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The Archaeology of Xenitia: Greek Immigration and Material Culture
edited by Kostis Kourelis
Between 1900 and 1915, a quarter of the working-age male Greek population immigrated to the United States, Canada, and Australia. This profound demographic phenomenon left an indelible mark on Greek society, but also created new diasporic communities in the host countries. Greek immigration is a phenomenon of modern trans-nationalism that shares features with other migration stories despite its unique ethnic manifestations. Xenitia, as a ...
Paperback. Price GB £10.00

Music and Dictatorship in Europe and Latin America
edited by Roberto Illiano and Massimiliano Sala
In this book, twenty-four scholars investigate the relationship between music and dictatorship in twentieth-century Europe and Latin America. The music is explored as a political phenomenon in fifteen nations under totalitarian regimes: Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Cuba, France, Greece, Germany, Italy, Mexico, Poland, Portugal, Russia, Serbia, Spain, and Hungary. Historical and aesthetical articles face both individual people (for instance, Chavez, ...
Hardback. Price GB £109.00

The Last Years of Austria-Hungary: A Multinational Experiment in Early Twentieth-Century Europe: Revised and Expanded Edition
edited by Mark Cornwall
Paperback. Price GB £11.99

Exhuming Loss: Memory, Materiality and Mass Graves
by Layla Renshaw
Examines the contested representations of those murdered during the Spanish Civil War of the 1930s in two small rural communities as they undergo the experience of exhumation, identification, and reburial from nearby mass graves. Based on interviews with relatives of the dead, community members and forensic archaeologists, it pays close attention to the role of excavated objects and images in breaking the pact of silence that surrounded the ...
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After Modernity: Archaeological Approaches to the Contemporary Past
by Rodney Harrison and John Schofield
This book summarizes archaeological approaches to the contemporary past, and suggests a new agenda for the archaeology of late modern societies. The principal focus is the archaeology of developed, de-industrialized societies during the second half of the twentieth century and the beginning of the twenty-first. This period encompasses the end of the Cold War and the beginning of the 'internet age', a period which sits firmly within what we would ...
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Northern Landscapes: Representations and Realities of North-East England
edited by Thomas Faulkner, Helen Berry and Jeremy Gregory
Covering a wide range of subjects including country house landscapes, village landscapes and 'townscapes', including coverage of how the region's landscape has been perceived and represented in literature and art, and approaching the subject from a wide range of perspectives including historical, literary, archaeological, art-historical and geographical, the book provides a rich, detailed and well-illustrated overview of the landscape of the ...
Hardback. Price GB £65.00

Fearsome Heritage: Diverse Legacies of the Cold War
edited by John Schofield and Wayne Cocroft
From massive nuclear test sites to the more subtle material realities of everyday life, the influence of the Cold War on modern culture has been profound and global. Fearsome Legacies unites innovative work on the interpretation and management of Cold War heritage from fields including archaeology, history, art and architecture, and cultural studies. Contributors understand material culture in its broadest sense, examining objects in outer space, ...
Paperback. Price GB £34.50

Buildings of the Land: Scotland's Farms 1750-2000
by Miles Glendinning and Susanna Wade Martins
The story of the changing countryside of Scotland can be traced through its buildings. All the successive phases of agricultural development - from the 18th century revolution of 'Improvement' to the factory farming of the 20th century - are recorded in stone, concrete and steel. This book, the result of a long-term research project undertaken by RCAHMS and the National Museums of Scotland, records farm buildings across the many regions of ...
Hardback. Price GB £30.00

Satires & Songs of an Upright Rabbit
by Jim Allen
Deriving its title from Shakespeare's line in Henry IV, 'Away, you whoreson upright rabbit, away!', Jim Allen's selected poems are grouped under the following headings: Distant Lands, A Bestiary, The Breaking of Seals, Meditations, Lines of Resistance, Memories, A Company of Friends, Relationships, Comic Cuts, Tongues of Fire and Progression. As Jim Allen points out, poets are not saints - and many of these poems are pithy in the extreme. ...
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Archaeology and European Modernity: Producing and Consuming the 'Minoans'
Oxbow says: Crete has become a seemingly endless source of new archaeological discoveries in recent years, feeding a burgeoning tourist industry but, six years after the centenary of the archaeological re-discovery of Crete by Evans and his contemporaries, it is pertinent to look back at how the history of Crete's past has been created. This collection of sixteen essays, first given at a workshop held in Venice in 2005, presents a critique ...
Paperback. Price GB £140.00