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A bold reinterpretation of Georgian Britian and North America that puts inns at the heart of the imperial project. Inns were ubiquitous across the Anglo-American world of the eighteenth and early ni……続きを見る

Dante’s Gluttons: Food and Society from the Convivio to the Comedy explores how the medieval Italian poet Dante Alighieri (1265-1321) uses food to express and condition the social, political, and cu……続きを見る

Social and human sciences are currently in a special position. On the one hand, they are subject to frequent doubts and mistrust while on the other hand, there is a view that the 21st century will b……続きを見る

Pubblicate per la prima volta nel 1981 e in una nuova edizione ampliata nel 1993, queste memorie non smettono di affascinare per il loro carattere iconoclasta, anticonformista, «inattuale». Nato in ……続きを見る

Dented Cans and Classic Cars centers on Daniel Krause's experiences with moving to a retirement community and covers the entire - sometimes difficult experience, from deciding on a move and picking ……続きを見る

"Deuses da Antiguidade" é um ensaio sobre a primeira geração de divindades do Olimpo: Zeus, Hera, Hades, Poseidon e Deméter. Nessa obra o historiador Felipe Daniel Ruzene aborda as representações mi……続きを見る

The beginning of the 21st century saw the rise of "New" Atheism and a resulting conflict with Theists – at the same time as the resurgence of fantasy in popular culture. This volume analyses the imp……続きを見る

Dress and Identity in America is an examination of the conservatism and materialism that swept across the country in the late 1940s through the 1950s-a backlash to the wartime tumult, privations, an……続きを見る

Victorian Dress in Contemporary Historical Fiction is the first full-length study to investigate and attend to the deeply suggestive and highly symbolic iterations of Victorian women's dress in the ……続きを見る

An exploration of how gift exchange serves as a critical component in the preservation and perpetuation of one Native American tribe. Upon winning the CMA Book Award, Wedding Clothes and the Osage C……続きを見る

"Reveals the heart and soul of the Amish culture. This is the best introduction to Lancaster's Amish community." ーSteven M. Nolt, author of A History of the Amish More than eight million people vis……続きを見る

Montréal is à la mode. A fashionable city in its own right, it also boasts fashion schools, an industry packed with local designers and manufacturers and a dynamic scene that exhibits local and inte……続きを見る

The fall and rise of the English upper class explores the role traditionalist worldviews, articulated by members of the historic upper-class, have played in British society in the shadow of her impe……続きを見る

Il Piccolo Principe, il personaggio e la fiaba moderna più famosi al mondo, un elogio poetico all'infanzia e una piccola educazione sentimentale. Che cosa mangia un piccolo principe? Poco. Lui non h……続きを見る

En las tradiciones indígenas de México el sueño coexiste con el trance, o es equivalente al mismo, y los chamanes locales lo utilizan para acceder a un espacio-tiempo alterno, caracterizado con dist……続きを見る

Este ebook presenta "Las Aventuras de Robinson Crusoe", con un indice dinámico y detallado. Se trata de la obra más famosa de Daniel Defoe, publicada en 1719 y considerada la primera novela inglesa.……続きを見る

Fashion in the Edwardian period underwent some quite revolutionary changes. The delicately coloured, flower-and-lace-trimmed trailing gowns and elaborate hairstyles worn by tightly corseted fashiona……続きを見る

For more than a decade the 'Muslim question' on integration and alleged extremism has vexed Europe, revealing cracks in long-held certainties about the role of religion in public life. Secular assum……続きを見る

Design-Build provides everything you need to know about how to embark on a design-build project within a studio or professional practice setting. Design-build models have increased across academic p……続きを見る

Perhaps more so than any other decade, the sixties had the broadest impact on the twentieth-century Western world. Across society, culture and the arts, youth voices rose to prominence and had a sig……続きを見る

Daniel Defoe is best known as the author of "Robinson Crusoe," published in 1719. However between 1724 and 1726 he published the three volume work, "A Tour Through the Whole Island of Great Britain.……続きを見る

Beer culture has grown exponentially in the United States, from the days of Prohibition to the signing of HR 1337 by then-President Jimmy Carter, which legalized homebrewing for personal and househo……続きを見る

The Peacock Revolution in menswear of the 1960s came as a profound shock to much of America. Men's long hair and vividly colored, sexualized clothes challenged long established traditions of masculi……続きを見る

The Subject is singular, and it has been handled after a singular Manner: The wise World has been pleased with it, the merry World has been diverted with it, and the ignorant World has been taught b……続きを見る

La potenza dell'archetipo della Grande Madre. C’è ancora oggi un’aria di mistero dentro gli occhi di ogni donna, un enigma che affiora dalla notte dei tempi e fa venir voglia di sollevare il velo pe……続きを見る

A stylish, funny and surprising guide to the art of conversation, from one of New York's foremost literary wits. A GOOD TALK is an analysis of and guide to that most exclusively human of all activit……続きを見る

Never before had Daniel Bergner seen a spectacle as bizarre as the one he had come to watch that Sunday in October. Murderers, rapists, and armed robbers were competing in the annual rodeo at Angola……続きを見る

Cultural Studies, Education, and Youth: Beyond Schools, edited by Benjamin Frymer, Matthew Carlin, and John Broughton, addresses the new cultural landscapes which increasingly "educate" our youth. W……続きを見る

This book pulls together experts in the fields of economics and Russian culture, all participants in the Samuel P. Huntington Memorial Symposium on Culture, Cultural Change and Economic Development,……続きを見る

Winner of the Bancroft Prize In this brilliantly original book, written for the general reader, the American past becomes richly meaningful to the present. 続きを見る