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Robin Wall Kimmerer
Gathering Moss

'Kimmerer blends, with deep attentiveness and musicality, science and personal insights to tell the overlooked story of the planet's oldest plants' Guardian 'Bewitching ... a masterwork ... a glittering r…

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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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Jared Poley
Luck, Leisure, and the Casino in Nineteenth-Century Europe

"Casino gambling is central to understanding the cultural, social, and intellectual history of nineteenthcentury Europe. Tracing the development of casino gambling across this period, this book conne…

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Lottery fantasies, follies, and controversies

The volume explores the way 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-speaki…

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Jo Spaans
Modernising Protestantism

This book provides a thorough revision of the image of the public church under the Dutch Republic after the Peace of Westphalia and before the onset of the 'high Enlightenment'. Traditional church history…

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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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Elleke Boehmer
Southern Imagining

A new compass for global reading: looking at the world from the far southern latitudesA northern viewpoint is most often the default, while the south---the far southern latitudes occupied by Australia, Ne…

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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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Jennifer Hansen-Glucklich
German Memorials, Motifs, and Meanings

Public History in Historical Perspective

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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Ren Pepitone
Brotherhood of Barristers

Brotherhood of Barristers critically investigates masculinity, the creation of the gentlemanly professional, and the exclusionary culture of the British legal profession. It examines the cultural history …

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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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Hunting Troubles

This volume examines the cultural history of European and North American hunting from the Middle Ages to the present day from the perspective of gender as well as animal studies. It demonstrates that the …

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Antonio Melechi
The Unconscious

A highly original first anthology on the cultural history of the unconscious that is destined to become definitive."Know thyself"---the injunction that was once inscribed upon the Temple of Apol…

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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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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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