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HOLY MOLY - My Holy Garlic

Garlic - Medicinal plant, magic herb, and cultural treasureFor thousands of years, garlic has been used as food, medicine, and a magical plant in cultures around the world. From the Egyptian pyramid build…

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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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Charles-François Mathis
Coal in Modern Britain

This is the first book to examine the social and cultural significance of coal in British society in the 19th and 20th centuries. An English-language translation of Charles-François Mathis's award-winning…

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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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Anja Zimmermann,
The Breast

While sometimes described as a secondary sex characteristic, the female breast is of primary interest. It nourishes but also seduces, it is considered sacred or depraved - depending on the era, culture, c…

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Samantha N Sheppard
The Basketball Film

Screening Sports

The Basketball Film: A Cultural and Transmedia History reveals how stories about the game extend far beyond the court. From classic Hollywood dramas to independent documentaries, basketball films capture …

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Samantha N Sheppard
The Basketball Film

Screening Sports

The Basketball Film: A Cultural and Transmedia History reveals how stories about the game extend far beyond the court. From classic Hollywood dramas to independent documentaries, basketball films capture …

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Krys
The Origins of Ukrainian Gothic

Ukrainian dark prose that draws on the conventions of the British and western European Gothic novel emerged in the nineteenth century and continued uninterrupted until the early twentieth century. Writers…

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Emotions, Affect, and Narrative in Korean History and Culture

This collection of eleven essays explores emotions and affect in Korean culture across a broad temporal span, from the Koryŏ dynasty (918--1392) to the present. Drawing on a diverse array of sources---inc…

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Elena Fabietti
Glass Bodies

Cultural Memory in the Present

Glass Bodies tells the story of how transparent humans have appeared throughout European history -- in fiction, philosophy, and science -- and what they reveal about changing ideas of the human.The book t…

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Caitlin Blackwell Baines
How to Build a Haunted House

A cultural history of the phenomenon of the 'haunted house' as seen through art, architecture, and ghost stories.What makes a house haunted? Why do some buildings conjure up a reputation for being particu…

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Nat'l Mus Afr Am Hist Culture
The National Museum of African American History and Culture

Take a tour through Black history in 100+ Smithsonian objects with this updated edition of the beautifully illustrated keepsake---now featuring 72 new objects. Celebrating 10 years of the National Museum …

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Anti-Asian Racism in Transatlantic Perspectives

Postcolonial Studies - Band 52

During the COVID-19 pandemic, Sinophobia and anti-Asian hate made media headlines. The contributors to this volume discuss how anti-Asian projections and colonial-racist narratives have shaped modernity a…

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The Beginnings of Law

Forschungen zum Alten Testament

In legal history, the ancient Near East - including ancient Israel - has often been relegated to isolated and marginal positions. Scholarship has long been dominated by narratives that privilege Greece an…

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Louis A Ruprecht Jr
Cosmopolitan Crete

This open access book studies the history of the island of Crete as a site of ethnic and religious mixing and reveals how this relates to modern day interest in pluralistic community formation.Louis A Rup…

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Translocations

Global- und Kolonialgeschichte - Band 4

Who owns cultural assets? Who has narrative control? What could fair and just approaches to dislocations of cultural assets look like, independently of restitution?Discussions about historical appropriati…

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The Cambridge History of Arthurian Literature and Culture: Volume 1

The first volume of The Cambridge History of Arthurian Literature and Culture is the authoritative source for those wanting to explore the flourishing medieval world of Arthur from its very beginnings. Na…

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Re-Imagining Space and Society in Central and Eastern Europe

SpatioTemporality / RaumZeitlichkeit

The end of what the GDR called "real existierender Sozialismus" in Europe at the beginning of the 1990s dramatically changed the geopolitical situation in Central and Eastern Europe. Five states…

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Caitlin Blackwell Baines
How to Build a Haunted House

A CRIB NOTES MUST-READ FOR SPOOKY SEASON 'Glorious' PHILIP HOARE'A supernatural safari - just the sort of book to read over Halloween' DAILY MAIL'Excellent' LEON CRAIG 'Every horror fan, coffin boffin and…

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