Search Results

ENGLISH

Radio And The Politics Of Sound In Interwar France, 1921â€“1939

by Rebecca P. (Rochester Institute Of Technology, New York) Scales

45,96€ + 10% CARD

free shipping

 Drawing from a wide range of archival sources, this study illustrates the resonance of radio within early twentieth-century debates. It rejects the idea of radio as a tool for a totalitarian state and instead offers a more nuanced picture of the impact of broadcasting on 1930s politics in interwar France.
ENGLISH

Italy'S Margins - Social Exclusion And Nation Formation Since 1861

by David Forgacs

45,05€ + 10% CARD

 Italy's Margins explores how certain places and social groups in Italy have been defined as marginal or peripheral since unification. The author argues that the Italian nation was formed by excluding certain groups of people who did not fit comfortably into a narrative of modernization, growth and social integration.
ENGLISH

The Channel - England, France And The Construction Of A Maritime Border In The Eighteenth Century

by Renaud (University Of Cambridge) Morieux

51,37€ + 10% CARD

free shipping

 Rather than a natural frontier between natural enemies, this book approaches the English Channel as a shared space, which mediated the multiple relations between France and England in the long eighteenth century. This is an important reassessment of the history of Britain's deep historical connections with Europe.
ENGLISH

Renaissance Ethnography And The Invention Of The Human - New Worlds, Maps And Monsters

by Surekha Davies

39,20€ + 10% CARD

free shipping

 Surekha Davies examines how Renaissance illustrated maps shaped ideas about peoples of the Americas, revealing how mapmakers devised detailed images and descriptions that placed peoples within a hierarchy of civility and savagery. Davies shows how ideas about monstrosity were crucial for early modern ethnology and, consequently, for colonial expansion.
ENGLISH

Feeding France - New Sciences Of Food, 1760â€“1815

by E. C. (University Of Cambridge) Spary

51,37€ + 10% CARD

free shipping

 Feeding France offers the first comprehensive study of France's industrial food industry in the decades surrounding the French Revolution. Complementing histories of gastronomy and the restaurant, this book rewrites the history of the French relationship with food to show that chemistry, industrialisation and the politics of consumption were intimately intertwined.
ENGLISH

Voices Of The People In Nineteenth-Century France

by David (University Of Oxford) Hopkin

45,96€ + 10% CARD

free shipping

 This innovative study of the lives of ordinary people â€" peasants, fishermen, textile workers - in nineteenth-century France demonstrates how folklore collections can be used to shed new light on the socially marginalized, and reveals how oral culture provided mechanisms for the poor to assert some control over their own destinies.
ENGLISH

Italy'S Margins - Social Exclusion And Nation Formation Since 1861

by David (New York University) Forgacs

45,96€ + 10% CARD

free shipping

 Italy's Margins explores how certain places and social groups in Italy have been defined as marginal or peripheral since unification. The author argues that the Italian nation was formed by excluding certain groups of people who did not fit comfortably into a narrative of modernization, growth and social integration.
ENGLISH

Radio And The Politics Of Sound In Interwar France, 1921â€“1939

by Rebecca P. (Rochester Institute Of Technology, New York) Scales

133,84€ + 10% CARD

free shipping

 Drawing from a wide range of archival sources, this study illustrates the resonance of radio within early twentieth-century debates. It rejects the idea of radio as a tool for a totalitarian state and instead offers a more nuanced picture of the impact of broadcasting on 1930s politics in interwar France.
ENGLISH

Renaissance Ethnography And The Invention Of The Human - New Worlds, Maps And Monsters

by Surekha Davies

154,11€ + 10% CARD

free shipping

 Surekha Davies examines how Renaissance illustrated maps shaped ideas about peoples of the Americas, revealing how mapmakers devised detailed images and descriptions that placed peoples within a hierarchy of civility and savagery. Davies shows how ideas about monstrosity were crucial for early modern ethnology and, consequently, for colonial expansion.
ENGLISH

The Channel - England, France And The Construction Of A Maritime Border In The Eighteenth Century

by Renaud (University Of Cambridge) Morieux

154,11€ + 10% CARD

free shipping

 Rather than a natural frontier between natural enemies, this book approaches the English Channel as a shared space, which mediated the multiple relations between France and England in the long eighteenth century. This is an important reassessment of the history of Britain's deep historical connections with Europe.
ENGLISH

Cities And The Grand Tour - The British In Italy, C.1690â€“1820

by Rosemary (University Of Leicester) Sweet

50,02€ + 10% CARD

free shipping

 The Grand Tour introduced British travellers to the urban environments of Florence, Rome, Naples and Venice at a time when unprecedented urbanisation was taking place at home. This fascinating study examines how cities were experienced, described and represented in travel literature and how the image of a city evolved.
ENGLISH

Italy'S Margins - Social Exclusion And Nation Formation Since 1861

by David Forgacs

45,05€ + 10% CARD

 Italy's Margins explores how certain places and social groups in Italy have been defined as marginal or peripheral since unification. The author argues that the Italian nation was formed by excluding certain groups of people who did not fit comfortably into a narrative of modernization, growth and social integration.
ENGLISH

Feeding France - New Sciences Of Food, 1760â€“1815

by E. C. (University Of Cambridge) Spary

141,95€ + 10% CARD

free shipping

 Feeding France offers the first comprehensive study of France's industrial food industry in the decades surrounding the French Revolution. Complementing histories of gastronomy and the restaurant, this book rewrites the history of the French relationship with food to show that chemistry, industrialisation and the politics of consumption were intimately intertwined.
ENGLISH

The Sex Of Men In Premodern Europe - A Cultural History

by Patricia (University Of Michigan, Ann Arbor) Simons

45,96€ + 10% CARD

free shipping

 This compelling cultural history draws on visual, material and textual evidence to investigate the characterization of the sex of adult male bodies before the Enlightenment. Simons redirects attention away from the modern focus on anatomical attributes to find that male bodies were considered in terms of their active physiological processes.
ENGLISH

Colonial Voices - A Cultural History Of English In Australia, 1840â€“1940

by Joy (University Of Melbourne) Damousi

45,96€ + 10% CARD

free shipping

 This innovative study of the relationship between language and empire explores the role of language in the greater 'civilising' project of the British Empire through the dissemination and reception of, and challenge to, British English in Australia during the period from the 1840s to the 1940s.
ENGLISH

Italy'S Margins - Social Exclusion And Nation Formation Since 1861

by David (New York University) Forgacs

133,84€ + 10% CARD

free shipping

 Italy's Margins explores how certain places and social groups in Italy have been defined as marginal or peripheral since unification. The author argues that the Italian nation was formed by excluding certain groups of people who did not fit comfortably into a narrative of modernization, growth and social integration.
ENGLISH

Cities And The Grand Tour - The British In Italy, C.1690â€“1820

by Rosemary (University Of Leicester) Sweet

133,84€ + 10% CARD

free shipping

 The Grand Tour introduced British travellers to the urban environments of Florence, Rome, Naples and Venice at a time when unprecedented urbanisation was taking place at home. This fascinating study examines how cities were experienced, described and represented in travel literature and how the image of a city evolved.
ENGLISH

Voices Of The People In Nineteenth-Century France

by David (University Of Oxford) Hopkin

133,84€ + 10% CARD

free shipping

 This innovative study of the lives of ordinary people â€" peasants, fishermen, textile workers - in nineteenth-century France demonstrates how folklore collections can be used to shed new light on the socially marginalized, and reveals how oral culture provided mechanisms for the poor to assert some control over their own destinies.
ENGLISH

Suicide And The Body Politic In Imperial Russia

by Susan K. (University College London) Morrissey

66,24€ + 10% CARD

free shipping

 In early twentieth-century Russia, suicide became a public act and a social phenomenon; a disquieting emblem of Russia's encounter with modernity. This book draws on an extensive range of sources, from judicial records to the popular press, to examine the forms, meanings, and regulation of suicide from the seventeenth century to 1914.
ENGLISH

Nature And The Godly Empire - Science And Evangelical Mission In The Pacific, 1795â€“1850

by Sujit (Gonville And Caius College, Cambridge) Sivasundaram

82,46€ + 10% CARD

free shipping

 A study of the relations between nineteenth-century science and Christianity, focusing on London Missionary Society members who became residents in the Pacific. It argues that Britain's providential empire found support from popular views of nature as much as elite science. It will be of interest to cultural historians and anthropologists.
ENGLISH

Nature And The Godly Empire - Science And Evangelical Mission In The Pacific, 1795â€“1850

by Sujit (Gonville And Caius College, Cambridge) Sivasundaram

45,96€ + 10% CARD

free shipping

 A study of the relations between nineteenth-century science and Christianity, focusing on London Missionary Society members who became residents in the Pacific. It argues that Britain's providential empire found support from popular views of nature as much as elite science. It will be of interest to cultural historians and anthropologists.
ENGLISH

Commemorating The Dead In Revolutionary France - Revolution And Remembrance, 1789â€“1799

by Joseph (Trinity College, Dublin) Clarke

73,00€ + 10% CARD

free shipping

 Based on extensive research across a wide range of sources, this book is the first comprehensive study of the cultural politics of commemoration in Revolutionary France. It explores the political purposes commemorations of the dead served and the conflicts they provoked, while also examining the cultural traditions they drew upon.
ENGLISH

Lost Londons - Change, Crime, And Control In The Capital City, 1550â€“1660

by Paul (Iowa State University) Griffiths

68,95€ + 10% CARD

free shipping

 By focusing on policing, prosecution, and the language and perceptions of the authorities and the underclasses, Paul Griffiths explores the swift growth and transformation of early modern London. The book provided the first full study of petty crime before 1660, analysing worlds and words of crime, criminal rings and cultures.
ENGLISH

Sex Before The Sexual Revolution - Intimate Life In England 1918â€“1963

by Kate (University Of Exeter) Fisher e Simon (University Of Cambridge) Szreter

33,80€ + 10% CARD

free shipping

 Based on vivid and compelling oral testimony from a diverse range of people, this book provides the first rounded account of sexuality in marriage in early and mid twentieth-century England. The authors look beyond the conventions of silence among the respectable majority to challenge stereotypes of ignorance and inhibition.
Loading results...

View more results