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Elizabeth Wilson
Adorned in Dreams

When Adorned in Dreams was first published in 1985, Angela Carter described the book as 'the best I have read on the subject, bar none.'From haute couture to haberdashery, and 'deviant' dress to Dior, Eli…

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A Snapshot In Time: Society, Scandal And The First String Of Modernism 1960 - 1963

In den Jahren 1960, 1961 und 1962 wurden viele großartige Platten veröffentlicht. Man musste einfach die Perlen finden. Der Sampler hält einige krachende Juwelen wie den R&B-Swagger von Blue Flames »Orang…

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Elisa Randazzo, Hannah Richter
Challenging Anthropocene Ontology

Using the recent turn to ecology as a starting point, Hannah Richter and Elisa Randazzo bring ecological thinking into contact with Critical Indigenous Studies, in which awareness of the necessity for sus…

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Ksenia Gusarova,
The Art of Beauty

Examines 19th century make-up practices in the context of visual and performance arts of western modernity, arguing that make-up played an important role in defining modernist art.

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Skriuwer. com, Auke de Haan
The History of Philosophy

Unlock the Timeless Quest for Wisdom: A Journey Through Philosophy's Greatest Minds "The History of Philosophy" invites readers to embark on an intellectual odyssey that spans millennia, evoking…

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Jane Tylus
Who Owns Literature?

Material culture scholarship explores licensing, permissions, and patronage dynamics, highlighting the estrangement of works from authors. This Element explores early modern authors' goodbyes, translators…

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Knowledge Shaping

How can we portray the history of Renaissance knowledge production through the eyes of the students? Their university notebooks contained a variety of works, fragments of them, sentences, or simple words.…

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Lorenzo Casini
Occidentalism and the Egyptian Novel

This book examines Occidentalism, or the set of cultural, literary and political uses of 'the West', in the works of canonical 20th and 21st century Egyptian novelists . Beginning with the writings of Muh…

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W. Ian Bourland
Black and Gold

For centuries, Africa has been the center of the global trade in gold. Synonymous with wealth and power in African cultures, this precious metal was also central to the emergence of Europe's colonial empi…

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W. Ian Bourland
Black and Gold

For centuries, Africa has been the center of the global trade in gold. Synonymous with wealth and power in African cultures, this precious metal was also central to the emergence of Europe's colonial empi…

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Wendy Brown
States of Injury

A landmark work from one of our leading political theorists

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Matthew Costa
Mother of Capital

Rent, or unearned income, is a pervasive concept in contemporary economics. Economists of all stripes see today's global economy as riddled with harmful rents, but most deny these are intrinsic to capital…

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Chiara Formichi
Domestic Nationalism

Chiara Formichi argues that Muslim women in Java and Sumatra, from the late 1910s to the 1950s, were central to Indonesia's progress as guardians and promoters of health and piety through gendered activit…

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Ana Teixeira Pinto
Death Wall

How the transition to fossil fuels entailed an intensification of ongoing processes of racialization.From the eighteenth century onwards, Western science began to tap a large, yet non-renewable, capital s…

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Ashokan Nambiar C
Print and the Novel in 19th Century Kerala

The book demonstrates how the early novel can be seen as a good site to think about what was effected by the print technology in the last decades of the 19th Century in Kerala. It was in the novel that ch…

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John C Corbally
The Twentieth-Century World, 1914 to the Present

Part of The Making of the Modern World series, this innovative textbook offers an introduction to the 20th-century world with a focus on human perspectives through social and cultural histories.

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José E Limón
The Streets of Laredo

Arguing that the well-known cowboy ballad "The Streets of Laredo" is an early expression of "discontent with an encroaching modernity," author José E. Limón draws upon ethnomusicology,…

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Trevor R Getz, Bennett Sherry
The Long Nineteenth Century, 1750-1914

Part of The Making of the Modern World series, this innovative textbook offers an introduction to the 19th-century world with a focus on human perspectives through social and cultural histories. Taking a …

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Adriana Novoa
From Virile to Sterile

As rigorous scientific and philosophical discourse circulated during the Enlightenment, aided by the Republic of Letters, a revolutionary understanding of gender emerged that would impact nation building …

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Jewish Dealers and the European Art Market, C. 1860-1940

"Adopting a far wider geography than any previous study, this is the first book to consider Jewish dealers as a coherent cohort, tied together by common contexts and strategies, but also a common vul…

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