Social and cultural history Books
Amberley Publishing Amstrads and Ataris
Book SynopsisThe fascinating story of the home computer revolution of the 1980s. The innovative machines produced inspired a generation.
£14.39
Amberley Publishing Lost Country Houses of Derbyshire
Book SynopsisA fascinating description of the lost country houses of Derbyshire. This fascinating picture of an important but often forgotten part of the history of Derbyshire over the centuries will be of interest to all those who live in the county or know it well.
£14.39
Amberley Publishing Indiana Jones Collectibles
Book SynopsisCelebrating a large selection of merchandise attached to the iconic adventures film franchise Indiana Jones.Trade Review‘John Buss is clearly Britain’s leading 1960s TV memorabilia collector and historian’ -- CinemaRetro, July 2020'Completists may question the pre-Crystal Skull bias, but obtainers of rare 80s/90s antiquities will have a sizeable shopping list by the end of this merch round-up.' -- Total Film Magazine, June 2023'This book brings together a large selection of the multitude of products that have been created as a result of the adventures of Indiana Jones.' -- Collectors Gazette, July 2023
£14.39
Amberley Publishing The Golden Age of Yorkshire Resorts 18001914
Book SynopsisA fascinating exploration of the history of the select coastal resorts in Yorkshire catering for the well-to-do in their Victorian and Edwardian heyday.
£14.39
Amberley Publishing Illustrated Tales of Guernsey
Book SynopsisThe scenic island of Guernsey and its neighbouring islands are an attractive and popular part of the Channel Islands. Here is a collection of strange tales and local legends from the islands of Guernsey, Alderney, Sark and Herm.
£14.39
Amberley Publishing England in the Age of Dickens
Book SynopsisNew in paperback - Life, Society, Family, Economy, and Politics in early and mid-Victorian England mediated through the life and writings of arguably the nation's greatest novelist.
£10.44
Amberley Publishing Charles Darwin in Shrewsbury
Book SynopsisA fascinating exploration of the many local places around Shrewsbury associated with Charles Darwin.
£14.39
Amberley Publishing The South Downs
Book SynopsisNew paperback edition - A delightful depiction of a year in the life of the South Downs of Sussex. Will appeal to anyone with a love of the Downs and the natural world.Trade Review'This is a most delightful book, a joy to behold with superbly painted colour illustrations. This is one of those books that will appeal to a wide audience, and a good book to keep in your backpack on walks in the South Downs.' -- Westender
£15.29
Amberley Publishing Upsydown
Book SynopsisHumorous cartoons of Dorset life by local artist and cartoonist Lyndon Wall. All those who know and love this corner of the world will find this book delights and amuses.
£14.39
Amberley Publishing The Digital Watch Story
Book SynopsisAndrew Morton dives into the story of this enduring cult classic of both fashion and technology - the digital wristwatch.
£14.39
Amberley Publishing Londons Theatrical Heritage
Book SynopsisA history of Londonâs theatres exploring the many places associated with its theatrical heritage through the ages
£14.39
Amberley Publishing Canal Boat Lives
Book SynopsisA fascinating collection of images revealing the lives of those who have chosen to escape land-dwelling to live on Britainâs historic waterways.Trade Review'This book is a must for anyone interested in boating life.' -- CanalsOnline Magazine, December 2023'This has to be the coffee-table canal book of the year.' -- Waterways World, February 2024'Through photographs and their own words, this fascinating window into a different way of life will appeal to all those who would like to know more about Britain's canal-side inhabitants.' -- Sea Breezes Magazine, January 2024
£16.99
Pen & Sword Books Ltd Britains Industrial Revolution in 100 Objects
Book SynopsisWith plentiful illustrations and suggestions for visits to hundreds of places of historical interest, this book makes an ideal companion for a journey into Britain's industrial past.
£21.25
Pen & Sword Books Ltd Calais A History of Englands First Colony
Book SynopsisA fascinating insight into Calais's important but largely forgotten role in 675 years of English history.
£21.25
Pen & Sword Books Ltd Wartime Entertainment
Book SynopsisIt might have ended 80 years ago, but we still have a warm, nostalgic relationship with the Second World War, due in no small part to the love we have for the entertainment from those turbulent times. Singers like Vera Lynn the Forces Sweetheart' Gracie Fields, Anne Shelton, and the Andrews Sisters, bandleader Glenn Miller whose fate is still a mystery, films like _Gone With The Wind_, _Casablanca_, _Mrs Miniver_, _In Which We Serve_, _Goodbye Mr Chips_, and morale-boosting radio programmes like _ITMA_, _Music While You Work_ and _Hi Gang!_ all helped Britain to stay calm and carry on as it sheltered from the bombs, worked long hours in munitions factories, and prayed that its menfolk fighting on land, sea and in the air to bring about victory would one day return home safely. _Wartime Entertainment: How Britain Kept Smiling Through the Second World War_ relives the wartime years, looking at the songs and the singers, at the role that the BBC Auntie' played not only in entertai
£19.00
Pen & Sword Books Ltd African Women of the Ancient World
Book SynopsisDiscover the untold stories of Africa's warrior queens, rulers who defied empires, led armies, and shaped the course of history. In African Women of the Ancient World, journey through millennia to uncover the lives of powerful women like Queen Amanirenas, who challenged the might of Rome, Queen Nzinga Mbande, who fought against the Portuguese slave trade, and Dahia al-Kahina, who defended North Africa from Arab invasion. These extraordinary women, often overshadowed by their male counterparts, ruled with unparalleled strategy, pride, and ferocity, navigating their nations through intense battles and radical changes. From the great Pharaoh Hatshepsut of Egypt to Queen Makeda of Sheba, whose legacy is intertwined with the legends of King Solomon, these rulers are the unsung champions of ancient history. In this volume Clark brings these remarkable figures to life, drawing from excellent sources to illuminate their conquests and reigns. A treasure trove for scholars and history enthusiasts alike, this book offers a compelling exploration of the women who fiercely defended their lands and people, and whose stories are finally being told.
£21.25
Pen & Sword Books Ltd A History of Fans and Fandom
Book SynopsisDo you have a Google alert for your favourite band going on tour? Or maybe you have a pull list at your local comicbook shop? Or perhaps you've got a season ticket to your sports team of choice? That would make you a fan, whether you realise it or not, and there's a lot more to fan culture than you might think.In the 21st century pop culture is everywhere; you can't move for a new superhero film or major franchise appearing in our lives and we love it. We're just jumping into the media landscape headfirst in order to get more of our favs, track down spoilers and deep dive about plot lines on social media. It's hard to deny fan culture as part of the world now, there's a fandom for everyone, but what does that actually mean, and where did it come from?From ancient times to modern media, humans have shared their love for the stories that mean something to them and brought in others to be fans of them too. We've written ourselves in, made art of, and celebrated with others who love the sa
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Pen & Sword Books Ltd Casanovas Life and Times
Book SynopsisGiacomo Casanova (1725-1798) was born the son of a moderately poor acting family at a time when the stage carried enormous social stigma. Yet in his own lifetime he achieved celebrity across Europe, rubbing shoulders with numerous of the eighteenth century''s greatest men and women, from Frederick the Great to Catherine the Great, from Voltaire to Albrecht von Haller, from Pope Benedict XIV to Pope Clement XIII. It was a fame that had little to do with his romantic exploits. This was to come later, following upon the posthumous publication of his magnificent History of My Life. An adventurer and a man of learning, his was an extraordinary life whose story was intertwined with the story of eighteenth-century Europe. To try to understand this fascinating character we need also to try to understand the period in which he lived. This is the aim of Casanova''s Life and Times.
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Pen & Sword Books Ltd Britains Most Prolific Burglar
Book SynopsisHarry Edward Vickers, aka Flannelfoot, was possibly Britain's most successful ever burglar. Not financially - he stole cash and low-value items (even, bizarrely, false teeth!). The success was in his hundreds of burglaries spread over many years without being caught. The lives of career criminals are invariably dotted with prison sentences, but thanks to his caution and cunning, Flannelfoot operated night after night, year after year with an impunity which embarrassed the police.In the twenties and thirties, Londers were deserting the overcrowded capital for the burgeoning suburbs of Metroland'. Flannelfoot was equally attracted to these areas, and one of his hallmarks was to steal a bicycle at the scene of his last break-in of the night and cycle to the nearest tube station.Burglars and burglaries are never glamorous, but one reason why the Flannelfoot saga engendered fascination more than fear is that he was never confrontational, never violent, and in fact so stealthy that few ever
£18.70
Pen & Sword Books Ltd Afghanistan Dispossessed
Book SynopsisHere is a classical story of a people's struggle for everyday normality and preservation of cherished traditions in a war-torn society.
£17.00
Pen & Sword Books Ltd Actresses of the Restoration Period
Book SynopsisThe life and times of Elizabeth Barry and Anne Bracegirdle, two of the Restoration's most celebrated actresses.
£17.00
Pen & Sword Books Ltd The City Dairy
Book SynopsisThe first social and family history of the city dairy in Britain, looking at its origins and development.
£15.29
Pen & Sword Books Ltd Jihad A Short History
Book SynopsisWit and history seldom go together. In Jihad: A short history they are inseparable.
£17.00
Pen & Sword Books Ltd The Dark Side of Jane Austens World
Book SynopsisJane Austen's novels are read all over the globe, and adaptations of her works have graced both film and TV screens.Although sometimes criticised for being detached from the real world, providing nothing more than light-hearted plot-driven story lines, the reality is very different.Jane was aware of the evils of society, of the problems faced by women whether single or married. Underneath the entertaining story lines are much darker aspects of Regency and Georgian life. Staying single resulted in serious problems for young women;there were very few alternatives open to them, whilemarriage itself resulted in other risks. The threats of poverty or becoming a victim of crime were also an issue. Indeed, Jane's aunt spent months in prison and faced the threat of transportation for theft. Other problems society faced included those posed by opium addiction, poor medical standards, and a lack of property leaving young men and women struggling to survive. Many sought solutions in India, leadin
£19.00
Pen & Sword Books Ltd The British Bonapartes
Book SynopsisA hitherto unexamined history presented in a new way of the wider Bonaparte family shedding new light on their eventful lives in Britain.
£18.70
Pen & Sword Books Ltd Wars of the Roses
Book SynopsisThis book is an exploration of the buildings, monuments, towns and battlefields of that turbulent era across both England and Wales places that can still be visited and experienced today.
£21.25
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC Groupthink
Book SynopsisIn Groupthink, his final book, the late, eminent journalist and bestselling author Christopher Booker seeks to identify the hidden key to understanding much that is disturbing about the world today. With reference to the ideas of a Yale professor who first identified the theory, and to the writings of George Orwell from whose ''newspeak'' the word was adapted, Booker sheds new light on the remarkable and worrying effects of ''groupthink'', and its influence on our society. Booker defines the three rules of groupthink: the adoption of a common view or belief not based on objective reality; the establishment of a consensus of right-minded people, an ''in group''; and the need to treat the views of anyone who questions the belief as wholly unacceptable. He shows how various interest groups, journalists and even governments in the twenty-first century have subscribed to this way of thinking, with deeply disturbing results. As Booker shows, such be
£10.44
Edinburgh University Press The Duke of Lennox 15741624
Book SynopsisA biography of the second Duke of Lennox, the most consequential person in the Jacobean court in Scotland and EnglandTrade Review"Ludovic Stuart, Duke of Lennox, has long been known as a ubiquitous Jacobean courtier and cousin of the king, but our knowledge of him has been limited by the absence of any scholarly biography. This thoroughly-researched book at last brings him out of the shadows." -Julian Goodare, Professor of History, University of Edinburgh
£18.99
Edinburgh University Press Women Who Dared
£76.50
John Wiley and Sons Ltd A History of Florence 1200 1575
Book SynopsisIn this history of Florence, distinguished historian John Najemy discusses all the major developments in Florentine history from 1200 to 1575. Captures Florence''s transformation from a medieval commune into an aristocratic republic, territorial state, and monarchy Weaves together intellectual, cultural, social, economic, religious, and political developments Academically rigorous yet accessible and appealing to the general reader Likely to become the standard work on Renaissance Florence for years to come Trade Review"Based on wide reading of the available secondary and printed sources, A History of Florence represents the achievement of a lifetime's devotion to the study of the city. Moreover, Najemy's categories of analysis should provoke debates and conversations for future lifetimes." (Renaissance and Reformation, 2009) "There is much to praise about this book. It is a model historical synthesis of the history of a great premodern European city. It is also a sophisticated political history in which class-based ideas and values matter as much as individual details of political events." (The Catholic Historical Review, July 2010)"[This] is the best history of Florence in any language, and it will long remain so, for Najemy has mastered the relevant literature more thoroughly than any other historian in living memory." (Times Literary Supplement) "John Najemy is a pre-eminent historian of Renaissance Florence ... a scholar of learning, imagination and intellectual penetration, with a profound knowledge of Florentine history from the thirteenth to the sixteenth century and with a remarkable range of interests in political, social and intellectual history. There has been no credible attempt to write a history of Florence in this period since the time of Perrens's multi-volume work, finished in 1883. Najemy has risen admirably to the challenge. He has assimilated the vast secondary literature on Florence, from the beginning of the thirteenth to the late sixteenth century. The range of his analysis and explication stretches across a vast range of fundamental social, political, economic, diplomatic, military and biographical topics. Nor is Najemy indifferent to intellectual history, especially questions involving political thought and ideology. This book is no mere synthesis of other scholars' work. Indeed, Najemy offers a distinctive interpretation, one which has already stimulated controversy and will doubtless continue to do so." (Reviews in History) "Highly recommended." (Choice) "An extraordinary accomplishment. Deserves rich praise as a fundamentally new and authoritative interpretation of four key centuries of this remarkable city's development.” Speculum“[Najemy], a veteran Renaissance historian offers a big and impressive survey of the Florentine city-state …. One of the justifications for the book [is] the need for an updated and accessible synthesis of the superabundance of recent specialized scholarship on Florence. He succeeds admirably at that task … [and] manages to explain and contextualize detailed scholarship while remaining a lively and engaging political narrative. [It] will surely become the definitive narrative of medieval and Renaissance Florence, a point of departure for students of Florentine politics and culture as well as a major interpretive statement providing much for specialists to engage with for some time." (Sixteenth Century Journal)Table of ContentsList of Illustrations viii List of Maps ix Acknowledgments x Introduction 1 1 The Elite Families 5 Lineages 6 Knighthood and Feuds 11 Political Alignments and Factions 20 Culture and Religion 27 2 The Popolo 35 Definitions 35 Guilds 39 Culture and Education: Notaries 45 Religion 50 Critique of Elite Misrule 57 3 Early Conflicts of Elite and Popolo 63 Before 1250 64 Primo Popolo 66 Angevin Alliance 72 Priorate of the Guilds 76 Second Popolo and the Ordinances of Justice 81 Elite Resurgence: Black and White Guelfs 88 4 Domestic Economy and Merchant Empires to 1340 96 Population: City and Contado 96 Textiles, Building, and Provisioning 100 Merchant Companies and the Mercanzia 109 Taxation and Public Finances 118 5 The Fourteenth-Century Dialogue of Power 124 Elite Dominance, 1310–40 124 Crisis of the 1340s and the Third Popular Government 132 Funded Public Debt and Bankruptcies 139 Elite Recovery and Popular Reaction 144 War against the Church 151 6 Revolution and Realignment 156 Workers’ Economic Conditions 157 The Ciompi Revolution 161 The Last Guild Government 166 Counterrevolution 171 Fear of the Working Classes 176 Consensus Politics 182 7 War, Territorial Expansion, and the Transformation of Political Discourse 188 First Visconti Wars 189 Territorial Dominion: The Conquest of Pisa 194 Civic Humanism 200 The Civic Family 211 8 Family and State in the Age of Consensus 219 The Family Imaginary 219 Households, Marriage, Dowries 225 Women, Property, Inheritance 232 Children, Hospitals, Charity 238 Policing Sodomy 244 9 Fateful Embrace: The Emergence of the Medici 250 A New Style of Leadership 250 Fiscal Crisis and the Catasto 254 Cosimo’s Money and Friends 262 Showdown 269 10 The Medici and the Ottimati: A Partnership of Conflict Part I: Cosimo and Piero 278 Institutional Controls 280 External Supports: Papacy and Sforza Milan 286 Cosimo’s Coup 291 The Ottimati Challenge Piero 298 11 The Luxury Economy and Art Patronage 307 Poverty and Wealth 307 Public and Private Patronage 315 Family Commemoration and Self-Fashioning 323 12 The Medici and the Ottimati: A Partnership of Conflict Part 2: Lorenzo 341 Lorenzo’s Elders 344 Lorenzo’s Volterra Massacre 348 Pazzi Conspiracy and War 352 The (Insecure) Prince in All but Name 361 Building a Dynasty 369 13 Reinventing the Republic 375 French Invasion and Expulsion of the Medici 375 The Great Council 381 Savonarola’s Holy Republic 390 Domestic Discord and Dominion Crises 400 Soderini, Machiavelli’s Militia, and Pisa 407 14 Papal Overlords 414 The Cardinal and a Controversial Marriage 415 Fall of the Republic and Return of the Medici 419 A Regime Adrift 426 Aristocratic and Popular Republicanisms 434 The Nascent Principate 441 15 The Last Republic and the Medici Duchy 446 Revolution 447 Siege 453 Imposition of a New Order 461 Ducal Government 468 Finances and Economy 473 Courtly and Cultural Discipline 478 Victor and Vanquished 482 Epilogue: Remembrance of Things Past 486 Index 491
£31.30
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC Tourists
Book Synopsis*FOYLES NON-FICTION BOOK OF THE MONTH*''I really can''t recommend this enough - especially if you are going on holiday'' Tom Holland''Delightful ... Lucy Lethbridge has written a glorious romp of a book'' Kathryn Hughes, The Mail on SundayIt is the paramount wish of every English heart, ever addicted to vagabondizing, to hasten to the Continent'In 1815 the Battle of Waterloo brought to an end the Napoleonic Wars and the European continent opened up once again to British tourists. The nineteenth century was to be an age driven by steam technology, mass-industrialisation and movement, and, in the footsteps of the Grand Tourists a hundred years earlier, the British middle-classes flocked to Europe to see the sights.In Tourists, the voices of these travellers puzzled, shocked, delighted and amazed are brought vividly to life. From the discomfort of the stagecoach to the self-contained pleasure palace' of the beach resort, Lucy LethTrade ReviewA sparkling mosaic ... In six gloriously colourful chapters, Lethbridge explores everything from guidebooks to souvenirs, retelling these first tourists’ tales with gleeful relish. -- Dominic Sandbrook * The Sunday Times *Delightful ... witty ... Lucy Lethbridge has written a glorious romp of a book, expertly researched. She has skilfully marshalled her teeming cast of British eccentrics as they tiptoe into foreign parts. For anyone stuck in an airport, or sitting it out on a staycation, this is an inspired choice for your holiday reading. -- Kathryn Hughes * The Mail on Sunday *I really can't recommend Lucy Lethbridge's new book on the history of tourism enough - especially if you are going on holiday. -- Tom HollandSo much varied research has contributed to this excellent book that it is a treasure-trove of many more significant facts than one can cite. -- Gillian Tindall * Literary Review *Pleasingly nerdy ... Lethbridge is as good on the sketchbook-carrying Victorians as she is on the Caravan Club of sturdy mobile homeowners. -- Caroline Eden * Financial Times *Absorbing … Lethbridge is an engaging guide, charting with wit and a wealth of sources everything from the Victorian Nordic craze to changing attitudes to sun and sea -- Mary Miers * Country Life *Lethbridge’s well-researched history draws on first-hand accounts of British tourism from its early days. It is laced with humour, lampooning the snobs of yesteryear and poking fun at various pretensions and quirks. -- Tom Chesshyre * The Critic *A fascinating study of the emergence of the UK’s travel industry, from the end of the Napoleonic Wars through to the package holiday boom and on to the Instagram era, taking in tour guides and guide books along the way. Lethbridge casts a canny, sharp eye on the British traveller’s often-misguided perceptions of both themselves and their hosts. * Wanderlust Magazine *Enjoyable … Lethbridge, a percipient social observer and deep thinker, is a good guide to the whole story. She has read everything there is to read on the subject. She has a breezy tolerance of the ‘British know-nothings’, blundering over formerly beautiful sites with their guidebooks and their ignorance of European languages and culture … She is especially funny on water cures and hydropathy … She is kindly, and amused, when describing the quest for the picturesque. -- A.N. Wilson * The Oldie *Filled with little gems -- Jack Blackburn * The Times Diary *Brilliantly observed ... a fascinating portrait of Brits abroad -- Kim Smith * Bury and West Suffolk Magazine *Lucy Lethbridge’s warmth and wit make her the perfect tour guide to the intriguing history of the British abroad. * Lucasta Miller *Full of human interest and fresh insights, Tourists offers a wonderfully enjoyable account of one of the defining phenomena of the past two centuries. * David Kynaston *To write well about the attempts of the British to enjoy themselves in that fraught territory ‘abroad’, you need a sense of the ridiculous, an eye for the poignant, the ability to leaven a mass of date with wit. In Tourists, Lucy Lethbridge ticks all the boxes. * Andrew Martin *Praise for SERVANTS: Glorious ... Servants is full of eyebrow-raising and laughter-inducing vignettes. But what is most fascinating is Lethbridge’s account of the dark side of the master-servant relationship. * Daily Telegraph *Beautifully written, sparkling with insight, and a pleasure to read, Servants is social history at its most humane and perceptive. In broad terms the world Lethbridge describes is a familiar one, but she nails it all down with the kind of detail that still has the power to astonish, outrage or amuse * Times Literary Supplement *An enthralling social history of the past century, told through the eyes of those who served ... Here, the voices of servants and home helpers, largely ignored by history, are brought to life. And what a life! ... The book is full of fascinating titbits ... Lethbridge shows that the history of life below stairs is just as interesting as the story of life above them * Tatler *
£10.44
Abrams Dusty Booze
Book SynopsisAn entertaining journey into the booming world of vintage spirits, the quirky and intensely passionate “dusty hunters” who chase them, and the history they reveal, from an acclaimed author and journalist. In Dusty Booze: In Search of Vintage Spirits, journalist Aaron Goldfarb goes on an adventure in vintage spirits. This is an intoxicating story of obsessives on the hunt for old bottles of whiskey, tequila, rum, chartreuse—you name it—from estate sales, grandpa’s liquor cabinet, and out-of-the-way and inner-city liquor stores that may just have a case or a few bottles lying around in the basement. What Goldfarb and these “dusty hunters” discover are more than just bottles from bygone brands or old formulations no longer available—they find portals into history. Spirits, once bottled, don’t age like wine. A bourbon from the 1935 lets you savor the end of Prohibition. A 1940s rum cocktail with act
£17.09
Johns Hopkins University Press Transatlantic Aliens
Book SynopsisExamining hardboiled fiction through Flaubert, New Yorker cartoons through modernist painting, and Bette Davis through Hegel and Marx, Transatlantic Aliens challenges and changes the way we understand modernism's place in midcentury American culture.Trade ReviewWriting with the style and vocabulary of modern intellectualism, [Norman] demonstrates the culture to which new scholars can aspire. Highly recommended. ChoiceTable of ContentsList of IllustrationsAcknowledgmentsIntroductionChapter 1Homeless Aliens and Dialectical Culture Critique: C. L. R. James and Theodor AdornoChapter 2 The Yankee from Berlin: George GroszChapter 3The Big Empty: Raymond Chandler's Transatlantic Modernism Chapter 4 The Taste of Freedom: Simone de Beauvoir, Vladimir Nabokov and the Intellectual Road Trip Chapter 5 Saul Steinberg's Vanishing Trick: Modernism, the State, and the Cosmopolitan Intellectual Conclusion: Not to Grin is a Sin Notes Index
£39.00
Johns Hopkins University Press Suffrage at 100
Book SynopsisSuffrage at 100 looks at women's engagement in US electoral politics and government over the one hundred years since the ratification of the Nineteenth Amendment. In the 2018 midterm elections, 102 women were elected to the House and 14 to the Senatea record for both bodies. And yet nearly a century after the ratification of the Nineteenth Amendment, the notion of congressional gender parity by 2020a stated goal of the National Women's Political Caucus at the time of its founding in 1971remains a distant ideal. In Suffrage at 100, Stacie Taranto and Leandra Zarnow bring together twenty-two scholars to take stock of women's engagement in electoral politics over the past one hundred years. This is the first wide-ranging collection to historically examine women's full political engagement in and beyond electoral office since they gained a constitutional right to vote. The book explores why women's access to, and influence on, political power remains frustratingly uneven, particularly foTable of ContentsIntroduction. From Voting Power to Political PowerStacie Taranto and Leandra ZarnowChapter 1. A History of Women in American Politics and the Enduring Male Political Citizenship IdealStacie Taranto and Leandra ZarnowPart I. Voting Rights Real and Imagined: Women's Political Engagement in the Decades after Suffrage, 1920s-1950sChapter 2. Commemorating the History of the Nineteenth Amendment: The National Woman's Party and the Politics of Memory in the 1920sClaire DelahayeChapter 3. After the "Century of Struggle": The Nineteenth Amendment, Southern African American Women, and the Problem of Female Disfranchisement After 1920Liette GidlowChapter 4. "My Money's on the Mare": Lessons from the 1930 US Senate Campaign of Ruth Hanna McCormickJohanna NeumanChapter 5. "A Dead Husband Is a Better Ticket to Congress Than a Log Cabin": The Public Discourse of Widows in Office, 1920-1940Katherine ParkinChapter 6. Beyond the New Deal Network: Mary Elizabeth Switzer at the Federal Security Agency, 1939-1945Dean KotlowskiChapter 7. Elizabeth Peratrovich, the Alaska Native Sisterhood, and Indigenous Women's Activism, 1943-1947Holly Miowak GuiseChapter 8. "These Men Have Such Dominant Positions": The Women's Committee for Educational Freedom and the Gendered Battle for Liberalism in the 1940sNancy Beck YoungChapter 9. "I Have Talked to You Not as Women but as American Citizens": The Gender Ideology of Presidential Campaigns, 1940-1956Melissa Estes BlairPart II. Women's Political Leadership Takes Shape: Reform and Reaction, 1960s-1980sChapter 10. From Suffragist to Congresswoman: Celebrating Political Action, Women's History, and Feminist Intellectuals in Ms. Magazine, 1972-1984Ana StevensonChapter 11. "You Know Where I Stand": Louise Day Hicks and the Politics of Race, Class and Gender, 1963-1975Kathleen Banks NutterChapter 12. On the Shirley Chisholm Trail: The Legacy of Suffrage and Citizenship EngagementBarbara WinslowChapter 13. Envisioning the National Women's Conference: Patsy Takemoto Mink and Pacific FeminismJudy Tzu-Chun WuChapter 14. Married Congresswomen and the New Breed of Political Husbands in 1970s Political CultureSarah B. RowleyChapter 15. Madame Ambassador: Jeane J. Kirkpatrick and Global DiplomacyBianca RowlettPart III. Looking Toward a New Century for Women in Politics, 1990s-2010s Chapter 16. Palin versus Clinton: Feminism, Womanhood, and the 2008 Presidential ElectionEmily Suzanne JohnsonChapter 17. Tribute Politics: How Feminist History Became a Reference Point in the 2016 ElectionNicole EatonChapter 18. Rooted in Community: The Scholarship of Chicana Leadership and ActivismMarisela R. ChávezChapter 19. Pave It Blue: Georgia Women and Politics in the Trump EraEllen G. RafshoonChapter 20. Putting Women on a Pedestal: Monument Debates in the Era of the Suffrage CentennialMonica L. MercadoChapter 21. Toward a New New Deal . . . and the Women Will LeadEileen BorisAcknowledgmentsContributorsIndex
£22.88
Johns Hopkins University Press Leonardo to the Internet
Book SynopsisNow updated A comprehensive, 500-year history of technology in society. Historian Thomas J. Misa's sweeping history of the relationship between technology and society over the past 500 years reveals how technological innovations have shapedand have been shaped bythe cultures in which they arose. Spanning the preindustrial past, the age of scientific, political, and industrial revolutions, as well as the more recent eras of imperialism, modernism, and global security, this compelling work evaluates what Misa calls the question of technology.In this edition, Misa brings his acclaimed text up to date by drawing on current scholarship while retaining sharply drawn portraits of individual people, artifacts, and systems. Each chapter has been honed to relate to contemporary concerns. Globalization, Misa argues, looks differently considering today's virulent nationalism, cultural chauvinism, and trade wars. A new chapter focuses on the digital age from 1990 to 2016. The book also examines Trade ReviewThis book is indispensable and exciting reading for both scholars and a wider audience.—Emanuela Scarpellini, Technology & CultureTable of ContentsList of Figures and TablesPrefaceAcknowledgmentsChapter 1. Technologies of the Court, 1450–1600Chapter 2. Techniques of Commerce, 1588–1740Chapter 3. Geographies of Industry, 1740–1851Chapter 4. Instruments of Empire, 1840–1914Chapter 5. Science and Systems, 1870–1930Chapter 6. Materials of Modernism, 1900–1950Chapter 7. The Means of Destruction, 1936–1990Chapter 8. Promises of Global Culture, 1970–2001Chapter 9. Paths to Insecurity, 2001–2010Chapter 10. Dominance of the Digital, 1990–2016Chapter 11. The Question of TechnologyNotesEssay on SourcesIndex
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Penguin Random House South Africa Cooking for my father in My Cape Malay Kitchen
Book SynopsisMy Cape Malay Kitchen is Cariema Isaacs's heartfelt and poignant account of the extraordinary relationship between herself and her father and how that was reflected in their shared passion for food and cooking. She recollects all of the dishes they cooked and ate together, and shares her childhood memories of growing up in Bo-Kaap.Table of ContentsContents: Foreword; Notes for the Reader; Stews and Bredies; Cape Malay; Classics; Smoortjies; Curries - The Magic of Spices, Garlic and Ginger; Bo-Kaap and My Cape Malay Heritage; Ramadan; Eid-al-Fitr and Eid-al-Adha; Great Food, Fast; Side Dishes - Those Underrated Little Gems; A Dollop of Sweet Love; Glossary; Thanks to...; Postscript; Recipe Index.
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State University of New York Press Intersecting Diasporas
Book SynopsisIntersecting Diasporas examines literary expressions of allyship between Italian America and other diasporic communities in modern and contemporary US fiction. Rewriting the Anglo-American genre of the "Italian novel," authors like James Baldwin, Bernard Malamud, Carolina De Robertis, and Chang-rae Lee have disrupted misconceptions of Italian and Italian American identity while confronting Italians'' own complicity with white racism. Likewise, Italian American authors from John Fante to Tina De Rosa have written in solidarity with Black, Chicanx, Filipinx, Jewish, Romani, and Irish diasporic communities on US shores, unsettling stereotypes and dissecting Italian America''s history of flawed allyship across diasporas. Suzanne Manizza Roszak traces these gestures of literary solidarity; considers how they relate to the writers'' critiques of toxic masculinity, antiqueerness, and socioeconomic injustice; and proposes interdiasporic allyship as a practice of reconciliation and healing.
£65.04
State University of New York Press Dutch and Indigenous Communities in
Book SynopsisThis volume of essays by historians and archaeologists offers an introduction to the significant impact of Dutch traders and settlers on the early history of Northeastern North America, as well as their extensive and intensive relationships with its Indigenous peoples. Often associated with the Hudson River Valley, New Netherland actually extended westward into present day New Jersey and Delaware and eastward to Cape Cod. Further, New Netherland was not merely a clutch of Dutch trading posts: settlers accompanied the Dutch traders, and Dutch colonists founded towns and villages along Long Island Sound, the mid-Atlantic coast, and up the Connecticut, Hudson, and Delaware River valleys. Unfortunately, few nonspecialists are aware of this history, especially in what was once eastern and western New Netherland (southern New England and the Delaware River Valley, respectively), and the essays collected here help strengthen the case that the Dutch deserve a more prominent position in future history books, museum exhibits, and school curricula than they have previously enjoyed.The archaeological content includes descriptions of both recent excavations and earlier, unpublished archaeological investigations that provide new and exciting insights into Dutch involvement in regional histories, particularly within Long Island Sound and inland New England. Although there were some incidences of cultural conflict, the archaeological and documentary findings clearly show the mutually tolerant, interdependent nature of Dutch-Indigenous relationships through time. One of the essays, by a Mohawk community member, provides a thought-provoking Indigenous perspective on Dutch?Native American relationships that complements and supplements the considerations of his fellow writers. The new archaeological and ethnohistoric information in this book sheds light on the motives, strategies, and sociopolitical maneuvers of seventeenth-century Native leadership, and how Indigenous agency helped shape postcontact histories in the American Northeast.
£65.04
State University of New York Press Bitter Harvest
Book SynopsisExplores the duality between humans and Earth through a focus on the economic system changes that began with grain agriculture and has now reached its apogee in global capitalism.Humans are in danger of crossing a divide where their foothold on an earth once abundant in self-willed otherness is slipping away. This is apparent with the sixth mass extinction, climate change, and the many breaches of planetary boundaries. Bitter Harvest brings clarity to this moment in history through a focus on economic order, how it comes to be what it is, and the way it structures the relationship between humans and Earth. An unusual synergy of disciplines (evolutionary biology, history, economic systems analysis, anthropology, and deep ecology) are tapped to fully explore the emergence of an economic system that contextualized a duality between humans and Earth. Conversations that focus on capitalism and the industrial revolution are subsumed under the longer arc of history and the system change that began with the cultivation of annual grains. Bitter Harvest engenders a more critical conversation about the complexity of the human relationship to Earth and the challenge of altering the economic trajectory that began with agriculture and has now reached its apogee in global capitalism.
£65.04
Amberley Publishing Land Girl
Book SynopsisA fabulous slice of wartime nostalgia, a facsimile edition of the manual used by the Land Girls during the Second World War.Table of Contents1. The Women's Land Army in the Great War, 1914-1918 2. The Need of the Land Army Today 3. How to Join 4. Training (if Necessary) 5. The Uniform 6. Employment 7. Welfare 8. Journeys & Holidays 9. List of Chairmen & County Secretaries 10. Making the Most of the Country 11. Useful Hints & Tips 12. The Proof of the Pudding is in the Eating List of Illustrations
£9.49
Amberley Publishing The Birth of The Chocolate City
Book SynopsisFind out how fashionable eighteenth-century York became the capital of chocolate.
£14.39
Amberley Publishing The Scottish Cook Book
Book SynopsisQuintessential Scottish traditional recipes from masters of the craft. Drawn from several sources such as the Mrs Alan Breck Cookbook (1900) and illustrated throughout in full colour.
£9.49
Amberley Publishing Country House Society
Book SynopsisForget glossy period dramas, here is the real story of Britain's super-rich from the First World War to the end of the 'roaring' twenties.
£11.69
Amberley Publishing Heath Robinson On Travel
Book SynopsisThe craziest inventions and funniest machines from the pen of Heath Robinson
£14.39
Amberley Publishing The Birth of the Bicycle
Book SynopsisA concise but revealing history of the bicycle over 200 years
£11.69
Amberley Publishing Afternoon Tea
Book SynopsisComfort, cake and courting: the tea ceremony in the golden age of tea
£14.39
Amberley Publishing Beads
Book SynopsisExplores the fascinating world of British beads.
£14.39
Amberley Publishing British Bricks
Book SynopsisExplores the history of British bricks and brick makers.
£14.39
