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Women in soviet society
Women in Soviet Society: Equality, Development, and Social Change reframes one of the twentieth century’s most sweeping social experiments: the promise—and limits—of Soviet sexual equality. Gail Warshofsky Lapidus moves beyond celebratory claims and simple indictments to offer a developmental acc...
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Mastro-don gesualdo
Mastro-don Gesualdo by Giovanni Verga is a masterpiece of Italian verismo, offering a poignant exploration of ambition, social mobility, and personal tragedy in 19th-century Sicily. As the second novel in Verga’s ambitious cycle, I vinti ("The Doomed"), it examines humanity’s relentless pursuit o...
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Brain physiology and psychology
Brain Physiology and Psychology offers a curated collection of groundbreaking papers that have shaped our understanding of the brain and its relationship to psychological processes. Tailored for both students and seasoned researchers, this volume bridges the disciplines of physiology and psycholo...
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American-spanish semantics
American-Spanish Semantics examines how Spanish language in the New World evolved from its sixteenth-century roots in Spain, adapting to diverse social and environmental changes. Spanish conquerors and settlers came from varied regions of Spain, leading to a blend of regional dialects. They avoid...
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Trade unions and politics in ceylon
Trade Unions and Politics in Ceylon offers the first sustained analysis of how a rapidly expanding labor movement helped shape—and was shaped by—the politics of a newly independent, modernizing society. Tracing trade union growth from the late colonial period through the first post-independence d...
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Infernal paradise
The allure of Mexico in modern English fiction is a compelling and underexplored subject, particularly in the works of D. H. Lawrence, Aldous Huxley, Evelyn Waugh, Graham Greene, and Malcolm Lowry. These authors, drawn to Mexico's mystique, crafted major novels that explore the country’s unique c...
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The psychiatrist and other stories
The Psychiatrist and Other Stories presents a compelling collection of tales by Machado de Assis, Brazil’s literary master of psychological depth and ironic wit. Best known for his novels Dom Casmurro and Epitaph of a Small Winner, Machado’s short stories, as critics have noted, distill his artis...
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Beyond the codices
Beyond the Codices: The Nahua View of Colonial Mexico explores a lesser-known yet rich corpus of Nahuatl texts that reflect the dynamic cultural and social changes experienced by indigenous communities in colonial Mexico. While much of classical Nahuatl scholarship has focused on pre-Columbian le...
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Modern islam
Modern Islam: The Search for Cultural Identity offers a compelling examination of the Islamic community's evolving response to its encounters with Western influence over the past century. This anthology of papers explores the trials and transformations that have emerged from these interactions, h...
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When governments collide
When Governments Collide: Coercion and Diplomacy in the Vietnam Conflict, 1964–1968 by Wallace J. Thies examines one of the most consequential strategic gambles of the Johnson administration: the effort to compel North Vietnam to abandon its support of the insurgency in the South through a carefu...
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Parties and politics in contemporary japan
Parties and Politics in Contemporary Japan provides a nuanced exploration of Japan’s political evolution, with a focus on the dynamic interplay between cultural continuity and change. This work delves into how Japan’s historical context, marked by adaptation and fusion of indigenous and foreign i...
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Performance dynamics and the amsterdam werkteater
Performance Dynamics and the Amsterdam Werkteater offers an in-depth exploration of one of the most innovative theater companies of the 20th century, charting its origins, methods, and profound impact on modern performance art. Founded in Amsterdam in 1970, the Werkteater broke with traditional t...
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The matter of my book
The Matter of My Book: Montaigne's Essais as the Book of the Self delves into the intricate relationship between Montaigne’s writing and his identity, exploring how the Essais serve as both a reflection of and a space for the construction of the self. This study positions Montaigne's work at the ...
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Alone together
In Alone Together: Social Order on an Urban Beach, the focus is on the social dynamics and unwritten rules governing interactions at Southland Beach, a popular, urban Southern California beach. With millions of visitors each year, Southland Beach draws a diverse crowd, including locals, tourists,...
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Small groups and political rituals in china
Martin King Whyte’s Small Groups and Political Rituals in China examines how the Chinese Communist Party transformed Sun Yat-sen’s lament about China as a “sheet of loose sand” into a system of remarkable social cohesion. Whyte’s central argument is that political elites achieved this by embeddin...
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The psychodynamics of medical practice
The Psychodynamics of Medical Practice: Unconscious Factors in Patient Care delves into the profound yet often overlooked influence of unconscious psychological processes in medical practice. This thought-provoking volume examines how physicians’ personal emotions, unconscious defenses, and count...
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Paris as revolution
In nineteenth-century Paris, passionate involvement with revolution turned the city into an engrossing object of cultural speculation. For writers caught between an explosive past and a bewildering future, revolution offered a virtuoso metaphor by which the city could be known and a vital princip...
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Lawrence's leadership politics and the turn against women
Lawrence's Leadership: Politics and the Turn Against Women delves into the dramatic ideological shift of D. H. Lawrence during the early 20th century, particularly his move toward authoritarian politics and his critical stance on women. The book explores how personal crises, including Lawrence’s ...
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Modern australian verse
Modern Australian Verse, Poetry in Australia, Volume II provides an insightful exploration of Australian poetic evolution from 1930 onwards, capturing the dynamic interplay of style, subject matter, and cultural identity. The anthology prioritizes the emotional resonance and aesthetic enjoyment o...
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Comparison of economic systems
Comparison of Economic Systems: Theoretical and Methodological Approaches offers a profound exploration of the analytical frameworks and methodologies that define the field of comparative economics. Emerging from a University of Michigan research conference, the book charts the evolution of compa...
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An introduction to the uralic languages
An Introduction to the Uralic Languages is a comprehensive examination of one of the world's most diverse and historically significant language families. Published under the auspices of the Center for Research in Languages and Linguistics at UCLA, this volume delves into the intricate linguistic,...
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The drugging of the americas
The Drugging of the Americas examines the stark differences in how multinational pharmaceutical companies present their products to physicians in the United States versus Latin America. The study highlights how drug companies provide detailed, rigorous, and well-regulated information to U.S. phys...
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Problems of stability and progress in international relations
Problems of Stability and Progress in International Relations by Quincy Wright is a profound and timely examination of the challenges facing the international order in the mid-20th century, many of which remain relevant today. Wright explores the complex interplay between stability and progress i...
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Asia and the road ahead
Asia and the Road Ahead: Issues for the Major Powers examines the foreign policy trends and challenges facing six key Asian-Pacific societies: Japan, the People's Republic of China, India, Indonesia, the Soviet Union, and the United States. Organized into five regions—Pacific Ocean, Northeast Asi...
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Ernest mercier
Ernest Mercier (1878-1955) was a key figure in the rise of the technical-managerial class in early 20th-century France. A businessman and technocrat, he sought to overhaul the French political and economic system through his work in modernizing the electric power industry and promoting the creati...
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State and intellectual in imperial japan
State and Intellectual in Imperial Japan: The Public Man in Crisis by Andrew E. Barshay examines the dilemmas of Japanese intellectual life under the pressures of modern state formation and wartime mobilization. Through paired studies of Nanbara Shigeru, a professor of Western political thought a...
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Chaucer's poetics and the modern reader
In Chaucer's Poetics and the Modern Reader, the focus shifts from a realist interpretation of Chaucer's works to a nuanced exploration of his rhetorical poetics, emphasizing the poet's ambivalence about the nature of truth and language. The study aligns Chaucer’s fragmented and contingent narrati...
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Ajanta
The Ajanta caves in Maharashtra, India, have been a subject of considerable fascination since their discovery by British officers in 1819. These thirty-one rock-cut caves, located along a dramatic ravine above the Waghora River, are known for their intricate Buddhist art spanning several centurie...
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An ownership theory of the trade union
An Ownership Theory of the Trade Union explores the economic theories behind trade union behavior, analyzing the historical struggle to define what unions maximize. Despite various theories suggesting unions aim to maximize wage rates, membership benefits, or organizational survival, a consistent...
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Virgil's georgics
Virgil’s Georgics: A New Interpretation by Gary B. Miles challenges conventional readings of Virgil’s agricultural poem by shifting attention away from rustic idealization toward the poem’s political and philosophical concerns. Rather than treating the Georgics as a unified pastoral vision, Miles...
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Sir isaac newton's mathematical principles of natural philosophy and his system of the world
This edition presents Andrew Motte’s 1729 English translation of Newton’s Philosophiæ Naturalis Principia Mathematica, thoroughly revised and annotated by historian Florian Cajori (with R. T. Crawford stewarding the final publication after Cajori’s death in 1930). It opens with a portrait and Hal...
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Thomas jefferson and the development of american public education
Thomas Jefferson and the Development of American Public Education by James B. Conant originates from the Jefferson Memorial Lectures delivered at the University of California in 1960. Conant uses this platform to revisit Jefferson’s role as both a visionary political leader and an educational inn...
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The rites of knighthood
The Rites of Knighthood: The Literature and Politics of Elizabethan Chivalry by Richard C. McCoy examines how the ceremonial culture of Elizabethan chivalry both mediated and exposed tensions at the heart of Tudor politics. Focusing on the careers of the Earl of Leicester, Sir Philip Sidney, and ...
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Africa's challenge to america
This book examines Africa's emerging role in global politics during the mid-20th century and presents Chester Bowles’ views on how American foreign policy should adapt to meet Africa’s growing challenges. Following World War II, the United States’ foreign policy largely focused on countering Sovi...
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Ruling the waves
Ruling the Waves: The Political Economy of International Shipping by Alan W. Cafruny examines how control over the seas has shaped global power, commerce, and conflict from the seventeenth century to the late twentieth century. Shipping, Cafruny argues, is not only a basic infrastructure of trade...
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The velvet glove
The Velvet Glove: Paternalism and Conflict in Gender, Class, and Race Relations by Mary R. Jackman reframes the study of inequality by shifting attention from open hostility to the quieter, more insidious mechanisms of persuasion. Drawing on Aesop’s fable of the wind and the sun, Jackman argues t...
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The formation of a modern labor force
The Formation of a Modern Labor Force: Upper Silesia, 1865-1914 explores the transformation of the labor market in Upper Silesia during the late 19th and early 20th centuries. This period, often overshadowed by national conflicts, saw the shift from an agrarian society to an industrial one, marke...
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Jordanus de nemore, de numeris datis
Jordanus de Nemore's De Numeris Datis stands as a groundbreaking text, marking the advent of advanced algebra in Western Europe. Written in the 13th century, the work assumes mastery of basic algebra and progresses to develop a systematic approach to quadratic, simultaneous, and proportional equa...
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Democratic innovations in nepal
Democratic Innovations in Nepal: A Case Study of Political Acculturation explores the transformative political journey of Nepal, focusing on the period following the 1950 revolution that ended the Rana oligarchy. The study examines the profound social and political changes unleashed in a society ...
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Mirza malkum khan
Mirza Malkum Khan: A Pioneer of Iranian Modernism offers an in-depth exploration of one of the most intriguing and controversial figures of 19th-century Iranian history. Hailed by some as a progenitor of the Iranian Constitutional Revolution and dismissed by others as a manipulative opportunist, ...
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Money in sixteenth-century florence
Money in Sixteenth-Century Florence offers a comprehensive analysis of Florence's monetary and financial landscape during a pivotal period shaped by the influx of New World silver, political interference, and economic upheaval. This meticulously researched work delves into the intricate relations...
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Careers in shanghai
Careers in Shanghai: The Social Guidance of Personal Energies in a Developing Chinese City, 1949-1966 offers a penetrating exploration of how modernization influenced individual lives in post-revolutionary Shanghai, China’s largest metropolis. This in-depth study focuses on the intricate career g...
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The mozartian historian
The Mozartian Historian: Essays on the Works of Joseph R. Levenson is a profound tribute to the intellectual legacy of Joseph Levenson, an innovative historian whose interpretations of Chinese history reshaped the discipline. Edited by Maurice Meisner and Rhoads Murphey, this volume emerged from ...
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Change and decline
Change and Decline: Roman Literature in the Early Empire offers a nuanced exploration of the transformation and challenges faced by Roman literary culture during the so-called "Silver Age" of Roman literature. Delivered as part of the Sather Classical Lectures, the work critically examines the ca...
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The russian city between tradition and modernity, 1850-1900
The Russian City Between Tradition and Modernity, 1850-1900 by Daniel R. Brower explores how Russia’s urban centers became key arenas of reform, contestation, and cultural imagination in the late tsarist era. Between the Great Reforms and the Revolution of 1905, provincial towns joined Moscow and...
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The politics of labor legislation in japan
The Politics of Labor Legislation in Japan: National-International Interaction examines the significant interplay between domestic labor politics in Japan and international labor standards as mediated by the International Labor Organization (ILO) during a pivotal period from 1957 to 1966. This pe...
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Race hygiene and national efficiency
Race Hygiene and National Efficiency: The Eugenics of Wilhelm Schallmayer offers an in-depth examination of the intellectual foundations of German eugenics, centering on the life and work of Wilhelm Schallmayer. A pivotal figure in the early eugenics movement in Germany, Schallmayer played a cruc...
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Reconstructing public philosophy
Reconstructing Public Philosophy is William Sullivan’s ambitious effort to recover a richer language of citizenship for American democracy at a moment of cultural exhaustion. Moving between philosophical analysis and cultural criticism, Sullivan examines how leading voices in liberal theory—from ...
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The united states and the berlin blockade 1948-1949
The United States and the Berlin Blockade, 1948–1949: A Study in Crisis Decision-Making by Avi Shlaim offers a penetrating analysis of one of the most dangerous confrontations of the early Cold War. When Stalin moved to blockade Berlin, Western leaders faced a sudden test of will, values, and res...
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The ballad as song
The Ballad as Song is a collection of essays tracing the author's decades-long exploration of the intersection between traditional ballads and their accompanying tunes. Initially approached as a casual hobby, the project grew into a comprehensive inquiry into the melodies of Child ballads and the...
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Biography of yu-wen hu
Albert E. Dien’s Biography of Yü-Wen Hu offers a comprehensive translation and analysis of a pivotal historical figure in northern China’s sixth century. Through a detailed rendering of the Chou shu biography, this work explores the complex interplay between Confucian ideals and the governance of...
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Managing the frozen south
Managing the Frozen South: The Creation and Evolution of the Antarctic provides a comprehensive analysis of the Antarctic Treaty System, a groundbreaking international agreement that transformed Antarctica into a nonmilitarized, nuclear-weapons-free zone dedicated to peaceful scientific research....
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The theory of literary criticism
The Theory of Literary Criticism: A Logical Analysis by John M. Ellis argues that modern debates about “what criticism should do” have stagnated since the mid-century syntheses, breeding a climate of “wise eclecticism” that shrinks theory’s scope to ad-hoc judgment. Ellis contends this posture is...
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The rest is silence
The Rest Is Silence: Death as Annihilation in the English Renaissance by Robert N. Watson explores how anxieties about death as utter annihilation—rather than passage to an afterlife—shaped English Renaissance culture, especially during the Jacobean era. Watson argues that the Reformation’s disma...
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Human rights and reform
Independence from colonial rule did not usher in the halcyon days many North Africans had hoped for, as the new governments in Morocco, Tunisia, and Algeria soon came to rely on repression to reinforce and maintain power. In response to widespread human rights abuses, individuals across the Maghr...
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The elites of barotseland 1878-1969
The Elites of Barotseland: 1878-1969 offers a comprehensive political history of Zambia's Western Province, focusing on the Lozi people and their interactions with imperial powers, especially in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. The study traces the political dynamics of Barotseland from th...
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The irish ulysses
The Irish Ulysses is an in-depth critical study that bridges the works of James Joyce with the rich tradition of early Irish literature. By drawing parallels between the mythological and narrative structures of Joyce’s Ulysses and the symbolic motifs found in Irish literary heritage, the book rec...
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The view from inside
The View from Inside: A French Communist Cell in Crisis by Jane Jenson and George Ross offers a rare ethnographic portrait of the Parti Communiste Français (PCF) at the grassroots in the late 1970s. Based on sustained participant observation with the militants of Cellule Danielle Casanova in Pari...
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Romantic orpheus
Romantic Orpheus: Profiles of Clemens Brentano by John F. Fetzer offers the first comprehensive English-language study of Clemens Brentano (1778–1842), one of the most versatile and influential writers of German Romanticism. A poet, novelist, and critic, Brentano was central to the early Romantic...
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T. s. eliot
T. S. Eliot: The Pattern in the Carpet by Elisabeth Schneider offers a searching exploration of Eliot’s poetry and criticism through what she calls “double vision”: the simultaneous awareness of each poem as an autonomous work and as part of the larger, developing pattern of a poet’s lifetime ach...
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Making something of ourselves
Making Something of Ourselves: On Culture and Politics in the United States by Richard M. Merelman is a bold inquiry into the ways cultural codes shape, sustain, and sometimes distort democratic life in America. Merelman argues that U.S. political culture has evolved into what he calls a “loosely...
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Symbolic analysis cross-culturally
Symbolic Analysis Cross-Culturally: The Rorschach Test by George A. De Vos and L. Bryce Boyer explores how universal psychobiological processes intersect with the shaping power of culture to produce distinctive modes of perception, thought, and affective regulation. Grounded in the assumption tha...
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Japanese urbanism
Japanese Urbanism: Industry and Politics in Kariya, 1872–1972 offers an in-depth exploration of the transformative forces that shaped Kariya, a small industrial city in Japan, over the course of a century. This meticulously researched study traces Kariya’s evolution from a modest castletown into ...
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The enigma of 1989
The Enigma of 1989: The USSR and the Liberation of Eastern Europe explores the pivotal events of 1989 that reshaped the global political landscape, focusing on the role of the Soviet Union in the collapse of Eastern European Communist regimes. The book centers on the unexpected Soviet passivity i...
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Intellectuals, universities, and the state in western modern societies
Intellectuals, Universities, and the State in Western Modern Societies explores the evolving role of intellectuals within the frameworks of universities and states in contemporary Western societies. Starting with historical references, the book traces debates about intellectuals from the French R...
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Bureaucratic authoritarianism
Bureaucratic Authoritarianism: Argentina, 1966–1973, in Comparative Perspective provides a rigorous and multidimensional analysis of Argentina’s political and economic trajectory during a pivotal period in its history. Through the lens of the bureaucratic-authoritarian (BA) state, the book explor...
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Roman satire
J. Wight Duff’s Roman Satire: Its Outlook on Social Life, first delivered as the Sather Classical Lectures at Berkeley in 1936, offers a sweeping account of satire as Rome’s most characteristically social genre. Moving from Greek precedents to the creations of Lucilius, Horace, Juvenal, and other...
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Rural change and royal finances in spain at the end of the old regime
Rural Change and Royal Finances in Spain at the End of the Old Regime by Richard Herr offers a comprehensive examination of the social, economic, and political transformations that reshaped Spain’s countryside in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. Through a meticulous study of th...
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Society and bureaucracy in contemporary ghana
Society and Bureaucracy in Contemporary Ghana by Robert M. Price examines the organizational dynamics of the Ghanaian civil service as a key to understanding the constraints facing postcolonial African states. Price begins with the premise that independence brought sovereignty but not unconstrain...
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Harold monro and the poetry bookshop
Harold Monro and the Poetry Bookshop chronicles the life and legacy of Harold Monro, a pivotal figure in literary London during the early 20th century. Monro's unwavering dedication to poetry shaped his multifaceted career as a poet, bookseller, publisher, and advocate for verse. Known for his id...
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The autobiography of an unknown indian
The Autobiography of an Unknown Indian by Nirad C. Chaudhuri is a profound and introspective account of a man's journey through early 20th-century India. The narrative weaves the personal with the historical, using the author’s life as a lens to explore the broader struggles of Indian civilizatio...
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Religion and political culture in kano
Religion and Political Culture in Kano provides an in-depth exploration of how Islamic traditions have shaped political authority and community in northern Nigeria’s most influential urban center. Focusing on Kano Emirate and later Kano State, the study situates religion within a wider context of...
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Postwar british fiction
Postwar British Fiction: New Accents and Attitudes by James Gindin offers the first comprehensive account of the striking changes in British literature after 1945. Situating novelists, dramatists, and critics in the turbulence of postwar society, Gindin charts how writers from Alan Sillitoe and K...
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To make my name good
To Make My Name Good: A Reexamination of the Southern Kwakiutl Potlatch offers a definitive, lucid account of one of the Northwest Coast’s most discussed—and most misunderstood—institutions. Drawing on hitherto unpublished field notes, new translations, and extended interviews with master informa...
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We are here
We Are Here: Politics of Aboriginal Land Tenure edited by Edwin N. Wilmsen brings together leading anthropologists to examine how indigenous systems of landholding have been understood, misrecognized, and increasingly asserted within the legal and political frameworks of modern nation-states. Lon...
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Driving a bargain
Driving a Bargain: Automobile Industrialization and Japanese Firms in Southeast Asia explores the dynamics between developing nations and foreign investors in the context of automobile manufacturing. Focused on Southeast Asia, the book analyzes the national efforts of the Philippines, Malaysia, I...
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Suicide in asia and the near east
Suicide in Asia and the Near East, edited by Lee A. Headley, is a pioneering cross-cultural investigation that widens the suicide research lens far beyond the familiar Western profile. Built over eleven years of fieldwork and collaboration with psychiatrists, psychologists, sociologists, and publ...
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A financial revolution in the habsburg netherlands
This book delves into the financial revolution that took place in the Habsburg Netherlands, focusing specifically on the County of Holland from 1515 to 1565. It investigates the evolution of public debt, with a particular emphasis on the introduction and widespread use of life-term and perpetual ...
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