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Defamiliarizing Japan's Asia-Pacific WarThis wide-ranging collection seeks to reassess conventional understanding of Japan's Asia-Pacific War by defamiliarizing and expanding the rhetorical narrative. Its nine chapters, diverse in theme and method, are united in their goal to recover a measured historicity about the conflict by either introducing new...
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Decolonization, Self-Determination, and the Rise of Global Human Rights PoliticsLeading scholars demonstrate how colonial subjects, national liberation movements, and empires mobilized human rights language to contest self-determination during decolonization.Author: A. Dirk MosesPublisher: Cambridge University PressPublished: 12/08/2022Pages: 448Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 1.31lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.91dISBN: 9781108749701This title is not returnable
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Death on the Beach: Essays from a Marginal WorldA walk with Per Högselius, skirting shipwrecks and bodies, relics of war and vanished lives, is a deep-dive into landscape and culture. It leaves us fragile and shows us wonders.Holidaymakers go to the beach to play. The world's great writers, film makers and artists...
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Daughters of Copper WomanSince its first publication in 1981, Daughters of Copper Woman has become an underground classic, selling over 200,000 copies. Now comes a new edition that includes many pieces cut from the original as well as fresh material added by the author. Here finally, after...
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Creating a Culture of Repair: Taking Action on the Road to ReparationsMany people are aware of the injustices Black Americans have suffered over the centuries but feel powerless when it comes to repairing the harm done. The inequality remains even after laws and policies have been corrected. Calculating and implementing financial reparations will require large-scale...
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Counter-Cartographies: Reading Singapore OtherwiseEbook available to libraries exclusively as part of the JSTOR Path to Open initiative.Counter-Cartographies draws from a body of Anglophone and multilingual cultural texts created in contemporary Singapore and in its diasporic communities. From banned documentaries to award-winning graphic novels, flash fiction collections to...
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Corpus of Hieroglyphic Luwian Inscriptions: Volume III: Inscriptions of the Hettite Empire and New Inscriptions of the Iron AgeLuwian and the closely related Hittite are the oldest known languages of the Indo-European group. Luwian is written in two scripts: Cuneiform and its own Hieroglyphic, which survives mostly on stone monuments collected from Turkey and Syria. The texts fall into two main groups,...
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Corpus Iuris Civilis 3 Volume SetThe most famous legal work of the ancient world was compiled at the order of the emperor Justinian (c.482-565) by the imperial quaestor Tribonian, and issued in the period 529-34. It was intended to be a complete codification of all law, to be used...
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Conifers of the New England-Acadian Forest: A Cultural HistoryWhy did white pine help spark the American Revolution? How did balsam aid the development of germ theory? What does hemlock have to do with making leather? In Conifers of the New England-Acadian Forest, microbiologist Steve Keating explores how conifers influenced the course of...
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Common SenseIn January of 1776 Thomas Paine published Common Sense; the book inflamed its readers and ignited the American Revolution. In truth the fires of dissent were already smoldering but Paine's impassioned writing gave focus to the many disparate voices and united a country. One...
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Colonial Families Of The Southern States Of America: A History And Genealogy Of Colonial Families Who Settled In The Colonies Prior To The RevolutionThis work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States,...
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Colonial Families of the Eastern Shore of Virginia, Volume 2This second volume of _Colonial Families of the Eastern Shore of Virginia_ focuses on the descendants of Edward Bayly, Richard Bayly, Edward Byrd, Edward Ker, John Lewis, Samuel Marshall (Bayside Marshalls) and Roger Miles - primarily of Accomack County. A full-name and place index...
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Cois Fharraige & Spiddal: A History"Cois Fharraige & Spiddal - A History" is an indispensable resource for those researching this region of County Galway in the Connacht province of Ireland. Cois Fharraige (By the Sea) is the North Galway Bay coastal area running west from around Barna to the...
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Cleveland's Riverside CemeteryPositioned west of the Cuyahoga River and occupying 96 acres is Riverside Cemetery in Cleveland, Ohio. Established in 1876, Riverside Cemetery was the long-term solution to the ever-growing suburbs of Cleveland's west side. A nephew to one of the earliest settlers, Titus Brainard sold...
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Civil War BattlesThe Civil War was a crucial turning point in the history of the United States of America, and three of the most notable battles are brought to life in this book! The Battle of Gettysburg, the Battle of Antietam, and the First Battle of...
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Civil Rights HeroesReaders may already know their names, and now they will know their stories! The lives and trailblazing accomplishments of Rosa Parks, Harriet Tubman, and Martin Luther King Jr. are vibrantly explored in this book, through dazzling illustrations and captivating narratives of their triumphs and...
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Cittadini of Venice: Shaping Identities Between Networks and Patronage (C. 1530-1690)In this volume Giulia Zanon sheds new light on our grasp of social hierarchy and the possibilities for social mobility in pre-modern Italy. By adopting an interdisciplinary approach that combines deep archival research with a multitude of artistic and architectural artefacts, this work breaks...
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Citizen Carl: The Editor Who Cracked Teapot Dome, Shot a Judge, and Invented the Parking MeterEducator, lawyer, editor, inventor, entrepreneur, and civic booster, Carl Magee helped shape New Mexico and Oklahoma in the years after gaining statehood, garnering fame along the way. Jack McElroy's fascinating biography of "Citizen Carl" tells the story of a man whose exploits were as...
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Churches of the New Testament"Have you ever wondered what it would be like to be a Christian in the first century? What would it be like to meet with the church in Philippi or Ephesus? What would go on in their assemblies? Churches of the New Testament explores...
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Chiefs, Priests, and Praise-Singers: History, Politics, and Land Ownership in Northern GhanaIn his new book, the eminent anthropologist Wyatt MacGaffey provides an ethnographically enriched history of Dagbon from the fifteenth century to the present, setting that history in the context of the regional resources and political culture of northern Ghana. Chiefs, Priests, and Praise-Singers shows...
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