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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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Katherine Aske
Being Pretty in the Eighteenth Century

Uncovering how and why eighteenth-century definitions of beauty established cultural beliefs that continue to persist, Katherine Aske explores the ways female beauty was described, interpreted, celebrated…

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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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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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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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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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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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Chin-Chin Yap,
Palestine in the Air

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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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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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

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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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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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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Susanna Morton Braund
Translating Virgil

"The first synthesis and analysis of the translation history of Roman poet Virgil's works into European languages. A wide-ranging interdisciplinary investigation that contributes to western intellect…

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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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Thomas W. Swetnam
The Jemez Mountains

The Jemez Mountains are a quintessential New Mexico landscape. For centuries, Pueblo, Spanish, and Anglo cultures have mixed and melded here. Many ancient villages are scattered across the mesas and in th…

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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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Kate Smith
Keeping Hold

What did it mean to possess something - or someone - in eighteenth-century Britain? What was the relationship between owning things and a person's character and reputation, and even their sense of self? A…

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