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Rachel Elder
Secrecy and Safety

A history of epilepsy and the challenges faced by those with the stigmatized condition.In the middle of the twentieth century, medical advancements like anticonvulsant drugs and electroencephalograms prom…

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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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Dean G. Lampros
Preserved

"This work uses the history of American funeral homes to reimagine the beginnings of our decentralized consumer landscape"--

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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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Eric A. Cheezum
Chessie

Chessie is an enthralling exploration of the profound power of a symbol that underscores both the affection the public continues to have for the monster and the cultural transformations in the region at t…

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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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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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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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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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Wendy Ugolini
Wales in England, 1914-1945

The first cultural history of English Welsh duality - an identification with two constituent nations at once - that explores how 'Welshness' was imagined, performed, and mobilised in England during and be…

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Hartmut Rosa
When Monsters Roar and Angels Sing

Ehemals Musik junger Abgehängter und Outlaws, ist Heavy Metal heute mehr und mehr in der Mitte der Gesellschaft angekommen: Wohl mehr als 10 Millionen Deutsche hören Heavy Metal. Aber warum tun sie das? W…

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Smithsonian Asian Pacific American History, Art, and Culture in 101 Objects

A rich and compelling introduction to the history of Asian Pacific American communities as told through 101 objects, from a fortune cookie baking mold to the debut Ms. Marvel comic featuring Kamala Khan A…

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Caitlin Blackwell Baines
How to Build a Haunted House

What makes a house haunted? Why do some buildings conjure up a reputation for being particularly creepy, while others leave us unmoved? Barring the possibility of a looming afterlife, what are the particu…

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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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