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Cycling City Bicycles and Urban America in the 1890s
ISBN: PB: 9780226758800, ISBN: HB: 9780226210919, University of Chicago Press, January 2021
288 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 45 halftones
Cycling has experienced a renaissance in the United States, as cities around the country promote the bicycle as an alternative means of transportation. In the process, debates about the nature of bicycles – where they belong, how they should be ridde...
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£26,00
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£32,00
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What We Did in Bed A Horizontal History
ISBN: HB: 9780300223880, Yale University Press, November 2019
232 pp., 21x14 cm, 16 black&white illus.
Louis XIV ruled France from his bedchamber. Winston Churchill governed Britain from his during World War II. Travelers routinely used to bed down with complete strangers, and whole families shared beds in many preindustrial households. Beds were expe...
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£20,00
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Epitaphs A Dying Art
ISBN: HB: 9781851244515, Bodleian Library Publishing, April 2016
144 pp., 0x0 cm,
Epitaphs are a unique artform. In previous centuries they were regarded as an opportunity to celebrate, mourn, reflect on, philosophize, lament, or affirm the individual and the mystery of life and death, often giving rise to carefully crafted verse....
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£9,99
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Archives of the Insensible Of War, Photopolitics, and Dead Memory
ISBN: PB: 9780226277332, ISBN: HB: 9780226277165, University of Chicago Press, November 2015
432 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 31 halftones
In this jarring look at contemporary warfare and political visuality, renowned anthropologist of violence Allen Feldman provocatively argues that contemporary sovereign power mobilizes asymmetric, clandestine, and ultimately unending war as a will to...
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£22,50
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£67,50
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Country of Football Politics, Popular Culture, and the Beautiful Game in Brazil
ISBN: PB: 9781849044172, Hurst Publishers, June 2014
240 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm
For sale in CIS only! Brazil has done much to shape football, but how has football shaped Brazil? Despite the political and social importance of the beautiful game to the country, the subject has hitherto received little attention. This book present...
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£16,99
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Paris Blues African American Music and French Popular Culture, 1920-1960
ISBN: PB: 9780226138817, ISBN: HB: 9780226138787, University of Chicago Press, May 2014
304 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 39 halftones, 17 line drawings
The Jazz Age. The phrase conjures images of Louis Armstrong holding court at the Sunset Cafe in Chicago, Duke Ellington dazzling crowds at the Cotton Club in Harlem, and star singers like Bessie Smith and Ma Rainey. But the Jazz Age was every bit as...
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£24,00
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£67,50
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Sicily A Cultural History
ISBN: PB: 9781908493644, Signal Books, November 2012
256 pp., 21.7x14.7 cm
For sale in CIS only! Long before it became an Italian offshore island, Sicily was the land in the centre of the Mediterranean where the great civilizations of Europe and Northern Africa met. In ancient times it was the scene of conflicts between Ca...
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£12,00
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Troubling Vision Performance, Visuality, and Blackness
ISBN: PB: 9780226253039, ISBN: HB: 9780226253022, University of Chicago Press, January 2011
296 pp., 23x15 cm, 42 halftones
"Troubling Vision" addresses American culture's fixation on black visibility, exploring how blackness is persistently seen as a problem in public culture and even in black scholarship that challenges racist discourse. Through trenchant analysis, Nico...
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£25,00
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£70,50
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Authors of the Storm Meteorologists and the Culture of Prediction
ISBN: PB: 9780226249537, ISBN: HB: 9780226249520, University of Chicago Press, June 2010
312 pp., 23x15 cm, 1 map, 3 halftones
Whether it is used as an icebreaker in conversation or as the subject of serious inquiry, "the weather" is one of the few subjects that everyone talks about. And though we recognize the faces that bring us the weather on television, how government me...
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£26,00
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£40,00
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Changing Clothes in China Fashion, History, Nation
ISBN: HB: 9781850658603, Hurst Publishers, January 2008
360 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm
For sale in CIS only! Historians have long regarded fashion as something peculiarly Western. In this surprising, sumptuously illustrated book, Antonia Finnane challenges this view, which she argues is based on nineteenth- and twentieth-century repre...
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£30,00
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