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Virginia Cox
The Italian Renaissance

The extraordinary creative energy of Renaissance Italy lies at the root of modern Western culture. In this study, Virginia Cox offers a fresh vision of this iconic moment in cultural history. This book ex…

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Jahrbuch für Europäische Geschichte / European History Yearbook, Band 21, Cultural Sovereignty beyond the Modern State

In the past 25 years or more, political observers have diagnosed a crisis of the sovereign nation state and the erosion of state sovereignty through supranational institutions and the global mobility of c…

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Fay Bound-Alberti
The Face

'Utterly fascinating, beautifully written, scholarly yet entertaining' Joanna LumleyA pioneering study into how we interpret faces and what they reveal about us, from a world-renowned cultural historianWh…

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Tami Parr
Goats in America

In Goats in America Tami Parr calls attention to these disregarded animals, uncovering the remarkable stories behind everything from goat meat and milk to goat yoga and more.

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Wolfgang Müller-Funk,
Cruelty

In a humane world, cruelty should not exist, and yet it has been a feature of our societies since time immemorial. From individual acts of cruelty to systematic torture and mass murder, cruelty has been h…

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Interiors in the Age of Enlightenment

Exploring the culture of interior design and architecture in the Age of the Enlightenment

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Personal Religion in the Ancient Greek World

Much is known about the manifold ways in which ancient Greek religious beliefs and practices map onto the social and political structures of the ancient Greek polis. The way in which the individual served…

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Colonial Cyprus

An original, innovative, and timely study on the cultural history of Cyprus under British rule, offering a new interpretative framework for studying the island's colonial past. The book focuses on the oft…

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Richard H. Davis
Religions of Early India

"The extraordinary multiplicity of religions and religious cultures in India, chronicled over two thousand years."--Provided by publisher.

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Anna Fishzon, Ian Beilin
Fin de Siècle Europe

An examination of the most significant social, artistic, intellectual, and political developments in Europe at the turn of the 20th century (1870 to 1914), Fin de Siècle Europe provides a comprehensive ap…

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Anna Fishzon, Ian Beilin
Fin de Siècle Europe

An examination of the most significant social, artistic, intellectual, and political developments in Europe at the turn of the 20th century (1870 to 1914), Fin de Siècle Europe provides a comprehensive ap…

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Laura S. Scherling
Product Design, Technology, and Social Change

Examines the relationship between products, consumption, sustainability, politics and social movements. This 'pocket history' surveys product design from the agricultural revolution and the birth of citie…

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Laura S. Scherling
Product Design, Technology, and Social Change

Examines the relationship between products, consumption, sustainability, politics and social movements. This 'pocket history' surveys product design from the agricultural revolution and the birth of citie…

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Dionisius A. Agius, Muhammad Zafer Alhazmi, Hasan Hujairi
Songs of the Arabian Red Sea

Song and music have always played an important part in the cultural identity of the mariners and coastal peoples of the Red Sea.While previous studies on the maritime culture of this region have focused o…

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Sue Consolo-Murphy
The Bears of Grand Teton

Sue Consolo-Murphy's autobiographical narrative traces the history of bear management in Grand Teton National Park and the Jackson Hole area, considering in particular bears' interaction with livestock.

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Katherine Aske
Being Pretty in the Eighteenth Century

Uncovering how and why eighteenth-century definitions of beauty established cultural beliefs that continue to persist, Katherine Aske explores the ways female beauty was described, interpreted, celebrated…

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Raymond Malewitz
Animal Illness and the Literary Imagination

Written for literary and animal studies scholars, this book shows how animal illnesses influence our cultures and our economies, our language and our politics; enabling us to investigate in narrative form…

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Rachel Elder
Secrecy and Safety

A history of epilepsy and the work required to manage it.In the middle of the twentieth century, medical advancements like anticonvulsant drugs and electroencephalograms promised new possibilities for man…

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Lottery fantasies, follies, and controversies

The volume explores the ways 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-speak…

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Kathleen B Casey
The Things She Carried

Purses and bags have always been much more than a fashion accessory.For generations of Americans, the purse has been an essential and highly adaptable object, used to achieve a host of social, cultural, a…

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