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MP-WIS Uni of Wisconsin Constitutional History of the American Revolution v. 4 Authority of Law
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.
£20.95
MP-WIS Uni of Wisconsin The Rise and Decline of the Zairian State
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MP-WIS Uni of Wisconsin Writing Desire Sixty Years of Gay Autobiography
Examines the changing identity of gay men writing within a historical context. By contrasting the personal experience of these disparate writers, this work illustrates the social transformations that these men helped shape.
£24.95
MP-WIS Uni of Wisconsin Field Guide to Wisconsin Streams Plants Fishes Invertebrates Amphibians and Reptiles
From spring-fed headwaters to quiet, marshy creeks and from tannin-stained northern reaches to broad southern tributaries winding through farmland, Wisconsin is home to 84,000 miles of streams. This guide is the ultimate companion for learning about Wisconsin stream life.
£26.96
MP-WIS Uni of Wisconsin The Cossack Hero in Russian Literature A Study in Cultural Mythology
Studies the development of the Cossack hero and identifies him as part of Russian cultural mythology. Judith Kornblatt explores the power of the myth as a literary image, aiming to provide challenging readings of 19th- and 20th-century works by Pushkin, Gogol, Tolstoi, Khlebnikov, Babel and others.
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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.
£20.95
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.
£17.95
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.
£20.95
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.
£28.35
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.
£25.65
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.
£22.95
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.
£24.95
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"".
£22.95
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.
£19.95
MP-WIS Uni of Wisconsin Collecting Music in the Aran Islands A Century of History and Practice
In presenting four substantial, historically valuable collections from the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, this book illustrates how understanding the motivations and training (or lack thereof) of individual music collectors significantly informs how we should approach their work and contextualize their place in the folk music canon.
£72.00
MP-WIS Uni of Wisconsin Religious Entanglements Central African Pentecostalism the Creation of Cultural Knowledge and the Making of the Luba Katanga
The Congo Evangelistic Mission (CEM) was one of the most successful classical Pentecostal missions in Africa. Maxwell examines the roles of CEM missionaries and their African collaborators in producing knowledge about Africa, illustrating the nature of discourses of identity in colonial Africa and how the Luba shaped missionary research.
£29.66
MP-WIS Uni of Wisconsin Afterlife
Grief fractures and scars. In Afterlife Michael Dhyne picks up the shattered remains, examining each shard in the light, attempting to find meaning - or at least understanding - in the death of his father.
£17.95
MP-WIS Uni of Wisconsin The Geography of Wisconsin
This accessible survey of Wisconsin geography is sure to delight scholars, students, and enthusiasts alike. A beautiful array of nearly 250 photographs and easy-to-read maps illustrate key geographical concepts and structures.
£35.96
MP-WIS Uni of Wisconsin Masked The Life of Anna Leonowens Schoolmistress at the Court of Siam
£26.06
MP-WIS Uni of Wisconsin Health in a Fragile State Science Sorcery and Spirit in the Lower Congo
Based on extensive field research in the Manianga region of the Lower Congo, Health in a Fragile State is an anthropological account of public health and health care after the collapse of the Congolese state in the 1980s and 1990s.
£75.56
MP-WIS Uni of Wisconsin Transformations Thinking After Heidegger
How are we to think and act constructively in the face of today's environmental and political catastrophes? Gail Stenstad finds answers in the thought of German philosopher Martin Heidegger. Stenstad's writing enacts Heidegger's transformative way of thinking; and brings new insight into contemporary environmental, political, and personal issues.
£23.85
MP-WIS Uni of Wisconsin Widescreen Dreams Growing Up Gay at the Movies
This is the author's memoir of moving through childhood to gay adulthood through visceral encounters with Hollywood movies: ""Hello Dolly!"", ""The Poseidon Adventure"", ""Dog Day Afternoon"" and ""The Sound of Music"" Oz"".
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MP-WIS Uni of Wisconsin The Wars inside Chiles Barracks Remembering Military Service under Pinochet
From 1973 to 1990 in Chile, approximately 370,000 young men were conscripted to serve as soldiers in Augusto Pinochet's violent regime. Some were brutal enforcers, but many endured physical and psychological abuse. Leith Passmore examines the emergence, in the early twenty-first century, of a movement of ex-conscripts seeking reparations.
£21.95
MP-WIS Uni of Wisconsin A Womans Civil War A Diary with Reminiscences of the War from March 1862
Cornelia Peake McDonald's story records a personal battle of her own - a southern woman's struggle in the midst of chaos to provide safety and shelter for herself and her nine children. Her diary shows that history is as much a domestic subject as an account of the public affairs of men.
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MP-WIS Uni of Wisconsin Nationalism and the Politics of Culture in Quebec
Richard Handler's groundbreaking study of nationalistic politics in Quebec is a striking and successful example of the new experimental type of ethnography, interdisciplinary in nature and intensively concerned with rhetoric and not only of anthropologists but also of scholars in a wide range of fields, and it is likely to stir sharp controversy.
£19.95
MP-WIS Uni of Wisconsin Understanding and Teaching Native American History
A timely and urgently needed remedy to a long-standing gap in history instruction. This volume is designed to help teachers effectively integrate Indigenous history and culture into their lessons, providing richly researched content and resources across the chronological and geographical landscape of what is now known as North America.
£26.95
MP-WIS Uni of Wisconsin Game Management P
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MP-WIS Uni of Wisconsin Mr. Dings Chicken Feet On a Slow Boat from Shanghai to Texas
After accepting a job teaching English on a small engineering vessel traveling from Shanghai to Texas, the author embarks on a journey with no ports of call but emotional landscapes. She invites readers to travel with her across cultural divides as deep and mysterious as the Pacific while she explores her own culture, orientation, and heart.
£21.95
MP-WIS Uni of Wisconsin Isaac Bashevis Singer A Life
Isaac Bashevis Singer brought the vibrant milieu of pre-Holocaust Polish Jewry to the English-speaking world through his subtle psychological insight, deep sympathy for the eccentricities of Jewish folk custom and unerring feel for the heroism of everyday life.
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MP-WIS Uni of Wisconsin Living with Africa
Sent to the Congo (Zaire) in the 50s, as fieldworker for a Belgian cultural agency, Vansina helped to found the field of African history as a scholarly speciality. This memoir describes Vansina's life and career on three continents, against the background of the collapse of colonialism in Africa.
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MP-WIS Uni of Wisconsin Teaching the Practitioners of Care New Pedagogies for the Health Professions
This work challenges educators to think in new ways about health professionals' educational environment and the roles played by learners, teachers and the recipients of health care.
£26.06
MP-WIS Uni of Wisconsin Race in America The Struggle for Equality
A multidisciplinary analysis of race and justice. The major controversial issues in race relations, from past and present, such as affirmative action, educational segregation, labour union racial practices, the persistence of racism in American institutions are discussed.
£18.95
