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Unraveling Time: Thirty Years of Ethnography in Cuenca, EcuadorAnn Miles has been chronicling life in the Ecuadorian city of Cuenca for more than thirty years. In that time, she has witnessed change after change. A large regional capital where modern trains whisk residents past historic plazas, Cuenca has invited in the world...
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Memory Construction and the Politics of Time in Neoliberal South KoreaIn Memory Construction and the Politics of Time in Neoliberal South Korea Namhee Lee explores memory construction and history writing in post-1987 South Korea. The massive neoliberal reconstruction of all aspects of society shifted public discourse from minjung (people) to simin (citizen), from political...
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The YMCA in Late Colonial India: Modernization, Philanthropy and American Soft Power in South AsiaThis book explores the history and agendas of the Young Men's Christian Association (YMCA) through its activities in South Asia. Focusing on interactions between American 'Y' workers and the local population, representatives of the British colonial state, and a host of international actors, it...
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Empire, Celebrity and Excess: King Farouk of Egypt and British Culture 1936-1965While now long-forgotten, King Farouk of Egypt loomed large in British culture in the 1940s and 1950s. Farouk was of interest and importance, not just to British imperial policy makers, but to a wider public that was exposed to his extravagant lifestyle and colourful...
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Greek Epitaphic Poetry: A SelectionAuthor: Richard HunterPublisher: Cambridge University PressPublished: 01/13/2022Pages: 320Binding Type: HardcoverWeight: 1.00lbsSize: 8.90h x 5.60w x 0.77dISBN: 9781108843980About the AuthorHunter, Richard: - RICHARD HUNTER is Regius Professor of Greek Emeritus in the University of Cambridge and a Fellow of Trinity College. He has published extensively...
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Planning Democracy: Modern India's Quest for DevelopmentThe Indian planning project was one of the postcolonial world's most ambitious experiments. Planning Democracy explores how India fused Soviet-inspired economic management and Western-style liberal democracy at a time when they were widely considered fundamentally contradictory. After nearly two centuries of colonial rule, planning...
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The Many Faces of Credulitas: Credibility, Credulity, and Belief in Post-Reformation CatholicismThis book is about the relationship between belief, credibility, and credulity in post-Reformation Catholicism. It argues that, starting from the end of the sixteenth century and due to different political, intellectual, cultural, and theological factors, credibility assumed a central role in post-Reformation Catholic discourse....
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Dreams Come True For Black Girls Too!In February of 2020 Karington and Kaidence went on a journey with their parents to learn about women in Black History. They quickly went viral after donning outfits dressed as famous African Women both living and past in order to learn about the impact...
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The Shape of Freedom: International Abstraction After 1945This book gives new insights into the flowering of radical abstraction after 1945, focussing on the creative interplay between painters in the wider orbit of Abstract Expressionism and Art Informel. Following World War II, Western painting went in completely new directions. A young generation...
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Rockstar Games and American History: Promotional Materials and the Construction of AuthenticityFor two decades, Rockstar Games have been making games that interrogate and represent the idea of America, past and present. Commercially successful, fan-beloved, and a frequent source of media attention, Rockstar's franchises are positioned as not only game-changing, ground-breaking interventions in the games industry,...
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South Flows the Pearl: Chinese Australian VoicesSouth Flows the Pearl is a fascinating journey through the history of Chinese Australia. Taking the reader from Shanghai and the Pearl River Delta to Sydney, Perth, Cairns, Darwin, Bendigo and beyond, it explores the struggles and successes of Chinese people in Australia since...
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Heinrich Bullinger: An Introduction to His Life and TheologyHeinrich Bullinger (1504-75) was an important and influential sixteenth-century Protestant Reformer. Sadly, today, many are unaware of his significance. This book serves as a gateway into understanding Bullinger's life and theology, introducing them in a fresh and accessible way for non-specialists. After outlining Bullinger's...
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Indianapolis: The City Known as NaptownIndianapolis was founded in 1821 and became the state capital in 1825. Casually known as Indy or Naptown, Indianapolis is the largest city in the Hoosier State, with over 800,000 residents. The Circle City has roughly thirty museums to select from and over 180...
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LincolnThe village of Lancaster became the state of Nebraska's first capital city in 1867, renamed Lincoln. Not everyone predicted its success. One early observer noted: There are no roads leading to it now. It has no commerce and there is scarcely a wagon load...
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The Neighborhood Manhattan Forgot: Audubon Park and the Families Who Shaped ItAudubon Park's journey from farmland to cityscape The study of Audubon Park's origins, maturation, and disappearance is at root the study of a rural society evolving into an urban community, an examination of the relationship between people and the land they inhabit. When John...
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Authoritarian Laughter: Political Humor and Soviet Dystopia in LithuaniaAuthoritarian Laughter explores the political history of the satire and humor magazine Broom published in Soviet Lithuania. Artists, writers, and journalists were required to create state-sponsored Soviet humor and serve the Communist Party after Lithuania was incorporated into the Soviet Union in 1940. Neringa...
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Photopoetry 1845-2015: A Critical HistoryFrom amateur experiments in scrapbooks and stereographs to contemporary photobook collaborations between leading practitioners, poets and photographers have created an art form that continues to evolve and deserves critical exploration. Photopoetry 1845-2015: A Critical History represents the first account of this challenging and diverse...
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Krishna and the Later Avatars of Vishnu: Plus Mahabharata DemystifiedKrishna is the single most beloved figure in Hinduism. Such is his popularity that he is considered a supreme god in his own right even though he is only an avatar. In this book, we journey through Krishna's life--spanning his birth, childhood, youth, and...
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Bouttios and Late Antique Antioch: Reconstructing a Lost HistorianBouttios and Late Antique Antioch undertakes the exciting, if laborious, task of assembling clues and piecing back together a book that has disappeared from our library of Greek and Roman works. But it does not merely add another author to the bibliography of antiquity...
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Everyday Justice: A Legal Aid StoryThe Legal Aid Society's mission is to advance, defend, and enforce the legal rights of low-income and otherwise vulnerable people in order to secure for them the basic necessities of life. Everyday Justice is an on-the-ground history of the Legal Aid Society of Middle...
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