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Goth Culture

Dunja Brill

• Paperback | Engels | Dress, Body, Culture
• Goth Culture explores Goths' expressive practices of dress, fashion, style and the body, in relation to issues of identity and representation. The boo... Lees meer

Nazi 'Chic'?

Irene Guenther

• Hardcover | Engels | Dress, Body, Culture
• This is the first book in English to deal comprehensively with German fashion from World War I through to the end of the Third Reich. It explores the ... Lees meer

Sentenced to Everyday Life

Lesley Johnson, Justine Lloyd

• Hardcover | Engels
• The history of the housewife is a complicated and uneasy narrative, rife with contradictions, tensions, and unanswered questions. In response to this,... Lees meer

An Introduction to Caribbean Francophone Writing

Sam Haigh

• Hardcover | Engels | Berg French Studies
• There has been an explosion of interest in Francophone studies, as postcolonial and diaspora literatures more generally have gained recognition both w... Lees meer

The Rise of Brands

Liz Moor

• Hardcover | Engels
• Brands and logos are all around us - from the clothes we wear and the objects we buy, to the advertisements which cover our cities and the celebrities... Lees meer

Representing East Germany Since Unification

Paul Cooke

• Hardcover | Engels
• When the Berlin Wall came down and the two Germanies were reunited, culture was held up to be one of the keys to national unity. Ironically, however, ... Lees meer

Sobibor

Jules Schelvis

• Paperback | Engels
• Auschwitz. Treblinka. The very names of these Nazi camps evoke unspeakable cruelty. Sobibör is less well known, and this book discloses the horrors pe... Lees meer

A Cultural History of Sexuality in the Classical World

• Hardcover | Engels | Cultural Histories
• Though many of the sexual practices of the Ancient Greeks and Romans are known and accepted today, the meanings the Ancients associated with these act... Lees meer

The Third Reich Between Vision and Reality

• Hardcover | Engels | German Historical Perspectives | nr. 14
• Covers such topics as the Viennese background to Hitler's career; the development of fascist tendencies amongst the German population during the Weima... Lees meer

The Idea of Europe

• Hardcover | Engels | Berg European Studies
• The essays in this volume examine both the historical dimension of the European idea and the problems of national and transnational identity confronti... Lees meer

Social Policy in the Third Reich

Tim Mason

• Paperback | Engels
• This book analyzes the attitudes and policies of the Nazi leadership towards the German working class. The author argues that the regime did not secur... Lees meer

S/He

Claudine Griggs

• Paperback | Engels | Dress, Body, Culture
• Through an examination of the experience of transsexuals, this book enhances understanding of how gender can and does function in powerful, complex an... Lees meer

Art Rules

Michael Grenfell, Cheryl Hardy

• Hardcover | Engels
• Pierre Bourdieu is now recognized as one of the key contemporary critics of culture and the visual arts. Art Rules analyses Bourdieu's work on the vis... Lees meer

The Milltown Boys Revisited

Howard Williamson

• Hardcover | Engels
• Howard Williamson's 'Five Years' was a ground-breaking study of youth, poverty and crime in the 1970s. At its close, the boys he interviewed were left... Lees meer

Hitting the Jackpot

Pasi Falk, Pasi Maenpaa

• Paperback | Engels
• What happens to a person when she or he wins an enormous amount of money? One widespread belief is that hitting the jackpot kick-starts a downward spi... Lees meer

Fashion Zeitgeist

Barbara Vinken

• Hardcover | Engels
• Although it is appealing to think that fashion has taken a sharp turn away from conventions established in the industry over the past century and more... Lees meer

Diaspora Entrepreneurial Networks

• Paperback | Engels | Business, Culture and Change
• Diasporas large-scale ethnic migrations have been a source of growing concern as we try to understand the nature of community, identity and nationalis... Lees meer

Europe and German Unification

R Fritsch-Bournazel

• Paperback | Engels
• An assessment of the situation of Europe and German unification at the beginning of the 1990s. The author identifies fundamental issues and documents,... Lees meer

War Experiences in Rural Germany

Benjamin Ziemann

• Paperback | Engels | Legacy of the Great War
• World War I was a uniquely devastating total war that surpassed all previous conflicts for its destruction. But what was the reality like on the groun... Lees meer

Qualitative Methods in Sports Studies

• Paperback | Engels | Sport Commerce and Culture
• Sports studies is becoming an increasingly popular discipline, but the most effective research methods used to investigate the multi-faceted nature of... Lees meer

The Meaning of Europe

• Paperback | Engels
• Mention the word Europe in today's society and you are greeted with a range of responses, from impassioned debate, to scepticism and outright hostilit... Lees meer

Veil

Fadwa El Guindi

• Paperback | Engels | Dress, Body, Culture
• Shortlisted for the Katharine Briggs Folklore Award 2000. In the 1970s, often to the consternation of parents and siblings, certain progressive young ... Lees meer

Everyday Masculinities and Extreme Sport

Victoria Robinson

• Paperback | Engels
• Rock climbing is one of today's most popular 'extreme sports.' Although many women are involved, the sport retains a particularly male image and cultu... Lees meer

Visibly Muslim

Emma Tarlo

• Paperback | Engels
• Muslims in Britain and cosmopolitan cities throughout the West are increasingly choosing to express their identity and faith through dress, whether by... Lees meer