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Cantinieres and vivandieres were women who served as official, uniformed combat auxiliaries of French army units from 1793 to the eve of World War I. Technically non-combatant spouses of active-duty soldiers, they fought and died in every conflict from the wars. This book is a study of a previously ignored aspect of women's and military history.

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Focuses on modernism as a global phenomenon. This work considers modernism as it was expressed in the non-Western world; the contradictions at the heart of modernization; and modernism's imagined geographies, "pyschogeographies" of distance and desire as viewed by the subaltern, the caste-bound, the racially mixed, and the gender-determined.

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A handbook for hikers on this scenic and challenging trail

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From clothing as an expression of freedom in early colonial Zanzibar to Somali women's headcovering in inner-city Minneapolis, this work explores the power of dress in African and pan-African settings. Nationalist and diasporic identities, as well as their histories and politics, are examined at the level of what is put on the body every day.

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A collection of essays, which embrace environmental philosophy in its broadest sense. It covers topics such as environmental ethics, environmental aesthetics, ontology, theology, gender and the environment, and the role of science and technology in forming knowledge about our world.

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Provides a framework for understanding the persistence of the Western view of woman as inferior.

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Drawing on interviews with a cross-section of Muscovites, this study recounts how people made sense of the acute uncertainties of everyday life. It describes the identities and competencies that emerged in response to these challenges in various domains, from consumption and daily rhetoric to urban geography and health care.

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This translation recreates Dante's vision of Purgatory. It aims to use the same flexible iambic verse, dignified understatement and elegant clarity that characterizes Dante's own sytle.

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For description and defense of the narrative configurations of everyday life, and of the practical and social character of those narratives, there is no better treatment than Time, Narrative, and History. . . . a clear, judicious, and truthful account, provocative from beginning to end. Journal of the British Society for Phenomenology . . . a superior work of philosophy that tells a unique and insightful story about narrative. Quarterly Journal of Speech

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From the 1920s through the 1960s, scores of small, independent record companies nurtured distinctly American music: jazz, blues, gospel, country, rhythm and blues, and the 1950s offspring of R&B, rock n' roll. This title profiles ten such companies.

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Introduces English-speaking readers to the extensive epic traditions in Africa.

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Intimacy and AIDS in South Africa

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Tells the story of a largely ignored campaign to determine why it did not devolve into the mud and misery of trench warfare

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Identifies the decisive moments in the development of the concept of responsibility, retrieves its origins, and explores the reflections on it. This book states that responsibility is less about a sovereign subject establishing a sphere of power and control than about exposure to an event that does not come from us and yet calls to us.

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"Heidegger on Being and Acting" is useful to understanding the later Heidegger.

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Considers really big animals and how they lived

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Railroad historian Fred Ash tells the story of Chicago Union Station and documents the impact it had on the growing city and the entire Midwest, including over 100 stunning photographs and the fascinating stories of businessmen, politicians, workers, and immigrants whose everyday lives were affected by the bustling transportation hub.

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