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Culture Studies

Gender Studies

Slumming Sexual and Racial Encounters in American Nightlife, 1885-1940

Heap Chad

ISBN: PB: 9780226322445, University of Chicago Press, October 2010
432 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 7 maps, 19 halftones

During Prohibition, "Harlem was the 'in' place to go for music and booze", recalled the African American chanteuse Bricktop".Every night the limousines pulled up to the corner", and out spilled affluent whites, looking for a good time, great jazz, an...

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Music

Culture Studies

Republic of Love Cultural Intimacy in Turkish Popular Music

Stokes Martin

ISBN: PB: 9780226775067, ISBN: HB: 9780226775050, University of Chicago Press, October 2010
280 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 1 map, 20 line drawings, 1 table, 7 halftones

At the heart of "The Republic of Love" are the voices of three musicians – queer nightclub star Zeki Muren, arabesk originator Orhan Gencebay, and pop diva Sezen Aksu – who collectively have dominated mass media in Turkey since the early 1950s. Their...

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Culture Studies

Official Dictionary of Sarcasm A Lexicon For Those of Us Who Are Better and Smarter Than the Rest of You

Napoli James

ISBN: PB: 9781402769528, GMC Group, Sterling, October 2010
368 pp., 17.1x14 cm, illus.

Why tolerate ignorance? James Napoli, the executive vice president of the National Sarcasm Society, has provided an A to Z guide to turn to whenever you need to set someone straight. From advertisements to email, from materialism to remote controls,...

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America

Culture Studies

Visualizing American Empire Orientalism and Imperialism in the Philippines

Brody David

ISBN: PB: 9780226075341, ISBN: HB: 9780226075334, University of Chicago Press, September 2010
224 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 2 line drawings, 66 halftones

In 1899 an American could open a newspaper and find outrageous images, such as an American soldier being injected with leprosy by Filipino insurgents. These kinds of hyperbolic accounts, David Brody argues in this illuminating book, were just one ele...

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Culture Studies

Bigfoot The Life and Times of a Legend

Buhs Joshua Blu

ISBN: PB: 9780226079806, ISBN: HB: 9780226079790, University of Chicago Press, September 2010
296 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 35 halftones

With "Bigfoot", Joshua Blu Buhs traces the wild and wooly story of America's favorite homegrown monster. He begins with nineteenth-century accounts of wildmen roaming the forests of America, treks to the Himalayas to reckon with the Abominable Snowma...

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Culture Studies

Anthropology

Islands of Privacy

Nippert-Eng Christena E.

ISBN: PB: 9780226586533, University of Chicago Press, September 2010
360 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 5 line drawings, 6 tables, 2 halftones

Everyone worries about privacy these days. As corporations and governments devise increasingly sophisticated data gathering tools and joining Facebook verges on obligatory, concerns over the use and abuse of personal information are undeniable. But t...

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Travel

Culture Studies

Loire A Cultural History

Garrett Martin

ISBN: PB: 9781904955672, Signal Books, September 2010
256 pp., 21.7x14.7 cm

For sale in CIS only! Gustave Flaubert called the Loire "the most French of French rivers". It is the longest river in France and the most varied in scenery and moods. Beginning as a mountain stream in the Ardeche, it issues, 630 miles later, into t...

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Travel

Culture Studies

Istanbul A Cultural and Literary History

Clark Peter

ISBN: PB: 9781904955764, Signal Books, September 2010
256 pp., 20.4x13.6 cm

For sale in CIS only! Byzantium, Constantinople, Istanbul: these are only three names that have been given to the city that straddles two continents, was the capital of two multinational empires and is today a vibrant commercial and artistic city, t...

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Culture Studies

City's End Two Centuries of Fantasies, Fears, and Premonitions of New York's Destruction

Page Max

ISBN: PB: 9780300164466, Yale University Press, August 2010
280 pp., 24.4x16.8 cm, 137 black&white illus., 24 colour illus.

From nineteenth-century paintings of fires raging through New York City to scenes of Manhattan engulfed by a gigantic wave in the 1998 movie "Deep Impact", images of the city's end have been prolific and diverse. Why have Americans repeatedly imagine...

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Culture Studies

Dhow Cultures of the Indian Ocean Cosmopolitanism, Commerce, and Islam

Sheriff Abdul

ISBN: PB: 9781849040082, Hurst Publishers, August 2010
240 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm

For sale in CIS only! The wooden dhow, with its characteristic lateen sail, is an appropriate icon for the early trading world of the Indian Ocean. It was based on free trade unhindered by monopolies or superpower domination and pre-dated 'globalisa...

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