ledochowicz.com

Culture Studies

Anthropology

Non-Sovereign Futures French Caribbean Politics in the Wake of Disenchantment

Bonilla Yarimar

ISBN: PB: 9780226283814, ISBN: HB: 9780226283784, University of Chicago Press, October 2015
232 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 13 halftones, 1 table

As an overseas department of France, Guadeloupe is one of a handful of non-independent societies in the Caribbean that seem like political exceptions – or even paradoxes – in our current postcolonial era. In "Non-Sovereign Futures", Yarimar Bonilla w...

PB:

£20,50

QTY:

HB:

£68,00

QTY:

add books to the list

America

Culture Studies

Third City Chicago and American Urbanism

Bennett Larry

ISBN: PB: 9780226323794, ISBN: HB: 9780226042930, University of Chicago Press, September 2015
248 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 6 halftones

Our traditional image of Chicago – as a gritty metropolis carved into ethnically defined enclaves where the game of machine politics overshadows its ends – is such a powerful shaper of the city's identity that many of its closest observers fail to no...

PB:

£13,00

QTY:

HB:

£17,00

QTY:

add books to the list

History of Art

Music

Freedom Principle Experiments in Art and Music, 1965 to Now

Beckwith Naomi, Roelstraete Dieter

ISBN: PB: 9780226319308, University of Chicago Press, July 2015
320 pp., 25.4x20.3 cm, 300 colour plates

On the South Side of Chicago in the 1960s, African American artists and musicians grappled with new language and forms inspired by the black nationalist turn in the Civil Rights movement. "The Freedom Principle", which accompanies an exhibition on t...

PB:

£26,50

QTY:

add books to the list

America

Culture Studies

In the Watches of the Night Life in the Nocturnal City, 1820-1930

Baldwin Peter C.

ISBN: PB: 9780226269542, ISBN: HB: 9780226036021, University of Chicago Press, May 2015
296 pp., 23x15 cm, 16 halftones

Before skyscrapers and streetlights glowed at all hours, American cities fell into inky blackness with each setting of the sun. But over the course of the nineteenth and early twentieth century, new technologies began to light up streets, sidewalks,...

PB:

£22,00

QTY:

HB:

£42,00

QTY:

add books to the list

Travel

Culture Studies

Cotswolds A Cultural History

Bingham Jane

ISBN: PB: 9781909930223, Signal Books, March 2015
256 pp., 21.7x14.7 cm

For sale in CIS only! The Cotswolds have featured on a thousand country calendars, but what is the real story behind the picture-perfect rural scene? Jane Bingham reveals a history of privilege and poverty, idyll and conflict, through the eyes of tr...

PB:

£12,00

QTY:

add books to the list

General

Media Studies

It's Complicated The Social Lives of Networked Teens

Boyd Danah

ISBN: PB: 9780300199000, Yale University Press, December 2014
296 pp., 21x14 cm

<p>What is new about how teenagers communicate through services such as Facebook, Twitter and Instagram? Does social media affect the quality of teens' lives? In this eye-opening book, youth culture and technology expert Danah Boyd uncovers some...

PB:

£10,99

QTY:

add books to the list

History of Art

Architecture

City Lost and Found Capturing New York, Chicago, and Los Angeles, 1960-1980

Bussard Katherine A., Fisher Alison, Foster-Rice Greg

ISBN: PB: 9780300207859, Yale University Press, November 2014
256 pp., 26.7x24.1 cm, 250 colour and black&white illus.

American cities underwent seismic transformations in the 1960s and 70s, from shifting demographics and political protests to reshaping through highways and urban renewal. Amid this climate of upheaval, photographers, architects, activists, performanc...

PB:

£35,00

QTY:

add books to the list

Travel

Culture Studies

Scottish Highlands A Cultural History

Beattie Andrew

ISBN: PB: 9781909930001, Signal Books, October 2014
256 pp., 21.7x14.7 cm

For sale in CIS only! "The Scottish Highlands" form the highest mountains in the British Isles, a broad arc of rocky peaks and deep glens stretching from the outskirts of Glasgow, Perth and Aberdeen to the remote and storm-lashed Cape Wrath in Scotl...

PB:

£12,00

QTY:

add books to the list

Anthropology

Culture Studies

Performing the Nation Genocide, Justice, Reconciliation

Breed Ananda

ISBN: PB: 9780857421081, Seagull Books, September 2014
264 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 30 halftones

A dance begins beneath the outstretched branches of the giant umunyinya tree in Rwanda. First there is drumming and clapping, then the lead dancers step into the center of the gathering. The dancing subsides and the gacaca court, the community hearin...

PB:

£26,50

QTY:

add books to the list

Culture Studies

Through a Screen Darkly Popular Culture, Public Diplomacy, and America's Image Abroad

Bayles Martha

ISBN: HB: 9780300123388, Yale University Press, February 2014
320 pp., 22.9x15.2 cm

What does the world admire most about America? Science, technology, higher education, consumer goods – but not, it seems, freedom and democracy. Indeed, these ideals are in global retreat, for reasons ranging from ill-conceived foreign policy to the...

HB:

£27,00

QTY:

add books to the list