The Body in Time: Figures of Femininity in Late Nineteenth-Century France
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The Body in Time looks at two different genres in relation to the construction of femininity in late...

Social and Political Theatre in 21st-Century Britain: Staging Crisis
Enoch Brater, Vicky Angelaki and Mark Taylor-Batty
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In a context of financial crisis that has often produced a feeling of identity crisis for the...

From Exile to Washington: A Memoir of Leadership in the Twentieth Century
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In a life that has spanned nearly nine decades and has taken him across the world and back, W....

Archaeology of the 11th Century: Continuities and Transformations
Dawn M. Hadley, Chris C. Dyer and Christopher Dyer
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The Archaeology of the 11th Century addresses many key questions surrounding this formative period...

Bound in Wedlock: Slave and Free Black Marriage in the Nineteenth Century
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Americans have long viewed marriage between a white man and a white woman as a sacred union. But...
History social sciences

Empire of Things: How We Became a World of Consumers, from the Fifteenth Century to the Twenty-First
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What we consume has become the defining feature of our lives: our economies live or die by spending,...