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Woollacott, Angela: Gender and Empire
Book Number: 48639
Palgrave Macmillan 2006 8vo softcover 164pp index. Near Fine. This is the first single-authored book to survey the role of gender in the "new imperial history." Through key topics and episodes across a broad range of British Empire history, Angela Woollacott examines how gender ideologies and practices affected both sexes and saturated imperial politics and culture.
Keywords: Gender ideologies
Price: $30.00 |
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Martin, Emily: Flexible Bodies. the role of immunity in American culture from the days of polio to the age of AIDS
Book Number: 48640
Beacon Press 1994 8vo softcover 320pp. Index, b/w illus. fine. From Booklist: Basing her intriguing book on the responses of both nonscientists and scientists (who vary greatly socially, politically, and in income-levels) to a survey concerned with knowledge of the immune system and also on radio and TV reporting and magazine and book literature, Martin shows how views of the immune system have changed during the course of a half century. Her presentation becomes especially provocative as it turns to the current scene. For just as businesses now seek more employee flexibility so that they--the businesses--can adjust quickly to changing conditions, her respondents expect more flexibility from the human immune system. Martin points out the disturbing implications of the belief that individuals can train their immune systems like businesses train employees and that groups of persons can be ranked in society by the quality of their immune systems. Enhanced by illustrations from many sources, her effort will make an excellent focus for study and discussion groups. William Beatty.
Keywords: american culture anthropology
Price: $15.00 |
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Ong, Aihwa: Ungrounded Empires: The Cultural Politics of Modern Chinese Transnationalism
Book Number: 48653
Routledge 1996 8vo softcover 343pp. Index, b/w illus. near fine. In the last two decades, Chinese transnationalism has become a distinctive domain within the new "flexible" capitalism emerging in the Asia-Pacific region. Ungrounded Empires maps this domain as the intersection of cultural politics and global capitalism, drawing on recent ethnographic research to critique the impact of late capitalism's institutions--flexibility, travel, subcontracting, multiculturalism, and mass media--upon transnational Chinese subjectives. Interweaving anthropology and cultural studies with interpretive political economy, these essays offer a wide range of perspectives on "overseas Chinese" and their unique location in the global arena.
Keywords: china chinese culture cultural studies diasporas emigration globalization immigration international business Ungrounded Empires The Cultural Politics of Modern Chinese Transnationalism Ong Aihwa
Price: $25.00 |
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Fullilove, Michael: World Wide Webs Diasporas and the International System
Book Number: 50492
Lowy Institute 2008 8vo softcover 195pp. very good+.
Keywords: World Wide Webs Diasporas and the International System Fullilove Michael
Price: $15.00 |
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Yalom, Marilyn: A History of the Wife
Book Number: 51336
Pandora Press 2001 8vo hardcover 480pp index, b/w illus. very good / very good d/w. How did marriage, considered a religious duty in medieval Europe, become a venue for personal fulfillment in contemporary America? How did the notion of romantic love, a novelty in the Middle Ages, become a prerequisite for marriage today? And, if the original purpose of marriage was procreation, what exactly is the purpose of marriage for women now?
Combining "a scholar's rigor and a storyteller's craft"(San Jose Mercury News), distinguished cultural historian Marilyn Yalom charts the evolution of marriage in the Judeo Christian world through the centuries and shows how radically our ideas about marriage have changed.
For any woman who is, has been, or ever will be married, this intellectually vigorous and gripping historical analysis of marriage sheds new light on an institution most people take for granted, and that may, in fact, be experiencing its most convulsive upheaval since the Reformation.
Keywords: A History of the Wife Yalom Marilyn
Price: $18.00 |
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Orizio, Riccardo: Lost White Tribes: Journeys Among the Forgotten
Book Number: 53380
Secker & Warburg, London 2000 8vo. hardcover. 271pp. very good / very good d/w.
Keywords: jungle tribesblancs matignon guadeloupe burghers sri lanka poles haiti basters nambia germans seaford town jamaica confederados brazil
Price: $15.00 |
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Manley, John: The Atlas of Past Worlds: A Comparative Chronology of Human History, 2000BC-AD1500
Book Number: 53559
Cassell Illustrated February 18, 1993 4to hardcover in d/w. 224pp very good. Using five distinct periods of history this volume sets out to compare five sparate cultures within each selected time span, a counterpoint of times and places which provides unexpected conclusions. This comparative approach to human history is illustrated with maps, drawings and colour photographs.
Keywords: Reference The Atlas of Past Worlds A Comparative Chronology of Human History 2000BC AD1500 Manley John
Price: $22.00 |
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Roberts, Frank H. H. Jr: The Village of the Great Kivas on the Zuni Reservation New Mexico
Book Number: 54302
Smithsonian Institution Bureau of American Ethnology Bulletin 111 - United States Government Printer 1932 8vo. Softcover. Front cover replaced, however copy is in very good order. 2 Fold out maps and 1 fold out plan of a Kiva. Includes 64 plates - some colour and 34 text illustrations. Contents include Introduction, House Remains, Lesser objects of Material Culture, Petroglyphs, Human Burials, Age of the Ruins, Summary and Conclusions. Appendix, Bibliography, Index.
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Price: $40.00 |
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