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Man, the Hunter? -- The Hunting Perplex: Killing, Ambivalence, and Dominance -- The Democratization of the Hunt in North America -- From Depression to Affluence: Realigning Our Relationship to Nature -- Living with Wildlife -- Continuities and Contingencies: Hunting in the Twenty-First Century.

v. 1. A cultural history of objects in Antiquity / edited by Robin Osborne, University of Cambridge, United Kingdom -- v. 2. A cultural history of objects in the Medieval Age / edited by Julie Lund, University of Oslo, Norway and Sarah Semple, University of Durham, UK --

""Recommended""--Choice; ""exhaustive...fascinating""--Historic Environment; ""recommended""--Public Library Quarterly; ""valuable""--History News; ""remarkable...useful""--Journal of Popular Culture; ""extensive...wonderfully detailed""--Libraries & Culture; ""definitive""--Seattle Weekly. ""Informative""--Richard Gid Powers, professor of history, The Graduate Center, City University of New York ""Definitive""--Richard J. Cox, professor, archival studies, School of Information Sciences, University of Pittsburgh This work is a cultural history of five thousand years of time capsules and o

Fonthill, in Wiltshire, is usually associated with the writer and collector William Beckford, who built his Gothic fantasy house Fonthill Abbey at the end of the 18th century. Fonthill is, however, much more than the story of one man's excesses. Beckford's Abbey is only one of several important houses to be built on the estate since the early 16th century, all of them eventually consumed by fire or deliberately demolished and all of them totally oddly forgotten by historians. Fonthill Recovered draws on histories of art and architecture, politics and economics to explore all of the rich cultural history of this famous estate.

. Cultural History of Humour. Jan Bremmer and Herman Roodenburg. eds. Cambridge: Polity, 1997. 264 pp.

Cover -- The MAFIA: A Cultural History -- Imprint Page -- Contents -- Preface -- One: Of Rustic Knights and Godfathers: The Origin of the Mafia -- Two: From Corleone to Hollywood -- Three: The Far West is Here -- Four: The Godfather -- Five: Prime Time -- Six: Avatars -- References -- Bibliography -- Acknowledgements -- Photo Acknowledgements -- Index

Books reviewed in this article:Shawn Johansen, Family Men: Middle–Class Fatherhood in Industrializing AmericaMartin A. Berger, Man Made: Thomas Eakins and the Construction of Gilded Age ManhoodMatthew Basso, Laura McCall and Dee Garceau (eds), Across the Great Divide: Cultures of Manhood in the American West