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Chin-Chin Yap
Palestine in the Air

I.B. Tauris

As the first cultural history of Palestinian aviation, Palestine in the Air reveals civil aviation's role in the 'question of Palestine' over the past century.How do Palestinians-as individuals, communiti…

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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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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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John Trafton
Los Angeles and Film

An exploration of the history of Los Angeles cinema and the complex relationship that American film has had with its host city throughout history.

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John Trafton
Los Angeles and Film

An exploration of the history of Los Angeles cinema and the complex relationship that American film has had with its host city throughout history.

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The Return of the 90s

The 1990s were a cultural watershed, marking a turning point in popular music, television, cinema, literature and fashion. Nestled between the fall of the Berlin Wall and the 9/11 attacks, the decade witn…

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Hernando Cepeda Sanchez
China and New Granada in the 18th Century

Historical and Cultural Interconnections between Latin America and Asia

This book argues that Colombia and China have been linked since the earliest Spanish colonial period through a little-known commercial sphere that historiography has largely overlooked. Drawing on primary…

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Jack Mason
The Perfume Nationalist

A cultural history told through perfume, media, and resistanceSince 2019, Jack Mason has drawn unexpected and fascinating connections between fragrance, contemporary politics, television, film, and litera…

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John Deferrari
Palaces of the Public

A unique look at Washington's landmark hotels and its cultural historyAny large city's marquee hotels are a great barometer of its social and cultural life. Washington DC, is exceptional in this regard, b…

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Daniel Horowitz
Bear With Me

From teddy bears and Winnie-the-Pooh to Smokey Bear, Yogi Bear, and Cocaine Bear, American popular culture has been fascinated with real and fictional bears for more than two centuries. Bears are ubiquito…

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Daniel Horowitz
Bear With Me

From teddy bears and Winnie-the-Pooh to Smokey Bear, Yogi Bear, and Cocaine Bear, American popular culture has been fascinated with real and fictional bears for more than two centuries. Bears are ubiquito…

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Rachel Elder
Secrecy and Safety

Disability History of Science, Technology, and Medicine

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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Jeremy A. Simmons
Sea of Treasures

How goods and people in motion across the ancient world were entangled through consumptionThe ancient world was a far more interconnected place than is often assumed. Maritime routes across the Indian Oce…

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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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David Krell
Big Apple Baseball

Rowman & Littlefield

A fascinating and unique exploration of New York City baseball.New York City has often found itself as the focus of baseball and American history. Babe Ruth reviving the sport in the 1920s after the Black…

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Damiano Garofalo
Italian Cinema in the United States

This book offers a vivid account of how Italian cinema circulated and was received in the United States from Neorealism to today. It examines the distribution networks, exhibition spaces, and industrial d…

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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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Linda C. Mitchell
The Authoritative Word

As this lively new study effectively demonstrates, dictionaries serve as far more than just simple reference tools; they also offer a rich fund of information about people in society. Before now, the exte…

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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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Marco Papasidero
Saints and Storms

This book explores how in medieval Italy people perceived, interpreted, and sought to influence weather and climatic phenomena through the lens of sanctity. Focusing on hagiographic narratives from the ea…

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