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  • Cover image for Things not generally known familiarly explained: A book for old and young

    Things not generally known familiarly explained: A book for old and young

    $29.90

    Things not generally known familiarly explained – A book for old and young is an unchanged, high-quality reprint of the original edition of 1867. Hansebooks is editor of the literature on different topic areas such as research and science, travel and expeditions, cooking and nutrition, medicine, and other genres.As a publisher we focus on the…

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  • Cover image for Things not generally known: popular errors explained and illustrated

    Things not generally known: popular errors explained and illustrated

    $32.50

    Things not generally known – popular errors explained and illustrated is an unchanged, high-quality reprint of the original edition of 1862. Hansebooks is editor of the literature on different topic areas such as research and science, travel and expeditions, cooking and nutrition, medicine, and other genres.As a publisher we focus on the preservation of historical…

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  • Cover image for Die Erziehung zur Ehe, eine Satire

    Die Erziehung zur Ehe, eine Satire

    $22.90

    Die Erziehung zur Ehe, eine Satire ist ein unveränderter, hochwertiger Nachdruck der Originalausgabe aus dem Jahr 1893. Hansebooks ist Herausgeber von Literatur zu unterschiedlichen Themengebieten wie Forschung und Wissenschaft, Reisen und Expeditionen, Kochen und Ernährung, Medizin und weiteren Genres. Der Schwerpunkt des Verlages liegt auf dem Erhalt historischer Literatur. Viele Werke historischer Schriftsteller und Wissenschaftler…

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    Oberländer Album

    $17.90

    Oberländer Album ist ein unveränderter, hochwertiger Nachdruck der Originalausgabe aus dem Jahr 1890. Hansebooks ist Herausgeber von Literatur zu unterschiedlichen Themengebieten wie Forschung und Wissenschaft, Reisen und Expeditionen, Kochen und Ernährung, Medizin und weiteren Genres. Der Schwerpunkt des Verlages liegt auf dem Erhalt historischer Literatur. Viele Werke historischer Schriftsteller und Wissenschaftler sind heute nur noch…

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  • Zum Bild Des Tirailleur Sénégalais Im Französischen Comic: Repräsentation Einer Kolonialen Figur in Der Erinnerungskultur Des 1. Weltkriegs

    Zum Bild Des Tirailleur Sénégalais Im Französischen Comic: Repräsentation Einer Kolonialen Figur in Der Erinnerungskultur Des 1. Weltkriegs

    $59.99

    Die Ausgangsfrage dieser Untersuchung ist, wie sich eine Gesellschaft an den 1. Weltkrieg erinnert und inwiefern sich diese Erinnerung mit der Zeit wandelt. Das Phänomen eines solchen “kollektiven Gedächtnisses” und die verschiedenen Konzepte von Halbwachs, Nora (“lieux de mémoire”), Jan Assmann (“kulturelles Gedächtnis”) und Aleida Assmann (“Funktions- und Speichergedächtnis” des kulturellen Gedächtnisses) bilden den theoretischen…

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  • Spaces Between: Gender, Diversity, and Identity in Comics

    Spaces Between: Gender, Diversity, and Identity in Comics

    $79.99

    The contributions gathered in this volume exhibit a great variety of interdisciplinary perspectives on and theoretical approaches to the notion of ‘spaces between’. They draw our attention to the nexus between the medium of comics and the categories of difference as well as identity such as gender, dis/ability, age, and ethnicity, in order to open…

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  • The Figure of the Teacher in Comics: A Psychoanalytic Study of Immaterial and Fragmented Education

    The Figure of the Teacher in Comics: A Psychoanalytic Study of Immaterial and Fragmented Education

    $199.99

    This book explores the distinctive narrative and representational gestures used to portray the personal and professional lives of teachers in comics. While serving as a reference for conceptualizing teachers in literary and popular culture, this book also turns to comics as a means to better understand and interpret lived, emotional experiences of teaching. Lewkowich discusses…

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  • British Newspaper Strips: A Contextual History

    British Newspaper Strips: A Contextual History

    $139.99

    This book explores the history and development of the British daily newspaper strip. It considers such strips within their political, commercial and societal contexts and fills in a crucial section of publishing history that has been largely overlooked by both comics and newspaper studies to date. Beginning with an examination of the role of the…

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  • Ninth Art. Bande Dessinée, Books and the Gentrification of Mass Culture, 1964-1975

    Ninth Art. Bande Dessinée, Books and the Gentrification of Mass Culture, 1964-1975

    $44.99

    In France, comics are commonly referred to as the “ninth art”. What does it mean to see comics as art? This book looks at the singular status of comics in the French cultural landscape. Bandes dessinées have long been published in French newspapers and magazines. In the early 1960s, a new standard format emerged: large…

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  • Ninth Art. Bande Dessinée, Books and the Gentrification of Mass Culture, 1964-1975

    Ninth Art. Bande Dessinée, Books and the Gentrification of Mass Culture, 1964-1975

    $44.99

    In France, comics are commonly referred to as the “ninth art”. What does it mean to see comics as art? This book looks at the singular status of comics in the French cultural landscape. Bandes dessinées have long been published in French newspapers and magazines. In the early 1960s, a new standard format emerged: large…

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  • The Sleeper Agent in Post-9/11 Media

    The Sleeper Agent in Post-9/11 Media

    $119.99

    This book examines the figure of the sleeper agent as part of post-9/11 political, journalistic and fictional discourse. There is a tendency to discuss the terroristic threat after 9/11 as either a faraway enemy to be hunted down by military force or, on the other hand, as a ubiquitous, intangible threat that required constant alertness…

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  • The Sleeper Agent in Post-9/11 Media

    The Sleeper Agent in Post-9/11 Media

    $119.99

    This book examines the figure of the sleeper agent as part of post-9/11 political, journalistic and fictional discourse. There is a tendency to discuss the terroristic threat after 9/11 as either a faraway enemy to be hunted down by military force or, on the other hand, as a ubiquitous, intangible threat that required constant alertness…

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  • Art History for Comics: Past, Present and Potential Futures

    Art History for Comics: Past, Present and Potential Futures

    $54.99

    This book looks at comics through the lens of Art History, examining the past influence of art-historical methodologies on comics scholarship to scope how they can be applied to Comics Studies in the present and future. It unearths how early comics scholars deployed art-historical approaches, including stylistic analysis, iconography, Cultural History and the social history…

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  • Reframing the Perpetrator in Contemporary Comics: On the Importance of the Strange

    Reframing the Perpetrator in Contemporary Comics: On the Importance of the Strange

    $129.99

    This book foregrounds the figure of the perpetrator in a selection of British, American, and Canadian comics and explores questions related to remembrance, justice, and historical debt. Its primary focus is on works that deliberately estrange the figure of the perpetrator–through fantasy, absurdism, formal ambiguity, or provocative rewriting–and thus allow readers to engage anew with…

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  • Reframing the Perpetrator in Contemporary Comics: On the Importance of the Strange

    Reframing the Perpetrator in Contemporary Comics: On the Importance of the Strange

    $129.99

    This book foregrounds the figure of the perpetrator in a selection of British, American, and Canadian comics and explores questions related to remembrance, justice, and historical debt. Its primary focus is on works that deliberately estrange the figure of the perpetrator–through fantasy, absurdism, formal ambiguity, or provocative rewriting–and thus allow readers to engage anew with…

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    Comics and Archaeology

    $44.99

    This book adds to the scant academic literature investigating how comics transmit knowledge of the past and how this refraction of the past shapes our understanding of society and politics in sometimes damaging ways. The volume comes at these questions from a specifically archaeological perspective, foregrounding the representation and narrative use of material cultures. It…

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