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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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.

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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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In these poems, well-known spaces both reassure and imperil, and language both anchors and disorients. Molly Spencer's speakers navigate the landscape of human experience, building upon the cycles of a household throughout the seasons of the year.

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Explores the plight of gypsies in Germany before, during and since the era of the Third Reich. The book reveals the painful record of the official treatment of the German Gypsies, from the heightened racism of the 19th century, to the National Socialist genocidal policies and up to the present day.

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Talks about Bette Davis's role of a dying heroine.

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An attempt to answer the major question of the 1930s: would democracy or dictatorship prevail? This book talks about The Warner Bros studio's eagerness to get behind the foreign policy objectives of FDR.

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Provides edited accounts of six English voyagers and their experiences in Muscovy Russia between 1553 and 1600. With modernised spelling and presentation, these accounts are accompanied by a glossary of Russian terms, introductions of their authors, and annotations that help put the travellers’ narratives into perspective.

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This text explores the relationship between dancing bodies and sexual identity on the concert stage, in nightclubs, in film, in the courts and on the streets and tracks the intersections of dance and human sexuality in the twentieth century as the definition of each has shifted and expanded.

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The traditional narrative of the Russian Civil War is one of revolution against counterrevolution, Bolshevik Reds against Tsarist Whites. Liudmila Novikova convincingly demonstrates, however, that the struggle was not between a Communist future and a Tsarist past; instead, it was a bloody fight among diverse factions of a modernizing postrevolutionary state.

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This is the second edition of Stern's account of the Indians of the Ayachucho region of Peru during the century that followed the Spanish Conquest. Following ten years of historical interpretation, the author is now able to set his analysis of Huamanga in a larger perspective.

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Reveals the play as a key to Roman social relations centered on many kinds of slavery: to sex, money, and family structure; to masculinity and social standing; to senility and partying; and to jokes, lies, and idiocy. This work includes comprehensive commentary, useful indexes, and a pronunciation guide.

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Since the 1960 publication of her first novel, ""The Country Girls"", award-winning Irish writer Edna O'Brien has been both celebrated and maligned. This book situates her in Irish contexts that allow for an appraisal of her contribution to Irish women's literary tradition while attesting to the potency of writing against patriarchal conventions.

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Examines interactions between transition to democracy in South Africa and South African women's movement. This work explores the gendered nature of liberation and regime change. It reveals how women's political organizations both shaped, and were shaped by the broader democratic movement offering a historically informed discussion.

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This work examines the relationship between European and indigenous Andean ways of understanding the past. Following field work in Bolivia, the author argues that complex Andean rituals have hybridized European and indigenous traditions and are evidence of a keen social memory in the community.

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Talks about ""The Jazz Singer"", the first feature length film with spoken dialog as part of the dramatic action. This film deals with the conflicts confronting the first-generation Jew in America.

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Contributors to this volume address such topics as the role of the 1960s Asian American movement in creating Japanese American taiko groups, and the experience of internment during World War II influencing butoh dance in Canada. The volume includes first-person narratives, interviews, ethnography, cultural studies, and performance studies.

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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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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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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.

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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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