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Hernando Cepeda Sánchez
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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Hunting Troubles

Palgrave Studies in Animals and Literature

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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Charles-François Mathis
Coal in Modern Britain

This is the first book to examine the social and cultural significance of coal in British society in the 19th and 20th centuries. An English-language translation of Charles-François Mathis's award-winning…

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Ronald C. Po
The Silver Thread of the Deep

Harvard East Asian Monographs

Often gracing the tables of weddings and banquets, shark fin symbolizes opulence and prestige in China and beyond. Yet its rise from offcut to delicacy reveals a complex history of how value is constructe…

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Ronald C. Po
The Silver Thread of the Deep

Harvard East Asian Monographs

Often gracing the tables of weddings and banquets, shark fin symbolizes opulence and prestige in China and beyond. Yet its rise from offcut to delicacy reveals a complex history of how value is constructe…

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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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Anja Zimmermann,
The Breast

While sometimes described as a secondary sex characteristic, the female breast is of primary interest. It nourishes but also seduces, it is considered sacred or depraved - depending on the era, culture, c…

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Samantha N Sheppard
The Basketball Film

Screening Sports

The Basketball Film: A Cultural and Transmedia History reveals how stories about the game extend far beyond the court. From classic Hollywood dramas to independent documentaries, basketball films capture …

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Samantha N Sheppard
The Basketball Film

Screening Sports

The Basketball Film: A Cultural and Transmedia History reveals how stories about the game extend far beyond the court. From classic Hollywood dramas to independent documentaries, basketball films capture …

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Krys
The Origins of Ukrainian Gothic

Ukrainian dark prose that draws on the conventions of the British and western European Gothic novel emerged in the nineteenth century and continued uninterrupted until the early twentieth century. Writers…

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Ton Hoenselaars
Shakespeare Behind Barbed Wire

Global Shakespeares

Shakespeare was a vital rallying point for the 4,500 British internees held at the Ruhleben Camp (near Berlin) for the duration of World War I. This book now makes the internees speak through their engage…

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