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Investigates the proliferation of cylindrical objects in the nineteenth century, such as steam engines, phonographs, panoramas, rotary printing presses,... Læs mere
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Deftly questions the conventional wisdom that knowledge about a colonial culture is unilaterally defined by its rulers. Focusing on... Læs mere
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At the end of WWII, several Latin American countries seemed to be ready for industrialization. Instead, they found that they had exchanged old forms of... Læs mere
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A collection of cookbooks and culinary images. It guides readers through European and early American cuisine. It illuminates culinary crosscurrents among the cuisines of England, France, Italy, Germany, and Spain.
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A description of how American doctors think about racial differences and how this kind of thinking affects the treatment of their black patients. It highlights the physician's private sphere where racial fantasies and misinformation distort diagnoses and treatments.
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Part ethnography, part memoir, this book traces Japan's vibrant cafe society over one hundred and thirty years. It also traces Japan's coffee craze from the turn of the twentieth... Læs mere
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Explores the relationship between globalization and South Asia through food, covering the cuisine of the colonial period to the contemporary era, investigating its material and symbolic meanings.
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New York City has always been a mecca in the history of jazz, and in many ways the city's jazz scene is more important now than... Læs mere
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New York City has always been a mecca in the history of jazz, and in many ways the city's jazz scene is more important now than... Læs mere
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Andy Warhol, one of the twentieth century's major visual artists, was a prolific filmmaker who made hundreds of films, many of them - "Sleep",... Læs mere
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Suitable for those who seek to understand Roman culture and sexuality and the origins of Western poetry, this title provides the necessary historical and social background to the poet's life and works.
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Drawing on his lifelong fascination with the game, the author guides readers into the world of twenty-first-century chess to help us understand its unique pleasures and challenges, and to advance a new 'anthropology of passion.'