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The first of our titles for Spring 2008 is Boxing: A Cultural History, in which Kasia Boddy provides an enthralling history of boxing and its portrayal in literature, film and other media from ancient Greece to the present day. She shows how boxing has played an important role in social history and how legendary figures such as Jack Dempsey, Muhammad Ali and Jack Johnson became such potent icons.
There are two new and enticing books on food history. Firstly, Spicing Up Britain:
The Multicultural History of British Food by Panikos Panayi provides a history of British food of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, charting the arrival of waves of immigrants who gradually changed the way the British ate both in their homes and in restaurants; the British have experienced a veritable revolution in eating and this book explains how it came about. In Ricelands, award-winning photographer and writer Michael Freeman guides us through the lands of South-east Asia to entertainingly explain the colourful and varied cuisines of countries such as Laos, Burma, Thailand, Cambodia, Vietnam and the Philippines.
In Making the Cut Anthony Elliott looks behind the seemingly obvious reasons for facelifts, breast implants and other forms of cosmetic surgery, providing an insight into the motives and influences that lie behind the global phenomenon of cosmetic surgery.
Lastly, we have three new books in the Critical Lives series. Salvador Dalí by Mary Ann Caws is a wonderfully entertaining look at one of the world’s most eccentric and least modest artists whose popularity has never waned. Sergei Eisenstein by Mike O’Mahony is a captivating portrait of the pathbreaking Russian filmmaker and his turbulent career. Charles Baudelaire by Rosemary Lloyd provides a fascinating view of Baudelaire’s life and his personal battles with the morality of his time, giving us a new appreciation of his wide-ranging legacy as poet, art critic and translator.
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