Hilary Hinds. A Cultural History of Twin Beds. Home. London: Bloomsbury Academic, 2019. Pp. 296. $80.50 (cloth).
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DOI: 10.1017/jbr.2020.119
Abstract: fractured colonial regulation of gender and sexuality. One issue concerns Hinchy’s positioning of the hijra as the primary community targeted by the anti-eunuch campaign. While groups identifying as hijra certainly existed in the colonial period,… read more here.
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Soviet Americana: The Cultural History of Russian and Ukrainian Americanists. By Sergei I. Zhuk. The Library of Modern Russia Series. London: I. B. Tauris, 2018. xxv, 323 pp. Appendix. Notes. Bibliography. Index. Illustrations. Photographs. Figures. $110.00, hard bound.
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DOI: 10.1017/slr.2019.25
Abstract: Soviet politics. Supported by Bullitt, the unexpected chain of Soviet defectors revealed the sad truth about the Soviet Union and the distrustful world. Materialized by his disciples during the Cold War, Bullitt’s futuristic ideas and… read more here.
Keywords: soviet americana; cultural history; history russian; americana cultural ... See more keywords
Curing madness? A social and cultural history of insanity in colonial North India, 1800–1950s
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DOI: 10.1080/10357823.2021.1922136
Abstract: Shilpi Rajpal’s Curing Madness? gives a grand tour of psychiatric institutions in pre-Independence India. The book is aligned to the existing scholarship on the history of psychiatry in colonial In... read more here.
Keywords: history insanity; curing madness; social cultural; madness social ... See more keywords
Remote Control: A Cultural History
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DOI: 10.1080/13688804.2021.1947136
Abstract: This study provides a cultural-historical analysis of remote control in three stages. In the early 20th century, remote control first emerged as the extension of individual intention across geograp... read more here.
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Going to the Palais: A Social and Cultural History of Dancing and Dance Halls in Britain, 1918–1960
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DOI: 10.1080/14780038.2017.1281620
Abstract: One of the strengths of the book is its detailed technical research into exactly how images were created and reproduced. Thus, we learn that by the late 1870s the ‘golden age of steel engraving’ was… read more here.
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Cultural History’s Absent Audience
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DOI: 10.1080/14780038.2019.1680226
Abstract: ABSTRACT This article reconsiders Peter Mandler’s essay ‘The Problem with Cultural History,’ and the complexities of locating evidence of culture’s impact upon ordinary people, or ‘throw.’ A brief examination of the history of market research… read more here.
Keywords: history absent; history; absent audience; cultural history ... See more keywords
New Directions in Social and Cultural History
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DOI: 10.1080/14780038.2019.1704407
Abstract: Three decades back, historians seemed beset by anxieties – over the discipline’s proper objects and purposes, over methods and boundaries, over what could and could not be properly thought, over th... read more here.
Keywords: history new; new directions; social cultural; history ... See more keywords
A Cultural History of the Senses in the Renaissance. Herman Roodenburg, ed. Cultural History of the Senses 3. London: Bloomsbury Academic, 2014. xi + 274 pp. $95.
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DOI: 10.1086/696427
Abstract: impinge on the literary world in such authors as Santa Teresa, Cervantes, Mateo Alemán, Sor Juana, and Benito Jerónimo Feijóo. Pueyo’s theoretical armature includes not only Foucault and Deleuze, but also Giorgio Agamben, although he… read more here.
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Revisiting Minjung: New Perspectives on the Cultural History of 1980s South Korea ed. by Sunyoung Park (review)
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DOI: 10.1215/07311613-9474357
Abstract: This conference aims to explore and generate new critical perspectives on the cultural history of 1980s South Korea through a transnational intellectual dialogue among some of the most distinguished international experts on the period. The… read more here.
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