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Professional Wrestling Politics and Populism
ISBN: PB: 9780857427946, Seagull Books, March 2021
312 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm
A wildly popular form of mass media and live entertainment, professional wrestling makes a spectacle of violent acts. With its long history of working contemporary events into storylines and commenting upon cultural and military conflicts, profession...
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£35,00
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Problem with Feeding Cities The Social Transformation of Infrastructure, Abundance, and Inequality in America
ISBN: PB: 9780226703077, ISBN: HB: 9780226702919, University of Chicago Press, May 2020
328 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 30 halftones, 2 tables
For most people, grocery shopping is a mundane activity. Few stop to think about the massive, global infrastructure that makes it possible to buy Chilean grapes in a Philadelphia supermarket in the middle of winter. Yet every piece of food represents...
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£26,00
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£78,00
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Picturing Political Power Images in the Women's Suffrage Movement
ISBN: HB: 9780226703244, University of Chicago Press, May 2020
320 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 105 halftones
For as long as women have battled for equitable political representation in America, those battles have been defined by images – whether illustrations, engravings, photographs, or colorful chromolithograph posters. Some of these pictures have been fl...
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£36,00
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Plague Years A Doctor's Journey through the AIDS Crisis
ISBN: HB: 9780226718767, University of Chicago Press, May 2020
224 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm
In 1992, Dr. Ross A. Slotten had the dubious distinction of signing more death certificates in the city of Chicago – and, by inference, the state of Illinois – than any other physician. As a family physician, he trained to care for patients from birt...
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£16,00
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Pocket A Hidden History of Women's Lives, 1660-1900
ISBN: PB: 9780300253740, Yale University Press, April 2020
264 pp., 23.5x17.5 cm, 200 colour illus.
This fascinating and enlightening study of the tie-on pocket combines materiality and gender to provide new insight into the social history of women's everyday lives – from duchesses and country gentry to prostitutes and washerwomen – and to explore...
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£19,99
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Politics of Solidarity Privatisation, Precarious Work and Labour in South Africa
ISBN: PB: 9783593510477, University of Chicago Press, Campus Verlag, January 2020
430 pp., 21.5x13.9 cm, 1 colour plate, 15 halftones
"Politics of Solidarity" explores the transformation of public services in post-apartheid South Africa and the effects of privatization in three cities: Johannesburg, Ekurhuleni, and Cape Town. Drawing on extensive qualitative fieldwork, Carmen Ludwi...
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£34,00
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Princess of the Hither Isles A Black Suffragist's Story from the Jim Crow South
ISBN: HB: 9780300242607, Yale University Press, November 2019
392 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm, 9 black&white illus.
Born during the Civil War into a slaveholding family that included black, white, and Cherokee forebears, Adella Hunt Logan dedicated herself to advancing political and educational opportunities for the African American community. She taught at Alabam...
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£25,00
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Polygamy An Early American History
ISBN: HB: 9780300226843, Yale University Press, October 2019
416 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm, 28 black&white illus.
Today we tend to think of polygamy as an unnatural marital arrangement characteristic of fringe sects or uncivilized peoples. Historian Sarah Pearsall shows us that polygamy's surprising history encompasses numerous colonies, indigenous communities,...
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£30,00
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Patchwork City Class, Space, and Politics in Metro Manila
ISBN: PB: 9780226643144, ISBN: HB: 9780226643007, University of Chicago Press, September 2019
288 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 21 halftones, 3 line drawings
In contemporary Manila, slums and squatter settlements are peppered throughout the city, often pushing right up against the walled enclaves of the privileged, creating the complex geopolitical pattern of Marco Z. Garrido's "patchwork city". Garrido d...
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£24,00
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£68,00
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Players and Pawns How Chess Builds Community and Culture
ISBN: PB: 9780226639864, ISBN: HB: 9780226264981, University of Chicago Press, April 2019
288 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 4 halftones
A chess match seems as solitary an endeavor as there is in sports: two minds, on their own, in fierce opposition. In contrast, Gary Alan Fine argues that chess is a social duet: two players in silent dialogue who always take each other into account i...
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£17,00
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£21,00
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