Encounters: Cultural Histories – serie
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Dust
Häftad, 2002
212 kr
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In this witty, engaging and challenging book, Carolyn Steedman has produced a highly original and sometimes irreverent investigation into the development of modern history writing. Dust is about the practice and writing of history. Dust considers the immutable, stubborn set of beliefs about the …
Benjamin's Arcades
An unGuided tour
Av Peter Buse, Ken Hirschkop m. fl.
Häftad, 2006
382 kr
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The Arcades Project, Walter Benjamin’s unfinished masterpiece, is a brilliant but maddening book. Benjamin’s Arcades: an unGuided Tour looks for the method behind the madness, carefully reconstructing the intellectual and political context of the work and unpacking its numerous analogies, metaphors …
New York Hustlers
Masculinity and Sex in Modern America
Av Barry Reay
Inbunden, 2010
1263 kr
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This important new book, which focuses on the 1940s, 1950s and 1960s, but which looks back to the earlier decades of the century and has a conclusion dealing with the 1970s to 1990s, maps the world of those known as ‘trade’ – ostensibly straight men who would engage in homosexual sex – and hustlers …
New York hustlers
Masculinity and sex in modern America
Av Barry Reay
Häftad, 2010
309 kr
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This important new book, which focuses on the 1940s, 1950s and 1960s, but which looks back to the earlier decades of the century and has a conclusion dealing with the 1970s to 1990s, maps the world of those known as ‘trade’ – ostensibly straight men who would engage in homosexual sex – and hustlers …
Poison, detection and the Victorian imagination
Av Ian Burney
Häftad, 2012
394 kr
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This fascinating book looks at the phenomenon of murder and poisoning in the nineteenth century. Focusing on the case of William Palmer, a medical doctor who in 1856 was convicted of murder by poisoning, it examines how his case baffled toxicologists, doctors, detectives and judges. The …
Resisting history
Religious transcendence and the invention of the unconscious
Häftad, 2014
371 kr
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How can historians make sense of visions, hauntings and demonic possession? Do miraculous events have any place in a world governed by cause and effect? In Resisting history, Rhodri Hayward examines the cumulative attempts of theologians, historians and psychologists to create a consistent and …
Plants, Patients and the Historian
(Re)Membering in the Age of Genetic Engineering
Inbunden, 2003
1156 kr
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God is dead. Thanks to the decoding of the human genome, the ‘word’ has been rendered into ‘flesh’ and ‘we can all be proud of our species as it closes in on this summit of self-knowledge’. Yet, the very architects of its decoding have also warned that ‘t. Provides a history of genetics in Britain …
Mourning Becomes...
Post/Memory and Commemoration of the Concentration Camps of the South African War 1899–1902
Inbunden, 2006
1156 kr
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This fascinating work challenges many of the accepted facts about the concentration camps run by the British during the South African War. The author demonstrates that much of what we have traditionally understood about these camps originates the testimony which was solicited, selected and …
Plants, Patients, and the Historian
(Re)membering in the Age of Genetic Engineering
Häftad, 2003
378 kr
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Plants, Patients, and the Historian examines the relationship between the act of historical recollection and the coming "age of genetic engineering." Paolo Palladino provides a history of genetics in Britain from its inception as an agricultural science in the early years of the twentieth century …
