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  • The Cultural Revolution of the Nineteenth Century

    Theatre, the Book-Trade and Reading in the Transatlantic World

    Edited by Márcia Abreu, Dr Ana Cláudia Suriani da Silva ...
    The beginnings of what we now call 'globalization' dates from the early sixteenth century, when Europeans, in particular the Iberian monarchies, began to connect 'the four parts of the world'. From the end of the eighteenth and throughout the nineteenth centuries, technical advancements, such as the growth of the European rail network and the increasing ease of international shipping, narrowed the ... Read more

    $49.99 CAD

  • The Transatlantic Circulation of Novels Between Europe and Brazil, 1789-1914

    Edited by Márcia Abreu ...
    Series series Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
    This book brings a renewed critical focus to the history of novel writing, publishing, selling and reading, expanding its viewing beyond national territories. Relying on primary sources (such as advertisements, censorship reviews, publisher and bookstore catalogues), the book examines the paths taken by novels in their shifts between Europe and Brazil, investigates the flow of translations in both ... Read more

    $115.99 CAD

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    Transformations of the Written Word in Early Modern Europe

    by Roger Chartier ...
    In Early Modern Europe the first readers of a book were not those who bought it. They were the scribes who copied the author’s or translator’s manuscript, the censors who licensed it, the publisher who decided to put this title in his catalogue, the copy editor who prepared the text for the press, divided it and added punctuation, the typesetters who composed the pages of the book, and the proof ... Read more

    $27.99 CAD

  • Latin America

    The Allure and Power of an Idea

    by Mauricio Tenorio-Trillo ...
    "Latin America" is a concept firmly entrenched in its philosophical, moral, and historical meanings. And yet, Mauricio Tenorio-Trillo argues in this landmark book, it is an obsolescent racial-cultural idea that ought to have vanished long ago with the banishment of racial theory. Latin America: The Allure and Power of an Idea makes this case persuasively.Tenorio-Trillo builds the book on three ... Read more

    $28.79 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Whose Spain?

    Negotiating "Spanish Music" in Paris, 1908-1929

    by Samuel Llano ...
    Series series Currents in Latin American and Iberian Music
    From the very beginning of the nineteenth century, many elements of Spanish culture carried an air of 'exoticism' for the French-and nothing played more important of a role in shaping the French idea of Spain than the country's musical tradition. However, as Samuel Llano argues in Whose Spain?, perceptions and representations of Spanish musical identities changed in the early twentieth century, ... Read more

    $64.99 CAD

  • Flamenco on the Global Stage

    Historical, Critical and Theoretical Perspectives

    Edited by Ninotchka Devorah Bennahum, Michelle Heffner Hayes, K. Meira Goldberg ...
    The language of the body is central to the study of flamenco. From the records of the Inquisition, to 16th century literature, to European travel diaries, the Spanish dancer beguiles and fascinates. The word flamenco evokes the image of a sensuous and rebellious woman--the bailaora --whose movements seduce the audience, only to reject their attention with a stomp of defiance. The dancer's body is ... Read more

    $29.99 CAD

  • Renaissance Ethnography and the Invention of the Human

    New Worlds, Maps and Monsters

    by Surekha Davies ...
    Series Book 24 - Cambridge Social and Cultural Histories
    Giants, cannibals and other monsters were a regular feature of Renaissance illustrated maps, inhabiting the Americas alongside other indigenous peoples. In a new approach to views of distant peoples, Surekha Davies analyzes this archive alongside prints, costume books and geographical writing. Using sources from Iberia, France, the German lands, the Low Countries, Italy and England, Davies argues ... Read more

    $35.99 CAD

  • Approaches to the History of Written Culture

    A World Inscribed

    Edited by Martyn Lyons, Rita Marquilhas ...
    Series series Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
    This book investigates the history of writing as a cultural practice in a variety of contexts and periods. It analyses the rituals and practices determining intimate or ‘ordinary’ writing as well as bureaucratic and religious writing. From the inscribed images of ‘pre-literate’ societies, to the democratization of writing in the modern era, access to writing technology and its public and private ... Read more

    $141.99 CAD

  • Intersecting Diaspora Boundaries

    Portuguese Contexts

    Edited by Irene Maria F. Blayer, Dulce Maria Scott ...
    Series Book 1 - Interdisciplinary Studies in Diasporas
    This collection of essays provides both critical and interdisciplinary means for thinking across diasporic travels within the Portuguese experience and its intersection with other peoples and cultures. The chapters are organized into four sections and offer rich, diverse, and insightful studies that provide a conceptualization of the Portuguese diaspora with special attention to the importance of ... Read more

    $138.09 CAD

  • The Specter of Races

    Latin American Anthropology and Literature between the Wars

    by Anke Birkenmaier ...
    Series series New World Studies
    Arguing that race has been the specter that has haunted many of the discussions about Latin American regional and national cultures today, Anke Birkenmaier shows how theories of race and culture in Latin America evolved dramatically in the period between the two world wars. In response to the rise of scientific racism in Europe and the American hemisphere in the early twentieth century, ... Read more

    $38.99 CAD

  • Entertaining Lisbon

    Music, Theater, and Modern Life in the Late 19th Century

    by Joao Silva ...
    Series series Currents in Latin American and Iberian Music
    During the decades leading up to 1910, Portugal saw vast material improvements under the guise of modernization while in the midst of a significant political transformation - the establishment of the Portuguese First Republic. Urban planning, everyday life, and innovation merged in a rapidly changing Lisbon. Leisure activities for the citizens of the First Republic began to include new forms of ... Read more

    $98.99 CAD

  • Utopia in Portugal, Brazil and Lusophone African Countries

    Edited by Francisco Bethencourt ...
    Series Book 4 - Reconfiguring Identities in the Portuguese-Speaking World
    This book studies the history, literature and culture of Portuguese-speaking countries through the lens of utopia. The role of utopia in Portuguese literature is the object of fresh analyses ranging from Camões to Gonçalo M. Tavares, and António Vieira to José Saramago. The chapters on Angola and Mozambique show how national identity received a major boost through utopian literature – Pepetela is ... Read more

    $111.99 CAD