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Culture Studies

Who Sings the Nation-State? Language, Politics, Belonging

Spivak Gayatri Chakravorty, Butler Judith

ISBN: PB: 9781906497835, Seagull Books, March 2011
128 pp., 18.5x11.7 cm

"Who Sings the Nation-State" brings together two of America's foremost critics and two of the most influential theorists of the last decade. Together, they explore the past, present and future of the state in a time of globalization. What is contai...

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Anthropology

Culture Studies

Imagining the Urban Sanskrit and the City in Early India

Kaul Shonaleeka

ISBN: HB: 9781906497811, Seagull Books, March 2011
278 pp., 22.4x15 cm

In Imagining the Urban, Shonaleeka Kaul turns to Sanskrit literature to discover the characteristics – both physical and social – of ancient Indian cities. Kaul examines nearly a thousand years of Sanskrit kavyas to see what India's early historic ci...

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America

Culture Studies

Encyclopedia of New York City Second Edition

Jackson Kenneth T.

ISBN: HB: 9780300114652, Yale University Press, January 2011
1600 pp., 27.7x21.8 cm, 752 black&white illus.

Covering an exhaustive range of information about the five boroughs, the first edition of "The Encyclopedia of New York City" was a success by every measure, earning worldwide acclaim and several awards for reference excellence, and selling out its f...

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Photography

Culture Studies

Seen Black Style UK

Cunningham Jake, Lazarides Steve

ISBN: HB: 9781861542175, Casemate, Booth-Clibborn Editions, January 2011
192 pp., 27x24 cm, full-colour illus.

"Seen: Black Style UK" is the first publication to explore the immeasurable impact of Black subculture on British streets, dance floors, wardrobes and beauty parlours over the past three decades. It gives unique visual expression to the energy and in...

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Music

Culture Studies

Thug Life Race, Gender, and the Meaning of Hip-Hop

Jeffries Michael P.

ISBN: PB: 9780226395852, ISBN: HB: 9780226395845, University of Chicago Press, January 2011
280 pp., 22.6x15.2 cm, 2 tables, 3 halftones

Hip-hop has come a long way from its origins in the Bronx in the 1970s, when rapping and DJing were just part of a lively, decidedly local scene that also venerated b-boying and graffiti. Now hip-hop is a global phenomenon and, in the United States,...

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Culture Studies

Troubling Vision Performance, Visuality, and Blackness

Fleetwood Nicole R.

ISBN: PB: 9780226253039, ISBN: HB: 9780226253022, University of Chicago Press, January 2011
296 pp., 23x15 cm, 42 halftones

"Troubling Vision" addresses American culture's fixation on black visibility, exploring how blackness is persistently seen as a problem in public culture and even in black scholarship that challenges racist discourse. Through trenchant analysis, Nico...

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Travel

Culture Studies

Hamburg A Cultural and Literary History

Jefferies Matthew

ISBN: PB: 9781904955757, Signal Books, January 2011
256 pp., 20.4x13.6 cm

For sale in CIS only! It is a popular misconception that Hamburg is a coastal city. In fact, despite possessing Europe's second-busiest port, this "amphibious city" lies some 65 miles from the North Sea. Its long-standing image as a 'city without cu...

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Culture Studies

Africa

Clicko The Wild Dancing Bushman

Parsons Neil

ISBN: PB: 9780226647425, ISBN: HB: 9780226647418, University of Chicago Press, December 2010
256 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 24 halftones

During the 1920s and '30s, Franz Taibosh – whose stage name was Clicko – performed in front of millions as one of the stars of the Ringling Brothers and Barnum & Bailey Circus. Prior to his fame in the United States, Taibosh toured the world as the "...

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Culture Studies

Globalizing American Studies

Edwards Brian T., Parameshwar Gaonkar Dilip

ISBN: PB: 9780226185071, University of Chicago Press, December 2010
368 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 12 halftones

The discipline of American studies was established in the early days of World War II and drew on the myth of American exceptionalism. Now that the so-called American Century has come to an end, what would a truly globalized version of American studie...

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Culture Studies

Technics and Civilization

Mumford Lewis

ISBN: PB: 9780226550275, University of Chicago Press, October 2010
528 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

"Technics and Civilization" first presented its compelling history of the machine and critical study of its effects on civilization in 1934 – before television, the personal computer, and the Internet even appeared on our periphery. Drawing upon ar...

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