Information Animal
Humans, Technology and the Competition for Reality
ISBN: HB: 9781805262886,
Hurst Publishers,
May 2025
272 pp., 21,6x13,8 cm
272 pp., 21,6x13,8 cm
Humanity has always craved, and feared, information. How should we understand our enduring, ever-changing relationships with technology and knowledge?
Depending on the news you read, new tools like AI will either save or destroy us. But our response...
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27.50 GBP
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Abortion
A History
ISBN: HB: 9781805262756,
Hurst Publishers,
March 2025
288 pp., 23,4x15,6 cm
288 pp., 23,4x15,6 cm
From classical Greece to Roe v. Wade, a long-overdue history of abortion.
An ancient entertainer unable to work while pregnant; a medieval holy woman performing a "miraculous termination"; a Reformation-era abortion provider prosecuted as a witch; a...
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25.00 GBP
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Holy Men of the Electromagnetic Age
A Forgotten History of the Occult
ISBN: HB: 9781805262749,
Hurst Publishers,
March 2025
304 pp., 23,4x15,6 cm, 24 black&white illus.
304 pp., 23,4x15,6 cm, 24 black&white illus.
Exploring death, religion, science and social crisis, a startling history of the occult between the world wars, when Spiritualism was truly an international obsession.
The interwar period was a golden age of the uncanny. Clairvoyants, fakirs, Theoso...
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25.00 GBP
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Multicultural Britain
A People's History
ISBN: HB: 9781911723516,
Hurst Publishers,
August 2024
428 pp., 21,6x13,8 cm, 20 illus.
428 pp., 21,6x13,8 cm, 20 illus.
A new history of personal and community relationships across post-imperial Britain, from 1940s Cardiff to the millennial Midlands.
Between the end of the Second World War and the early twenty-first century, Britain became multicultural. This vivid b...
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A History of Lesbian Fashion
ISBN: HB: 9781805260967,
Hurst Publishers,
July 2024
344 pp., 23,4x15,6 cm, 36 illus.
344 pp., 23,4x15,6 cm, 36 illus.
From Sappho and Suffragettes to t-shirts and TikTok, a fascinating journey through the history and politics of lesbian clothing.
The way we dress can show or hide who we are; make us fit in, make us stand out, or make our own community. Yet "lesbian...
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25.00 GBP
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Italy in a Wineglass
The Taste of History
ISBN: HB: 9781911723073,
Hurst Publishers,
May 2024
440 pp., 23,4x15,6 cm
440 pp., 23,4x15,6 cm
A lively, page-turning history of Italy and its wines, from the Roman Empire to climate change.
The world is enamoured with Italy: its culture, art, food and fashion, its beautiful landscapes and famous cities - and, of course, its wine.
From the a...
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20.00 GBP
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Great Indian Food Trip
Around a Subcontinent a la Carte
ISBN: HB: 9781911723066,
Hurst Publishers,
March 2024
384 pp., 21,6x13,8 cm, 12 illus.
384 pp., 21,6x13,8 cm, 12 illus.
A delightfully surprising journey around India's lesser-known food cultures.
"The Great Indian Food Trip" is an entertaining, erudite adventure of eating, drinking and travelling. This is how Zac O'Yeah has come to understand the Indian subcontinent...
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17.99 GBP
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Changing Clothes in China (New Edition)
Fashion, History, Nation
ISBN: PB: 9781787387225,
ISBN: HB: 9781850658603,
Hurst Publishers,
May 2023
360 pp., 21,6x13,8 cm
360 pp., 21,6x13,8 cm
Historians have long regarded fashion as something peculiarly Western. In this surprising, sumptuously illustrated book, Antonia Finnane challenges this view, which she argues is based on nineteenth- and twentieth-century representations of Chinese d...
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16.99 GBP
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35.00 GBP
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Inventing Ruritania
The Imperialism of the Imagination
ISBN: PB: 9781849042529,
Hurst Publishers,
May 2023
336 pp., 21,6x13,8 cm
336 pp., 21,6x13,8 cm
An examination of Balkan identity in cultural media.
First published in 1998, 'Inventing Ruritania' achieved a rare combination of critical success, broad readership and enduring academic influence. It is now recognised as a key contribution to the...
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25.00 GBP
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Angels Tapping at the Wine-Shop's Door
A History of Alcohol in the Islamic World
ISBN: HB: 9781787388154,
Hurst Publishers,
March 2023
352 pp., 21,6x13,8 cm
352 pp., 21,6x13,8 cm
A fascinating history of the complexities and contradictions of alcohol consumption in the Muslim world, from the founding of the faith to the present day.
Islam is the only major world religion that resists the juggernaut of alcohol consumption. In...
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25.00 GBP
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