The Archaeology and Politics of Food and Feasting in Early States and Empires 9780306482465, 9780306477300, 0306482460

Feasting Our Eyes: Food Films and Cultural Identity in the United States 0231172508, 9780231172509

Big Night (1996), Ratatouille (2007), and Julie and Julia (2009) are more than films about food--they serve a political

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Feasting Our Eyes: Food Films and Cultural Identity in the United States 9780231542975

Feasting Our Eyes takes a second look at modern American food films to emphasize their conventional approaches to nation

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Feasting in the Archaeology and Texts of the Bible and the Ancient Near East 9781575068947

This volume brings together the work of scholars using various methodologies to investigate the prevalence, importance,

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The Archaeology of Politics and Power: Where, When and Why the First States Formed 1842173529, 9781842173527

Archaeology is not just about the past, but the present and future too. Much of our present condition and future prospec

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Historic Real Estate: Market Morality and the Politics of Preservation in the Early United States 9780812296990

In Historic Real Estate, Whitney Martinko shows how early Americans debated whether, and how, to preserve historic struc

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The Practice of Citizenship: Black Politics and Print Culture in the Early United States 9780812250800, 081225080X

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Liberty of the Imagination: Aesthetic Theory, Literary Form, and Politics in the Early United States 9780812206197

Liberty of the Imagination reveals the powerful impact of eighteenth-century theories of the imagination on American wri

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The Never-Ending Feast: The Anthropology and Archaeology of Feasting 9781847889263, 9781847889256, 9781474220057, 9781472520937

Human life is a never-ending feast. Throughout history, and in all parts of the world, feasts have been the primary aren

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The Practice of Citizenship: Black Politics and Print Culture in the Early United States 9780812295771

The Practice of Citizenship traces the parallel development of early black print culture and legal and cultural understa

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Local States in an Imperial World: Identity, Society and Politics in the Early Modern Deccan 9781474436090

Explores the concept of the non-imperial state, taking a spatial approach to early modern political identities Develops

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