Licentious Worlds. Sex and Exploitation in Global Empires, Hardback - Julie Peakman

A challenging, iconoclastic history of empire-building from the point of view of women.

Handcuffs, paddles, whips--the words alone are enough to make a person blush. Even by our society's standards, the practice of things like BDSM is ...

How class is structured in the call-centres, office blocks and fast-food chains of modern Britain.

In this powerful anthropological study of a Bolivian tin mining town, Nash explores the influence of modern industrialization on the traditional cu...

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLCAuthor(s): Julia SkellyIllustration(s): 8 color and 24 bw illusNumber of pages: 224Publication date: 2022Dimens...

Ever wondered what life will be like 100 years from now? Based on the latest in scientific thinking, Future Worlds explores everything from the for...

Nineteenth-century Japanese literary discourse and narrative developed a striking preoccupation with ninjo-literally "human emotion, " but often us...

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The defining book on the Profumo scandal. Updated and republished to coincide with the opening of the major new Andrew Lloyd Weber musical: Stephen...

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Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLCAuthor(s): Miranda (Independent Scholar, UK) VickersIllustration(s): 3 MapsNumber of pages: 240Publication date...

Georgia is the most Western-looking state in today's Near or Middle East. This book begins with the first intimations of the existence of Georgians...

The Gothic is more than just maidens-in-peril fleeing supernatural villains in another age. Historically, it was a form used to depict and critique...

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PlcNumber of pages: 232Publication date: 2021Dimensions: 160 x 235 x 22Cover type: HardbackEditor(s): Dr. Clement ...

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By exploring transnational networks involved in smuggling, privateering, slave trade, marronage, and corruption, Jeppe Mulich illuminates the entan...

A global history of couple dancing in commercial venues in the era of the two world wars. -- .Publisher: Manchester University PressIllustration(s)...

In June 1887, a man known as General Husayn, a manumitted slave turned dignitary in the Ottoman province of Tunis, passed away in Florence after a ...

A tour de force account of seduction, power, and betrayal in the biggest political sex scandal of its age The Profumo Affair rocked the British est...

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In the 1880s Europeans grabbed vast swaths of the African continent, using documents, not guns, as their weapon of choice. Steven Press follows a p...

Publisher: ScribnerAuthor(s): Huma AbedinNumber of pages: 544Publication date: 2021Dimensions: 167 x 241 x 43Cover type: HardbackRedescopera farmec...

DescriptionThroughout the 'long 19th century', the Ottoman and Russian empires shared a goal of destroying one another. Yet, they also shared a sim...

In a world shaped by mass migration and economic exchange on an ever-increasing scale, women are moving around the globe as never before. This anth...

Reducere. The study of U.S. history is experiencing a transformation as instructors reconsider traditional national narratives that frame understandings of t...

Reducere. Tamerlane, the Ottomans, the Mughals, the Manchus, the British, the Japanese, the Nazis, and the Soviets: All built empires meant to last forever; ...

Sex, Sea, and Self reassesses the place of the French Antilles and French Caribbean literature within current postcolonial thought and visions of t...

An extraordinarily moving and candid memoir from the womanbest known as Hillary Clinton's right hand and Anthony Weiner's wife - a deeply compellin...

A concise and authoritative account of North Korea's post war historyIllustrations: 20 illustrations

Reducere. Examine what it means to be a global citizen, and learn about the rights and responsibilities that we all have. The right to grow and thrive in a s...

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Reducere. "Important and provocative . . . There are many tempting reasons to pick up Global Woman." --The New York Times Women are moving around the globe a...

Exploitation locates what it is we recognize as bad when we judge a situation to be exploitative. Ideal for courses in social and political philoso...

Examines the ways in which the kaij? eiga has developed into a global genrePublisher: Edinburgh University PressAuthor(s): Steven RawleIllustration...

Explores the deep connection between music and memory in Graeco-Roman culture, and how this connection was understood and experienced by ancient au...

Between 1350 and 1750 the world reached a tipping point of global connectedness. In this volume of the acclaimed series A History of the World, not...

This unique collection of diaries and letters offers a vivid, personal account of the experiences of a Jewish couple living parallel lives - Else e...

Read this book to learn about one of Earth's last frontiers: mysterious jungles. Learn about the extreme weather, hidden landforms, and unusual liv...

Amee Baird explores memorable cases of brain injuries and disease that have effected significant changes in sexual behavior and reveals what these ...

This important report, Global Trends 2030-Alternative Worlds, released in 2012 by the U.S. National Intelligence Council, describes megatrends and ...

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Explores the ambivalent legacy of indigenous peoples' natural rights articulated by Europeans in Spanish and English colonial contexts. It will app...

DescriptionThis book examines one of the most contested issues facing feminists, human rights activists and governments around the globe - the inte...

Reducere. Sex Intrigues, Scares, Destroys, Excites, FulfillsSex is a portal into some of the most elated states, and yet, the most painful and heart-wrenchin...

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