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  1. Bound to the Fire

    Bound to the Fire: How Virginia’s Enslaved Cooks Helped Invent American Cuisine [Paperback]

    Kelley Fanto Deetz (Author)

    £23.00

    ISBN: 9780813198545
    Published by : University Press of Kentucky
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    For decades, smiling images of "Aunt Jemima" and other historical and fictional black cooks could be found on various food products and in advertising. Although these images were sanitized and romanticized in American popular culture, they represe... .... Learn More
  2. Fashioning Submission

    Fashioning Submission: Documenting Fashion, Taste and Identity in WWII Italy through “Bellezza” Magazine [Paperback]

    Silvia Vacirca (Author)

    £17.99

    ISBN: 9788869774218
    Published by : Mimesis International
    Series: History
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    Unlike in English and French cultural fields, where fashion during WWII is widely debated, in Italy the relationship between fashion and Fascism is an under-researched topic, separated from the study of Fascist institutions and bureaucracy. The be... .... Learn More
  3. Writing and Desire

    Writing and Desire: Queer Ways of Composing [Hardback]

    Jonathan Alexander (Author)

    £48.50

    ISBN: 9780822947776
    Published by : University of Pittsburgh Press
    Series: Composition, Literacy, and Culture
    Writing and Desire is a sustained, multimovement exploration of how writers, particularly queer writers, think and feel through desire as central to their writing practice. In a time of political, social, global, and ecological unrest, how might w... .... Learn More
  4. South Sea Island

    South Sea Island: Geography of Pleasure [Hardback]

    Frits Andersen (Author)

    £46.00

    ISBN: 9788771849134
    Published by : Aarhus University Press
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    South Sea Island. The Geography of Pleasure is a literary history of European, Russian and American travelogues, films, paintings, philosophical treatises, all fascinated by the Polynesian islands. Our ideas of nature, growth and sustainability ar... .... Learn More
  5. Moving Between Worlds

    Moving Between Worlds: A Guide to Embodied Living and Communicating [Paperback]

    Andrea Olsen (Author)

    £21.95

    ISBN: 9780819580894
    Published by : Wesleyan University Press
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    Communication is a fundamental human activity, and as much as 90% of all communication is non-verbal. Yet awareness of embodied intelligence in communication is rare. This book is the fourth in a series by interdisciplinary educator Andrea Olsen f... .... Learn More
  6. Sacred Nature

    Sacred Nature: Animism and Materiality in Ancient Religions [Hardback]

    Nicola Laneri (Editor); Anna Perdibon (Editor)

    £60.00

    ISBN: 9781789259179
    Published by : Oxbow Books
    Series: Material Religion in Antiquity
    Volume: 2
    Sacred Nature: Animism and Materiality in Ancient Religions is the second volume of the series Material Religion in Antiquity (MaReA). The book collects the proceedings of the international online workshop carrying the same title organize... .... Learn More
  7. Decolonizing American Spanish

    Decolonizing American Spanish: Eurocentrism and the Limits of Foreignness in the Imperial Ecosystem [Hardback]

    Jeffrey Herlihy-Mera (Author)

    £39.50

    ISBN: 9780822947264
    Published by : University of Pittsburgh Press
    Series: Pitt Illuminations
    Despite a pronounced shift away from Eurocentrism in Spanish and Hispanic studies departments in US universities, many implicit and explicit vestiges of coloniality remain firmly in place. While certain national and linguistic expressions are priv... .... Learn More
  8. That's Entertainment

    That's Entertainment: Spectacle, Amusement, and Leisure Culture [Paperback]

    Michele Fadda (Editor); Sara Pesce (Editor)

    £23.00

    ISBN: 9788869771798
    Published by : Mimesis International
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    The 20th century witnessed the collapse of the traditional separation between the realm of 'official' culture and that of 'popular' entertainment. This event produced dramatic consequences at all levels of social life in the West, especially in th... .... Learn More
  9. Region Out of Place

    Region Out of Place: The Brazilian Northeast and the World, 1924-1968 [Hardback]

    Courtney J. Campbell (Author)

    £43.00

    ISBN: 9780822946212
    Published by : University of Pittsburgh Press
    Series: Pitt Latin American Series
    "Campbell takes the concept of regional identity and blows it up, showing that regional concerns were always mediated by national and international dynamics. This rich cultural history exposes the symbolic shorthand used to depict the Northeast an... .... Learn More
  10. Central Asia

    Central Asia: Context for Understanding [Hardback]

    David Montgomery (Editor)

    £56.00

    ISBN: 9780822946786
    Published by : University of Pittsburgh Press
    Series: Central Eurasia in Context
    Central Asia is a diverse and complex region of the world often characterized in the West as being difficult to access. Central Asia: Contexts for Understanding offers the most comprehensive introduction to the region available. Combining thematic... .... Learn More

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