Social and cultural history Books
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC A Cultural History of Chemistry in the Early
Book SynopsisBruce T. Moran is Professor of History and University Foundation Professor (emeritus) at the University of Nevada, Reno, USA.Trade ReviewThis volume will be valuable to readers both in whole and in part. -- Jennifer M Rampling * Bulletin for the History of Chemistry *Table of ContentsList of Illustrations Series Preface Introduction: Chemistry, Shifting Meaning, and Shapes of Experience in the Early Modern Era, Bruce T Moran 1.Theory and Concepts: Conceptual Foundations of Early Modern Chymical Thought and Practice, Lawrence Principe 2.Practice and Experiment: Cultures of Chymical Analysis, Joel A. Klein 3.Laboratories and Technology: Chymical Practice and Sensory Experience, Donna Bilak 4.Culture and Science: The Development and Spread of Chemical "Knowledges" across Evolving Cultures and Communities, Andrew Sparling 5.Society and Environment: The Social Landscape of Early Modern Chemistry, William Eamon 6.Trade and Industry: Chemical Economies and the Business of Distillation, Tillmann Taape 7.Learning and Institutions: Chymical Cultures at Courts and Universities, Margaret Garber 8.Art and Representation: Skepticism and Curiosity for the Alchemist at Work, Elisabeth Berry Drago Notes Bibliography Notes on Contributors
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Bloomsbury Publishing PLC A Cultural History of Chemistry in the Eighteenth
Book SynopsisMatthew Daniel Eddy is Professor and Chair in the History and Philosophy of Science at Durham University, UK. Ursula Klein is Senior Research Scholar at the Max Planck Institute for the History of Science, Germany.Trade ReviewAn excellent complement for students as much as an enjoyable read for those interested in the history of chemistry and the history of science in general. -- Leonardo Anatrini * Bulletin for the History of Chemistry *Table of ContentsSeries Preface List of Illustrations Introduction: The Core Concepts and Cultural Context of Eighteenth-Century Chemistry, Ursula Klein and Matthew Daniel Eddy 1.Theory and Concepts: Transformations of Chemical Ideas in the Eighteenth Century, Ursula Klein 2.Practice and Experiment: Operations, Skills, and Experience in Eighteenth-Century Chemistry, Victor Boantza 3.Laboratories and Technology, Marco Beretta 4.Culture and Knowledge: Chemistry in its Golden Age, Bernadette Bensaude-Vincent 5.Society and Environment: Chemistry and Daily Life during the Eighteenth Century, Matthew Daniel Eddy 6.Trade and Industry: An Era of New Chemical Industries and Technologies, Leslie Tomory 7.Learning and Institutions: Didactic Chemistry and Practical Instruction, John C. Powers 8.Art and Representation: Cultural Modalities of Chemistry in the Eighteenth Century, John R. R. Christie Notes Bibliography List of Contributors Index
£75.00
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC A Cultural History of Chemistry in the Nineteenth
Book SynopsisPeter J. Ramberg is Professor of the History of Science at Truman State University, USA.Trade ReviewA welcome addition to the literature on chemistry in the nineteenth century. -- Ann E Robinson * Bulletin for the History of Chemistry *Table of ContentsList of Illustrations Series Preface Introduction: Creating Modern Chemistry, Peter J. Ramberg 1. Theory and Concepts: Atomism, Structure and Affinity, Trevor Levere 2. Practice and Experiment: Analysis, Synthesis and Paper Tools, Yoshiyuki Kikuchi 3. Laboratories and Technology: Continuity and Ingenuity in the Workplace, Amy A. Fisher 4. Science and Culture: Chemistry Spreads its Influence, Agustí Nieto Galan and Peter J. Ramberg 5. Society and Environment: Increased access for women, growing consumerism and emerging regulation, Peter Reed 6. Trade and Industry: New Demands, New Processes, and the Emergence of Science-Based Chemical Industry, Anthony S. Travis 7. Institutions and Learning: Emergence of Laboratory-Based Learning, Research Schools and Professionalization, Peter Reed 8. Art and Representation: The Rise of the “Mad Scientist,” Joachim Schummer Endnotes Bibliography Contributors List Index
£75.00
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC A Cultural History of Chemistry in the Modern Age
Book SynopsisPeter J. T. Morris is Honorary Research Associate at the Science Museum, London, and at University College London, UKTrade ReviewEducational, and fun to read. -- Roald Hoffmann * Bulletin for the History of Chemistry *Table of ContentsSeries Preface List of Illustrations List of Tables Introduction, Peter J.T. Morris 1.Theory and Concepts: Stability and Transformation in Chemical Problems and Explanation 1914 to the Present, Mary Jo Nye 2.Practice and Experiment: From Laboratory Research to Teaching and Policy Making, José Ramón Bertomeu-Sánchez and Antonio García-Belmar 3.Laboratories and Technology: An Era of Transformations, Peter J.T. Morris 4.Culture and Science: Materials and Methods in Society, Carsten Reinhardt 5.Society and Environment: The Advance of Women and the International Regulation of Pollution, Peter Reed 6.Trade and Industry: The Growth, Diversification, and Dissolution of a Global Industry, Peter J.T. Morris and Anthony S. Travis 7.Learning and Institutions: Global Developments since 1914, Jeffrey Allan Johnson, Yasu Furukawa, and Lijing Jiang 8.Art and Representation: From the ‘Mad Scientist’ to Poison Gas and Chemical Pollution, Joachim Schummer Notes Bibliography Contributor’s List Index
£75.00
Bloomsbury Publishing (UK) A Cultural History of Chemistry
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Bloomsbury Publishing (UK) The Global History of Work
Book SynopsisMarcel van der Linden is Director of Research at the International Institute for Social History and holds a professorship at the University of Amsterdam, the Netherlands. He is the author of Transnational Labour History (2003) and Workers of the World: Essays toward a Global Labor History (2008) and, with Karl Heinz Roth, Beyond Marx: Confronting Labour-History and the Concept of Labour with the Global Labour-Relations of the Twenty-First Century (2015).
£665.00
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC A Cultural History of Objects
Book SynopsisHow have objects have been created, used, interpreted and set loose in the world over the last 2500 years? Over this time, the West has developed particular attitudes to the material world, at the centre of which is the idea of the object. This set brings together over 50 scholars, in 1776 pages, to examine how the world of human subjects shapes and is shaped by the world of material objects. Chapter titles are identical across each of the volumes. This gives the choice of reading about a specific period in one of the volumes, or following a theme across history by reading the relevant chapter in each of the six. The themes (and chapter titles) are: objecthood; technology; economic objects; everyday objects; art; architecture; bodily objects; object worlds.The six volumes cover: 1 Antiquity (500 BCE to 500 CE); 2 Medieval Age (500 to 1400); 3 Renaissance (1400 to 1600); 4 Age of Enlightenment (1600 to 1760); 5 Age of Industry (1760 to 1900); 6 Modern Ag
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Bloomsbury Publishing PLC A Cultural History of the Sea in the Medieval Age
Book SynopsisElizabeth A. Lambourn is Reader in South Asian and Indian Ocean Studies at De Montfort University, UK. She is a historian of material culture specializing in the medieval Indian Ocean world and has been actively involved in the exploration of global approaches to the study of the Middle Ages. In addition to numerous articles and book chapters, she is the author of Abraham's Luggage: A Social Life of Things in the Medieval Indian Ocean World (2018) and editor of Legal Encounters on the Medieval Globe (2017).Table of Contents1. Knowledges, Eric Staples 2. Practices, Stephanie Wynne-Jones and Jennifer Harland 3. Networks, Jonathan Shepard 4. Conflicts, Elizabeth Lambourn 5. Islands and Shores, Roxani E. Margariti 6. Travellers, Sharon Kinoshita 7. Representations, Emmanuelle Vagnon 8. Imaginary Worlds, James L. Smith
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Edinburgh University Press The Edinburgh Companion to the First World War
Book SynopsisThis authoritative reference work examines literary and artistic responses to the war's upheavals across a wide range of media and genres, from poetry to pamphlets, sculpture to television documentary, and requiems to war reporting.Table of ContentsIntroduction, Ann-Marie Einhaus and Katherine isobel Baxter; Section I: Literature; 1. The Uncertain War a Century on: The First World War in British and Irish Fiction, Marie Stern-Peltz; 2. Poetry of the First World War in Britain, Clara Dawson; 3. First World War Short Fiction, Ann-Marie Einhaus; 4. Theatre: 1914 and After, Andrew Maunder; 5. Words from Home: Wartime Correspondences, Alice Kelly; 6. Transnational Lives: Colonial Life Writing and the First World War, Anna Maguire Section II: Visual Arts; 7. The'Abysmal inexcusable middle class', Painting, Commemoration, and the First World War, Matthew Potter; 8. Varied to Infinity: The First World War and Sculpture, Laura Brandon; 9. Memorials: Embodiment and Unconventional Mourning, Laura Wittman; 10. Posters, Advertising and the First World War in Britain, James Thompson Section III: Music; 11. We think you ought to go: Music Hall and Recruitment in the First World War, Robert Dean; 12. British Soldiers'Songs, George Simmers; 13. The First World War in Popular Music since 1958, Peter Grant; 14. Requiems and Memorial Music, Kate Kennedy Section IV: Periodicals and Journalism; 15. Popular Periodicals: Wartime Newspapers, Magazines and Journals, Kate Macdonald; 16. Evolving Wartime Print Cultures of the Anglo-American Modern Literary Renaissance, Christopher J. La Casse; 17. Pamphlets and Political Writing, Matthew Shaw; 18. 'The whole of war is an atrocity': Morgan Philips Price and First World War Reporting in the Ottoman/Russian Borderlands, Jo Laycock; Section V: Film and Broadcasting; 19. Official War Films in Britain: The Battle of the Somme 1916, Its Impact Then and Its Meaning Today, Toby Haggith; 20. Too Colossal to be Dramatic: The Cinema of the Great War, Michael Paris; 21. Representations of the First World War in Contemporary British Television Drama, Emma Hanna; 22. The Sound of War: Audio, Radio and the First World War, Richard J. Hand Section VI: Publishing and Material Culture; 23. The British Publishing Industry and the First World War, Jane Potter; 24. Photography and the First World War, J. J. Long; 25. The Imperial War Museum and the material culture of the First World War, 1917-2014, Alys Cundy; 26. The Evolution of First World War Computer Games, Chris Kempshall.
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Edinburgh University Press Greek Laughter and Tears
Book SynopsisBringing together scholars from diverse periods and disciplines of Hellenic and Byzantine studies, this volume explores the shifting shapes and functions of laughter and tears, with consideration given to visual, performative and musical arts, as well as to written records.Table of ContentsPreface; List of Illustrations; Notes on contributors; 1. Introduction, Margaret Alexiou and Douglas Cairns Part I. Ancient Keynotes: From Homer to Lucian; 2. Laughter and Tears in Early Greek Literature, Richard Seaford; 3. Imagining Divine Laughter in Homer and Lucian, Stephen Halliwell; 4. Parody, Symbol and the Literary Past in Lucian, Calum Maciver; Part II: Ancient Models, Byzantine Collections: Epigrams, Riddles and Jokes; 5. 'Tantalus Ever in Tears': The Greek Anthology as a Source of Emotions in Late Antiquity, Judith Herrin; 6. 'Do you think you're clever? Solve this riddle, thenl'The Comic Side of Byzantine Enigmatic Poetry, Simone Beta; 7. Philogelos: An Anti-intellectual Joke-book, Stephanie West; Part III: Byzantine Perspectives: Tears and Laughter, Theory and Praxis; 8. 'Messages of the Soul': Tears, Smiles, Laughter and Emotions Expressed by them in Byzantine Literature, Martin Hinterberger; 9. Towards a Byzantine Theory of the Comic?, Aglae Pizzone; 10. Staging Laughter and Tears: Libanius, Chrysostom and the Riot of the Statues, Jan R. Stenger; 11. Lamenting for the Fall of Jerusalem in the Seventh Century CE, loannis Papadogiannakis; 12. Guiding Grief: Liturgical Poetry and Ritual Lamentation in Early Byzantium, Susan Harvey; Part IV: Laughter, Power and Subversion; 13. Mime and the Dangers of Laughter in Late Antiquity, Ruth Webb; 14. Laughter on Display - Mimic Performances and the Danger of Laughing in Byzantium, Przemesfaw Marciniak; 15. The Power of Amusement and the Amusement of Power: The Princely Frescoes of St. Sophia, Kiev, and their Connections to the Byzantine World, Elena Boeck; 16. Laughing at Eros and Aphrodite: Sexual Inversion and its Resolution in the Classicising Arts of Medieval Byzantium, Alicia Walker; Part V: Gender, Genre and Language: Loss and Survival; 17. Comforting Tears and Suggestive Smiles:To Laugh and Cry in the Komnenian Novel, Ingela Nilsson; 18. Do Brothers Weep? Male Grief, Mourning, Lament and Tears in Eleventh- and Twelfth-Century Byzantium, Margaret Mullett; 19. Laments by Nicetas Choniates and Others for the Fall of Constantinople in 1204, Michael Angold; 20. 'Words Filled With Tears': Amorous Discourse as Lamentation in the Palaiologan Romances, Panagiotis Agapitos; 21. The Tragic, the Comic andTragi-Comic in Cretan Renaissance Literature, David Holton; 22. Belisarius in the Shadow Theatre: The Private Calvary of a Legendary General, Anna Stavrakopoulou; 23. Afterword, Roderick Beaton; Appendix: Chyrogles or The girl with two husbands; Bibliography; Index.
£99.00
Edinburgh University Press The Evolution of Scotlands Towns
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Edinburgh University Press Eclipsed Cinema
Book SynopsisEclipsed Cinema explores the under-investigated aspects of colonial film culture such as the representational politics of colonial cinema, the film unit of the colonial government, the social reception of Hollywood cinema in relation to emerging Korean nationalism, Japanese settlers'film culture, and gendered film spectatorship.
£85.50
Edinburgh University Press Epic Heroes on Screen
Book SynopsisRepresentations of the ancient hero in the new millennium
£90.25
Edinburgh University Press Meat Markets
Book SynopsisMeat Markets articulates the emergent `nonhuman thought developed across literatures of the long nineteenth century and inflecting recent critical theories of abject life and animality.
£85.50
Edinburgh University Press Sex for Sale in Scotland
Book SynopsisSex for Sale in Scotland examines the various methods that were used to police female prostitution in Edinburgh and Glasgow between 1900 and 1939, with particular emphasis on the experiences of the women involved.
£22.79
Edinburgh University Press The Concept of Conversation
Book SynopsisThe Concept of Conversation' traces the way the rise of conversation spread out from the history of rhetoric to include the histories of friendship, the court and the salon, the Republic of Letters, periodical press and women.
£90.25
Edinburgh University Press The Press in the Middle East and North Africa
Book SynopsisThis volume presents twelve detailed studies dealing with cases drawn from the Middle East and North Africa in the period before independence (c.1850-1950).
£27.54
Edinburgh University Press Sensational Internationalism
Book SynopsisIn refocusing attention on the Paris Commune as a key event in American political and cultural memory, 'Sensational Internationalism' radically changes our understanding of the relationship between France and the United States in the long nineteenth century.
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Edinburgh University Press Masculinities on Clydeside
Book SynopsisMasculinities on Clydeside' explores the experiences of civilian men on Clydeside during the war, using oral history interviews as a means to explore subjectivity and arguing for continuous personal agency through major historical changes.
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Edinburgh University Press The Evolution of Scotlands Towns
Book SynopsisThis pioneering book tells the story of urban development in Scotland over the course of a millennium, drawing on original research into more than thirty towns, from the smallest settlements to major cities.
£29.45
Edinburgh University Press Women Periodicals and Print Culture in Britain
Book SynopsisPresents 35 thematically organised, research-led essays on women, periodicals and print culture in Victorian Britain.
£157.50
Edinburgh University Press The Cemberlitas Hamami in Istanbul
Book SynopsisThis original study, taking a biographical approach to tell the story of a Turkish bathhouse, contributes to the fields of Islamic, Ottoman and modern Turkish cultural, architectural, social and economic history.
£94.50
Edinburgh University Press Imperial Visions of Late Byzantium
Book SynopsisWith a special focus on the first two decades of Manuel II Palaiologos' rule, 1391 1417, Leonte offers a new understanding of the imperial ethos in Byzantium by combining rhetorical analysis with investigation of social and political phenomena.
£24.69
Edinburgh University Press Distributed Cognition in Enlightenment and
Book SynopsisRevitalising our reading of 18th century works specifically in the fields of the history of the book, literary studies, material culture, art history, philosophy, technology, science and medicine, this volume brings recent insights in cognitive science and philosophy of mind to bear on the distributed nature of cognition.
£126.00
Edinburgh University Press Zoroastrian Scholasticism in Late Antiquity
Book SynopsisZeini challenges the view that considers the Zand's study an auxiliary science to Avestan studies, framing the text instead within the exegetical context from which it emerged.
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Edinburgh University Press The Cultural Memory of Georgian Glasgow
Book SynopsisThe first interdisciplinary exploration of eighteenth-century Glasgow
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Edinburgh University Press Police and Community in TwentiethCentury Scotland
Book SynopsisExamines the relationships forged between police officers and the diverse urban and rural communities in which they have lived and worked in Scotland across the 20th century.
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Edinburgh University Press Miracles of Healing
Book SynopsisThis book draws upon a wealth of archival research to uncover the complex interaction between religion and psychotherapy in twentieth-century Scotland. It explores the practical and intellectual alliance created between the Scottish churches and Scottish psychotherapy and figures such as the R.D. Laing andW.R.D. Fairbairn.
£85.50
Edinburgh University Press The Conversational Enlightenment
Book SynopsisThe Conversational Enlightenment' traces the spread of the concept of conversation during the Enlightenment, including the project of politeness, the fine arts, philosophy and public opinion.
£90.25
Edinburgh University Press Book Culture in Late Medieval Syria
Book SynopsisThis book discusses the largest private book collection of the pre-Ottoman Arabic Middle East for which we have both a paper trail and a surviving corpus of the manuscripts that once sat on its shelves: the Ibn Abd al-Hd Library of Damascus.
£95.00
Edinburgh University Press Language Politics and Society in the Middle East
Book SynopsisPublished in honour of Professor Yasir Suleiman, this collection acknowledges his contribution to the field of language and society in general, and to that of language analysis of socio-political realities in the Middle East in particular.
£22.79
Edinburgh University Press Jews and Palestinians in the Late Ottoman Era
Book SynopsisUncovering a history buried by different nationalist narratives (Jewish, Israeli, Arab and Palestinian) this book looks at how the late Ottoman era set the stage for the on-going Palestinian-Israeli conflict.
£89.25
Edinburgh University Press Meat Markets
Book SynopsisMeat Markets articulates the emergent 'nonhuman thought' developed across literatures of the long nineteenth century and inflecting recent critical theories of abject life and animality.
£22.79
Edinburgh University Press European Integration
Book SynopsisThe essays in this collection explore the historical and geopolitical aspects of European integration and their relevance to interpretations of the current climate. They also examine the different regional dynamics of integration and the attitudes that result from those experiences, including in the European peripheries.
£94.50
Edinburgh University Press The Ideology of Democratic Athens
Book SynopsisThe debate on Athenian democratic ideology has long been polarised around two extremes. A Marxist tradition views ideology as a cover-up for Athens' internal divisions. Another tradition, sometimes referred to as culturalist, interprets it neutrally as the fixed set of ideas shared by the members of the Athenian community.
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Edinburgh University Press Gold Rush Societies and Migrant Networks in the
Book SynopsisInvestigates the role of memory in forming ethnic and national identities in the early twentieth-century Tasman World
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Edinburgh University Press Craftworkers in Nineteenth Century Scotland
Book SynopsisExplores how artisans and hand skills evolved against a background of technical and commercial modernisation in ScotlandTrade Review"I have learned more from this fine study than any number of other recent books on modern ?Scottish history. It is undeniably pioneering, skillfully undermining a number of old orthodoxies about Scotland's craftworkers, and will stand as the standard work on the subject for many years to come. " -Professor Emeritus Sir Tom Devine, University of Edinburgh
£23.74
Edinburgh University Press Sultan Qaboos and Modern Oman 1970 2020
Book SynopsisExplores the social, cultural, legal and religious changes that occurred in Oman during the reign of Sultan Qaboos
£85.50
Edinburgh University Press The Edinburgh History of Reading
Book SynopsisSubversive Readers explores the strategies used by readers to question authority, challenge convention, resist oppression, assert their independence and imagine a better world.
£29.45
Edinburgh University Press WomenS Activism in the Transatlantic Consumers
Book SynopsisUncovers the central and leading roles of women in the development of organised consumer activism in the UK and the USA between 1885 and 1920
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Orion Publishing Co Who Loses Who Wins The Journals of Kenneth Rose
Book SynopsisThe wry and amusing second volume of the journals of royal biographer and Sunday Telegraph journalist Kenneth Rose, one of the most astute observers of the Establishment in 20th-century Britain.Trade ReviewIntimate with the highest levels of society, politics, the arts and the Royal Family, Kenneth Rose has left us one of the most vivid, full and revealing records of the postwar era * Andrew Roberts *[Kenneth Rose] has written a historian's journal ... Nevertheless, Rose does cast a critical and acute eye over Vanity Fair ... this is how Kenneth wished to be remembered by the world: as a suave, amusing columnist and gifted historian who walked with the great -- James Stourton * LITERARY REVIEW *Kenneth Rose provides a fascinating window on the establishment in the second volume of his gossipy, scandalous and insightful diaries, * CHOICE magazine *Addictive stuff. Each entry is only a few lines long; it's like reading an extremely good newspaper diary for page after page. If you're a newspaper addict like me - and a gossip addict, too, again like me - you'll love it. You feel as if you're tucking into an enormous box of chocolates, happily dropping down into infinite layers of new chocs below, without ever feeling sick. * CATHOLIC HERALD *
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Duke University Press Everything Man
Book SynopsisFrom his cavernous voice and unparalleled artistry to his fearless struggle for human rights, Paul Robeson was one of the twentieth century''s greatest icons and polymaths. In Everything Man Shana L. Redmond traces Robeson''s continuing cultural resonances in popular culture and politics. She follows his appearance throughout the twentieth century in the forms of sonic and visual vibration and holography; theater, art, and play; and the physical environment. Redmond thereby creates an imaginative cartography in which Robeson remains present and accountable to all those he inspired and defended. With her bold and unique theorization of antiphonal life, Redmond charts the possibility of continued communication, care, and collectivity with those who are dead but never gone.Trade Review“Formally challenging and beautifully conceived, Everything Man is a model for scholarship and thinking as well as a powerful addition to the body of work on Paul Robeson, freedom movements, sound studies, music, and beyond. It will make a tremendous impact.” -- Christina Sharpe, author of * In the Wake *"Shana Redmond’s ingenious reframing of Paul Robeson as Afrofuturist media artist is but one quality marking Everything Man as a milestone contribution to Robeson scholarship. Redmond compels readers to reconsider Robeson as a radical modernist—one whose innovative embrace of electronic media technology (film, sound recording, telegraph) transforms our understanding of him from remote Black Communist icon to protean, creative contemporary. In lucid and evocative prose Redmond narrates how Robeson democratized sonic and visual modernity while engaged in anticapitalist justice work. Redmond illuminates the afterlife of Robeson’s voice and presence too—his appearances in postmodern art practices and the many places Robeson’s footpaths took Redmond where she discovered he was still revered by the far-flung descendants of the man's midcentury comrades and congregants.” -- Greg Tate, author of * Flyboy 2 *"[A] deeply innovative exploration of the cultural resonances of the titanic – yet often now overlooked African American song interpreter, actor, athlete and Freedom Fighter Paul Robeson. . . . Redmond returns Robeson to his rightful place at the center of the American conversation." -- Ann Powers * NPR's Best Books of 2020 *"Charting Robeson’s life through his sonic abilities, Redmond crafts a rare and inspired work, a worthy academic text that demonstrates both the emblematic power of individuals and their ability to foment widespread resistance to oppressors." -- J. Neal * Choice *"It is known that Robeson was a great man and defender of those who could not defend himself. His legacy is further cemented through this book which breathes new life into this artist’s impacted and historical life." -- Jordannah Elizabeth * New York Amsterdam News *Table of ContentsElement: A Preface xi Acknowledgments xix Vibration. An Introduction 1 1. Hologram 14 2. Play 39 3. Installation 72 4. Environment 102 Frequency. A Continuation . . . 130 Notes 141 Bibliography 161 Index 173
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Protea Boekhuis The Spirit of District Six
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Protea Boekhuis A History of South Africa
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Hal Leonard Corporation Jack the Ripper FAQ All Thats Left to Know About
Book SynopsisJACK THE RIPPER FAQ:ALL THATS LEFT TO KNOW ABOUT THE INFAMOUS SERIAL KILLER
£14.24
Bloomsbury Publishing Plc Dance Music
Book SynopsisTami Gadir is Lecturer in Music Industry at RMIT University in Melbourne, Australia. Gadir's research addresses the social and political mechanisms of musical life.Trade ReviewAmidst a recent wave of books on dance music and club culture, Tami Gadir’s Dance Music stands out. Gadir celebrates the ways in which dance floors may be spaces of self-realization and community, but goes further than most in capturing the ways such spaces are fraught with risk, anxiety, and the violence of oppression. Commonplace ideas about club culture—like those claiming the ‘transcendence’ of dance floor experience—are scrutinized with care and a sharp sense of their political stakes. Well-written and impeccably researched, this is an important contribution to an expanding field. * Will Straw, Professor of Urban Media Studies, McGill University, Canada *Table of ContentsPreface Introduction 1. Dance Music Histories 2. Dance Music Studies 3. Location, Regulation, and Night-Time Danger 4. Transcendence 5. “This One’s for the Ladies”: Gender Trouble in Sound and Dance 6. “It’s Not About Gender”: Merit, Talent, and Other Myths Conclusion: Dance Music is Ordinary Acknowledgements Bibliography Index
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Bloomsbury Publishing (UK) Mediated Interfaces
Book SynopsisKatie Warfield is a lecturer in the Department of Journalism and Communication at Kwantlen Polytechnic University, Canada, and Director of the Visual Media Workshop. Her recent writings have appeared in Social Media + Society, Feminist Media Studies, Language and Literacy, and Feminist Issues, 6th ed. Crystal Abidin is Postdoctoral Fellow with the Media Management and Transformation Centre (MMTC) at Jönköping University, Sweden, Researcher with Handelsrådet (Swedish Retail and Wholesale Development Council), and Adjunct Researcher with the Centre for Culture and Technology (CCAT) at Curtin University, Australia. Carolina Cambre is Assistant Professor of Education at Concordia University, Canada. Her interests include the politics of communication, the issue of representation, critical policy analysis & critical visual sociology and anthropology, all with an eye to social justice issues as well as community and identity broadly speaking.Trade ReviewThis book brings together powerful essays by both established and emerging researchers of digital media, corporeality and embodiment. International and interdisciplinary in scope, Mediated Interfaces works through the political, cultural and social ways we can begin to understand how bodies are represented online, how our sense of embodiment is now shaped in conjunction with our digital experiences and how digital media intersects with the politicisation of gendered, raced, sexualised and aged bodies. From naked bodies online to the body of the child as a gaming influencer, this collection covers the broadest range of approaches to thinking through our new digital corporealities. Warfield, Cambre and Abidin have provided us with a thoughtful arrangement of original work that will help us navigate the growing scholarship on bodies and social media. For scholars, students and the public who wish to make sense of new ways in which we can think about bodies and media in the 2020s, this should be the first stop and will provide the best possible roadmap for an increasingly complex scholarly terrain. * Rob Cover, Professor of Digital Communication, RMIT University, Australia *Mediated Interfaces presents key concepts from some of the most innovative social media researchers working today. With its truly international, interdisciplinary, and multi-platform scope, this curated collection reaffirms the importance of the body as a site of analysis for understanding digital practices. In clear and accessible prose, this volume’s contributors recognize the complexities of embodied technological performances on sites that run the gamut from BaiduBBS to YouTube. As they curate a wide variety of scholarly voices, the editors have created a rich interpretive apparatus with which to question naïve assumptions about how bodies are constituted as essential entities, metaphysical beings, tool users, or media interfaces. Anyone interested in the politics, material conditions, or affective investments of social media should consider this book required reading. * Elizabeth Losh, Gale and Steve Kohlhagen Distinguished Professor of English and American Studies, College of William & Mary, USA *This edited collection presents a wealth of insights into diverse social histories and digitally-mediated practices. The chapters draw a bow of emerging social practices across different ways of reading the body becoming in social media. The book is at times feisty, conceptual and diverse, offering crunchy nuggets for the contemplative reader. You will not be left empty handed. * Alexia Maddox, Lecturer in Communications, Deakin University, Australia *Combining the theoretical with the ethnographic, the serious and the playful, the multi-disciplinary and the multi-sited, Mediated Interfaces takes us on an exciting journey into digital lives and affective relations with social media technologies, which are as embodied as they are political. * Adi Kuntsman, Lecturer in Digital Media, Manchester Metropolitan University, UK *Accessibly written with a playful yet serious tone that allows the thinking through of the multiple kinds of “inter”faces that we encounter in contemporary daily life. The socio-political implications are engaged effectively in this quick overview of how mediated interfaces are “smart objects” are “automated connections between everyday physical objects to the Internet.” This book is a must for anyone researching online social media or contemporary youth and media or most anything to do with media. Kudos to the authors! * Radhika Gajjala, Professor of American Culture Studies, Bowling Green State University, USA *Table of ContentsIntroduction Part One: The Body Mediated 1. ‘Find love in Canada’: Distributed selves, abstraction, and the problem of privacy and autonomy Vincent Miller, University of Kent, UK 2. Embodied Verification: Linking Identities and Bodies on NSFW Reddit Emily van der Nagel, Monash University, Australia 3. #ILYSM*: Instagram as Fan Practice, Hattie Liew, National University of Singapore, Singapore 4. Ethan’s Golden YouTube Play Button: The evolution of a child influencer Carolina Cambre and Maha Abdul Ghani, Concordia University, Canada Part Two: The Body Politicized 5. Performing Visibility: Representing the Palestinian Freedom Riders through Non-Violent Protest and Visual Activism Gary Bratchford, University of Central Lancashire, UK 6. #WhoNeedsFeminism? Mapping Leaky, Networked Affective Feminist Resistance Jessica Ringrose, UCL London, UK and Kaity Mendes, University of Leicester, UK 7. ‘Smart is the Nü (boshi) Sexy’: How China’s PhD women are fighting stereotypes using social media Jing Zeng, IKMZ Zurich, Switzerland 8. Online Ajumma: Self-presentations of contemporary elderly women via digital media in Korea Jung Moon, Seoul Women's University, South Korea and Crystal Abidin, Curtin University, Australia Part Three: The Body Felt 9. Naked and Unafraid: Nudity in Reclaiming Witchcraft Rituals Emma Quilty, University of Newcastle, Australia 10. “It’s like a rush of ‘man’ feeling”: Analyzing sexuality and felt-sense in men’s digital media communications Kaye Hare, University of British Columbia, Canada 11. Agential hysterias: a practice approach to embodiment on social media Katrin Tiidenberg, Lea Muldtofte, and Ane Katherine Gammelby, Talinn University, Estonia 12. Picture Me Naked. Embodying Images On Screen and Off Tobias Bol, Johannes Gutenberg University, Germany Work Cited List of Contributors Index
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Pan Macmillan Marriages Are Made in Bond Street: True Stories
Book SynopsisIn the spring of 1939, with the Second World War looming, two determined twenty-four-year-olds, Heather Jenner and Mary Oliver, decided to open a marriage bureau. They found a tiny office on London's Bond Street and set about the delicate business of match-making. Drawing on the bureau's extensive archives, Penrose Halson - who many years later found herself the proprietor of the bureau - tells their story, and those of their clients. We meet a remarkable cross-section of British society in the 1940s: gents with a 'merry twinkle', potential fifth-columnists, nervous spinsters, isolated farmers seeking 'a nice quiet affekshunate girl' and girls looking 'exactly' like Greta Garbo and Vivien Leigh, all desperately longing to find 'The One'. And thanks to Heather and Mary, they almost always did just that.A riveting glimpse of life and love during and after the war, Marriages Are Made in Bond Street is a heart-warming, touching and thoroughly absorbing account of a world gone by.Trade ReviewThe makers of Call The Midwife need look no further for their next television project. * Daily Mail *I thought this was going to be a frivolous romp through the frolicks of wartime matchmaking and, indeed, it is a book full of charm and hilarity, written in a no-nonsense style by an accomplished writer and storyteller, but it adds up to far more than that. * Country Life *Glimpse into the matchmaking world of 1940s London with this delightful book. * New Day *An absorbing story . . . the book crackles with insights into the mores of those times. * Mail on Sunday *A fascinating account * The Lady *Table of ContentsIntroduction - i: Prologue Chapter - 1: Audrey's Uncle Has a Brainwave Chapter - 2: No, It's Not a Brothel Chapter - 3: Open for Matrimonial Business Chapter - 4: The Capitulation of Cedric Thistleton Chapter - 5: The Perfect Secretary and Other Learning Curves Chapter - 6: New Clients Wanted - But No Spies, Please Chapter - 7: Mary Transforms Myrtle Chapter - 8: The Mansion and the Mating Chapter - 9: Mary's Bones and Babies Chapter - 10: While Bombs Fall the Bureau Booms Chapter - 11: Sex, Tragedy, Success and Bust Bodices Chapter - 12: A Sideline and Two Triumphs Chapter - 13: Other Agendas, Pastures New Chapter - 14: Heather Chooses Mating over Chickens Chapter - 15: Picot and Dorothy Hold the Fort Chapter - 16: Peacetime Problems Chapter - 17: Loneliness and Heartbreak Chapter - 18: Mr Hedgehog, Journalists, a Tiny Baptist and Lies Chapter - 19: A Chapter of Accidents and Designs Chapter - 20: Thanks to Uncle George Section - ii: Appendix Section - iii: Requirements of female clients 1939-c.1949 Section - iv: Requirements of male clients 1939-c.1949 Section - v: Interviewers' comments 1939-c.1949 Acknowledgements - vi: Acknowledgements Acknowledgements - vii: Picture Acknowledgements
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