014/ Price:US$ 27.95
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The Kaohsiung Incident in Taiwan and Memoirs of a Foreign Big Beard |
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J. Bruce Jacobs/ 9789004316010/ Price:EUR 37.00
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Portrait of a Woman in Silk: Hidden Histories of the British Atlantic World. |
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Zara Anishanslin/ 9780300234237/ Price:US$ 26.00
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Poseidon's Curse: British Naval Impressment and Atlantic Origins of the American Revolution. |
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Magra, Christopher P./ 9781107112148/ Price:GBP 45.99
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America in the World, 1776 to the Present: A Supplement to the Dictionary of American History, 2-Vols/Set. |
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Blum, Edward J./ 9780684325026/ Price:US$ 623.00
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Primarily aimed at undergraduates, America In The World will answer the needs of students while satisfying the general reader's increasing curiosity about America's role on the world scene; the impact of U.S. policies not only nationally, on the domestic agenda, but globally; and the reactions of the world's nations to America's rise, 1776 to the present. The set includes key figures from John Adams and the Marquis de Lafayette to Bob Dylan and Barack Obama, and also covers organizations like IBM and the RAND Corporation, the American Colonization Society and the Red Cross, along with topics exploring social and cultural themes, such as Buffalo Bill Cody's Wild West, Captain America, Americanization, Exceptionalism, and the Lost Generation. The emphasis on global perspectives brings fresh insights to such domestic topics as the Texas Republic, Wounded Knee, the Department of Homeland Security, and Martin Luther King, Jr. The entry on King, for example, answers the following questions: how did he develop and articulate a global vision of the struggle against colonialism and imperialism during his years of fight against segregation in America? What role did he play in the fight against Apartheid in South Africa? How was King influenced by the ideas of Mahatma Gandhi? Referred to in the academic world as "transnational history," the content in our volumes introduces an increasingly popular approach to teaching US history in the context of the world at large. |
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UXL World Eras, 10-Vols/Set. |
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Intended primarily for middle school students, U*X*L World Eras examines major civilizations that have flourished from antiquity to modern times, with a strong emphasis on daily life and social history. This set consists of ten full-color, thematically arranged volumes, with each volume providing in-depth coverage of a given era, focusing on a cultural group and its interaction with other peoples of the world. With its emphasis on daily life and cultural institutions, U*X*L World Eras engages students' interest and enriches traditional studies of history. The global perspective of this set prompts comparison of the lives people led in different parts of the world, in different cultures, and at different times, contributing significantly to students' global literacy.
Table of Contents
Volume 1: Ancient Mesopotamia: 3300 BCE-331 BCE.
Volume 2: Ancient Egypt: 2615 BCE-332 BCE.
Volume 3: Classical Greek Civilization: 800 BCE-323 BCE.
Volume 4: Roman Republic and Empire: 264 BCE-476 BCE.
Volume 5: West African Kingdoms: 500-1590.
Volume 6: Imperial China: 617-1644.
Volume 7: Rise and Spread of Islam: 622-1500.
Volume 8: Medieval Europe: 814-1350.
Volume 9: European Renaissance and Reformation: 1350-1600.
Volume 10: Industrial Revolution in Europe: 1750-1914. |
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Nights in the Big City: Paris, Berlin, London 1840-1930. |
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Schlor, Joachim/ 9781780235868/ Price:GBP 16.95
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Nights in the Big City explores this new awareness of the city in all its rami?cations. Joachim Schlor has spent his days sifting through countless police and church archives and ?rst-hand accounts, and his nights exploring the highways and byways of these three great capitals. Illustrated with haunting and evocative photographs by Bill Brandt and Andre Kertesz, among others, and ?lled with contemporary literary references, Nights in the Big City has been acclaimed as a milestone in the cultural history of the city. |
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Smuggling: Seven Centuries of Contraband. |
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Harvey, Simon/ 9781780235950/ Price:GBP 25.00
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Smuggling conjures up images of romance and rebellion. Moving beyond this popular conception, Smuggling: Seven Centuries of Contraband presents the bigger picture of this clandestine trade. It focuses on the powerful political, economic, scienti?c and cultural interests involved in smuggling and how these have affected the history and geopolitics of the world. |
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The Idea of North. |
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Davidson, Peter/ 9781780235981/ Price:GBP 9.95
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As with the compass needle, so people have always been most powerfully attracted northwards; everyone carries within them their own concept of north. The Idea of North is a study, ranging widely in time and place, of some of the ways in which these ideas have found expression. Offering engaging meditation on solitude, absence and stillness, Davidson shows north to be a goal rather than a destination, a place of revelation that is always somewhere ultimate and austere. |
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Keepers of the Golden Shore: A History of the United Arab Emirates. |
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Morton, Michael Quentin/ 9781780235806/ Price:GBP 25.00
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For those who visit the UAE, staying in air-conditioned hotels and visiting ultra-modern shopping malls, the country remains an enigma, a glass and concrete creation that seems to have sprung from the desert overnight. Keepers of the Golden Shore looks behind its glossy facade, tracing the tribal bonds of an ancient land to the society of today and casting a new and revealing light on this intriguing nation. |
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Canada: Modern Architectures in History |
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Michelangelo Sabatino/ 9781780236339/ Price:GBP 20.00
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During the twentieth century, a distinct Canadian design attitude coalesced: a liberal, hybrid, pragmatic mindset intent less upon the dogma of architectural language than on thinking about the formation of inclusive spaces and places. Taking a fresh perspective on design production and its context, Canada maps the unfolding of architectural modernity across the country, from the completion of the transcontinental railway in 1886–87 to the tumultuous interwar decades, the period of Reconstruction post-1945, and the politically conflicted era of the late 1960s and ’70s. It also examines the broad pattern of Canadian political, industrial and socio-cultural evolution, urban–suburban expansion, and the technology of building. A wide array of buildings and architects, from ARCOP, Eric Arthur and Ernest Cormier, to Brigitte Shim and Howard Sutcliffe, helps to bring to life this chronologically and thematically driven story. Canada is a unique critical account of modern and contemporary architecture in a country once defined by Voltaire as ‘a few acres of snow’. |
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Concrete and Culture: A Material History |
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Adrian Forty/ 9781780236360/ Price:GBP 20.00
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Concrete and Culture breaks new ground by charting concrete's effects on culture since its reinvention in the modern period, examining the ways it has changed our understanding of nature, of time and of materiality. This book discusses architects’ responses to and uses of concrete while also taking into account the role it has played in politics, literature, cinema and labour-relations, as well as in present day arguments about sustainability.
Crucial to the construction of some of the world’s most avant-garde buildings but also blamed for making all places look alike, concrete continues to be as controversial as ever. In this book Adrian Forty takes the reader across Europe, North and South America and the Far East, reflecting on the global consequences of the material. Concrete and Culture is a uniquely innovative historical account of the part played by an often despised substance in people’s relationships to their physical surroundings. |
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The Persians: Lost Civilizations |
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Geoffrey Parker/ 9781780236506/ Price:GBP 15.00
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During the first and second millennia bc large numbers of nomadic people known as the Aryans migrated outwards into the Eurasian periphery from Central Asia. One particular branch of these Aryans moved south of the Caspian Sea and became known to history as the Persians or Iranians. Their first dwellings were in an unpromisingly arid area, but from there these early settlers would go on to form one of the most powerful empires in history.
The Persians tells the captivating story of this beguiling ancient civilization. Drawing on the region’s subsequent history, it traces the unique features of Persian life and unravels their influence throughout the centuries. The book describes the difficulties early Persians encountered and how these contributed to their unique character and the establishment of the Achaemenid Empire. It recounts the keenly fought conflicts with the Greeks for mastery of the Eastern Mediterranean, a contest which was to dominate the geopolitics of the ancient world, and it paints a vivid picture of the many great Persian cities and
their spectacular achievements: an efficient road system that linked an empire together; respect for their subject peoples; and advances in irrigation techniques which created a ‘paradise’ envied by their neighbours.
Providing an entertaining insight into the influence, traditions and history of ancient Persia, the book shows how the uniqueness of modern Iran in the Islamic world owes much to its ancient civilization. |
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Egyptomania: A History of ?Fascination, Obsession and Fantasy |
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Ronald H. Fritze/ 9781780236391/ Price:GBP 25.00
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Ancient Egypt has been a focus of awe and fascination from its beginnings in the Age of the Pyramids to the present day. In Egyptomania Ronald H. Fritze takes us on a historical journey to unearth the Egypt of the imagination, a land of weird gods, murky magic, secret knowledge, marvellous pyramids, enigmatic sphinxes, monumental obelisks, immense wealth and mystifying mummies.
Egypt has always exerted a powerful allure in popular and high culture, and an array of personalities have been attracted to and repelled by the idea of Egypt. Medieval Christians considered Egypt a land with many connections to the Bible, while medieval Muslims were intrigued by its massive monuments, esoteric learning and hidden treasures. Scholars of the Renaissance, the Baroque and the Enlightenment pondered the mysteries of hieroglyphs and Hermes Trismegistus. Even the practical-minded Napoleon dreamed of Egyptian glory and helped open that antique land to the West. Fritze goes beyond the examination of Egyptomania in art and architecture to reveal its impact on religion, philosophy, historical study, literature, travel, science and popular culture. All those who remain captivated by the ongoing phenomenon of Egyptomania will revel in the mysteries uncovered in this book |
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Zombies: A Cultural History |
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Roger Luckhurst/ 9781780236698/ Price:GBP 9.99
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ombies: A Cultural History, now available in paperback, sifts materials from anthropology, folklore, travel writing, colonial histories, long-forgotten pulp literature, B-movies, medical history and cultural theory to give a definitive short introduction to the zombie, exploring the manifold meanings of this compelling, slow-moving yet relentless monster. |
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Faith and Sword: A Short History of Christian–Muslim Conflict, Second Expanded Edition |
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Alan G. Jamieson/ 9781780236728/ Price:GBP 9.95
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Faith and Sword gives a wide-ranging and detailed survey of what has arguably been the longest conflict in human history – a conflict that continues, in a new form, to this day. The overtly religious Christian-Muslim struggle lasted for nearly thirteen centuries, and for most of that period the Muslims were in the ascendant. The Christians eventually halted the tide of Arab conquest, but their counterstroke in the Crusades ended in failure and the Muslim threat was renewed by the Ottoman Turks. Only after 1600 did Christians finally begin to gain the upper hand, with the fall of the Ottoman Empire after the First World War seeming to mark the final Christian victory. Between 1918 and today, however, the Christian-Muslim conflict continued, albeit in different guises: Christendom became the largely secularized West, while religious fundamentalism revived on the Muslim side and the usa became its principal target.
In this revised paperback edition Alan G. Jamieson brings the story right up to date through all its stages, and shows how the present situation has emerged. He ranges widely in time, from the original Arab conquests in the seventh century to the present conflicts in Iraq and Afghanistan. All areas of conflict are included, from Morocco to Indonesia, and from Russia to Somalia. With a new introduction and a whole new chapter on current conflicts, this authoritative and readable study will appeal to scholars, students and the general reader, giving an accessible introduction to one of the most important conflicts of our time. |
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The Pleasure's All Mine: A History of Perverse Sex |
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Julie Peakman/ 9781780236759/ Price:GBP 18.00
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What is perverse sex and what isn’t? Now available in paperback, The Pleasure’s All Mine explores the gamut of sexual activity that has been seen as strange, abnormal or deviant over the last 2,000 years. This first comprehensive history of sexual perversion examines an abundance of original sources – letters, diaries, memoirs, court records, erotic books, medical texts and advice manuals – and shows how, for ordinary people, different kinds of sex have always offered myriad different pleasures. There never was a ‘normal’.
Almost all sexual behaviours have travelled to and fro along a continuum of proscription and acceptance. Attitudes have changed towards masturbation, leatherwear, ‘golden showers’ and sado-masochism. From the specialized cultures of pain, necrophilia and bestiality to the social world of plushies and furries, and lovers of life-sized sex dolls, some previously acceptable behaviour now provokes social outrage, while activities as diverse as sodomy and wife-swapping have moved on the spectrum of acceptance from sin to harmless fun. Each ‘perversion’ is explored from the time it was first visible in history, to how it is viewed today, and along the way the book asks why we can be so intolerant of other people’s sexual preferences.
Carefully researched as well as a fascinating read, and featuring a wide array of illustrations, The Pleasure’s All Mine reaches conclusions that are surprising, and sometimes shocking. This is an essential volume for anyone interested in the art, history and culture of sex. |
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Everyday Life: How the Ordinary Became Extraordinary |
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Joseph A. Amato/ 9781780236636/ Price:GBP 18.00
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In Everyday Life Joseph A. Amato offers a panoramic account of the evolution of our daily existence and reflects on the complex and changing textures of everyday life. Beginning with societies of scarcity and relative lack of change and ending with our own twenty-first-century lives, he ranges widely through topics as varied as dirt and muck, walking and the charm of spices, and through time from early agriculture to mechanization and the modern urban existence.
Amato argues that what seems to be ordinary is in fact extraordinary, and shows how life, even in the very recent past, differed from life in our present-day societies of abundance and of remorseless change. The result is a challenging and thought-provoking introduction to change and continuity in daily life. |
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Landscape and Englishness: Second Expanded Edition |
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David Matless/ 9781780235813/ Price:GBP 9.95
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Landscape has been central to de?nitions of Englishness for centuries. David Matless argues that landscape has been the site where English visions of the past, present and future have met in debates over questions of national identity, disputes over history and modernity, and ideals of citizenship and the body.
Landscape and Englishness is extensively illustrated and draws on a wide range of material – topographical guides, health manuals, paintings, poetry, architectural polemic, photography, nature guides and novels. This edition contains a new preface by the author. |
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Mao and the Cultural Revolution, Volume 1: Mao's Motivation and Strategy |
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Enrich Professionals/ 9781623201517/ Price:US$ 148.00
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Traveling Beyond Her Sphere: American Women on the Grand Tour, 1814 to 1914 |
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Bess Beatty/ 9780997496222/ Price:US$ 28.00
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The nineteenth-century ideal of domesticity identified home as women’s proper sphere, but the ideal was frequently challenged, profoundly so when woman left home and country to travel in foreign lands. This book explores the reasons for and ramifications of women making a Grand Tour, a trip to Europe, between 1814 and 1914; this century between major European wars witnessed the golden age of American Grand Tours.
Men and women alike were inspired by a Euro-centric education that valued the Old World as the fountainhead of their civilization. Reaching Europe necessitated an Ocean crossing, a disorienting time taking women far from domestic comfort. Once abroad, American women had to juggle accustomed norms of behavior with the demands of travel and customs of foreign lands. Wearing proper attire, even when hiking in the Alps, coping with unfamiliar languages, grappling with ever-changing rules about customs and passports, traveling alone – these were just some of the challenges women faced when traveling. Some traveled with their husband, others with female relatives and friends and a few entirely alone. Traveling companions had to agree on where to stay, when and where to dine, how to travel, and where to go.
The sinking of the Titanic in 1912 made clear that even in the twentieth century, a Grand Tour involved risk. Because more women survived then men, some insisted that the Titanic’s example should curb female independence. However, a growing number of women continued making a Grand Tour for the next two year. It was the Outbreak of war in Europe in 1914 that temporarily brought an end to a century of female Grand Tours. |
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Traveling Beyond Her Sphere: American Women on the Grand Tour, 1814 to 1914 |
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Bess Beatty/ 9780997496239/ Price:US$ 40.00
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The Tudor Wolfpack and The Roots Of Irish America |
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Jack Bray/ 9780996648479/ Price:US$ 48.00
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Crisis And Breakdown Of Non-Democratic Regimes:Lessons from the Third Wave |
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Pietro Grilli di Cortona/ 9780996648493/ Price:US$ 26.00
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The focus is on factors—internal, external, and contextual—that can promote democratic regime change, and under what conditions they are effective or ineffective. Legacies of the past, civil society, and elite dynamics are among the internal factors under examination, along with economic development and crises, and the role of “stateness,” especially when it is weak. On the external front, chapters address both structural (long-term) and conjunctural (short-term) factors, with particular attention to the varying impacts of interventions by international actors, whether specifically intended to promote democracy or not. Geography (political, economic, human, and cultural), which helps delimit and condition the process of political change, also receives attention.
While some scholars argue that we have now experienced a fourth or even a fifth wave of democratization, the roughly 40 years following the Portuguese revolution featured an incomparably large and diverse set of efforts to democratize. The lessons to be drawn from that huge body of data remain highly relevant as we seek to understand the outcomes of more recent “color revolutions” or the Arab Spring, and as we consider the future of democratization. |
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Strangers When We Met: A Century of American Community in Kuwait |
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W. Nathaniel Howell/ 9780996648400/ Price:US$ 38.00
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This history, twenty years in the research and writing, relates the story of Americans living in Kuwait, beginning with the establishment of the American Mission Hospital in 1911. It covers the first century of community experience ending in 2011, which is also the fiftieth anniversary of Kuwait’s emergence as an independent state. The rich but largely unrecorded heritage of American missionaries, doctors and nurses, oil workers, diplomats, military personnel, and businessmen who have resided in the country is revealed, including the ways in which they influenced Kuwaiti society and were influenced by it. Based not only on the existing literature but on memoirs, oral interviews, official documents, and other unpublished sources, Strangers draws upon those who lived this history to elucidate their experiences as Kuwaiti society evolved. In an era where the vestiges of imperialism often poison official and personal relationships, the Kuwaiti-American relationship provides a positive contrast of service and accommodation between two peoples who began their interaction as strangers. |
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Strangers When We Met: A Century of American Community in Kuwait |
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W. Nathaniel Howell/ 9780996648417/ Price:US$ 50.00
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十種影響中華民國建立的書刊7 革命的抉擇與挑戰：《民報》、《新民叢報》論戰選編 |
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梁啟超, 汪精衛等著/ 9789869115414/ Price:NT$ 1200.00
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Teaching Big History |
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Richard B. Simon/ 9780520283558/ Price:US$ 34.95
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Boys for Men: A Vietnam War Memoir |
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Derrick Wolf/ 9781511947640/ Price:US$ 29.38
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Histories of Everyday Life in Totalitarian Regimes, 3-Vols/Set. |
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/ 9781558629271/ Price:US$ 785.00
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Histories of Everyday Life In Totalitarian Regimes is a new set in St. James Press’s award-winning Literature of Society series. It explores daily life in such totalitarian dictatorships as Nazi Germany, Stalin’s Soviet Union, China under Mao, and North Korea. Two-thirds of the publication (200 entries) focus on compelling personal histories detailing the experiences of individuals in these regimes. The personal experiences are conveyed in such first-hand accounts as memoirs, autobiographies, diaries, and letters. An additional 100 entries interwoven throughout the three volumes further elucidate daily life in totalitarian regimes by exploring works of fiction dedicated to the topic. Perspectives from both the rulers and the ruled, from different age groups and occupations, are represented to give an understanding of the social, cultural, political, and economic conditions. The scholarly advisory board brings multiple disciplines, including history, literature, European and Asian languages, to assure thorough treatment that goes beyond the Cold War perspective during which the term "totalitarian" came into vogue. The attractive design features some 250 images and 50 maps and graphics. In addition to college students and the general public, the set has much to offer ninth through twelfth grade high school teachers and students in the core curriculum. The English Language Arts Standards (for History/Social Studies and Reading: Literature) emphasize analysis of primary and secondary sources and fictional works, all three of which Histories of Everyday Life in Totalitarian Regimes covers. |
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American Eras: Primary Sources, Vol. 8: Early American Civilization, Exploration to 1600. |
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/ 9781414498317/ Price:US$ 253.00
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The diversity of life in the period of first European exploration of North America and even earlier is represented in this student-friendly volume. Abundant full or excerpted primary sources depict a multiplicity of views of an era characterized by exploration, discovery, and conquest. Primary sources include documents written by such well-known explorers as Christopher Columbus, Samuel de Champlain, and Francisco Vazquez de Coronado and artifacts of the indigenous people they encountered. Such sources include the Iroquois constitution, a drawing depicting the Green Corn Ceremony conducted by Native American tribes in the Southeast, and an image of a handmade hoe used by Native Americans. This volume features letters, personal narratives, maps, illustrations, treaties, works of literature, and many other primary source types. |
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American Eras: Primary Sources, Vol. 7: The Colonial Era (1600-1754). |
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/ 9781414498300/ Price:US$ 253.00
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A wealth of full-text or excerpted primary sources provide insights into the notable issues, themes, movements, people, and events during a period of expansion and conflict in American history. Primary sources illustrate the many ways colonists sought to establish a new society: creating works of art and literature, establishing schools and churches, and passing laws governing all aspects of life. Sources also reveal attitudes toward slavery, the dearth of women’s rights, and struggles between Native Americans and newly arrived European colonists. This volume features letters, personal narratives, laws, paintings, speeches, works of literature, and many other primary source types. |
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American Eras: Primary Sources, Vol. 6: Revolutionary Era (1754-1783). |
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/ 9781414498294/ Price:US$ 253.00
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A period of philosophical enlightenment, a thriving slave trade, and revolutionary war comes alive for students in this volume of American Eras: Primary Sources. Helpful annotations and contextual information accompany excerpts from seminal documents---such as the Articles of Confederation, precursor of the Constitution; "Common Sense," Thomas Paine’s influential plea for independence; and the Treaty of Paris, which ended the Revolutionary War---as well as numerous lesser-known documents and images not readily available to readers. |
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American Eras: Primary Sources, Vol. 5: Developmentof a Nation, (1783-1815). |
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/ 9781414498287/ Price:US$ 253.00
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This volume in the student-friendly American Eras: Primary Sources series documents the dramatic period when the federal government and the U.S. Constitution were established. The rise of newspapers, the establishment of the federal court system, innovations that made mass production of goods possible, and significant advancements in the construction of roads, canals, and railroads all occurred during this time. Primary sources here include seminal documents---such as the U.S. Constitution, the Bill of Rights, and groundbreaking Supreme Court opinions---as well as numerous lesser-known documents not readily available to readers. This volume features personal letters, memoirs, laws, sermons, speeches, works of literature, and many other primary source types. Together these sources show the diversity of the American experience.
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A Remarkable Journey: The Story of Evolution. |
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Thompson, R. P./ 9781780234465/ Price:GBP 20.00
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This book describes the development of evolutionary theory from Darwin to the present; it is a historical narrative of the conceptual and theoretical discoveries and debates, the experimentation and field work that became the evidential base on which the theory rests, the systematic assembling of these into an elegant and powerful science, and the elements that increasingly won over the biological and general scientific community. A Remarkable Journey will appeal to anyone who is interested in the history of science, as well as current theories on how our species came to be. |
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New York. |
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Bradley, Elizabeth L./ 9781780233420/ Price:GBP 14.95
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measured and engaging account from a native New Yorker complemented by illustrations both historical and contemporary, New York takes a broad-ranging approach that will leave readers with a fresh insight into this elusive, shape-shifting metropolis. |
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The Mongol Century: Visual Cultures of Yuan China, 1260-1368 |
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McCausland, Shane/ 9781780233666/ Price:GBP 35.00
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This book illuminates the Yuan era – full of conflicts and complex interactions between Mongol power and Chinese heritage – by delving into the visual history of its culture, considering how Mongol governance and values imposed a new order on China’s culture and how a sedentary, agrarian China posed specific challenges to the Mongols’ militarist and nomadic lifestyle. Shane McCausland explores how an unusual range of expectations and pressures were placed on Yuan culture: the idea that visual culture could create cohesion across a diverse yet hierarchical society, while balancing Mongol desires for novelty and display with Chinese concerns about posterity. |
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The Mafia: A Cultural History. |
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Dainotto, Roberto/ 9781780234434/ Price:GBP 20.00
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oberto M. Dainotto traces the complex and fascinating development of the mafia: its rural beginnings in Western Sicily; its growth into what has been aptly described as a global multinational of crime; and its parallel evolution in music, print and on the big screen. The book probes the tension between the real mafia – its brutal and often violent reality – and how we imagine it to be: a mythical assembly of codes of honour, family values and chivalric masochism. Rather than dismissing such mafia stereotypes as untrue, Dainotto sets out to understand what needs and desires, material and psychic longings, are satisfied by our mafia fantasies.
Exploring the rich array of films, books, television, music and even video games portraying and inspired by the mafia, this book offers not only a social, economic and political history of the mafia but a new way of understanding our enduring fascination with what lurks behind the sinister omerta of the family business. |
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St George: A Saint for All. |
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Riches, Samantha/ 9781780234489/ Price:GBP 14.95
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The first book to draw together many aspects of the international cult of St George alongside some of the evidence for elements in his English cult that have been largely forgotten, St George: A Saint for All is a fascinating history of an enduring icon. |
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The Blame Business: The Uses and Misuses of Accountability. |
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Fineman, Stephen/ 9781780234380/ Price:GBP 14.99
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The Blame Business takes us on a fascinating journey through the landscape of blame, from ancient witch-hunts to today’s scapegoating and stigmatization, and from righteous anger to blame cultures. Stephen Fineman delves behind the scenes of public and private organizations infected with blame and profiles the people who try to hold them to account, examing the vexed issue of public accountability as politicians and corporate leaders play their ‘blame games’.
What are the limits of remorse and forgiveness? Is restorative justice the answer? This absorbing book deepens our understanding of blame and how it shapes all of our lives. |
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The Last of the Light: About Twilight. |
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Davidson, Peter/ 9781780235103/ Price:GBP 20.00
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he Last of the Light is a meditation on twilight in the Western arts and imagination, in thought, painting and literature. It takes us across the threshold of day into dusk, an uncertain world haunted by Romantic poets and painters and the twilight lives of minority and ‘overshadowed’ communities. The melancholy of smoky English autumn evenings is balanced by the midnight sun of summers in northern latitudes, and the darkly oppressive heat of August in mid-twentieth-century Spain is ranged against the spectral grandeur of winter in London. |
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House Numbers: Pictures of a Forgotten History. |
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Tantner, Anton/ 9781780235189/ Price:GBP 12.95
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House Numbers is full of original research and is extensively illustrated, with photographs showing historic house numbers and addresses, from Nought, Strand-on-the-Green in London to 1819 Ruston, Louisiana. Its narrative will alter the way you walk around a city, as these seemingly minor, insignificant aspects of our houses and streets become links to a broad and fascinating history. |
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The Indus: Lost Civilizations. |
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Robinson, Andrew/ 9781780235028/ Price:GBP 15.00
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The Indus: Lost Civilizations is an accessible introduction to every significant aspect of an extraordinary and tantalizing ‘lost’ civilization, which apparently combined artistic excellence, technological sophistication and economic vigour with social egalitarianism, political freedom and religious moderation. The book also discusses the vital legacy of the Indus civilization in modern India and Pakistan |
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Ugliness: A Cultural History. |
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Henderson, Gretchen E./ 9781780235240/ Price:GBP 16.99
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In this riveting book, Gretchen E. Henderson explores perceptions of ugliness through history, from ancient Roman feasts to medieval grotesque gargoyles, from Mary Shelley’s monster cobbled from corpses to the Nazi Exhibition of Degenerate Art. Covering literature, art, music and even Uglydolls, Henderson reveals how ugliness has long posed a challenge to aesthetics and taste. |
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Ghosts: A Haunted History. |
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Morton, Lisa/ 9781780235172/ Price:GBP 16.00
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In the history of the numinous there are few things more common than the belief in ghosts. From the earliest writings such as the Epic of Gilgamesh to today’s ghost-hunting reality TV shows, ghosts have chilled the air of nearly every era and every culture in human history. In this book, Lisa Morton wrangles together history’s most enduring ghosts into an entertaining and comprehensive look at what otherwise seems to always evade our eyes. |
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The Great American Speech: Words and Monuments. |
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Fender, Stephen/ 9781780235219/ Price:GBP 15.00
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Everyone knows the ‘American dream’: that America is the land of free enterprise, offering men and women without inherited advantages the chance to get ahead through hard work and self-reliance. Yet in The Great American Speech Stephen Fender offers an alternative vision, one enshrined in the country’s most memorable speeches, which have become monuments in its national memory and literally in the nation’s capital, carved in memorial stone. This other American dream is not about competition or getting ahead, but instead echoes the country’s founding documents, arguing for equality and cooperation. |
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A Brief History of Death. |
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Spellman, W. M./ 9781780235042/ Price:GBP 12.95
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A Brief History of Death offers a topical survey of views concerning death and its aftermath in the Western tradition, from prehistory to the present. It explores how humans understand and come to terms with the fact of mortality and looks at the physical and social aspects of death, how dying people are treated, how the dying conduct themselves in the knowledge of their approaching demise and how survivors choose to remember the dead. |
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Spiritualism, 1840-1930, 4-Vols/Set. |
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Pulham, Patricia/ 9780415683067/ Price:GBP 300.00
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Complementing those earlier collections, this new four-volume set demonstrates spiritualism’s hugely significant—but hitherto often neglected—contemporary engagement with questions of race, eugenics, and the body, and with anti-spiritualist critique. Moreover, as spiritualism is commonly identified as a predominantly Victorian—and western—phenomenon, little has been done better to understand spiritualism in its global and temporal contexts. Furthermore, while numerous studies of spiritualism in canonical Victorian literature exist, the movement’s own rich literary output and its relationship with the non-spiritualist gothic remain underexplored. Indeed, despite the explosion of scholarly interest in modern spiritualism across a wide range of disciplines, almost none of the movement’s key philosophical, literary, political, and medical texts are currently in print.
The learned editors of this collection have remedied these imbalances and Spiritualism, 1840–1930 offers access to a wide range of materials from an important period in spiritualism’s history, including previously unpublished material relating to Arthur Conan Doyle’s investment in spiritualism and transcriptions of the Henri Louis Rey seances in New Orleans (the only entirely African-American nineteenth-century spiritualist circle whose records have been preserved). The collection focuses on key topics and situates inaccessible primary sources alongside better-known works to posit their importance in the development of spiritualism as a social, cultural, and transatlantic phenomenon. |
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Community, Memory, and Migration in a Globalizing World: The Goan Experience, c. 1890-1980 |
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Margret Frenz/ 9780199451753/ Price:US$ 80.00
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Islam, Colonialism and the Modern Age in the Netherlands East Indies |
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Nico J.G. Kaptein/ 9789004278691/ Price:EUR 134.00
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The Woolen Industry of the Midwest. |
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Crockett, Norman L./ 9780813151861/ Price:US$ 45.00
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L'impero del Mandato Celeste. La Cina nei secoli XIV-XIX. |
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Santangelo, Paolo/ 9788858110164/ Price:EUR 30.50
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Well Met: Renaissance Faires and the American Counterculture. |
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Rubin, Rachel L./ 9781479859726/ Price:US$ 28.00
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The International Distribution of News: The Associated Press, Press Association, and Reuters, 1848-1947. |
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Silberstein-Loeb, Jonathan/ 9781107033641/ Price:GBP 63.00
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Oral History of General Zhang Xueliang, 7-Vols/Set. (張學良口述歷史, 簡體中文版) |
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About Zhang Xueliang
Zhang Xueliang or Chang Hsueh-liang (1901-2001) was the son of Zhang Zuolin, a warlord from the north-eastern part of China. After the assassination of his father by the Japanese in June 1928, he became the effective ruler of Manchuria and much of northern China. As an instigator of the Xi'an Incident during which he kidnapped Chang Kai-shek, the then president of China, Zhang spent over fifty years under house arrest before emigrating to the US in 1993.
About the publication
As with The Reminiscences of Dr Hu Shih, the Oral History of General Zhang Xueliang is also part of Columbia University's Chinese oral history project. It is based on the transcripts of a series of 60 interviews with Zhang and his wife (Edith Chao趙一荻) conducted by two Columbian scholars during 1991-1995. The transcripts and 145 audio cassettes of these interviews are now housed at the Peter H. L. and Edith C. Chang Reading Room in Columbia University library.
The current edition consists of 7 volumes, including 6 volumes of transcripts carefully annotated and edited by Chinese scholars and 1 index volume. The Oral History not only recounts Zhang's personal life but also contains his comments on many historical events he personally experienced and influential figures he met. It's a valuable reference publication on the research of modern Chinese history. |
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American Eras: Primary Sources, Vol. 4: Reform Era & Eastern U.S. Development (1815-1850). |
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/ 9781414498270/ Price:US$ 253.00
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Organized by thematic chapters, American Eras Primary Sources: Reform Era & Eastern U.S. Development (1815-1850) is a student-friendly reference that’s patterned after Gale’s award-winning American Decades: Primary Sources series. This volume [reproduces full text or excerpts of primary sources] representing a diversity of views that provide insight into the seminal issues, themes, movements, and events of the Reform era and the urbanization and economic growth of the eastern United States. Also included with each primary source is concise contextual information, notes about the author, further resources, and full-color photos and illustrations. |
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American Eras: Primary Sources, Vol. 3: Westward Expansion (1800-1860). |
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/ 9781414498263/ Price:US$ 253.00
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Organized by thematic chapters, American Eras Primary Sources: Westward Expansion (1800-1860) is a student-friendly reference that’s patterned after Gale’s award-winning American Decades: Primary Sources series. This volume covers full or excerpted primary sources representing a diversity of views that provide insight into the seminal issues, themes, movements, and events of Manifest Destiny and the westward expansion of the United States. Also included with each primary source is concise contextual information, notes about the author, further resources, and full-color photos and illustrations. |
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The Capital of the Yuan Dynasty. |
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Chen, Gaohua/ 9789814332446/ Price:US$ 138.00
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The Yuan Dynasty was different from other dynasties in the history of China, and so was its capital, Dadu, the city that laid the foundation for what would become modern-day Beijing.
As the first publication of its kind, The Capital of the Yuan Dynasty presents the capital’s history using a thematic approach. Starting from Beijing in the pre-Yuan Dynasty period, and the building of Dadu as a new city, the author introduces the layout of the city and imperial palaces, and then focuses on Dadu in detail from political, economic, and cultural angles.
The Capital of the Yuan Dynasty references over 100 Chinese classics of the Yuan and succeeding dynasties, including Yuanshi (History of Yuan), Xijinzhi jiyi (Compilation of the Scattered Writings of the “Gazetteer of Xijin”), and Tongzhi tiaoge (Legislative Articles from the “Comprehensive Regulations”).
Insights from contemporary prose, poetry and references from Goryeo Korea (Nogo?ltae and Pak T’ongsa) complement the text. |
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The Road to Independence?: Scotland in the Balance. |
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Pittock, Murray/ 9781780232874/ Price:GBP 14.95
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The Road to Independence? is the only history of Scotland available with a truly contemporary focus. In dealing with everything from political structures to modern painting it is remarkably comprehensive; in explaining the rise of modern nationalism it is of fundamental importance to policymakers and the wider public. It will be of interest to students of politics, history, law and social science, and to all who want to understand the rapidly changing face of the UK. |
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Odin's Whisper: Death and the Vikings. |
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Price, Neil/ 9781780232904/ Price:GBP 25.00
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Odin’s Whisper provides the first full treatment of this subject, giving an in-depth account that uses the stories of Norse mythology and the most recent archaeological evidence to draw a vivid picture of the Viking mind. Neil Price contextualizes the Viking understanding of death within the Ragnaro"k, the immense battle of living and dead, gods and humans that would ultimately consume all the world in fire, to illustrate that the Viking afterlife was only ever viewed as a respite before this ultimate end. The essential fatalism that marked their conception of the worlds beyond equally informed their funeral practice, as Price illustrates with vivid contemporary accounts of the animal sacrifices, sexual activity and violence that characterized the most spectacular Viking burials. |
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The Encyclopaedia of Liars and Deceivers. |
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Bolt, Roelf/ 9781780232713/ Price:GBP 20.99
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The Encyclopaedia of Liars and Deceivers documents a huge assortment of legerdemain, from infamous quacks to fraudulent scientists, and from crooks who faked their own deaths to forgers of artworks, archaeological finds and documents of all sorts. From false claims to the throne, dragon’s eggs and perpetual motion machines to mermaid skeletons and Stradivarius violins – you name it, and it’s been forged or faked by someone at some time in history.
A liar is someone who ‘knowingly’ disseminates falsehoods, but deceit should not necessarily be condemned – think of identity papers forged in times of war and occupation, items counterfeited in jest and satires that expose pretentiousness.
The encyclopaedia features many famous deceivers – including Cicero, Albert Einstein, Ernest Hemingway, Franc,ois Mitterrand, Marco Polo and Ptolemy – as well as scores who would have remained unknown if their duplicity had not been uncovered. All take their rightful place in the catalogue of shame that is The Encyclopaedia of Liars and Deceivers, a book that will bring immense cheer to those who enjoy tall tales, as well as those who like to tell them. |
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Power in Stone: Cities as Symbols of Empire. |
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Parker, Geoffrey/ 9781780232867/ Price:GBP 25.00
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Geoffrey Parker breaks new ground by tracing the very nature of power through history, exploring the symbolism of these empire-reflecting cities from Persepolis to Constantinople, St Petersburg, the Forbidden City in Beijing and Delhi. Considering the imperial leaders as well as their architects and engineers, he creates a new understanding of the relationship between buildings, design and power. The book concludes with an examination of the changing nature of power in the late twentieth and twenty-first centuries and the way in which this is reflected in contemporary symbolism. |
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The Habsburgs: Dynasty, Culture and Politics. |
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Fichtner, Paula S./ 9781780232744/ Price:GBP 29.00
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The Habsburgs: Dynasty, Culture and Politics traces the origins of house Habsburg and shows how it was able to hold together such a culturally diverse, polyglot and multi-ethnic state for more than 600 years, the cessation of which changed the shape of Europe forever. Taking account of the interpenetration of culture, politics and society, the book reveals the strategies that enabled the dynasty's extraordinarily long life – its dazzling mix of cultural propaganda, public performances and cunning political manoeuvring. It is one of the most striking ironies of this history that Ferdinand was killed while on his way to visit injured people in hospital – just the sort of crowd-pleasing performance that had enabled Habsburg success.
This incisive new history tells the story of the Habsburgs in an accessible yet authoritative fashion, revealing the intriguing principal characters in the drama and breathing fresh life into the story of the Habsburg reign. The book charts one of the pivotal foundation stories of modern Europe, and is essential reading for anyone interested in the history of the continent. |
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Trolls: An Unnatural History. |
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John Lindow/ 9781780232898/ Price:GBP 16.95
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This book is a history of trolls from their first appearances in folk tales - some people reported actual encounters with trolls, and others found such encounters plausible even if they were not sure - and follows a natural transition from folklore to trolls in other domains of popular culture. Indeed, trolls would not be interesting had they not made this jump, first to illustrations in the Nordic book market, then on to Scandinavian literature and drama, and far beyond. Since then they have never gone away, and in their various guises they continue to appeal to the imagination around the world.
From the Vikings to the Moomins, the Brothers Grimm and the Three Billy Goats Gruff, this book explores the panoply of trolls and their history and their continuing presence today. |
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A Brief History of Death. |
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Spellman, W. M./ 9781780232652/ Price:GBP 20.00
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A Brief History of Death considers how we have died throughout history, both in the causes of death and in our varying attitudes to actions that lead to the deaths of fellow humans. The book provides a deeper context for contemporary debates over end-of-life issues, especially the emerging tension between longevity and quality of life. |
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Another Darkness, Another Dawn: A History of Gypsies, Roma and Travellers. |
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Taylor, Becky/ 9781780232577/ Price:GBP 25.00
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This history of Romani people demonstrates how their experiences provide a way to understand mainstream society's relationship with outsiders and immigrants, both in the past and present. Rather than seeing these peoples as separate from the societies in which they have lived, and as untouched by history, this book sets Gypsies' experiences in the context of broader historical changes. Understanding their history is to take in the founding and contraction of empires, the Reformation and Counter-Reformation, wars, the expansion of law and order and of states, the Enlightenment, nationalism, modernity and the Holocaust, as well as the increasing regulation of modern society. It is as much a history of ourselves as it is a history of 'others'.
Ultimately Taylor demonstrates that history is not always about progress: the place of Gypsies, Roma and Travellers remains as contested and uncertain today as it was upon their first arrival in western Europe in the fifteenth century. |
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Pain and Retribution: A Short History of British Prisons 1066 to the Present. |
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Wilson, David/ 9781780232836/ Price:GBP 20.00
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David Wilson, using criminological theory, looks at the way in which the prison has needed to satisfy the demands of three interested parties: first, the public, including politicians and media commentators; second, prison staff; and third, the prisoners themselves. The amount of influence each of these different factions had has varied at different points in history, according to the prevailing concerns and issues of the period. The inability of the prison to satisfy all three groups at the same time means that the prison system is perpetually in crisis, and is therefore seen as a failure. Ironically, the prison system continues to prosper in terms of the numbers of prisoners incarcerated and the vast amount of money that society invests in keeping them locked up.
Pain and Retribution explores prison as an institution and discusses not only who gets imprisoned but also what happens to people when they are ‘banged up’. David Wilson investigates how prisons are designed and how they are organized and managed, allowing the reader access to all areas, from the prison landing to the people behind the locked doors, including the prison staff. He asks searching questions about the purpose of Britain’s current prison system and why prison exerts such a hold on the collective psyche and imagination. |
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Tombs of the Great Leaders: A Contemporary Guide. |
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Leick, Gwendolyn/ 9781780232003/ Price:GBP 25.00
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Tombs of the Great Leaders traces the development of the political tomb since the Bronze Age to today, focusing on 20th-century memorials housing communist leaders, from Lenin in Moscow to Mao Zedong in Beijing, to Ho Chi Minh in Hanoi, and Kim Il-Sung in Pyongyang. It also looks at the attempts by fascist rulers Franco and Mussolini to immortalize their memories. It explores the grand monuments erected for the founders of new nation states, including Kemal Ataturk in Ankara, Ziaur Rahman in Dhaka, Mohammed Ali Jinnah in Karachi, and the Sun Yat-sen on Purple Mountain.
Leick shows how these mausoleums and tombs have become sites of pilgrimage, and describes the actual experience of visiting the sites, the responses they elicit and the context in which they are viewed today. This book is a fascinating and revealing study of the self-perpetuation of politicians and leaders, despots and dictators. |
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An Eye for an Eye: A Global History of Crime and Punishment. |
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Roth, Mitchel P./ 9781780233598/ Price:GBP 20.00
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Written by an expert in the field, this book attempts to overcome the lack of historical written documentation, especially in non-Western cultures, by using an interdisciplinary approach that ranges from anthropology and archaeology to folklore, classical literature and oral traditions. It reveals that there is a remarkable continuity throughout history in what crimes are committed as well as the sanctions used to punish them. Perfect for students, academics and general readers alike, this book provides a fascinating insight into criminality and its consequences on a global scale. |
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Trees, Woods and Forests: A Social and Cultural History. |
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Watkins, Charles/ 9781780233734/ Price:GBP 27.00
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Trees can live to a great age, and some woods appear timeless and ancient, yet they are prone to sudden death through fire and storm. Human activity has led to the clearance and destruction of enormous areas of woodland and has also brought about the rapid spread across continents of potent diseases such as chestnut blight and ash dieback. In recent years, anxiety about the environmental impact of humans on trees has led to the establishment of national parks and reserves, as well as the practice of ‘rewilding’ landscapes.
This book draws on the most recent work of historians, archaeologists, geographers, botanists and foresters, and explores forests in Britain, the U.S., Greece, Italy and France. It is a comprehensive and fascinating overview of humankind’s interaction with these most valuable resources. |
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The Greatest Shows on Earth: A History of the Circus. |
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Simon, Linda/ 9781780233581/ Price:GBP 29.00
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The Greatest Shows on Earth takes us from eighteenth-century hippodromes in Britain to intimate one-ring circuses in nineteenth-century Paris, where Toulouse-Lautrec and Picasso became enchanted by aerialists and clowns. We meet P. T. Barnum, James Bailey and the enterprising Ringling Brothers, who created the golden age of American circuses. We explore contemporary transformations of the circus, from the whimsical Circus Oz in Australia to New York City’s Big Apple Circus. Circus people are central to the story: trick riders and tightrope walkers, sword swallowers and animal trainers, contortionists and clowns – these are the men and women who create the sensational, raucous, titillating and incomparable world of the circus. |
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Christmas: The Sacred to Santa. |
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Moore, Tara/ 9781780233574/ Price:GBP 20.00
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hristmas: The Sacred to Santa takes us on a journey from the day’s historical origins to its modern incarnation as a global commercial event, even taking in non-Christian nations such as China, Japan and North Korea. Along the way we encounter a vast array of religious personages, fictional characters and mythic figures that have become associated with its celebration, from St Nicholas to the Magi, Scrooge and the Krampus. Tara Moore explores how the great traditions such as Christmas trees, feasting and gift-giving emerged, as well as how Christmas has been portrayed in culture, from the literary works of Charles Dickens to the now annual bout of films and seasonal music – including traditional carols and the latest Christmas-themed chart hits.
Christmas in its global context is a unifying but also divisive event, with tension between the sacred and the secular. Enchanting and compelling, this book reintroduces us to the holiday we only think we know. |
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Descending Dragon, Rising Tiger: A History of Vietnam. |
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Vu Hong Lien/ 9781780233642/ Price:GBP 29.00
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Historians writing about Vietnam have defined the country as either a ragged Chinese subordinate aspiring to a full ‘Chinese’ way of life, or as a rebel Chinese province defined entirely by its shaky relationship to its looming neighbour. Yet archaeological evidence now shows culturally distinct and technologically sophisticated human occupation in the region from 8,000 to 10,000 years ago. |
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Coded Letters, Concealed Love: The Larger Lives of Harriet Freeman and Edward Everett Hale. |
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Day, Sara/ 9780989916936/ Price:US$ 32.00
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Charismatic leaders have a way of flying too close to the fire. This is the chronicle of the secret romance between Hale and Freeman revealed for the first time through 3,000 of their love letters (1884–1909), written partly in code.
The Reverend Edward Everett Hale (1822–1909) was one of the most revered moral and thought leaders of the Gilded Age and Progressive Era, and yet, during twenty of his last twenty-five years, he lived a double life. Ironically, the theme of double lives, or alter egos, was one of his favorite literary devices. Frederick Ingham was the harassed minister of Hale’s first popular story “My Double and How He Undid Me” and reappeared in his most famous story, “The Man without a Country,” and several others. At one point, Hale even used the name Frederick Ingham as an apt concealer of his own double life. |
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FADE FROM RED: The Cold-War Ex-Enemy in Russian and American Film, 1990-2005. |
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Goscilo, Helena/ 9780990693918/ Price:US$ 30.00
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this study investigates the close correlation between politics and mainstream cinema vividly evidenced in Russian and American screen images of the former Cold War enemy from 1990 to 2005. Whereas glasnost and the demise of the Soviet Union ushered in a period of official cooperation that soon inflated into rhetorical declarations of partnership, the fifteen years under examination saw the gradual deterioration of relations after the initial euphoria, culminating in a partial resumption of mutual Cold War recriminations. |
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Real and Phantom Pains: An Anthology of New Russian Drama. |
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Freedman, John/ 9780991504763/ Price:US$ 32.00
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New drama flourished (almost) exclusively in small spaces, often in dingy basements that employed and accommodated small numbers of people. The big theaters largely turned a blind eye to what was happening on small stages and in backrooms in playhouses, libraries and community centers in a few chosen hot spots around Russia – primarily Moscow, Yekaterinburg and Togliatti. In many cases, they took actively hostile stances toward it. This would change, however. And by the beginning of the century’s second decade, new drama was threatening to become a mainstream phenomenon. Not every theater staged plays associated with new drama, but almost every one began staging plays influenced by the themes, methods and language of the new drama movement. |
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Communist Intimacy. |
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Koteska, Jasna/ 9780989916974/ Price:US$ 26.00
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The book opens as a personal memoir─the author’s father, the famous Macedonian poet Jovan Koteski was a subject of massive police surveillance by the secret communist police of ex-Yugoslavia for 42 years out of 69 years of his life, in a well-documented case. His secret police file was maintained under the code name The Intimist (hence, the title of the book). The book continues as an academic enquiry into the mechanisms of the Eastern European police states in their relations towards the individual, the private and the public.
The American poet Allen Ginsberg publicly revolted against the imprisonment of the author’s father in 1986, when he was visiting Macedonia, which resulted in the release of the poet from prison in 1987. |
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The Great War and the Death of God: Cultural Breakdown, Retreat from Reason, and Rise of Neo-Darwinian Materialism in the Aftermath of World War I. |
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O'Connor III, Charles A./ 9780989916998/ Price:US$ 36.00
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The catastrophic Great War left humanity in a world no longer trustworthy and reassuring but seemingly meaningless and indifferent. Instead of redressing humanity’s cosmic alienation, postwar Western culture abandoned its concern for cosmic meaning, lost its confidence in human reason, and enabled the scientific worldview of neo-Darwinian materialism to emerge and eventually dominate the Western mind. According to the proponents of that worldview, science is the only source of genuine truth, nature is the product of a blind evolutionary process, and reality at bottom is just physics and chemistry. Thus, God is dead and continued belief in a transcendently purposeful universe is intellectually indefensible and either disingenuous or delusional. This book attributes the remarkable success of this atheistic cosmology in displacing the deeply rooted belief in the nature’s divine governance to the First World War and its effect on Western theology, philosophy, literature, and art. By turning away from the eternal questions about the nature of reality, Western culture effectively ceded unwarranted credibility and prominence to neo-Darwinian materialism, including its recently strident New Atheism. |
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American Eras: Primary Sources, 8-Vols/Set. |
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/ 9781414498232/ Price:US$ 1945.00
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American Eras: Primary Sources is a fascinating, student-friendly reference that’s patterned after the Gale’s award-winning American Decades: Primary Sources series. Like its predecessor, each volume of American Eras: Primary Sources offers full or excerpted primary sources representing a diversity of views that provide insight into the seminal issues, themes, movements, and events from each era. Also included are concise contextual information, notes about the author, further resources, and full color photos and illustrations. The following eras are covered: Early American Civilization, Exploration to 1600; The Colonial Era (1600-1754); Revolutionary Era (1754-1783); Development of a Nation, (1783-1815); Reform Era & Eastern U.S. Development (1815-1850); Westward Expansion (1800-1860); Civil War and Reconstruction (1860-1878); and Development of the Industrial United States (1878-1899). The primary sources fall into the following categories: the arts, business and the economy, education, fashion and leisure, government and politics, law and justice, lifestyles and social trends, media, medicine and health, religion, and science and technology. Providing unique perspectives and a wealth of understanding are oral histories, songs, speeches, advertisements, letters, laws, legal decisions, newspaper articles, cartoons, and recipes. |
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十種影響中華民國建立的書刊10 三民主義 |
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十種影響中華民國建立的書刊4 太炎革命政論選 |
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章太炎著;汪榮祖導讀/ 9789868938540/ Price:NT$ 500.00
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十種影響中華民國建立的書刊1 仁學 |
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譚嗣同著;王汎森導讀/ 9789868938526/ Price:NT$ 175.00
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Early Islamic History, 4-Vols/Set. |
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Bernheimer, Teresa/ 9780415500876/ Price:GBP 1050.00
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Insight into the origins and early development of Islam has become relevant not only to the specialist, but underlies a thorough understanding of debates relating to Islam and the Middle East in the contemporary period. Over the past decades, the field has seen the publication of some excellent in-depth studies on aspects of Islamic history 600–1000 CE, and has also undergone a revision of its own boundaries. Some studies have thus placed the origins of Islam in the wider context of Late Antiquity, and argued for an examination of the development of Islam as a religion and civilization in a broader monotheistic and Mediterranean context.
Moreover, the historiographic debates of the 1970s are far from resolved: in the seventies a new critical approach to the study of early Islamic history emerged, often described as the sceptical or revisionist approach. Questioning the reliability of the Muslim tradition about Islamic origins, the ‘revisionists’ also at times suggested that it is impossible to recover any kernel of historical truth (what ‘actually happened’). Their assumptions and findings have been (and continue to be) criticized in numerous works, though not often in sustained or comprehensive manners. More recently, the field has witnessed a return to more ‘conventional’ approaches, where attempts are made to recover and reconstruct aspects of early Islamic history by analysis of the transmission history of hadith traditions and their chains of narrators.
An understanding of the sources and the historiography thus remains pivotal to discussions of early Islamic history. This important issue is addressed particularly in the first volume, and in a thorough introduction which draws together the main themes and developments of the period. Early Years of Islam provides excellent reference work and very useful teaching material for a number of different university level courses, in subjects including History, Area Studies, Religious Studies, and Islamic Studies. |
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Slavery, 4-Vols/Set. |
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Heuman, Gad/ 9780415500357/ Price:GBP 1250.00
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Serious research in and around the history—and contemporary reality—of slavery is very wide-ranging, and flourishes as never before. This new four-volume collection from Routledge’s acclaimed series, Critical Concepts in Historical Studies, meets the need for a reference work to help users make sense of the subject’s vast and dispersed literature, and the continuing explosion in research output.
Edited by two of the leading scholars in the area, the four volumes bring together in one ‘mini library’ both classic and contemporary contributions to provide authoritative coverage of the transatlantic slave trade; slavery in Africa and the Indian Ocean region; slave culture; the slave economy; and slave resistance. Other topics include family, gender, and community. The collection also gathers the best and most influential scholarship on attempts to abolish the trade, and the legacy of emancipation.
With a full index, together with a comprehensive introduction, newly written by the editors, which places the collected materials in their intellectual context, Slavery is an essential work of reference. The collection will be particularly useful as a database allowing scattered and often inaccessible material to be easily located. It will also be welcomed as a crucial tool permitting rapid access to less familiar—and sometimes overlooked—texts. For scholars and advanced students of Slave Studies, it is a vital one-stop resource.
Volume I: ORIGINS, VARIETIES OF ENSLAVEMENT AND THE SLAVE TRADE
Volume II: MATERIAL CONDITIONS: WORK, DEMOGRAPHY, GENDER, AND FAMILY
Volume III: SLAVE CULTURE, RELIGION, AND RESISTANCE
Volume IV: REVOLUTION, ANTISLAVERY, AND EMANCIPATION |
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The Cold War, 4-Vols/Set. |
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Casey, Steven/ 9780415660976/ Price:GBP 1250.00
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The Cold War dominated international politics between 1945 and 1990, when the two superpowers, the United States and Soviet Union, vied for supremacy. Their clash profoundly influenced the main trends of the time, including economic development, technological change, and decolonization. It divided Europe, with the fault line running through Germany. Although it never erupted into a major superpower conflagration, it was a vicious struggle that was often fought through proxies in the Third World, periodically flared into searing ‘limited’ conflicts in Korea, Vietnam, and Afghanistan, and occasionally produced the most dangerous international crises, particularly over Berlin and Cuba, which brought the world to the brink of nuclear war.
This new Routledge title is the first reference work authoritatively to draw together all the major works on this pivotal event. The first volume explores how historians and political scientists have approached the Cold War, from the early debates between those who sought to blame one of the two superpowers for starting it, to the findings in the 1990s that were based on newly available sources from the former communist bloc. The volume also makes sense of more recent efforts to examine its global, transnational, and cultural dynamics. The next three volumes are arranged chronologically, dealing in turn with the origins of the Cold War, 1945–53; the oscillating period of crisis and detente between 1953 and 1975; and the end of the Cold War, 1975–90. These three volumes collect a compelling mixture of classic and cutting-edge works. They gathered scholarship explores the story from above and below—from the perspective not just of Washington, Moscow, and Beijing, but also of the smaller players who sought to manipulate the superpowers for their own ends.
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The Boy Travellers in the Far East, 5-Vols/Set. (ES) |
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•A facsimile reprint of all five books in The Boy Travellers in the Far East: Adventures of Two Youths in a Journey (1879–84) series consisting of Japan and China (1879), Siam and Java (1880), Ceylon and India (1881), Egypt and the Holy Land (1882), and Africa (1883), all written by Thomas W. Knox (1835–96).
•The series, published during ‘the golden age of American children’s literature’ was very successful when published and remained popular among juvenile readers until the early twentieth century.
•Written in the rollicking style of adventure stories, the books follow two youths on journeys to Asia, Middle East, and Africa. The author strived to give his readers accurate and fascinating information. He made us of—and refers to—the finest research materials on the history and culture of foreign countries.
•With its many vivid illustrations (some in colour), the series gave a strong impression on his American young readers of the ‘exotic’ Far East.
•This reprint collection is a set of excellent cultural and historical documents about how children of nineteenth-century America imagined foreign lands. For those working in contemporary Cultural Studies, this series offers many suggestions for further research and provides lively working materials for students of the period. |
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Primary Sources of Yellow Peril Series II, 4-Vols/Set. (ES) |
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Hashimoto, Yorimitsu/ 9784861660337/ Price:GBP 325.00
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- The second and the final part of the series which collects various primary-source materials selected from contemporary publications and historical documents related to the phenomenon of ‘the Yellow Peril’, which contributed to the consolidation of Western consciousness by invoking the menace of an awakening or aggressive Asia—China and Japan in particular—and the consequent decline of the West, racially, culturally, and militarily.
- Following the first series which included facsimile reprints of nine popular works of fiction related to the Yellow Peril, the second series includes a total of forty historical documents, essays, and articles selected from contemporary publications.
- The authors included are not only journalists or diplomats critical to Asian aggressiveness, but also writers like G. K. Chesterton and leading Japanologist scholars like B. H. Chamberlain and E. Bruce Mitford, as well as Kencho Suematz, a Japanese diplomat who corresponded with his Western counterpart.
- Together with Series I, it provides an excellent overview on the cultural and historical relationship between the West and Asia. |
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Children and Empire, 4-Vols/Set. |
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Cassidy, Cheryl/ 9780415578370/ Price:GBP 240.00
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The History of Feminism series makes key archival source material readily available to scholars, researchers, and students of women's and gender studies, women's history, and women's writing, as well as those working in allied and related fields. Selected and introduced by expert editors, the gathered materials are reproduced in facsimile, giving users a strong sense of immediacy to the texts and permitting citation to the original pagination. Building on the success of Women and Empire (2009), this new title in the series brings together in four volumes a unique range of nineteenth-century texts on children and empire.
Making readily available materials which are currently very difficult for scholars, researchers, and students across the globe to locate and use, Children and Empire is a veritable treasure-trove. The gathered works are reproduced in facsimile, giving users a strong sense of immediacy to the texts and permitting citation to the original pagination. Each volume is also supplemented by substantial introductions, newly written by the editors, which contextualize the material. And with a detailed appendix providing data on the books, newspapers, and periodicals in which the gathered materials were originally published, the collection is destined to be welcomed as a vital reference and research resource.
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A Short History of the Italian Renaissance |
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Kenneth R. Bartlett/ 9781442600140/ Price:US$ 66.00
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Others Had It Worse: Sour Dock, Moonshine, and Hard Times in Davis County, Iowa. |
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Covert, Vetra M. P./ 9781609381820/ Price:US$ 17.50
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Global Shift: Asia, Africa, and Latin America, 1945-2007. |
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Mason, Mike/ 9780773540620/ Price:US$ 110.00
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Quantifying the Roman Economy: Methods and Problems. |
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Bowman, Alan/ 9780199679294/ Price:GBP 30.49
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Oeuvres, Publiees Par Charles Adam & Paul Tannery Sous Les Auspices Du Ministere de L'Instruction Publique Volume 12 - Primary Source Edition. |
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Adam, Charles E./ 9781287831471/ Price:US$ 43.75
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Voglio Morire! Suicide in Italian Literature, Culture, and Society 1789-1919. |
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Virga, Anita/ 9781443844666/ Price:GBP 49.99
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中國農業的不穩定性(1931-1991): 氣候、技術、制度 |
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郭益耀/ 9789629966003/ Price:NT$ 756.00
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The Mass Observers: A History, 1937-1949. |
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Hinton, James/ 9780199671045/ Price:GBP 42.99
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American Decades: Primary Sources: 2000-2009. |
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/ 9781414486024/ Price:US$ 290.00
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American Decades: Primary Sources, 2000-2009 is the eleventh volume in the best-selling Gale series, it covers the first decade of the twenty-first century. The title is a cross-disciplinary source for junior and high school students and teachers, public librarians and general researchers who need a single, consistent reference to explore and analyze the events, people and social trends that have impacted contemporary history. Its thirteen twelve chapters cover world events, the arts, business and the economy, education, fashion and design, government and politics, law and justice, lifestyles and social trends, media, medicine and health, religion, science and technology, and sports.
Features/Benefits
• A chronology of world events outside the United States.
• Chronologies for each topic.
• Two hundred full and excerpted key primary sources, with critical context included for each source. |
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American Eras: Primary Sources, Vol. 2: Civil War and Reconstruction (1860-1878). |
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American Eras: Primary Sources, Vol. 1: Development of the Industrial United States (1878-1899). |
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The Papers of Lee Kuan Yew: Speeches, Interviews and Dialogues, 1990-2011, 10-Vols/Set. |
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/ 9789814424349/ Price:US$ 3000.00
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These new volumes cover Lee Kuan Yew's tenures as senior minister and minister mentor, starting with Lee's interview with Nippon Hoso Kyokai(NHK) on 18 december 1990 and ending with his speech at NTUC's 50th anniversary dinner on 13 May 2011, chronicling Lee's political statements and thoughts as the nation went through significant changes and crises, such as the Asian financial crisis of 1997, the SARS outbreak of 2003, and the intense fight against terrorism. Lee stepped down as minister mentor on 21 May 2011.
Also included in the new ten-volume set is a cumulative index volume that has been compiled to gather all the index entries included in volumes 1 to 19 that span a period of six decades (1950-2011). This will help readers and scholars to easily and quickly locate terms and topics they are interested in across the volumes. |
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Sustaining The League Of Women Voters In America. |
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Cashin, Maria H./ 9780986021695/ Price:US$ 24.00
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Throughout American history, our civic associations have been promoted as distinctive private-public bridges that enable democracy in the United States through citizen training, education and responsible advocacy. But Americans have increasingly withdrawn from such civic activity, and most associations that remain lack public accountability, local presence and active membership. In the absence of other engagement vehicles, a fundamental requirement for viable American democratic culture is lacking. To consider whether democracy and associations can still be positively linked, Cashin considers lessons drawn from the League of Women Voters. Worldwide, few associations have shown the durability, success or democratic impact of the League over its long history. Yet its numbers and span are gradually declining. Forecasting the League’s uncertain future in contemporary America, Cashin suggests it may be time to give such civic associations a public boost. |
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The Rise of the Vampire. |
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Butler, Erik/ 9781780231105/ Price:GBP 16.00
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Before Bella and Edward there were The Lost Boys and the gang in Buffy the Vampire Slayer. Before True Blood came Dark Shadows and Anne Rice’s Vampire Chronicles. Before them all there was the most famous vampire of all time: Count Dracula, immortalized by Bram Stoker in 1897. Whether characterized as urbane aristocrats, animalistic monsters or brooding teenagers, as creatures of the day or of the night, it seems vampires have captured the popular imagination for centuries. Today they are a worldwide phenomenon, featuring in everything from Jamaican reggae songs to Japanese and Korean horror films. |
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A Story of Six Rivers: History, Culture and Ecology. |
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Coates, Peter/ 9781780231068/ Price:GBP 30.00
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This book gives voice to six bodies of water: the Danube, the second-longest river in Europe; the Spree, which flows through Berlin; the Po, which cuts eastward across northern Italy; the Mersey in northwest England; the Yukon, which runs through Canada and Alaska; and the Los Angeles River in California. Rivers nurture us, provide cultural and economic opportunities and pose threats to our everyday lives. Though recent narratives paint rivers as the victims of abuse, pollution and damage at the hands of humans, this book focuses on change rather than devastation. Though humans and rivers form a symbiotic – and sometimes mutually destructive – relationship, rivers also illustrate the limits of human authority, and their capacity to inspire us is as strong as our ability to pollute them. |
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Between Mind and Nature: A History of Psychology. |
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Smith, Roger/ 9781780230986/ Price:GBP 25.00
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We live in a psychological age. Psychologists are increasingly prominent and active in every sphere of life and we understand ourselves in psychological terms. It was not always so: psychology has a history. The word psychology flags the idea that there is, or will be, a unified, true knowledge of the mind. Currently, the candidacy of evolutionary neuroscience holds sway. Yet, now and in the past, ‘psychology’ is a family name for a bewildering range of beliefs and preoccupations about what psychologists know and do. There is an intrinsic interest in knowing how people think about themselves, how they see their spiritual or material nature. What people think psychology’s relation is to religion, politics, the arts, social life, the natural sciences and technology is an integral part of our human story. |
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The Pleasure's All Mine: A History of Perverse Sex. |
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Peakman, Julie/ 9781780231853/ Price:GBP 25.00
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Almost all sexual behaviours have travelled to and fro along a continuum of proscription and acceptance. Attitudes have changed towards masturbation, leatherwear, ‘golden showers’ and sado-masochism. From the specialized cultures of pain, necrophilia and bestiality, to the social world of plushies and furries and lovers of life-sized sex dolls, some previously acceptable behaviour now provokes social outrage, while activities as diverse as sodomy and wife-swapping have moved on the spectrum of acceptance from sin to harmless fun. Each ‘perversion’ is explored from the time it was first visible in history, to how it is viewed today, and along the way the book asks why we can be so intolerant of other people’s sexual preferences.
Carefully researched as well as a fascinating read, and featuring a wide array of illustrations, The Pleasure’s All Mine reaches conclusions that are surprising and sometimes shocking. This is an essential volume for anyone interested in the art, history and culture of sex. |
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The White Devil: The Werewolf in European Culture. |
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Beresford, Matthew/ 9781780231884/ Price:GBP 20.00
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How do Iron Age bog bodies, Roman gods, Joan of Arc, Adolf Hitler, and Sigmund Freud all feature in the story of the werewolf myth? Matthew Beresford answers these questions and more in considering early death and burial rites, mythology, folklore, archaeological evidence and local superstitions through to medieval literary offerings, werewolf trials, medical explanations, alleged sightings and cinema.
The White Devil draws on a wide variety of sources in order to understand why the werewolf has been part of cultural beliefs and mythology across Europe, tracing mankind’s fascination with the beast over time. From the early wolf cults to the Anglo-Saxon criminal punishments, medieval werewolf executions and folkloric tales of noble werewolves, as well as psychological and medical explanations, it offers a new understanding of how the werewolf has survived within European culture for thousands of years. |
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Trick or Treat: A History of Halloween. |
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Morton, Lisa/ 9781780231877/ Price:GBP 14.95
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Trick or Treat is the first book to both examine the origins and history of Halloween and explore in depth its current global popularity. Festivals like the Celtic Samhain and Catholic All Souls’ Day have blended to produce the modern Halloween, which has been reborn in America – but there are also related but idependent holidays, especially Mexico’s Day of the Dead. Lisa Morton explores the explosion in popularity of haunted attractions and the impact of events such as the global economic recession, as well as the effect Halloween has had on popular culture through literary works, films and television series.
Trick or Treat takes us on a journey from the spectacular to the macabre, making it a must for anyone who wants to peep behind the mask to see the real past and present of this ever more popular holiday. |
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Crossings: Africa, the Americas, and the Atlantic Slave Trade. |
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Walvin, James/ 9781780231945/ Price:GBP 25.00
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Crossings explores the broad sweep of slavery across the Atlantic world, revealing the extraordinary efforts to end it as well as the remarkable degree to which slavery and the slave trade managed to survive, even to the present day. In the most authoritative history of the entire slave trade to date, James Walvin returns the emphasis of the story to its origins in Africa. It was here that the trade originated, here that the terrible ordeal of slaves began, and here that the scars remain today. Journeying across the ocean, Crossings also explores the history of Portugese, French and British colonies, as well as its development in the usa, and shows how Brazilian slavery was central to the development of the slave trade itself: that country tested techniques and methods for trading and slavery that were successfully exported to the Caribbean and the rest of the Americas in the following centuries.
This book examines some vital unanswered questions, such as how did a system which the Western world had come to regard with distaste manage to survive for so long? And why were the British – so fundamental in developing and perfecting the slave trade – so prominent in its eradication? This groundbreaking study makes use of major new developments in research, rendering them available to a broad readership for the first time and offering a new understanding of one of the most important, and tragic, episodes in world history. |
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A History of Myanmar since Ancient Times: Traditions and Transformations. |
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Aung-Thwin, Michael/ 9781780231723/ Price:GBP 20.00
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This updated edition considers the changes that have taken place since the elections of 2010, the reforms that the civilian government introduced and the ramifications of the country’s new international status. It also assesses the implications of the 2012 by-elections, the ensuing political dynamics among various stakeholders and the continuing socio-economic challenges facing Myanmar in the twenty-first century.
The most comprehensive history of Myanmar ever published in the English language, this book makes a significant contribution to our understanding of Southeast Asian history and will surprise, challenge and inform in equal measure. |
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The Sea: A Cultural History. |
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Mack, John/ 9781780231846/ Price:GBP 19.95
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Much of the world’s population lives on or near the coast, and people inhabit and engage with the sea in a variety of ways. The Sea explores the diversity of seas themselves, maritime technologies (especially the practice of navigation), and different cultures surrounding the sea. Seafarers have characteristic social and technical practices, as well as having distinctive language and customs. Many cultures have created a society of the sea, which is usually all-male, often cosmopolitan and always hierarchical. The separation of sea and land is evident in the use of different vocabularies on land and on sea for the same things, the change in a mariner’s behavior when on land and in the liminal status of points uniting the two realms, like beaches and ports. Ships are also deployed in symbolic contexts on land, from ship burials to ecclesiastical and public architecture. The two realms – land and sea – are never completely separate.
Casting a wide net, The Sea uses histories, maritime archaeology, anthropology, art history, biography and literature to provide an innovative and experiential account of the waters that surround us. |
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The Fall and Rise of China: Healing the Trauma of History. |
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Unschuld, Paul U./ 9781780231686/ Price:GBP 16.95
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The Fall and Rise of China: Healing the Trauma of History traces the country’s development in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries up to the present day and offers an explanation of the collective mentality that enabled China, confronted by the superiority of Western science and technology, to commit to the unsparing self-diagnosis that enabled its impressive rise and radical transformation. The country identified the aspects of Western civilization it must adopt in order to remove the cultural impediments to its own renaissance. Profoundly wounded, China prescribed for itself a therapy that followed the same principle used in Chinese medicine: that the cause lies first and foremost within oneself. Prevention and treatment must therefore always begin with one’s own deficiencies and mistakes. In this powerful polemic Paul Unschuld presents an entirely new understanding and analysis of China’s past and offers fascinating insights into its possible future. |
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Why Hell Stinks of Sulfur: Mythology and Geology of the Underworld. |
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Kroonenberg, Salomon/ 9781780230450/ Price:GBP 25.00
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Describing the multi-layered nature of the inside of the earth, exposing colours, gasses, liquids and metals as well as underground rivers and lakes, Kroonenberg sees the earth beneath our feet as a source of information about this unimaginably ancient planet. We have never penetrated beyond a depth of 7.5 miles, but beneath us is a unique archive, a living ecosystem whose riches we can still barely guess at.
Why Hell Stinks of Sulfur is a fascinating search for the geological foundations of hell and also an appeal to find ways to ensure that mankind’s thirst for natural resources does not exhaust the earth. |
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Geranium. |
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Boddy, Kasia/ 9781780230481/ Price:GBP 16.00
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In Geranium, Kasia Boddy details how the cheerful and amenable geranium remains a plant that many love and others love to hate, but above all it is a flower that is seldom ignored. Featuring numerous fine illustrations, Geranium explores the ever-changing image of the plant as portrayed in painting, literature, film and popular culture worldwide. |
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The Eastward Dissemination of Western Learning in the Late Qing Dynasty, 3-vols/set. |
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Xiong, Yuezhi/ 9789814332842/ Price:US$ 365.00
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Presents unique insights on many important theoretical issues, individuals and events in the history of the Eastward dissemination of western learning
Discusses the five major themes of the Eastward dissemination of Western learning in the late Qing Dynasty, namely knowing the world, seeking to become strong and rich, saving the country, democratic revolution, and enlightenment through science
The Chinese version has been awarded several prestigious literary prizes including the Grand Prize of College Scientific Research (1993-1994), Outstanding Books of Shanghai Philosophy and Social Sciences (1994-1995), and Second Prize of Outstanding Books of Political Theory |
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十種影響中華民國建立的書刊9 女界鐘 |
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金松岑著/ 9789868754928/ Price:NT$ 180.00
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Across the Line of Control: Inside Pakistan-Administered Kashmir. |
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Puri, Luv/ 9781849041737/ Price:GBP 40.00
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China as a Sea Power, 1127-1368 |
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Jung-pang Lo/ 9789971695057/ Price:SGD 45.00
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Resistant Islands: Okinawa Confronts Japan and the United States |
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Gavan McCormack/ 9781538115572/ Price:US$ 69.00
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Investigating Srebrenica: Institutions, Facts, Responsibilities. |
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Delpla, Isabelle/ 9780857454720/ Price:US$ 135.00
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Jews and Booze: Becoming American in the Age of Prohibition. |
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Davis, Marni/ 9781479882441/ Price:US$ 26.00
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Lords of the Sea: A History of the Barbary Corsairs. |
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Jamieson, Alan G./ 9781861899071/ Price:GBP 30.00
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Lords of the Sea gives us the full history of these pirates, first examining their dramatic impact as the violent seaborne vanguard of an expanding Ottoman empire in the early 1500s through to their break from Ottoman authority a century later. Alan Jamieson explores how the corsairs of Algiers, Tunis, Tripoli and other fortified coastal ports rose to the apogee of their powers, extending their activities from the Mediterranean into the Atlantic, raiding as far as the British Isles and Iceland. Rescuing captive Christians touched everyone in a Western state, from ambassadors obliged to negotiate to rural communities directed by Sunday sermons to contribute to the fund required to buy back their enslaved countrymen and women. While corsair activities declined in the 18th century, it was only a series of naval wars prosecuted into the early years of the 19th by various European states as well as a determined USA that finally ended the menace, culminating in the French conquest of Algiers in 1830. |
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The Nazi, the Painter and the Forgotten Story of the SS Road. |
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Bennett, G. H./ 9781861899095/ Price:GBP 20.00
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G. H. Bennett set out to uncover the story behind this compelling visual record, and to identify the perpetrators and victims it portrayed. Piece by piece Bennett has put together the story of the SS Road, construction of which was managed by an unremarkable SS officer who, through a chance office mix-up of names, unexpectedly found himself in charge. He describes the Red Army prisoners, Jews and others who were worked to death building it, and singles out by name the barbaric overseers. Arnold Daghani, a Romanian artist, was one of the few Jewish labourers to survive the project. Bennett explores through Daghani’s words and pictures the brutal treatment the slave workers endured, and Daghani’s own postwar efforts, finally while living in England, to bring the perpetrators to justice. |
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Remembrance Today: Poppies, Grief and Heroism. |
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Harrison, Ted/ 9781780230443/ Price:GBP 25.00
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Remembrance throws up questions that demand to be answered but are too often ignored: What does it mean to be heroic? What, in the military context, does glory mean? But most fundamental of all – what is the purpose of Remembrance? Is it to honour and thank the fallen, those who gave their lives in wars? To give comfort to those who mourn their loss? If Remembrance does not serve as a warning against war, a reminder to the nation to rededicate itself to peace, then, Harrison argues, it is a sanctimonious and
futile waste of time.
Proposing a return to the original ideals of Remembrance, and suggesting many changes to the modern-day spectacle, Remembrance Today is a powerful polemic on how our ideas of heroism, duty and grief have lost their way which calls for a refocusing of Remembrance from its current divisive tradition to a more uniting and appropriate observance. |
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The Maghreb Since 1800: A Short History. |
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Vikr, Knut S./ 9781849042246/ Price:GBP 30.00
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The Untold Story of the People of Azad Kashmir. |
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Snedden, Christopher/ 9781849041508/ Price:GBP 55.00
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The Impossible Indian: Gandhi and the Temptations of Violence. |
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Devji, Faisal/ 9781849041157/ Price:GBP 18.99
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Macau through 500 Years: Emergence and Development of an Untypical Chinese City, English Version. |
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Sit, Victor F./ 9789814298865/ Price:US$ 158.00
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The first comprehensive research of the history of Macau, a small yet important coastal city of China which had been a Portuguese colony from the 1840s to 1999
Provides detailed historical references and valuable maps and pictures of Macau’s geographical, social and economic development collected through over three years of dedicated research
Reveals the change of the relationship between China and the West in the last five hundred years |
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The Mongol Conquest in World History. |
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May, Timothy/ 9781861898678/ Price:GBP 30.00
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While the Mongols were the most destructive force in the pre-modern world, the Pax Mongolica had stabilizing effects on the social, cultural and economic life of the inhabitants of the vast territory, allowing merchants and missionaries to traverse Eurasia. The conquests also set in motion other changes in warfare, medicine, food, culture and scientific knowledge.
When Mongol power declined, it was replaced with over a dozen successors who retained elements of the Mongol Empire, but none of its unity. The Mongol Conquest in World History examines the many ways in which the conquests were a catalyst for change. The memory of the Empire fired the collective mind into far-reaching endeavours: the desire for luxury goods and spices that were once available launched Columbus’ voyages; the Renaissance was inspired by the innovations in art that emerged from the Mongol Empire: China was unified for the first time in 300 years and the Islamic world doubled in size.
This fascinating book offers comprehensive coverage of the entire empire, rather than a more regional approach, as well as providing a long view of the Mongol Empire’s legacy. It will appeal to all those interested in this vast, epoch-making empire, as well as specialists in the field. |
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Metabolism of Modern Chinese Society, 2-vols/set. |
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Chen, Xulu/ 9789814339797/ Price:US$ 281.00
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Extensive and profound, speculative and deep, the book embodies decades of research by the famous historian, Chen Xulu. This book not only examines the changes in the economic and political structure of modern society, but also explores the evolution of urban and rural grassroots organizations as well as the social changes provoked by unequal treaties. It studies the internal and external factors in social change in modern China. It discusses changes in political ideology, philosophy, literature, and analyzes the change in social attitudes under the influence of the United States and Europe. |
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A Concise History of the Qing Dynasty, 4-Vols/Set. |
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Yi, Dai/ 9789814339780/ Price:US$ 524.00
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*A complete and authoritative source of information about the Qing Dynasty
*Provides an account of the history of the Qing Dynasty, the last feudal autocratic monarchy in China’s long history, from the Manchurian rise, its flourishing and decline to the Opium War in 1840
*Covers the development, creation and struggle of modern China
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Magic and Religion in Medieval England. |
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Rider, Catherine/ 9781780230351/ Price:GBP 30.00
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This book traces the change in the Church’s attitude to vernacular forms of magic from the turbulent era of King John to the time of Henry VIII and the Dissolution of the Monasteries. These three centuries brought educated clergy into closer contact than ever before with unofficial religious practices and prompted them to draw up more precise guidelines on how to distinguish magic from legitimate religion. Magic and Religion in Medieval England provides a detailed picture of religious and lay life, including clerical education and pastoral care. |
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A History of Myanmar Since Ancient Times: Traditions and Transformations. |
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Aung-Thwin, Michael A./ 9781861899019/ Price:GBP 25.00
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In A History of Myanmar since Ancient Times, Michael Aung-Thwin and Maitrii Aung-Thwin take us from the sacred stupas of the plains of Bagan to the grand, colonial-era British mansions, revealing the storied past and rich culture of this country. The book traces the traditions and transformations of Myanmar over nearly three millennia, from the relics of its Neolithic civilization to the protests of Buddhist monks in the early twentieth century, the colonial era of British rule and the republic that followed. The authors also consider the present-day life, culture and society of the largest country in mainland Southeast Asia and examine the 2010 elections – its first in over twenty years.
The most comprehensive history of Myanmar ever published in the English language, this book makes a significant contribution to our understanding of Southeast Asian history and will surprise, challenge and inform in equal measure. |
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A History of the Arctic: Nature, Exploration and Exploitation. |
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McCannon, John/ 9781780230184/ Price:GBP 25.00
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In A History of the Arctic, award-winning polar historian John McCannon provides a far-reaching overview from the Stone Age to the present, examining all major aspects of this vital region from a global perspective. Covering the history of each Arctic nation, McCannon discusses many topics, including polar exploration and science, nation-building and diplomacy, environmental issues and climate change, and the role of indigenous populations in Arctic history. With Arctic territorial claims and resource-?extraction assuming ever greater importance in the twenty-first century, this book includes a timely assessment of current diplomatic and environmental realities, along with the increasingly dire risks the region is likely to face in the near future. |
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Baltic Facades: Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania since 1945. |
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Purs, Aldis/ 9781861898968/ Price:GBP 19.95
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Baltic Facades presents a radical new reading of these states, with a fresh and up-to-date examination of their individual politics, economies and social and cultural trends. By dispelling the myth of a single, coherent Baltic identity, Aldis Purs is able to take account of the uniqueness of Lithuania, Latvia and Estonia, while examining the anxieties that their peoples feel about their own identities and how others see them. |
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Edge of Empires: A History of Georgia. |
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Rayfield, Donald/ 9781780230306/ Price:GBP 35.00
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The book begins with the first intimations of the existence of Georgians in ancient Anatolia and ends with today’s volatile President Saakashvili. It deals not only with the country’s internal politics, but with its complex struggles with the empires which have tried to control, fragment or even exterminate the country. All the world’s history – Xenophon’s Greeks, the Arabs, the invading Turks, the Crusades, Chingiz Khan and Timur Lang, the Persian empire, the Russian empire, Soviet totalitarianism – is reflected in Georgia’s history. |
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Trick or Treat: A History of Halloween. |
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Morton, Lisa/ 9781780230474/ Price:US$ 20.00
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Trick or Treat provides a thorough history of this most misunderstood phenomenon. Offering a fascinating overview of how Halloween has spread around the globe, it asks how festivals as diverse as the Celtic Samhain, the British Guy Fawkes Day and the Catholic Holy Days of All Saints and All Souls could have blended to produce the modern Halloween. The holiday was reborn in the United States – where costuming and ‘trick or treat’ rituals became new customs – with parallels in the related, yet independent holidays of Central America, in particular Mexico’s Day of the Dead. The recent explosion in popularity of haunted attractions is discussed and we see also how Halloween’s popularity is rising in non-Western countries like Russia, Japan and China. Finally, Morton considers the impact of such events as 9/11 and the economic recession on the celebration as urban legends and costuming wax and wane. |
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With the Hand: A History of Masturbation |
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van Driel, Mels/ 9781861899194/ Price:GBP 25.00
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Frequently astounding, often humorous and always informative, With the Hand refutes the many myths and confusion surrounding this universal, yet unmentionable pursuit. Making an unusual gift, this is perhaps the ultimate bedtime book. |
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CULTURAL CABARET: Russian and American Essays for Richard Stites. |
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Goldfrank, David/ 9780985569891/ Price:US$ 26.00
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A singular mix of Russian and American academia presents this cultural cabaret in Richard Stites’s memory. Topics include: theater, linguistics, soccer, jokes, cartoons, film, cars, tattoos, and Reality TV. |
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The Russian Nanny, Real and Imagined: History, Culture, Mythology. |
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Grant, Steven A./ 9780985569815/ Price:US$ 30.00
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This book is principally about women – women who care for small children – and about ideas or myths surrounding both individual nannies and nannies in the abstract. Its two major themes are thus reality and constructed reality. It examines how a figure that fell all too easily into a near caricature still retained tremendous emotional power and specificity in the lives of so many Russians, especially creative writers and artists. Secondarily, the book concerns the limits of autobiography and biography, the conscious and unconscious manipulation of memory, and the autobiographical fallacy. An important subtext that recurs frequently is that of intellectuals seeking to (super)impose their own notions, values, and ideals upon others to satisfy their personal needs and desires. |
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The Russian Nanny, Real and Imagined: History, Culture, Mythology. |
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Grant, Steven A./ 9780985569822/ Price:US$ 40.00
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This book is principally about women – women who care for small children – and about ideas or myths surrounding both individual nannies and nannies in the abstract. Its two major themes are thus reality and constructed reality. It examines how a figure that fell all too easily into a near caricature still retained tremendous emotional power and specificity in the lives of so many Russians, especially creative writers and artists. Secondarily, the book concerns the limits of autobiography and biography, the conscious and unconscious manipulation of memory, and the autobiographical fallacy. An important subtext that recurs frequently is that of intellectuals seeking to (super)impose their own notions, values, and ideals upon others to satisfy their personal needs and desires. |
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Cities in American Political History. |
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Dilworth, Richardson/ 9780872899117/ Price:GBP 170.00
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Profiling the ten most populous cities in the United States during ten critical eras of political development, Cities in American Political History presents a unique singular focus on American cities, their government and politics, industry, commerce, labor, and race and ethnicity.
Cities in American Political History analyzes the role that large cities from New York to Chicago to San Jose, have played in U.S. politics and policymaking. Each entry is structured for straightforward comparison across issues and eras. The city profiles include basic data and statistics for the era and are accompanied by maps of each era and the largest cities at that time.
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World History Encyclopedia, 21-Vols/Set. |
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Andrea, Alfred J./ 9781851099290/ Price:US$ 2030.00
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Features
o Contributions by a team of over 800 historians, anthropologists, sociologists, and other academics, focused on a world-based view of history, including well-known researchers as well as innovative newcomers who have made remarkable contributions. This multi-faceted approach offers a work that combines orthodox views with creative new perspectives
o Twenty-one volumes covering the breadth of human history, in nine eras: Beginnings of Human Society; Early Civilizations, 4000-1000 BCE; Classical Traditions, 1000 BCE-300 CE; Expanding Regional Civilizations, 300-1000; Intensified Hemispheric Interactions, 1000-1500; The First Global Age, 1450-1770; The Age of Revolutions, 1750-1914; Crisis and Achievement, 1900-1945; Promises and Paradoxes, 1945-Present
o General chronologies plotting large-scale changes in human organization, in areas such as population flow, technological development, and the evolution of social and political institutions
o Hundreds of images and maps, plus charts and bibliographies
o A wide range of primary source excerpts (some translated into English for the first time) giving students firsthand exposure to the raw materials of historical research
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Event History Analysis, 4-Vols/Set. |
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Wu, Lawrence/ 9781847870162/ Price:GBP 675.00
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Event history analysis is an umbrella term for a set of procedures for time series analysis. Event history models focus on the hazard function, which has to do with the probabilities that an event will occur after any given duration. Duration to the hazard of death was the classic example in medical research, but the hazard may have a positive meaning also, such as duration until the event of adoption of an innovation in diffusion research
Over the last two decades, event history analysis has emerged as a mature analytical tool in the social sciences. This four-volume edited collection consists of a) classic papers that have been key in determining or explicating various subareas of event history analysis, and b) high quality applications that demonstrate the utility of event history analysis, drawn from a wide range of substantive areas.
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History of the Mariana Islands to Partition. |
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Propst, Ivan/ 9780615407302/ Price:US$ 20.00
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A Springboard to Victory. |
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Lai, Sherman X./ 9789004198005/ Price:EUR 159.00
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Trampling Out the Vintage: Cesar Chavez and the Two Souls of the United Farm Workers. |
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Bardacke, Frank/ 9781844677184/ Price:GBP 70.00
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Workers Across the Americas: The Transnational Turn in Labor History. |
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Fink, Leon/ 9780199731633/ Price:US$ 94.00
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Athenian Myths and Festivals: Aglauros, Erechtheus, Plynteria, Panathenaia, Dionysia. |
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Sourvinou-Inwood, Christiane/ 9780199592074/ Price:GBP 125.00
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Human Landscapes in Classical Antiquity: Environment and Culture. |
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Shipley, Graham/ 9780415692472/ Price:GBP 42.99
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Taiwan in Japan's Empire-Building: An Institutional Approach to Colonial Engineering. |
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Tsai, Hui-yu C./ 9780415667142/ Price:GBP 51.99
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The Economic Decline of Empires. |
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Cipolla, Carlo M./ 9780415489508/ Price:GBP 51.99
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The King's Speech: How One Man Saved the British Monarchy.(Audio CD) |
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Logue, Mark/ 9781452651309/ Price:US$ 19.99
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Ancient Graffiti in Context. |
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Baird, J. A./ 9780415878890/ Price:GBP 145.00
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Ethnopolitics and Power Sharing in Guyana: History and Discourse. |
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Hinds, David/ 9780982806104/ Price:US$ 24.00
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Dutch Culture in the Golden Age. |
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Price, J. L./ 9781861898005/ Price:GBP 25.00
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The seventeenth century is considered the Dutch Golden Age, a time when the Dutch were at the forefront of social change, economic development, the sciences and the arts. In Dutch Culture in the Golden Age, eminent historian J. L. Price goes beyond the standard descriptions of the cultural achievements of the Dutch during this time by placing these many achievements within their social context.
The region underwent a number of upheavals to achieve this success, not only politically but also geographically and economically. Alongside the innovative tendencies in Dutch society and culture there were powerful conservative and reactionary forces at work – and it was the tension between these contradictory impulses that gave the period its unique and powerful dynamic.
Dutch Culture in the Golden Age is distinctive in its broad scope, examing art, literature, religion, political ideology, theology and scientific and intellectual trends, while also attending to the high and popular culture of the times. Price’s new interpretation of Dutch history places an emphasis on the paradox of the Dutch resistance to change as well as their general acceptance of innovation.
This comprehensive look at the Dutch Golden Age provides a fascinating new way to understand Dutch culture at the height of its historic and global influence. |
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The Ocean at Home: An Illustrated History of the Aquarium. |
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Brunner, Bernd/ 9781861898166/ Price:GBP 17.95
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The mysterious world beneath the ocean’s surface and its inhabitants have captivated humanity for centuries – the Egyptians, Greeks, Romans and ancient Chinese all kept fish in their homes to observe and admire. But it was not until the nineteenth-century invention of the aquarium that the deep was truly domesticated, offering the curious a chance to create an indoor exotic sea world in miniature.
This compelling story of obsession, discovery and delight shows how aquariums have gone from being tools for scientific observation, to the Victorian era’s elaborately decorated containers of curiosity, to the great public aquariums that are popular in cities around the world today. Along the way, Bernd Brunner provides insight into the cultural and social circumstances that accompanied the aquarium’s swift rise in popularity.
The Ocean at Home offers a colourful look at how a Victorian obsession still enchants many worldwide. Both the owner of a humble goldfish bowl and the dazzled spectator at a major public aquarium will find this an appealing and knowledgable guide to the aquatic worlds we create. |
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The Sea: A Cultural History. |
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Mack, John/ 9781861898098/ Price:GBP 19.95
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Much of the world’s population lives on or near the coast, and people inhabit and engage with the sea in a variety of ways. The Sea explores the diversity of seas themselves, maritime technologies, especially the practice of navigation, and different cultures surrounding the sea. Seafarers have characteristic social and technical practices, as well as having distinctive language and customs. Many cultures have created a society of the sea, which is usually all-male, often cosmopolitan and always hierarchical. The separation of sea and land is evident in the use of different vocabularies on land and on sea for the same things, the change in a mariner’s behaviour when on land, and in the liminal status of points uniting the two realms, like beaches and ports. Ships are also deployed in symbolic contexts on land, from ship burials to ecclesiastical and public architecture. The two realms – land and sea – are never completely separate. |
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A History of Diplomacy. |
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Black, Jeremy/ 9781861898319/ Price:GBP 20.00
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In A History of Diplomacy, historian Jeremy Black challenges the conventional account of the development of diplomacy, devoting more attention to non-Western traditions and to the medieval West than is usually the case. By the nineteenth century a system of diplomacy was increasingly formalized. Black charts the course and evolution of ‘diplomacy’ in all its incarnations, concluding with the ideological diplomatic conflicts of the twentieth century and the situation today. The role of modern inter- and non-governmental organizations – from the United Nations and NATO to Amnesty International and Human Rights Watch – in diplomatic relations is assessed, and the challenges facing diplomacy in the future are identified and investigated.
A History of Diplomacy presents a detailed and engaging study into the ever-changing phenomenon of diplomacy: its aims, its achievements, its successes and failures, against a historical and cultural background. An essential read for students and scholars of history and politics, it will also be of interest to anyone intrigued by the forces that have shaped international relations throughout history. |
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Invented Knowledge: False History, Fake Science and Pseudo-religions. |
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Fritze, Ronald H./ 9781861898173/ Price:GBP 16.95
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At once lively and authoritative, Ronald H. Fritze illuminates the phenomenon of false history by telling the story of a select group of pseudo-historical ideas. He explores legends such as the lost continent of Atlantis, and the original settlement of the Americas by a European people, who established a glorious civilization only to be supplanted by the invading ‘Red Indian’, and whose only remains are the many mounds scattered across the eastern United States. He also discusses the beliefs of more recent religious groups, such as the Nation of Islam and Christian Identity. Fritze shows that in spite of, or perhaps because of, the strongest rejections of mainstream historians, and the lack of scientific evidence, some of these ideas have proved very durable, and gained widespread acceptance in the public mind. Such ideas can also be deadly – the Nazis, for example, believed in a false version of European history in which the German people were a superior race destined to conquer the world. |
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The Modern Balkans: A History. |
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Hall, Richard C./ 9781861898104/ Price:GBP 30.00
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For much of its history, southeast Europe remained apart politically, culturally and economically from the rest of the European continent. Byzantine and then Ottoman rule isolated this region from Western Europe. Beginning in the nineteenth century, this region, also known as the Balkans, began the process of integration with Western Europe.
In The Modern Balkans, historian Richard C. Hall gives a complete account of the historical events that have shaped the Balkan region. The process of economic and political development following the Western European model has been far from smooth in the Balkans; it has often been marked by violence and destruction, the result of many wars and rebellions. Though Soviet power imposed a 45-year peace in the region, the collapse of the Soviet Union renewed conflict that continued through the end of the twentieth century. Hall concentrates here on the significant political and economic events that have had the greatest impact on the role of the Balkans in Europe; in particular, he examines the development of national states in the nineteenth century, the influence of the two world wars and the collapse of Yugoslavia. |
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The Kiev Killings. |
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George, G. K./ 9780983245193/ Price:US$ 28.00
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Concise Encyclopedia of World War II, The., 2-Vols/Set. |
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Nolan, Cathal J./ 9780313330506/ Price:US$ 215.00
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Filled with up-to-date scholarship yet supremely manageable and accessible, The Concise Encyclopedia of World War II offers the opportunity to explore a conflict that remains a source of fascination for scholars, students, and general readers alike.
From the battlefields to the corridors of power, from the barracks to the home front, The Concise Encyclopedia of World War II provides a complete portrait of the war. Entries not only address major battles and campaigns, but political, economic, and cultural issues as well, plus brief portraits of the conflict’s commanding personalities. Its global perspective notably corrects the usual Western focus of World War II studies, incorporating a wealth of information on often underreported topics such as the Eastern Front and the Sino-Japanese War.
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Companion to Ancient Egypt, A., 2-Vols/Set. |
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Lloyd, Alan B./ 9781405155984/ Price:US$ 442.95
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This Companion provides the very latest accounts of the major and current aspects of Egyptology by leading scholars. It is delivered in a highly readable style and extensively illustrated; published in two volumes, it offers unprecedented breadth and depth of coverage, giving full scope to the discussion of this incredible civilization.
*Provides the very latest and, where relevant, well-illustrated accounts of the major aspects of Egypt’s ancient history and culture
*Covers a broad scope of topics including physical context, history, economic and social mechanisms, language, literature, and the visual arts
*Delivered in a highly readable style with students and scholars of both Egyptology and Graeco-Roman studies in mind
*Provides a chronological table at the start of each volume to help readers orient chapters within the wider historical context
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Imperial Japan and the World, 1931-1945, 4-Vols/Set. |
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Best, Antony/ 9780415406765/ Price:GBP 950.00
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The transformation of Japan in the years between 1931 and 1945 into an expansionist and potentially hegemonic power that threatened the stability of the international order in East Asia is a topic that is central to any understanding of the region's history in the twentieth century.
This new four-volume collection from Routledge brings together the best and most influential scholarship on the period, both contemporary and historical. Volumes I and II focus on politics, foreign policy, and diplomacy. Volume III meanwhile covers economic and financial history. Finally, Volume IV assembles key work on social, cultural, and intellectual factors.
The collection is fully indexed and includes a comprehensive introduction, newly written by the editor. Each volume of this essential work of reference is also supplemented with an invaluable list of suggested further reading.
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Responding to Fascism, 12-Vols/Set. |
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This collection of contemporary and near contemporary works represents some of the diversity of response as the English speaking world struggled to come to terms with the political upheaval. The authors are similarly diverse and range from activists through academics to apologists.In Enter Mussolini and The Rise of Italian Fascism leading anti-fascist writers Emilio Lussu and Angelo Tasca (writing under the pseudonym 'Amilcare Rossi') chart the establishment of a fascist state in Italy and offer telling insights into the nature and future of fascism. Both Lussu and Tasca were active in their opposition, and for many others the response to fascism involved taking up arms, typified by the thousands of volunteered to fight against Franco in Spain. In The Spanish Tragedy, Dutch writer Jef Last's recounts his experience, which ends in disillusionment with Stalin and the Soviet Union.Other works demonstrate a more basic need for information. Hitler's Official Programme is a translation of official Nazi documents, which a contemporary review describes as 'a declaration of war by barbarism on civilization'. However it should never be forgotten that the views of many others were more equivocal. In Norman Hillson's I Speak of England the author offers a sympathetic description of a journey through Germany, highlighting the success of economic reconstruction under Hitler. Issues of race are not ignored but are not seen as central, a view which is challenged by the works of the two exiled German Jews, Heinrich Fraenkel and G. Warburg, included in this collection.A characteristic of the fascist regimes was the extent to which ideology penetrated aspects of everyday life. German Literature through Nazi Eyes and Higher Education in Nazi Germany examine the impact of the Nazis on culture and education. Straight On includes an account of Red Cross work in Belsen and Auschwitz, perhaps the most moving and tragic of the many responses to fascism. |
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Genocide, 6-Vols/Set. |
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Moses, A. Dirk/ 9780415493758/ Price:GBP 1500.00
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Stimulated anew in the 1990s by the slaughter and the so-called 'ethnic cleansing' in the former Yugoslavia, and by the horrors of Rwanda, research about and around genocide flourishes as never before. Genocide studies has now accrued a large, sophisticated, and growing, body of scholarly literature. This growth looks set to continue: historians and social scientists are increasingly casting their analytical nets further into the past to investigate whether group destruction and population expulsions have been constitutive of imperial and state expansion over millennia. And, moreover, events such as the Sudanese government's genocidal counter-insurgency in Darfur suggest that, like war, genocide is a pervasive feature of human society that is here to stay.
Addressing the need for an authoritative and comprehensive reference work to enable users to make sense of-and to navigate around-the ever more complex research corpus, Genocide is a new title in Routledge's Critical Concepts in Historical Studies series. Edited by A. Dirk Moses of the University of Sydney, it is a six-volume collection of foundational and the very best cutting-edge scholarship.
*Volume I: THE DISCIPLINE OF GENOCIDE STUDIES
*Volume II: GENOCIDE BEFORE MODERNITY
*Volume III: COLONIAL AND IMPERIAL GENOCIDES
*Volume IV: TWENTIETH-CENTURY IMPERIAL GENOCIDES: THE SOVIET UNION AND NAZI GERMANY
*Volume V: POST-COLONIAL AND -IMPERIAL GENOCIDE
*Volume VI: HUMANITARIAN INTERVENTION, THE PROSECUTION OF GENOCIDE, TRAUMA, AND RECOVERY
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Science in History: Volume 2: The Scientific and Industrial Revolutions |
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J. D. Bernal/ 9780571274826/ Price:GBP 16.00
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World History. |
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Parker, Philip/ 9781405341240/ Price:GBP 17.99
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The International Emblem: From Incunabula to the Internet. |
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McKeown, Simon/ 9781443819305/ Price:GBP 64.99
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China Through the Dynasties. (Chinese Edition) |
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Shouhui, Zhao/ 9789814246675/ Price:US$ 28.95
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MARC Working Papers #85: Lieutenant Governor Madeleine Z. Bordallo 1995-2002 Inventory of Papers. |
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Brunal-Perry, Omaira/ MARC85/ Price:US$ 20.00
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The Triumph of Military Zionism: Nationalism and the Origins of the Israeli Right. |
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Shindler, Colin/ 9781848850248/ Price:GBP 21.99
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Military Effectiveness, Vol. 2: The Interwar Period. |
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Millett, Allan R./ 9780521737500/ Price:GBP 23.99
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Histoire de La Guerre Des Alpes Ou Campagne de 1744, Par Les Armees Combinees D'Espagne Et de France (1770). |
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Maximilien Henri De Saint-Simon/ 9781169314474/ Price:US$ 35.16
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Che Cosa E La Mafia (1900). |
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Mosca, Gaetano/ 9781169502833/ Price:US$ 24.76
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Dreams of Nationhood: American Jewish Communists and the Soviet Birobidzhan Project, 1924-1951. |
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Srebrnik, Henry F./ 9781936235117/ Price:US$ 109.00
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Sex: Vice and Love from Antiquity to Modernity. |
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Blanshard, Alastair J. L./ 9781405122917/ Price:US$ 124.95
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Gilgal: Early Neolithic Occupations in the Lower Jordan Valley: The Excavations of Tamar Noy. |
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Bar-Yosef, Ofer/ 9781842174135/ Price:GBP 35.00
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Bullfighting: A Troubled History. |
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Hardouin-Fugier, Elisabeth/ 9781861895189/ Price:GBP 25.00
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‘Bullfighting is the only art in which the artist is in danger of death and in which the degree of brilliance in the performance is left to the fighter’s honour’, wrote Ernest Hemingway in Death in the Afternoon. Art? Ritual? Sport? Cruelty? Though opinions are divided, one thing is certain – bullfighting sparks passionate responses. Supporters argue that bullfighting is a culturally important tradition stretching back thousands of years, while animal rights groups argue that it is cruel and barbaric, causing unnecessary suffering to both bulls and horses. In Bullfighting Elisabeth Hardouin-Fugier brings clarity to this debate through an exploration of the long history of killing bulls as public spectacle. |
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Educating the City: The Making of Hong Kong's Most Modern University. |
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Jones, Rodney H./ 9789624423174/ Price:NT$ 550.00
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Qing Dynasty Architecture. |
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This book is a compilation of 540 photographs and paintings of Qing Dynasty architecture that appeared in Western publications currently housed in the Peking University Library. The collection is categorized into 18 chapters, such as city walls and gates, pagodas, archways, guild houses, churches, streets, and bridges. These photographs and paintings present a visual introduction to the modes and styles of Chinese architecture built before and during the Qing Dynasty. Besides mirroring the various social upheavals in China during the late Qing Dynasty, the photographs also reflect the Sino–Western cultural interactions and military encounters then. This is shown in photographs of armed foreign troops standing guard on the city walls of Nanjing and the triumphant parade of the German military motorcade along a street in Qingdao. In conclusion, this book is useful as a visual reference for researching the architectural evolution during the Qing Dynasty and also provides a fresh and multi-faceted perspective on China’s political, social, cultural, and economic landscapes then.
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Gender Difference in the Balkans: Archives of representations of gender difference and agency in visual culture and contemporary art in the Balkans. |
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Milevska, Suzana/ 9783639200324/ Price:EUR 79.00
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CONSUMING//TERROR: Images of the Baader-Meinhof. |
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Rupert, Goldsworthy/ 9783639184570/ Price:EUR 79.00
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PASSION AND PERCEPTION: Essays on Russian Culture |
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Stites, Richard/ 9780982806166/ Price:US$ 32.00
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America Reflected: Language, Satire, Film, and the National Mind. |
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Rollins, Peter C./ 9780984406258/ Price:US$ 38.00
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America Reflected: Language, Satire, Film, and the National Mind. |
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Rollins, Peter C./ 9780984406265/ Price:US$ 50.00
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United States of America. (Before September 11 and After Barack H. Obama) |
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Karavidas, George/ 9780984514236/ Price:US$ 21.95
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In this book, a part of the Colorful Historical part of USA, the Reader will find answers to:
How USA developed through the Centuries
The consequences through the Second World War
From the Presidency of John F. Kennedy, to the Presidency of George W. Bush.
The day of September 11th 2001 How the Life Sworn Enemies of USA can turn to Respect it instead
How the once well-known American Family, will come back to It's Traditional Way!
The Environment is in trouble!
How America can help of saving it? How the USA People can assist (the Author as well through this book and more) successfully, the challenges that Charismatic President elected Barack H. Obama, now that he took the Steering of this magnificent Country. |
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REMEMBERING UTOPIA: The Culture of Everyday Life in Socialist Yugoslavia. |
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Luthar, Breda/ 9780984406234/ Price:US$ 30.00
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48 Hours of Kristallnacht: Night of Destruction/Dawn of the Holocaust. |
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Bard, Mitchell G./ 9781599219660/ Price:US$ 12.95
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48 Hours of Kristallnacht: Night of Destruction/Dawn of the Holocaust. |
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Bard, Mitchell G./ 9781599214450/ Price:US$ 19.95
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Assault in Norway: Sabotaging the Nazi Nuclear Program. |
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Gallagher, Thomas/ 9781599219127/ Price:US$ 16.95
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A History of Diplomacy. |
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Black, Jeremy/ 9781861896964/ Price:GBP 19.99
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In A History of Diplomacy, historian Jeremy Black challenges the conventional account of the development of diplomacy, devoting more attention to non-Western traditions and to the medieval West than is usually the case. By the nineteenth century a system of diplomacy was increasingly formalized. Black charts the course and evolution of ‘diplomacy’ in all its incarnations, concluding with the ideological diplomatic conflicts of the twentieth century and the situation today. The role of modern inter- and non-governmental organizations – from the United Nations and NATO to Amnesty International and Human Rights Watch – in diplomatic relations is assessed, and the challenges facing diplomacy in the future are identified and investigated.
A History of Diplomacy presents a detailed and engaging study into the ever-changing phenomenon of diplomacy: its aims, its achievements, its successes and failures, against a historical and cultural background. An essential read for students and scholars of history and politics, it will also be of interest to anyone intrigued by the forces that have shaped international relations throughout history. |
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香港：重複的城市 |
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黃勁輝著/ 9789627707660/ Price:NT$ 560.00
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《香港：重複的城市》精選了作者黃勁輝自1998年至今發表的短篇小說，書中的十二篇作品，題材詭譎奇趣，手法清新獨特，合譜成香港後九七的城市狂想曲。其精奇曲折的故事情節，挑戰讀者的想像力，展開一個又一個疑幻疑真、充滿電影感的文字奇幻旅程。 |
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International Encyclopedia of Revolution and Protest, The.: 1500 to the Present, 8-Vols/Set. |
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Ness, Immanuel/ 9781405184649/ Price:US$ 1861.50
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This definitive 8-volume reference is a comprehensive print and electronic resource covering the history of protest and revolution over the past 500 years – throughout the modern era of mass movements. For more information see www.revolutionprotestencyclopedia.com.
* Definitive reference work on the role of popular agency in transforming the world in which we live
* First historical encyclopedia to provide scholars and teachers and students with the information they need to understand the role and significance and origin of protest and revolution from 1500 to the present
* 8-volume major reference in A-Z format, with entries ranging from 500 to 14,000 words
* Provides clear, concise explanations of events and larger social movements, and biographies of key people
* Presents major uprisings and protest movements, and the ideas, ideologies and activists that propelled them, chronicles the manner in which they unfolded, traces their roots, goals, tactics, and influence, and evaluates their successes and failures
* Internationally diverse editorial board and contributors
* Includes over 150 photographs, figures, and maps |
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Enlightenment, The., 5-Vols/Set. |
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Hanley, Ryan Patrick/ 9780415346870/ Price:GBP 1165.00
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More than any earlier period of European intellectual history, the age of Enlightenment infused the republic of letters with social and political significance; this long-awaited new collection from Routledge brings together in five volumes the very best scholarship on the period and its legacy. It also incorporates historical and critical essays addressed to the Enlightenment’s alleged responsibility for institutions or policies prevalent in the twentieth century, including economic globalization and the Holocaust. |
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Civilization, 4-Vols/Set. |
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Bowden, Brett/ 9780415469654/ Price:GBP 925.00
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Volume I (‘The Origins and Meaning of Civilization’) is made up of the best work from a distinguished line-up of political scientists, philosophers, historians, sociologists, and linguists. It outlines the origins of the concept and its many and disputed meanings. This first volume establishes the foundations on which much of the analysis included in the three subsequent volumes is based. Volume II (‘Civilization, Civilizations, Progress, and History’) includes a range of materials that intimately outline the relationship between the ideal of civilization and the idea of progress, including progress in the social, cultural, moral, scientific, and political realms. Research gathered here further examines how the concepts of civilization and progress in turn relate to the more general passage of history, particularly the idea of history with a purpose. Volume III (‘Civilization and its Others’) brings together the best scholarship to explore what civilization is not. The scholarship collected here comes from some of history’s most distinguished political scientists, leading international lawyers, anthropologists, and controversial ethnologists. Can one, for example, usefully draw a distinction between civilized, savage, and barbarian peoples? The final volume (‘Civilizational Relations: Past, Present, and Future’) enables researchers and students to navigate through the equally sensitive field of historical and contemporary relations between the world’s major civilizations or religio-cultural groups. It includes the catalysts of debates such as ‘the clash-of-civilizations thesis’ and the responses it has provoked. |
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Encyclopedia of Blacks in European History and Culture, 2-Vols/Set. |
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Martone, Eric/ 9780313344480/ Price:GBP 137.95
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Blacks have played a significant part in European civilization since ancient times. This encyclopedia illuminates blacks in European history, literature, and popular culture. It emphasizes the considerable scope of black influence in, and contributions to, European culture. The first blacks arrived in Europe as slaves and later as laborers and soldiers, and black immigrants today along with others are transforming Europe into multicultural states. This indispensable set expands our knowledge of blacks in Western civilization.
More than 350 essay entries introduce students and other readers to the white European response to blacks in their countries, the black experiences and impact there, and the major interactions between Europe and Africa, the Caribbean, and the United States that resulted in the settling of blacks in Europe. The range of information presented is impressive, with entries on noted European political, literary, and cultural figures of black descent from ancient times to the present, major literary works that had a substantial impact on European perceptions of blacks, black holidays and festivals, the struggle for civil equality for blacks, the role and influence of blacks in contemporary European popular culture, black immigration to Europe, black European identity, and much more. Offered as well are entries on organizations that contributed to the development of black political and social rights in Europe, representations of blacks in European art and cultural symbols, and European intellectual and scientific theories on blacks. Individual entries on Britain, Spain, Portugal, France, Italy, Germany, the Netherlands, Russia, Central Europe, Scandinavia, and Eastern Europe include historical overviews of the presence and contributions of blacks and discussion of country's role in the African slave trade and abolition and its colonies in Africa and the Caribbean. Suggestions for further reading accompany each entry. A chronology, resource guide, and photos complement the text. |
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Palgrave Dictionary of Transnational History, The.: From the mid-19th century to the present day. |
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Iriye, Akira/ 9781403992956/ Price:GBP 220.00
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The Palgrave Dictionary of Transnational History is written by over 350 authors from 25 countries and numerous subject disciplines. They share the belief that modern world history must be understood, not simply as a sum of national histories or a chronical of inter-state affairs, but also as a story of connections and circulation, by people goods, ideas and skills. These are not always confined to any particular country or region of the world, nor are they identifiable with states or governments. The essence of history can only be fully understood by following the flows, ties and appropriations they trigger across borders. Even such familiar items as taxation, the Cold War or beauty take on fresh significance when they are viewed in the framework, not of national or international affairs but of transnational relations and interactions.
This unique volume provides scholars and students with an easy-to-use reference tool of over 400 entries to further their understanding of modern world history. |
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Computational Intelligence in Archaeology |
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Barcelo, Juan A./ 9781599044897/ Price:US$ 180.00
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The vast quantity of archaeological data coming from excavations is now well beyond the traditional data processing tools. Computational archaeology creates an exhaustive analysis of technical and analytical needs in the archaeological sciences.
Computational Intelligence in Archaeology provides analytical theories offered by new and innovative artificial intelligence computing methods in the archaeological domain. This stimulating, must-have title is full of archaeological examples that allow academicians, researchers, and students to understand a complex but very useful data analysis technique to the field of archaeology. |
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Berkshire Encyclopedia of China, 5-Vols/Set. |
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Cheng, Linsun/ 9780977015948/ Price:US$ 800.00
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The Berkshire Encyclopedia of China does much more than cover the history of China. It is specifically intended to help students and professionals who need to improve their knowledge of the arts, belief systems, business, communications, demographics, education, law and politics, minority groups, natural resources, regional and international relations, social welfare, and technology.
Within these categories, there are broad thematic essays, which serve as anchors or touchstones for the work as a whole, as well as short entries about the people, events, concepts, and material goods that are essential to understanding China. There are articles on important organizations and companies, as well as on sports, festivals, and other aspects of popular culture. And the encyclopedia brings up right up to the present, with information on blogging and Internet use, human rights, and overseas returnees (the "sea turtles"). It even looks to the future with articles on renewable energy and the 2010 World's Fair in Shanghai. |
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Cambridge History of Science, The.: Volume 6, The Modern Biological and Earth Sciences. |
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Bowler, Peter J./ 9780521572019/ Price:GBP 145.00
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This book in the highly respected Cambridge History of Science series is devoted to the history of the life and earth sciences since 1800. It provides comprehensive and authoritative surveys of historical thinking on major developments in these areas of science, on the social and cultural milieus in which the knowledge was generated, and on the wider impact of the major theoretical and practical innovations. The articles are written by acknowledged experts who provide concise accounts of the latest historical thinking coupled with guides to the most important recent literature. In addition to histories of traditional sciences, the book covers the emergence of newer disciplines such as genetics, biochemistry and geophysics. The interaction of scientific techniques with their practical applications in areas such as medicine is a major focus of the book, as is its coverage of controversial areas such as science and religion, and environmentalism.
• Comprehensive account of the history of the life and earth sciences • Authoritative surveys of historical thinking on science by expert authors • Introduction to the latest thinking in the history of science for readers seeking a basic understanding on which to build
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The Monuments Men: Allied Heroes, Nazi Thieves, and the Greatest Treasure Hunt in History. |
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Edsel, Robert M./ 9781599951492/ Price:US$ 27.00
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Jia You!(DVD) |
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Xu, Jialu/ 9789814232432/ Price:US$ 58.95
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China Highlights.(DVD) |
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MARC Working Papers #84: Index to Reverend Edmund J. Kalau Film Collecion. |
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Perry, Antonio/ MARC84/ Price:US$ 3.00
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Claiming Rights and Righting Wrongs in Texas: Mexican Workers and Job Politics during World War II. |
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Zamora, Emilio/ 9781603440974/ Price:US$ 27.95
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Philosophie des organischen: Gifford-vorlesungen gehalten an der Universitat Aberdeen in den Jahren 1907-1908. |
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Driesch, Hans/ 9781113450012/ Price:US$ 25.99
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Diary of the Parnell Commission. |
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Macdonald, John/ 9781117190761/ Price:US$ 26.99
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Bianca Cappello. |
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Steegmann, Mary/ 9781117701295/ Price:US$ 25.99
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The Traditional Text of the Holy Gospels Vindicated and Established. |
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Burgon, John W./ 9781116803273/ Price:US$ 24.99
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Turning Adversity to Advantage: A History of the Lipan Apaches of Texas and Northern Mexico, 1700-1900. |
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Minor, Nancy M./ 9780761848585/ Price:US$ 91.00
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Invented Knowledge: False History, Fake Science and Pseudo-Religions. |
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Fritze, Ronald H./ 9781861894304/ Price:GBP 19.95
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At once lively and authoritative, Ronald H. Fritze illuminates the phenomenon of false history by telling the story of a select group of pseudo-historical ideas. He explores legends such as the lost continent of Atlantis, and the original settlement of the Americas by a European people, who established a glorious civilization only to be supplanted by the invading ‘Red Indian’, and whose only remains are the many mounds scattered across the eastern United States. He also discusses the beliefs of more recent religious groups, such as the Nation of Islam and Christian Identity. Fritze shows that in spite of, or perhaps because of, the strongest rejections of mainstream historians, and the lack of scientific evidence, some of these ideas have proved very durable, and gained widespread acceptance in the public mind. Such ideas can also be deadly – the Nazis, for example, believed in a false version of European history in which the German people were a superior race destined to conquer the world.
With many diverting examples of spurious narrative, artificial chronology and ersatz theory, Invented Knowledge also unravels the disputes and debates surrounding controversial books such as 1421: The Year China Discovered America, Black Athena, The Holy Blood and The Holy Grail and The Da Vinci Code. |
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Dreams and Their Meanings. |
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Hutchinson, Horace G./ 9781113061003/ Price:US$ 32.99
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Not the Enemy: Israel's Jews from Arab Lands. |
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Shabi, Rachel/ 9780300122756/ Price:GBP 24.27
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The End is Nigh: A History of Natural Disasters. |
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Svensen, Henrik/ 9781861894335/ Price:GBP 16.95
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Presenting results from many scientific disciplines, including geology, anthropology and sociology, The End is Nigh at the same time reveals the personal stories of the victims of natural disasters. The result is as instructive as it is affecting, and will appeal to a wide general audience. |
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Manhood: The Rise and Fall of the Penis. |
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Mels van Driel/ 9781861895424/ Price:GBP 21.95
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The ancient Greeks paraded enormous sculptural replicas in annual celebration of the penis; Freud theorized that women suffered penis envy. An undeniable, global symbol of power and virility since the beginning of humankind, the penis has been much discussed, gestured towards, and depicted, yet seldom understood outside folklore and popular culture’s uneasy mix of self-deprecation and aggrandizement. Despite the penis’s central role in human life or perhaps due to that role, many men seem to suffer in isolation or silence from some perceived inadequacy or affliction. That’s where experienced urologist and sexologist Mels van Driel comes in. In Manhood he offers an unprecedented history of the penis – with answers to everything you ever wanted to know, and even some questions you’d never thought to ask.
In Manhood, van Driel presents the history of the male sexual organ from medical, psychological and cultural perspectives. Investigating the penis and its functions, from the scrotum to the glans, van Driel’s work ranges from inguinal hernia to infertility, and from impotence to the speed of ejaculation. Psychological factors that have an impact on sexual experience, as well as contemporary phenomena such as cyber sex, are given enlightening treatment along the way. |
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Contested Objects: Material Memories of the Great War. |
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Saunders, Nicholas J./ 9780415450706/ Price:GBP 130.00
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The American Pageant. |
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Kennedy, David M./ 9780547166544/ Price:US$ 289.95
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THE AMERICAN PAGEANT enjoys a reputation as one of the most popular, effective, and entertaining texts in American history. The colorful anecdotes, first-person quotations, and trademark wit bring American history to life. The 14th edition places an even greater emphasis on the global context of American history through a new feature, "Thinking Globally." Revised primary source features excite student interest and help them learn to examine documents the way historians do. Additional pedagogical features make THE AMERICAN PAGEANT accessible to students: part openers and chapter-ending chronologies provide a context for the major periods in American history, while other features present primary sources, scholarly debates, and key historical figures for analysis.
Part I: FOUNDING THE NEW NATION, C. 33,000 B.C.-A.D. 1783.
Part II: BUILDING THE NEW NATION, 1776-1860.
Part III: TESTING THE NEW NATION, 1820-1877.
Part IV: FORGING AN INDUSTRIAL SOCIETY, 1869-1909.
Part V: STRUGGLING FOR JUSTICE AT HOME AND ABROAD, 1900-1945.
Part VI: MAKING MODERN AMERICA, 1945 TO THE PRESENT.
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The Communal Gadfly: Jews, British Jews and the Jewish State: Asking the Subversive Questions. |
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Alderman, Geoffrey/ 9781934843468/ Price:US$ 35.00
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Pursuit of an "Unparalleled Opportunity": The American YMCA and Prisoner-of-War Diplomacy among the Central Power Nations during World War I, 1914-1923. |
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Steuer, Kenneth A./ 9780231130288/ Price:US$ 70.00
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Marranos on the Moradas: Secret Jews and Penitentes in the Southwestern United States from 1590 to 1890. |
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Simms, Norman/ 9781934843321/ Price:US$ 129.00
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Cultural Revolutions: The Politics of Everyday Life in Britain, North America and France. |
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Auslander, Leora/ 9781845202606/ Price:GBP 70.00
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The revolutions in the United States, France and England ushered in the modern political age. Cultural Revolutions analyzes the place of material culture, ritual, and everyday life during these revolutions, providing a fresh and engaging discourse on the way in which the minds of the masses were transformed from monarchism to republicanism.
The author shows how, faced with the challenge of persuading large populations to alter their previously inscribed sets of ideas, revolutionaries in all three countries turned to the power of aesthetics. From the banning of dancing in Cromwell's England, to the 'homespun' clothing of Revolutionary America, to France's new calendar and naming systems, Auslander assesses how daily habits and tastes were altered in the interests of political change. |
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Portugal in European and World History. |
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Newitt, Malyn/ 9781861895196/ Price:GBP 29.00
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Portugal is a country that has sometimes been dismissed as small and relatively unimportant. Portugal in European and World History, however, demonstrates that the contrary is true, showing that Portugal has been crucial to the development of Europe and the modern world. Spanning many centuries, from early Moorish times to the Atlantic Empire; the English Alliance of 1650–1900; African colonies; the Salazar regime; and the country’s liberal revolution in 1974, Malyn Newitt offers a fresh appraisal of Portuguese history and its role in the world. |
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The Arab-Israeli Conflict: A History. |
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Bickerton, Ian J./ 9781861895271/ Price:GBP 24.00
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In concise and clear prose, Bickerton argues that the present problem can be traced to the fact that each side is trapped by visions of their past from which they seem unable to break free. This attachment and reaction to history has negatively influenced the decision-making of Arabs and Israelis since 1948. Ultimately, Bickerton insists that the use of armed force has not, and will not, resolve the issues that have divided Israelis and Arabs.
The Arab-Israeli Conflict is a plea for reasoned diplomacy in a situation that has been dominated by extreme violence. This book will appeal to a wide general audience seeking a balanced understanding of this enduring struggle that still dominates headlines. |
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Europe Since the Seventies. |
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Black, Jeremy/ 9781861894243/ Price:GBP 15.95
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Europe since the Seventies gives full treatment to environmental, demographic and cultural issues, alongside political, societal and economic matters, as well as taking in subjects such as crime, migration and transport. Jeremy Black reveals how European society has changed markedly since 1970: former mappings of the elements of society, based on economic activity and opportunity and understood in terms of class, have given way to issues of identity – notably questions of gender, but also sexual orientation, race and consumerism. Europe has expanded its frontiers and the European Union has become a testing ground for all manner of aspirations.
A timely, readable and cogent account, this latest volume from eminent historian Jeremy Black illuminates today’s Europe through the lens of recent history. |
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DOOMED TO REPEAT? Terrorism and the Lessons of History. |
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Brawley, Sean/ 9780981865492/ Price:US$ 28.00
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Detecting the Bomb: The Role of Seismology in the Cold War. |
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Romney, Carl/ 9780981865430/ Price:US$ 44.00
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The 1969 Miracle Mets: The Improbable Story of the World's Greatest Underdog Team. |
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Travers, Steven/ 9781599214108/ Price:US$ 24.95
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A Man Called Intrepid: The Incredible WWII Narrative of the Hero Whose Spy Network and Secret Diplomacy Changed the Course of History. |
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Stevenson, William/ 9781599211701/ Price:US$ 19.95
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Flags of the Fifty States: Their Colorful Histories and Significance. |
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Howe, Randy/ 9781599218243/ Price:US$ 18.95
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U.S. Army Zombie Combat Skills. |
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Louison, Cole/ 9781599219097/ Price:US$ 14.95
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Jim Crow Encyclopedia, The., 2-Vols/Set. |
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Brown, Nikki L.M./ 9780313341816/ Price:GBP 155.95
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"Jim Crow" refers to a set of laws in many states, predominantly in the South, after the end of Reconstruction in 1877 that severely restricted the rights and privileges of African Americans. As a caste system of enormous social and economic magnitude, the institutionalization of Jim Crow was the most significant element in African American life until the 1960s Civil Rights Movement led to its dismantling. Racial segregation, as well as responses to it and resistance against it, dominated the African American consciousness and continued to oppress African Americans and other minorities, while engendering some of the most important African American contributions to society. This major encyclopedia is the first devoted to the Jim Crow era. The era is encapsulated through more than 275 essay entries on such areas as law, media, business, politics, employment, religion, education, people, events, culture, the arts, protest, the military, class, housing, sports, and violence as well as through accompanying key primary documents excerpted as side bars. This set will serve as an invaluable, definitive resource for student research and general knowledge. |
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Race Relations in the United States, 1980-2000. |
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Messer-Kruse, Timothy/ 9780313343117/ Price:US$ 70.00
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Race Relations in the United States, 1900-1920. |
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McClymer, John F./ 9780313339356/ Price:US$ 70.00
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Icons of the American West, 2-Vols/Set. |
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Bakken, Gordon Morris/ 9780313341489/ Price:GBP 120.95
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The American West is rich in lore, cultural roots, and iconic images. The subject of countless movies, books, and songs, in many ways it embodies the American spirit. This lively two-volume set presents the stories of some of the most influential and representative Western icons--those that have captured the nation's imagination since the early days of westward exploration and that continue to do so within the environmental and technological frontier that is the modern West. This accessible treatment of the untamed enterprise of the 'Old West'--including cowboys, wild west shows, and gun battles--and the continued entrepreneurial imagination of the paradisical 'New West'--including environmentalists and the incorporation of national parks--elevates the reader's understanding of oft-romanticized subjects and the conflicts and cultural changes that made them icons. |
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Rise of the Wehrmacht, The., 2-Vols/Set. |
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Mitcham, Samuel W./ 9780275996413/ Price:GBP 107.00
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The Rise of the Wehrmacht is the first comprehensive work to deal with the German war effort in World War II from this point of view. Its uniqueness lies in the fact that it covers the entire war effort from the point of view of the German military that actually conducted and fought the war, something that has never been done before on this scale. Excellent books have been written about the German Army, Navy, the Luftwaffe, and the SS, as well as about the Panzer branch, the parachute arm, the U-Boat forces, etc., but this is the first to cover them all in depth.
Mitcham also covers the German Wehrkreise (roughly translated as "military district") system in depth and recognizes its importance, both in the formation and expansion of the German Army before the war and in its continuing importance throughout the conflict. He deals with the German rearmament in greater depth and detail than has been done before, points out the importance of the police in the development of Germany's reserves before and during World War II, and offers new insights into the evolution and development of the German military doctrine of Kesselschlact (the decisive battle of encirclement and annihilation). In addition, The Rise of the Wehrmacht explains the problems the Wehrmacht faced because of its "too rapid" expansion. This expansion was far more rapid than the German generals intended and resulted in many problems, especially in terms of equipment shortages and a shortage of qualified officers. Finally, Mitcham addresses the contributions of the Hitler Youth to the war effort, where their work on farms, fire and rescue crews, in nursing, and as postal workers, for example, provided essential services to German infrastructure. |
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Oxford Encyclopedia of the Modern World: 1750 to the Present, 8-Vols/Set. |
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Stearns, Peter N./ 9780195176322/ Price:US$ 1255.00
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The Encyclopedia of the Modern World delves into the period from 1750 to the present, providing special attention to social, economic, cultural and political topics applicable to the time.
The breadth of knowledge offered within this multivolume set is astounding, with features spanning articles on countries, regions, and ethnic groups; themes involving social history, demography, family life, politics, economics, religion, thought, education, science and technology, and culture; events such as major wars; and extensive coverage of the United States. Detailed articles cover not only the major facts but the interpretations as well and are written for readers who are not specialists in the particular area. Enriched with over 800 halftones and 50 maps, this reference work is essential for any scholar, general reader, collector or curator interested in this rich and varied time in history.
Through its fluent global coverage The Encyclopedia of Modern World provides information about and interpretation of major developments across particular regionsboth salient events and regional perspectives on common themes such as politics, demography, social class, and gender. Readers can explore topics that have global implications, such as migration, childhood, and foods, topics that can be viewed through a combination of global patterns and key comparisons. Entries also shed light on standard geographic and ethnic units, such as Scandinavia, Korea, or the Gypsies, in the modern period. The Encyclopedia presents unprecedented coverage of global processes and institutions themselves including the International Red Cross, and the League of Nations. All readers alike will benefit from the vast outpouring on world history in the modern period all captured within this convenient resource. |
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Crusades, The., 4-Vols/Set. |
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Jotischky, Andrew/ 9780415401074/ Price:GBP 875.00
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The Crusades is an area of rapidly expanding interest. Students increasingly see an understanding of the roots of religious violence and of interaction between Christian and Islamic cultures as a critical tool for citizenship in the modern world. This is borne out by the large number of general books written on crusading, from 'popular' narrative histories to more academic analyses. Not even the best general survey, however, can afford the level of detailed argument based on careful analysis of evidence that can be presented in a more narrowly focused article or essay. This collection makes available a group of carefully selected articles which, taken together, develop themes and problematics in crusading history.
Articles include the papal reform movement, the development of a theory of holy war, the Reconquista in Spain, the theology of penance, pilgrimage and devotion to the Holy Land, the Seljuqs and the political dynamics of the Near East in the late 11th century, military and logistical technologies in crusading, the Islamic response under Nur ad-Din and Saladin and the fall of Jerusalem in 1187, the fall of the Ayyubid dynasty and the rise of the Mamluks, the emergence of the Mongols, the kingdom of Cyprus, the fall of the Crusader States 1260s-1291, crusading in the later Middle Ages, the treatment of indigenous peoples under western rule, the development of crusader visual culture in the east, church building, castles, settlement patterns and the economy of the crusader states.
Comprehensively indexed and with an introduction by the editor, a leading expert in the field, The Crusades is a key work of reference destined to be an essential research and teaching resource. |
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China and Southest Asia, 6-Vols/Set. |
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The regions that we know today as Southeast Asia and China have, for millennia, been linked together through a diverse range of political, economic and social interactions. From the earliest days the two regions have been tied by commercial interaction, human movement and political aspirations, and have been woven together by technological and cultural interflows. These interactions have also of course seen ebbs and flows as a result of successive political changes and economic pressures. It is these historical relationships that form the basis upon which contemporary China-Southeast Asian relations are today being built. Understanding the historical patterns, the commercial linkages, the changes in empires, the pressures to migrate and the other exigencies that conditioned these relations will help us all understand the changes now going on in interactions between China and Southeast Asia, which are some of the most dynamic in the world today.
Volume I: Introduction and History to the Fourteenth Century
Volume II: Southeast Asia and Ming China (Fourteenth – Seventeenth Centuries)
Volume III: Southeast Asia and Qing China (Seventeenth Century – Mid-Nineteenth Century)
Volume IV: Interactions from the End of the Nineteenth Century to 1912
Volume V: The Republican Period and Southeast Asia (1912–1949)
Volume VI: The People’s Republic of China and Southeast Asia
Providing a guided survey of the most important works that have examined the relations between China and Southeast Asia, this six-volume collection is undoubtedly a key resource for those studying this fascinating field. |
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U.S. Presidents and Latin American Interventions: Pursuing Regime Change in the Cold War. |
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Michael Grow/ 9780700618880/ Price:US$ 24.95
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Visible Cities: Canton, Nagasaki, and Batavia and the Coming of the Americans. |
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Blusse, Leonard/ 9780674026148/ Price:US$ 34.00
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Workers of the World: Essays toward a Global Labor History. |
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Marcel Van Der Linden/ 9789004166837/ Price:EUR 174.00
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Bisita Guam: Let Us Remember Nihi Ta Hasso: Rembmbrances of the Occupation Years in World War II. |
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Blaz, Ben/ 9780966523836/ Price:US$ 12.50
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Barbarism and Religion, Vol 4: Barbarians, Savages and Empires. |
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Pocock, J. G. A./ 9780521721011/ Price:GBP 29.99
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The Posthumous Career of Emiliano Zapata: Myth, Memory, and Mexico's Twentieth Century. |
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Brunk, Samuel/ 9780292718500/ Price:US$ 34.95
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Voices of Emancipation: Understanding Slavery, the Civil War, and Reconstruction through the U.S. Pension Bureau Files. |
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Regosin, Elizabeth A./ 9780814775868/ Price:US$ 89.00
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Rural Resistance in the Land of Zapata: The Jaramillista Movement and the Myth of the Pax Priista, 1940-1962. |
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Padilla, Tanalis/ 9780822343196/ Price:US$ 26.95
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French War Brides in America: An Oral History. |
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Kaiser, Hilary/ 9780275993986/ Price:GBP 33.00
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Controversy and Crisis: Studies in the History of the Jews in Modern Britain. |
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Alderman, Geoffrey/ 9781934843222/ Price:US$ 75.00
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Los Sabios Del Antiguo Egipto. |
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Jacq, Christian/ 9788497347310/ Price:EUR 23.00
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The Last Campaign: Robert F. Kennedy and 82 Days That Inspired America. |
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Clarke, Thurston/ 9780805077926/ Price:US$ 25.00
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The Impact of Irish-Ireland on Young Poland, 1890-1919. |
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Merchant, John A./ 9780880336239/ Price:US$ 50.00
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When Asia Was the World. |
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Gordon, Stewart/ 9780306815560/ Price:US$ 26.00
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The Age of Impeachment: American Constitutional Culture Since 1960. |
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Kyvig, David E./ 9780700615810/ Price:US$ 55.00
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Drawing the Line at the Big Ditch: The Panama Canal Treaties and the Rise of the Right. |
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Clymer, Adam/ 9780700615827/ Price:US$ 34.95
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Grace Coolidge: The People's Lady in Silent Cal's White House. |
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Ferrell, Robert H./ 9780700615636/ Price:US$ 29.95
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The Flash Press: Sporting Male Weeklies in 1840s New York. |
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Cohen, Patricia C./ 9780226112343/ Price:US$ 20.00
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Slaves and Other Objects. |
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duBois, Page/ 9780226167893/ Price:US$ 33.00
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Battleground Chicago: The Police and the 1968 Democratic National Convention. |
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Kusch, Frank/ 9780226465036/ Price:US$ 26.00
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Memoirs of a Fortunate Jew: An Italian Story. |
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Segre, Dan V./ 9780226744773/ Price:US$ 17.00
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History of the Central Brooks Range: Gaunt Beauty, Tenuous Life. |
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Brown, William E./ 9781602230095/ Price:US$ 24.95
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Alutiiq Villages under Russian and U. S. Rule. |
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Luehrmann, Sonja/ 9781602230101/ Price:US$ 45.00
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Useful Bodies: Humans in the Service of Medical Science in the Twentieth Century. |
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Goodman, Jordan/ 9780801889684/ Price:US$ 28.00
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God in La Mancha: Religious Reform and the People of Cuenca, 1500-1650. |
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Nalle, Sara T./ 9780801888540/ Price:US$ 35.00
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Phyllis Schlafly and Grassroots Conservatism. |
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Critchlow, Donald T./ 9780691136240/ Price:US$ 37.50
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To the End of the Earth: A History of the Crypto-Jews of New Mexico. |
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Hordes, Stanley M./ 9780231129374/ Price:US$ 35.00
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Harvest of Despair: Life and Death in Ukraine under Nazi Rule. |
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Berkhoff, Karel C./ 9780674027183/ Price:US$ 32.50
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Americans All: The Cultural Gifts Movement. |
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Selig, Diana/ 9780674028296/ Price:US$ 59.50
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American Indian Lacrosse: Little Brother of War. |
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Vennum, Thomas/ 9780801887642/ Price:US$ 32.00
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Venice, Cita Excelentissima: Selections from the Renaissance Diaries of Marin Sanudo. |
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Labalme, Patricaia H./ 9780801887659/ Price:US$ 57.00
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Eddie Rickenbacker: An American Hero in the Twentieth Century. |
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Lewis, W. D./ 9780801889721/ Price:US$ 33.00
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In Therapy We Trust: America's Obsession with Self-Fulfillment. |
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Moskowitz, Eva S./ 9780801889745/ Price:US$ 27.00
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California Earthquakes: Science, Risk, and the Politics of Hazard Mitigation. |
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Geschwind, Carl-Henry/ 9780801889769/ Price:US$ 32.00
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Rivers and Sites. |
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China was an agrarian society during medieval times, and harnessing rivers played an important role in sustaining social development. A Compendium on Harnessing Rivers, which was completed in the 42nd year of Emperor Kangxi's reign (1703), contains a large number of valuable pictures compiled and edited by Zhang Penghe, the governor-general in charge of rivers. The book also contains maps of various rivers drawn by anonymous artists. They record the vicissitudes of rivers and areas along the banks while at the same time realistically tracing the shapes of city walls, places of historical interest, and beauty spots along the rivers.
As a mother river of the Chinese nation, the Yellow River has always been the focus of much attention, resulting in more ancient Chinese maps of this river than any other in China. This book collects many maps of the Yellow River made during the late Qing period, most of which also record in writing the dates of the crevasse and the closure of a certain section of the river and the deployment of soldiers guarding it. A Complete Map of the Yellow River within Shandong, A Map of the Yellow River within the Whole Province of Shandong, A Concise Complete Map of the Yellow River within Shandong are among the maps presented in this book. Other maps available include Maps of the Rivers under Baoding Prefecture, Maps of the Rivers under Zhengding Prefecture, and Maps of the Rivers under the Five Prefectures of Zhili-Ji, Zhao, Shen, Ding, and Yi.
In addition, there are three maps of historical interest: Maps of His Majesty's Temporary Dwelling Palaces on His Return Journey, Maps of Dagu Batteries, and Illustrations of Wendeng, Weihai, and Other Historical Sites. |
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Old Manchu Capital. |
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For nearly 30 years before the Qing forces captured Shanhaiguan, Liaoning had been the political center of the early-Qing government. Moreover, Liaoning was the "rising land of the dragon" where the ancestors of Qing emperors were buried, therefore, the imperial court attached great importance to the administration and development of Liaoning.
This title, compiled by Liaoning Provincial Library, is translated from the original Chinese edition, consists of 500-plus photographs and paintings about the organizational system of the Liaoning area, its war relics, religious temples, culture, and education during the Qing Dynasty. |
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Manchurian Railway. |
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A Pictorial Record of the Qing Dynasty - Manchurian Railway records the early stage of the Manchurian Railway (1906-1911), covering its operations along the railway and in its accessory lands. Consisting of 500 photographs taken from Lushun Museum's special archive on the Manchurian Railway, the book provides first-hand resources for studying the history of Japan's invasion of China dating from the late Qing Dynasty.
After winning the Russo-Japanese War, the Japanese founded the Southern Manchurian Railway Corporation to build a railway system based on the former Russian- owned railway. Centered on Dalian, the railway extended to many parts of northeastern China. At the same time, the corporation also initiated a large-scale development of mineral mines, ports, towns, and villages along the railway. Originally taken to build up the archive for the Manchurian Railway Investigation Department, all the photographs collected in the book are clearly dated, information-packed, and of exceptional academic value. |
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Business Documents. |
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A Pictorial Record of the Qing Dynasty - Business Documents, the first title of the series, compiled by the Tianjin Municipal Archives, is a marvelous catalogue of various business documents. It contains full-color photographs with informative description, including names of business firms and registration dates. This one volume is the first of the four titles in the Pictorial Record of the Qing Dynasty series, covering trademarks, business firm seals, contracts, bills, stamps, etc. from the mid-19th century through 1911. This book makes invaluable reference for historical study on business documents during the Qing Dynasty. |
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Pancake: A Global History. |
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Albala, Ken/ 9781861893925/ Price:GBP 10.99
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Pancake traverses over centuries and civilizations to examine the culinary and cultural importance of pancakes in human history. From the Russian blini to the Ethiopian injera, Albala reveals how pancakes have been a perennial source of sustenance from the Greek and Roman eras to the Middle Ages through to the present day. He explores how the pancake has gained symbolic currency in diverse societies as a comfort food, a portable victual for travellers, a celebratory dish and a breakfast meal. The book also features a number of historic and modern recipes – tracing the first official pancake recipe to a sixteenth-century Dutch book – and is accompanied by a rich selection of illustrations. |
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Cuba in Revolution: A History Since the Fifties. |
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Kapcia, Antoni/ 9781861894021/ Price:GBP 19.95
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Kapcia’s history takes the Cuban Revolution as its starting point, analysing the process of social revolution, its benefits and disadvantages, popular participation in the revolution and the development of its ideology. Kapcia probes Castro’s rapid rise to national leader, exploring his politics of defence and dissent as well as his contentious relationship with the USA from the beginning of his reign. The book also considers the evolution of the revolution’s international profile and Cuba’s foreign relations over the years, investigating issues and events such as the Bay of Pigs crisis, Cuban relations with Communist nations like Russia and China, and the flight of asylum-seeking Cubans to Florida over the decades. The collapse of the Soviet Union between 1989 and 1991 catalysed a severe economic and political crisis in Cuba, but Cuba was surprisingly resilient in the face of the catastrophe, Kapcia notes, and he examines the strategies adopted by Cuba over the last two decades in order to survive America’s longstanding trade embargo.
A fascinating and much-needed examination of a country that has served as an important political symbol and diplomatic enigma for the twentieth century, Cuba in Revolution is a critical primer for all those interested in Cuba’s past – or concerned with its future. |
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Unintended Consequences: The United States at War. |
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Hagan, Kenneth J./ 9781861894090/ Price:GBP 14.95
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In Unintended Consequences Ian J. Bickerton and Kenneth J. Hagan describe and analyse the unintended consequences of ten major wars fought by the United States, pointing out critical turning points in the conflicts and the remarkable similarity of dilemmas that followed the conclusion of hostilities. The effect is to demonstrate that the unintended consequences of the wars not only outweighed the intended consequences in shaping subsequent events, they produced sharp and significant shifts in United States foreign, military and domestic policy. Most wars embarked upon by the United States when measured against this criterion were not only catastrophic and destructive, they were avoidable, unnecessary and unpredictable in outcome. |
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The Sovietization of Eastern Europe: New Perspectives on the Postwar Period. |
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Apor, Balazs/ 9780980081466/ Price:US$ 28.00
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This collection of essays offers a captivating reading on how East-Central Europe was transformed into the 'Other' Europe. It is the first attempt to systematically explore the sovietization process in Central and Eastern Europe after the Second World War. Sovietization is generally understood in the book as a process with a dual dimension: it was in part an imperial project whereby the Soviet system was exported to the region, but it was also an attempt by the governments of the "people's democracies" to adopt a Soviet way of life (self-sovietization). |
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From the Holy Land to the New Jerusalem. |
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Grenke, Arthur/ 9780978771379/ Price:US$ 20.00
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The Road to Independence?: Scotland since the Sixties. |
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Pittock, Murray/ 9781861893659/ Price:GBP 20.00
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The Road to Independence? is the only history of Scotland available with a truly contemporary focus. In dealing with everything from modern painting to political structures it is remarkably comprehensive; in explaining the rise of modern nationalism it is of fundamental importance to policymakers and the wider public. It will be of interest to students of politics, history, law and social science, and to all who want to understand the rapidly changing face of Britain. |
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The Wolves at the Door: The True Story of America's Greatest Female Spy. |
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Pearson, Judith L./ 9781599210728/ Price:US$ 15.95
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Fugitives of the Forest: The Heroic Story of Jewish Resistance and Survival During the Second World War. |
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Levine, Allan/ 9781599214962/ Price:US$ 26.95
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Long Rifle: A Sniper's Story in Iraq and Afghanistan. |
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LeBleu, Joe/ 9781599214405/ Price:US$ 16.95
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The Pirate Code: From Honorable Thieves to Modern-Day Villains. |
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Lewis, Brenda Ralph/ 9781599214559/ Price:US$ 19.95
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The Quotable American Civil War. |
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Martin, Iain C./ 9781599213408/ Price:US$ 14.95
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The Seven Worlds of Theodore Roosevelt. |
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Wagenknecht, Edward/ 9781599214931/ Price:US$ 19.95
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The Sledge Patrol: A WWII Epic of Escape, Survival, and Victory. |
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Howarth, David/ 9781599213224/ Price:US$ 16.95
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Two Survived: The Timeless WWII Epic of Seventy Days at Sea in an Open Boat. |
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Jones, Guy Pearce/ 9781599214306/ Price:US$ 16.95
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Two Tankers Down: The Greatest Small-Boat Rescue in U.S. Coast Guard History. |
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Frump, Robert/ 9781599213378/ Price:US$ 16.95
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Brady's Civil War: A Collection of Memorable Civil War Images Photographed by Matthew Brady and His Assistants. |
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Garrison, Webb/ 9781599213156/ Price:US$ 40.00
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A Brief History of History: Great Historians and the Epic Quest to Explain the Past. |
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Wells, Colin/ 9781599211220/ Price:US$ 27.95
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Classic American Locomotives: The 1909 Classic on Steam Locomotive Technology. |
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McShane, Charles/ 9781599214795/ Price:US$ 22.95
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Making the Cut: How Cosmetic Surgery is Transforming Our Lives. |
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Elliott, Anthony/ 9781861893710/ Price:GBP 14.95
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Botox injections, tummy tucks, breast implants, nose jobs: What would we give to look as alluring as supermodels or movie stars? The role of cosmetic surgery in fuelling our desires for ideal bodies has transformed what was previously a narcissistic extravagance for the wealthy into a possibility for everyday people. With Making the Cut, Anthony Elliott takes a closer look at the booming trend of cosmetic surgery, exploring its impact on modern society and how it defines the way we see ourselves today.
Initially developed during the early twentieth century in response to disfigurements suffered by soldiers in war, cosmetic surgery has become an international industry stretching from Brazil to Thailand, and Making the Cut investigates the sociological factors in contemporary society that drive its growing popularity. Elliott explores the role of consumerism in surgical culture, examining the influence and social pressures exerted by the media through advertisements, popular television programmes and celebrity magazines. Also featured are interviews with patients from the United States, Australia, Asia and Europe, in which Elliott probes their practical and psychological reasons for getting cosmetic surgery – and what it means for their consumer identities. He ultimately argues that our daily lives are shaped by a fear of disposability and held in thrall to immediacy where surgical enhancements to the body are fundamental to new forms of self-improvement. |
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The Nordic Model: Scandinavia since 1945. |
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Hilson, Mary/ 9781861893666/ Price:GBP 20.00
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For a sparsely populated region on the edge of Europe, Scandinavia has attracted an unusual degree of interest during the twentieth century. The successes and failures of the famous 'Scandinavian' or 'Nordic' model in politics and policy continue to generate debate. The Nordic Model advocates a government-funded welfare state, an egalitarian tax system and strict job regulation. In this book respected historian of Scandinavia Mary Hilson provides a welcome addition to the literature on the Nordic model by examining in detail its main historical influences, and the ways in which it has changed over time.
Covering all five Nordic countries: Denmark, Finland, Iceland, Norway and Sweden, the book includes chapters on economic development, politics and government, foreign policy and the welfare state, as well as a more general account of the cultural meanings that have accrued to Scandinavia in the twentieth century. The implications of recent developments for the continued coherence of the region are assessed, in particular the European dimension, and the re-emergence of the Baltic Sea as a potential regional focus. This book will appeal to students of the region as well as to general readers with an interest in Scandinavia. |
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African Military History. |
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Lamphear, John/ 9780754625216/ Price:GBP 250.00
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This collection of essays on pre-colonial sub-Saharan African military history is drawn from a number of academic journals and includes some which are considered milestones in African historiographical discourse, as well as others which, while lesser known, provide remarkable insight into the unique nature of African military history. Selections were made so as to produce an introduction to the understudied field of pre-colonial African military history that will be useful to specialists and non-specialists alike. The volume also contains an introduction which presents one of the first significant reviews of pre-colonial African military historiography ever attempted. |
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Race Relations in the United States, 1960-1980. |
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Upchurch, Thomas Adams/ 9780313341717/ Price:US$ 70.00
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Encyclopedia of the Age of Imperialism, 1800-1914, 2-Vols/Set. |
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Hodge, Carl Cavanagh/ 9780313334047/ Price:GBP 155.95
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In 1800, Europeans governed about one-third of the world's land surface; by the start of World War I in 1914, Europeans had imposed some form of political or economic ascendancy on over 80 percent of the globe. The basic structure of global and European politics in the twentieth century was fashioned in the previous century out of the clash of competing imperial interests and the effects, both beneficial and harmful, of the imperial powers on the societies they dominated. This encyclopedia offers current, detailed information on the major world powers of the nineteenth century and their global empires, as well as on the people, events, and ideas, both European and non-European, that shaped the Age of Imperialism.
Besides over 800 clearly written and highly informative entries, the encyclopedia includes primary documents, a chronology, and extensive introductory essay, a bibliography, a guide to related topics, and a series of useful maps.
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Dictionary of Genocide, 2-Vols/Set. |
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Totten, Samuel/ 9780313329678/ Price:GBP 137.95
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Over 600 terms identify and explain the history and suffering of ethnic and religious groups experiencing genocide throughout the world. The people, places, governments, agencies, documents, legal terms, and all other aspects of genocide are defined for new students and scholars alike. |
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Encyclopedia of World War II, 2-Vols/Set. |
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Axelrod, Alan/ 9780816060221/ Price:US$ 150.00
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World War II, the largest and deadliest conflict in human history, is widely considered the pivotal event of the modern age. From the rise of fascist Europe to the atomic bombings of Japan, Encyclopedia of World War II presents the complete story of this great conflict. International in scope, this two-volume A-to-Z reference covers the military, historical, political, diplomatic, and biographical aspects of the war. |
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Encyclopedia of Historic Places, 3-Vols/Set. |
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Lemberg, David S./ 9780816053445/ Price:US$ 300.00
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The three-volume Encyclopedia of Historic Places, Revised Edition identifies and provides fascinating background information on cities, towns, districts, territories, and nations around the world. With more than 9,000 A-to-Z entries and a full-color insert in each volume, this revised set is much more comprehensive and colorful than the previous edition. In addition to current place names, this encyclopedia also has a substantial listing of ancient and classical places that are no longer in existence.
There have been many changes in the geography of the world over the past 25 years, including the fall of the Berlin Wall, the collapse of the Soviet Union, and the birth of the European Union, to name a few. All of these changes, and many more, have been updated in this new edition to make the information as current as possible. The revision also includes new entries from every region of the world, with an added emphasis on how industry and technology have changed the geography of the modern world. |
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The Second World War, Volume VII: Alliance Politics and Grand Strategy. |
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Black, Jeremy/ 9780754626497/ Price:GBP 140.00
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The Second World War, Volume VI: Causes and Background. |
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Black, Jeremy/ 9780754626527/ Price:GBP 155.00
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The Second World War, Volume V: The Holocaust. |
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Black, Jeremy/ 9780754626466/ Price:GBP 155.00
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The Second World War, Volume IV: The Home Fronts. |
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Black, Jeremy/ 9780754626435/ Price:GBP 150.00
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The Second World War, Volume III: The Japanese War 1941-1945. |
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Black, Jeremy/ 9780754626404/ Price:GBP 260.00
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The Second World War, Volume II: The German War 1943-1945. |
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Black, Jeremy/ 9780754626374/ Price:GBP 145.00
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The Second World War, Volume I: The German War 1939-1942. |
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Black, Jeremy/ 9780754626343/ Price:GBP 170.00
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Second World War, The., 7-Vols/Set. |
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Black, Jeremy/ 9780754627319/ Price:GBP 1450.00
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World War II defined the 20th century and shaped the contemporary world; from the decolonization of Africa to the rise and fall of the Berlin Wall. This comprehensive series, edited by one of the worlds leading military historians, offers a focused overview of this complex and volatile era, taking into account the political, economic and social factors, as well as military circumstances of the road to war and its consequences. Augmented by a full length and detailed introduction by the editor, each volume gathers together the seminal articles on specific arenas of the war, providing a convenient and elegant tool for researchers and general readers alike. |
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Times Complete History of the World. |
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Overy, Richard/ 9780007259274/ Price:GBP 75.00
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From cavemen to the Cold War, from Alexander the Great to global warming, from warfare through the ages to the great voyages of exploration, The Times Complete History of the World is the book that has all the answers, the detail and the authoritative text in one breathtaking single historical source.
With over 600 full-colour maps and charts on a wide range of historical subjects and representing the work of a team of professional historians, this new edition continues a tradition of nearly thirty years of excellence, style, authority and cutting-edge design.
This edition is internet-linked, permitting further in-depth exploration of key subjects.
With fully up-to-date text, including material on Iraq and Afghanistan, terrorism, Israel and the EU, this book, edited by leading modern historian Professor Richard Overy, is broad-ranging and more visually enticing than ever. |
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Chambers's Information for the People, by William and Robert Chambers, 2-Vols/Set. |
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Matsunaga, Toshio/ 9784902454130/ Price:GBP 700.00
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●以雜誌「Edinburgh Journal」及『Book of Days』等著名的維多利亞時期的出版者Chambers兄弟，以高階層讀者群為目標出版了這本參考書，在當時極為暢銷
●在明治初期日本的西化扮演了很重要的角色，是日本文部省翻譯的『百科全書』的原書
●「歷史」「思想」「教育」「經濟」「政治」「文學」「自然」等領域的「知識寶庫」 |
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Britain and Russia in Central Asia, 1880-1907, 6-Vols/Set. |
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Ewans, Martin/ 9780415403696/ Price:GBP 325.00
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Britain and Russia in Central Asia, 1880–1907 is the third in a series of collections of books and documents on the relationship between Britain and Russia in Central Asia during the nineteenth century. The previous sets have covered the periods 1800–42 (The Great Game: Britain and Russia in Central Asia), and 1842–80 (Great Power Rivalry in Central Asia).
The period covered by the present collection is notable for a major crisis centred on the northern frontier of Afghanistan, which in 1885 brought the two empires to the verge of war. During the 1890s, attention switched to the Pamirs and Tibet. Early in the twentieth century, however, both powers found themselves seriously overextended, both militarily and financially, Britain primarily on account of the Boer War and Russia by the war with Japan. The outcome was a convention covering Persia, Afghanistan and Tibet, concluded in 1907. While this did not remove tension in the region altogether, no significant confrontation subsequently occurred. |
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Celtic World, The., 4-Vols/Set. |
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Karl, Raimund/ 9780415357111/ Price:GBP 925.00
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The Celtic World, a new title in the Routledge Critical Concepts in Historical Studies series, brings together canonical and the best cutting-edge scholarship in Celtic Studies, including key journal articles, many of which have been translated into English specifically for this set. Organized into four volumes, it gives an overview of the most important issues in the fields of theory, archaeology, history and linguistics, covering different aspects of Celtic cultures in Central and Western Europe, from Antiquity to the Middle Ages.
There are several Celtic worlds: some in the past, some in the present, some in archaeology, some in language, some in history. In this collection, several of these worlds are explored in depth. The present discussions in Celtic Studies about how to deal with its subject-and if it exists at all-are examined, as is the debate about where it should turn in the future. The greater part of this set, however, investigates the Celtic pasts and the three main strands that provide us with evidence about it: archaeology, history and linguistics.
The first volume deals with Theory in Celtic Studies, from the 'Celticity' debate and the nativism-versus-antinativism controversy to the search for the discipline's future role. Volume 2 covers Celtic archaeology, from the search for 'Celtic origins' via late Hallstatt 'princely' tombs and La Tene culture to Romano-Celtic and 'late Celtic' archaeology of the British Isles. Volume 3 looks at historical sources on Celtic topics, in Antiquity, 'the age of Arthur' and the early Middle Ages. Finally, the fourth volume covers language from the earliest to medieval attestations, examining their typology and language contacts.
The collection is completed by an introduction to each volume, newly written by the editors, together with a full index. It is destined to be welcomed by Celtic Studies scholars-and those working in allied disciplines such as archaeology, history and linguistics-as an invaluable reference resource. |
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Encyclopedia of American Urban History, 2-Vols/Set. |
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Goldfield, David R./ 9780761928843/ Price:GBP 350.00
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SAGE Reference is proud to announce the Encyclopedia of American Urban History.
Edited by one of the leading scholars of urban studies, David Goldfield, this Encyclopedia offers an accurate and authoritative historical approach to the dramatic urban growth experienced in the United States during the 20th century.
The United States is now an urban nation, but only officially since the early 20th century. However, long before then their cities played crucial roles in the economic and political development of northern America, as magnets for immigrants from within the continent and from abroad and as centres of culture and innovation. The discipline of urban history is really a phenomenon of post-World War II scholarship.
After a generation of pathbreaking scholarship, that has reoriented and enlightened our perception of American city, this two-volumes Encyclopedia of American Urban History offer both a summary and an interpretation of the field. With contributions from leading academics in their fields, this authoritative resource offers an interdisciplinary approach by covering topics including: economics; geography; anthropology; politics; and sociology.
The Encyclopedia of American Urban History is a fundamental reference work which grounds and inspires future research in the field. It is an essential resource for any academic library. |
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Islamic and Middle Eastern Geographers and Travellers, 4-Vols/Set. |
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Netton, Ian/ 9780415351898/ Price:GBP 950.00
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The area of Middle Eastern geography and travel has attracted large numbers of scholars over the last fifty years. This new collection from Routledge features key articles from the field to create a major and continuing resource for scholars and students alike.
The first volume concentrates on the Islamic geographers who mapped and made navigable the routes followed by later travellers. While travel, and in particular the rihla (or 'travel to Mecca') did not depend for its impetus on formal geography, both were highlighted in the travellers' diaries and travelogues which helped to make known and illuminate the boundaries of an expanding empire. Links between geography and the pilgrim routes to Mecca and Medina are particularly significant.
Because of their huge significance in illuminating the medieval world of Islam, a very large number if articles deal with the travels of Ibn Jubayr (1145-1217) (Volume II) and Ibn Battuta (1304-368/9 or 1377) (Volume III), while Volume IV covers the post-medieval and early modern period.
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Muslim World 1100-1700, The.: The Records of Contemporary Middle Eastern Historians, Geographers and Travellers, 8-Vols/Set. |
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Mashita, Hiroyuki/ 9780415391023/ Price:GBP 325.00
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The Royal Asiatic Society, founded in 1823, was the main centre in Britain for scholarly work on Asia in the nineteenth century, and has been a publisher since 1829.
The Muslim World 1100–1700: Early Sources on Middle East History, Geography and Travel is the second collection of RAS Classics reissued by Routledge in association with the Society. The first, the five-volume Theology, Ethics and Metaphysics (978-0700-71670-8), was published in February 2003. |
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Partition & Post-Colonial South Asia: A Reader, 3-Vols/Set. |
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Kudaisya, Gyanesh/ 9780415359542/ Price:GBP 180.00
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The partition of the Indian subcontinent in 1947 was a turning point for the area, irrevocably altering the fortunes of the people of South Asia. This new three-volume reader brings together an array of materials drawing upon new theoretical insights and fresh bodies of data which critically examine the effects of that momentous division.
Organized thematically, the contents cover a range of topics including: borders and boundaries; refugeehood and displacement; majorities and minorities; citizenship; diaspora; and the construction of post-colonial national identities. The set includes a critical introduction and provides a thematic overview identifying new developments and key debates. Presenting a plurality of viewpoints, the collection brings a new perspective to the literature by integrating topics within a comparative framework encompassing India, Pakistan, and Bangladesh. |
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Impersonal Power: History and Theory of the Bourgeois State |
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Heide Gerstenberger/ 9781608460298/ Price:US$ 36.00
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The Whisperers: Private Life in Stalin's Russia. |
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Figes, Orlando/ 9780312428037/ Price:US$ 30.00
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Ancient Indian Rituals and Their Social Impact. |
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Sengar, Shailendra/ 9788126132577/ Price:US$ 72.50
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A Time of Paradox: America from Awakening to Hiroshima, 1890-1945. |
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Jeansonne, Glen/ 9780742533813/ Price:US$ 41.00
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Title IX: A Brief History wtih Documents. |
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Ware, Susan/ 9780312445751/ Price:US$ 14.95
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Middle East and North Africa 2007. |
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Ancient Settlement in the Zammar Region, Vol. 2: Excavations by the British Archaeological Expedition to Iraq in the Eski Mosul Dam Salvage Project, 1985-86. |
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Children's World: Growing Up in Russia, 1890-1991. |
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Kelly, Catriona/ 9780300112269/ Price:US$ 50.00
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Strengthening Religious Tolerance for a Secure Civil Society in Albania and the Southern Balkans. |
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Pettifer, James/ 9781586037796/ Price:EUR 115.00
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It has long been a common place of Balkan Studies and historical writing about the Balkans to state that religion is often a major factor in conflicts. Some contemporary authors have seen it as the decisive factor. In the context of the bloody debacle of the wars of the 1990’s in ex-Yugoslavia which was analysed as a conflict between Roman Catholic Croatia and Orthodox Serbia, or the Bosnian war in terms of re-emerging Islam. The longstanding reputation of Albania and Albanians for tolerance in religious matters is important, and deserves scholarly study and debate. In the period of the emergence of Albania from the chaos and turmoil of the 1989-1992 period and the end of the one-party state, the main priority for Albanians was the reestablishment of religion in Albania after the years of enforced atheism under the Hoxha regime. In the main this process went very well, with a successful programme of church and mosque construction taking place. This publication illuminates the background to this emerging and complex religious culture in Albania and also touches upon subjects of importance in relevant neighbouring nations (Greece and Montenegro). It includes papers by a number of prominent local scholars, and invited foreign experts on Albania and its history. |
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The Trial in American Life. |
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Ferguson, Robert A./ 9780226243252/ Price:US$ 31.00
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Genesis Redux: Essays in the History and Philosophy of Artificial Life. |
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Riskin, Jessica/ 9780226720814/ Price:US$ 37.00
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Mandarins of the Future: Modernization Theory in Cold War America. |
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Gilman, Nils/ 9780801886331/ Price:US$ 30.00
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Russias Islamic Threat. |
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Hahn, Gordon M./ 9780300120776/ Price:US$ 75.00
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Dissenting Voices in America's Rise to Power. |
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Mayers, David/ 9780521694186/ Price:GBP 26.99
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Gale Library of Daily Life - Slavery in America, 2-Vols/Set. |
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History is best absorbed through the words of those who experienced it. This 2-volume set illuminates daily life in slave society in America from colonial times to the end of the Civil War.
Approximately 240 articles, organized topically for easy browsability, provide in-depth reference and historical information on the business and regulation of slavery, the plantation way of life, work, family and community, culture and leisure, health and medicine, religion, resistance and rebellion, and slavery and freedom in the North.
Primary source documents in the form of first-person accounts, slave narratives, newspapers, and literature bring to life the social, economic, political, and cultural context of slavery and the slaves, slave owners, abolitionists, and others involved in the slave experience. |
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Role of Women in the History of Geology. |
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Burek, C V/ 9781862392274/ Price:GBP 85.00
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Nationalism, Historiography and the (Re)Construction of the Past. |
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Norton, Claire/ 9780978771317/ Price:US$ 24.00
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The essays in this collection explore both how the employment of nation-state dominated discourses have caused a re-imagination of the past, and how the past has been re-constructed to accord with nationalist agendas. Although other works have considered in general terms how nations are imagined, this collection takes a different stance and specifically focuses on how 'the past' is used in such imaginations. |
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Peter Strickland: New London Shipmaster, Boston Merchant, First Consul to Senegal. |
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Grant, Stephen H./ 9780978771331/ Price:US$ 18.00
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Peter Strickland, a little-known Connecticut Yankee who crossed the Atlantic 100 times in command of a sailing vessel, traded with French and Portuguese colonies during the period 1864-1905, and served as the first American consul to French West Africa for over 20 years. |
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Cree Narrative Memory: From Treaties to Contemporary Times. |
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McLeod, Neal/ 9781895830316/ Price:US$ 25.00
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The Other Venice: Secrets of the City. |
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Matvejevic, Predrag/ 9781861893376/ Price:GBP 16.95
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The book carries readers to a Venice that has escaped the eyes of writers, artists and photographers through the centuries, and Matvejevic by turns plays a historian, cartographer, anthropologist and philologist as he unravels elusive artifacts of time past. Arresting black-and-white photographs by Sarah Quill accompany the text, offering a silent testament to Matvejevic’s pilgrimage. A fascinating and beautifully written guide, The Other Venice reminds us that there is always another mystery to uncover in the city of water and stone. |
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Thailand: The Worldly Kingdom. |
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Peleggi, Maurizio/ 9781861893147/ Price:GBP 16.95
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Tourist adverts and glossy publications present Thailand as an exotic country with a rich cultural heritage, strong religious traditions and a much-loved monarchy. Historians too have contributed to Thailand’s international allure by asserting its unique historical and cultural continuity in comparison to the other countries of South-east Asia, whose modern histories are stained by colonialism and nationalist struggles for independence.
Thailand: The Worldly Kingdom challenges these commonplaces by offering a reinterpretation of the emergence and development of the Thai nation-state, showing it to be a long-term process shaped by interactions with the outside world in the pursuit of civilization and, more recently, globalization. Maurizio Peleggi’s original approach is reflected in the book’s thematic structure, with chapters that investigate, among other issues, the geographical, linguistic and ethnic diversity of the territories that came to form modern Thailand; changes in class and gender relations; the role of institutions and ideologies; and the reinvention of Thai identity from within through a repackaging of its heritage in magazines, novels, art and the mass media. Peleggi goes on to explore how the Thai people relate to the outside world: their prototypal enemies – the Burmese; southern Chinese immigrants; and, above all, farang – Westerners – who have been involved in the region since the seventeenth century and yet remain, for the Thais, the quintessential ‘other’. |
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Unintended Consequences: The United States at War. |
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Hagan, Kenneth J./ 9781861893109/ Price:GBP 19.95
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In Unintended Consequences Ian J. Bickerton and Kenneth J. Hagan describe and analyse the unintended consequences of ten major wars fought by the United States, pointing out critical turning points in the conflicts and the remarkable similarity of dilemmas that followed the conclusion of hostilities. The effect is to demonstrate that the unintended consequences of the wars not only outweighed the intended consequences in shaping subsequent events, they produced sharp and significant shifts in United States foreign, military and domestic policy. Most wars embarked upon by the United States when measured against this criterion were not only catastrophic and destructive, they were avoidable, unnecessary and unpredictable in outcome. |
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The Contemporary Caribbean: History, Life and Culture since 1945. |
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Blouet, Olwyn M./ 9781861893130/ Price:GBP 14.95
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Navigating a rich melange of cultures and histories, Blouet unearths a complex narrative that is frequently overlooked in histories of the Americas. In stark contrast to widely-read guidebooks, this chronicle unflinchingly probes two strikingly different worlds in the Caribbean islands – those of the haves and the have-nots – created by the volatile mixture of colonial politics, racial segregation and economic upheaval. The strategic political relations between Caribbean nations, Cuba in particular, and the world powers during the Cold War; the economic transformations instigated by tourism; and the modernizing efforts of Caribbean nations in order to meet the demands of a globalizing twenty-first-century market are among the numerous issues explored by Blouet in her efforts to redress the historical record’s imbalance. The Contemporary Caribbean also explores the nations’ proud histories in sports such as cricket and baseball, their famed cuisines, and the uneasy balance today between local traditions and the vestiges of colonial influence. |
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History of the Heart,A. |
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Hoystad, Ole M./ 9781861893116/ Price:GBP 19.95
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The heart not only drives our physical life, but throughout human history it has also been viewed as the seat of our deepest emotions. It has figured hugely – if metaphorically – in nearly every aspect of human civilization, and as the unending subject of literature, music and art. Yet until now there has not been a study of this paramount icon of love. Ole M. Hoystad ably fills this enormous gap with a compelling investigation into this epicentre of grief, joy and power.
Firmly positioning the heart at the metaphorical and literal centre of human culture and history, Hoystad combs through religions and philosophies from the beginning of civilization to explore such disparate historical points as the Aztecs' ritual of removing the still-beating heart from a living sacrificial victim and offering it to the gods; homosexuality and the heart in Greek antiquity; European attempts to employ alchemy in service of the mysteries of love; and the connections between the heart and wisdom in Sufism. Hoystad charts how the heart has signified our essential desires, whether for love and passion in the medieval excesses of troubadour poetry and chivalric idealism, the body-soul dualism propounded by the Enlightenment, or even the modern notions of individualism expressed in the works of thinkers such as Nietzsche and Foucault. |
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Insomnia: A Cultural History. |
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Summers-Bremner, Eluned/ 9781861893178/ Price:US$ 19.95
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This exploration of sleeplessness begins with the literature of ancient times, and finds its sufferers in such prominent texts as the Iliad, the Odyssey, the Mesopotamian epic Gilgamesh, and the Bible. Insomnia continued to figure large in Romantic and Gothic literature, as the advent of street lighting in the nineteenth century inspired the fantastical blurring of daytime reality and night spectres, and authors connected insomnia to the ephemeral worlds of nightmares and the Sublime. Meanwhile, throughout the ages insomnia has been variously categorized by the medical community as a manifestation of a deeper psychological or physical malady: in medieval and early modern times, for example, physicians and philosophers saw insomnia as a symptom of lovesickness, melancholy or even demonic possession. As modern medicine and science evolved, insomnia emerged as a distinct symptom of such ailments as psychological illness or post-traumatic stress disorder following war. Today’s medical solutions tend to involve prescription drugs, and Insomnia raises important questions about the role of the pharmaceutical industry and the effectiveness of such treatments. |
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Medieval Warfare 1000-1300. |
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France, John/ 9780754625155/ Price:GBP 325.00
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The study of medieval warfare has developed enormously in recent years. The figure of the armoured mounted knight, who was believed to have materialized in Carolingian times, long dominated all discussion of the subject. It is now understood that the knight emerged over a long period of time and that he was never alone on the field of conflict. Infantry, at all times, played a substantial role in conflict, and the notion that they were in some way invented only in the fourteenth century is no longer sustainable. Moreover, modern writers have examined campaigns which for long seemed pointless because they did not lead to spectacular events like battles. As a result, we now understand the pattern of medieval war which often did not depend on battle but on exerting pressure on the opponent by economic warfare. This pattern was intensified by the existence of castles, and careful study has revealed much about their development and the evolving means of attacking them. Crusading warfare pitted westerners against a novel style of war and affords an opportunity to assess the military effectiveness of European methods. New areas of study are now developing. The logistics of medieval armies was always badly neglected, while until very recently there was a silence on the victims of war. |
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International Encyclopedia of Military History, 2-Vols/Set. |
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Bradford, James/ 9780415936613/ Price:GBP 350.00
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With its impressive breath of coverage - both geographically and chronologically - the International Encyclopedia of Military History is the most up-to-date and inclusive A-Z resource on military history. From uniforms and military insignia worn by combatants to the military leaders and tacticians who commanded them, the campaigns and wars to the weapons and equipment used in them, this international and multicultural two-volume set is an accessible resource combining the latest scholarship in the field with a world perspective on military history.
The International Encyclopedia of Military History:
Examines important commanders and theorists such as Alexander the Great, Charlemagne, Khublai Khan, General Robert E. Lee, Sun Tzu, Field Marshall Erich von Manstein and Simon Bolivar;
Elaborates on military concepts and terminology including Amphibious Warfare, Blitzkrieg, Jungle Warfare, Strategic Studies and War Games;
Explains military and defense systems such as the Assyrian Military Systems, Anti-Missile systems, AEGIS Combat System, Satellites and Reconnaissance;
Provides insight into the relationship of the military with society in entries about Agriculture and War, Civil-Military Relations, Ethnicity in the Military, and Society and Warfare;
Discusses specific battles including Actium, Hastings and Stalingrad and as well as wars such as the Arab-Israeli Wars, Chinese Civil Wars, the Crusades, Hundred Years' War, Maori Wars, Turkish-Russian Wars and World War I and II;
Describes the development and history of weapons and equipment such as Anti-aircraft Weapons, Battleship, Bazooka, Naval Gunnery, Rockets and Rocketry and Stealth Technology.
Featuring over 1,600 entries in two volumes, from concise 100 word entries to comprehensive 4,000 word essay-length entries, the International Encyclopedia of Military History covers the entirety of military history across five continents and three millennia. |
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Early Writings on Terrorism, 3-Vols/Set. |
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Kinna, Ruth/ 9780415341950/ Price:GBP 480.00
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Making available and examining early writings on terrorism and political violence from the late-nineteenth century, this important collection brings together writings associated with the political left - French revolutionaries, socialists and anarchists - and also considers the wider context of violence in which terrorism first emerged. Presenting a range of pamphlets, letters and newspaper articles drawn from a range of sources, it explores the nature of state repression, discussions of political violence in the state, and the justifications and critiques of terrorism that evolved from within the left. In order to reflect the scope of nineteenth-century terrorism, the set also has a strong international focus, though discussion of state responses to terrorism is presented as a case study of the British government's response.
With an introduction specially written by the editor, Early Writings on Terrorism is a highly useful comprehensive resource for all of those studying this fascinating field. |
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Naval History 1680-1850. |
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Harding, Richard/ 9780754625322/ Price:GBP 170.00
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This collection of essays sets out to present a sample of the rich diversity of writings on naval history in this period. The collection covers subjects ranging from strategy, operations and tactics, to administration, technology and the maritime economy. Within this volume the reader will be able to see essays that influenced the development of modern naval history through to samples of some of the latest research. |
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Women and Romanticism, 5-Vols/Set. |
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Eberle, Roxanne/ 9780415342186/ Price:GBP 325.00
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Demonstrating the breadth and scope of women's writing in the Romantic period, this collection covers a variety of topics ranging across polemical treatises, private correspondence, philosophical and historical disquisitions, and poetry and prose fiction.
Helping to contextualise the areas discussed, the collection includes a general introduction by the editor, which traces the history of criticism in the field, and thus current definitions of "Women and Romanticism", before going on to discuss the contents of each volume. |
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Women & Cross Dressing: 1800-1939, 3-Vols/Set. |
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Bauer, Heike/ 9780415323024/ Price:GBP 170.00
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This three-volume anthology focuses on writings by and about cross-dressing women from the early nineteenth century up to the beginning of World War II. In so doing it offers a new perspective on one of the most decisive periods in the history of feminism.
The anthology brings together for the first time key texts from the sexological and the literary realms as well as newspaper articles, letters and photographs, which document the phenomenon of cross-dressing women in nineteenth- and early twentieth-century British culture. The collection also includes translations from European texts that impacted on British understandings of cross-dressing during this time.
Each of the three volumes is introduced separately with a critical essay. Together these volumes make available important source material for the history of feminism |
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Handbook of Black Studies. |
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Asante, Molefi Kete/ 9780761928409/ Price:GBP 155.00
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The Handbook has three main divisions: historical and cultural foundations; philosophical and conceptual basis; and critical and analytical concepts and brings together all the main research and scholarship in the field of African-American or black studies.
All contributors are pre-eminent scholars in the field.
The Editors are two of the most prominent scholars in the field with high name recognition.
The Excellent 3-Part organization brings the latest conceptual and analytical thinking into focus. |
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Globalization and Violence, 4-Vols/Set. |
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James, Paul/ 9781412919548/ Price:GBP 675.00
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The concept of 'globalization' has in an extraordinarily short time become the dominant motif of the contemporary social sciences. Central Currents in Globalization is an integrated collection of four multi-volume sets that represent the systematic mapping of globalization studies. The series sets out the contours of a field that now crosses the boundaries of all the older disciplines in the social sciences and humanities. The result is a gold-standard collection of over 320 of the most important writings on globalization, structured around four interrelated themes: Violence; Economy; Culture; and Politics.
The series editor, Paul James (RMIT, Australia), is joined by sixteen internationally-renowned co-editors from around the globe who bring their subject expertise to each volume, including Jonathan Friedman, Tom Nairn, R.R. Sharma, Manfred Steger, Ronen Palan and Micheline Ishay. Together the four sets provide an unparalleled resource on globalization, providing both broad coverage of the subject, historical depth and contemporary relevance. |
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Social Stratification, 5-Vols/Set. |
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Inglis, David/ 9780415361330/ Price:GBP 1100.00
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The study of social cohesion and solidarity, and their antitheses, social fragmentation and dissension, are central components of sociology. From the very beginnings of sociology right through to the present day, sociologists have endeavoured to identify the forces that either unite people into particular social configurations, or force them apart into diverse and often antagonistic groups. Any adequate understanding of social life must foreground issues of social coherence and divergence, unity and disunity, cohesion and fracture, order and disorder.
This set brings together for the first time, in a thoroughly systematic and comprehensive fashion, the major sociological works on the above themes, from the period of the infancy of the discipline through to the present. |
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Philosophical and Political History of the Settlements of the Europeans in the East and West Indies, A. 6-Vols/Set. |
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Raynal, Abbe/ 9780415383110/ Price:GBP 1150.00
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Abbe Raynal's A Philosophical and Political History of the Settlements and Trade of the Europeans in the East and West Indies is one of the great eighteenth-century histories. It attempts no less than an assessment of European settlement and colonization. The ideas contained within the work, and its savage indictment of slavery and European colonization, lead to its being banned by the French parliament. Despite the ban, the work proved enormously popular and it is of great significance as a key piece of democratic writing in the period leading up to the French Revolution.
In making his assessment Raynal undertook a complete survey of trade and settlement in the East and West Indies and the New World. Included are accounts of trade in the Perisan Gulf, Arabia and India; the conquests of the Portuguese and Dutch in the East Indies and Asia; the Spanish conquests in North and South America, the West Indies; the Portuguese conquests of Brazil; and the English and French colonies in North America. The work also contains an account of the American Revolution just six years after it happened.
This important work is Raynal's greatest achievement. It provides both a valuable historical record of European settlement and trade and a searing critique of European colonization. |
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Percival Lowell: Collected Writings on Japan and Asia, 5-Vols/Set. |
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Strauss, David/ 9784901481489/ Price:GBP 250.00
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●19世紀末在日本滯留，留下了『能登』『極東?魂』等名著的「不為人知的日本研究學者」波西華羅威爾的日本及亞洲相關著作、雜誌、報導內容的蒐羅。
●亦收錄了以現代主義詩人聞名的其妹Amy Lowell與Lafcadio Hearn的書信。
●'Percival Lowell?The Culture and Science of a Boston Brahmin' (Harvard Unviversity Press, 2001)一書的作者David Strauss解說。 |
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Japan Weekly Mail, The.: A Political, Commercial, and Literary Journal, 1870-1917: Part 2, 1875-9, 13-Vols/Set. |
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◇明治時期的日本發布至西洋社會的最重要的英文報紙
◇除了政治、經濟、時事報導之外，還包含了在日本的西方人及日本亞洲協會的活動、書評等文化活動報導
◇安士頓、薩道、張伯倫、費羅諾薩、小泉八雲等多名日本研究學者的投稿
◇船隻?客名單中包括了赴日的外國人及出國遠航的日本人等貴重史料
◇原橫濱開港資料館協力監修，此次重印本除了該館館藏，並囊括了海外提供的刊期，首次公開完整的刊期
◇附記事檢索索引
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Encyclopedia of American Race Riots: Greenwood Milestones in African American History, 2-Vols/Set. |
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Rucker, Walter/ 9780313333002/ Price:GBP 137.95
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Race riots are the most glaring and contemporary displays of the racial strife running through America's history. Mostly urban, mostly outside the South, and mostly white-instigated, the number and violence of race riots increased as blacks migrated out of the rural South and into the North and West's industrialized cities during the early part of the twentieth-century. While most riots have occurred within the past century, the encyclopedia reaches back to colonial history, giving the encyclopedia an unprecedented historical depth. Though white on black violence has been the most common form of racial violence, riots involving other racial and ethnic groups, such as Asians and Hispanics, are also included and examined. Organized A-Z, topics include: notorious riots like the Tulsa Riots of 1921, the Los Angeles Riots of 1965 and 1992; the African-American community's preparedness and responses to this odious form of mass violence; federal responses to rioting; an examination of the underlying causes of rioting; the reactions of prominent figures such as H. Rap Brown and Martin Luther King, Jr to rioting; and much more. |
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Home Front Heroes, 3-Vols/set. |
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Shearer, Benjamin F./ 9780313334207/ Price:GBP 189.95
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Home Front Heroes brings together brief and focused biographies of 1,000 Americans who affected how the United States made, supported, perceived and protested its major war efforts from the Revolution to Gulf War II. Battlefield victories and defeats are in a very real sense the reflection of the society waging war. Inventors and scientists, social reformers and clerics, civil rights and labor leaders, nurses and physicians, actors and directors, financiers and industrialists, economists and psychologists, artists and musicians, writers and journalists, have all been soldiers on the home front.
The biographical entries highlighting the subjects' wartime contributions are arranged alphabetically. Many of the entries also include suggestions for further reading. Thematic indices make it easy to look up people alphabetically by last name and by war, and other indices list entries under broad categories - Arts and Culture; Business, Industry, and Labor; Nursing and Medicine; Science, Engineering and Inventions - with more detailed occupational background. Entries include: Julia Ward Howe, composer of "The Battle Hymn of the Republic"; Robert Fulton, inventor of the steam engine and architect of the submarine Nautilus; Martin Brander, maker of Eliot's Saddle Ring Carbine; Robert Parker Parrott, inventer of the Parrott cannon; Novelist and War Correspondent Stephen Crane; Founder of the Army Nurse Corps Dr. Anita Newcomb McGee; Composer John Philip Sousa ("Stars and Stripes Forever"); Louis M. Terman, who invented the IQ test; Reginald Fessenden, developer of a sonic depth finder; machine-gun inventor Benjamin Hotchkiss; Labor leader John L. Lewis; Comedian and USO stalwart Bob Hope; Dr. Ancel Keys developer of the K-ration; napalm inventor Louis F. Fieser; and many more. The work is fully indexed, and contains an extensive bibliography. |
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Encyclopedia of the Reconstruction Era: Greenwood Milestones in African American History, 2-Vols/set. |
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Zuczek, Richard/ 9780313330735/ Price:GBP 137.95
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In American history, Reconstruction is the term applied to the period 1862-1877, when the United States sought to bring order from the tremendous social, political, economic, physical, and constitutional changes wrought by secession and the Civil War.The decision by eleven southern states to attempt secession and reject the national government, and the decision by the federal government under President Abraham Lincoln to deny that attempt and enforce federal law, unleashed forces that forever changed the American Republic. These changes included the abolition of slavery, the expansion of governmental power and constitutional jurisdiction, the rise of the Republican Party, the explosion of northern industry and the national market, and the appearance of a social dynamism that supported struggles by new social groups for political and civil equality. No one anticipated the totality, the viciousness, and the intensity of the civil war, and as a result no one was prepared to deal with its consequences. Topics covered include who should direct Reconstruction; how the federal government treated conquered states, their governments, and their soldiers; the role of the freed people in the new republic; and how the war altered the Constitution, the party system, and the American economy, among many others. |
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Cultural Heritage, 4-Vols/Set. |
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Smith, Laura-Jane/ 9780415352420/ Price:GBP 325.00
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The first volume ('History and Concepts') in the collection describes the development of the modern concern with conserving and preserving material from the past—often conceptualized as 'heritage'. It also gathers the best research about the key concepts and principles underlying heritage management and conservation practices.
Volume 2 ('Critical Concepts in Heritage') traces the dissonant and contested nature of heritage practices and the various attempts that have been made to theorize heritage conservation, curation and preservation practices. The volume contains work on the debates over indigenous heritage, national identity, and memory and heritage, together with papers that attempt to explain and contextualize these debates.
Volume 3 ('Heritage as an Industry') collects the most significant scholarship on issues about the so-called 'commodification' of the past and the creation of 'consensual histories', while Volume 4 ('Interpretation and Community') contains the key material on the practice of heritage interpretation and community heritage projects, as well as work on the developing debates about the nature of intangible heritage. |
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Tides of History, The., 2-Vols/Set. |
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Pirenne, Jacques/ 9780415402644/ Price:GBP 39.99
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Jacques Pirenne, the world famous Belgian historian and son of the equally distinguished Henri Pirenne, has here completed a study of universal history, covering the whole of civilization from the beginnings to the most recent events of the 1950's.
Professor Pirenne does not confine himself to political events; he traces the development of trade, economy and social conditions and devotes much space to art, architecture, currency and the development of religious and political thinking.
Gigantic in its scope this study is remarkable for its lucidity and its comprehensiveness. It is a truly majestic ride encompassing the Incas, Babylon, Ancient Egypt, through to the middle ages, the renaissance, indeed every important historical event of man. |
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A History of Ancient Israel and Judah. |
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Miller, J. M./ 9780664223588/ Price:US$ 45.00
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Petroleo en Venezuela ayer, hoy y manana. |
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Rodriguez, Policardo A./ 9789803882341/ Price:US$ 50.00
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Society & Religion in Early Ottoman Egypt: Studies in the Writings of 'Abd Al-Wahhab Al-Sha'rani . |
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Winter, Michael/ 9781412805643/ Price:US$ 40.95
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The Mexican Revolution 1910-1920. |
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Jowett, P./ 9781841769899/ Price:GBP 11.99
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Turning Points in Historiography: A Cross-Cultural Perspective. |
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Wang, Q. E./ 9781580462693/ Price:GBP 25.00
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The Popularization of Malthus in Early Nineteenth Century England: Martineau, Cobbett and the Pauper Press. |
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Huzel, James P./ 9780754654278/ Price:GBP 140.00
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Up Against the Wall: Violence in the Making and Unmaking of the Black Panther Party. |
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Austin, Curtis J./ 9781557288752/ Price:US$ 22.50
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Texas Women on the Cattle Trails. |
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Massey, Sara R./ 9781585445431/ Price:US$ 29.95
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Medea. |
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Griffiths, Emma/ 9780415300704/ Price:GBP 24.99
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The Empire of the Great Mughals: History, Art and Culture. |
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Schimmel, Annemarie/ 9781861892515/ Price:GBP 24.95
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Handbook of Ancient Egyptian Chronology. |
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Hornung, Erik/ 9789004113855/ Price:EUR 227.00
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Pan-Africanism, Pan-Africanists, and African Liberation in the 21st Century: Two Lectures. |
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Campbell, Horace/ 9780977790876/ Price:US$ 16.00
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Aspects of Balkan Culture: Social, Political, and Literary Perceptions. |
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Milojkovic-Djuric, Jelena/ 9780976704287/ Price:US$ 18.00
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This volume explores the connections between faith, the presentation of belief and the processes by which it is sold and consumed. The contributors have all been researching the way in which religion operates in a market culture and the degree to which one can use the notions of branding, advertising and marketing to understand missionary and revival activities. Conversely, one might ask whether religious methods of self-promotion underlay the development of some of the techniques of private enterprise. The contributors come from theology, history, art history, literature and business studies backgrounds. This edited collection breaks new ground by presenting a line-up of case studies on the issue of the boundaries of business, Christian religion and visual culture which have been selected so as to provide a wide range of comparative textual, visual and material evidence. |
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Social Proprieties: Social Relations in Early-Modern England (1500-1680). |
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David, A. P./ 9780976704294/ Price:US$ 18.00
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From Piety to Politics: The Evolution of Sufi Brotherhoods. |
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DeGorge, Barbara/ 9780974493497/ Price:US$ 18.00
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Nasser and the Missile Age in the Middle East. |
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Sirrs, Owen L./ 9780415370035/ Price:GBP 120.00
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Turkey's Modernization: Refugees from Nazism and Ataturk's Vision. |
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Reisman, Arnold/ 9780977790883/ Price:US$ 28.00
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Early Islam Between Myth and History: Al-hasan Al-basri (D. 110h/7.28ce) and the Formation of His Legacy in Classical Islamic Scholarship |
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Mourad, Suleiman Ali/ 9789004148291/ Price:EUR 185.00
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Encyclopaedia Judaica, 22-Vols/Set. |
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The landmark Encyclopaedia Judaica, lauded as the standard work on Judaism since first appearing in the early 1970s, has been extensively revised and expanded for this long-awaited new edition. Nothing compromised, included are more than 21,000 signed entries on Jewish life, culture, history and religion, written by Israeli, American and European subject specialists. Expanding the scope and relevance of this invaluable set are more than 2,600 brand-new entries, many focusing on gender issues and New World geographic areas of the United States, Canada and Latin America. Even more clarity and substance is incorporated through the updating of some 11,000 entries across all topics. The Holocaust segment alone features more than 50 entirely new articles. Scholars, general readers and students alike will use this 22-volume set. Extensive cross-referencing and large subject index are just two of the many features making this huge set easy to use. Quick references are also facilitated through place-name lists, a chronology, a Hasidism chart, lists of newspapers and periodicals. More than 600 maps, charts, tables, photographs, illustrations and other visuals concisely illustrate key textual elements, and among other features making this scholarly work accessible, are entry-specific bibliographies to help guide further research. Included in each volume is an 8-page full color insert that provides a rich and thematic illustration of the many aspects of Jewish life and culture, as well as a record of the physical development of the State of Israel. |
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Island at the End of the World: The Turbulent History of Easter Island. |
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Fischer, Steven R./ 9781861892829/ Price:GBP 19.95
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When voyaging in the South Pacific became far less widespread around 1500, Easter Islanders became stranded on their desert-like isle, and were forced to adapt to survive. The first European visitors, in 1722, encountered a people thriving in total isolation, surrounded by huge architectural platforms of fitted stones topped by hundreds of monolithic busts. Subsequent intruders brought trade, disease, violence, and the Easter Islanders adapted to this change, too, through cultural re-invention: new leaders, new rituals, new gods.
Steven Roger Fischer relates the compelling history of this unique region: how wars, smallpox and the Great Death decimated the island, how Catholic missionaries arrived in 1866 to relieve the suffering of the dying people, and how a despotic Frenchman claimed the island for himself, but who was then killed by the remaining islanders – a population of only 111. |
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Altered States: America since the Sixties. |
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Black, Jeremy/ 9781861892881/ Price:US$ 14.95
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Black works from the premise that the United States is a continent pretending to be a country. He examines the cultural clashes – and the tense harmony – between the numerous regional cultures uneasily contained within the United States’ wide bounds. Suburban sprawl, the triumph of consumerism, the war over health care, immigration and Christian evangelicalism all play a part in these pages, as well as the tug of war within us government politics, and the alternating rise and fall of individualism and conformity. Black also has some telling new reflections on America’s role abroad from Nixon’s Vietnam to Bush Junior’s Iraq.
In Altered States Black deftly reveals less examined aspects of American culture as they are manifested in the diverse peoples and landscapes that stretch from coast to coast. |
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Allergy : The History of a Modern Malady. |
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Jackson, Mark/ 9781861892713/ Price:GBP 25.00
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Allergy truly is a modern malady. Only one hundred years ago, the term 'allergy’ was unknown, and diseases subsequently identified as allergic in nature, such as asthma, hayfever, eczema, and food intolerance, were routinely considered to be rare, non-fatal conditions primarily afflicting the cultured and civilized classes of Western society.
By the closing decade of the twentieth century, however, allergy had acquired greater medical, political, socio-economic, and cultural significance. Increasingly perceived by clinicians, the media and the public as widespread and potentially fatal conditions, allergies became a distinct clinical specialism, generated new diagnostic and therapeutic strategies, and, in the process, created a lucrative market for international pharmaceutical, cosmetic and food industries. |
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Eyewitnessing: The Uses of Images As Historical Evidence. |
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Burke, Peter/ 9781861892652/ Price:US$ 25.00
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Eyewitnessing evaluates the place of images among other kinds of historical evidence. By reviewing the many varieties of images by region, period and medium, and looking at the pragmatic uses of images (e.g. the Bayeux Tapestry, an engraving of a printing press, a reconstruction of a building), Peter Burke sheds light on our assumption that these practical uses are 'reflections' of specific historical meanings and influences. He also shows how this assumption can be problematic. |
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Faith and Sword : A Short History of Christian-Muslim Conflict. |
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Jamieson, Alan/ 9781861892720/ Price:GBP 19.95
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Faith and Sword gives a concise history of what has arguably been the longest conflict in human history – a conflict that continues, in a new form, to this day. The overtly religious Christian-Muslim struggle lasted for nearly thirteen centuries, and for most of that period the Muslims were in the ascendant. The Christians eventually halted the tide of Arab conquest, but their counterstroke in the Crusades ended in failure and the Muslim threat was renewed by the Ottoman Turks. Only after 1600 did the Christians finally begin to gain the upper hand, with the fall of the Ottoman empire after the First World War seeming to mark the final victory of the Christians. |
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Magico-Medical Means of Treating Ghost-Induced Illnesses in Ancient Mesopotamia. |
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Scurlock, J./ 9789004123977/ Price:EUR 296.00
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If a Man Builds a Joyful House: Assyriological Studies in Honor of Erle Verdun Leichty. |
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Ellis, M./ 9789004146327/ Price:EUR 237.00
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Papyrus British Museum 10808 and its Cultural and Religious Setting. |
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Sederholm, V.H./ 9789004143494/ Price:EUR 175.00
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The Inner Adversary: The Struggle against Philistinism as the Moral Mission of the Russian Intelligentsia. |
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Vihavainen, Timo/ 9780977790821/ Price:US$ 24.00
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Unlike all other scholarly works hitherto published, this monograph surveys the fates of the concepts of ?°philistinism?± and ?°intelligentsia?± from 19th century Russia to Stalin?‾s Soviet Union. |
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Companion to American Technology, A. |
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Pursell, Carroll/ 9780631228448/ Price:US$ 262.00
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A Companion to American Technology is a groundbreaking collection of original essays that analyze the hard-to-define phenomenon of "technology" in America.
* An authoritative volume that surveys the history and historiography of American Technology
* 22 original essays by expert scholars cover the most important features of American technology, including developments in automobiles, television, and computing
* Analyzes the ways in which technologies are organized, such as in the engineering profession, government, medicine and agriculture
* Includes discussions of how technologies interact with race, gender, class, and other organizing structures in American society. |
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American Civil War, The. |
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Rafuse, Ethan/ 9780754625148/ Price:GBP 205.00
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The largest and most destructive military conflict between the Napoleonic Wars and the First World War, the American Civil War has inspired some of the best and most intriguing scholarship in the field of United States history. This volume offers some of the most important work on the war to appear in the past few decades and offers compelling information and insights into subjects ranging from the organization of armies, historiography, the use of intelligence and the challenges faced by civil and military leaders in the course of America's bloodiest war. |
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Encyclopedia of War and American Society, 3-Vols/set. |
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Karsten, Peter/ 9780761930976/ Price:GBP 450.00
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The impact of war on U.S. society has been extensive throughout our nations history. War has transformed economic patterns, government policy, public sentiments, social trends and cultural expression. There are numerous courses within the social sciences that teach components of how and why war has affected our nation, but there is very little reference sources for social science students to rely on. The Encyclopedia of War and Society will not only cover the geopolitical effects of war, but it will also show how the U.S. engagement in national and international conflicts has affected the social and cultural arena.
Features and Benefits:
* Coverage will concentrate mostly on the last 100 years since most librarians have stated that particular era needed more coverage.
* This topic is perfectly suited to provide a multi-disciplinary approach taking the following key components into consideration: Arts and Culture Economics and Labor Race and Ethnicity Gender Journalism and Media Science and Technology Law and Justice Religion Education Geography Health and Medicine (including psychological studies) |
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Peace Studies, 4-Vols/Set. |
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Evangelista, Matthew/ 9780415339223/ Price:GBP 350.00
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The academic field of Peace Studies emerged during the Cold War to address the nature and sources of interstate and internal conflict and methods to prevent it and deal with its consequences.
Peace Studies, much like political science itself, is an interdisciplinary field, built upon contributions from psychology, sociology, history and economics among others. It differs from related fields such as Strategic Studies or Security Studies in its implicit normative and teleological orientation: an expectation that scholarly research can contribute to reducing the sources of conflict to produce a more just and peaceful world. |
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World War I. |
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Neiberg, Michael/ 9780754624776/ Price:GBP 185.00
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Once-dominant images of the First World War as a futile contest fought by innocent soldiers and wasteful generals have given way to more sophisticated scholarly analyses. This volume presents some of the most innovative work of this new generation of research on the War to End All Wars. Taking a global and comparative perspective, these essays place the War in a wide global and thematic context, greatly enhancing our understanding of one of the most important and complex events of the 20th Century. |
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Warfare in the USA 1784-1861. |
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Watson, Samuel/ 9780754624813/ Price:GBP 210.00
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This unprecedented compilation provides the fullest examination anywhere available of the crucial social-political and strategic and policy-level issues of American military history between the Revolution and the Civil War: civil-military relations and the military’s place in American society and politics; westward expansion and the diverse "peacetime" missions assigned the military, especially constabulary missions and operations; force structure, mobilization and the formation of military strategy in support of national objectives; and military preparedness, administration, reform and professionalization. The introduction links all of these issues, pointing to the increasing scale, scope and organization and the growing dominance of national forces in American military institutions and operations during this important period. |
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Warfare in Europe 1650-1792. |
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Black, Jeremy/ 9780754624646/ Price:GBP 175.00
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Scholars have tended to underrate the importance of war in the period 1650-1792, as there is a feeling that periods before and after were more consequential for military development. This collection of essays sets out to address this problem, probing the nature of warfare throughout Europe from the middle of the seventeenth century to the end of the eighteenth. |
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Warfare in China to 1600. |
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Lorge, Peter/ 9780754625315/ Price:GBP 240.00
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Chinese military history has emerged as one of the most promising and radical fields of Chinese studies. China's rapidly increasing military power make understanding the place of war in Chinese culture, as well as the role of the military, and Chinese strategic thought, vital to dealing with this possible threat. The recent flourishing of scholarship in this area has begun to allow an equivalent comparison with western and world military history, leading to a new understanding of war as a historical and cultural phenomena, as well as revising earlier analyses of the significance of war in Chinese history. Assembled in this volume are a selection of articles that present earlier approaches to Chinese military history as well as the most recent trends in research. The introductory essay provides an overview of the field of Chinese military history and its significance in the study of China, as well as pointing out encouraging new developments in recent scholarship. |
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Warfare in China since 1600. |
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Swope, Kenneth/ 9780754624929/ Price:GBP 240.00
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Introduction. Part I From Ming to Qing (ca. 1600-1800): A few good men: the Li family and China's northern frontier in the late Ming, Kenneth M. Swope; To nourish a strong military: Kangxi's preferential treatment of his military officials, Yingcong Dai; Military mobilization in 17th and 18th century China, Russia, and Mongolia, Peter C. Perdue; Religion, war and empire building in 18th-century China, Joanna Waley-Cohen. Part II Imperial Decline & Fall (ca. 1800-1911): Naval warfare and the refraction of China's self-strengthening reforms into scientific and technological failure, Benjamin A. Elman; Testing the self-strengthening: the Chinese army in the Sino-Japanese war of 1894-95, Allen Fung; Militia and local militarization in late Qing and early republican China: the case of Hunan, Edward A. McCord. Part III The Warlord Period and the Nationalist Decade (1911-37): The military in the republic, Hans van de Ven; Civil war and the emergence of warlordism in early 20th century China, Edward A. McCord; War and the rise of nationalism in 20th-century China, Arthur Waldron. Part IV War of Resistance Against Japan & Civil War (1937-49): The tragedy of Wuhan, 1938, Stephan MacKinnon; The battle of the hundred regiments: problems of coordination and control during the Sino-Japanese war, Lyman P. Van Slyke; Community defense and the Chinese communist revolution: Henan's Du Eight neighborhood pact, Odoric Y.K. Wou; Guerrilla, mobile, and base warfare in communist military operations in Manchuria, 1945-47, Harold M. Tanner. Part V Post-1949 China: Transplanting the Chinese model: Chinese military advisers and the first Vietnam war, 1950-54, Qiang Zhai; The Vietnam war, 1964-69: a Chinese perspective, Xiaoming Zhang; Old ghosts, new memories: China's changing war history in the era of post-Mao politics, Rana Mitter; Index. |
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Feminism and the Periodical Press, 1900-1918, 3-Vols/Set |
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Delap, Lucy/ 9780415320252/ Price:GBP 900.00
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The Edwardian period represents a particularly vibrant periodical culture, with phenomenal growth in the numbers of titles published that were either aimed specifically at women, or saw women as a key section of their readership or contributor group. It was a period of political ferment in which a number of 'progressive' traditions were formulated, shaped or abandoned, including socialism, feminism, modernism, empire politics, trade unionism and welfarism.
This collection comprises periodical articles organised around some of the central themes of political thought and utopian thinking, and offers a comprehensive sourcebook of readings on the Edwardian/Progressive Era feminist thought.
The volumes explore the interventions of the radical public intellectuals working in these traditions in North America and the UK from 1900-1918. |
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Encyclopedia of Religion and Nature, 2-Vols/Set. |
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Taylor, Bron/ 9781843711384/ Price:GBP 375.00
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In the new millennium, as environmental alarm has escalated, so has interest and concern about the role of religion in nature. Much of the thinking has involved a hope for a 'greening' of religion – i.e. that religion might promote environmentally-protective action. Many believe that this 'greening' of religion is a prerequisite for solving the world's social and environmental problems. Curiosity regarding the relationships between human culture, religion and the wider natural world, however, goes beyond such curiosity. The ERN represents an intensive effort to broaden the inquiry and asks the fundamental question: What are the relationships between Homo sapiens, their diverse religions, and the earth's living systems?
The answers are difficult and complex, intertwined with and complicated by a host of social, environmental, and religious variables. The goal of the ERN is to explore this question in a way that illuminates these relationships without engaging in wishful thinking, irrational pessimism, or the tendency to oversimplify the dynamic, sometimes rapidly evolving relations between humans, their religions, and the natural world.
Encyclopedia of Religion and Nature shows convincingly that religion has a great deal to do with nature, nature a great deal to do with religion, and both have everything to do with the planetary future. |
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Encyclopedia of New Religious Movements. |
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Clarke, Peter/ 9780415267076/ Price:GBP 240.00
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The study of new religious movements has until recently been focused within sociology; it is now becoming a major area of study within religious studies. As student and scholar numbers rise the need for a one stop reference work of global coverage has become ever important, and the Encyclopedia of New Religious Movements fills this gap. An essential companion to both research and scholarship upon which undergraduates, postgraduates, lecturers and researchers can all be expected to draw. From Waco to Hollywood and the Church of Scientology, to the political and human rights issues surrounding the practice of Falun Gong in China, new religious movements have become more prominent in today's society. No longer only an area of study in sociology, new religious movements have grown as a distinct and important aspect of religious studies. The Encyclopedia of New Religious Movements brings together in one resource coverage of new religious movements all over the world. This comprehensive A-Z reference examines the people, movements, concepts, and ideologies of new religious movements including entries on Neo-Paganism, the Unification Church, exit counselling, Hamas, Santeria, Reformed Church in Japan, Theosophical Society, yoga, and many more. |
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Encyclopedia of Anthropology, 5-Vols/Set. |
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Birx, H. James/ 9780761930297/ Price:GBP 1045.00
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This five-volume Encyclopedia of Anthropology is a unique collection of over 1200 entries that focuses on topics in physical anthropology, archaeology, cultural anthropology, linguistics, and applied anthropology. Also included are relevant articles on geology, paleontology, biology, evolution, sociology, psychology, philosophy, and theology. The contributions are authored by over 300 internationally renowned experts, professors, and scholars from some of the most distinguished museums, universities, and institutes in the world.
Special attention is given to: human evolution, primate behavior, genetics, ancient civilizations,
sociocultural theories, and the value of human language for symbolic communication. This groundbreaking Encyclopedia will be a must-have reference work for any library with collections in anthropology, as well as the natural sciences, social sciences, and humanities. It will provide students, educators, and a wide array of interested readers with a greater understanding of and deeper appreciation for those facts, concepts, methods, hypotheses, and perspectives that make up modern anthropology and related disciplines. |
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Handbook of Material Culture. |
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Tilley, Chris/ 9781412900393/ Price:GBP 125.00
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The study of material culture is concerned with the relationship between persons and things in the past and in the present, in urban and industrialized and in small-scale societies across the globe. The Handbook of Material Culture provides a critical survey of the theories, concepts, intellectual debates, substantive domains and traditions of study characterizing the analysis of things. It is cutting-edge: rather than simply reviewing the field as it currently exists. It also attempts to chart the future: the manner in which material culture studies may be extended and developed.
The Handbook of Material Culture is divided into five sections.
- Section I maps material culture studies as a theoretical and conceptual field.
- Section II examines the relationship between material forms, the human body and the senses..
- Section III focuses on subject-object relations
- Section IV considers things in terms of processes and transformations in terms of production, exchange and consumption, performance and the significance of things over the long-term.
- Section V considers the contemporary politics and poetics of displaying, representing and conserving material and the manner in which this impacts on notions of heritage, tradition and identity.
The Handbook charts an interdisciplinary field of studies that makes a unique and fundamental contribution to an understanding of what it means to be human. It will be of interest to all who work in the social and historical sciences, from anthropologists and archaeologists to human geographers to scholars working in heritage, design and cultural studies. |
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| VA05-157 |
Historical Methods in the Social Sciences, 4-Vols/Set. |
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Hall, John A./ 9781412903707/ Price:GBP 675.00
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Historical methods are at the foundation of research in the social sciences. This collection provides a guide to the epistemological and ontological bases of historical-sociological inquiry, explores the logic of historical-sociological analysis, pinpoints enduring legacies and examines contemporary applications.
Volume I. Foundations
History and the Social Sciences
On the Nature of Social Scientific Explanation
On the Ontology of the Social-Historical
Volume II. Classical Questions
Causality and Social Time
From Laws that "Cover" to Narratives that "Bind"?
On Historical Evidence and the Logic of Hermeneutics
Volume III. Recent Disputes
Emplotment, Rhetoric, & the "Historiographical Operation":
Assessing the Postmodernist Challenge
Reflexivity and the Quest for Objectivity:
On Source Criticism and the Sociology of Knowledge
Formalization, Quantification, and Historical Sociology
The Dialectic of Structure, Culture and Agency
Volume IV. Legacies and Transformations
The Logic of Historical Sociological Comparison
Origins, Legacies and Trajectories
Tectonic Shifts |
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Biographical Research Methods, 4-Vols/Set. |
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Miller, Robert Lee/ 9781412902298/ Price:GBP 675.00
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The life history or biographical research method was popular in the early decades of the twentieth century and, after a period of eclipse caused by the rise of quantitative methods, is enjoying a resurgence of interest. This burgeoning of interest is enough that we can now speak of a biographical 'turn' as the social sciences
These four volumes present the first established collection of the biographical method literature and brings together the many diverse strands. The set will serve to set the canon for this re-established research area.
The collection is organized around eight themes: the classical statements dominated by the pre-war American 'Chicago School' of sociology; the neo-classical statements of the first wave of renewed interest in the 1970s; interviewing, including reflexivity, recall and narrative structures; analysis and the principles of selection in generating stories for narrative biographical interviews; biographical concepts such as life courses and generations; transitions and social trauma; biography and social policy; and controversies in biographical research. |
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| VA05-144 |
Encyclopedia of African American Society, 2-Vols/Set. |
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Jaynes, Gerald D./ 9780761927648/ Price:GBP 380.00
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The Encyclopedia of African American Society is the first comprehensive and accessible reference set in this field to give voice to the turbulent trendspast and presentthat are often ignored in favor of mere facts. Although numerous biographical, chronological and bibliographical reference works exist, none seeks to capture, in a single set, the ways in which the tenets and foundations of African American culture have given rise to todays society. This two-volume encyclopedia seeks to fill the gap to become a staple in collection development in school, public and academic libraries.
The encyclopedia is anchored by alphabetically arranged essays on such topics as abolitionism, affirmative action, and the civil rights movement, and contains hundreds of shorter articles on notable African Americans, groundbreaking events, sports and culture, labor and significant heritage sites. |
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Postwar American Critical Thought, 4-Vols/Set. |
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Beilharz, Peter/ 9780761944157/ Price:GBP 645.00
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The USA has some claim to have risen to a position of intellectual dominance in the Social Sciences in the post-war years. US Social Scientists are key players in international conferences and their premier publications have some claim to set international trends. Yet the relationship between American thought and global traditions has been peculiarly under-theorized.
This unparalleled four volume collection is divided into eight parts that focuses on American post war critical theory with special reference to Social Theory, Sociology and Politics. It identifies the central themes in this work and provides a comprehensive survey of the outstanding contributions in the field.
Peter Beilharz, through a considered selection of articles, argues that American critical theory can be read not only as European, but also as profoundly American and North American. That is, it is hybrid, at the same time global and local in significance and inflection. In this way, the American experience can be read as a case study for doing critical theory today. This comprehensive collection amounts to a definitive guide to the currents and cross currents of American critical theory in the Postwar years.
Peter Beilharz is Professor of Sociology at La Trobe University, Director of the Thesis Eleven Centre for Critical Theory and Associate Fellow, Yale University in 2004 -. |
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| VA05-127 |
Owenite Socialism: Pamphlets and Correspondence, 10-Vols/Set. |
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Claeys, Geoffrey/ 9780415149723/ Price:GBP 2700.00
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This ten-volume set reprints in facsimile an extensive collection of Owenite Socialist and co-operative material, the bulk of which is extremely scarce and difficult to find outside of specialist research libraries. |
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Companion to the Civil War and Reconstruction, A. |
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Ford, Lacy/ 9780631215516/ Price:US$ 249.50
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A Companion to the Civil War and Reconstruction addresses the key topics and themes of the Civil War era, with 23 original essays by top scholars in the field.
* An authoritative volume that surveys the history and historiography of the U.S. Civil War and Reconstruction
* Analyzes the major sources and the most influential books and articles in the field
* Includes discussions on scholarly advances in U.S. Civil War history. |
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Thailand-Burma Railway, 1942-1946, The: Documents and Selected Writings, 6-Vols/Set. |
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Kratoska, Paul/ 9780415309509/ Price:GBP 1300.00
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The construction of the railway between Thailand and Burma in the Second World War using forced labour and prisoners of war has been the subject of numerous memoirs, novels and the famous Hollywood film The Bridge over the River Kwai. Yet documentation and primary sources offering an account of the railway from a Japanese, Allied, POW and post-war perspective are scarce. This six-volume collection uses documents from archives in Australia, Great Britain, India, Malaysia, the Netherlands, the United States, Myanmar, Thailand and Japan to present a complete picture of the reality of the 'death' railway.
Volume One: The Construction of the Railway
Volume Two: POW Labourers on the Railway
Volume Three: Asian Labourers on the Railway
Volume Four: Japanese Perspectives on the Railway
Volume Five: War Crime Trials
Volume Six: Post-war Reflections on the Railway |
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| VA03-159 |
People of the Period: A Collection of the Biographies of Upwards of Six Thousand Living Celebrities, 2-Vols/Set. |
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Pratt, A. T. Camden/ 9784901481854/ Price:GBP 700.00
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收錄了英國維多利亞時期名人6000名，超過1000頁的大部書網羅了當代的人物資料。在刊載了許多已被歷史所遺忘的人物外，同時與DNB那樣的學術工具書不同，本書是以當時的社會評價及傳聞等評價為主軸，內容非常獨特。此外，並首次收錄了明治天皇與福澤諭吉等日本人，當時英國大眾對於外國社會知識的注目，從本書亦可略知端倪。這部書籍是英國19世紀末大眾社會生動再現的貴重史料。 |
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Conodont Biology and Phylogeny: Interpreting the Fossil Record. |
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Purnell, Mark A./ 9780901702975/ Price:US$ 137.25
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Special Papers in Palaeontology, published by The Palaeontological Association, is a series of substantial separate works conforming to the style of the Palaeontology journal. Two issues are published each year and feature high standard illustrations.
* Discusses the nature and quality of the conodont fossil record.
* Brings together researchers, geologists and enthusiasts who continue to find material of significance.
* Contributors include Walter C. Sweet, Howard A. Armstrong, Oliver Lehnert, James F. Miller and Steven A. Leslie.
* Includes 3 plates, 9 tables and 79 text-figures. |
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American Intellectual Tradition, Volume II: 1865 to the Present. |
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Hollinger, David A./ 9780195183399/ Price:US$ 89.95
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Revised and updated, the fifth edition of this now standard two-volume anthology brings together some of the most historically significant writings in American intellectual history. Uniquely comprehensive, The American Intellectual Tradition includes classic works in philosophy, religion, social theory, political thought, economics, psychology, and cultural and literary criticism. Organized chronologically into thematic sections, the two volumes trace the evolution of intellectual writing and thinking from its origins in Puritan beliefs to the most recent essays on diversity and post-modernity. Pedagogical features include introductions and headnotes to the selections, updated bibliographic material throughout, and detailed chronologies at the end of each book. Addressing such highly contested subjects as race, class, gender, aesthetics, political religion, and the role of the United States in the world, The American Intellectual Tradition, Fifth Edition, is invaluable for undergraduate courses in intellectual history. It is also an excellent supplement for graduate seminars and classes in American history, American studies, and American literature. |
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American Intellectual Tradition, Volume I: 1630-1865. |
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Hollinger, David A./ 9780195183375/ Price:US$ 74.95
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Revised and updated, the fifth edition of this now standard two-volume anthology brings together some of the most historically significant writings in American intellectual history. Uniquely comprehensive, The American Intellectual Tradition includes classic works in philosophy, religion, social theory, political thought, economics, psychology, and cultural and literary criticism. Organized chronologically into thematic sections, the two volumes trace the evolution of intellectual writing and thinking from its origins in Puritan beliefs to the most recent essays on diversity and post-modernity. Pedagogical features include introductions and headnotes to the selections, updated bibliographic material throughout, and detailed chronologies at the end of each book. Addressing such highly contested subjects as race, class, gender, aesthetics, political religion, and the role of the United States in the world, The American Intellectual Tradition, Fifth Edition, is invaluable for undergraduate courses in intellectual history. It is also an excellent supplement for graduate seminars and classes in American history, American studies, and American literature. |
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American Intellectual Tradition, Volume I: 1630-1865. |
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Hollinger, David A./ 9780195183382/ Price:US$ 49.95
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Revised and updated, the fifth edition of this now standard two-volume anthology brings together some of the most historically significant writings in American intellectual history. Uniquely comprehensive, The American Intellectual Tradition includes classic works in philosophy, religion, social theory, political thought, economics, psychology, and cultural and literary criticism. Organized chronologically into thematic sections, the two volumes trace the evolution of intellectual writing and thinking from its origins in Puritan beliefs to the most recent essays on diversity and post-modernity. Pedagogical features include introductions and headnotes to the selections, updated bibliographic material throughout, and detailed chronologies at the end of each book. Addressing such highly contested subjects as race, class, gender, aesthetics, political religion, and the role of the United States in the world, The American Intellectual Tradition, Fifth Edition, is invaluable for undergraduate courses in intellectual history. It is also an excellent supplement for graduate seminars and classes in American history, American studies, and American literature. |
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| VA03-110 |
Historiography, 5-Vols/Set. |
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Burns, Robert/ 9780415320771/ Price:GBP 375.00
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There is no question that the 'postmodern' debate has done a great deal to put serious reflection on historiography on the agenda of students, teachers, and researchers in history, but it has also been used indiscriminately to cover substantially differing approaches to historiography, both by those eager to appropriate this label and by their critics. This collection will therefore aim to enable the reader to disentangle some of the ambiguities and confusions which have characterized the use of this term. |
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Renaissance, The. 4-Vols/Set. |
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Black, Robert/ 9780415361972/ Price:GBP 825.00
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Contemporaries in Europe from the fourteenth to the sixteenth century saw the Renaissance as a crucial moment of change, and ever since most historians have agreed that this period marked a decisive watershed in the transition from the medieval to the modern world. The nature of this transformation, however, has been consistently and keenly debated since the first signs of the Renaissance emerged in late medieval Italy.
This collection follows contemporary historical thought on the movement by returning to the concepts and terminology used by Renaissance contemporaries themselves. The emphasis on the Renaissance in its own terms has signalled a powerful revival of the interpretation current during the fourteenth, fifteenth and sixteenth centuries: that the Renaissance was essentially the rebirth of classical antiquity. |
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| VA03-108 |
Romanticism, 4-Vols/Set. |
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O'Neill, Michael/ 9780415247221/ Price:GBP 325.00
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Romanticism is, and always has been, one of the most hotly contested terms in literary and cultural history. Some of the writers who are now labelled Romantic refused to be defined by the word: 'it would be such bad taste', said Byron in 1820. Rene Wellek, on the other hand, argued that literatures called Romantic indicated common conceptions.
This collection gathers key critical discussions which explore the complex and many-sided nature of the 'Romantic'. The set includes a new introduction by the editors, and individual volume introductions, as well as a chronological table and an index. |
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Health Care and Traditional Medicine in China 1800-1982. |
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Hillier, S. M./ 9780415361538/ Price:GBP 230.00
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Beginning with the period of the early expansion of Western missionary medicine, this account covers the chaotic years of Nationalist rule to the foundations of the People's Republic in 1949. It trances the major influences on health care since then and describes the conflicts of State bureaucracy, Party and medical profession in their attempts to match political objectives in health care to resources available.
An outline of the theory of Chinese traditional medicine, together with detailed accounts of acupuncture and plant drugs are also discussed, as are specific features of the health care system, such as population control, medical education, nutrition and psychiatry. |
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China's Regional Development. |
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Goodman, David S. G./ 9780415361521/ Price:GBP 68.99
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This book considers two major aspect of China's economic reform: the 'open policy' towards the West, aimed at attracting technology and skills into the country and the emphasis on 'regionalization' which established market-orientated rather than bureaucratically-controlled patterns of economic development. |
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Chuang Tzu. |
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Giles, Herbert A./ 9780415361507/ Price:GBP 230.00
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Chuang Tzu was to Lao Tzu, the author of Tao Te Ching, as Hui-neng, the sixth Patriarch of Zen Buddhism, was to Bodhidharma, and in some respects St.Paul to Jesus; he expanded the original teaching into a system and was thus the founder of Tao-ism. Whereas Lao Tzu was a contemporary of Confucius in the sixth century B.C, Chuang Tzu lived over two hundred years later. He was one of the greatest minds produced by China; philosopher, metaphysician, moralist and poet. It is impossible to understand the spiritual depth of the Tao Te Ching without the aid of Chuang Tzu. |
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Spirit of Chinese Philosophy. |
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Yu-Lan, Fung/ 9780415361491/ Price:GBP 250.00
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The Spirit of Chinese Philosophy covers the major philosophers and philosophical movements in China from Confucius to the middle of the twentieth century including: Confucius, Mencius, Yang Chu and Mo Ti, the Dialecticians and Logicians, Lao Tzu and Chuang Tzu, The Han Scholars, The Mystical School, The Ch'an Tsung of Buddhism, The Neo-Confucianist Philosophy. |
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| VA03-103-40 |
Sociology and Socialism in Contemporary China. |
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Wong, Siu-lun/ 9780415361842/ Price:GBP 240.00
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Sociology flourished in China during the 1930s and 1940s but with the establishment of the People's Republic of China, controversies arose over the place of sociology in the process of socialist construction.
Siu-lun Wong analyses the reasons for this change in the fortune of sociological studies in China and examines it in relation to the country's contemporary political system. |
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History of China. |
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Eberhard, Wolfram/ 9780415361484/ Price:GBP 240.00
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This is a social history of China, presenting the main lines of development of the Chinese social structure from the earliest times to the present day. The book discusses the origins of the present regime and developments in China in the last years, and political, social and cultural changes are all analyzed.
The text is based upon the study of original Chinese sources and also the work of Chinese, Japanese and Western scholars. |
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| VA03-103-39 |
Confucius and Confucianism. |
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Wilhelm, Richard/ 9780415361835/ Price:GBP 240.00
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This re-issues the edition of 1972.
This translation and Wilhelm's invaluable commentaries provide a concise and readable survey of Confucius, the man and his teachings. This volume translates The Life of Confucius from an ancient Chinese text, the Shih Chi, or The Historical Records by Sse-Ma Ch'ien, dating from the turn of the second century B.C. |
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| VA03-103-38 |
Yuan Mei: Eighteenth Century Chinese Poet. |
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Waley, Arthur/ 9780415361828/ Price:GBP 240.00
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Arthur Waley here presents an engrossing account of the works and life of Yuan Mei (1716-1797), the best-known poet of his time. Gaiety is the keynote of his works and the poet was a friend of the Manchu official with whom Commodore Anson had dramatic dealings at Canton in 1743. Yuan Mei gives an account (not previously translated) of Anson's interview with the Manchu authorities. The book contains many translations of Yuan Mei's verse and prose. |
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| VA03-103-37 |
Way and Its Power: A Study of the Tao Te Ching and Its Place in Chinese Thought. |
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Waley, Arthur/ 9780415361811/ Price:GBP 240.00
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Unlike previous translations, this translation of Lao Tzu's Tao Te Ching is based not on the medieval commentaries but on a close study of the whole of early Chinese literature. |
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| VA03-103-36 |
Three Ways of Thought in Ancient China. |
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Waley, Arthur/ 9780415361804/ Price:GBP 240.00
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This book consists chiefly of extracts from Chuang Tzu, Mencius and Han Fei Tzu. Chuang Tzu's appeal is to the imagination; the appeal of mencius is to the moral feelings; realism, as expounded by Han Fei Tzu, finds a close parallel in modern Totalitarianism and as a result these extracts from a book of the third century B.C. nonetheless have a very contemporary connection. |
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| VA03-103-35 |
Secret History of the Mongols: And Other Pieces. |
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Waley, Arthur/ 9780415361798/ Price:GBP 240.00
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The Secret History (so called merely because it was meant for the Mongols and not for the Chinese,) has been chiefly studied from a learned point of view and its quality as literature and hence its value to the lay reader have been greatly overlooked. The Chinese version has been used, but with constant reference to the Mongol text. The parts selected (founded on story-tellers' tales) date from the middle of the thirteenth century. |
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| VA03-103-34 |
Real Tripitaka: And Other Pieces. |
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Waley, Arthur/ 9780415361781/ Price:GBP 240.00
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The Real Tripitaka gives an account of the seventh century pilgrim's adventures, spiritual and material, both in India and after his return to China. In addition the book contains an account of a Japanese pilgrim's visit to China in the ninth century, which describes the Wu-t'ai Shan, China's great place of Pilgrimage, and an eye-witness's account of the great persecution of Buddhism in 842-845 A.D. |
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| VA03-103-33 |
Opium War Through Chinese Eyes. |
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Waley, Arthur/ 9780415361774/ Price:GBP 240.00
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This volume translates and places in the appropriate historical context a number of private documents, such as diaries, autobiographies and confessions, which explain what the Opium War felt like on the Chinese side. |
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| VA03-103-32 |
Life and Times of Po Chu-i. |
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Waley, Arthur/ 9780415361767/ Price:GBP 240.00
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This book gives the biographical background to the many poems of Po Chu-I (A.D 772-846) and traces the connection between his literary career and the disturbed political life of the time. The volume also provides new translations in whole or in part of about a hundred poems by Po Chu-i. |
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| VA03-103-31 |
Chinese Poems. |
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Waley, Arthur/ 9780415361750/ Price:GBP 240.00
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Here in one volume is a collection of Arthur Waley's translations of Chinese poetry. The book includes some poems from The Book of Songs and 170 Chinese Poems, More Translations and The Temple. Some old translations have been revised and new notes and explanatory material added. |
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| VA03-103-30 |
Book of Songs. |
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Waley, Arthur/ 9780415361743/ Price:GBP 240.00
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The Book of Songs is a collection of ancient Chinese songs, dating from 800 to 600 B.C. Until this was published in 1937 it had not been translated into English since the middle of nineteenth century, when sinology was still in its infancy. For the first time the original meaning of 290 out of the 305 songs is given, use being made of the advances in the study of old Chinese. The result is not merely a clear picture of early Chinese life, but also the restoration to its proper place in world literature of one of the finest collection of traditional songs. |
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China's Economic System. |
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Donnithorne, Audrey/ 9780415361477/ Price:GBP 240.00
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Based on original Chinese sources, including the press and government documents, this book describes the operation of the Chinese economy in the twentieth century. Certain trends become apparent, notably the extent to which China's economic life is decentralized and the tendency towards self-sufficiency within provinces and smaller administrative units.
Among the topics covered are: Agriculture, the organization of large and small scale industry, mining and transport, management and labour in state enterprises.
The fiscal system, together with the operation of the banks and the control of currency, credit and prices, and economic planning are also discussed. |
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| VA03-103-29 |
Ballads and Stories from Tun-huang. |
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Waley, Arthur/ 9780415361736/ Price:GBP 240.00
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Over a century ago the Chinese discovered in a sealed-up cave in the west of China a collection of manuscripts dating from the fifth century to the end of the tenth. These included many specimens of popular literature of a kind that was not previously known to exist. Although the find was made long ago, only two or three of these pieces had been translated before. Arthur Waley here translates, whole or as extracts, twenty-six pieces, making an invaluable addition to world literature. |
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| VA03-103-28 |
Analects of Confucius. |
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Waley, Arthur/ 9780415361729/ Price:GBP 68.99
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Previous translations of the Analects of Confucius are based upon a medieval interpretation which reflects the philosophy of the 12th century A.D rather than of the 5th century B.C., when Confucius lived. This book detaches the Analects from the Scholastic interpretation and lets these famous sayings speak for themselves. |
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Macartney at Kashgar: New Light on British, Chinese and Russian Activities in Sinkiang, 1890-1918. |
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Skrine, C. P./ 9780415361712/ Price:GBP 240.00
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This book describes the career of Sir George Macartney, who spent twenty-eight years at the turn of the nineteenth century as British representative in Sinkiang, China's most westerly province.
Macartney was in a unique position to observe political and diplomatic manoeuvres by the key players trying to establish a sphere of influence in China's strategically vital hinterland before and during the Chinese revolution. |
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| VA03-103-26 |
Classical Theatre of China. |
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Scott, A. C./ 9780415361705/ Price:GBP 240.00
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Besides tracing the history and development of the Peking Theatre, this volume explains acting techniques, stage costume and symbolism, musical forms and the various types of plays. |
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Contest for the South China Sea. |
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Samuels, Marwyn/ 9780415361699/ Price:GBP 240.00
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Wide-ranging and fully documented, this book is the first detailed study of the origins, contexts and consequences of the long-standing dispute between China, Taiwan, Vietnam and the Philippines over the Paracel and Spratly Archipelagos in the South China Sea - one of the world's most strategically important inter-ocean basins and China's southern maritime frontier.
Samuels' analysis: * Highlights the impact of the shifting balance of power in Asia and the growing competition for oceanic resources
* Examines the implications of the dispute in terms of the historical and modern role of china as a maritime power in Asia. |
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Sino-Russian Relations: A Short History. |
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Quested, R. K. I./ 9780415361682/ Price:GBP 68.99
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This book provides a systematic history of Sino-Russian relations, a history which is invaluable in forming an understanding of relations between the two nations today. Becoming neighbours in the seventeenth century, their changing relations in peace and war, in isolation, cooperation and confrontation have steadily assumed a greater importance in world politics and become increasingly important to the stability of international relations. |
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Education in Modern China. |
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Price, R. F./ 9780415361675/ Price:GBP 240.00
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First published in 1970 this re-issues the revised edition of 1979.
This book examines the part played both by tradition and by the Cultural Revolution in the educational system of twentieth century China and explores the apparent reversal of policy which took place since the death of Mao.
The book discusses the writings of Mao on the nature of man, society and knowledge and his ideas on education. These are then seen in the context of history, philosophy and religion. Educational aims and policies are discussed, showing how factors such as language, geography, economics and the social structure created obstacles to reform. |
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Within the Four Seas: The Dialogue of East and West. |
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Needham, Joseph/ 9780415361668/ Price:GBP 240.00
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Contains some of Joseph Needham's most significant essays, lectures and broadcasts on the history of Chinese science, technology and culture. Also included are some more personal thoughts stimulated by his own travels and experiences in China, including a number of poems.
The book discusses the valuable social and intellectual influences which have flowed to Europe from South as well as East Asia, and suggests that the events of the twentieth century were a natural development of Chinese history, not a deviation from it. |
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Grand Titration: Science and Society in East and West. |
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Needham, Joseph/ 9780415361651/ Price:GBP 240.00
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The historical civilization of China is, with the Indian and European-Semitic, one of the three greatest in the world, yet only relatively recently has any enquiry been begun into its achievements in science and technology. Between the first and fifteenth centuries the Chinese were generally far in advance of Europe and it was not until the scientific revolution of the Renaissance that Europe drew ahead. Throughout those fifteen centuries, and ever since, the West has been profoundly affected by the discoveries and invention emanating from China and East Asia. |
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Fading of the Maoist Vision: City and Country in China's Development. |
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Murphey, Rhoads/ 9780415361644/ Price:GBP 230.00
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This book analyzes Chinese society and evaluates the achievements and failures of the Maoist ideology. The central theme is the urban and rural balance in China's development from the Revolution to the late twentieth century. The Fading of the Maoist Vision shows how the original Revolutionary blueprint was altered and the ways in which China has steered a different course from that charted by Mao as the ideological vision encountered an increasingly pressing set of economic realities.
The book:
· Is particularly valuable in setting China's achievements in the larger context of global ideas about the problems of national development and by comparing them to the experience of India in its pursuit of the Gandhian ideal. |
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Rulers of China 221 B.C.: Chronological Tables. |
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Moule, A. C./ 9780415361637/ Price:GBP 68.99
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A massive undertaking, this invaluable tool for the chronology of all the Chinese dynasties remains indispensable for specialists in Chinese history.
All dynastic names are analysed in full detail in chart form with ten columns presenting names in Chinese and in romanised form, together with explanatory footnotes. There are also indexes of temple and memorial titles, names, styles, family names and year titles. Each dynasty also has a detailed Introduction citing and interpreting the various Chinese sources. |
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Performing Arts in Contemporary China. |
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Mackerras, Colin/ 9780415361620/ Price:GBP 74.99
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The overthrow of the 'gang of four' in October 1976 had profound effects in all areas of Chinese society, and probably nowhere can this be more clearly seen than in the performing arts. Jiang Qing, Mao Zedong's widow, was strongly interested in the performing arts and exercised great influence over them. This book describes her influence and the effects its removal had on the arts. Although the period covered is mainly that since the death of Mao, there is also considerable reference to the years following the Cultural Revolution. |
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Confucian China and its Modern Fate, Volume Three: The Problem of Historical Significance. |
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Levenson, Joseph R./ 9780415361606/ Price:GBP 230.00
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These volumes analyze modern Chinese history and its inner process, from the pre-western plateau of Confucianism to the communist triumph, in the context of many themes: science, art, philosophy, religion and economic, political, and social change. Volume Three includes:
· Liao P'ing and the Confucian Departure from History
· The place of Confucius in Communist China
· Historical, moral and intellectual significance |
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Confucian China and its Modern Fate, Volume Two: The Problem of Monarchical Decay. |
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Levenson, Joseph R./ 9780415361590/ Price:GBP 230.00
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These volumes analyze modern Chinese history and its inner process, from the pre-western plateau of Confucianism to the communist triumph, in the context of many themes: science, art, philosophy, religion and economic, political, and social change. Volume Two includes:
· The Republic: Confucianism and Monarchism interwoven
· Confucianism and Monarchy: The basic confrontation
· The evolution of the Confucian Bureaucratic personality
· The limits of despotic control
· Monarch and people
· The Taiping Relation to Confucianism
· The Japanese and Chinese monarchical mystiques |
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Confucian China and its Modern Fate, Volume One: The Problem of Intellectual Continuity. |
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Levenson, Joseph R./ 9780415361583/ Price:GBP 200.00
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These volumes analyze modern Chinese history and its inner process, from the pre-western plateau of Confucianism to the communist triumph, in the context of many themes: science, art, philosophy, religion and economic, political, and social change. Volume One includes:
· The critique of Idealism
· Science and Ch'ing empiricism
· The Ming style, in society and art
· Confucianism and the end of the Taoist connection
· Eclecticism in the area of native Chinese choices
· T'i and Yung
· The Chin-Wen School and the classical sanction
· The modern Ku-Wen opposition to Chin-Wen reformism
· The role of nationalism
· Communism
· Western powers and Chinese revolutions
· Language change and the problem of continuity |
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China's Foreign Relations since 1949. |
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Lawrance, Alan/ 9780415361576/ Price:GBP 230.00
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This volume presents the documentary evidence for understanding the evolution of China's foreign relations since the inauguration of the People's Republic in 1949. Over seventy documentary extracts cover the years 1949-1947. They include selections from statements and reports, conference resolutions, the speeches of Mao Tse-tung, Chou En-lai and other Chinese leaders, and editorials from People's Daily and Red Flag. Western commentators such as Edgar Snow and Neal Ascherson are also represented, however most of the material is from Chinese sources.
Particular attention is given to:
· Sino-American relations
· The Sino-Soviet rift
· The development of Peking's strategy towards Asia, Africa and Western Europe. |
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Ta t'ung Shu: The One-World Philosophy of K'ang Yu-wei. |
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This volume translates one of the major works of modern Chinese philosophy and in so doing makes a major contribution to the study of comparative philosophy. The volume contains an extensive introduction structured as follows:
1. Biographical Sketch of K'ang Yu-wei
2. Ta T'ung Shu: The Book
3. A General Discussion of the One-World Philosophy of K'ang Yu-wei |
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Religion in China. |
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Hughes, E. R./ 9780415361552/ Price:GBP 230.00
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Beginning with ancient times, this volume shows how some of the early superstitions became purified through the influence of the Confucianist philosophy, how a deep strain of mysticism came from the Taoists and how thereby a worship of 'Heaven' and 'Earth' was evolved. Besides the main streams of Confucianism and Buddhism, the introduction and development of Christianity into China is also analyzed. |
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Political Philosophy of Confucianism: An interpretation of the social and political ideas of Confucius, his forerunners, and his early disciples. |
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Hsu, Leonard Shihlien/ 9780415361545/ Price:GBP 230.00
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One of the most astonishing features of the Confucian teaching to the modern reader is its anticipation of the Spencerian formula of evolution and its adaptation of this to a programme of progress. This volume shows that Confucius' teaching is still relevant in many of its features, not merely for China but also for the West. |
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Chinese Economy. |
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Adler, Solomon/ 9780415361453/ Price:GBP 230.00
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This volume provides a broad survey of economic progress in China from 1949 to 1952 and covers the historical background, China's economic system, industralisation and planning, the first Five Year Plan in industry, agriculture, transport, commerce and finance, education and health and foreign trade. The work is supplemented with an extensive bibliography, maps and statistical tables. |
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Later English Broadside Ballads, 2-Vols/Set. |
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Holloway, John/ 9780415372220/ Price:GBP 350.00
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Broadside or 'street' ballads not only give the flavour of english life and history more vividly than much historical evidence of more conventional kinds, but also their sheer poetic quality often makes them substantial poems, light or serious, in their own right. They are reprinted from contemporary or near contemporary broadsides in the Madden Collection at the University Library, Cambridge, and the head and tail blocks, so distinctive a feature of the original texts, are reproduced for this edition. The introduction is designed to enable the reader to read the texts in perspective and with pleasure, and the book includes a select bibiography and an index of ballad titles. |
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The Lone Wolf and the Bear: Three Centuries of Chechen Defiance of Russian Rule. |
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Gammer, Moshe/ 9781850657439/ Price:GBP 45.00
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The two Russo-Chechen wars (1994-6 and 1999-onwards) have brought the country and its people to the centre of world attention, most recently when separatists stormed a Moscow theatre, taking hundreds of people hostage.
This book takes a different approach from most studies published on Chechnya, arguing that fully to grasp the significance and meaning of recent events one has to study them from a long historical perspective. Since Chechen nationalists regard the wars of the 1990s onwards as part of a 'three hundred year long war' between them and Russia, The Lone Wolf and the Bear takes the Russo-Chechen confrontation back to Moscow's first attempts to expand into the Caucasus in the sixteenth century. While concentrating on the Chechen struggle, its evolution and many causes, the book also tracks change within Chechen society following contact with Russia, the various and unexpected forms of modernisation, Russification and Sovietisation, the way these moulded Chechen self-perceptions and the nature of their struggle and its contribution to Chechen defiance of Russian power. |
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A Dirty War in West Africa: The Revolutionary United Front and the Destruction of Sierra Leone. |
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Gberie, Lansana/ 9781850657477/ Price:GBP 45.00
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Sierra Leone; Destruction and Resurgence charts, in gripping detail based on first-band experience, the decade long civil war that brought Sierra Leone to its knees from 1991-2001. The group spearheading the violence, the Revolutionary United Front (RUF), claimed to be freeing the country from corruption and the brutalities of its political class and their foreign allies, but their insurgency killed more than 75,000 people, displaced half the population and destroyed one third of the country's already feeble infrastructure. The RUF also became notorious for appalling acts of brutality, including rape and the widespread use of mutilation: those deemed supporters of the government or any of its agencies had their limbs hacked off. The RUF is today a spent force, politically, although some claim it has retained its arms in the hope of one day relaunching a military campaign. But where did it spring from? Was it a movement driven by criminal acquisitiveness that adopted the rhetoric of politics? Was it another example of Sierra Leone's tradition of subaltern uprisings by disaffected youths, often manipulated by wily political operators? Or was the RUF an inchoate uprising of the people. |
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A Dirty War in West Africa: The Revolutionary United Front and the Destruction of Sierra Leone. |
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Lansana Gberie/ 9781850657422/ Price:GBP 30.00
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Sierra Leone; Destruction and Resurgence charts, in gripping detail based on first-band experience, the decade long civil war that brought Sierra Leone to its knees from 1991-2001. The group spearheading the violence, the Revolutionary United Front (RUF), claimed to be freeing the country from corruption and the brutalities of its political class and their foreign allies, but their insurgency killed more than 75,000 people, displaced half the population and destroyed one third of the country's already feeble infrastructure. The RUF also became notorious for appalling acts of brutality, including rape and the widespread use of mutilation: those deemed supporters of the government or any of its agencies had their limbs hacked off. The RUF is today a spent force, politically, although some claim it has retained its arms in the hope of one day relaunching a military campaign. But where did it spring from? Was it a movement driven by criminal acquisitiveness that adopted the rhetoric of politics? Was it another example of Sierra Leone's tradition of subaltern uprisings by disaffected youths, often manipulated by wily political operators? Or was the RUF an inchoate uprising of the people. |
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Atoms, Pneuma, and Tranquillity: Epicurean and Stoic Themes in European Thought |
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Margaret J. Osler/ 9780521018463/ Price:GBP 63.99
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The Black Death. |
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Lehfeldt, Elizabeth A./ 9780618463428/ Price:US$ 73.95
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The Travels of Marco Polo, the Venetian. |
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Polo, Marco/ 9781421248578/ Price:US$ 32.99
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Fall of the Roman Republic. |
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Plutarch/ 9780140449341/ Price:US$ 18.00
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Barbarism and Religion, Vol. 3: The First Decline and Fall. |
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Pocock, J. G. A./ 9780521672337/ Price:GBP 35.99
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Challenges to the American Founding: Slavery, Historicism, and Progressivism in the Nineteenth Century. |
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Pestritto, Ronald J./ 9780739108710/ Price:US$ 112.00
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A Case Study of Ireland and Galicia's Parallel Path to Nationhood. |
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White, Eva R./ 9780773462373/ Price:GBP 94.95
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Cuban Studies 35. |
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Perez, Lisandro/ 9780822942443/ Price:US$ 45.00
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The Domestication of Metals: The Rise of Complex Metal Industries in Anatolia. |
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Yener, K. A./ 9789004118645/ Price:EUR 111.00
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The Travels of an Alchemist. |
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Chih-Ch'ang, Li/ 9780415344906/ Price:GBP 230.00
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Ringlingville USA: The Stupendous Story of Seven Siblings and Their Stunning Circus Success. |
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Apps, Jerry/ 9780870203541/ Price:US$ 45.00
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Hui Gui: a chinese story. |
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Sze, Elsie/ 9780973721003/ Price:US$ 16.95
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Hui Gui, "returning home" in Chinese, has come to designate the British handover of Hong Kong to China in 1997, the pivotal event that launches this epic novel of twentieth century China and Hong King . Hui Gui transports the reader through time and place with the memorable story of Tak Sing growing up in war-torn China of thirties and forties and leaving the mainland for Hong Kong as a refugee folowing the Communist takeover in 1949. Years later, as the clock ticks towards the handover, Tak Sing's daughter Serena recalls her family's stories of love and loss, courage and survival. In simple, poetic prose, Elsie Sze spins a mesmerizing tale of a homecoming and extols the triumph of the spirit over the inevitabilities of the human predicament. |
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The Clash of Globalisations: Neo-Liberalism, the Third Way and Anti-Globalisation. |
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Kiely, Ray/ 9789004143180/ Price:EUR 93.00
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Instrumental in War: Science, Research, and Instruments Between Knowledge and the World. |
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Walton, S. A./ 9789004142817/ Price:EUR 192.00
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Scientific research and instrumentation are crucial for military action today but they have not always been so. This collection investigates 500 years of the relationship between warfare, research, and instruments - both physical and intellectual - to understand this interaction. With U.S., English and French examples, contributors provide examples from army and naval history to show how governments and individuals made warfare scientific, developing instruments, stations, and organizations that furthered the cause. Some developments directly aided war efforts; others were parts of 'normal science' in peacetime; and others were relatively ineffective in directly bringing about military change. These developmental histories shed light on the origins of modern scientific warfare. |
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Historical Truth, Historical Criticism, and Ideology: Chinese Historiography and Historical Culture from a New Comparative Perspective. |
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Schmidt-Glintzer, H./ 9789004142374/ Price:EUR 156.00
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Three issues essential to our insight into the concept and function of historical consciousness, and the description thereof, form the core of this book: historical truth, historical comment and criticism, and ideology (including the historian's trustworthiness).
Taking as a point of departure the workings of these concepts in Chinese historical thinking, the volume carefully draws comparisons with similar topics in the Western tradition. It thus advocates and shows a truly comparative approach that sets the stage for an intercultural dialogue on this important subject.
The first comprehensive work on the political and cognitive dimensions of Chinese historical consciousness set against its Western counterpart. |
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Diverse Histories of American Sociology. |
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Blasi, J./ 9789004143630/ Price:EUR 88.00
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This volume presents views of American sociology from minority groups and important intellectual movements that did not merge into the mainstream. Coinciding with the centenary of the American Sociological Association, it provides little-known background information to the development of the field. A first section highlights tensions between impartial scientific sociology and scientific social reform. A second section uncovers the experiences of female, African American, and Latino pioneers in the field, as well as a sociologist from a religious minority. A third section traces the organizational history of the field, including gendered, racial, regional, and outsider perspectives. A final section focuses on several neglected trajectories. With this volume, American sociology can be seen in its full context. |
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Communalism in Bengal: From Famine to Noakhali, 1943-47. |
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Batabyal, Rakesh/ 9780761933359/ Price:GBP 47.00
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Texts from the Pyramid Age. |
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Strudwick, Nigel C./ 9789004130487/ Price:EUR 206.00
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Ancient Egypt is well known for its towering monuments and magnificent statuary, but other aspects of its civilization are less well known, especially its written texts. Now Texts from the Pyramid Age provides ready access to new translations of a representative selection of texts ranging from the historically significant to the repetitive formulae of the tomb inscriptions from Old Kingdom Egypt (ca. 2700–2170 B.C.). These royal and private inscriptions, coming from both the secular and religious milieus and from all kinds of physical contexts, not only shed light on the administration, foreign expeditions, and funerary beliefs of the period but also bring to life the Egyptians themselves, revealing how they saw the world and how they wanted the world to see them. Strudwick's helpful introduction to the history and literature of this seminal period provides important background for reading and understanding these historical texts. Like other volumes in the Writings from the Ancient World series, this work will soon become a standard with students and scholars alike. |
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Ajanta: History and Development, Volume 1: The End of the Golden Age. |
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Spink, Walter M./ 9789004148321/ Price:EUR 166.00
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Sogdian Traders: A History. |
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Vaissiere, Etienne De La/ 9789004142527/ Price:EUR 209.00
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Constructing Suiyuan: The Politics of Northwestern Territory and Development in Early Twentieth-Century China. |
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Tighe, Justin/ 9789004144668/ Price:EUR 143.00
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This groundbreaking study sheds light on the mechanisms of Chinese nation and state making. Closely examining the remaking of Qing Inner Asia as Chinese provincial territory in the late Qing and Republican periods, the author focuses on the efforts of warlords and local Chinese elites in creating the new Inner Mongolian province of Suiyuan.
Based on a wide reading of rarely-accessed sources, the book explores land reclamation, the growth of counties and other ways by which Suiyuan gained provincial substance. It also carefully traces the emergence of a new national discourse on Northwestern territory and demonstrates its importance in placing Suiyuan within the Chinese Republic.
More broadly speaking, Constructing Suiyuan offers comparative perspectives on the issues of space, territoriality and possession of place. |
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The Empire and the Khanate: A Political History of Qing Relations with Khoqand C.1760-1860. |
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Newby, L. J./ 9789004145504/ Price:EUR 104.00
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A Native Chieftaincy in Southwest China: Franchising a Tai Chieftaincy under the Tusi System of Late Imperial China. |
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Took, Jennifer/ 9789004147973/ Price:EUR 133.00
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Ladakhi Histories: Local and Regional Perspectives. |
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Bray, John/ 9789004145511/ Price:EUR 139.00
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Mask: MI5's Penetration of the Communist Party of Great Britain. |
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West, Nigel/ 9780415351454/ Price:GBP 130.00
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Hitler's Bounty Hunters: The Betrayal of the Jews. |
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Liempt, Ad Van/ 9781845202033/ Price:GBP 28.99
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Van Liempt examines in great detail the careers of bounty hunters and describes some particularly horrifying cases. The most gripping are those involving young children. In one case, two bounty hunters traveled hundreds of miles to get their hands on a two-year-old girl living in a safe house; a month later she was gassed at Sobibor. In court, the bounty hunters consistently maintained that they received no premiums for their work, but the author shows the opposite to be true and traces the money involved.
This haunting book uncovers a facet of the Holocaust that has previously been largely neglected and brings to light the day-to-day workings of the persecution of the Jews. |
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Hitler's Bounty Hunters: The Betrayal of the Jews. |
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Liempt, Ad Van/ 9781845202026/ Price:GBP 90.00
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Why were the Nazis so successful in deporting Jews? Why did families such as Anne Frank's get turned in? Investigative journalist Ad van Liempt pulls back the curtain on the shocking practice of Dutch bounty hunters of the Jews, and reveals that ordinary citizens were prepared to turn over their Jewish countrymen in exchange for cash.
Van Liempt examines in great detail the careers of bounty hunters and describes some particularly horrifying cases. The most gripping are those involving young children. In one case, two bounty hunters traveled hundreds of miles to get their hands on a two-year-old girl living in a safe house; a month later she was gassed at Sobibor. In court, the bounty hunters consistently maintained that they received no premiums for their work, but the author shows the opposite to be true and traces the money involved.
This haunting book uncovers a facet of the Holocaust that has previously been largely neglected and brings to light the day-to-day workings of the persecution of the Jews. |
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Encyclopedia of the New American Nation, 3-Vols/Set. |
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Finkelman, Paul/ 9780684313467/ Price:US$ 935.00
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Encyclopedia of African-American Culture History, 6-Vols/Set. |
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Users looking for authoritative and comprehensive information about black history, figures and accomplishments now have a defining and current reference to address their needs. The second edition of the Encyclopedia of African-American Culture and History is a much-needed expansion of the 1996 classic and its 2000 supplement. As with the earlier publications, the second edition is aimed at high school and college students, as well as the general reader. Whereas the first edition focused almost exclusively on the United States, this new set identifies and addresses broad themes critical to understanding the texture of the cultures, achievements, challenges and comprise North America, Central and South America and the Caribbean. Readers can find comparative analyses of social movements, languages, religions and family structures in the context of an interdisciplinary framework that fills a substantial gap in studies of this genre. While many articles from the original set have updated content and bibliographies, almost half of the second edition is composed of completely new scholarship. |
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Development of the Industrial U.S. Reference Library, 4-Vols/Set. |
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Roaring Twenties Reference Library, 2-Vols/Set. |
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Shaping of America 1783-1815 Reference Library, 5-Vols/Set. |
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Early Civilizations in the Americas Reference Library, 4-Vols/Set. |
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The Encyclopaedia of Celtic Wisdom : A Celtic Shaman's Sourcebook |
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Matthews, John/ 9781592285549/ Price:US$ 21.95
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Haunted Castles of the World: Ghostly Legends and Phenomena from Keeps and Fortresses Around the Globe. |
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Charles A. Coulombe/ 9781592285341/ Price:US$ 16.95
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In Hitler's Bunker : A Boy Soldier's Eyewitness Account of the Fuhrer's Last Days. |
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Lehmann, Armin D./ 9781592285785/ Price:US$ 24.95
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In Peril : A Daring Decision, a Captain's Resolve, and the Salvage that Made History. |
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Strong, Skip/ 9781592285945/ Price:US$ 14.95
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Transfigurations of Hellenism: Aspects of Late Antique Art in Egypt AD 250-700. |
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Torok, L./ 9789004143326/ Price:EUR 273.00
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A Journey to Palmyra: Collected Essays to Remember Delbert R. Hillers. |
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Cussini, E./ 9789004124189/ Price:EUR 197.00
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Divrei Shalom: Collected Studies of Shalom M. Paul on the Bible and the Ancient Near East 1967–2005. |
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Paul, S.M./ 9789004143678/ Price:EUR 216.00
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Mesopotamian Chronicles. |
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Glassner, J.-J./ 9789004130845/ Price:EUR 115.00
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A History of Zoroastrianism, Zoroastrianism under the Achaemenians. |
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Boyce, M./ 9789004065062/ Price:EUR 151.00
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Letters in the Louvre. |
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Veenhof, K.R./ 9789004150812/ Price:EUR 110.00
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Biblical Peoples and Ethnicity: An Archaeological Study of Egyptians, Canaanites, Philistines, and Early Israel 1300-1100 B.C.E.. |
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Killebrew, A.E./ 9789004130456/ Price:EUR 115.00
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Synthetic Worlds: Nature, Art and the Chemical Industry. |
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Leslie, Esther/ 9781861892485/ Price:GBP 25.00
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Esther Leslie’s Synthetic Worlds considers this and other startling affinities between chemistry, industry, aesthetics and art. Themes include the impact of artificial imitations and synthetics, the location of value, the mutability of substance, chemical fragility and artistic technique, the poetics of the inorganic and pollution, Bauhaus-influenced modulation and patina in art practice, and nationalist narratives of chemical breakthrough. |
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Words in Revolution: Russian Futurist Manifestoes 1912-1928. |
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Lawton, Anna/ 9780974493473/ Price:US$ 24.00
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This is the second edition of Russian Futurism through Its Manifestoes 1912-1928, originally published by Cornell University Press (1988).This collection made available for the first time in English the writings of the Russian Futurists, which supplied the theoretical base of their movement. |
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Pan-africanism in Barbados: An Analysis of the Activities of the Major 20th-century Pan-african Formations in Barbados. |
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Worrell, Rodney/ 9780974493466/ Price:US$ 12.00
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Pan-Africanism in Barbados is a pioneering work. The book traces the development of Pan-Africanism in Barbados during the 20th century, by looking at the major socio-political Pan-African formations. Moreover, the objectives, activities, rhetoric, weaknesses, and what caused the demise of the various groupings are discussed. |
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Suspended Animation : Pain, Pleasure and Punishment in Medieval Culture. |
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Mills, Robert/ 9781861892607/ Price:GBP 25.00
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In Suspended Animation, Robert Mills tackles this misconception head on, confronting these uncomfortable medieval practices on their own ground. He exposes the reader to a host of challenging, sometimes shocking texts and images – from the graphic punishments of Hell in Tuscan frescoes to the ‘debreasting’ inflicted on St Barbara – and shows how these relate in disturbing ways to the elements of pleasure and pain in modern sexuality and even pornography. His wide-ranging work takes in a great variety of material, from fifteenth-century French poetry to the Billie Holiday song 'Strange Fruit', and through these sometimes startling juxtapositions he reveals that the ties between the modern and the medieval age are both closer and stranger than we might imagine. |
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Treaty Promises, Indian Reality: Life on a Reserve. |
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LeRat, Harold/ 9781895830262/ Price:US$ 20.00
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Business History, 4-Vols/Set. |
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Jeremy, David J./ 9781412902632/ Price:GBP 675.00
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The past shapes the present and plays into the future. Business History provides an overview of the development of the national and international economy, besides providing key insights into industrial structure and the evolution of business strategies. This collection presents some of the most important journal articles, written in English, on the business history of modern capitalism. The majority relate to the twentieth century and all illuminate various aspects of the modern business system and the corporations (and small businesses) that have been its pillars.
The articles have been arranged in five broad sections spanning the business environment, organizational development, globalization, entrepreneurship and management, and ethics and the environment. Within these prime divisions there are subordinate but discrete topics, such as the state and business; business and technical change; business strategy; corporate merger-making; multinational enterprise; small-and-medium enterprise; entrepreneurship; management; marketing; labour management; business culture; boardroom governance; business ethics; and corporate crime. |
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Economic Development of the British Overseas Empire, The. 3-Vols/Set. |
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Knowles, L. C. A./ 9780415350457/ Price:GBP 825.00
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First published by George Routledge & Sons Ltd. in 1924, 1930 and 1936.
When first published in 1924, Knowles' first volume on the economic history of the British Empire offered a ground-breaking comparative study, ranging from slavery to Factory Acts, from cold storage to ticks and mosquitoes, from rural cultures to plantation products, and from bush paths to railways. Following her untimely death in 1926, the manuscripts for her second and third volumes were completed and published by her husband, C.M. Knowles, in 1930 and 1936.
Volume I deals with economic and development issues relating to the Empire as a whole and also specifically with India, Malaya, Nigeria, Kenya and Uganda, while Volume II focuses more closely on Canada. Volume III covers the economic history of Australasia and South Africa. |
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War, 6-Vols/Set. |
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Diehl, Paul F./ 9781412903738/ Price:GBP 1075.00
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This four-volume collection is the first to bring together the world's seminal writings on war. Edited and introduced by Paul F. Diehl, the volumes constitute eighty-five selections thematically organised across four volumes:
- Concepts, Measurement and Patterns
- General Theoretical Approaches and Domestic Factors
- National, Dyadic and Systemic Correlates of Conflict
- The Moderation and Outcomes of Conflict.
Volume 1: Introduces and reviews the key conceptual and definitional issues, identifies the major historical patterns, and signals future trends.
Volume 2: Reviews the major theoretical approaches to conflict together with the key decision-making models, and provides an overview of the domestic political influences on war, such as military technology, gender and environmental conditions.
Volume 3: Focuses on the correlates of conflict at three levels: within individual states; between pairs of states; and at a systemic level. Topics covered include regime change, culture, arms races, geography, the role of alliances, and power distributions.
Volume 4: Examines the main theories of conflict moderation: democratic peace; trade and interdependence; deterrence; and international institutions. The final sections review the expansion, settlement and renewal of conflict.
Together the volume sets combine to provide an unparalleled resource providing both broad coverage of the subject and historical depth and contemporary relevance. |
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Japan and North America: RoutledgeCurzon Library of Modern Japan, 2-Vols/Set. |
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Krauss, Ellis/ 9780415275149/ Price:GBP 660.00
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This collection makes available key articles on the Japan-North American relationship from the Meiji era to the present. Volume one focuses on the necessity of Japanese modernization post-1868 and examines the build-up to the Japanese bombing of Pearl Harbour. Volume two looks at the post-war period, in which US forces occupied Japan and were instrumental in its rebuilding as an economic superpower. In the years following this Japan and North America enjoyed a close yet occasionally fraught relationship, as competitors and allies. Volume two also examines the cultural ramifications of the influence of North America on Japan, and vice versa.
Volume I: First Contacts to the Pacific War
Volume II: The Postwar |
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Encyclopedia of the Romantic Era, 1760-1850, 2-Vols/Set. |
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Murray, Christopher John/ 9781579583613/ Price:GBP 375.00
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Encyclopedia of the Romantic Era takes a broad view of this cultural period, focusing on the developments that can be seen as characterizing the profound changes in thought and sensibility that occurred during the second half of the eighteenth century and the first half of the nineteenth century. This illustrated, two-volume set of approximately 850 entries, including some that examine individuals and concepts not usually viewed as 'Romantic' (such as Kant and French artist Jacques-Louis David), will consist of analytical essays with annotated bibliographies, suggestions for further reading, and, in the case of individual-entries, a separate paragraph of biographical information.
The principle aims of Encyclopedia of the Romantic Era are to provide readers with a clear, detailed, and accurate account of the literature, thought, music, and art of the period; to indicate the rich interplay of international influences and cross-currents at work; and to explore the many issues raised by the very concepts of Romantic and Romanticism. |
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Folklore, 4-Vols/Set. |
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Dundes, Alan/ 9780415316620/ Price:GBP 1050.00
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The academic study of folklore is a worldwide, interdisciplinary field spanning the humanities and the social sciences. It is very much tied to nationalism and national identity and for this reason it has often been the smaller countries that have led the way in terms of providing theory and method. There are many significant articles, mostly written by European folklorists, which remain essentially unavailable to most folklore students. Many appear in periodicals, which are not readily available, such as fabula (folktale studies) and proverbium (proverb studies). This set of volumes provides students and researchers with a comprehensive collection of articles covering the principal theoretical and methodological concepts. |
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Shamanism: Critical Concepts in Sociology, 3-Vols/Set. |
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Znamenski, Andrei A./ 9780415311922/ Price:GBP 230.00
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Mircea Eliade descibed shamanism as the primal religion of humanity, the 'archaic technique of ecstasy'. The books of best-selling author Carlos Castaneda made it part of popular culture. Since the 1960s shamanism has continued to attract the attention of scholars, artists, writers and the general public. The most intriguing aspect of this religion is the ability of shamans to enter into contact with spirits on behalf of their communities. The first eighteenth-century explorers of Siberia dubbed shamanism a blatant fraud. Later, academic observers stamped it as 'neurotic delusion'. In the 1960s shamans were recast as 'wounded healers', who sacrifice their lives for the spiritual well being of their communities. Many current writers and scholars treat shamanism as ancient wisdom that has much to teach us about true spirituality.
This anthology tells the story of shamanism in Eurasia, North and South America, Africa and Australia. It brings together for the first time fifty-six articles and book excerpts by anthropologists, psychologists, religious scholars and historians, illustrating the variety of views on this subject. |
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Historical Jesus, The: Critical Concepts in Religious Studies, 4-Vols/Set. |
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Evans, Craig/ 9780415327503/ Price:GBP 350.00
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The historical study of the Jesus stories and the transmission of these stories through time has been of seminal importance to historians of religion. Critical historical examination allows scholars an escape from the confines of dogma, belief, and the theological interpretation. In recent years, historical Jesus studies have also opened up an important discussion concerning anti-Semitism and early Christianity and the political and ideological filtering of the Jesus story of early Christianity through the Roman Empire and beyond.
This comprehensive collection brings together the vast array of historical research into the reality of the man, the teachings, and the acts and events ascribed to him that have served as the foundational story of one of the world's central religions. |
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Coming into being Among the Australian Aborigines: The Procreative Beliefs of the Australian Aborigines. |
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Montagu, Ashley/ 9780415330589/ Price:GBP 240.00
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This volume brings together all the evidence bearing upon the procreative beliefs of the Australian Aborigines and subjects it to a scientific examination in the light of biological, social and psychological research.
1. Introduction
2. The Arunta, the type pattern of Australian culture
3. The procreative beliefs of the Central Australian Aborigines
4. The procreative beliefs of the native tribes of Northern Australia
5. The procreative beliefs of the native tribes of North-Eastern Australia, Queensland, and Cape York Peninsula
6. The procreative beliefs of the native tribes of North-Western Australia
7. The procreative beliefs of the native tribes of Western Australia
8. The procreative beliefs of the native tribes of Southern, South-Eastern, and Eastern Australia
9. A summary account of the procreative beliefs of the Australian Aborigines
10. The critical theories relating to the procreative beliefs of the Australian Aborigines
11. Phallic ceremonies and so-called phallic worship
12. Subincision and its alleged relationship to procreation
13. Maternity and paternity in Australia
14. Nescience, science, and psychoanalysis
15. Tradition, experience, and belief |
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Rautahi: The Maoris of New Zealand. |
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Metge, Joan/ 9780415330572/ Price:GBP 200.00
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A comprehensive study of the Maori in New Zealand, this book covers Maori history and culture, language and art and includes chapters on the following:
· Basic concepts in Maori culture
· Land
· Kinship
· Education
· Association
· Leadership & social control
· The Marae
· Hui
· Maori and Pakeha
· Maori spelling and pronunciation
There is an extensive glossary, bibliography and index. |
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Diary in the Strictest Sense of the Term, A. |
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Malinowski, Bronislaw/ 9780415330565/ Price:GBP 270.00
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The volume presents the diary of one of the great anthropologists at a crucial time in his career. Malinowski's major works grew out of his findings on field trips to New Guinea and North Melanesia from 1914-1918. His journals cover a considerable part of that period of pioneer research.
The diary contains observations of native life and customs and vivid descriptions of landscapes. Many entries reveal his approach to his work and the sources of his thought. In his introduction, Raymond Firth discusses the significance of the notebooks which formed the basis for this volume. |
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Migrations, Myth and Magic from the Gilbert Islands: Early Writings of Sir Arthur Grimble. |
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Grimble, Rosemary/ 9780415330558/ Price:GBP 200.00
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This book is a collection of Arthur Grimble's field notes and early writings, brought together in book form with linking pieces and a large number of illustrations. There are chapters on cannibalism and head hunting, on astronomy and on many aspects of the lives of the Gilbertese people from birth to death. |
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Sorcerers of Dobu: The Social Anthropology of the Dobu Islanders of the Western Pacific. |
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Fortune, R. F./ 9780415330541/ Price:GBP 180.00
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Ever since its first publication in 1932, Sorcerers of Dobu has been recognized as one of the great triumphs of anthropological research and interpretation in the field of ethnography. A rich source of information on primitive psychology, the book presents sociological analysis of the complex tribal organisation of the Dobuans. |
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Mambu: A Melanesian Millenium. |
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Burridge, K. O. L./ 9780415330534/ Price:GBP 49.99
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Mambu is the name of a native of New Guinea who led what has become known as a 'Cargo' cult. These cults, common in Melanesia, are partly religious, political and economic in nature. Participants in the cult engage in exotic rites, the purpose of which is to gain possession of European manufactured goods, such as knives, medicines, razor blades, tinned foods etc.
The volume discusses why these cults occur and examines a way of life of a New Guinea people and their reactions to European penetration and achievement. |
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Chimbu, The: A Study of Change in the New Guinea Highlands. |
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Brown, Paula/ 9780415330527/ Price:GBP 89.99
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In 1933 an Australian expedition discovered in the New Guinea Highlands a people who had for thousands of years been living isolated from the civilized world, the Chimbu. Never before was the westernization of an isolated people so thoroughly examined. This volume illustrates, contrary to widely held preconceptions about the nature of primitive societies, that the Chimbu have always been an adaptable people, whose concern for the present and for change has surpassed their attachment to tradition and the past.
1. Introduction
2. The Chimbu View of Past and Future
3. The Kinds of Variation and Change
4. Chimbu Pre-History
5. Chimbu's First Contact with Europeans
6. Domestic and Local Groups
7. Groups and Segments
8. Big Men and Small
9. Cycles and Transactions
10. Strife
11. Warfare
12. The Process of Change
13. The Forces of Change
14. Material and Technological Change
15. Economic Change
16. Local Leadership and Activities
17. Conflict Today
18. Kondom's Kingdom
19. Plus ca change, plus c'est la meme chose |
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Under the Ivi Tree: Society and Economic Growth in Rural Fiji. |
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Belshaw, Cyril S./ 9780415330510/ Price:GBP 170.00
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This study concerns the differentials of economic growth among the Fijian people. It brings together relevant factors drawn from social, cultural, economic and political analysis. As a case study in economic growth, it portrays the interplay between individuals and the social and economic conditions which surround them, and demonstrates the limitations of the institutions within which they function. Controversial points of interpretation are discussed and supported with documentation gathered from field-work. |
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Great Village, The: The Economic and Social Welfare of Hanuabada. |
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Belshaw, Cyril S./ 9780415330503/ Price:GBP 170.00
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This book is the first systematic study of the urban Papuan and analyses, among other things, the family, household budgets, the proliferation of ceremonial and the re-birth of sorcery. The study can be compared, from the point of view of methods and research problems, with the increasing number of accounts of the urbanization of traditional societies, particularly in Africa. Hanuabada is not, however, 'de-tribalized' and it has maintained its boundaries intact against overwhelming immigration.
1. Hanuabada and the problem of welfare
2. Basic residence and relationship pattern
3. Social relations in production and ownership
4. Demography and health
5. Income
6. Budgets
7. The material level of living
8. Trade
9. 'Private' ceremonial exchange marriage
10. 'Public' ceremonies and feasting
11. Marital relations
12. From birth to adolescence
13. Religion
14. Sorcery and its implications
15. The body politic
16. Race relations
17. The conditions of welfare |
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Caste and Kinship in Kangra. |
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Parry, Jonathan P./ 9780415330497/ Price:GBP 180.00
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This study is a major addition to understanding the problems of social inequality and the nature of caste and kinship. A full account is given of the social structure of the region, emphasizing the continuity of principles, which govern relations between castes and relationships within castes.
The ethnographic data bear in particular on: the nature of untouchability; models of caste ranking; the way in which 'traditional' family structures adapt to a diversification of the economy and the debate about the 'instability' of regimes of generalized exchange. |
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Western India in the Nineteenth Century. |
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Kumar, Ravinder/ 9780415330480/ Price:GBP 170.00
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Hinduism flourished in the districts around Poona in Bombay to a far greater extent than in the rest of India, hence the problems facing the British administrators of Maharashtra were quite different from those confronting them in other parts of India. The solutions they proposed and the policies which emerged determined the social changes which took place in the Maharashtra in the nineteenth century.
This book analyses these changes by focussing on the rise of new social groups and the dissemination of new values and shows how these social groups and values interacted with the traditional order in Maharashtra to create a stable regional society. |
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Apa Tanis and Their Neighbours: A Primitive Society of the Eastern Himalayas. |
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Furer-Haimendorf, Christoph von/ 9780415330473/ Price:GBP 230.00
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Inhabiting a secluded valley in the Eastern Himalayas, the Apa Tanis remained virtually unknown to the outside world until 1944-45 when the author spent several months in their villages, studying their internal social structure as well as their political and economic relations with neighbouring tribes.
The economy of the Apa Tanis, who knew neither the principle of animal traction nor the wheel, resembled that of certain Neolithic societies, but the methods used in the exploitation of their natural environment were far from primitive, and a developed agriculture enabled a population of some 20,000 to live in one valley of 20 square miles. |
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Land and Social Change in East Nepal: A Study of Hindu-Tribal Relations. |
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Caplan, Lionel/ 9780415330466/ Price:GBP 180.00
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This book examines the relations between the Limbus, an indigenous tribal people in East Nepal, and the Hindus who have entered their region during the past two hundred years. Describing the divisions which have arisen between the two groups as a result of confrontation over land, the book nonetheless stresses how they are linked by ties of economic and political interdependence and in so doing, explores the link between culture and politics. |
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People of Aritama: The Cultural Personality of a Colombian Mestizo Village. |
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Reichel-Dolmatoff, Gerard/ 9780415330459/ Price:GBP 230.00
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This book covers the life of a small Mestizo community in Columbia, with its people and institutions, its traditions in the past and its outlook on the future.
Chapters include:
· information on the health and nutritional status of the community
· discussion of formal education and certain sets of patterned attitudes such as those which refer to work, illness, food and personal prestige. |
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Relationships, Residence and the Individual. |
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Osborne, Harold/ 9780415330435/ Price:GBP 200.00
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Representing a departure from traditional studies of social organisation, the book asserts that a kinship system is best understood as a system of concepts rather than as a set of empirical relationships. Three aspects of life in the Panamanian community of Los Boquerones are described
1. The country, people and problem
2. Village life and ties to the larger society
3. Economic organization
4. God, the devil and the saints
5. The individual
6. The household
7. The household and the elementary family
8. From natal to conjugal household
9. Forms of conjugal relations
10. Conjugal instability
11. Extra-domestic kinship and affinity
12. Forming the 'compadrazgo'
13. The structure of 'compadrazgo'
14. Relationships, residence, religion and the individual |
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Demise of a Rural Economy: From Subsistence to Capitalism in a Latin American Village, The. |
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Gudeman, Stephen/ 9780415330428/ Price:GBP 200.00
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Bridging a gap between macro- and micro- viewpoints, the work shows the ways in which an economy is socially and historically determined. Subsistence is shown to be not only a form of agriculture but a determinant economic organisation and particular attention is paid to the problem of understanding patterns of distribution and the constitution of the surplus in the peasant economy.
1. Anthropological economics and a small village
2. An economy evolves
3. Household production: subsistence and surplus
4. The production process
5. Organizing a labour force
6. The seeds of a transformation
7. Horizons and reflections |
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Social Life of Early Man. |
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Washburn, S. L./ 9780415330411/ Price:GBP 200.00
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Japanese Culture: Its Development and Characteristics. |
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Smith, Robert J./ 9780415330398/ Price:GBP 74.99
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Foundations of Social Anthropology, The. |
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Nadel, S. F./ 9780415330381/ Price:GBP 62.99
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Socialization: the approach from Social Anthropology. |
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Mayer, Philip/ 9780415330367/ Price:GBP 200.00
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This volume represents the first major effort to apply the distinctive techniques of British social anthropology to the subject of socialization. Along with methodological and theoretical discussion, there is a variety of new field material from Africa, Southeast Asia and elsewhere.
1. Philip Mayer Introduction
2. Audrey I. Richards Socialization and Contemporary British Anthropology Retrospect
3. Gustav Jahoda A Psychologist's Perspective
4. Esther Goody Kinship Fostering in Gonja: Deprivation or Advantage
5. Barbara B. Lloyd Yoruba Mothers' Reports of child-rearing: Some Theoretical and Methodological Considerations
6. Barbara E. Ward Temper Tantrums in Kau Sai: Some Speculations upon their Effects
7. Paul Spencer The Function of Ritual in the Socialization of the Samburu Moran
8. Philip and Iona Mayer Socialization by Peers: the Youth Organization of the Red Xhosa
9. J.S. La Fontaine Two Types of Youth Group in Kinshasa (Leopoldville)
10. William Wilder Socialization and Social Structure in a Malay Village
11. Anthony Forge Learning to See in New Guinea
12. J.B. Loudon Teasing and Socialization on Tristan da Cunha |
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Seasonal Variations of the Eskimo. |
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Mauss, Marcel/ 9780415330350/ Price:GBP 290.00
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Social Context of Violent Behaviour, The: A Social Anthropological Study in an Israeli Immigrant Town. |
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Marx, Emanuel/ 9780415330343/ Price:GBP 290.00
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Violent behaviour occurs in every society. It grows out of the social order and can therefore be understood only in a social context. This book examines an orderly and relatively tranquil society, a small Israeli town settled by new immigrants, which is run by public agencies who pour in their resources to maintain the inhabitants. Circumstances have made the town an egalitarian society, but also limit its members' economic opportunities. This society has produced its special combinations of violent behaviour. The analysis extensively employs the 'case method' which has increasingly been used by social anthropologists. |
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History and Social Anthropology. |
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Lewis, I. M./ 9780415330336/ Price:GBP 200.00
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Social Anthropology of Radcliffe-Brown, The. |
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Kuper, Adam/ 9780415330329/ Price:GBP 200.00
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Meaning in Culture. |
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Hanson, F. Allan/ 9780415330312/ Price:GBP 250.00
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Social Anthropology. |
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Evans-Pritchard, E. E./ 9780415330305/ Price:GBP 290.00
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Other Cultures: Aims, Methods and Achievements in Social Anthropology. |
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Beattie, John/ 9780415330299/ Price:GBP 180.00
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Social Anthropology of Complex Societies. |
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Banton, Michael/ 9780415330282/ Price:GBP 290.00
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Relevance of Models for Social Anthropology, The. |
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Banton, Michael/ 9780415330275/ Price:GBP 200.00
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Social Anthropology and Language. |
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Ardener, Edwin/ 9780415330268/ Price:GBP 200.00
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Providing a critical framework for the consideration of the relationship between modern social anthropology and linguistics, this volume covers topics such as classification, symbolism, and structuralism. The relevance of the works of Saussure, Levi-Strauss and Chomsky is considered. There are two case-studies: the first outlines a 'social history' of the succession of pidgins that are documented on the West African coast, ending with Pidgin English. The second analyzes the status of three language varieties used in a 'trilingual' community in the Carnian Alps.
Edwin Ardener, Introductory Essay: Social Anthropology and Language
Part I: Social Anthropology, Language, and Sociolinguistics
1. Hilary Henson Early British Anthropologists and Language
2. R.H. Robins Malinowski Firth, and the 'Context of Situation'
3. Dell Hymes Sociolinguistics and the Ethnography of Speaking
4. J.B. Pride Customs and Cases of Verbal Behaviour
Part II: Multilingualism and Social Categories
5. W.H. Whiteley A Note on Multilingualism
6. Elisabeth Tonkin Some Coastal Pidgins of West Africa
7. N. Denison Some Observations on Language Variety and Plurilingualism
8. D. Crystal Prosodic and Paralinguistic Correlates of Social Categories
Part III: Social Anthropology and Language Models
9. Edwin Ardener Social Anthropology and the Historicity of Historical Linguistics
10. G.B. Milner The Quartered Shield: Outline of a Semantic Taxonomy
11. Some Ideas of Saussure applied to Buryat Magical Drawings |
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Interpretation of Ritual, The. |
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Fontaine, J. S. La/ 9780415330251/ Price:GBP 210.00
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A revival of interest in primitive religion has been one of the most marked characteristics of British social anthropology of recent years. Inspired by the work of Audrey Richards, whose writing on ritual contains many of the insights that have been developed in later studies, this volume uses material drawn from all over Africa and Polynesia.
The contributors include: Raymond Firth, Esther Goody, Aidan Southall, R.G. Abrahams, Edwin Ardener, J.S. La Fontaine, Monica Wilson, Elizabeth Bott, Edmund Leach and P.H. Gulliver.
Contents:
1. Introduction
2. Raymond Firth Verbal and bodily rituals of greeting and parting
3. Esther Goody 'Greeting', 'begging', and the presentation of respect
4. Aidan Southall Twinship and symbolic structure
5. R.G. Abrahams Spirit, twins, and ashes in Labwor, Northern Uganda
6. Edwin Ardener Belief and the problem of women
7. J.S. La Fontaine Ritualization of women's life-crises in Bugisu
8. Monica Wilson The Wedding cakes: a study of ritual change |
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Death and the Right Hand. |
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Hertz, Robert/ 9780415330244/ Price:GBP 290.00
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The historical value of Hertz's writings is that they are a representative example of the culmination of two centuries of development of sociological thought in France, from Montesquieu to Durkheim and his pupils. In the intervening years since publication, that development has grown into the systematic comparative study of primitive institutions, based on a great body of ethnographic facts from all over the world: in effect social anthropology.
Contents:
A Contribution to the Study of the Collective Representation of Death
1. The Intermediary Period
2. The Final Ceremony
3. Conclusion
The Pre-eminence of the Right Hand: A Study in Religious Polarity
1. Organic Asymmetry
2. Religious Polarity
3. The Characteristics of Right and Left
4. The Functions of the Two Hands
5. Conclusion |
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Rites of Passage, The. |
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Gennep, Arnold van/ 9780415330237/ Price:GBP 145.00
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Djanggawul: An Aboriginal Religious Cult of North-Eastern Arnhem Land. |
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Berndt, Ronald M./ 9780415330220/ Price:GBP 270.00
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We the Tikopia. |
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Firth, Raymond/ 9780415330206/ Price:GBP 230.00
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Recognized as a major work when first published, this title has, over the years, become a classic. Forming the basis of modern social anthropology, We the Tikiopia stands in the forefront of its literature.
The book is an excellent example of fieldwork analysis of a primitive society; a complete account of the working of a primitive kinship system; and an exhaustive and sophisticated study of Polynesian social institutions.
Contents:
1. In Primitive Polynesia
2. Adjustment to Civilization
3. Village Life
4. Household and Family
5. Personal Relations in the Family Circle
6. The Kin of Father and Mother
7. The Language of Kinship
8. Dirges for Dead Kin
9. Co-operation and Constraint in Marriage Relationships
10. 'House' and Clan
11. Principles of Lang Tenure
12. A Modern Population Problem
13. Firing the Ovens of Youth
14. Sociology of Sex
15. Marriage by Capture
16. Kinship and Social Stability |
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Themes in Economic Anthropology. |
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Firth, Raymond/ 9780415330190/ Price:GBP 200.00
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The main focus of the volume - the processes of choice and decision-making in different economic systems - offers exceptional scope for the convergence of economic and anthropological perspectives. It concentrates on transactions that both express and influence social relationships and values.
Covering a wide geographic area there are specific studies on societies in Equatorial Africa, Colombia, South India and the Balkans.
Contents:
1. Raymond Firth, Themes in Economic Anthropology
2. Leonard Joy, One Economist's View of the Relationship between Economics and Anthrpology
3. Ronald Frankenberg, Economic Anthropology
4. Percy S. Cohen, Economic Analysis and Economic Man
5. Mary Douglas, Primitive Rationing: A Study in Controlled Exchange
6. Fredrik Barth, Economic Sphere in Darfur
7. Leonard Joy, An Economic Homologue of Barth's Presentation of Economic Spheres in Darfur
8. Sutti Ortiz, The Structure of Decision-making among Indians of Colombia
9. Scarlett Epstein, Productive Efficience and Customary Systems of Rewards in Rural South India
10. Lorraine Baric, Traditional Groups and New Economic Opportunities in Rural Yugoslavia |
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Social Change in Tikopia. |
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Firth, Raymond/ 9780415330183/ Price:GBP 180.00
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Re-visiting Tikopia a decade after his first visit, Raymond Firth here examines what impact the forces of modernization had on Tikopia society with regard to economics, law, politics and social affairs. Suffering a famine whilst there, the author also examined the issues of responsibility for the famine; problems of distribution in ceremonial and ritual; institutional developments from the famine.
Contents:
1. Tikopia Re-Studied
2. On the Threshold of Modernity
3. Critical Pressures on Food Supply and their Economic Effects
4. Tikopia Society in Famine
5. Economic Resources and Influence of the External Market
6. Changes in Rights Over Land
7. Indices of Social Movement: Patterns of Residence and of Marriage
8. Changes in Descent Groups
9. Changes in the Political System
10. Modifications in Social Control
11. Processes in Social Change |
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Primitive Polynesian Economy. |
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Firth, Raymond/ 9780415330176/ Price:GBP 230.00
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A great classic of British anthropology, Primitive Polynesian Economy is structured as follows:
· Problems of Primitive Economics
· Food and Population in Tikopia
· Knowledge, Technique and Economic Lore
· The Labour Situation
· Ritual in Productive Activity
· Economic Functions of the Chiefs
· Property and Capital in Production
· Principles of Distribution and Payment
· Exchange and Value
· Characteristics of a Primitive Economy
Contents:
1. Problems of Primitive Economics
2. Food and Population in Tikopia
3. Knowledge, Technique, and Economic Lore
4. The Labour Situation
5. Ritual in Productive Activity
6. Economic Functions of the Chiefs
7. Property and Capital in Production
8. Principles of Distribution and Payment
9. Exchange and Value
10. Characteristics of a Primitive Economy
Appendix
1. Synoptic Record of a Tikopia Year (1928-9)
2. Some Linguistic Categories in Tikopia Distribution and Exchange
3. Exchange Rates in a Culture Contact Situation |
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Elements of Social Organisation. |
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Firth, Raymond/ 9780415330169/ Price:GBP 200.00
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An illuminating introduction to the methods and problems of social anthropology, this book draws on a wide range of illustrations, including Raymond Firth's own experiences in New Zealand, Malaya and the Solomon Islands.
The concept of social organisation is discussed with special reference to the role of individual choice and decision in social affairs and the nature of social change. Social organisation in relation to economic, aesthetic, moral and religious values is also examined.
Contents:
1. The Meaning of Social Anthropology
2. Structure and Organization in a Small Community
3. Social Change in Peasant Communities
4. The Social Framework of Economic Organization
5. The Social Framework of Primitive Art
6. Moral Standards and Social Organization
7. Religion in Social Reality |
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Capital, Saving and Credit in Peasant. |
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Firth, Raymond/ 9780415330152/ Price:GBP 170.00
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The formation and management of capital are among the central issues in economic growth, especially in 'under-developed' countries, and form the main theme in this volume. The societies examined vary widely, both geographically and also in terms of types of social and economic structures.
Contents:
1. Raymond Plant, Capital, Saving and Credit in Peasant Societies: A Viewpoint from Economic Anthropology
2. Lorraine Baric, Some Aspects of Credit, Saving and Investment in a 'Non-Monetary' Economy (Rossel Island)
3. Scarlett Epstein, Personal Capital Formation among the Tolai of New Britain
4. Fredrick Barth, Capital, Investment and the Social Structure of a Pastoral Nomad Group in South Persia
5. Joel M. Halpern, Capital, Saving and Credit among Lao Peasants
6. F.G. Bailey, Capital, Saving and Credit in Highland Orissa (India)
7. M.G. Swift, Capital, Saving and Credit in a Malay Peasant Economy
8. Marjorie Topley, Capital, Saving and Credit among Indigenous Rice Farmers and Immigrant Vegetable Farmers in Hong Kong's New Territories
9. C.S. Belshaw, Institutions for Capital formation and Distribution among Fijians
10. Joan Metge, Rural Local Savings Associations (Maori Komiti) in New Zealand's Far North
11. Alice Dewey, Capital, Credit and Saving in Javanese Marketing
12. Sidney W. Mintz, The Employment of Capital by Market Women in Haiti
13. Manning Nash, Capital, Saving and Credit in a Guatemalan and a Mexican Indian Peasant Society
14. Raymond T. Smith, Ethnic Difference and Peasant Economy in British Guiana
15. Burton Benedict, Capital, Saving and Credit among Mauritian Indians
16. Bert F. Hoselitz, Capital Formation, Saving, and Credit in Indian Agricultural Society
17. B.S. Yamey, The Study of Peasant Economic Systesm: some Concluding Comments and Questions |
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West Country Village, Ashworthy, A: Family Kinship and Land. |
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Williams, William Morgan/ 9780415330145/ Price:GBP 250.00
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This volume examines the effects of rural depopulation as a process on the structure of family and kinship within one small rural area, analysing the spatial relationships of social and economic change. Part One documents these relationships in the context of family farming; the second part is largely devoted to the effects of demographic change on the structure of family and kinship within one small community.
Contents:
Part 1
1. Ashworthy
2. The Lane
3. Man and the Land (I)
4. Man and the Land (II)
Part 2
Introduction
5. Population Change
6. Family and Kinship
7. Kinship and Social Life
Conclusion
Appendices
1. Male and Female Labour on Farms
2. Sex Ratio, Age Structure, Marital Status and Size of Household
3. Family Types and Number of Children per Family |
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Rethinking Kinship and Marriage. |
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Needham, Rodney/ 9780415330138/ Price:GBP 200.00
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This volume is concerned with two of the fundamental topics of social anthropology, kinship and marriage, approached from a variety of viewpoints by an international group of contributors of diverse experience and background.
The wide range of subjects examined includes: Incest, epistemology, linguistics, prescriptive alliance and methodology.
Fieldwork from the following countries is drawn on: Burma, Sri Lanka, New Guinea, Australia, Africa and South America. |
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Remarks and Inventions: Sceptical Essays About Kinship. |
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Needham, Rodney/ 9780415330121/ Price:GBP 180.00
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Elementary Structures Reconsidered: Levi-Strauss on Kinship. |
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Korn, Francis/ 9780415330114/ Price:GBP 180.00
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Comparative Studies in Kinship. |
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Goody, Jack/ 9780415330107/ Price:GBP 180.00
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Kinship and the Social Order: The Legacy of Lewis Henry Morgan. |
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Fortes, Meyer/ 9780415330091/ Price:GBP 180.00
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The central argument of this book is that the structuralist theory and method developed by British and American anthropologists in the study of kinship and social organization are the direct descendants of the researches of Lewis Henry Morgan. Re-examining Morgan's work, the book demonstrates how a tradition of mis-interpretation has disguised the true import of Morgan's discoveries and ideas for Rivers and Radcliffe-Brown and the generation of anthropologists inspired by them.
Contents:
Part 1: Retrospect
1. Morgan: The Founding Father
2. The Line of Succession: From Morgan to Radcliffe-Brown
3. Morgan and the Analytical Approach
4. Radcliffe-Brown and the Development of Structural Analysis
5. Toward the Jural Dimension
Part 2: Paradigmatic Ethnographical Specimens
6. A Methodological Excursus
7. The Kinship Polity
8. Cognatic Systems and the Politico-Jural Domain
9. the Ashanti: State and Citizenship
10. The Lineage in Ashanti
11. Ashanti Patrilateral Kinship and its Values
Part 3: Some Issues in Structural Theory
12. Kinship and the Axiom of Amity
13. Filiation Reconsidered
14. Descent and the Corporate Group |
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Three Styles in the Study of Kinship. |
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Barnes, John Arun/ 9780415330084/ Price:GBP 200.00
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Habitat, Economy and Society. |
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Daryll, C./ 9780415330060/ Price:GBP 230.00
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Samburu, The. |
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Spencer, Paul/ 9780415330053/ Price:GBP 200.00
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In an era of rapid change for Africa, this nomadic tribe clings to its traditional way of life. This book examines their society, and provides the first full published description of human life in the area. The author, a social anthropologist, spent more than two years among the Samburu; as an adopted member of one of their clans, he perceived how their values and attitudes are closely interwoven with a social system that resists change. Case studies support the general analysis throughout.
Contents:
1. The Pastoral Economy
2. Clanship and Exogamy
3. The Family and the Herd
4. The Structure of Samburu Society
5. The Moran
6. The Moran and the Total Society
7. Elderhood and the Curse
8. The Status of Women
9. Social Attitudes and Ceremony
10. The Samburu and some Neighbouring Tribes: A Comparison
11. Conclusion: The Gerontocratic Society |
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East African Societies. |
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Shorter, Aylward/ 9780415330046/ Price:GBP 240.00
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Focussing on the mechanics of social change and the interaction between ethnic groups, cultures, structures and value systems the background questions of ecology, demography and history are also examined and the process of urbanization and rural revolution described. Trends in marriage and family life, education and religious ideas are also discussed and case studies from each country included.
Contents:
1. The Anatomy of Change in East Africa
2. Ecology and Demography
3. Peopling Theories and Short History
4. Conservative Pastoral Societies
5. Chieftain Societies
6. Urbanization
7. The Rural Revolution
8. Marriage and Family Life
9. Socialization and Education
10. Religious Trends
11. Spirit Possession and Communities of Affliction
12. Witchcraft and Sorcery
13. Case: The Urban Host Tribe
14. Case: The Developing Agricultural Community
15. Case A Rural Re-settlement Area in Southern Tanzania |
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Western Civilization in Southern Africa. |
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Schapera, Isaac/ 9780415330039/ Price:GBP 180.00
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The book is structured as follows:
· An introduction of old Bantu culture
· An account of modern Bantu life
· Discussion of the influence exerted by Christianity and Education upon communal life of the Bantu
· Examination of special aspects of Bantu culture as they have been modified by Western civilization: language and music
· The economic, political and legal positions of the native tribes in South Africa are also covered.
Contents:
1. The Old Bantu Culture
2. Present-Day Life in the Native Reserves
3. Christianity and the Religious Life of the Bantu
4. The Educated Native in Bantu Communal Life
5. European Influences upon the Development of Bantu Language and Literature
6. The Effect of Western Civilization on Bantu Music
7. The Economic Condition of the Rural Natives
8. Social and Economic condition of the Urban Native
9. The Economic Position of the Bantu in South Africa
10. Native Administration in South Africa
11. Race-Mixture and Native Policy in South Africa
12. Bantu Grievances |
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Leopards and Leaders. |
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Ruel, Malcolm/ 9780415330022/ Price:GBP 180.00
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This study of politics and government among a West African people, the Banyang of the Upper Cross River, covers the end of the period of Colonial administration. The book:
· Shows the inter-relationship between the structure of the small forest communities and the highly autonomous processes by which they were governed
· Analyses the relationship between residence and common descent as principles of corporate grouping
· Includes a case study of the political struggle involved in one community's claims to independence.
Contents:
1. Introductory: The Banyang People
Part 1: the Morphology of the Complex Community
2. The Banyang Community
3. The Community and Common Descent
4. Community Constitution and the Colonial Administration
Part 2: Processes of Government
5. The Nature of Community Authority
6. Judicial Processes
7. Other Governmental Processes
8. Limitations upon the Corporate Structure of the Community
Part 3: The Role of the Associations
9. Traditional Associations
10. Ngbe
11. Modern Associations and the clan Unions
Part 4: Processes of Group Formation
12. Genealogical Growth and the Formation of New Residential Groups
13. The Processes of constitutional Politics: the Tali Split |
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Hunger and Work in a Savage Tribe. |
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Richards, Audrey I./ 9780415330015/ Price:GBP 260.00
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The force of hunger in shaping human character and social structure has been largely overlooked. This omission is a serious one in the study of primitive society, in which starvation is a constant menace. This work remedies this deficiency and opens up new lines of anthropological inquiry. The whole network of social institutions is examined which makes possible the consumption, distribution, and production of food-eating customs, as well as the religion and magic of food-production.
Contents:
1. History of the Problem
2. Human Relationships and Nutritive Needs
3. Food and Family Sentiment in Bantu Society
4. Food Production and Incentives to Work
5. Kinship Sentiment and Economic Organization
6. Economic Functions of the Clan and Tribe
7. Food as a Symbol |
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Women of Tropical Africa. |
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Paulme, Denise/ 9780415330008/ Price:GBP 180.00
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This book is unique in its approach in that each chapter covers women in their everyday lives and the problems, which concern them. Until now, ethnographic research has almost always been carried out with the help of the male population and as a result the picture that has emerged has been largely the image, which the men, and the men alone, have of their society.
Contents:
1. Denise Paulme, Introduction
2. Monique Gessain, Coniagui Women (Guinea)
3. Marguerite Dupire, The Position of Women in a Pastoral Society (the Fulani WoDaaBe, Nomads of the Niger)
4. Annie M.D. Lebeuf, The Role of Women in the Political Organization of African Societies
5. Anne Laurentin, Nzakara Women (Central African Republic)
6. Ethel M. Albert, Women of Burundi: A Study of Social Values
7. Solange Falade, Women of Dakar and the Surrounding Urban Area
8. M. Perman and M.P. Moal, Analytical Bibliography |
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Last Trek, The. |
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Patterson, Sheila/ 9780415329996/ Price:GBP 200.00
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This book evaluates the historical factors that produced the Boer people, and the political, religious and economic forces that maintain modern Afrikaner Nationalism. This last trek brings the Afrikaner back into multi-racial integrating industrial society.
Contents:
Part 1: The Past
1. Genesis, exodus and Chronicles
2. the Birth of a Language
Part 2: The Present
Demographic Note
3. Nation and Party
4. The Lean Years and the Fat Years
5. The Chosen People
6. Upbringing and Education
7. Social Structure and Cultural Life
8. Boers and Afrikaners
Part 3: Into the Future
9. Has the Afrikaner a Future? |
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Neighbours and Nationals in an African City Waro. |
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Parkin, David/ 9780415329989/ Price:GBP 49.99
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This study analyses the way in which tribal ties are maintained in the development of a tribally mixed, middle class community in Kampala, Uganda. Political independence in the early nineteen sixties in much of Africa created expectations of increased development, education and living standards. There was hope that ethnic tensions arising from false colonial boundaries might be transcended by newly emerging socio-economic status-groups. However, the new national boundaries suddenly made aliens of peoples who had migrated and settled in towns distant from their home countries. The interplay of nationality, ethnicity and socio-economic status or class was given a new theatre. Hope was dramatically tempered by nationalist and ethnic conflicts which cut across ethnically mixed, small status groups of neighbours and friends. In Kampala, Uganda, this rapidly unfolding drama resulted in the expulsion of two Kenyan ethnic groups and polarised peoples from northern and southern Uganda. The essentialisation of ethnic and national identity imposed by colonialism was thus taken on in this new situation by the people themselves, with the result that they became 'cultural' starting-points of social and political judgement.
1. Social Outline of Kampala
2. Independence and Political Changes
3. Neighbourhood, Locality, and the Status System
4. Communal Unity and Politics
5. The Tribal System and Family Life
6. Sanctions and Ideology
7. Choice among Kin
8. Luo Union and other Ethnic Associations
9. Conclusions |
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Tribes Without Rulers. |
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Middleton, John/ 9780415329972/ Price:GBP 200.00
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Recent research in Africa has shown a wide range of political systems, from small societies of wandering hunters to large states of several million people comparable with mediaeval European feudal kingdoms. In between are many societies in which a central government is lacking; the political system is based upon a balance of power between many small groups, which with their lack of classes or specialized political offices, have been called 'ordered anarchies'.
Contents:
1. John Middleton and David Tait, Introduction
2. Laura Bohannan, Political Aspects of Tiv Social Organization
3. Jean Buxton, The Mandari of the Southern Sudan
4. Godfrey Lienhardt, The Western Dinka
5. Edward Winter, The Aboriginal Political Structure of Bwamba
6. David Tait, The Territorial Pattern and Lineage System of Konkomba
7. John Middleton, The Political System of the Lugbara of the Nile-Congo Divide |
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Widows and their Familie. |
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Marris, Peter/ 9780415329965/ Price:GBP 240.00
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One of the first books to be published in the UK on bereavement, this ground-breaking study presents the results of a survey of widows in London. Focussing on younger women whose husbands had died the book deals first with grief and mourning then examines the consequences of bereavement through the help of relatives and friends and the changes it brings about to the widow's family life. Throughout the book the consequences of widowhood are discussed with relevance to psychological theory and to national policy.
Contents:
1. Introduction
2. Grief
3. Mourning
4. Help in Widowhood
5. Remarriage
6. Family Relationships
7. The Principles of Social Insurance
8. Income
9. Conclusion |
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Family and Social Change in an African City. |
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Marris, Peter/ 9780415329958/ Price:GBP 52.99
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This book is a study of the pattern of social life which developed in the slums of central Lagos; and of the effects of a compulsory slum clearance scheme on the lives of those who were removed. Both parts of the study are presented clearly and vividly and are enriched with numerous quotations of statements by the people concerned, as well as a quantity of information presented in statistical tables. - Sociological Review
This book is a study of the pattern of social life which developed in the slums of central Lagos; and of the effects of a compulsory slum clearance scheme on the lives of those who were removed.
Contents:
1. Lagos
2. The Grouping of Family Relationships
3. The Conduct of Family Affairs
4. Marriage
5. Children
6. The Economy of Central Lagos
7. The Slum Clearance Scheme
8. The Rehousing Estate
9. Rehousing as Social Policy
10. Family Life and Social Change |
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Urbanization as a Social Process. |
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Little, Kenneth/ 9780415329941/ Price:GBP 300.00
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Urbanization is probably the most important process taking place in African countries. This book provides a lucid and informative study of the significance of urbanization for social change in sub-Saharan Africa, which has vital implications for all developing regions.
Originally published in 1974.
Contents:
1. The Migratory Basis of Urban Growth
2. Modern Urbanization and its Opportunistic Undertones
3. Attitudes to Work and Wage-Employment
4. Social Class and Ethnicity
5. Urbanization and Race Relations
6. Urban Social Organization
7. Conclusions |
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Mau Mau and the Kikuyu. |
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Leakey, Louis/ 9780415329934/ Price:GBP 290.00
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This widely-acclaimed book on a troubled period of Kenyan history summarizes some of the more important Kikuyu customs, and a discussion of their break-down under the impact of European civilization. This discussion illustrates why and how the Mau Mau came into being and how the situation could be improved so that peace could once again come to Kenya.
Contents:
Part 1: The Kikuyu before the coming of the European
1. The Kikuyu and their Land
2. Marriage Customs
3. Initiation Ceremonies and Education
4. Social Organization
5. Religious Beliefs
6. Magic: White and Black
Part 2: The Kikuyu Today and the Mau Mau Movement
7. The Coming of the European
8. Changes in the Present Century
9. The Breakdown of Tribal Customs
10. Kikuyu Political Movements
11. The Growth of Mau Mau
12. Outlook for the Future |
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Defeating Mau Mau. |
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The second of two important books by Louis Leakey, the renowned expert on the Kikuyu tribe. This book examines the organisation of the Mau Mau movement, its propaganda, the nature of its religious aspects and its oaths and the mistakes its leaders made as well as covering chapters on necessary reforms to prevent further outbreaks of a similar nature.
Contents:
1. The Present Position
2. Mau Mau Aims
3. Mau Mau Organisation
4. Mau Mau Religion
5. Mau Mau Propaganda
6. Mau Mau Oath Ceremonies
7. Mau Mau Methods
8. Mau Mau and other Tribes
9. Kikyuy 'Loyalists' and Home Guards
10. the Handicaps of the Security Forces
11. What must be done: Religious, Educational, and Economic Reforms
12. What must be done: Social and Political Reforms |
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Niger Journal of Richard and John Lander, The. |
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Hallett, Robin/ 9780415329910/ Price:GBP 210.00
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The journal of the Lander brothers provides a narrative of one of the most important missions of exploration in the history of West Africa. The editor's introduction contains much new material on the Landers and their journey drawn from hitherto unpublished sources, while an epilogue describes Richard Lander's last expedition to the Niger in 1832-4 and his death at Fernando Po.
Contents:
1. The Riddle of the Niger
2. Richard and John Lander
3. The Landers' Journal
4. The States of the Niger Area in 1830
5. The Text of the Journal
Journal
Glossary
1. Portsmouth to Badagry
2. Badagry to Jenna
3. Jenna to Katunga
4. Katunga
5. Katunga to Kiama
6. Kiama
7. Kiama to Boossa
8. Boossa to Yaoorie
9. Yaoorie
10. Yaoorie to Wowow
11. Wowow
12. Boossa
13. Boossa to Lever
14. Lever to Zazozhi
15. Zagozhi
16. Zagozhi to Egga
17. Egga to Damuggoo
18. Damuggoo to Kirree
19. Kirree to Eboe Town
20. Eboe Town to Brass Town
21. Brass Town to London |
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Fields of Change among the Iteso of Kenya. |
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Karp, Ivan/ 9780415329903/ Price:GBP 200.00
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Fields of Change is a study of the means by which the Iteso adapted to the imposition of colonial rule and the loss of political independence. It explores their pacification and incorporation into a colonial state and the effects that these processes have had on Iteso territorial and political systems. At the same time it examines the way in which the political system both affected and was affected by other aspects of the Iteso social system, most notably in the fields of religion, descent and domestic kinship.
Contents:
1. Introduction
2. The Precolonial Political System
3. The Emergence of Neighbourhoods
4. Changing Patterns of Kinship and Descent
5. Kinship Terms and Norms
6. The Developmental Cycle in Domestic Groups
7. Akudiet Neighbourhood
8. Conclusion |
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Nandi of Kenya, The. |
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Huntingford, G. W. B./ 9780415329897/ Price:GBP 290.00
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African Ecoloy and Human Evolution. |
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Howell, F. Clark/ 9780415329880/ Price:GBP 210.00
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This pioneering volume summarizes the results of diverse research on Pleistocene environments and the cultural and biological evolution of man in Africa. The book includes chapters on Pleistocene stratigraphy and climatic changes throughout the African continent; on the ecology, biology and sociology of African primate and human populations. Contributors include: C. Arambourg, P. Biberson, W. W. Bishop, Geoffrey Bond, F. Bourliere, Karl W. Butzer, Desmond Clark, H. B. S. Cooke, Irven DeVore, John T. Emlen, A. T. Grove, J. de Heinzelin, J. Hiernaux, Clark Howell, L. S. B. Leakey, I. Liben, T. Monod, R. F. Moreau, R. A. pullan, J. T. Robinson, George B. Schaller, S. L. Washburn. |
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Human Factor in Changing Africa, The. |
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Herskovits, Melville J./ 9780415329873/ Price:GBP 200.00
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Focussing on the problems of change and resistance to change that mark the African sub-continent, this book examines Africa's place in the world from earliest times. It considers the nature of its peoples in their prehistoric development, the ways in which their cultures were oriented, and the ways in which these cultures guided their reactions to European ideas. It also assesses the human responses to industrial, technological and economic changes and the re-discovery by the Africans of African culture.
Contents:
1. The World Setting
2. The People and Their Past
3. The Base Line of Change: Food-Gathering and Herding Peoples
4. The Base Line of Change: Agricultural Peoples
5. The Incomers
6. The Land
7. The Book
8. The School
9. The City
10. Toward Self-Government
11. Politics and Polarities
12. Economic Change
13. Rediscovery and Integration: Religion and the Arts
14. Rediscovery and Integration: The Search for Values |
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Tradition and Transition in East Africa. |
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Gulliver, P. H./ 9780415329866/ Price:GBP 180.00
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Divided into two parts, the first sections in the book examine the significance of the tribal factor in certain general contexts and discuss some of the particular backgrounds to contemporary transition in East Africa. There are essays on politics, economic development, language, law and education, together with a comparative look at European nationalism. In the second part, the grass-roots basis and development of the concept of the tribe are considered and its operation in social life in rural areas discussed.
The contributions come from a wide range of scholars in the social sciences, history and law and the contributors are: W.J. Argyle, George Bennett, Tom J. Mboya, W.H. Whiteley, Eugene Cotran, J.W. Tyler, J.S. La Fontaine, Michael Twaddle, Kathleen M. Stahl, P.H. Gulliver, Kirsten Alneas, David J. Parkin, R.D. Grillo, I.M. Lewis, H.F. Morris.
Contents:
Part 1: General Studies
1. W.J. Argyle European Nationalism and African Tribalism
2. George Bennett Tribalism in Politics
3. Tom J. Mboya The Impact of Modern Institutions on the East African
4. W.H. Whiteley Language Choice and Language Planning in East Africa
5. Eugene Cotran Tribal Factors in the Establishment of the East African Legal Systems
6. J.W. Tyler Education and National Identity
Part 2: Regional and Case Studies
1. J.S. La Fontaine Tribalism among the Gisu
2. Michael Twaddle 'Tribalism' in Eastern Uganda
3. M. Stahl The Chagga Kathleen
4. P.H. Gulliver The Conservative Commitment in Northern Tanznaia: The Arusha and Masai
5. Kirsten Alnaes Songs of the Rwenzururu Rebellion: The Konzo Revolt against the Toro in Western Uganda
6. David J. Parkin Tribe as Fact and Fiction in an East African City
7. R.D. Grillo The Tribal Factor in an East African Trade Union
8. H.F. Morris Buganda and Tribalism
9. I.M. Lewis Nationalsim and Particularism in Somalia |
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Family Estate in Africa, The. |
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Gray, Robert F./ 9780415329859/ Price:GBP 210.00
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Too often accounts of African family life have tended to describe the family in purely static terms. The contributors to this book emphasize the developmental or time dimension of the family, analysing it as a process.
In the seven different societies described in East Africa, the Congo and the Transvaal the changing nature of the distribution of rights in the family property and resources is directly linked with the growth and change of the family itself.
Contents:
1. E.V. Winans, The Shambala Family
2. Robert a LeVine, The Gusii Family
3. Igor Kopytoff, Family and Lineage among the Suku of the Congo
4. Alfred Harris and Grace Harris, Property and the Cycle of Domestic Groups in Taita
5. Eileen Jensen Krige, Property, Cross-Cousin Marriage, and the Family Cycle among the Lobedu
6. P.H. Gulliver, The Arusha Family
7. Robert F. Gray, Lineage Structure and Property |
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Death, Property and the Ancestors. |
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Goody, Jack/ 9780415329842/ Price:GBP 200.00
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Order and Rebellion in Tribal Africa. |
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Gluckman, Max/ 9780415329835/ Price:GBP 200.00
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Urban Ethnicity. |
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Cohen, Abner/ 9780415329828/ Price:GBP 180.00
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Custom and Politics in Urban Africa. |
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Cohen, Abner/ 9780415329811/ Price:GBP 230.00
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Spirit Mediumship and Society in Africa. |
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Beattie, John/ 9780415329804/ Price:GBP 200.00
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Gathering together under a single cover material from a wide range of African societies, this volume allows similarities and differences to be easily perceived and suggests social correlates of these in terms of age, sex, marital status, social grading and wealth. It includes material on both traditional and modern cults.
Contents:
West Africa
1. M.J. Field, Spirit Possession in Ghana
2. Robin Horton, Types of Spirit Possession in Kalabari Region
3. Pierre Verger, Trance and Convention in Nago-Yoruba Spirit Mediumship
Central and South Africa
1. Elizabeth Colson, Spirit Possession Among the Tonga of Zambia
2. G. Kingsley Garbett, Spirit Mediums as Mediators in Valley Korekore Society
3. S.G. Lee, Spirit Possession Among the Zulu
East Africa
1. John Beattie, Spirit Mediumship in Bunyoro
2. Robert F. Fray, The Shetani Cult Among the Segeju of Tanzania
3. I.M. Lewis, Spirit Possession in Northern Somaliland
4. John Middleton, Spirit Possession Among the Lugbara
5. Aidan Southall, Spirit Possession and Mediumship Among the Alur
6. R.E.S. Tanner, The Theory and Practice of Sukuma Spirit Mediumship
7. F.B. Welbourn, Spirit Initiation in Ankole and a Christian Spirit Movement in Western Kenya |
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Witch Figure, The: Folklore Essays by a Group of Scholars in England Honouring the 75th Birthday of Katharine M Briggs. |
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Newall, Venetia/ 9780415330749/ Price:GBP 180.00
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Katharine Briggs enjoys an unchallenged reputation in the world of folklore studies. The theme of this volume, the witch figure as a malevolent intermediary in folk belief, was chosen to reflect that aspect of Briggs's scholarship exemplified in her study of witchcraft, Pale Hecate's Team.
The contributors draw on the disciplines of archaeology, comparative religion, sociology and literature and include: Carmen Blacker, H.R. Ellis Davidson, Margaret Dean-Smith, L.V. Grinsell, Christina Hole, Venetia Newall, Geoffrey Parrinder, Anne Ross, Jacqueline Simpson, Beatrice White, John Widdowson. |
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Witchcraft and Sorcery in East Africa. |
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Middleton, John/ 9780415330732/ Price:GBP 200.00
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Containing ten essays by anthropologists on the beliefs and practices associated with witches and sorcerers in Eastern Africa, the chapters in this book are all based on field research and new information which is studied within its wider social context.
1. John Beattie Sorcery in Bunyoro
2. T.O. Beidelman Witchcraft in Ukaguru
3. Jean Buxton Mandari Witchcraft
4. Mary Douglas Techniques of Sorcery Control in Central Africa
5. Robert F. Gray Some Structural Aspects of Mbugwe Witchcraft
6. G.W.B. Huntingford Nandi Witchcraft
7. Jean La Fontaine Witchcraft in Bugisu
8. Robert A. LeVine Witchcraft and Sorcery in a Gusii community
9. John Middleton Witchcraft and Sorcery in Lugbara
10. E.H. Winter The Enemy Within: Amba Witchcraft and Sociological Theory |
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Structural Study of Myth and Totemism, The. |
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Leach, Edmund/ 9780415330725/ Price:GBP 230.00
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Designed to provoke controversy, the papers in this volume concentrate on two main themes: the study of myth and totemism. Starting with an English translation of La Geste d'Asdiwal, which is widely considered to be the most brilliant of all of Levi-Strauss's shorter expositions of his technique of myth analysis, the volume also contains criticism of this essay. The second part of the volume discusses how far Levi-Strauss's treatment of totemism as a system of category formation can be correlated with the facts that an ethnographer encounters in the field.
Part 1: The Structural Study of Myth
1. Claude Levi-Strauss The Story of Asdiwal
2. Mary Douglas The Meaning of Myth, with special reference to 'La Geste d'Asdiwal'
3. Nur Yalman 'The Raw: The Cooked: Nature: Culture'
4. K.O.L. Burridge Levi-Strauss and Myth
Part 2: The Structural Study of Totemism
5. E. Michael Mendelson The 'Uninvited Guest': Ancilla to Levi-Strauss on Totemism and Primitive Thought
6. Peter Worsley Groote Eylandt Totemism and Le Totemisme audourd'hui
7. Robin Fox Totem and Taboo Reconsidered |
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Life-Giving Myth, The. |
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Hocart, A. M./ 9780415330718/ Price:GBP 200.00
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Myths are the expression of a form of knowledge essential to life. Including mainly previously unpublished work by A.M. Hocart the book examines such issues as:
Why a queen should not have been married before; why a guest is sacred; why people are believed to have been turned into stone; how money originated.
These issues are considered as part of a socio-religious complex embraced in many parts of the world, both East and West. (There are chapters on the UK, India, Sri Lanka, Africa, Fiji, Egypt, and Ancient Greece).
1. The Life-giving Myth
2. Flying Through the Air
3. Turning into Stone
4. The Common Sense of Myth
5. The Purpose of Ritual
6. Ritual and Emotion
7. The Origin of Monotheism
8. The Divinity of the Guest
9. Yakshas and Vaddas
10. Money
11. Modern Critique
12. In the Grip of Tradition
13. Snobbery
14. Chastity
15. Saviours
16. The Age-Limit
17. Childhood Ceremonies
18. Baptism by Fire
19. Initiation and Manhood
20. Initiation and Healing
21. Tattooing and Healing
22. Kinship Systems
23. Blood-Brotherhood
24. Covenants
25. The Uterine Nephew
26. Why Study Saves?
27. Are Savages Custom-Bound?
28. From Ancient to Modern Egypt
29. India and the Pacific
30. Decadence in India |
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Witchcraft Confessions and Accusations. |
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Douglas, Mary/ 9780415330701/ Price:GBP 180.00
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Historians as well as anthropologists have contributed to this volume of studies on aspects of witchcraft in a variety of cultures and periods from Tudor England to twentieth-century Africa and New Guinea.
Contributors include: Mary Douglas, Norman Cohn, Peter Brown, Keith Thomas, Alan Macfarlane, Alison Redmayne, R.G. Willis, Edwin Ardener, Robert Brain, Julian Pitt-Rivers, Esther Goody, Peter Riviere, Anthony Forge, Godfrey Lienhardt, I.M. Lewis, Brian Spooner, G.I. Jones, Malcolm Ruel and T.O. Beidelman. |
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Japanese Rainmaking and Other Folk Practices. |
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Bownas, Geoffrey/ 9780415330695/ Price:GBP 230.00
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The ritual of rainmaking is one of half a dozen Japanese folk practices and festivals described in this book. The story of rainmaking ceremonies begins with personal experience and then draws on the work of Japanese folklorists to record significant local variations and to construct a general account of the history and purpose of the ceremony.
Field research was conducted during study visits to Kyoto, to Tenri in Nara Prefecture and to Shiga Prefecture.
The chapter order follows the year cycle, from New Year via early summer purificatory festivals and rainmaking ceremonial to the feast of Bon, which with New Year ceremonies divides the year. Alongside these community or public rites are described private or family rituals concerned with birth, marriage and death.
The introductory chapter relates aspects of Japanese culture, myth and language to the constant features of folk practice recorded or extant in 1950s Japan. |
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Classification and Human Evolution. |
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Washburn, Sherwood L./ 9780415330688/ Price:GBP 180.00
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Reading in Early Anthropology. |
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Slotkin, James S./ 9780415330671/ Price:GBP 62.99
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Theory of Social Structure, The. |
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Nadel, S. F./ 9780415330664/ Price:GBP 240.00
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Theory in Anthropology: A Source Book. |
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Manners, Robert A./ 9780415330657/ Price:GBP 200.00
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Anthropology and the Greeks. |
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Humphreys, S. C./ 9780415330640/ Price:GBP 290.00
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Primitive Law, Past and Present. |
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Diamond, A. S./ 9780415330633/ Price:GBP 230.00
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Observation of Savage Peoples, The. |
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Degerando, Joseph-Marie/ 9780415330626/ Price:GBP 240.00
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Marxism and Anthropology: The History of a Relationship. |
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Bloch, Maurice/ 9780415330619/ Price:GBP 290.00
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Marxist Analyses and Social Anthropology. |
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Bloch, Maurice/ 9780415330602/ Price:GBP 230.00
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Political Systems and the Distribution of Power. |
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Banton, Michael/ 9780415330596/ Price:GBP 230.00
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Encyclopedia of Kitchen History. |
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Snodgrass, Mary Ellen/ 9781579583804/ Price:GBP 210.00
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The Encyclopedia of Culinary History is a two-volume work that offers a complete A-to-Z overview of approximately 400 topics. Ranging from important authors like Isabella Beeton and Charles Elme Francatelli and inventors such as Alfred Fuller and Nils Dalen, to baking, convenience foods, vermin, Roman cookery, Bakelite, ramadas, dumas, and the genetic modification of food, entries examine the evolution of food, cooking styles, food storage, and equipment. As complements to the basic text, the Encyclopedia also includes detailed guides (such as types of faience and enamelling and lists of dyestuffs and herbs), generous cross-references, comprehensive lists of source material, a timeline of seminal events in domestic history, and references to related authors and their works.
The Encyclopedia's thorough index provides the reader with quick accessibility to a wealth of information describing the people, recipes, inventions, processes, and foodstuffs that have shaped culinary history from the discovery of fire to present-day innovations. |
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Race, Ethnicity and Migration in Modern Japan, 3-Vols/Set. |
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Weiner, Michael/ 9780415208543/ Price:GBP 280.00
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Drawing on the full range of materials published during the twentieth century, this three volume set incorporates previously published material concerning the formation of 'racial' identities in Japan, and social exclusion as experienced by the Ainu, Burakumin, Okinawans, and Chinese and Korean residents. It also includes material related to migration, both pre- and post-war, with special reference to the formation of Nikkeijin (Latin American national of Japanese descent) communities. In addition to those populations conventionally defined as minorities, 'racial' discourse also affects Japanese attitudes toward and perceptions of other groups (e.g. Asians, Blacks, Jews). To ensure both the fullest possible coverage of the related literature and to provide a framework for comparative analysis, this set also incorporates analyses of Japanese attitudes toward these groups.
Intended as a resource for both students and specialist researchers, this collection provides a unique introduction of the English language literature related to 'race', migration, and identity in Japan. In addition to textual material related to specific issues or groups, the set provides comprehensive bibliographies and a listing of relevant Internet sources.
There is also a new introduction and thorough index, making this set an invaluable reference tool. |
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Encyclopedia of Black Studies. |
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Asante, Molefi Kete/ 9780761927624/ Price:GBP 190.00
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dynamic and innovative research on the Black Experience. The concept for the encyclopedia was developed from the successful Journal of Black Studies (SAGE) and contains a full analysis of the economic, political, sociological, historical, literary, and philosophical issues related to Americans of African descent. This single-volume reference is the vanguard of the recent explosive growth in quality scholarship in the field.
More than a chronicle of black culture or black people, this encyclopedia deals with the emergence and maturity of an intellectual field over the past four decades. Beginning with the protests at San Francisco State College in 1967 that led to the first degree-granting department of Black Studies, the field's rapid growth over time necessitates an authoritative account of the discipline. More than ever scholars and students need a clear conception of what the evolutionary processes have been in the creation and maintenance of the discipline. |
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Postwar British Critical Thought, 4-Vols/Set. |
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Milner, Andrew/ 9780761943679/ Price:GBP 675.00
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The is an unparalleled, comprehensive guide to postwar British thought on culture and society. It provides readers with a unique resource which distils the key debates and crucial contributions and points to how these initiatives have been taken up elsewhere.
The volumes are organized into four main sections: (1) Old Right and New Left; (2) New Theories; (3) New Politics; and (4) New Times.
The first deals with the 'culturalist' critiques of postwar Britain developed by the Old Right and New Left. It also explores some of the sociological commentary on postwar British affluence and the power hierarchy. The second section traces the impact of new forms of 'continental' theorizing, especially structuralism and post-structuralism, during the 1960s and 70s. The third traces the growing concern with 'new' issues of gender, sexuality, postcolonialism, race and ethnicity. The final section deals with postmodernism and globalization, especially as reflected through the distinctively British thematics of 'exterminism', 'New Times' and the 'Third Way'. -- Andrew Milner is Professor in the Centre for Comparative Literature and Cultural Studies at Monash University in Melbourne, Australia |
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Urban Culture: Critical Concepts in Literary and Cultural Studies, 4-Vols/Set. |
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Jenks, Chris/ 9780415304825/ Price:GBP 290.00
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This collection is an interdisciplinary study focusing on the various cultural aspects of city life. The works included are drawn from a broad range of canonical and secondary sources and emphasise the 'new', covering modernist and postmodernist perspectives of urban culture. The collection is arranged thematically highlighting the variety of interests that coexist (and conflict) within the city. Issues such as gender, class, race, age and disability are covered along with urban experiences such as walking, politics & protest, governance, inclusion and exclusion. 'Urban pathologies', including gangsters, mugging and drug-dealing are also explored. Selections cover cities from around the globe, including London, Berlin, Paris, New York, Los Angeles, Rio de Janeiro, Bombay and Tokyo. |
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History of Early Television, A. 3-Vols/Set. |
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Herbert, Stephen/ 9780415326650/ Price:GBP 230.00
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This three volume collection reprints two important 1920s/30s books relating to television, and a collection of short articles covering the social, aesthetic and technical aspects of the medium. Items range from 1870s prophecies, experiments and cartoons, to 1930s accounts of the first public broadcasting systems in Britain, Germany, and the USA. The pieces are from newspapers, specialist journals of the period, and popular magazines. Technical articles included are chosen for their accessibility to non-specialists with limited technical knowledge. The selection comments on the progress of television in many parts of the world. |
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Cultural Geography: Critical Concepts in the Social Sciences, 2-Vols/Set. |
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Thrift, Nigel/ 9780415285025/ Price:GBP 190.00
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Providing both a retrospective as well as a prospective take on modern cultural geography, this collection provides a range of diverse material. The volumes constitute both an historical resource, tracking the marking of the field, and a map of contemporary themes and obsessions. A distinctive feature of the editorial selection is its emphasis on the multiplicity of theoretical and substantive concerns in cultural geography over and above the 'classical' interests in elite cultural practices and representational approaches to cultural politics. This enlargement of the compass of cultural geography emphasises its interfaces with science studies, cultural studies, post-colonial studies and environmental history.
The collection is in four parts, with new introductions to each volume. The first volume addresses the history and practices of contemporary cultural geography itself, from writing to exploration. The second focuses on the cultural politics of identity. The third examines the diversity of senses through which cultural worlds are inhabited. The fourth volume explores the materialities of cultural practice and approaches that admit the non-human into the company of cultural geography. |
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Popular Print Media 1820-1900, 3-Vols/Set. |
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King, Andrew/ 9780415322508/ Price:GBP 800.00
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Popular Print Media makes available a selection of articles from nineteenth-century newspapers, periodicals and books which are otherwise unavailable except in their original publications.
The collection also includes a significant amount of material that highlights the complex and changing importance of women in and for the nineteenth-century media at large.
The collection is made up of three volumes, divided into six sections and will cover the following themes: technology, reading spaces , influence of print, graphic media, serial fiction, periodicals and the 'popular'.
Each section includes a new introduction by the editors.
The editors will also include a thematic table that enables readers to pursue a specific conceptual and/or historical issue, such as the impact of serial publication upon practices of reading and authorship. |
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Cambrian Fossils of Chengjiang, China, The: The Flowering of Early Animal Life. |
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Hou, Xian-Guang/ 9781405106733/ Price:US$ 159.95
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The Chengjiang biota is one of the most remarkable fossil discoveries ever made. The Cambrian Fossils of Chengjiang is the first book in English to provide fossil enthusiasts with an overview of the fauna.
* 100 superb full color plates.
* First English language illustrated guide to this important fauna.
* A must-have for all palaeontologists worldwide. |
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| VA03-86 |
Companion to the American West, A. |
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Deverell, William/ 9780631213574/ Price:US$ 235.00
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A Companion to the American West is a rigorous, illuminating introduction to the history of the American West. Twenty-five essays by expert scholars synthesize the best and most provocative work in the field and provide a comprehensive overview of themes and historiography.
* Contains twenty-five original essays by leading experts in the history of the American West.
* Covers the culture, politics, and environment of the American West through periods of migration, settlement, and modernization.
* Discusses Native Americans and their conflicts and integration with American settlers. |
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| VA03-83 |
Reformation: Critical Concepts in Historical Studies, 4-Vols/Set. |
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Pettegree, Andrew/ 9780415316675/ Price:GBP 325.00
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This collection reflects both the classic building blocks of Reformation history, such as the writings of Luther and Calvin, and also the new historiography which has emerged in recent years. The material is organized so as to explore the thematic complexities of this all-encompassing movement, whilst giving due weight to developments in different parts of Europe including France, the Netherlands, Germany, Switzerland, England and Scotland. |
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| VA03-66 |
Medieval Italy: An Encyclopedia, 2-Vols/Set. |
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Kleinhenz, C./ 9780415939294/ Price:GBP 315.00
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This Encyclopedia gathers together the most recent scholarship on Medieval Italy, while offering a sweeping view of all aspects of life in Italy during the Middle Ages. This two volume, illustrated, A-Z reference is a cross-disciplinary resource for information on literature, history, the arts, science, philosophy and religion in Italy between AD 450 and 1375.
Featuring nearly 1,000 entries running from a concise 100 to a comprehensive length of 10,000 words, Medieval Italy depicts every aspect of the time and place, with all its apparent contradictions. Encompassing public and private life, the sacred and the profane, this unique work includes accounts of lucre and revenge alongside coverage of great strides in education and the arts, depicting the many variegated hues that constituted the medieval Italian world and heralded the advent of the renaissance. |
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Holocaust, The: Critical Concepts in Historical Studies, 6-Vols/Set. |
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Cesarani, D./ 9780415275095/ Price:GBP 425.00
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Since the end of the 1980s the field of Holocaust studies has burgeoned, diversified, and experienced a series of important controversies. Drawing on the best research of the past sixty years, this collection brings together the most significant secondary literature on the Nazi persecution and mass murder of the Jews. Care is taken to set the work in a context of historical breadth and depth. |
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Japan in English, Volume 39: Rambles in Japan: The Land of the Rising Sun. |
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Tristram, Henry Baker/ 9781862100893/ Price:GBP 75.00
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Japan in English, Volume 38: Letters from the Land of the Rising Sun: Being a Selection from Correspondence Contributed to "The Times" between the Years 1886 and 1892. |
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Palmer, Henry Spencer/ 9781862100886/ Price:GBP 85.00
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Japan in English, Volume 37: Japan as We Saw It. |
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Bickersteth, Mary Jane/ 9781862100879/ Price:GBP 85.00
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Japan in English, Volume 36: Gleanings from Japan. |
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Dickson, Walter George/ 9781862100855/ Price:GBP 85.00
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Japan in English, Volume 35: Leading Men of Japan, with an Historical Summary of the Empire. |
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Lanman, Charles/ 9781862100848/ Price:GBP 85.00
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Japan in English, Volume 34: Eight Years in Japan, 1873-1881: Work, Travel, and Recreation. |
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Holtham, Edmund G./ 9781862100831/ Price:GBP 85.00
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Japan in English, Volume 33: Notes and Sketches from the Wild Coasts of Nipon, with Chapters on Cruising after Pirates in Chinese Waters. |
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John, Henry Craven Saint/ 9781862100824/ Price:GBP 85.00
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Japan in English: Key Nineteenth-Century Sources on Japan, Volume 33-36. |
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Japan in English, Volume 32: The Eastern Seas: Being a Narrative of the Voyage of H.M.S. "Dwarf" in China, Japan, and Formosa. |
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Bax, Bonham Ward/ 9781862100800/ Price:GBP 75.00
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Japan in English, Volume 30 & 31: The History of Japan. Vol. 1: To the Year 1864; Vol. 2: 1865-1871. |
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Admas, Francis Ottiwell/ 9781862100794/ Price:GBP 175.00
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Japan in English, Volume 29: Travels of a Naturalist in Japan and Manchuria. |
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Adams, Arthur/ 9781862100787/ Price:GBP 75.00
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Japan in English: Key Nineteenth-Century Sources on Japan, Volume 29-32. |
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Companion to Nineteenth-Century Britain, A. |
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William, Chris/ 9780631225799/ Price:US$ 244.25
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A Companion to Nineteenth-Century Britain presents 33 essays by expert scholars on all the major aspects of the political, social, economic and cultural history of Britain during the late Georgian and Victorian eras.
* An accessible reference to all aspects of nineteenth-century British history.
The book is truly British, rather than English in scope.
* Makes sense of new perspectives on the nineteenth century, including postmodern and poststructuralist views.
* Illustrated with maps and charts.
Includes guides to further reading. |
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Greenwood Encyclopedia of Daily Life, The: A Tour through History from Ancient Times to the Present, 6-Vols/Set. |
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Salisbury, Joyce E./ 9780313325410/ Price:GBP 494.95
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What did historical peoples eat, wear, use? What did they hope, invent, sing? Our lives are built on essential but seemingly mundane things: food, shelter, families, neighbors, work, and play. Our activities rarely rise to headline-making greatness, and the same holds true for the majority of people throughout history. Yet it's the unremembered details of people's everyday struggles and successes that have shaped history, and continue to drive the world we know. Perfect for general readers and students of world history, U.S. history, literature, drama, social studies, anthropology, religion, and more, this exuberant new resource offers an unprecedented look at human history's living heart: the billions of anonymous men and women too often forgotten by historical studies, but without whose lives human history would be meaningless. Providing unparalleled breadth and depth, this six-volume set is organized both thematically and chronologically.
Panoramic overview articles show the full range and interconnections of everyday life throughout history. General topics are then broken into component parts, each of which is explored in synthetic essays. The chronological and thematic organizations, aided by concept maps that graphically show interconnections and act as visual navigational cues, reflect how students really learn. All regions of the world are covered at various points in their histories. Helpful research features include: BL Historical overviews BL Concept maps BL Numerous illustrations and maps BL Chronologies BL Sidebars BL Primary documents BL "For More Information" guides BL Cumulative set index in each volume Volume 1 examines the ancient world, from the beginnings of civilization in 3,500 B.C.E. through the Roman Empire in 400 C.E. Volume 2 covers from 400 to 1400 C.E. Volume 3 explores the 15th and 16th centuries. Volume 4 looks at the 17th and 18th centuries. Volume 5 examines the 19th century, and Volume 6 covers the 20th century. |
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Narrative Theory: Critical Concepts in Literary and Cultural Studies, 4-Vols/Set. |
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Bal, Mieke/ 9780415316576/ Price:GBP 1050.00
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This set of volumes sketches the history, breadth, and applicability of narrative theory, thus demonstrating its value as an analytical instrument. The collection includes articles from the leading names of narrative theory, such as Roland Barthes, Mikhail Bakhtin, Tzvetan Todorov and Jean-Francoise Lyotard, as well as lesser-known, though equally important, contributions.
Volume 1: Major Issues in Narrative Theory
Volume II: Special Topics
Volume III: Political Narratology
Volume IV: Interdisciplinarity |
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Gothic: Critical Concepts in Literary and Cultural Studies, 4-Vols/Set. |
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Botting, Fred/ 9780415251129/ Price:GBP 94.99
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In the last two decades criticism of Gothic fiction has been transformed from a scholarly backwater, interesting itself in literary curiosities, to a wave of wide-ranging critical investigations collectively convinced of the significance, scope and centrality of the genre.
Embracing recent developments in critical theory and practice, work on Gothic has been able to engage systematically and penetratingly with issues of gender, history, race and politics, and so significantly extend the parameters of the field.
This collection brings together key works which convey the breadth of what is understood to be Gothic, and the ways in which it has produced, reinforced and undermined received ideas about literature and culture. In addition to its interests in the late eighteenth-century origins of the form, this collection aims to anthologise what it takes to be path-breaking essays on most aspects of Gothic production, including some of its nineteenth, twentieth and twenty-first century manifestations across a broad range of cultural media. |
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Intelligence in Warfare: Knowledge of the Enemy from Napoleon to Al-Qaeda |
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John Keegan/ 9780712666503/ Price:GBP 12.99
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The Mendicant Houses of Medieval London, 1221-1539. |
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Rohrkasten, Jens/ 9783825881177/ Price:US$ 89.95
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The French Revolution. |
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Frey, Linda S./ 9780313321931/ Price:GBP 43.00
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The New A-Z of the Middle East. |
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Gresh, Alain/ 9781860643262/ Price:GBP 23.99
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Cosa Nostra. |
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Dickie, John/ 9780340824344/ Price:GBP 20.00
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Children of The Bush. |
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Lawson, Henry/ 9781419112904/ Price:US$ 24.95
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American Machiavelli: Alexander Hamilton and the Origins of U.S. Foreign Policy. |
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Harper, John/ 9780521834858/ Price:GBP 39.99
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Holding China Together: Diversity and National Integration in the Post-Deng Era. |
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Naughton, Barry/ 9780521837309/ Price:GBP 52.00
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Brill's Companion to Cicero: Oratory and Rhetoric. |
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May, James M./ 9789004121478/ Price:EUR 281.00
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Red Attack, White Resistance: Civil War in South Russia 1918. |
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Kenez, Peter/ 9780974493442/ Price:US$ 24.00
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Manchu-Mongol Relations on the Eve of the Qing Conquest: A Documentary History. |
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Cosmo, N. D./ 9789004117778/ Price:EUR 60.00
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Rituals of Recruitment in Tang China: Reading an Annual Programme in the Collected Statements by Wang Dingbao (870-940). |
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Moore, O. J./ 9789004139374/ Price:EUR 199.00
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Material Virtue: Ethics and the Body in Early China. |
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Csikszentmihalyi, Mark/ 9789004141964/ Price:EUR 199.00
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This book reconstructs a neglected episode in the development of Confucianism, one that considerably influenced later Chinese religious thought.
Material Virtue examines a set of four through first century B.C.E. Chinese texts that argue virtue has a physical correlate in the body. Based on both transmitted (e.g., the Mengzi or Mencius) and recently excavated (e.g., the Wuxing or Five Kinds of Action) texts, Material Virtue describes how the argument addresses challenges to early Chinese religious ethics in part by relying on emerging notions such as the balance of qi (pneumas) also found in natural philosophy. |
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Tang China and the Collapse of the Uighur Empire: A Documentary History. |
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Drompp, M. R./ 9789004141292/ Price:EUR 176.00
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The extant writings of the late Tang chief minister Li Deyu form the basis for Michael Drompp's reconstruction of the Tang dynasty's response to a threatening event, viz. the collapse of the Uighur steppe empire in 840 C.E., and the subsequent fleeing of large numbers of Uighur refugees to China's northern frontier.
Through a translation of seventy relevant documents the author analyzes the rhetoric of the crisis, as well as its aftermath. The extant writings of Li Deyu uniquely allow an in-depth look into Chinese-Inner Asian relations, very unusual for such an early period. This volume permits us a close look at the workings of the late Tang government, particularly in terms of policy formation and implementation, as well as the rhetoric surrounding such activities. |
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Collecting the Self: Body and Identity in Strange Tale Collections of Late Imperial China. |
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Chiang, Sing-Chen L./ 9789004142039/ Price:EUR 159.00
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Chinese strange tale collections contain short stories about ghosts and animal spirits, supra-human heroes and freaks, exotic lands and haunted homes, earthquake and floods, and other perceived "anomalies" to accepted cosmic and social norms. As such, this body of literature is a rich repository of Chinese myths, folklore, and unofficial "histories". These collections also reflect Chinese attitudes towards normalcy and strangeness, perceptions of civilization and barbarism, and fantasies about self and other. Inspired in part by Freud's theory of the uncanny, this book explores the emotive subtexts of late imperial strange tale collections to consider what these stories tell us about suppressed cultural anxieties, the construction of gender, and authorial self-identity. |
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The Men Who Governed Han China: Companion to a Biographical Dictionary of the Qin, Former Han and Xin Periods. |
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Loewe, M./ 9789004138452/ Price:EUR 215.00
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How were prominent figures in the formative stages of China's imperial government affected by changes in the theory and practice of government and its institutions? Calling on documentary evidence, some found only recently, Dr. Loewe examines local administration, the careers of officials, military organisation, the nobilities and kingdoms, the concepts of imperial sovereignty and the part played by the emperors. Special attention is paid to the anomalies in the historical records; tabulated lists of officials and other items summarise the evidence on which the chapters are based. Historical change and intellectual controversies are seen in the growth and decay of organs of administration, in the careers of individual men and women and the personal part that they played in shaping events. |
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War Since 1945. |
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Black, Jeremy/ 9781861892164/ Price:GBP 14.95
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Jeremy Black’s provocative new book re-evaluates modern warfare in recent times. Moving beyond the Cold War paradigm, the book focuses instead on the variety of post-1945 conflicts and the diversity of goals and methods that have been employed. Central to the book is its global coverage and, in particular, its emphasis on the importance of the Third World in any account of this period.
Black argues that the Cold War narrative, so securely located within the Western intellectual tradition, pays insufficient attention to the diversity of military force structures, methods, goals and cultures that have existed in modern times. Rather than the familiar supply-side assessments that view improvements in weaponry or increases in numbers without adequately considering the wider context, Black presents a demand-led account of warfare that focuses on the ‘tasking’ of the military. As such, this book provides an original interpretation of modern warfare. |
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Sovereign City: The City-State Ancient and Modern. |
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Parker, Geoffrey/ 9781861892195/ Price:GBP 25.00
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Sovereign City examines the nature of the city-state’s changing role and traces the evolution of the city as a political entity from ancient times, when it flourished, to the present day, when it is of much diminished importance.
Geoffrey Parker examines the city-state as a geopolitical form, as well as its distinctive place within a range of types of states. The rise of the city-state in ancient times is analysed with particular reference to the Greek polis, which Plato and Aristotle considered the perfect type of state. He also examines the Roman example of city-state as imperial capital, as well as the political role of the city in the early Islamic world, assessing the extent to which the term ‘city-state’ is applicable. He goes on to consider the revival of the European city-state in late Medieval and Renaissance Italy, tracing its extension to northern Europe.
The importance of the city-state, as one of the principal forms of geopolitical organization in early modern Europe, culminated with the Hanseatic League of city-states located around the Baltic and the North Sea. The relationship of the League with other emerging types of state, particularly the nation-state, is examined, and the extent to which the nation-state was a cause of the city-state’s decline is addressed. The author concludes with an examination of the role of the city-state in the contemporary world, focusing on its re-emergence in parts of the Far East and the Islamic world in the post-imperial era. In this context, he assesses the possible role of the city-state in the twenty-first century and beyond. |
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Sixties in America Reference Library, 4-Vols/Set. |
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/ 9780787692490/ Price:US$ 348.00
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The Sixties in America Reference Library presents a broad overview of the turbulent 1960s, a decade that forever changed the American social, political and cultural landscape.
The Sixties in America: Almanac covers major issues of the period, from Cold War politics and the civil rights movement to antiwar protests and Motown.
The Sixties in America: Biographies features profiles of the major figures from the 1960s, including John F. Kennedy, Lyndon Johnson, Abbie Hoffman, Martin Luther King, Jr., Rachel Carson, Bob Dylan and Muhammad Ali.
The Sixties in America: Primary Sources includes excerpts from speeches, diary entries and other primary source materials, including John Kerry's statement on behalf of the Vietnam Veterans Against the War; Malcolm X's "The Ballot or the Bullet"; and Betty Friedan's "Feminine Mystique." |
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American Home Front in World War II Reference Libary, 4-Vols/Set. |
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/ 9780787676087/ Price:US$ 390.00
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Unlike other resources, which often focus on the day-to-day battles and other military details of World War II, American Home Front in World War II examines the effect of those battles on the people living in America. From issues of ethnicity to home front organizations, this three-volume set explores the complexity of this often-overlooked aspect of the war.
American Home Front in World War II: Almanac discusses major events on the home front, including the changing role of women, Civil Defense and the draft.
American Home Front in World War II: Biographies highlights 26 key figures, such as Norman Rockwell, The Andrews Sisters and others.
American Home Front in World War II: Primary Sources includes primary material from a variety of sources, including speeches, documents and more. |
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Americans at War: Society, Culture, and the Homefront, 4-Vols/Set. |
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/ 9780028658063/ Price:US$ 980.00
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This unique, four-volume set explains to students how mobilization for war and how wars themselves have altered the fabric of everyday life. Written by scholars in the fields of history, literature and the arts, sociology, law, political science and psychology, the encyclopedia places major American conflicts -- from the Colonial Wars through the War on Terrorism -- in the context of cultural and social events and conditions on the homefront. Articles include biographies and topics such as civil liberties, media, politics, popular culture, religion, memory and national identity, civic celebrations and monumental art, literature, the roles of women and minorities, veterans, science and technology, humor, and music. |
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Reconstruction Era Reference Library, 4-Vols/Set. |
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/ 9780787692162/ Price:US$ 390.00
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The three-volume Reconstruction Era Reference Library provides targeted information on post-Civil War America, from the end of the war in 1865 to the Compromise of 1877.
Reconstruction Era Reference Library: Almanac covers the political and social aspects of Reconstruction, including carpetbaggers and scalawags, amnesty for white Southerners, "Black Codes," the impeachment of President Johnson, the rise of the Ku Klux Klan, attempts to restore the old order in the South and much more.
Reconstruction Era Reference Library: Biographies examines key figures from the era, such as Ulysses S. Grant, Rutherford B. Hayes, Edwin M. Stanton, Charles Sumner and many others.
Reconstruction Era Reference Library: Primary Sources includes rich source material, including the Civil Rights Act, Freedman's Bureau Law, diaries of former slaves, the Reconstruction Act of 1867 and more. |
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New Dictionary of the History of Ideas, 6-Vols/Set. |
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/ 9780684313771/ Price:US$ 1161.00
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What are the origins of the concepts under which we organize societies, create institutions and think about our lives? Where did the concept of God or equal rights or democracy come from? How does one idea influence another? Such questions fuel debates, speeches, papers and assignments in history classes, school speaking competitions, ethics classes and more.
The publication of the New Dictionary of the History of Ideas marks the return of a reference work that is an essential tool to make the often complex history of "what we think" accessible to students and general readers. The original 1974 Dictionary of the History of Ideas has long been admired as a landmark document encapsulating the thinking of an era. This thoroughly re-envisioned New Dictionary of the History of Ideas brings fresh intelligence and a global perspective to bear on timeless questions about the individual and society. A distinguished team of international scholars explore new thinking in areas previously covered (communism, linguistics, physics) and present cross-cultural perspectives on more recent topics such as postmodernism, deconstruction and post-colonialism. |
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Encyclopedia of Irish History and Culture, 2-Vols/Set. |
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/ 9780028659022/ Price:US$ 335.00
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The impact of the Irish upon the arts, popular culture, scholarship and politics has been immense. Literature in English cannot be fully understood without consideration of James Joyce, Oscar Wilde, W.B. Yeats, Samuel Beckett, Seamus Heaney and many others. Names such as Guinness and Fleadh Cheoil are immediately recognizable. The Irish struggle for independence in the early 20th century, and the strife that continues to this day, have captured the world's attention.
The Encyclopedia of Irish History and Culture spans prehistoric times to the present, and treats both the Republic of Ireland and Northern Ireland in detail. Entries represent an inclusive, cross-disciplinary approach, written by specialists in history, archaeology, anthropology, geography, politics, economics, the Irish and English languages and literatures, the visual arts and other fields. |
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Forgotten Voices of World War II : A New History of World War II in the Words of the Men and Women Who Were There. |
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Arthur, Max/ 9781592285860/ Price:US$ 24.95
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Uniforms of the Civil War : An Illustrated Guide for Historians, Collectors, and Reenactors. |
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Smith, Robin/ 9781592285259/ Price:US$ 17.95
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Classic Civil War Stories : Twenty Extraordinary Tales of the North and South. |
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Purcell, Lisa/ 9781592284566/ Price:US$ 9.95
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Bread and Rice : An American Woman's Fight to Survive in the Jungles and Prison Camps of the WWII Philippines. |
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Doris, Macauley/ 9781592284139/ Price:US$ 14.95
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The Lost Patrol: The Mounties' Yukon Tragedy. |
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North, Dick/ 9781592285730/ Price:US$ 14.95
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The Greatest War Stories Ever Told: Twenty-Four Incredible War Tales. |
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Underwood, Lamar/ 9781592285600/ Price:US$ 14.95
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The Greatest Flying Stories Ever Told: Nineteen Amazing Tales from the Sky. |
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Underwood, Lamar/ 9781592284818/ Price:US$ 14.95
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Notorious Prisons : An Inside Look at the Worlds Most Feared Institutions. |
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Christianson, Scott/ 9781592285822/ Price:US$ 19.95
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Forgotten Voices of the Great War : A History of World War I in the Words of the Men and Women Who Were There. |
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Arthur, Max/ 9781592285709/ Price:US$ 24.95
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U.S. Army Counterguerrilla Operations Handbook. |
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Department of the Army/ 9781592285754/ Price:US$ 18.95
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U.S. Army Desert Operations Handbook. |
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Department of the Army/ 9781592285198/ Price:US$ 18.95
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U.S. Army Reconnaissance and Surveillance Handbook. |
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Department of the Army/ 9781592285204/ Price:US$ 18.95
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The 100-Year Secret: Britain's Hidden World War II Massacre. |
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Jacobs, Benjamin/ 9781592285327/ Price:US$ 24.95
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Famous First Flights That Changed History : Sixteen Dramatic Adventures. |
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Aldrin, Buzz/ 9781592285365/ Price:US$ 16.95
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Duty, Honor, Victory : America's Athletes in World War II. |
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Bloomfield, Gary L./ 9781592285488/ Price:US$ 19.95
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Duty, Honor, Applause : America's Entertainers in World War II. |
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Bloomfield, Gary L./ 9781592285501/ Price:US$ 29.95
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Making Native American Hunting, Fighting, and Survival Tools : The Complete Guide to Making and Using Traditional Tools. |
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Burch, Monte/ 9781592280209/ Price:US$ 24.95
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Dictionary of the North-West Semitic Inscriptions, 2-Vols/Set. |
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Hoftijzer, J./ 9789004098213/ Price:EUR 637.00
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The North-West Semitic epigraphic contributes considerably to our understanding of the Old Testament and of the Ugaritic texts and to our knowledge of the North-West Semitic languages as such.
This dictionary is concerned with the North-West Semitic material found in inscriptions, papyri and ostraca in Phoenician, Punic, Hebrew, various forms of Aramaic, Ammonite, Edomite, the language of Deir Alla et cetera. The material covers the period from ca. 1000 B.C. to ca. 300 A.D. Besides translations the entries include discussions and full references to scholarly literature.
The book is a translated, updated and considerably augmented edition of Jean & Hoftijzer, Dictionnaire des inscriptions semitiques de l'ouest. The additions concern newly found texts as well as references to new scholarly literature.
The book is an indispensable tool for research in North-West Semitic epigraphy, on the Old Testament and on Ugaritic texts, and for Semitic linguistics. |
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Axial Civilizations and World History. |
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Arnason, J. P./ 9789004139558/ Price:EUR 204.00
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Southeast Asian Warfare, 1300-1900. |
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Charney, M./ 9789004142404/ Price:EUR 179.00
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Explorations in Jewish Historical Experience: The Civilizational Dimension. |
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Eisenstadt, S.N./ 9789004136939/ Price:EUR 139.00
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Mining in World History.(POD) |
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Lynch, Martin/ 9781861891730/ Price:GBP 24.95
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This book deals with the history of mining and smelting from the Renaissance to the present. Martin Lynch opens with the invention, sometime before 1453, of a revolutionary technique for separating silver from copper. It was this invention which brought back to life the rich copper-silver mines of central Europe, in the process making brass cannon and silver coin available to the ambitious Habsburg emperors, thereby underpinning their quest for European domination. Lynch also discusses the Industrial Revolution and the far-reaching changes to mining and smelting brought about by the steam engine; the era of the gold rushes; the massive mineral developments and technological leaps forward which took place in the USA and South Africa at the end of the 19th century; and, finally, the spread of mass metal-production techniques amid the violent struggles of the 20th century. In an engaging, concise and fast-paced text, he presents the interplay of personalities, politics and technology that have shaped the metallurgical industries over the last 500 years. |
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Imaging Russia 2000: Film and Facts. |
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Lawton, Anna/ 9780974493435/ Price:US$ 24.00
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Imaging Russia 2000: Film And Facts. |
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Lawton, Anna M./ 9780974493428/ Price:US$ 29.00
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Red Advance, White Defeat: Civil War in South Russia 1919-1920. |
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Kenez, Peter/ 9780974493459/ Price:US$ 24.00
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Before the Fall: Soviet Cinema in the Gorbachev Years. |
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Lawton, Anna/ 9780974493404/ Price:US$ 24.00
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Evolution Debate, 1813-1870, The. 9-Vols/Set. |
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Knight, David/ 9780415289221/ Price:GBP 525.00
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The history of evolutionary thought is often seen as a triumph of secularism in the form of 'scientific naturalism', over religious bigotry. But for those involved in the debate during the nineteenth century, these divisions were not so clearly marked.
This collection of nine volumes will bring together key works in the development of evolutionary theory from fundamentalists, such as Philip Gosse who insisted on a literal reading of Genesis, to T.H. Huxley, whose passionate defence of evolution theory earned him the title of 'Darwin's Bulldog'. Between these two extreme positions are situated the works of Cuvier, Wallace, Buckland, Lyell and Owen, all of whom rejected Darwin's version of evolution to varying degrees.
Each volume includes a new introduction by the editor, which provides an historical and intellectual context for each of the works, while a general introduction in the first volume provides an overview of the collection as a whole. |
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Economic Aspects of the History of the Civilization of Japan, The. 3-Vols/Set. |
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Takekoshi, Yosaburo/ 9780415323789/ Price:GBP 300.00
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Originally published by Allen & Unwin in 1930 this 3-volume collection brings together writings on the economic aspects of Japan's history. Covering the period from the 1600s until the 1920s this work offers the reader, not only an economic history of the Japanese, but also a social and political history. By explaining the realities of daily life during the periods covered, this collection allows the economic aspects to be fully appreciated. |
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Harrod Writings on Economics, 7-Vols/Set. |
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Harrod, Roy/ 9781403917430/ Price:GBP 1325.00
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Sir Roy Harrod was much praised by Keynes for his early theoretical work and was one of the small group of young economists who worked with Keynes in the 1930s, helping him to develop the new theories that led to the General Theory of Employment, Interest and Money. Harrod's principal contribution to economics was the development of his theory of dynamic growth, articulated in several of the volumes in this collection. Beyond growth theory, Sir Roy worked on the theory of the firm and on international monetary theory, pursuing the development of international institutions such as an International Monetary Fund and a World Bank that would pervent the kind of breakdown of international monetary relations that had occurred in the 1930s.
Palgrave Macmillan is proud to bring back into print this substantial collection of Sir Roy Harrod's main book-length works in eoncomic theory and to provide a resource that will be invaluable for economists and economic historians. |
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Political and Historical Encyclopedia of Women. |
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Faure, Christine/ 9781579582371/ Price:GBP 205.00
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The original French edition of this encyclopedia, the Encyclopedie politique et historique des femmes, Second Edition has been lauded by French reviewers, and now Routledge is proud to publish this acclaimed resource in an English language edition.
From the Salic Law in medieval France to the American Revolution to today's women's representation in American and European politics, this valuable resource discusses women's participation in Western political and historical transformation.
The 39 authoritative in-depth articles, written by an international team of scholars, examine women's activism in areas such as voting, emancipation, equality and democracy, providing students and general readers with an indispensable resource. |
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Encyclopedia of Women in the American West. |
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Bakken, Gordon Morris/ 9780761923565/ Price:GBP 190.00
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The Encyclopedia of Women in the American West chronicles the work of Native American activists such as Mildred Imach Cleghorn, and Sarah Winnemucca, the champion of rights of indigenous peoples who established Nevada's first school for Native Americans in 1884.
The encyclopedia also explores the stories of early ranchers. Among them is Freda Ehmann, who founded the California Ripe Olive Association where, according to her grandson, "science and chemical exactness failed, the experience and care of a skillful and conscientious housewife succeeded."
Women in the American West have long thrived in the arts. This is evidenced by the work of authors such as Pulitzer Prize winner Willa Cather, Amy Tan, and Linda Hasselstrom, poets such as Hildegarde Flanner, and journalist Molly Ivins. All are profiled in this comprehensive work.
The arts are used to address both aesthetic and serious societal issues such as Maxine Hong Kingston's The Woman Warrior, the story of a woman's struggle with identity as a minority in American culture. Academics will appreciate a study of Ruth Underhill's Autobiography of a Papago Woman, which deals with the role of feminist ideology in changing the discipline of anthropology during the first part of the twentieth century.
Women in the American West have also achieved many "firsts" such as Utah's Ivy Baker Priest, the first woman to hold the office of Treasurer of the United States, and Georgia Bullock, the first woman judge in the State of California. |
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Women, Madness and Spirtualism, 2-Vols/Set. |
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Nicholson, Helen/ 9780415276337/ Price:GBP 750.00
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This set reproduces seminal writings by three exceptional nineteenth-century women. Georgina Weldon, Louisa Lowe and Susan Willis Fletcher were certified as insane by the Victorian medical establishment and were threatened with incarceration for their eccentric and transgressive behaviour. All three were remarkably resourceful and very successfully manipulated the sensationalist press to expose the 'lunacy laws' to the late-Victorian public. In doing this, they contributed to the emerging feminist critique of medicine and science. Each volume is devoted to the work of one of these exceptional women.
New introductions by the editors and the late Roy Porter provide context and discussion of the pieces included, pointing to the themes and issues that they raise. With an extensive index, this collection provides an invaluable resource for those studying the role of feminism in the history of medicine and the power of the medical profession in the Victorian era. |
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Josephine Butler and the Prostitution Campaigns: Diseases of the Body Politic, 5-Vols/Set. |
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Sharp, Ingrid/ 9780415226844/ Price:GBP 1300.00
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This five volume set deals in detail with Josephine Butler's campaign for the repeal of the Contagious Diseases Acts in Britain and the Colonies. At present, access to Butler's work is restricted as a number of relevant anthologies are out of print. The bulk of these can only be read in specialist libraries and the original copies are becoming increasingly fragile after a century of use. This edited collection makes her writing accessible once again, setting it in an appropriate historical context.
In addition to Butler's own work, the thematically ordered volumes include related texts which are important for understanding her campaign. This allows the reader to position Josephine Butler in relation to her opponents and to follow the response to her activities. All the texts are complete and reproduced in facsimile - there are pamphlets, books, media responses to Butler's activities, letters to The Times, articles from The Lancet, Pall Mall Gazette, The Shield and The Dawn as well as private letters both to and from Butler.
The set is introduced through a substantial essay by Jane Jordan, one of the leading international scholars on Butler's life and works, and each volume contains a short introduction by the editors which contextualises the selections.
Butler writes clearly and vividly, combining impeccable logic with passionate commitment. She does not soften her message to protect the sensibilities of her audience. She is uncompromising in her analysis, determined to 'set a floodlight on your doings' as she told a stunned royal commission in 1871. Josephine Butler and the Prostitution Campaigns demonstrates the great importance of this fascinating campaigner's work. |
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Blackwell Companion to Political Theology, The. |
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Scott, Peter/ 9780631223429/ Price:US$ 228.95
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Written by a team of international experts, drawn from various traditions of political theology, this outstanding resource brings together 35 newly-commissioned essays in the field.
* The first comprehensive survey of political theology.
* Written by a team of 35 leading international experts.
* Demonstrates that Christian theology is inherently political.
* Shows how theology impacts on present-day political issues.
* Considers the interface of theology with political ideologies, including the contribution of theology to feminist, ecological, black and pacifist movements.
* Assesses the contribution of the major political theologians and theological movements.
* Explores the political aspects of Christian sources such as scripture and liturgy. |
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Companion to the Reformation World, A. |
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Hsia, R. Po-Chia/ 9780631220176/ Price:US$ 149.95
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This volume brings together 29 new essays by leading international scholars, to provide an inclusive overview of recent work in Reformation history.
* Presents Catholic Renewal as a continuum of the Protestant Reformation.
* Examines Reformation in Eastern and Western Europe, Asia and the Americas.
* Takes a broad, inclusive approach - covering both traditional topics and cutting-edge areas of debate. |
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Elizabethan Non-conformist Texts, 6-Vols/Set. |
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Carlson, Leland H./ 9780415319881/ Price:GBP 800.00
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Originally published in the 1950s by George Allen & Unwin.
When originally published, these volumes were making available very rare material (tracts and manuscripts etc.) for the very first time. Most of the documents exist in their original state as difficult to locate, read and understand - for example: there are only two copies of A Plaine Refutation (1591) and two copies of A Brief Discoverie of the False Church.
It is impossible to understand the rise and development of Independency and of the democratic idea in religion and in politics without reflection upon some of this rare material. |
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History of Sports in Britain, 1880-1914, 5-Vols/Set. |
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Polley, Martin/ 9780415231367/ Price:GBP 325.00
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This five-volume major work is a comprehensive collection of primary sources which examine changing attitudes to sport in the late Victorian and Edwardian eras. At the beginning of the period few sports were regulated, but by the outbreak of the First World War organized sport had become an integral part of British cultural, social and economic life. Martin Polley has collected articles from a wide range of journals including Blackwood's Magazine, Nineteenth Century, Fortnightly Review and Contemporary Review, which reveal changing middle-class attitudes to sport. The five volumes cover the varieties of sport being promoted, sport and education, commercial and financial aspects of sport, sport and animals and the globalization of sport through empire. |
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History of Western Education, A., 3-Vols/Set. |
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Bowen, James/ 9780415302913/ Price:GBP 600.00
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This set reprints volumes 1, 2 and 3 of James Bowen's A History of Western Education originally published by Methuen in the 1970s.
Volume One: The Ancient World: Orient and Mediterranean 2000 B.C - A. D. 1054
Volume Two: Civilization of Europe: Sixth to Sixteenth Century
Volume Three: The Modern West: Europe and the New World |
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Norbert Elias, 4-Vols/Set. |
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Dunning, Eric/ 9780761974574/ Price:GBP 675.00
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Norbert Elias (1897-1990) is now widely regarded as one of the greatest sociologists of the 20th century. The challenge and profundity of his work are still being assimilated. Some have suggested that in time, he will be regarded as the Copernicus or Darwin of sociology, the man who set the subject on its scientific course.
These four volumes provide a comprehensive and penetrating survey of Elias's life and work. They pinpoint the main fields of research which Elias and his followers have explored: the civilizing process; state-formation; knowledge, religion and science; informalization; power; established-outsider figurations in fields such as class, gender and race; the sociology of the body; the sociology of the emotions; the sociology of leisure, sport and the arts; the sociology of the professions; medicine and psychoanalysis; crime and punishment; drug use and abuse. The collection also explores the various critiques of Elias's `figurational' or `process' sociology and counter-critiques by Elias's followers.
The volumes successfully locate the work of Elias and his followers in the context of modern sociology, especially in relation to writers such as Mannheim, Adorno, Parsons, Goffman, Foucault and Bourdieu. In the penetrating, original and informative Introduction, Eric Dunning and Stephen Mennell elucidate Elias's sociological contributions and the bearing his life experiences had on his work. The collection is an invaluable resource for anyone interested in the sociological contribution of Norbert Elias. |
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Handbook of Historical Sociology. |
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Delanty, Gerard/ 9780761971733/ Price:GBP 125.00
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This Handbook consists of 26 chapters on historical sociology. It is divided into three parts. Part One is devoted to Foundations and covers Marx, Weber, evolutionary and functionalist approaches, the Annales School, Elias, Nelson and Eisenstadt. Part Two moves on to consider major approaches, such as modernization approaches, late Marxist approaches, historical geography, institutional approaches, cultural history, intellectual history, postcolonial and genealogical approaches. The third part is devoted to the major substantive themes in historical sociology ranging from state formation, nationalism, social movements, classes, patriarchy, architecture, religion and moral regulation to problems of periodization and East-West divisions. Each part includes an introduction that summarizes and contextualizes chapters. A general introduction to the volume outlines the current situation of historical sociology after the cultural turn in the social sciences. It argues that historical sociology is deeply divided between explanatory `sociological' approaches and more empirical and interpretative `historical' approaches. |
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Historical Encyclopedia of American Labor, 2-Vols/Set. |
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Weir, Robert E./ 9780313318405/ Price:GBP 133.95
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The history of the American labor movement is filled with advances, triumphs, setbacks, decline, and resurgence. American unions have not only protected workers and influenced business practices, but have also played important roles in American politics. The AFL-CIO, the Teamsters, and the United Farm Workers are just three examples of unions that have exerted wide influence far beyond the scope of industry. Labor leaders, including Samuel Gompers, John L. Lewis, Eugene Debs, Cesar Chavez, and Jimmy Hoffa, have become icons of U.S. history. Serving as the ideal place for students and interested readers to begin their research, this two-volume A-Z resource covers the history of organized labor in all of its complexity, from the dawn of the industrial revolution to the "post-industrial age."
Nearly 400 entries cover: BL Unions BL Labor leaders BL Key legislation BL Major court cases BL Landmark events BL Critical terminology BL Anti-union organizations BL And much more Entries are packed with current information and are clearly written and engaging to specialists and non-specialists alike. Also included are nearly 150 illustrations and 40 primary documents that range from autobiographies to song lyrics and contracts, enabling students to read the actual words of critical documents in American labor history. Entries are extensively cross-referenced and include bibliographies. A general bibliography will also direct readers to further avenues of research. |
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Bibliographie des ouvrages arabes, 6-Vols/Set. |
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Victor Chauvin/ 9781862100480/ Price:GBP 495.00
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A reprint of the foundational bibliography of nineteenth-century research on Arabic culture, literature and religion, originally published between 1892 and 1922 in 12 volumes. It is an exhaustive annotated study of European-language works published in Western Europe between 1810 and 1885 - text editions and philological studies of proverbial literature, fables and tales, classical and religious literature, as well as studies on Islamic history and culture of the Middle East.
A large part of volumes 1-4 (comprising the original volumes 1-9) is devoted to an analytical bibliographical study of mediaeval Arabic tales, tracing corresponding motifs throughout the literature of India, Persia, the Middle East, and Europe. Volume 1 also contains an index to Schnurrer's earlier notable work on Arabic literature, the Bibliotheca arabica of 1811, which covers works published between 1505 and 1810 - the date of Sylvestre de Sacy's Arabic grammar. Volumes 5-6 comprise the original volumes 10-12, and consist of an annotated bibliography of nineteenth-century European research on all aspect of Islam.
Victor Chauvin (1844-1913) taught Arabic and Hebrew language and literature at the University of Liege in Belgium from 1872, and was a prolific author of numerous works on Middle Eastern literature and folklore, the history of orientalism, biblical history, and Islamic law. His celebrated Bibliographie des ouvrages arabes was published under the auspices of the Deutsche morgenlandische Gesellschaft and the Societe asiatique de Paris, and received several academic prizes. The last volume was published posthumously in 1922. |
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Royal Commission on Opium, 1893-95, The: Reports, Minutes of Evidence, and Appendices, 6-Vols/Set. |
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Madancy, Joyce A./ 9781862100626/ Price:GBP 595.00
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In 1893, the British government responded to growing criticism of its complicity in the Sino-Indian opium trade by constituting the Royal Commission on Opium, a nine-man team charged with investigating both the status of the opium trade and the feasibility of ending it. During the next two years, after a gruelling schedule that took the Commissioners from London to India and Burma as they gathered testimony from individuals opposed to the trade as well as those whose livelihoods depended on it, the Commission published its conclusions and the full text of its interviews. Much to the dismay of anti-opium activists, many of whom were interviewed for the report, the Commission not only determined that the opium trade should continue, but also declared that 'the temperate use of opium in India should be viewed in the same light as the temperate use of alcohol in England.'
The subjects of opium trafficking and abuse rarely solicit an equivocal response, and the report provides a rare glimpse at the cultural constructions of social deviance and morality, as well as the way race, class, culture, and power affected the application of medical concepts such as addiction and the idea of a 'national character'. |
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Companion to 20th-Century American, A. |
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Whitfield, Stephen J./ 9780631211006/ Price:US$ 249.50
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A Companion to 20th-Century America is an authoritative survey of the most important topics and themes of twentieth-century American history and historiography.
* 29 original essays by leading scholars cover each period and major themes of the past century.
* Identifies and discusses the most influential literature in the field, and suggests new avenues of research, as the century has drawn to a close.
* Covers topics such as foreign policy, religion, labor, ethnicity, law, the military, and the media as well as major time periods: from the beginning of the century through the 1930s, 1940s, 1950s, up to the closing of the century.
* Includes an editorial introduction and further reading lists for each chapter. |
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Early Exploration of Russia, 12-Vols/Set. |
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Poe, Marshall/ 9780700714797/ Price:GBP 2700.00
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It was only during the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries that western Europeans discovered the lands now known as Russia. Travellers to these lands published their discoveries for an interested and curious public, revealing details of a country very different from what Western Europeans were used to. This collection brings together the most important ethnographic accounts of Russia from the period 1500 to 1700.
All the volumes contain eye-witness accounts of an analytic and descriptive, but not narrative, character, and are reprinted in their earliest editions, except for those volumes where the original edition was in a language uncommon amongst contemporary European readers, in which cases a translation into a commonly accessible European language has been used. |
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Companion to Colonial America, A. |
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Vickers, Daniel/ 9780631210115/ Price:US$ 249.50
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A Companion to Colonial America consists of twenty-three original essays by expert historians on the key issues and topics in American colonial history. Each essay surveys the scholarship and prevailing interpretations in these key areas, discussing the differing arguments and assessing their merits.
* Contains twenty-four original essays by expert historians on the key issues and topics in American colonial history.
* Surveys the scholarship and prevailing interpretations in key areas, discussing the differing arguments and assessing their merits.
* Coverage includes politics, religion, migration, gender, ecology, and many others. |
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History of Tibet, The. 3-Vols/Set. |
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McKay, A./ 9780700715084/ Price:GBP 400.00
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This major work provides a virtually complete resource base for the academic study of Tibetan social, political, and religious history, including the development of our understanding of the reality behind the colourful images of Tibet as 'Shangri-La'. This work will thus be of particular interest to libraries, and to lecturers, students and enthusiasts seeking to understand the development of the unique culture of this remarkable land. |
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Japan in English, Volume 28: Yedo and Peking. |
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Fortune, Robert/ 9781862100749/ Price:GBP 85.00
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Japan in English, Volume 25: China and Japan. |
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Johnston, James D./ 9781862100718/ Price:GBP 95.00
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Literature of Travel and Exploration: An Encyclopedia, 3-Vols/Set. |
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Speake, Jennifer/ 9781579582470/ Price:GBP 475.00
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Containing more than 600 entries, this valuable resource presents all aspects of travel writing. There are entries on places and routes - Afghanistan, Black Sea, Egypt, Gobi Desert, Hawaii, Himalayas, Italy, Northwest Passage, Samarkand, Silk Route, Timbuktu; writers - Isabella Bird, Ibn Battuta, Bruce Ghatwin, Gustave Flaubert, Mary Kingsley, Walter Ralegh, Wilfrid Thesiger; methods of transport and types of journey - balloon, camel, grand tour, hunting and big game expedition, pilgrimmage, space travel and exploration; genres - buccaneer narratives, guidebooks, New Worl chronicles, postcards; companies and societies - East India Company, Royal Geographical Society, Society of Dilettanti; and issues and themes - censorship, exile, orientalism and tourism.
This comprehensive resource is designed for all those involved in teaching or researching this literature, as well as the general reader with an interest in exploring this growing subject. |
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Cultures in Conflict-The French Revolution. |
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Brown, Gregory S./ 9780313317897/ Price:GBP 44.00
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Megaliths: The Ancient Stone Monuments of England and Wales. |
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Corio, David/ 9780224064644/ Price:GBP 35.00
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China Against the Tides: Restructuring through Revolution, Radicalism and Reform. |
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Blecher, Marc/ 9780826464224/ Price:GBP 80.00
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English Lessons: The Pedagogy of Imperialism in Nineteenth-Century China. |
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Hevia, James L./ 9780822331889/ Price:US$ 29.95
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Imhotep Today: Egyptianizing Architecture. |
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Humbert, Jean-Marcel/ 9781844720064/ Price:US$ 51.06
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The Jewel Translucent Sutra: Altan Khan and the Mongols in the Sixteenth Century. |
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Elverskog, Johan/ 9789004132610/ Price:EUR 148.00
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The first full-fledged critical edition and historical study of the Erdeni Tunumal Sudur, the Mongolian history of Altan Khan and his descendants, offering a full-range English-written historical and literary evaluation of this unique and fairly reliable, but long neglected discovery in Mongolian studies.
With transcription, word index and English translation, as well as extensive commentary on the historical events of Altan Khan's reign, especially the 1550 attack on Beijing, the 1571 peace accord with the Ming, and the 1578 meeting with the Dalai Lama and the subsequent Buddhist conversion. In particular, the author shows how Altan Khan's reformulation of the boundaries of Dayan Khan's Mongol nation and state catalyzed the political fragmentation of the Mongols with dire consequences in relation to the rising Manchu state.
Vital for a better understanding of Mongol history during the late Ming. |
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Historiography in the Middle Ages. |
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Deliyannis, D. M./ 9789004118812/ Price:EUR 214.00
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This volume contains twelve essays that describe the writing of history in medieval Western Europe. Each chapter examines a type of subject matter about which medieval historians wrote, and discusses both the texts and the modern approaches to these texts. The authors include both historians and literary scholars.
There are four chapters on early medieval historiography (universal history, national/ethnic history, institutional history, and biography/hagiography) and eight on later medieval historiography (the same four, plus dynastic, urban, contemporary, and legendary history).
This comprehensive one-volume survey, in English, of medieval historiography can serve both as an introduction for students and the interested layperson, and as a handbook for the scholar. |
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Infinite Tropics: An Alfred Russel Wallace Collection. |
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Bery, Andrew/ 9781859844786/ Price:GBP 25.99
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Islam, Sectarianism and Politics in the Sudan Since the Mahdiyya. |
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Warburg, Gabriel R./ 9781850655886/ Price:GBP 45.00
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Why another book on Islam and politics in Sudan? The unique history of Sudan's Islamic politics suggests the answer. The revolt in 1881 was led by a Mahdi who came to renew and purify Islam. It was in effect an uprising against a corrupt Islamic regime, the largely alien Turco-Egyptian ruling Elite. The Mahdiyya was therefore an anti-colonial movement, seeking to liberate Sudan from alien rule and to unify the Muslim Umma, and it later evolved into the first expression of Sudanese nationalism and statehood.
Post-Independence Islamic radicalism, in turn, can be viewed against the background of the Anglo-Egyptian Condominium, (1899-1956). It also thrived as a result of the resurgence of Islam since the mid-1960s, when Nasserism and other popular ideologies were swept aside. Finally, Sudan has emerged as the centre of militancy in Sunni Islam since June 1989, when a group of radical Islamic officers, under the guidance of Dr Hassan al-Turabi and the NIF, assumed power.
In Warburg's view, the determination to enforce an Islamic state and an Islamic constitution on a multi-religious and multi-ethnic society has led to prolonged civil war, endless military coups and political, social and economic bankruptcy. |
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Unsettling Memories: Narratives of the 'Emergency' in Delhi. |
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Tarlo, Emma/ 9781850654483/ Price:GBP 45.00
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This book belongs to the growing body of literature which seeks to work against the collective silence that often clings to violent and disturbing events. Focusing on India,s Emergency of 1975-7 when Indian democracy was temporarily suspended in favour of an authoritarian regime, it explores the various avenues through which this event is remembered and forgotten. Based on a combination of anthropological fieldwork and archival analysis, Unsettling Memories traces the experiences and perceptions of men and women who found themselves the key targets of the infamous slum clearance and sterilisation campaigns which converged to disrupt life in the nation,s capital, Delhi.
Interweaving personal and official memories with a re-reading of resistance literature, Emergency propaganda and government files, the author offers a new and complex narrative of the Emergency. This book will be of interest to anthropologists, historians and political scientists as well as anyone concerned with everyday violence, the ethnography of events and life among India,s urban poor. |
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Gale Encyclopedia of the Unusual and Unexplained, 3-Vols/Set. |
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Steiger, Brad/ 9780787653828/ Price:US$ 433.00
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American Decades: Primary Sources, 10-Vols/Set. |
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American Decades Primary Sources is a 10-volume set spanning the 20th century. As a companion to Gale's popular American Decades series or as a stand-alone, American Decades Primary Sources provides fresh insight into the decade's most important events, people, and issues.
Each volume of American Decades Primary Sources includes approximately 200 full or excerpted primary sources in 160-170 entries from the period representing a diversity of views that provide insight into the seminal issues, themes, movements and events from the decade. Also included are concise contextual information, notes about the author, further resources, and more than 250 photos and illustrations. Patterned after the popular American Decades series, each American Decades Primary Sources volume includes chapters on the arts, medicine and health, media, education, world events, religion, government and politics, lifestyles and social trends, law and justice, religion, business and the economy, and sports. Included to provide unique perspectives and a wealth of understanding are:
* Oral histories
* Songs
* Speeches
* Advertisements
* TV, play and movie scripts
* Letters
* Laws
* Legal decisions
* Newspaper articles
* Cartoons
* Recipes
* And much more |
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World Eras, Volume 10: West African Kingdoms (500-1590). |
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History in Dispute, Volume 15: The Middle East Since World War II, Part Two. |
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St. James Press/ 9781558624788/ Price:US$ 198.00
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History in Dispute, Volume 14: The Middle East Since World War II, Part One. |
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St. James Press/ 9781558624726/ Price:US$ 343.00
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Bodies Politic: Disease, Death and Doctors in Britain, 1650-1900. |
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Porter, Roy/ 9781861891655/ Price:GBP 19.95
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In a historical tour de force, Roy Porter takes a critical look at representations of the body in death, disease and health, and at images of the healing arts in Britain from the mid-seventeenth to the twentieth century. Porter's key assumptions are that the human body is the chief signifier and communicator of all manner of meanings – religious, moral, political and medical – and that pre-scientific medicine was an art which depended heavily on ritual, rhetoric and theatre.
Porter argues that great symbolic weight was attached to contrasting conceptions of the healthy and diseased body, and that such ideas were mapped onto antithetical notions of the good and the bad, the beautiful and the ugly. With these images in mind, he explores aspects of being ill alongside the practice of medicine, paying special attention to self-presentations by physicians, surgeons and quacks, and to changes in practitioners' public identities over time. Porter also examines the wider symbolic meanings of disease and doctoring and the 'body politic'. Porter's book is packed with outrageous and amusing anecdotes portraying diseased bodies and medical practitioners alike. |
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Sky Wars : A History of Military Aerospace Power.(POD) |
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Gates, David/ 9781861891891/ Price:GBP 16.95
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In Sky Wars, David Gates examines the history of military aerospace power, discussing technical developments between both World Wars and the use of air power in specific wars in the latter part of the 20th century, including the recent conflict with Iraq. At the same time he analyses the military and civil applications of airpower in the contemporary world, some of which have led to scientific and technical advances of great benefit to humanity. As well as looking at the ways in which developments in air power, military prowess and space exploration have had a major impact on our daily lives, he highlights more contentious issues, for example the so-called 'CNN factor', whereby the increasing capacity for journalistic intrusion into ongoing military operations compels armed forces to be much more sensitive to public opinion. |
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Afghanistan Strategic Intelligence: British Records 1919-1970, 4-Vols/Set. |
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Burdett, A.L.P./ 9781852078553/ Price:GBP 1400.00
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The collection begins with material describing the Third British-Afghan War of 1919, which led to the establishment of Afghan independence. There is coverage of coups and instability within the ruling family from 1919 to 1933; increased influence and sustained presence of the USSR; continuous evaluation by the British of the Russian threat posed for the integrity of Afghanistan and implications for the defence of India; relations between Afghanistan and neighbouring tribes including on the Northwest Frontier; the activities in Afghanistan of anti-imperialist agents and groups. The collection ends in 1970 with the end of the available documents but with the country moving towards the deposal of King Zahir Shah and the establishment of the republic in 1973. |
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Architecture of the Renaissance, 2-Vols/Set. |
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Benevolo, Leonardo/ 9780415265980/ Price:GBP 450.00
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This extensively illustrated study opens with an account of the movement's founders: Brunelleschi, arbiter of Florence's building problems, and Alberti, who supplied the new architecture with a suitable theoretical foundation. The editor considers the general effect of the new artistic culture on the changes that took place first in fifteenth-century Italian cities and then throughout Europe.
The relationship between the development of architecture and that of other related fields, especially the great advances in painting and sculpture, receives special attention. Also considered are the effects of the beginnings of modern science and the general economic and social changes of the age. Finally this study takes the reader to the point where the history of modern architecture, discussed in volumes of the same name by Professor Benevolo, begins. |
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Culture: Critical Concepts in Sociology, 4-Vols/Set. |
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Jenks, Chris/ 9780415226905/ Price:GBP 94.99
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'Culture' is an extremely complex and highly contested concept. The idea of culture embraces a range of topics, processes, differences and even paradoxes. The history, various usages and different meanings of 'Culture' derive from diverse areas of study, including philosophy, critical aesthetics, literary criticism, anthropology, and sociology.
These volumes introduce the reader to these multi-facets of the concept and the wide and often contradictory variety of interpretations that have been and continue to be placed on it. The diverse meanings and interpretations of the concept are also reflected in the interdisciplinary nature of the articles collected.
The structure of the collection places culture within a history of ideas, and also enables the reader to review different arguments and perspectives on the topic. |
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Companion to Early Twentieth-Century Britain, A. |
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Wrigley, Chris/ 9780631217909/ Price:US$ 149.95
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This Companion brings together thirty-two new essays by leading historians to provide a reassessment of British history in the early twentieth century. The contributors present lucid introductions to the literature and debates on major aspects of the political, social and economic history of Britain between 1900 and 1939.
* 32 new essays provide a reassessment of the period 1900-1939.
* Covers political, social and economic history.
* Examines controversial issues over the social impact of the First World War especially on women.
* Includes a substantial bibliography, which will be a valuable guide to secondary sources. |
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Japan in English, Volume 8: Recollections of Baron Gros's Embassy to China and Japan. |
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Moges, Marquis de/ 9781862100343/ Price:GBP 85.00
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Japan in English, Volume 2: A Visit to India, China, and Japan. |
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Taylor, Bayard/ 9781862100282/ Price:GBP 75.00
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The Iwakura Embassy, 1871-1873: A True Account of the Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary's Journey of Observation through the United States of America and Europe, 5-Vols/Set. |
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Kunitake, Kume/ 9780700717125/ Price:GBP 950.00
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This is the first English translation of the official report submitted by the Iwakura Embassy to the Meiji government. The five volume report was first published in Japanese in 1878. Between 1977 and 1982, Iwanami Shoten published a Japanese language library edition which enabled academics worldwide to evaluate how this mission changed the course of Japanese history during, and after, the Meiji era.The 50-member Embassy, led by Iwakura Tomomi, visited the United States and 12 major European countries in search of ways in which Japan could modernize her social and economic infrastructure. In each country the Embassy visited, it investigated that nation's political and military situation as well as the state of the economy, industry, education, culture and religion. After a total of 22 months abroad, the Embassy returned home in September 1873. This new English-language edition of the Embassy's report will undoubtedly open up avenues for further research and study by scholars throughout the world. The publication of this monumental piece of work will not only attract Western scholars of Japan, but will also be of wider importance for its remarkable first-hand demonstration and explanation of the emergence of a modern industrial nation, as well as its detailed and acute observations on the social and economic infrastructure of the countries visited. |
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American Experience in World War II, The. 12-Vols/Set. |
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Hixson, Walter L./ 9780415940283/ Price:GBP 1450.00
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World War II was a major formative factor in the creation of modern America. It changed the face of the United States, catapulting the country out of economic depression, political isolation and social conservatism. The articles collected here analyse all major phases of US involvement in World War II, as well as the impact of the war on domestic policies, diplomatic relations, and the cultural and social arenas, making this a unique one-stop resource.
Volume One: The United States and the Road to War in Europe
Volume Two: Isolationists and Internationalists: The Battle over Intervention
Volume Three: The United States and the Road to War in the Pacific
Volume Four: Pearl Harbor in History and Memory
Volume Five: The United States in the European Theater
Volume Six: The United States in the Pacific War
Volume Seven: The Atomic Bomb in History and Memory
Volume Eight: American Diplomacy of the Second World War |
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Romanticism and Science: Subcultures and Subversions, 5-Vols/Set. |
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Fulford, Tim/ 9780415219525/ Price:GBP 325.00
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Mary Shelley's Frankenstein is perhaps the best-known and most widely studied literary representation of science. Yet it is by no means the only text of its time to fictionalize the latest experiments and discoveries of natural philosophers. Science was burgeoning in the years 1760-1840, revolutionising how people saw the world around them, and this extended to the literary world.
This five volume set is divided into sections by scientific discipline, each illuminating a context of current interest to literary scholars. An extensive introduction is included in the first volume giving a brief history of the development of various scientific fields - including Geology, Palaeontology, Chemistry and Physics - resumes of the central texts/discoveries and their significance, and an account of their impact on literature - and sometimes, literature's impact on science. A bibliography of major scientific works and suggestions for critical reading is also provided and the set is completed with a detailed index. |
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Chinese Grand Strategy and Maritime Power. |
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Kane, Thomas M./ 9780714652825/ Price:GBP 145.00
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The Manichaean Hymn-cycles in Parthian. |
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Boyce, Mary/ 9780197135099/ Price:GBP 60.00
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Historical Theory. |
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Fulbrllk, Mary/ 9780415179874/ Price:GBP 36.99
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Chinese Ethics in a Global Context: Moral Bases of Contemporary Societies. |
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Pohl, Karl-Heinz/ 9789004128125/ Price:EUR 206.00
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Passionate Women : Female Suicide in Late Imperial China. |
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Ropp, P./ 9789004120181/ Price:EUR 92.00
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The Devil's Rope: A Cultural History of Barbed Wire. |
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Krell, Alan/ 9781861891440/ Price:GBP 16.95
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Invented in France in 1860, barbed wire was developed independently in the USA, where it was used to control livestock on the Great Plains, both to ‘keep out’ and ‘keep in’. Promoted as the Ideal Fence, barbed wire’s menacing qualities were soon made manifest. The epithet, ‘The Devil’s Rope’, anticipated its transformation into a tool of war in the late 19th and early 20th century. Henceforth, it would become synonymous with repression. Barbed wire’s conflicting character makes it an appropriate symbol of modernity, and Krell shows how the use of this symbolism in contemporary art has given barbed wire meanings beyond the historical and political realms. |
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Watching Hannah: Sexuality, Horror and Bodily De-Formation in Victorian England. |
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Reay, Barry/ 9781861891198/ Price:GBP 22.00
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Mining in World History. |
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Lynch, Martin/ 9781861891259/ Price:GBP 25.00
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Chicago Tradition in Economics 1892-1945, The. 8-Vols/Set. |
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Ross Emmett/ 9780415254229/ Price:GBP 425.00
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The home of more Nobel Laureates than any other institution, the University of Chicago has a unique place in the development of economics, fostering the work of some of the most influential and controversial economists of the twentieth century, including Frank Knight, Milton Friedman and Gary Becker.
This collection traces the development of Chicago Economics to the end of the Second World War. Each volume focuses on an individual, or group of individuals who made distinctive contributions. |
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China: Political Reports 1911-1960, 11-Vols/Set. |
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Jarman, Robert, L./ 9781852079307/ Price:GBP 3850.00
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This collection draws together the periodic political reports sent by British Officials based in China back to the British Foreign Office. Some of these reports were destined for official publication and are now located either in the Official Publications rooms of the British Museum or Cambridge University Library. Other reports were intended to be confidential and were seen only by the Foreign Secretary and permanent officials in the British Foreign Office. Such reports are generally released, after 30 years, into the public domain via the Public Record Office. Still further reports are retained by the Government indefinitely due to their perceived sensitivity.
The most important series of reports is the Annual Reports series, initiated by Sir Edward Grey in a memorandum of 6 April 1906 sent to British representatives in 46 countries. He suggested that the report should 'deal fully with events and matters of interest concerning that country which have occurred during the preceding twelve months, and should explain their bearing on its position and policy'; he also suggested topics that should be covered such as foreign relations, naval policy, the machinery of government, finance, education, and the press and its influence on public opinion. |
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Routledge Library of British Political History: Labour and Radical Politics 1762-1937, 11-Vols/Set. |
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This set re-issues major writings on British history from the Routledge archives.
In scope and detail of coverage, these books comprise a unique contribution to our understanding of over one and a half centuries of British politics. |
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Political Chronologies of the World Series, 6-Vols/Set. |
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This six-volume regional series charts the major events and memorable dates in the political histories of the countries of the world.
The Political Chronologies of the World set includes the following titles:A Political Chronology of Africa; A Political Chronology of the Americas ; A Political Chronology of Central, South and East Asia ; A Political Chronology of Europe; A Political Chronology of the Middle East; A Political Chronology of South-East Asia and Oceania
Each volume provides:
* Individual country profiles
* Chronological listings of major events from the birth of the nation to the most recent history
* Economic, social and cultural developments that have affected the political history of a country
* Major events charted include: elections, wars, border disputes, invasions, assassinations, the formation of leading parties, treaties and constitutional changes
* Special emphasis is given to contemporary affairs, particularly in nations that have undergone extensive political upheaval. |
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Scientific Theory of Culture and Other Essays, A. |
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Malinowski, Bronislaw/ 9780415262514/ Price:GBP 290.00
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Published, posthumously, this volume is both a summing up and a reformulation of Malinowski's functional theory of culture. |
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Coral Gardens and Their Magic: The Language and Magic of Gardening. |
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Malinowski, Bronislaw/ 9780415262507/ Price:GBP 270.00
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The concluding part of Coral Gardens and Their Magic provides a linguistic commentary to the ethnography on agriculture. Malinowski gives a full description of the language of the Trobrianders as an aspect of culture. |
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Coral Gardens and Their Magic: The Description of Gardening. |
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Malinowski, Bronislaw/ 9780415262491/ Price:GBP 240.00
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The concluding part of Coral Gardens and Their Magic provides a linguistic commentary to the ethnography on agriculture. Malinowski gives a full description of the language of the Trobrianders as an aspect of culture. |
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Sexual Lives of Savages, The. |
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Malinowski, Bronislaw/ 9780415262484/ Price:GBP 290.00
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This volume provides an ethnographic account of courtship, marriage and family life among the people of the Trobriand Islands. |
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Father in Primitive Psychology and Myth in Primitive Psychology, The. |
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Malinowski, Bronislaw/ 9780415262477/ Price:GBP 49.99
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This volume investigates ideas, beliefs and sentiments in relation to social organization. |
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Sex and Repression in Savage Society. |
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Malinowski, Bronislaw/ 9780415262460/ Price:GBP 62.99
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This volume explores and challenges the applicatio psychoanalytic theory to the study of traditional societies. |
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Crime and Custom in Savage Society. |
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Malinowski, Bronislaw/ 9780415262453/ Price:GBP 300.00
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This volume discusses aspects of small scale societies, including the study of the mental processes, as well as indigenous economics and law. |
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Man and Culture: An Evaluation of the Work of Malinowski. |
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Malinowski, Bronislaw/ 9780415267175/ Price:GBP 180.00
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This volume is a reassessment of Malinowski's work by a group of his former pupils and colleagues. A frank evaluation, not a eulogy, it examines the real and lasting importance of Malinowski's contribution to a range of subjects. |
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Malinowski amongst the Magi: The Natives of Mailu. |
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Malinowski, Bronislaw/ 9780415262446/ Price:GBP 230.00
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A reissue of Malinowski's first field monograph, containing historical and theoretical material. This edition includes a major essay by Michael Young who draws on Malinowski's diary, unpublished notebooks and letters. |
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Phrenology in Europe and America 1790-1890, 8-Vols/Set. |
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Cooter, Roger/ 9780415236232/ Price:GBP 120.00
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The popular nineteenth-century science of phrenology has attracted a great deal of recent scholarly interest. What was once seen as a rather curious and eccentric practice, is now becoming recognised as one of the most significant social and intellectual manifestations of the nineteenth century. Extending an influence to virtually every aspect of life, thought and belief, it is regarded as having contributed instrumentally to developments in anthropology, criminology, medicine, psychiatry, and education.
This unique set draws together a wealth of material crucial to the intellectual debate over phrenology, both as a branch of mental physiology and as a contribution to the history of philosophy. The articles selected represent the variety of different views throughout the nineteenth century, both pro and anti-phrenology. |
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Rise of Victorian Spiritualism, The. 8-Vols/Set. |
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Gilbert, Bob/ 9780415236409/ Price:GBP 1250.00
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I. Adin Ballou An exposition of views respecting the modern spirit manifestations: together with interesting phenomenal statements and communications, with introduction, notes and appendix [1853] 216pp
II. Elizabeth Sophia De Morgan From matter to spirit: the result of ten years' experience in spirits manifestations. Intended as a guide to enquirers [1863] 436pp
III. E. Sargent Planchete: or the Despair of Science: being a full account of modern spiritualism, its phenomena, and the various theories regarding it, with a survey of French Spiritism [1869] 420pp
IV. London Dialectical Society Report on spiritualism, of the committee, together with the evidence, oral and written, and a selection form the correspondence [1871] 428pp
V. Alfred Russel Wallace On miracles and modern spiritualism. Revised edition with chapters on apparitions and phantasms [1896] 314pp
VI. Frank Podmore Modern spiritualism: a history and criticism. Volume I [1902] 330pp
VII. Frank Podmore Modern spiritualism: a history and criticism. Volume II. [1902] 390pp
VIII. Lionel A. Weatherly The supernatural? With chapter on oriental magic, spiritualism, and theosophy [1917] 308pp |
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Race and Ethnicity: Critical Concepts in Sociology, 4-Vols/Set. |
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Goulbourne, Harry/ 9780415224994/ Price:GBP 89.99
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This set brings together published articles, papers and book chapters that are central to an informed understanding of race and ethnicity today. The volumes are arranged around four key themes and will resonate with both researchers and teachers in related fields, as well as those who are engaged in policy issues directly arising from racial and ethnic structures and behaviour.
With a new introduction and index, this internationally focused, multidisciplinary collection is an invaluable reference tool and teaching aid.
Volume One: Debates and Controversies
Volume Two: Solidarities and Communities
Volume Three: Racism: Exclusion and Privilege
Volume Four: Integration, Adaptation and Change |
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American West, 6-Vols/Set. |
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Bakken, Gordon Morris/ 9780815334620/ Price:GBP 705.00
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This six volume collection of reprinted articles deals with the West in American history. In recent years there has been a great deal of interest in the historical experiences of peoples on the western frontiers and in rethinking the significance of the West in American culture. This collection summarizes the debate, and brings together materials from disparate sources.
Contents:
Volume 1: Where is the West?
Volume 2: Cultural Interactions
Volume 3: The Gendered West
Volume 4: The Environment
Volume 5: The Urban West
Volume 6: Law in the West |
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Development of Celitic Linguistics 1850-1900, The. 6-Vols/Set. |
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Davis, Daniel R./ 9780415224901/ Price:GBP 1600.00
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Following on from Celtic Linguistics 1700-1850, this set covers the period 1850-1900, which saw the foundation of the modern subject of Celtic linguistics. Several important works are reproduced here, including:
* Johann Kaspar Zeuss's seminal study, Grammatica Celtica (1853), the first text to formulate a detailed and comprehensive comparative grammar of the Celtic language.
* John Rhys' Lectures on Welsh Philology (1877), and Whitley Stokes' Celtic Declension (1885), both of which reflect Zeuss's influence on the field.
* Earlier traditions of the historical study of the Celts, with an emphasis on language, are continued in John Jones Thomas's Britannia Antiquissima; or, A Key to the Philology of History (1860).
* Neo-druidic themes receive attention in John Williams's Gomer; or, A Brief Analysis of the Language and Knowledge of the Ancient Cymry (1854).
This set covers a period of fundamental reformation in Celtic linguistics, and will be of interest to linguists, historians, and cultural theorists. |
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Contemporary Chinese Societies: Continuity and Change.(CD-ROM) |
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University of Pittsburgh/ 9780231123846/ Price:US$ 63.00
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Women and Men on the Overland Trail. |
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Faragher, John M./ 9780300089240/ Price:US$ 17.00
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Sacred Geography: A Tale of Murder and Archaeology in the Holy Land. |
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Fox, Edward/ 9780805054934/ Price:US$ 25.00
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Indigenous Struggle at the Heart of Brazil: State Policy, Frontier Expansion, and the Xavante Indians, 1937-1988. |
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Garfield, Seth/ 9780822326656/ Price:US$ 27.95
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Sources of Japanese Tradition, Vol. 1: From Earliest Times to 1600. |
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Wm. Theodore de Bary/ 9780231121385/ Price:US$ 130.00
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The Emporium of the World: Maritime Quanzhou, 1000-1400. |
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Schottenhammer, Angela/ 9789004117730/ Price:EUR 209.00
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| SA03-323 |
Picturing Tropical Nature. |
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Stepan, Nancy Leys/ 9781861891464/ Price:GBP 15.95
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Picturing Tropical Nature reflects on the work of several nineteenth- and twentieth-century scientists and artists, including Alexander von Humboldt, Alfred Russel Wallace, Louis Agassiz, Sir Patrick Manson and Margaret Mee. Their careers illuminate several aspects of tropicalization: science and art in the making of tropical pictures; the commercial and cultural boom in things tropical in the modern period; photographic attempts to represent tropical hybrid races; anti-tropicalism and its role in an emerging environmentalist sensibility; and visual depictions of disease in the new tropical medicine. Essential to Stepan's analysis are the responses to European projections of artists, scientists and intellectuals living in tropical regions. She examines the long-standing Brazilian fantasy of the tropics as a racial democracy and offers an evaluation of the impact of tropical plants and European conceptions of the jungle on the anti-mimetic, modernist aesthetics of the brilliant landscape designer Roberto Burle Marx. Stepan's fascinating inquiry identifies the conflicts over meaning that have shaped the emergence of the tropics, and in so doing questions the nature of representation itself. |
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Visions of the Future in Germany and America. |
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Finzsch, Norbert/ 9781859735213/ Price:GBP 95.00
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Concerns about the future have been expressed differently throughout history. This book explores the historical context surrounding various debates, decisions and beliefs about the future in recent centuries. Religious, political, literary and ecological visions of the future in America and Germany are addressed comparatively. In particular, scholars from the United States and Germany explore the meaning of eschatological and utopian thoughts pursued during the last three centuries and tackle subjects ranging from science fiction to religious radicalism, utopian social experiments, and visions of race relations. This book delves into the hopes and fears for the future that have shaped the past and will be of interest to comparative historians as well as to historians of Europe and the United States intrigued by the subject of utopias. |
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| GA03-14-7 |
History in Dispute, Volume 7: Water and the Environment: Global Perspectives. |
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St. James Press/ 9781558624139/ Price:US$ 343.00
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Bodies Polotic: Disease, Death and Doctors in Britain, 1650-1900. |
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Porter, Roy/ 9781861890948/ Price:GBP 25.00
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Romania: Borderland of Europe.(POD) |
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Boia, Lucian/ 9781861891037/ Price:GBP 19.95
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Picturing Tropical Nature. |
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Stepan, Nancy L./ 9781861890849/ Price:GBP 25.00
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| VA15-3-3 |
Belief in Immortality and the Worship of the Dead, 3-Vols/Set. |
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Frazer, James G./ 9780700713394/ Price:GBP 180.00
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Volume I: The Belief among the Aboriginees of Australia, the Torres Straits Islands, New Guinea and Melanesia (1913); volume II: The Belief among the Polynesians (1922); volume III: The Belief among the Micronesians (1924). |
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| VA05-24 |
Calendar of State Papers, Colonial North America and the West Indies 1574-1739 CD-ROM. |
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Kupperman, Karen Ordahl/ 9780415219600/ Price:GBP 2665.00
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Originally published in print form in over 40 volumes from 1858 to 1994, The Calendar of State Papers, Colonial is rightly well-known as an essential source for the colonial history of North America and the West Indies. Now available for the first time in an electronic format, this CD-ROM transforms the utility of over 40,000 transcripts and extended abstracts for study and research, and makes possible hitherto difficult and impractical analyses.
The Calendar includes the West Indies 1574-1738, and the East Indies, China, Japan and Persia (Iran) 1513-1634. It is a catalogue of state papers comprising extended abstracts or transcripts in modernised spelling of the most important range of British historical material during this time in these territories, which are essential to all historians working on Britain and its colonies.
The material includes a wide range of subject areas such as correspondence to and from colonial governors, orders and grants from central government to local administration, and information from the localities. The material is also important as since it includes correspondence from the colonial governors as well as information about the slave trade and piracy, it comprises one of the most substantial sources of North American history before the Revolution.
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| VA03-22 |
Imperialism: Critical Concepts in Historical Studies, 3-Vols/Set. |
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Cain, Peter/ 9780415206273/ Price:GBP 1050.00
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The philosopher W.B. Gallie argued many years ago that there could be no simple definition of words such as 'freedom' because they embodied what he called 'essentially contested concepts'. They were words whose meaning had to be fought over and whose compteting definitions arose out of political struggle and conflict. Imperialism, and its close ally, colonialism, are two such contested concepts.
This set will give readers an insight in to the main lines of debate about the meanings of imperialism and colonialism over the last two centuries. |
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The Eternal Hermes: From Greek God to Alchemical Magus. |
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Faivre, Antoine/ 9780933999527/ Price:US$ 19.00
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Ancient Delhi. |
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Singh, Upinder/ 9780195649192/ Price:US$ 24.95
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Mapping Subaltern Studies and the Postcolonial. |
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Chaturvedi, Vinayak/ 9781859842140/ Price:GBP 27.99
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Sandinista: Carlos Fonseca and the Nicaraguan Revolution. |
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Zimmermann, Matilde/ 9780822325956/ Price:US$ 26.95
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Great War, Total War: Combat and Mobilization on the Western Front, 1914-1918. |
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Chickering, Roger/ 9780521773522/ Price:GBP 68.99
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A Short History of Rudeness: Manners, Morals, and Misbehavior in Modern America. |
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Caldwell, Mark/ 9780312263898/ Price:US$ 19.00
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Flags of Our Fathers. |
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Bradley, James/ 9780553589344/ Price:US$ 7.99
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England in the Later Middle Ages: A Political History. |
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Keen, M. H./ 9780415027830/ Price:GBP 20.99
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The Arrogance of Power: The Secret World of Richard Nixon. |
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Summers, Anthony/ 9780670871513/ Price:US$ 29.95
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| GA03-14-6 |
History in Dispute, Volume 6: The Cold War, Second Series. |
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St. James Press/ 9781558624122/ Price:US$ 343.00
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History in Dispute, Volume 5: World War II, 1942-1945. |
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St. James Press/ 9781558624115/ Price:US$ 343.00
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Eight Eurocentric Historians. |
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Blaut, J. M./ 9781572305915/ Price:US$ 34.00
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This volume examines and critiques the work of a diverse group of Eurocentric historians who have strongly shaped our understanding of world history. Building upon the foundations laid in his previous book, The Colonizer's Model Of The World, which provided a systematic overview of the nature and evolution of Eurocentrism, Blaut focuses in depth on Max Weber, Lynn White, Jr., Robert Brenner, Eric L. Jones, Michael Mann, John A. Hall, Jared Diamond, and David Landes. The role of each of these thinkers in generating colonialist understandings of history is described, and the fallacious assumptions at the roots of their arguments are revealed. Working toward an alternative understanding of the origins of modernity, this clearly written book provides invaluable insights and tools for readers across a range of disciplines. |
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The Nemesis of Power: A History of International Relations Theories. |
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Kleinschmidt, Harald/ 9781861890580/ Price:GBP 22.00
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香港史研究論著選輯 |
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程美寶、趙雨樂合編/ 9789627707196/ Price:NT$ 1920.00
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香港歷史的學術研究起步較遲，也有不少論著受到英國官方立場的影響，多站在管治階層的角度立論詮釋。隨著香港回歸祖國，香港歷史的研究愈來愈受到重視，研究視野也愈來愈開闊，著作之多令人目不暇給。可喜之餘，要怎樣選讀，才能從不同角度有系統地了解史實，又能理出香港歷史發展的梗概，對讀者來說，尤其是初涉者，不可謂不艱巨。
《香港史研究論著選輯》輯錄了內地及香港二十多位歷史學者的著作，他們從不同的立場、研究方法、理念架構出發，旁徵博引，從政治、經濟、文化、民生、社會結構等各方面，深入剖析香港一百五十多年的發展。
二十四篇文章，從香港成為英國殖民地之初，說到回歸祖國前夕；從政府自上而下的福利政策，說到市民從下而上的政治訴求；從顛沛流離的移民怎樣視香港為流徙寄寓之地，說到土生土長的 “香港人”如何落地生根；從香港與內地唇齒相依，說到彼此不越藩籬，最後又重新整合，互相調適。儘管主題各異，卻前呼後應，貫串了香港一百五十多年的歷史。有興趣認識香港歷史的讀者，必能從中探索香港歷史的演變過程，發掘不少閱讀的樂趣。
書中論文皆經精心挑選，內容豐富，資料充實，涵蓋面廣且條理清晰，是研究香港歷史者重要的參考讀物。 |
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Witchcraft and Magic in Europe, Vol. 6: The Twentieth Century. |
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Willem de Blecourt/ 9780485891058/ Price:GBP 45.00
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Anticipating Total War: The German and American Experiences, 1871-1914. |
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Manfred F. Boemeke/ 9780521622943/ Price:GBP 98.99
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| GA03-5 |
Encyclopedia of the Renaissance, 6-Vols/Set. |
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Charles Scribner's Sons/ 9780684805146/ Price:US$ 1654.00
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History in Dispute, Volume 4: World War II, 1939-1942. |
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St. James Press/ 9781558624108/ Price:US$ 307.00
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| GA03-14-3 |
History in Dispute, Volume 3: American Social and Political Movements, 1945-2000: Pursuit of Progress. |
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St. James Press/ 9781558624092/ Price:US$ 343.00
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History in Dispute, Volume 2: American Social and Political Movements, 1900-1945: Pursuit of Liberty. |
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St. James Press/ 9781558623965/ Price:US$ 343.00
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History in Dispute, Volume 1: The Cold War, First Series. |
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St. James Press/ 9781558623958/ Price:US$ 292.00
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World History: Ideologies, Structures, and Identities. |
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Pomper, Philip/ 9780631208983/ Price:US$ 155.00
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Railroad Mergers and the Language of Unification. |
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Burns, James B./ 9781567201666/ Price:GBP 67.00
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Reading the Mountains of Home. |
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Elder, John/ 9780674748897/ Price:US$ 31.50
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| GA03-11-14 |
Encyclopedia of World Biography, Vol. 14. |
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Byers, P. K./ 9780787625542/ Price:US$ 243.00
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Le Mythe de croisade, tome I |
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/ 9782070730551/ Price:EUR 31.00
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The Medieval Record. |
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Andrea, Alfred J./ 9780395718629/ Price:US$ 107.95
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Intimacy and Terror: Soviet Diaries of the 1930s. |
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Garros, Veronique/ 9781565843981/ Price:US$ 18.95
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Guam History: Perspectives, Vol. 1. |
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Carter, Lee D./ 9781878453280/ Price:US$ 49.95
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Unavoidable Germans. |
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Mosher, John/ 9780761806479/ Price:US$ 72.99
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Ancient Naukratis: Excavations at a Greek Emporium in Egypt, Part II: Excavations at Kom Hadid. |
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Leonard, Albert/ 9780897570251/ Price:US$ 99.95
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A History of Psychiatry: From the Era of the Asylum to the Age of Prozac. |
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Shorter, Edward/ 9780471245315/ Price:US$ 44.95
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| GA03-23 |
American Eras, 8-Vols/Set. |
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/ 9780787614775/ Price:US$ 2135.00
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| WC019 |
元代社會經濟史稿 |
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李幹著/ 9789627707127/ Price:NT$ 1060.00
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全書共分為十一章，從不同層面論述元代的社會經濟發展。本書原為湖北人民出版社出版，後徵得原出版者同意，在香港以繁體字重印。 |
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| WC018 |
中國封建社會經濟史：第五卷 |
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傅筑夫著/ 9789627707110/ Price:NT$ 1150.00
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本書探討了宋代的經濟地理、交通運輸、土地制度、農業、手工業、商業、貨幣等課題。本書原為北京人民出版社出版，後徵得原出版者同意，在香港以繁體字重印。 |
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Odd Markets in Japanese History: Law and Economic Growth. |
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Ramseyer, J. M./ 9780521563864/ Price:GBP 72.00
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A Rule of Property for Bengal: An Essay on the Idea of Permanent Settlement. |
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Guha, Ranajit/ 9780822317616/ Price:US$ 114.96
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Sociology and Economics of Casteism in India. |
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Mishra, Girish/ 9788173070365/ Price:NT$ 1010.00
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The Indian Ocean in Antiquity. |
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Reade, Julian/ 9780710304353/ Price:GBP 290.00
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A. Philip Randolph, Pioneer of the Civil Rights Movement. |
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Pfeffer, Paula F./ 9780807120750/ Price:US$ 22.95
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All Anybody Ever Wanted of Me Was to Work: The Memoirs of Edith Bradley Rendleman. |
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/ 9780809320592/ Price:US$ 19.95
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| SA03-205 |
Greece in the Making, 1200-479BC. |
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Osborne, Robin/ 9780415035835/ Price:GBP 22.99
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| VA06-37 |
Works of Henry Thomas Buckle, 3-Vols/Set. |
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Taylor, Helen/ 9781855064157/ Price:GBP 195.00
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Henry Thomas Buckle (1821-1862)是最具色彩及爭議性的英國歷史學家。雖然他由保守黨員的父親以及嚴格的喀爾文教徒母親所教養成人，但是他本身卻是個激進的自由思想家，他最著名的作品 --「文明的歷史」中值得注意的是他所採用的研究方法與主題。早期的歷史學者曾寫過關於帝王們之間的鬥爭與脅迫，巴克則專心研究現今稱為社會主義與理智主義的歷史。他十分欽佩J. S. Mill，因而深信經驗主義的方法論對歷史研究是很有助益的。
除了《歷史與文明》一書之外，在巴克的一生中也出版其他的作品。在這些作品中，包含評論J. S. Mill的自由主義和重要的公開演講－"女人對知識形成過程的影嚮"等，皆可在第一冊中找到包含各方面主題、未出版過的或未完成之作品。在這裡我們可以發現巴克隨著年齡，逐漸改變對伏爾泰與盧梭、信仰自由與宗教迫害、乞丐與貧民救濟法，女性的影嚮力、拒絕迷信等的見解。
第二冊與第三冊所包含的巴克備忘錄，是在他旺盛的求知慾下所累積的成果。此二冊在英國歷史時期方面的文獻，也以強調在社會學，理智主義、宗教與道德重整等方面了提出新的觀點。
這一套三冊的書，呈現給讀者的是，在社會學與歷史學方面，寬廣且多樣的選擇。這樣完整的版本，絕對能提供對英國歷史學家有興趣的讀者，極具洞察力的資料。
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Silencing the Past: Power and the Production of History. |
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Trouillot, Michel-Rolph/ 9780807043110/ Price:US$ 18.00
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The Peru Reader: History, Culture, Politics. |
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Starn, Orin/ 9780822316015/ Price:US$ 89.95
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| SA03-408 |
Haim Nahum: A Sephardic Chief Rabbi in Politics, 1892-1923. |
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Benbassa, Esther/ 9780817307295/ Price:US$ 29.95
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| SA03-403 |
Southeast Asia: Tradition and Modernity in the Contemporary World. |
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Mccloud, Donald G./ 9780813318967/ Price:US$ 52.00
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| SA03-385 |
Julian's Gods: Religion and Philosophy in the Thought and Action of Julian the Apostate. |
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Smith, Rowland/ 9780415034876/ Price:GBP 145.00
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| SA03-302 |
The Europa World Year Book 1995: Vols 1 & 2. 1995. |
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In Palliser's Triangle: Living in the Grasslands 1850 - 1930. |
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Potyondi, Barry/ 9781895830064/ Price:US$ 18.50
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| VA15-3-8 |
Gorgon's Head and Other Literary Pieces, The. |
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Frazer, James G./ 9780700714438/ Price:GBP 165.00
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The work of Sir James G. Frazer (1854-1941) ranged widely across classics, cultural history, folklore and literary criticism as well as anthropology. This volume was first published in 1927. |
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Folk-Lore in the Old Testament, 3-Vols/Set. |
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Frazer, James G./ 9780700714407/ Price:GBP 280.00
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The work of Sir James G. Frazer (1854-1941) ranged widely across classics, cultural history, folklore and literary criticism as well as anthropology. This volume was first published in 1918. |
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Anthologia Anthropologica, 4-Vols/Set. |
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Frazer, James G./ 9780700713417/ Price:GBP 755.00
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Edited by R. A. Downie. Volume I: The Native Races of Africa dn Madagascar (1938); volume 2: The Native Races of Australia (1939); volume III: The Native Races of Asia and Europe (1939); volume IV: The Native Races of America (1939). |
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| VA15-3-12 |
Fear of the Dead in Primitive Religion, The. 3-Vols/Set. |
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Frazer, James G./ 9780700713400/ Price:GBP 480.00
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Garnered Sheaves. |
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Frazer, James G./ 9780700714391/ Price:GBP 190.00
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The work of Sir James G. Frazer (1854-1941) ranged widely across classics, cultural history, folklore and literary criticism as well as anthropology. This volume was first published in 1931. |
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The Idea of Luxury: A Conceptual and Historical Investigation. |
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Berry, Christopher J./ 9780521466912/ Price:GBP 22.99
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The Other Taiwan: 1945 to the Present. |
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Rubinstein, Murray A./ 9781563241932/ Price:US$ 47.95
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Journal of Asian and African Studies, Vol. 29. |
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/ 00219096-29/ Price:US$ 165.00
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| SA03-416 |
Six Armies in Normandy: From D-Day to the Liberation of Paris. |
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Keegan, John/ 9780140235425/ Price:US$ 18.00
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| SA03-404 |
Five Years in Siam 1891-1896, Vol. 1 and Vol. 2. |
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Volumes 1&2：New Introduction；New material including Letter to Patriot Senator and Oxford Oration, plus a number of recently discovered letters；Life
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