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Migration, Settlement and Belonging in Europe, 1500-1930s: Comparative Perspectives
₹4,387.00The issues around settlement, belonging, and poor relief have for too long been understood largely from the perspective of England and Wales. This volume offers a pan-European survey that encompasses Switzerland, Prussia, Belgium, the Netherlands, and Britain.
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Journey Through America
₹4,328.00Amerikafahrt by Wolfgang Koeppen is a masterpiece of observation, analysis, and writing, based on his 1958 trip to the United States.
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Creating Wilderness: A Transnational History of the Swiss National Park
₹4,387.00The history of the Swiss National Park, from its creation in the years before the Great War to the present, is told for the first time in this book.
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Vanished History: The Holocaust in Czech and Slovak Historical Culture
₹4,328.00Bohemia and Moravia, today part of the Czech Republic, was the first territory with a majority of non-German speakers occupied by Hitler’s Third Reich on the eve of the World War II.
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What Is History For?: Johann Gustav Droysen and the Functions of Historiography
₹4,328.00A scholar of Hellenistic and Prussian history, Droysen developed a historical theory that at the time was unprecedented in range and depth, and which remains to the present day a valuable key for understanding history as both an idea and a professional practice.
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Post-cosmopolitan Cities: Explorations of Urban Coexistence
₹4,328.00Examining the way people imagine and interact in their cities, this book explores the post-cosmopolitan city.
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Problems of Conception: Issues of Law, Biotechnology, Individuals and Kinship
₹4,328.00The Biotechnology Act in Norway, one of the most restrictive in Europe, forbids egg donation and surrogacy and has rescinded the anonymity clause with respect to donor insemination.
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War and Women across Continents: Autobiographical and Biographical Experiences
₹1,306.00Drawing on family materials, historical records, and eyewitness accounts, this book shows the impact of war on individual women caught up in diverse and often treacherous situations.
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Science, Seti, and Mathematics
₹7,050.00Mathematics is as much a part of our humanity as music and art. And it is our mathematics that might be understandable, even familiar, to a distant race and might provide the basis for mutual communication.
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Mussolini’s Dream Factory: Film Stardom in Fascist Italy
₹7,699.00A final chapter explores the place of the stars in popular memory and representations of the Fascist film world in postwar cinema.
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Contested Mediterranean Spaces: Ethnographic Essays in Honour of Charles Tilly
₹8,199.00“This volume makes…significant interdisciplinary contributions that reach out to scholars or practitioners interested in the relations between spatial and social processes…The Mediterranean boasts plenty of examples of physical contact spaces being systematically destroyed, or divided as a trickle-down effect of identity and political conflict at higher levels.
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Beyond Pleasure: Cultures of Modern Asceticism
₹5,450.00Asceticism, so it is argued in this volume, is a modern category. The ubiquitous cult of the body, of fitness and diet equally evokes the ongoing success of ascetic practices and beliefs.
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Living Translation
₹5,732.00The book thus traces the translation of Chinese medicine from text to practice with an eye towards the social, political, historical, moral, and even personal dimensions involved in the transnational production of knowledge about health, illness, and the body.
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Changes in the Air
₹7,140.00Time and again, these hurricanes have wrought immeasurable loss and devastation, spurring reinvention and ingenuity on the part of inhabitants.
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From Virtue to Vice: Negotiating Anorexia
₹5,732.00The recovered possess the key to overcoming anorexia. Although individual sufferers do not know how the affliction takes hold, piecing their stories together reveals two accidental afflictions. One is that activity disorders―dieting, exercising, healthy eating―start as virtuous practices, but become addictive obsessions.
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The Good Holiday: Development, Tourism and the Politics of Benevolence in Mozambique
₹5,732.00The volume further explores the social and material consequences of this merging, presenting the confluence of tourism and development as a major vehicle for the exercise of ethics, and non-state governance in contemporary life.
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Money in a Human Economy
₹6,358.00This book addresses how to think about money (from Aristotle to the daily news and the sexual economy of luxury goods); its contemporary evolution (banking the unbanked and remittances in the South, cross-border investment in China, the payments industry and the politics of bitcoin); and cases from 19th century India and Southern Africa to contemporary Haiti and Argentina. Money is one idea with diverse forms. As national monopoly currencies give way to regional and global federalism, money is a key to achieving economic democracy.
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The Revolt of the Provinces
₹5,732.00It explains the spread of racist sensibilities in depressed rural areas, shows how activists, intellectuals and politicians took advantage of popular racism to empower right-wing agendas and examines the new ruling party’s success in stabilizing an ‘illiberal regime’. To illuminate these important dynamics, the author proposes an innovative multi-scalar and relational framework, focusing on interaction between social antagonisms emerging on the local level and struggles waged within the political public sphere.
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The Politics of Authenticity
₹7,140.00This volume offers a fascinating exploration of the politics of authenticity as they manifested themselves among such groups as Italian leftists, East German lesbian activists, and punks on both sides of the Iron Curtain. Together they show not only how authenticity came to define varied social contexts, but also how it helped to usher in the neoliberalism of a subsequent era.
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The Political Economy of Border Drawing
₹2,088.00The conditions for non-EU migrant workers to gain legal entry to Britain, France, and Germany are at the same time similar and quite different. To explain this variation this book compares the fine-grained legal categories for migrant workers in each country, and examines the interaction of economic, social, and cultural rationales in determining migrant legality. Rather than investigating the failure of borders to keep unauthorized migrants out, the author highlights the different policies of each country as “border-drawing” actions. Policymakers draw lines between different migrant groups, and between migrants and citizens, through considerations of both their economic utility and skills, but also their places of origin and prospects for social integration.
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