The Mirth of Nations 141281457X, 9781412814577

The Mirth of Nations is a social and historical study of jokes told in the principal English-speaking countries. It is b

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The Mirth of Nations
141281457X, 9781412814577

This edition is written in English. However, there is a running German thesaurus at the bottom of each page for the more

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Recovering the lyrical voice and remarkable literary life of James McCarroll, Canada's Irish-born poet and humorist

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First Published in 2001. These extremely entertaining shorter pieces by the leader of Islamic literary culture aim to in

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How the philosophers and polemicists of eighteenth-century Britain used ridicule in the service of religious toleration,

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To be fat in a thin-obsessed gay culture can be difficult. Despite affectionate in-group monikers for big gay men–chubs,

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[...]point of Singapore, and established themselves at Macao, from which centre they explored the coasts of China and Ja

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The Mythology of the Aryan Nations by Sir George Cox First published in 1870, this book was immediately established as

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This book advances a cultural perspective on economic development to show that economic success can result from the symb

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