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Fay Bound-Alberti
The Face

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

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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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The Bible in the Age of Empire

The nineteenth century was a time of titanic change. At the very heart of that change - driving it, confounding it, complicating it - was a singular book reputed to be utterly unchanging in its true and p…

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Four Centuries of Women's Musical Salons

For centuries, women have organized and hosted social gatherings known as 'salons,' which have served as sites of women's creativity and agency in the arts, sciences, and letters - especially music. This …

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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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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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Stella A Ress
American Girls in Popular Media

The appearance of high-profile girl characters in popular culture media of all types soared between the years 1924, when Little Orphan Annie first appeared in the comic section of newspapers, to 1945, whe…

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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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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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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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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

This book shows how major literary works from the eighteenthcentury to the present not only reflect but also shape the thoughts and anxieties of people struggling to navigate crises brought about by anima…

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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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Jan-Peter Hartung
The Pashtun Borderland

Since the Taliban returned to power in Afghanistan in 2021, the need to understand the group's history and ideology has only increased. Jan-Peter Hartung's timely study examines the phenomenon of the Tali…

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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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