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Jared Poley
Luck, Leisure, and the Casino in Nineteenth-Century Europe

"Casino gambling is central to understanding the cultural, social, and intellectual history of nineteenthcentury Europe. Tracing the development of casino gambling across this period, this book conne…

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Joke Spaans
Modernising Protestantism

This book provides a thorough revision of the image of the public church under the Dutch Republic after the Peace of Westphalia and before the onset of the 'high Enlightenment'. Traditional church history…

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Brian F Wright
The Bastard Instrument

Centering the electric bass in popular music history

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Brian F Wright
The Bastard Instrument

Centering the electric bass in popular music history

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Kathleen B Casey
The Things She Carried

The Things She Carried provides a thorough and surprising examination of the purse--an object that generations of Americans have used to achieve a host of social, cultural, and political objectives over t…

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Jan-Peter Hartung
The Pashtun Borderland

"A history of the religious and socio political developments in the Pashtun borderland of modern Afghanistan and Pakistan since the 17th century, and how these have informed the worldview of the vari…

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Understanding the Greek Revolution (1821-1832)

The Greek Revolution remains a neglected episode in the revolutionary history of the insurrectionary wave of the 1820s. This volume collects the most recent research concerning the social, political and c…

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Jennifer Hansen-Glucklich
German Memorials, Motifs, and Meanings

German Memorials, Motifs, and Meanings offers a unique cultural history of German memorialization. The book focuses not on a single, isolated era, but rather on enduring memorial motifs--enchanted stones,…

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Lottery fantasies, follies, and controversies

The volume explores the way in which the lottery was imagined in early-modern and long-eighteenth-century Europe. It presents a series of interconnected case studies from Denmark-Norway, the German-speaki…

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Ren Pepitone
Brotherhood of Barristers

Brotherhood of Barristers critically investigates masculinity, the creation of the gentlemanly professional, and the exclusionary culture of the British legal profession. It examines the cultural history …

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Stephen Nissenbaum
The Battle for Christmas

Anyone who laments the excesses of Christmas might consider the Puritans of colonial Massachusetts: they simply outlawed the holiday. The Puritans had their reasons, since Christmas was once an occasion f…

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Michelle Ann Abate
Singular Sensations

Michelle Ann Abate examines what The Family Circus , Ziggy , and The Far Sideall have in common---they're single-panel comics, a seemingly simple form that presents cartoonists with a wide range of possib…

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Hunting Troubles

This volume examines the cultural history of European and North American hunting from the Middle Ages to the present day from the perspective of gender as well as animal studies. It demonstrates that the …

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Michelle Ann Abate
Singular Sensations

Michelle Ann Abate examines what The Family Circus , Ziggy , and The Far Sideall have in common---they're single-panel comics, a seemingly simple form that presents cartoonists with a wide range of possib…

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Antonio Melechi
The Unconscious

A highly original first anthology on the cultural history of the unconscious that is destined to become definitive."Know thyself"---the injunction that was once inscribed upon the Temple of Apol…

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Nina S Studer
The Hour of Absinthe

The Hour of Absinthe contextualizes and deconstructs some of the numerous myths surrounding absinthe, locating race, gender, class, and colonialism at the heart of France's cultural narratives about the d…

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Charles-François Mathis
Coal in Modern Britain

An exploration of Britain's relationship with coal from the explosion of the coal industry in the 1830s to the 'coal-minded' society of the 1940s.

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Arnoud S. Q. Visser
On Pedantry

A lively and entertaining cultural history of a supremely annoying intellectual viceIntellectuals have long provoked scorn and irritation, even downright aggression. Many learned individuals have cast suc…

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Susanna Morton Braund
Translating Virgil

"The first synthesis and analysis of the translation history of Roman poet Virgil's works into European languages. A wide-ranging interdisciplinary investigation that contributes to western intellect…

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Thomas W Swetnam
The Jemez Mountains

The Jemez Mountains are a quintessential New Mexico landscape. For centuries, Pueblo, Spanish, and Anglo cultures have mixed and melded here. Many ancient villages are scattered across the mesas and in th…

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