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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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Arpita Mukhopadhyay
Vanishing Waters

This book explores the complex socio-cultural histories of the rivers of West Bengal in India. It goes beyond the 'seeing' of a river geo-spatially, to unearth its 'signifying' presence in the making of a…

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Emotions, Affect, and Narrative in Korean History and Culture

This collection of eleven essays explores emotions and affect in Korean culture across a broad temporal span, from the Koryŏ dynasty (918--1392) to the present. Drawing on a diverse array of sources---inc…

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Elena Fabietti
Glass Bodies

Cultural Memory in the Present

Glass Bodies tells the story of how transparent humans have appeared throughout European history -- in fiction, philosophy, and science -- and what they reveal about changing ideas of the human.The book t…

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Caitlin Blackwell Baines
How to Build a Haunted House

A cultural history of the phenomenon of the 'haunted house' as seen through art, architecture, and ghost stories.What makes a house haunted? Why do some buildings conjure up a reputation for being particu…

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Nat'l Mus Afr Am Hist Culture
The National Museum of African American History and Culture

Take a tour through Black history in 100+ Smithsonian objects with this updated edition of the beautifully illustrated keepsake---now featuring 72 new objects. Celebrating 10 years of the National Museum …

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Anti-Asian Racism in Transatlantic Perspectives

Postcolonial Studies - Band 52

During the COVID-19 pandemic, Sinophobia and anti-Asian hate made media headlines. The contributors to this volume discuss how anti-Asian projections and colonial-racist narratives have shaped modernity a…

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Translocations

Global- und Kolonialgeschichte - Band 4

Who owns cultural assets? Who has narrative control? What could fair and just approaches to dislocations of cultural assets look like, independently of restitution?Discussions about historical appropriati…

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The Beginnings of Law

Forschungen zum Alten Testament

In legal history, the ancient Near East - including ancient Israel - has often been relegated to isolated and marginal positions. Scholarship has long been dominated by narratives that privilege Greece an…

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Louis A. Ruprecht Jr.
Cosmopolitan Crete

This open access book studies the history of the island of Crete as a site of ethnic and religious mixing and reveals how this relates to modern day interest in pluralistic community formation.Louis A Rup…

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