Kinship Novels of Early Modern Korea: Between Genealogical Time and the Domestic Everyday (Chizhova Ksenia)(Paperback)

Kinship Novels of Early Modern Korea: Between Genealogical Time and the Domestic Everyday (Chizhova Ksenia)(Paperback)

The lineage novel flourished in Korea from the late seventeenth to the early twentieth century. These vast works unfold genealogically, tracing the lives of several generations. New storylines, often written by different authors, follow the lives of the descendants of the original protagonists,

Genealogical Fictions: Limpieza de Sangre, Religion, and Gender in Colonial Mexico (Martnez Mara Elena)(Paperback)

Maria Elena Martinez's Genealogical Fictions is the first in-depth study of the relationship between the Spanish concept of limpieza de sangre (purity of blood) and colonial Mexico's sistema de castas, a hierarchical system of social classification based primarily on ancestry. Specifically, it

Transitions to Capitalism in Early Modern Europe: Economies in the Era of Early Globalization, C. 1450 - C. 1820 (Duplessis Robert S.)(Paperback)

Between the end of the Middle Ages and the early nineteenth century, the long-established structures and practices of European trade, agriculture, and industry were disparately but profoundly transformed. Revised, updated, and expanded, this second edition of Transitions to Capitalism in Early

Early Modern English (Barber Charles)(Paperback)

This book describes the English language between the years 1500 and 1700 - the different varieties of the language, the attitudes of its speakers towards it, its pronunciation, vocabulary and

Committed: Remembering Native Kinship in and beyond Institutions (Burch Susan)(Paperback)

Between 1902 and 1934, the United States confined hundreds of adults and children from dozens of Native nations at the Canton Asylum for Insane Indians, a federal psychiatric hospital in South Dakota. But detention at the Indian Asylum, as families experienced it, was not the beginning or end of

Culture Clash: A Revolutionary New Way of Understanding the Relationship Between Humans and Domestic Dogs (Donaldson Jean)(Paperback)

The book that has shaped modern dog training and ownership with its unique and scientifically sound recognition of the 'cultural' differences between dogs and humans. Dogs can't read so you need to in order to really understand your

Recipes and Everyday Knowledge: Medicine, Science, and the Household in Early Modern England (Leong Elaine)(Paperback)

Across early modern Europe, men and women from all ranks gathered medical, culinary, and food preservation recipes from family and friends, experts and practitioners, and a wide array of printed materials. Recipes were tested, assessed, and modified by teams of householders, including masters and

Alehouses and Good Fellowship in Early Modern England (Hailwood Mark)(Paperback)

This book provides a history of the alehouse between the years 1550 and 1700, the period during which it first assumed its long celebrated role as the key site for public recreation in the villages and market towns of England. In the face of considerable animosity from Church and State, the patrons

The Beauty of Everyday Things (Yanagi Soetsu)(Paperback)

'Radical and inspiring ... Yanagi's vision puts the connection between heart and hand before the transient and commercial' - Edmund de WaalThe daily lives of ordinary people are replete with objects, common things used in commonplace settings. These objects are our constant companions in life. As

The Youth of Early Modern Women (Cohen Elizabeth Storr)(Pevná vazba)

1. an emphasis on the period of youth between childhood and adulthood as a distinct stage for early modern women in broad range of social and geographical settings 2. European cultural constructions of female youth through literary and visual representations, and material culture Medieval, European

A Concise History of Modern Korea: From the Late Nineteenth Century to the Present, Volume 2, Third Edition (Seth Michael J.)(Paperback)

Now in a fully revised and updated edition, this comprehensive and balanced history of modern Korea explores the social, economic, and political issues it has faced since being catapulted into the wider world at the end of the nineteenth

Heart of Darkness: And Selections from the Congo Diary (Conrad Joseph)(Paperback)

Selected by the Modern Library as one of the 100 best novels of all time - Nominated as one of America's best-loved novels by PBS's The Great American Read Introduction by Caryl PhillipsCommentary by H. L. Mencken, E. M. Forster, Virginia Woolf, Ernest Hemingway, Bertrand Russell, Lionel Trilling,

Darwin's Cathedral: Evolution, Religion, and the Nature of Society (Wilson David)(Paperback)

One of the great intellectual battles of modern times is between evolution and religion. Until now, they have been considered completely irreconcilable theories of origin and existence. David Sloan Wilson's Darwin's Cathedral takes the radical step of joining the two, in the process proposing an

Between Worlds: Dybbuks, Exorcists, and Early Modern Judaism (Chajes J. H.)(Paperback)

After a nearly two-thousand-year interlude, and just as Christian Europe was in the throes of the great Witch Hunt and what historians have referred to as 'The Age of the Demoniac,' accounts of spirit possession began to proliferate in the Jewish world. Concentrated at first in the Near East but

The Invention of Murder: How the Victorians Revelled in Death and Detection and Created Modern Crime (Flanders Judith)(Paperback)

THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER'Wonderful... Flanders] shines in her readings of literary novels containing criminal and detective elements, such as Oliver Twist, Mary Barton and Tess of the D'Urbervilles, but can be sharp and very funny about the vagaries of melodramatic and sensational plotting.'

Night of the Serpent (Bergese Francis)(Paperback)

An American pilot has been shot down on the border between North and South Korea. While his team-mates cover up the incident so as to avoid a diplomatic disaster, Buck Danny is assigned to bring the pilot back to the US. But, in the heart of the jungle, can Buck find the pilot before the North

The River Between (Wa Thiong'o Ngugi)(Paperback)

A 50th-anniversary edition of one of the most powerful novels by the great Kenyan author and Nobel Prize nominee A legendary work of African literature, this moving and eye-opening novel lucidly captures the drama of a people and culture whose world has been overturned. The River Between explores

Barking to the Choir: The Power of Radical Kinship (Boyle Gregory)(Paperback)

In a moving example of unconditional love in dif-ficult times, Gregory Boyle, the Jesuit priest and New York Times bestselling author of Tattoos on the Heart, shares what working with gang members in Los Angeles has taught him about faith, compassion, and the enduring power of kinship. In his first

The Anatomy of National Fantasy: Hawthorne, Utopia, and Everyday Life (Berlant Lauren)(Paperback)

Examining the complex relationships between the political, popular, sexual, and textual interests of Nathaniel Hawthorne's work, Lauren Berlant argues that Hawthorne mounted a sophisticated challenge to America's collective fantasy of national unity. She shows how Hawthorne's idea of citizenship

Imagination: Enhancing the Powers of Thinking (Steiner Rudolf)(Paperback)

Rudolf Steiner differentiated clearly between the spiritual concept of Imagination and our everyday understanding of the word. As living, pictorial thinking, Imagination is a primary aspect of the contemporary path of inner development--the first of three levels of initiate knowledge and cognition

Constructing Kingship: The Capetian Monarchs of France and the Early Crusades (Rigby S. H.)(Paperback)

This book examines the relationship between the Capetian monarchs of France and the Crusades, and considers the challenge to political authority that confronted them following their failure to join the early crusades, and their less-than-impressive involvement in later

The Divine Mimesis (Pasolini Pier Paolo)(Paperback)

Written between 1963 and 1967, The Divine Mimesis, Pasolini's imitation of the early cantos of the Inferno, offers a searing critique of Italian society and the intelligentsia of the 1960s. It is also a self-critique by the author of The Ashes of Gramsci (1957) who saw the civic world evoked by

Between Two Worlds - How the English Became Americans (Gaskill Malcolm (Professor of Early Modern History University of East Anglia))(Paperback / softback)

How I Became a North Korean (Lee Krys)(Paperback / softback)

At the lawless border between North Korea and China, three young lives converge in the hope of a better future. Yongju is an accomplished student from a prominent but recently disgraced