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Arabian Seas 1700 - 1763 4 Vol. Set

Rene J. Barendse

Drawing on a vast range of sources Arabian Seas 1700 - 1763 is as much a sweeping overview as a detailed examination of the maritime world of the western Indian Ocean in the eighteenth century. It deals with the various states, economies and societies there and with the impact of the early phase of European colonialism on them.

Brill Academic Publishers, June 2009

HB 9789004176584€ 475.00

European Expansion and Indigenous Response

Brill’s Encyclopedia of Hinduism 5 Vol. Set

Knut A. Jacobsen et al

The five-volume Brill’s Encyclopedia of Hinduism is a thematic encyclopedia, presenting the latest research on all the main aspects of the Hindu traditions in original essays written by the world’s foremost scholars on Hinduism.

Brill Academic Publishers, Vol. 1 July 2009

HB 9789004176416Vol. 1 € 239.00

One volume to be published a year over five years.

Handbook of Oriental Studies. Section 2 South Asia

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Romanticism and Celebrity Culture, 1750-1850

Edited by Tom Mole

We live in a celebrity-obsessed culture, but until recently the history of celebrity has been little discussed. Looking back to the 1720s and forward to the 1890s, this volume identifies the people and institutions that made the Romantic period a pivotal moment in the creation of celebrity.

Cambridge University Press, May 2009

HB 9780521884778£50.00

The Two Cultures Controversy

Science, Literature and Cultural Politics in Postwar Britain

Guy Ortolano

The ‘two cultures’ dispute between C. P. Snow and F. R. Leavis continues to be evoked in discussions about the relationship between the arts and science. However, Guy Ortolano shows that this was not simply a disciplinary debate but was instead an ideological conflict between competing visions of British society and culture.

Cambridge University Press, January 2009

HB 9780521892049£55.00

Women Writing History in Early Modern England

Megan Matchinske

Throughout the seventeenth century, scores of Englishwomen took up the banner of history, exploring in their accounts the shifting relationships between past and future, between what had happened and what could happen. This book focuses on this dynamic exchange, asking us to look seriously at the ends of history.


HB 9780521508674£55.00

Murderesses in German Writing, 1720–1860

Heroines of Horror

Susanne Kord

Drawing on extensive archival records and published texts, Susanne Kord investigates the stories of eight famous murderesses in Germany as they were told in legal, psychological, philosophical and literary writings. A major work of German cultural history, this highly original book raises thought-provoking questions about eighteenth- and nineteenth-century gender norms.


HB 9780521519779£50.00

Cambridge Studies in German

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Encyclopedia of Race & Racism

Edited by John Hartwell Moore

This encyclopedia is the first such work examining the anthropological, sociological, historical, economic and scientific theories of race and racism in the modern era.

Macmillan Reference USA / Cengage Learning, August 2007

HB 9780028660202US$420.00

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Encyclopedia of Sex & Gender

Edited by Fedwa Malti-Douglas

This Encyclopedia addresses issues of sex and gender at the personal and social level; issues of identity, status, class, ethnicity, race and nation – all through the lens of gender.

Macmillan Reference USA / Cengage Learning, September 2007

HB 9780028659602US$499.00


New Encyclopedia of Africa

Edited by Joseph C. Miller

The substantial expansion of this classic encyclopedia addresses the entire history of African cultures from the pharaohs to the emergence of 53 independent countries in the twentieth century.

Charles Scribner’s Sons / Cengage Learning, October 2007

HB 9780684314549US$656.00


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Genres of Modernity

Contemporary Indian Novels in English

Dirk Wiemann

‘Genres of Modernity’ maps the conjunctures of critical theory and literary production in contemporary India and is of interest not only for students of postcolonial literatures but for academics in the fields of Cultural Studies at large.

Editions Rodopi

PB 9789042024939€ 69.00

Internationale Forschungen zur Allgemeinen und Vergleichenden Literaturwissenschaft

Sources of Regionalism in the Nineteenth-Century

Architecture, Art and Literature

Edited by Linda Van Santvoort, Jan De Maeyer and Tom Verschaffel

Architectural concepts and styles seem to flourish from the most local of contexts to the global. This book investigates the regional, often conceived today as a late nineteenth-century phenomenon, primarily on account of the preservation and restoration movements that arose.

Leuven University Press, December 2008

HB 9789058676498€ 65.00

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A Passion for Cultural Studies

Ben Highmore

A truly engaging read, this introductory text has been written as an ‘appetite-whetter’ for students approaching the Cultural Studies discipline for the first time. It is impressively accessible and packed with key theory and concepts.

Palgrave Macmillan, May 2009

HB 9781403997173£45.00

PB 9781403997180£14.99

Beyond a Joke

The Limits of Humour

Edited by Sharon Lockyer and Michael Pickering

Published for the first time in paperback in June, this title is a timely and relevant study of the ethics, abuses and limits of humour and the ways in which humour can excite social tension and controversy.

Palgrave Macmillan, June 2009

HB 9781403939425£53.00

PB 9780230594500£19.99

The Object Reader

Edited by Fiona Candlin and Raiford Guins

This groundbreaking collection frames the classic debates on objects and generates new ones by reshaping the ways in which the object is taught and studied.

Routledge / Taylor & Francis, February 2009

HB 9780415452298£75.00

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In Sight: Visual Culture

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An Introduction to Visual Culture. 2nd ed.

Nicholas Mirzeoff

Tracing the history and theory of visual culture, from painting to the World Wide Web, An Introduction to Visual Culture asks how and why visual media have become so central to everyday life.

Routledge / Taylor & Francis, May 2009

HB 9780415327589£70.00

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Jean Baudrillard. 2nd ed.

Richard J. Lane

A comprehensive introduction to this fascinating theorist, examining the impact that Baudrillard has had on literary studies, media and cultural studies, sociology, philosophy and postmodernism

Routledge / Taylor & Francis, December 2008

HB 9780415474474£55.00

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Routledge Critical Thinkers

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Hannah Arendt

Simon Swift

Examining the theories from Arendt’s three main works, offering explanations to the main claims of the works, and presenting a guide to her philosophical, literary and cultural context.


HB 9780415425858£55.00

PB 9780415425865£12.99


Routledge Critical Thinkers

Critical Perspectives on Bell Hooks

Edited by Maria del Guadalupe Davidson and George Yancy

Contributors in the field of education, philosophy, and social work offer critical reflections on Bell Hooks’ work where she has been most influential.

This is a must-read for scholars, professors, and students interested in issues of race, class and gender.

Routledge / Taylor & Francis, April 2009

HB 9780415989800£75.00

PB 9780415989817£20.99


EBL eBook 9780203881507US$140.00

Critical Social Thought

Communication as Culture

Essays on Media and Society

James W. Carey

Explains Carey’s fundamental role in transforming the study of mass communication to include a cultural perspective and connects his classic essays with contemporary media issues and trends.

Routledge / Taylor & Francis, October 2008

HB 9780415989756£75.00

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Emotions

A Cultural Studies Reader

Jennifer Harding and Deidre Pribram

Emotions: A Cultural Studies Reader provides students with an essential overview of contemporary academic debate within the humanities and social sciences on the place of emotions in culture.

Routledge / Taylor & Francis, April 2009

HB 9780415469296£75.00

PB 9780415469302£24.99

Emmanuel Levinas

Sean Hand

Sean Hand sets Levinas’s work in its intellectual and social contexts concluding with an assessment of his continuing influence in contemporary theory.


HB 9780415402767£55.00

PB 9780415402750£12.99


EBL eBook 9780203888056US$95.00

Belonging

A Culture of Place

Bell Hooks

What does it mean to call a place home? Who is allowed to become a member of a community? When can we say that we truly belong? These are some of the questions of place and belonging that renowned cultural critic bell hooks examines in her new book.

Routledge / Taylor & Francis, November 2008

HB 9780415968157£60.00

PB 9780415968164£14.99


EBL eBook 9780203888018US$95.00

Reel to Real

Race, Class and Sex in the Movies

Bell Hooks

Bell Hooks talks back to films that have moved and provoked her, from Quentin Tarantino’s Pulp Fiction to the work of Spike Lee.

Routledge / Taylor & Francis, October 2008

PB 9780415964807£14.99

Routledge Classics

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