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Parlour and the Street Elite and Popular Culture in Nineteenth-Century Calcutta
ISBN: PB: 9780857426178, Seagull Books, September 2019
272 pp., 22.9x15.2 cm
In this book, Sumanta Banerjee analyzes the development of the folk culture of Calcutta's urban poor following the establishment of the British colonial system in Bengal. Consisting primarily of traditional artisans who migrated from neighboring vill...
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£25,00
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Past as Present Forging Contemporary Identities Through History
ISBN: HB: 9780857426444, Seagull Books, September 2019
336 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm
"Nations need identities. These are created from perceptions of how societies have evolved. In this, history plays a central role. Insisting on reliable history is therefore crucial to more than just a pedagogic cause. Delicate relationships between...
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£20,00
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No Fixed Abode Ethnofiction
ISBN: PB: 9780857426345, Seagull Books, March 2019
80 pp., 25x15 cm
In recent years, social workers have raised a new concern about the appearance of a new category among the working poor. Even employed, there are people so overburdened by the cost of living and so under compensated that they cannot afford a place to...
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£11,99
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Stillborn Notebooks of a Woman from the Student-Movement Generation in Egypt
ISBN: HB: 9780857424839, Seagull Books, February 2018
168 pp., 20.3x12.7 cm
Arwa Salih was a member of the political bureau of the Egyptian Communist Workers Party, which was founded in the wake of the Arab-Israeli War and the Egyptian student movement of the early 1970s. Written more than a decade after Salih quit the party...
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£20,00
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Nationalism and the Imagination
ISBN: PB: 9780857423184, Seagull Books, August 2015
92 pp., 18.5x11.4 cm
Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak has distinguished herself as one of the foremost scholars of contemporary literary and postcolonial theory and feminist thought. Known for her translation of Derrida's "On Grammatology" and her groundbreaking essay, "Can th...
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£11,50
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Festive Devils of the Americas
ISBN: PB: 9780857421791, Seagull Books, August 2015
384 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 36 halftones
The devil is a defiant, nefarious figure, the emblem of evil, and harbinger of the damned. However, the festive devil – the devil that dances – turns the most hideous acts into playful transgressions. "Festive Devils of the Americas" is the first vol...
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£34,00
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Performing the Nation Genocide, Justice, Reconciliation
ISBN: PB: 9780857421081, Seagull Books, September 2014
264 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 30 halftones
A dance begins beneath the outstretched branches of the giant umunyinya tree in Rwanda. First there is drumming and clapping, then the lead dancers step into the center of the gathering. The dancing subsides and the gacaca court, the community hearin...
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£26,50
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Death Tourism Disaster Sites as Recreational Landscape
ISBN: PB: 9780857421074, Seagull Books, September 2014
356 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 35 halftones
Auschwitz. Hiroshima. Cambodia's killing fields. The World Trade Center. The mass graves of Rwanda. These places of violent death have become part of the recreational landscape of tourism, an industry that is otherwise dedicated to pleasure and escap...
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£26,50
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We are the Roma! One Thousand Years of Discrimination
ISBN: PB: 9780857420381, Seagull Books, December 2013
120 pp., 17.7x10.6 cm
The Roma or Romani people, commonly called gypsies, comprise one of the largest ethnic minorities in the European Union, with significant populations in the Balkan Peninsula as well as Spain, France, Russia, and the Ukraine. Persecution of the Roma d...
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£7,00
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Harlem
ISBN: HB: 9780857420848, Seagull Books, January 2013
80 pp., 25x15 cm, 24 colour illus.
W. E. B. Du Bois has described the African American at the end of the nineteenth century as "two souls in one dark body, whose dogged strength alone keeps it from being torn asunder". In the United States today, the hyphen between these two souls – A...
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£15,00
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