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Self-Development Ethics and Politics in China Today: A Keyword Approach (Bog, Hardback, Engelsk)
This volume takes readers on a journey into a central aspect of life in China, “self-development. Whether prompted by the cultural... Læs mere
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Chinese Popular Religion in Text and Acts (Bog, Hardback, Engelsk)
This volume explores practices and experiences in Chinese popular religion. The research adds new materials and new approaches to well-known worships such as... Læs mere
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European Women's Letter-writing from the 11th to the 20th Centuries (Bog, Hardback, Engelsk)
This book reveals the importance of personal letters in the history of European women between the year 1000 and the advent of the telephone. It explores the changing ways that women used correspondence for self-expression and political mobilization over this period.
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Art and Witchcraft in Early Modern Italy (Bog, Hardback, Engelsk)
This book seeks to explore the ways in which representations of witchcraft emerged from and coincided with the main cultural currents and artistic climate of an epoch chiefly celebrated for its humanistic and rational approaches.
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Documentary Industrial Novels and the Sociology of Work in the Twentieth Century: The United States, the Soviet Union and Western Europe (Bog, Hardback, Engelsk)
This book focuses on the modernist industrial novel as written in five large industrial nations: the United States before WWII, the Stalinist Soviet Union, Weimar Germany, post-WWII Italy, and France.
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Monstrosity, Bodies, and Knowledge in Early Modern England: Curiosity to See and Behold (Bog, Hardback, Engelsk)
This book ties together social and medical history, Disability Studies, and Monster Studies to argue that people... Læs mere
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Border History from a Borneo Longhouse: The Search for a Life that is Very Good (Bog, Hardback, Engelsk)
A headman of a remote Kelabit longhouse in Borneo is wrestling with recent changes caused by logging and roadbuilding. During this time of tension, he tells three historical narratives defining what makes the good life.
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The Codex Borbonicus Veintena Imagery: Visualizing History, Time, and Ritual in Aztec Solar-Year Festivals (Bog, Hardback, Engelsk)
This work examines the Codex Borbonicus, a 16th-century Mexica (Aztec) pictorial manuscript documenting 18 twenty-day festival periods (veintenas) of the 365-day solar year
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Designs on Pots: Ban Chiang and the Politics of Heritage in Thailand (Bog, Hardback, Engelsk)
The prehistoric site of Ban Chiang in northeast Thailand challenges the narrative of Thai origins, while at the same time appealing to... Læs mere
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Sound in Indian Film and Audiovisual Media: History, Practices and Production (Bog, Hardback, Engelsk)
This pioneering book examines Indian film sound through artistic research, addressing a scholarly gap in Global South media studies.
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Trade, Globalization, and Dutch Art and Architecture: Interrogating Dutchness and the Golden Age (Bog, Hardback, Engelsk)
This book examines the Dutch so-called “Golden Age” though its artistic and architectural legacy,... Læs mere
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Making Monuments from Mass Graves in Contemporary Spain: Resistance through Remembrance (Bog, Hardback, Engelsk)
This book narrates how, beginning in 1936, bodies buried in mass graves during the Spanish War and subsequent dictatorship were turned into monuments.
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