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MP-WIS Uni of Wisconsin Memories of Lac Du Flambeau Elders
A collection of interviews with 15 Ojibwe elders of the Lac du Flambeau Band of Lake Superior Chippewa Indians in northern Wisconsin. The elders, in their 70s and 80s when interviewed, all experienced enormous changes in their lifetimes. They discuss these changes as well as Ojibwe traditions and beliefs
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MP-WIS Uni of Wisconsin The Detective as Historian History and Art in Historical Crime Fiction
Readers of detective stories turn to historical crime fiction to learn about life in past societies and how citizens and crime fighters coped with laws and restrictions. This study covers all recorded history - from ancient Egypt, through Classical Greece and Rome, to medieval Europe.
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MP-WIS Uni of Wisconsin Four Russian Serf Narratives
Identifying and documenting the conditions of Russian serfs has proven difficult because the Russian state discouraged literacy among the serfs and censored public expressions of dissent. This title offers a collection of autobiographies by serfs.
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MP-WIS Uni of Wisconsin Keepers of the Wolves The Early Years of Wolf Recovery in Wisconsin
In this text, Richard P. Thiel tells the tale of his ten years at the centre of efforts to track and protect the recovery of wolves in Northern Wisconsin. The book conveys the wonder, frustrations, humour and hard work of field biologists, as well as the politics that accompanies their profession.
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MP-WIS Uni of Wisconsin The Discourse of Marriage in the GrecoRoman World
Demonstrates the varying conceptions of an institution that was central to ancient social and political life-and remains prominent in the modern world. This book contributes to understanding of the era and will fascinate anyone interested in depictions of marriage and the role and status of women in the late Hellenistic and early Imperial periods.
£89.10
MP-WIS Uni of Wisconsin Half
Written in spare,lyrical prose, Half is an achingly beautiful story of intimacy and loss, revealing the complexity - and cost - of sharing your life entirely with someone else. Sharon Harrigan deftly explores how fierce love can also be the very thing that leads to heartbreak and betrayal.
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MP-WIS Uni of Wisconsin Archiving the Unspeakable Silence Memory and the Photographic Record in Cambodia
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MP-WIS Uni of Wisconsin As If a Song Could Save You
Blue sky, yellow flowers, cool jazz, and Renaissance poetry all inhabit Betsy Sholl’s latest collection of poetry. Grounded in the everyday but never mundane, these poems remind readers of the wonders that surround us.
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MP-WIS Uni of Wisconsin Confronting Historical Paradigms Peasants Labor and the Capitalist World System in Africa and Latin America
Argues that confrontation with major paradigms of world history has marked African and Latin American history during the last quarter-century and that the process has dramatically restructured historical and theoretical understanding of peasantries, labour and the capitalist world system.
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MP-WIS Uni of Wisconsin My Sisters Mother A Memoir of War Exile and Stalins Siberia
In the 1950s, baby boomer Donna Solecka Urbikas grew up in the American Midwest yearning for a “normal” American family. But her Polish-born mother and half sister had endured hunger, disease, and desperate escape from slave labour in Siberia. In this unforgettable memoir, Donna recounts her family history and her own survivor's story.
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MP-WIS Uni of Wisconsin Home of the Braves The Battle for Baseball in Milwaukee
In 1953, the Boston Braves relocated to Milwaukee, finding success with stars like Hank Aaron. To fans, it was the dawn of a new dynasty - making it even more of a shock when the owners announced in 1964 that the Braves would move once again. Patrick Steele examines all facets of the story to understand why the ""Milwaukee Miracle"" went south.
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MP-WIS Uni of Wisconsin Constitutional History of the American Revolution v. 3 Authority to Legislate
This work addresses the central constitutional issues that divided the American colonists from their English legislators: the authority to tax, the authority to legislate, the security of rights, the nature of law, and the foundation of constitutional government in custom and contractarian theory.
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MP-WIS Uni of Wisconsin Freedom in White and Black A Lost Story of the Illegal Slave Trade and Its Global Legacy
Sheds fascinating light on the early development of the nations of Sierra Leone, Liberia, and Australia and the role of former slaves in combatting the post 1808 illegal slave trade.
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MP-WIS Uni of Wisconsin A Duel of Giants Bismarck Napoleon III and the Origins of the FrancoPrussian War
Here, David Wetzel depicts the drama of machinations and passions that exploded in the war that forever changed the face of Europe. He provides a clear narrative of the diplomatic background to the outbreak of the Franco-Prussian War.
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MP-WIS Uni of Wisconsin Reset in Stone Memory and Reuse in Ancient Athens
Ancient Athenians were known to reuse stone artifacts, architectural blocks, and public statuary in the creation of new buildings and monuments. Sarah Rous develops the concept of upcycling to refer to this meaningful reclamation, the intentionality of reemploying each particular object for its specific new context.
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MP-WIS Uni of Wisconsin How to Kill a Goat and Other Monsters
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MP-WIS Uni of Wisconsin Outlawed Pigs Law Religion and Culture in Israel
The prohibition against pigs is one of the most powerful symbols of Jewish culture. This title explores how the historical sensitivity of Jews to the pig prohibition was incorporated into Israeli law and culture. It offers a decade-by-decade discussion of the relationship between law and culture since the inception of the Israeli nation-state.
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MP-WIS Uni of Wisconsin Fieldwork Dilemmas Anthropologists in Postsocialist States
Focusing on former socialist states in Eastern Europe, the contributors disclose the political and physical dangers inherent in field research. They reveal how communities undergo political and economic dislocations, plummeting living standards, and ethnic and nationalist violence.
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MP-WIS Uni of Wisconsin Thinking Like a Mountain Aldo Leopold and the Evolution of an Ecological Attitude Toward Deer Wolves and Forests
This new edition analyses Leopold's essay, which explores issues of predation by studying the interrelationships between deer, wolves and forests. Flader shows how Leopold's approach to wildlife evolved from, amongst others, his experiences restoring the deer population in the USA.
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MP-WIS Uni of Wisconsin Holding the World Together African Women in Changing Perspective
Suitable for classroom use, this comprehensive volume demonstrates social, economic, and cultural changes on the African continent and internationally.
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MP-WIS Uni of Wisconsin Agents of Terror Ordinary Men and Extraordinary Violence in Stalins Secret Police
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MP-WIS Uni of Wisconsin Bosnian Croatian Serbian A Textbook with Exercises and Basic Grammar
An introduction to three of the languages of the former Yugoslav Republic - Bosnian, Croatian, and Serbian. Dialogues and exercises are presented in each language, shown side by side for easy comparison, and Serbian is rendered in both its Latin and its C
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MP-WIS Uni of Wisconsin Cultured Force Makers and Defenders of the French Colonial Empire
Bridging gaps between intellectual history, biography, and military/colonial history, Barnett Singer and John Langdon provide a challenging, readable interpretation of French imperialism and some of its leading figures from the early modern era to the Fifth Republic.
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MP-WIS Uni of Wisconsin Fascism in Spain 192377
This study analyzes all the major doctrines, personalities and defining features of the Spanish fascist movement, from its beginnings until the death of General Francisco Franco. It also seeks to explain why Franco was able to hold onto power long after Fascism was a spent force in politics.
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MP-WIS Uni of Wisconsin Hellenistic Poetry An Anthology
A selection of poetry covering the full range of Hellenistic poetic genres, this anthology includes translations of ""Argonautica"" and eight of Theocritus's ""Idylls"". The author has also written ""The Hellenistic Aesthetic"".
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MP-WIS Uni of Wisconsin Dancing Many Drums Excavations in African American Dance
This volume explores the influence of African American music on world culture. It brings together issues of race, gender, politics, history and dance, includes discussions of dance instruction songs, the blues aesthetic, and Katherine Dunham's controversial ballet about lynching, ""Southland"".
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MP-WIS Uni of Wisconsin Event History Analysis in Life Course Research Life Course Studies
A compendium of studies drawn from an international conference, this volume includes work on event history analysis. Researchers at four institutions convened, shared models of analysis, and collected their findings for the first time.
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MP-WIS Uni of Wisconsin Word Atlas of Pennsylvania German
This reference documents linguistic variations in Pennsylvania German (also known as Pennsylvania Dutch), the dialect now spoken primarily by Old Order Amish and Old Order Mennonite communities in the US. More than 160 maps show regional variants for a word or grammatical form.
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MP-WIS Uni of Wisconsin Popular Culture in the Middle Ages
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MP-WIS Uni of Wisconsin Rural Society and Cotton in Colonial Zaire
Focusing on the years 1917 to 1960, this work examines the complex and lasting effects of forced cotton cultivation in central Africa. Local plots gave way to commercial fields, creating social, environmental and economic change.
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MP-WIS Uni of Wisconsin A Bold Profession African Nurses in Rural Apartheid South Africa
In rural South African clinics, Black nurses had to navigate the intersections of traditional African healing practices, changing gender relations, and increasing educational and economic opportunities for South Africa's Black middle class. Leslie Anne Hadfield demonstrates how these women were able to reshape notions of health and healing.
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MP-WIS Uni of Wisconsin American Sex Tape
In this stunning debut collection, Jameka Williams offers a deeply personal investigation into how Americans (herself included) have been duped, buying into classism, sexism, and racist beauty ideals, while sacrificing the freedom of self-love and self-determination.
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MP-WIS Uni of Wisconsin Creating Spaniards Culture and National Identity in Republican Spain
This history explains the intersection of politics and culture, and the formation of a national identity, during Spain's Second Republic and Civil War. It counters recent scholarship claiming that leaders of the Second Republic had no programmes to encourage a Spanish national identity.
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MP-WIS Uni of Wisconsin The Elusive Empire Kazan and the Creation of Russia 15521671
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MP-WIS Uni of Wisconsin The Deafmute Boy
Maurice Burke, an archaeologist, is invited to speak at a conference in the bustling port town of Sousse, Tunisia. At first disillusioned by its rampant tourism and squalid commercialism, Maurice becomes intrigued by his surroundings after meeting a deaf-mute boy. This is the tale of a gay American professor immersed in a North African society.
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MP-WIS Uni of Wisconsin Basic Technical Japanese
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MP-WIS Uni of Wisconsin Come Clean
Joshua Nguyen’s sharp, songlike, and often experimental collection compartmentalizes past trauma- sexual and generational - through the quotidian. These poems aim to confront the speaker’s past by physically, and mentally, cleaning up.
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MP-WIS Uni of Wisconsin The Iconography of Sculptured Statue Bases in the Archaic and Classical Periods
This is a comprehensive collection of material on sculptured statue bases which should be of interest to archaeologists, historians of art and of religion, and scholars of ancient culture (including athletics and gender studies).
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MP-WIS Uni of Wisconsin A Guide to Scenes of Daily Life on Athenian Vases
The first comprehensive volume to present visual representations of everything from pets and children's games to drunken revelry and funerary rituals. John Oakley's clear, accessible writing provides sound information with just the right amount of detail. Specialists of Greek art will welcome this book for its text and illustrations.
£31.46
MP-WIS Uni of Wisconsin Thinking Orthodox in Modern Russia Culture History Context
Illuminates the significant role of Russian Orthodox thought in shaping the discourse of educated society during the imperial and early Soviet periods. Bringing together an array of scholars, this book demonstrates that Orthodox reflections on spiritual, philosophical, and aesthetic issues of the day informed much of Russia’s intellectual and cultural climate.
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MP-WIS Uni of Wisconsin Classics in Translation
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MP-WIS Uni of Wisconsin Mazel
Sasha Saunders is the daughter of a Polish rabbi who wins renown as a Yiddish actress. Her daughter Chloe becomes a professor of classics, and Chloe's daughter Phoebe becomes a mathematician who is drawn to traditional Judaism and the domestic life her mother and grandmother rejected.
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MP-WIS Uni of Wisconsin Rise of the Brao Ethnic Minorities in Northeastern Cambodia during Vietnamese Occupation
In the early 1970s, the Khmer Rouge became suspicious of communist Vietnam and began to persecute Cambodian ethnic groups who had ties to the country, including the Brao Amba. Many fled north as political refugees, and some joined the Vietnamese effort to depose the Khmer Rouge. This book ecxplores this troubled period.
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MP-WIS Uni of Wisconsin Cultures of Secrecy Reinventing Race in Bush Kaliai Cargo Cults
This volume offers information on how, for 50 years, the bush Kaliai in Melanesia have worked the deserted cargo left by US Marines during World War II into their indigenous culture. The author seeks to show how cargo cults in general bring together past, present and future.
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MP-WIS Uni of Wisconsin Things No Longer There A Memoir of Losing Sight and Finding Vision
A collection of personal stories about the author's struggle toward enlightenment while losing her eyesight. It is also about invisible landscapes - places of the heart that linger long after they have disappeared from the world outside.
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MP-WIS Uni of Wisconsin Embodying Honor Fertility Foreignness and Regeneration in Eastern Sudan
In the Red Sea Hills of eastern Sudan, where poverty, famines, and conflict loom large, women struggle to gain the status of responsible motherhood. But biological fate can be capricious in impoverished settings. This work shows how Muslim Hadendowa women manage health and reproductive suffering in their quest to become ""responsible"" mothers.
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MP-WIS Uni of Wisconsin Living at the Edge A Biography of D.H. Lawrence and Frieda Von Richthofen
This double biography explores Lawrence and von Richthofen's collision with an industrial world they hated and chronicles their stormy marriage. The strong sexual vitality that inspired Lawrence's art brought both joy and anguish to his marriage.
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MP-WIS Uni of Wisconsin Setsukos Secret Heart Mountain and the Legacy of the Japanese American Incarceration
Moving seamlessly between family and communal history, Setsuko's Secret offers a clear window into a ""camp life"" that was rarely revealed to the children of the incarcerated. This volume powerfully insists that we reckon with the pain in our collective American past.
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