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...
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A History of Lesbian Fashion
ISBN: HB: 9781805260967,
Hurst Publishers,
June 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 "lesb...
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Italy in a Wineglass
The Taste of History
ISBN: HB: 9781911723073,
Hurst Publishers,
April 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 th...
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Great Indian Food Trip
Around a Subcontinent a la Carte
ISBN: HB: 9781911723066,
Hurst Publishers,
February 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 subcontin...
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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...
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Inventing Ruritania
The Imperialism of the Imagination
ISBN: PB: 9781849042529,
Hurst Publishers,
April 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 th...
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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....
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Strange and Difficult Times
Notes on a Global Pandemic
ISBN: PB: 9781787387805,
Hurst Publishers,
December 2022
184 pp., 21,6x13,8 cm
184 pp., 21,6x13,8 cm
One of Brittle Paper's "Anticipated African Books of 2023"
One of African Arguments's Best African Books of 2022
A devastating critique of global inequities and prejudices exposed by Covid-19, and a vivid first-hand account of Africa's pandemic....
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14.99 GBP
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Highways to the End of the World
Roads, Roadmen and Power in South Asia
ISBN: HB: 9781787383975,
Hurst Publishers,
November 2022
296 pp., 21,6x13,8 cm
296 pp., 21,6x13,8 cm
A highly original mix of polemic and ethnographic scholarship, exploring how South Asia's culture of road-building reflects the world's dangerous obsession with progress and growth.
This book argues that road-building was naturalised in the twenti...
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White Mosque
A Silk Road Memoir
ISBN: HB: 9781787388079,
Hurst Publishers,
October 2022
304 pp., 23,4x15,6 cm
304 pp., 23,4x15,6 cm
Shortlisted for the 2023 PEN/Jean Stein Book Award
Selected as one of Book Riot's "21 of the Best Travel Books to Fuel Your Wanderlust"
A Kirkus Reviews Best Book of The Year
A Literary Hub Most Anticipated Book of the Year
A rich history of wand...
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