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Investigates the legal, literary, social, and institutional creation of disrepute in ancient Roman society. The book tracks the shifting application of stigmas of disrepute between the Republic and Late Antiquity by following groups of professionals - funeral workers, criers, tanners, mint workers, and even bakers - and asking how they coped with stigmatization.

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Human variation has always existed, though it has been conceived of and responded to variably. Beholding Disability in Renaissance England interprets sixteenth- and seventeenth-century literature to explore the fraught distinctiveness of human bodyminds and the deliberate ways they were constructed in early modernity as able, and not.

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Provides the first collection of essays dedicated to LGBTQ issues in children's literature. Bringing together significant essays and introducing new work, this will serve both as a scholarly reference and as a textbook for students of children's studies, gender/queer studies, and related disciplines such as English, history, sociology, and education.

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Investigating almost 10,000 works of fiction in the world's largest collection of mass-digitized historical newspapers (the National Library of Australia's Trove database), A World of Fiction reconceptualizes how fiction traveled globally, and was received and understood locally, in the 19th century.

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The poetry of Yosano Akiko covers all the many and varied aspects of the experience of love - from early romantic encounters between the lover and beloved to the intimate pleasures of mutual infatuation and then true love.

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Analyses the creation of different sovereign wealth funds (SWFs) from a comparative political economy perspective, arguing that different state-society structures at the sectoral level are the drivers for SWF variation. Juergen Braunstein focuses on the early formation period of SWFs, a critical but little understood area.

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Presents a postcolonial approach to discussing the visual culture of two now-notorious regimes: King Leopold II’s Congo Colony and the state sites of Mobutu Sese Seko’s totalitarian Zaire. Readers are brought into the living remains of sites once made up of ambitious modernist architecture and art in Kinshasa, Democratic Republic of the Congo.

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These papyri provide the first secure information, in concrete detail, on the purposes and the effects of the imperial tax reform under Diocletian at the end of the 3rd century and the beginning of the 4th. They also throw much new light on the 4th-century practice of “public liturgy” - the administrative device of making up the lack of money in the state treasury by compulsory labor service.

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Digs deeply into previously undiscovered archival evidence to examine Piero della Francesca's yet unstudied earliest works and their connections to his putative formation in Florence. James Banker's historical investigation integrates social and art history to provide a rich and informative cultural context for della Francesca's development.

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For anyone who has completed studies in elementary Greek, this edition provides the assistance necessary to read, understand, and appreciate the first book of the Iliad in its original language. Structured to maximize reading ease, P.A. Draper's volume stands out among introductions to the Greek Iliad.

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The effect of Islam on Western Europe has been profound. Spektorowski and Elfersy argue that it has transformed European democratic values by inspiring an ultra-liberalism that now faces an ultra-conservative backlash.

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Presents a collection by leading theater performers, practitioners, critics, and passionate spectators. This book offers a backstage pass to the personal and creative lives of some of the most important and influential theater artists of the past years.

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In exploring the microfoundations of economic growth, the contributors to this volume focus on three subjects that were of profound interest to the great Austrian and Harvard economist, Joseph A. Schumpeter: innovation, technological change, and economic growth.

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Presents the case that legislative bodies - long characterized as institutionalized and therefore static - are in fact changing at a surprising rate. Focusing on the parliaments of Britain, Germany, Italy, Scandinavia, Turkey, and Central and Eastern Europe, contributors try to understand how, when, and why parliaments modify themselves.

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Investigates the mergers of six of America's most respected teaching hospitals. The author explains the reasons why these institutions decided to change their governance and the factors that have allowed two of them to continue to operate while forcing the third to dissolve after only 23 months of operation.

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A history of Miletos is long overdue. Despite the significance of this city in antiquity and the results of ongoing excavations, the last full-scale discussion of Miletos was written in 1915. Vanessa Gorman provides the first modern history of the city, collecting and scrutinizing sources from the first signs of habitation until 400 BCE.

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Argues that the social history of early-20th-century Germany has elided an important cultural and social phenomenon by not including the story of German Jewish women and suicide. Nothing Happened is a historiographic intervention that operates in conversation and in tension with contemporary theory about trauma and the reconstruction of emotion in history.

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While conventional definitions locate colonial space overseas, Kristin Kopp argues that it was possible to understand both distant continents and adjacent Eastern Europe as parts of the same global periphery dependent upon Western European civilizing efforts. However, proximity to the source of aid translated to greater benefits for Eastern Europe than for more distant regions.

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Compares the growth achieved in Japan and Europe with the frustrated growth in the major societies of mainland Eurasia. More broadly, this book is about the conflict in world history between economic growth and political greed.

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Examines jazz music and the jazz artists who shaped Germany's exposure to this African American art form from 1919 to 1933. Jonathan O. Wipplinger explores the history of jazz in Germany as well as the roles that music, race (especially Blackness), and America played in German culture and follows the debate over jazz through the fourteen years of Germany's first democracy.

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Focuses on how playwrights have written stage directions that engage readers, production team members, and scholars in a process of embodied creation in order to determine meaning. Bess Rowen calls the products of this method ‘affective stage directions’ because they reach out from the page and affect the bodies of those who encounter them.

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Uses examples from the United States, Western Europe, and Russia to demonstrate historical patterns of Othering people, as well as how marginalized people fight back against dominant powers that seek to silence or erase them.

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Brings together a list of experts in the field of campaign effects to study the influence of campaigns on our political culture. This work explores various campaign factors - debates, news coverage, advertising, and polls - and their effects - priming, learning, and persuasion. It examines different kinds of campaigns in the US and abroad.

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Examines the turbulent period of South Korea's Fourth Republic (1972-79), beginning with its declaration by Park Chung Hee and ending with his assassination. This volume brings together a wide range of scholars to explore the rich and varied cultural production of the Yusin period, especially in its relationship to state power.

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For fifty-five years US-Cuban relations were couched in terms of the Cold War, often pitting Cubans in the diaspora against Cubans who remained in their homeland. This collection of Cuban and Cuban-American writing and art celebrates the informal networks that Cubans in both countries have maintained through artistic, academic, family, and other ties.

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Minimalism stands as the key representative of 1960s radicalism in art music histories - but always as a failed project. In The Names of Minimalism, Patrick Nickleson holds in buzzing tension collaborative composers in the period of their collaboration, as well as the musicological policing of authorship in the wake of their eventual disputes.

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Explores women’s self-conceptions and representations of women’s and gender roles in society in their own Expressionist works. The book centres its analysis on gender, together with difference, ethnicity, intersectionality, and identity, to approach artworks and texts in more nuanced ways.

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South Korea is sometimes held as a dream case of modernization theory, a testament to how economic development leads to democracy. Seeds of Mobilization takes a closer look at the history of South Korea to show that Korea’s advance to democracy was not linear.

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