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Dubai High: A Culture Trip
by Michael Schindhelm, with photographs by Aurore Belkin
In early 2007, writer and theatre director Michael Schindhelm was appointed by the Dubai authorities as consultant on a projected opera house, and in early 2008 found himself with a broader remit as director of the newly founded Dubai Culture and Arts Authority. His diary of 2008 is a partly fictionalized account of his first twelve months of both working and living in Dubai. It is a meditation, from a cultural perspective, on the nature of this ...
Testicles: Balls in Cooking and Culture
by Blandine Vié, translated by Giles MacDonogh
This book was first published in France in 2005 and has been magnificently translated into English by the food writer and historian Giles MacDonogh. It is part cookery book, part dictionary, and part cultural study of testicles: human and animal. Their culinary use is the bedrock, although it would be impossible to ignore the wider implications of these anatomical jewels. Blandine Vié has a delicious way with words, and a delight in ...
Paperback. Price US$40.00
Scholars, Travels, Archives: Greek History and Culture through the British School at Athens
edited by M. Llewellyn Smith, P.M. Kitromilides, and E. Calligas
The British School at Athens is renowned for its discoveries in Bronze Age and Classical archaeology. This book reveals for the first time that in parallel with this story of archaeology and the classics, another theme runs persistently through the history of the School from its foundation in 1886. This is the contribution of British scholars to the study of Byzantine and modern Greek culture, art and architecture, anthropology, geography, ...
Calitri: Terzo itinerario della memoria
edited by Angelo Raffaele Salvante
English description: Seven years after the publication of the second volume on Calitri, this new ample volume provides another journey through the town and countryside of Calitri, with photographs ranging from country lanes and landscapes, folk groups and costumes, weddings and birthdays, to schools, workplaces, religious life and fairs.
Italian description: A sette anni dalla pubblicazione di Calitri. Secondo itinerario ...
Paperback. Price US$74.00
Le Leggende Della Terra Toscana
by Carlo Lapucci
English summary: Local legends can sometimes reveal more about a place than facts, often with a voice that dates from antiquity. With metaphors and symbols, traditional local legends united cities, kingdoms, and communities, giving consciousness, identity, and creative vigor to ancient Rome and the Italian Communes. This in-depth study offers a panorama of Tuscan legends with careful analysis that reveals the richness of these fantastical ...
Hardback. Price US$40.00
Wirtschaft - Kultur - Geschichte: Positionen und Perspektiven
edited by Susanne Hilger and Achim Landwehr
English summary: Culture is in great demand. Within the scientific disciplines, cultural sciences are experiencing a boom, and in the historical sciences cultural history has superseded social history in popularity. The relationship between economic and cultural studies has long proven to be a difficult one. On the one hand, this led to a dehistoricization of the economy. On the other hand, it appears that the historical sciences moved ...
Paperback. Price US$67.00
Mit den Dingen leben: Zur Geschichte der Alltagsgegenstände
edited by Anke Ortlepp and Christoph Ribbat
Ax, corset, and sewing machine - what do everyday objects reveal about a community? What significance do they have in history? In American cultural studies particularly, nothing is too small, no object too primitive to become the subject of historical research. In a methodologically and theoretically innovative way, the contributions to this volume show how national identity, but also gender and ethnicity, are significantly influenced by material ...
Hardback. Price US$40.00
Mythos U-Boot
by Linda Maria Koldau
English summary: Regardless of whether it's Yellow Submarine, the Nautilus, or Das Boot, submarines have become a part of our everyday culture; they populate today's screens, either on TV or computer, in astonishing numbers. More than 150 submarine films, including classics such as Das Boot and The Hunt for Red October, as well as many Internet forums and clubs perpetuate the legend of the submarine. They ...
Paperback. Price US$74.00
Stifter, Spender und Mäzene: USA und Deutschland im historischen Vergleich
edited by Thomas Adam, Simone Lässig and Gabriele Lingelbach
Why do donors give money for the construction of museums or for research? Why do people give to humanitarian aid? And what are the social consequences of these philanthropic acts? These questions are illuminated by the studies in this volume from the perspective of historical research, but also of political science and sociology. In the center stands the comparison between the American and the German tradition of giving and donations. In ...
France/China: Intercultural Imaginings
by Alex Hughes
China has long been an object of fascination for the French, who celebrated their année de la Chine in 2004. Symptomatic of that fascination are the movements into China made by groups as diverse as the Jesuits, who arrived in LEmpire du Milieu in the late seventeenth century, and the Tel Quel intellectuals, whose will to political pilgrimage took them to the Peoples Republic in 1974. Symptomatic, too, are the narrative ...
Hardback. Price US$74.00
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