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Pathogens Crossing Borders: Global Animal Diseases and International Responses, 1860-1947The increasing globalization of trade, travel and transport since the mid-19th century had unwelcome consequences - one of them was the spread of contagious animal diseases over greater distances in a shorter time than ever before. Borders and national control strategies proved to be...
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New Realism in Alice Munro's FictionThe book studies Alice Munro's inheritance of and contribution to realism in fiction. Nobel Prize winner Munro follows the empirical tradition of the Enlightenment and draws on her life as a daughter, wife, mother, and professional writer while composing her fiction to reflect Canadian...
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Our Henry James in Fiction, Film, and Popular CultureOur Henry James in Fiction, Film, and Popular Culture addresses the interesting revival of Henry James's works in Anglo-American film adaptations and contemporary fiction from the 1960s to the present. James's fiction is generally considered difficult and part of high culture, more appropriate for...
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Cultures of Memory in Asia: Dynamics and Forms of MemorializationA collection of works by Asian scholars looking at different ways in which relatively recent traumas have been memorialized in their various countries, often while the traumas themselves are ongoing, or the memories of them contested. Memory studies typically focuses on the study of...
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Science, Technology and the Cultural Cold War in Asia: From Atoms for Peace to Space FlightTsuchiya presents a new insight into the political roles of science and technology during the Cold War era in Asia. The Cold War was not only a battle of conflicting ideologies and economic systems, but also a competition of cultures and lifestyles, and a...
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Locating Classed Subjectivities: Intersections of Space and Working-Class Life in Nineteenth-, Twentieth-, and Twenty-First-Century British WritingLocating Classed Subjectivities explores representations of social class in British fiction through the lens of spatial theory and analysis. By analyzing a range of class-conscious texts from the nineteenth-, twentieth-, and twenty-first centuries, the collection provides an overview of the way British writers mobilized...
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Misers: British Responses to Extreme Saving, 1700-1860This volume uses the extreme case of misers to examine interlocking categories that undergirded the emergence of modern British society, including new perspectives on charity, morality, and marriage; new representations of passion and sympathy; and new modes of saving, spending, and investment.Misers surveys this...
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Language Dynamics in the Early Modern PeriodIn the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries, the linguistic situation in Europe was one of remarkable fluidity. Latin, the great scholarly lingua franca of the medieval period, was beginning to crack as the tectonic plates shifted beneath it, but the vernaculars had not yet crystallized...
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Medicine, Power, and the Authoritarian Regime in Hispanic LiteratureThis book offers a substantial examination of how contemporary authors deal with the complex legacies of authoritarian regimes in various Spanish-speaking countries. It does so by focusing on works that explore an under-studied aspect: the reliance of authoritarian power on medical notions for political...
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Insurgency and Counterinsurgency in the Nineteenth Century: A Global HistoryInsurgency and Counterinsurgency in the Nineteenth Century examines insurgency and counterinsurgency across the globe in the nineteenth century.The volume includes chapters from distinguished and rising historians from Europe, North and South America and covers irregular wars in Spain, Ireland, France, Latin America, China, USA,...
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The Global Infrastructure of the Special Operations ExecutiveDuring the Second World War, the British government established the Special Operations Executive (SOE) for the purpose of coordinating 'all action, by way of subversion and sabotage, against the enemy overseas'. Although the overseas operations of this branch of the British Secret Services are...
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Collected Writings of Charles Brockden Brown: The American Register and Other Writings, 1807-1810, Volume 6Charles Brockden Brown (1771-1810) was a key writer of the revolutionary era and early U.S. republic, known for his landmark novels and other writings in a variety of genres. The Collected Writings of Charles Brockden Brown presents all of Brown's non-novelistic writings-letters, political pamphlets,...
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The Oxford Handbook of Jorge Luis BorgesMost known for his creative fictions that tackle literary questions of authorship as well as more philosophical notions such as multiverse theory, Argentine author Jorge Luis Borges (1899-1986) has captivated scholars from a variety of disciplines since his emergence on the international scene. However,...
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Obstinate Star: A History of the Puerto Rico Independence MovementObstinate Star is a history of Puerto Rico's independence struggle against Spanish and U.S. colonialism. From the time of the Napoleonic Wars, it traces the movement's currents, within and beyond the island, linking them to ongoing social conflicts and international trends and conjunctures. Beginning...
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Longfellow's Imaginative Engagement: The Works of His Late CareerLongfellow's Imaginative Engagement is a first-of-its-kind study of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow's late-career poems and biography from 1861 until 1882, covering the poet's posthumous publications and the handling of his literary estate. Using never-before-discussed archival materials from Harvard's Houghton Library and the Longfellow House-Washington's Headquarters...
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Das Kabinett Ehard III: 18. Dezember 1950 Bis 14. Dezember 1954. Band 4: 1954Das letzte Regierungsjahr der gro en Koalition vor der erst- und einmaligen Wahl eines sozialdemokratischen Ministerpräsidenten in Bayern im Dezember 1954 war für die Staatsregierung ein schwieriges. Durchgehendes Thema in den 51 Protokollen des Jahres 1954 ist die prekäre Haushaltslage, die zu erheblichen Dissonanzen...
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Complete Works of Evelyn Waugh: The Loved One: Volume 10 an Anglo-American TragedyThis volume is part of the Complete Works of Evelyn Waugh critical edition, which brings together all Waugh's published and previously unpublished writings for the first time with comprehensive introductions and annotation, and a full account of each text's manuscript development and textual variants....
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The Cambridge World History of Genocide: Volume 3, Genocide in the Contemporary Era, 1914-2020Author: Ben KiernanPublisher: Cambridge University PressPublished: 05/04/2023Pages: 820Binding Type: HardcoverWeight: 3.15lbsSize: 9.13h x 6.30w x 1.89dISBN: 9781108487078
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The Holy Crown and the Hungarian Estates: Constructing Early Modern Identity in the Kingdom of HungaryThis book is about one of the most important elements of the political narratives in the history of Hungary in past and present: the Holy Crown of Hungary. This object is one of the most widely used symbols of modern Hungarian nationalism in our...
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Catholic Survival in the Dutch Republic: Agency in Coexistence and the Public Sphere in Utrecht, 1620-1672Even in adversity, Catholics exercised considerable agency in post-Reformation Utrecht. Through the political practices of repression and toleration, Utrecht's magistrates, under constant pressure from the Reformed Church, attempted to exclude Catholics from the urban public sphere. However, by mobilizing their social status and networks,...
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