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The Nature of Kingship: The Weather-World in Nineteenth-Century VietnamThe Nature of Kingship is an innovative exploration of dynastic power and the environment in nineteenth-century Vietnam. It offers important insights into Vietnamese kingship by delving into the intricate workings of the Nguyễn court and its interactions with the natural world. Weaving together a...
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Early Ryukyuan History: A New ModelThe Ryukyu islands have been inhabited by humans for over 30,000 years. Their modern population, however, did not come from stone-age ancestors, nor did distinctive forms of Ryukyuan culture, such as sacred groves or stone-walled castles, emerge from within the islands. Instead, different groups...
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The Smallpox Report: Vaccination and the Romantic Illness NarrativeAfter the COVID-19 pandemic, vaccination has become synonymous with an opaque biopower that legislates compulsory immunization at a distance. Contemporary illness narratives have become outlets for distrust, misinformation, reckless denialism, and selfish noncompliance. In The Smallpox Report, Fuson Wang rewinds this contemporary impasse between...
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American Military History, Volume 1: The United States Army and the Forging of a Nation, 1775-1917This latest edition of an official U.S. Government military history classic provides an authoritative historical survey of the organization and accomplishments of the United States Army. This scholarly yet readable book is designed to inculcate an awareness of our nation's military past and to...
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Quixotic Memories: Cervantes and Memory in Early Modern SpainThe work of Miguel de Cervantes - one of the most influential writers in early modern Europe - is a reflection of the rich culture of memory in which it was created. More than a theme, memory is a system of understanding in Cervantes'...
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Grasslands Grown: Creating Place on the U.S. Northern Plains and Canadian PrairiesIn Grasslands Grown Molly P. Rozum explores the two related concepts of regional identity and sense of place by examining a single North American ecological region: the U.S. Great Plains and the Canadian Prairie Provinces. All or parts of modern-day Alberta, Montana, Saskatchewan, North...
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Media Critique in the Age of Gillray: Scratches, Scraps, and SpectresIn the late 1790s, British Prime Minister William Pitt created a crisis of representation when he pressured the British Parliament to relieve the Bank of England from its obligations to convert paper notes into coin. Paper quickly became associated with a form of limitless...
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Women's Diaries from the Civil War South: A Literary-Historical Reading"Traditionally, narratives of war have been male," Sharon Talley writes. In the pages that follow, she goes on to disrupt this tradition, offering close readings and comparative studies of fourteen women's diaries from the Civil War era that illuminate women's experiences in the Confederacy...
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America: A Narrative HistoryAmerica: A Narrative History puts narrative front and center with David Shi's rich storytelling style, colorful biographical sketches, and vivid first-person quotations. The new editions further reflect our society and our students today by continuing to incorporate diverse voices into the narrative with new...
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Unselfing: Global French Literature at the Limits of ConsciousnessAltered states of consciousness - including experiences of deprivation, pain, hallucination, fear, desire, alienation, and spiritual transcendence - can transform the ordinary experience of selfhood. Unselfing explores the nature of disruptive self-experiences and the different shapes they have taken in literary writing. The book...
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Borderblur Poetics: Intermedia and Avant-Gardism in Canada, 1963-1988Beginning in 1963 and continuing through the late 1980s, a loose coterie of like-minded Canadian poets challenged the conventions of writing and poetic meaning by fusing their practice with strategies from visual art, sound art, sculpture, installation, and performance. They called it "borderblur." Borderblur...
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The San Francisco OracleA complete copy of the legendary psychedelic underground newspaper originally published in the Haight Ashbury during the Summer of Love The San Francisco Oracle, published in the Haight Ashbury from 1966 to 1968, was one of the most unique and beautiful publications of the...
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Encyclopedia of Romantic Nationalism in Europe: New Revised Edition SetThis encyclopedia documents the presence and impact of nationalized cultural consciousness in European nationalism. It tracks how intellectuals, historians, philologists, novelists, poets, painters, folklorists, and composers, in an intensely collaborative transnational network, articulated the national identities and aspirations that would go on to determine...
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A Country Storekeeper in Pennsylvania: Creating Economic Networks in Early America, 1790-1807In early America, traditional commercial interaction revolved around an entity known as the general store. Unfortunately, most of these elusive small-town shops disappeared from our society without leaving business-related documents behind for scholars to analyze. This gap in the historical knowledge of America has...
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The Trial of the Cannibal Dog: The Remarkable Story of Captain Cook's Encounters in the South SeasThis vivid book retells the story of Captain Cook's great voyages in the South Seas, focusing on the encounters between the explorers and the island peoples they "discovered." While Cook and his men were initially confounded by the Polynesians, they were also curious. Cook...
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Genealogies of Long Island Families, from the New York Genealogical and Biographical Record. in Two Volumes. Volume I: Albertson-Polhemius. IndexedSince its inception in 1870, "The New York Genealogical and Biographical Record" has been at the forefront in publishing articles on Long Island families, many of them lengthy, definitive studies spread out over several issues. In a number of these articles the English or...
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Virginia GenealogiesHere is one of the most comprehensive single-volume compilations of Virginia family histories every assembled. Besides the families mentioned in the title, lineages and extensive genealogical notes are devoted to the following families: Alexander, Argyll, Armistead, Ashby, Ashton, Baldwin, Bankhead, Barnes, Bertrand, Blackburn, Blackwell,...
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Eros and Empire: The Transnational Struggle for Sexual Freedom in the United StatesThe history of queer politics in the United States since 1968 is commonly narrated as either a progressive campaign for state recognition or as a subcultural rejection of prevailing gender norms. But these accounts miss the true scale of queer politics in the post-war...
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An Outpost of Colonialism: The Hispanic Community of M?rida, Yucat?n, 1690-1730Using the categories of status, political power, and wealth, Robert W. Patch shows how Hispanic society in M?rida, Yucat?n was stratified into upper, middle, and lower classes. Lacking any exportable resource except cotton textiles extracted from Maya people and exported to northern Mexico, the...
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Foreign Aid and State Building in Interwar Romania: In Quest of an IdealThe decades following World War I were a period of political, social, and economic transformation for Central and Eastern Europe. This book considers the role of foreign aid in Romania between 1918 and 1940, offering a new history of the interrelation between state building...
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