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Artistic Practice, Materiality, and Ideology in the Medieval East Roman Empire and Neighboring Eastern Polities

Artistic Practice, Materiality, and Ideology in the...

Author: Mariana Bodnaruk
ISBN: 9781032750118
Format: Hardback
$401.06

This anthology foregrounds the complex interplay of artistic production, material conditions, and political conjuncture...  Read More >>

Indigenous Revolution in Ecuador and Bolivia, 1990–2005

Indigenous Revolution in Ecuador and Bolivia, 1990–2005...

Author: Jeffery M. Paige
ISBN: 9780816557158
Format: Paperback
$100.32

Uprisings by indigenous peoples of Ecuador and Bolivia between 1990 and 2005 overthrew the five-hundred-year-old...  Read More >>

State Formation in the Liberal Era: Capitalisms and Claims of Citizenship in Mexico and Peru

State Formation in the Liberal Era: Capitalisms and...

Author: Ben Fallaw ,  David Nugent
ISBN: 9780816557240
Format: Paperback
$100.32

State Formation in the Liberal Era transforms our understanding of post-colonial Latin America. The volume spans...  Read More >>

Wales, Romanticism, and the Making of Imperial Culture

Wales, Romanticism, and the Making of Imperial Culture...

Author: Timothy Heimlich (Duke University, North Carolina)
ISBN: 9781009618878
Format: Hardback
$245.81

This ambitious study argues that in the long eighteenth century the meanings of Britain and Britishness, once synonymous...  Read More >>

Sidonius Apollinaris: Selected Letters

Sidonius Apollinaris: Selected Letters

Author: Joop van Waarden (Radboud Universiteit Nijmegen)
ISBN: 9781316514504
Format: Hardback
$232.88

Sidonius Apollinaris' fifth-century Letters are a highpoint of Latin literature and a unique document of the end...  Read More >>

A History of Modern Hebrew Literature

A History of Modern Hebrew Literature

Author: Yaron Peleg (University of Cambridge) ,  Zehavit Zaslansky (University of Cambridge)
ISBN: 9781009667395
Format: Hardback
$232.88

A new history of modern Hebrew literature updated according to contemporary theories of literature, culture, identity,...  Read More >>

Stereotypes in Black: Afro-Argentines and Visual Culture in Nineteenth-Century Buenos Aires

Stereotypes in Black: Afro-Argentines and Visual Culture...

Author: María de Lourdes Ghidoli (Grupo de Estudios Afrolatinoamericanos, Universidad de Buenos Aires)
ISBN: 9781009674508
Format: Hardback
$284.63

This book highlights the construction and repeated use of racial stereotypes of the Afro-Argentine population, and...  Read More >>

Practices of Restitution: Law and Aesthetics in Modern Germany

Practices of Restitution: Law and Aesthetics in Modern...

Author: Laura Petersen (University of Lucerne)
ISBN: 9781009514910
Format: Hardback
$271.69

Petersen offers a new interdisciplinary approach to restitution in the aftermath of the Second World War and the...  Read More >>

Constructing Economic Nationalisms in Brazil and India

Constructing Economic Nationalisms in Brazil and India...

Author: Jason Jackson (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)
ISBN: 9781009598576
Format: Hardback
$142.31

This Element analyzes variation in foreign investment regulation in post-war India and Brazil. Policymakers' preferences...  Read More >>

Myths, History Wars, and Indigenous-Settler Relations in Canada and Other Settler States

Myths, History Wars, and Indigenous-Settler Relations...

Author: David Bruce Amichand MacDonald (University of Guelph)
ISBN: 9781009714211
Format: Hardback
$142.31

This Element highlights myths promoted by explorers, settlers, and the state about Indigenous Peoples and history....  Read More >>

Mind and Psychology in Early China

Mind and Psychology in Early China

Author: Lisa Raphals (University of California, Riverside)
ISBN: 9781009669450
Format: Hardback
$142.31

This Element describes early Chinese views of the heart-mind (xin 心) and its relation to the psychology of a whole...  Read More >>

The Cultural Heritage Resilience of the Great Dismal Swamp

The Cultural Heritage Resilience of the Great Dismal...

Author: Christy Hyman
ISBN: 9780761892021
Format: Hardback
$160.00

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Cheikh Anta Diop’s Transdisciplinary Legacy: Impacts on Contemporary Africology

Cheikh Anta Diop’s Transdisciplinary Legacy: Impacts...

Author: Victor Oguejiofor Okafor
ISBN: 9781041093916
Format: Hardback
$305.00

This book highlights the transdisciplinary legacy of Cheikh Anta Diop’s epistemology, demonstrating its continuing...  Read More >>

State, Society and Corruption in Africa: The Evolution of Corruption from the Pre-colonial Period to the Present

State, Society and Corruption in Africa: The Evolution...

Author: Yusuf Ali ,  Professor Abiodun Alao (The Brookings Institution, USA)
ISBN: 9781350476189
Format: Hardback
$170.00

An illuminating and comprehensive interrogation of the impacts of corruption on state structures and institutions...  Read More >>

Learning and Power in Late Antique Gaul: Classical Education and the End of Roman Rule

Learning and Power in Late Antique Gaul: Classical Education...

Author: Alison John (All Souls College, Oxford)
ISBN: 9781009543422
Format: Hardback
$316.80

This book explores the relationships between cultural practices and political structures in late antique Gaul. It...  Read More >>

Connected Cartographies: World Geography and the Sino-Western Translation of Knowledge, 1580-1842

Connected Cartographies: World Geography and the Sino-Western...

Author: Florin-Stefan Morar (National University of Singapore)
ISBN: 9781009636032
Format: Hardback
$316.80

This essential history tells the fascinating story of encounters between Chinese and Western traditions of world...  Read More >>

Cinema and Anachronism: The Mummy, the Crystal, the Atlas

Cinema and Anachronism: The Mummy, the Crystal, the...

Author: Daniele Dottorini
ISBN: 9781666941999
Format: Hardback
$190.00

This book establishes a starting point toward a theory of the anachronism of cinematic images through an exploration...  Read More >>

Russia’s Arctic: Climate Change, Domestic Policy, and Geopolitics

Russia’s Arctic: Climate Change, Domestic Policy, and...

Author: Professor Marlene Laruelle (Luiss Guido Carli University, Italy) ,  Emeritus Professor Jean Radvanyi (National Institute for Oriental Languages and Civilizations, France)
ISBN: 9781350552579
Format: Hardback
$100.00

An exploration of Russia’s Arctic policies and the strategic development of Russia’s regions and the Northern Sea...  Read More >>

Mass Observing the Coronation of Charles III: Monarchy, Spectacle and Experience

Mass Observing the Coronation of Charles III: Monarchy,...

Author: Jennifer J. Purcell (Saint Michael's College, Vermont, USA) ,  Lucy D. Curzon (University of Alabama, USA)
ISBN: 9781350441781
Format: Hardback
$140.00

An exploration of how the coronation of Charles III was experienced as a social and cultural event using the views...  Read More >>

Learn Black American Sign Language: A History and Complete Beginner's Guide with Over 200  Words and Phrases

Learn Black American Sign Language: A History and Complete...

Author: Franklin R. Jones Jr. ,  Dr. Carolyn McCaskill
ISBN: 9781577154525
Format: Hardback
$49.99

Learn Black American Sign Language shares details of its history and teaches everyday words alongside proper positions...  Read More >>

War Faces on Screen: Photography, Film and the Politics of Representation

War Faces on Screen: Photography, Film and the Politics...

Author: Dr. Katy Parry (University of Leeds, UK) ,  Mani Sharpe (University of Leeds, UK)
ISBN: 9798765129203
Format: Hardback
$180.00

An exploration of a range of different visual media to examine how our emotional connections and political responses...  Read More >>

A History of Canada in 15 Moments: Making and Remaking a Nation since 1867

A History of Canada in 15 Moments: Making and Remaking...

Author: Jeff Keshen (University of Regina, Canada) ,  Raymond B. Blake (University of Regina, Canada)
ISBN: 9781350408234
Format: Hardback
$130.00

A history of Canada from Confederation in 1867 to the present day through 15 key events and moments in the making...  Read More >>

Dictatorships and Authoritarianism in Modern German History

Dictatorships and Authoritarianism in Modern German...

Author: Dr André Keil (Liverpool John Moores University, UK) ,  Daniel Siemens (Newcastle University UK)
ISBN: 9781350267749
Format: Hardback
$140.00

An exploration of the extent to which dictatorship and authoritarianism have been a dominant feature of modern German...  Read More >>

The Making of Boko Haram: An Essential History

The Making of Boko Haram: An Essential History

Author: Dr Akali Omeni (University of St Andrews, UK)
ISBN: 9781350541061
Format: Hardback
$190.00

An essential and up-to-date look at Boko Haram that examines the historical antecedents, events and personalities...  Read More >>

New Horizons: A Four Decade Legacy Ohio, Michigan State, New Mexico State Universities 1971-2010

New Horizons: A Four Decade Legacy Ohio, Michigan State,...

Author: Paul E Huntsberger
ISBN: 9781489752888
Format: Paperback
$63.33

New Horizons: A Four Decade Legacy is the third memoir Paul E. Huntsberger has published to complete the chronicle...  Read More >>

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