Cornell University Press Forlag
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The Sympathetic Medium: Feminine Channeling, the Occult, and Communication Technologies, 1859-1919 (Electronic book text, Engelsk)Galvan offers a richly nuanced and culturally grounded analysis of the rise of the female medium in Great Britain and the United States during the Victorian era and through the turn of the century through the work of George Eliot, Bram Stoker, and others.
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Currency and Contest in East Asia: The Great Power Politics of Financial Regionalism (Electronic book text, Engelsk)Grimes uses primary research and interviews with scores of participants and policy analysts to provide the most accurate, complete, and detailed description available of attempts to build financial cooperation among East Asian countries.
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Asia's Flying Geese: How Regionalization Shapes Japan (Electronic book text, Engelsk)In Asia's Flying Geese, Walter F. Hatch tackles the puzzle of Japan's paradoxically slow change during the economic crisis it faced in the 1990s. Why didn't the purportedly unstoppable pressures of globalization force a rapid and radical shift in...
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Romantic Rocks, Aesthetic Geology (Electronic book text, Engelsk)This book reexamines a wide range of eighteenth- and nineteenth-century poetry to discover its relationship to a broad cultural consensus on the nature and value of geology, rocks, and landforms.
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Children Bound to Labor: The Pauper Apprentice System in Early America (Electronic book text, Engelsk)The history of early America cannot be told without considering unfree labor. At the center of this history are African and Native American adults forced into slavery; the children born to these unfree persons usually inherited their parents' status...
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Mapping the Americas: The Transnational Politics of Contemporary Native Culture (Electronic book text, Engelsk)In Mapping the Americas, Shari M. Huhndorf tracks changing conceptions of Native culture as it increasingly transcends national boundaries and takes up vital concerns such as global imperialism, and the commodification of indigenous cultures.
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Urban America Reconsidered: Alternatives for Governance and Policy (Electronic book text, Engelsk)The aftermath of Hurricane Katrina laid bare the tragedy of American cities. What the storm revealed about the social conditions in New Orleans shocked many Americans. Even more shocking is how widespread these conditions are throughout much of urban...
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Affirmative Action for the Future (Electronic book text, Engelsk)At a time when private and public institutions of higher education are reassessing their admissions policies in light of new economic conditions, Affirmative Action for the Future is a clarion call for the need to keep the door of opportunity open. In...
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Blue-Green Coalitions: Fighting for Safe Workplaces and Healthy Communities (Electronic book text, Engelsk)What do unions and environmental groups have to gain by working together and how do they overcome their differences? Brian Mayer looks at the role that health-related issues have played in creating a common ground between the two groups.
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The Patriotism of Despair: Nation, War, and Loss in Russia (Electronic book text, Engelsk)Examines the aftermath of the collapse of the Soviet Union, graphically described in spray paint by a graffiti artist in Barnaul: "We have no Motherland." Once socialism disappeared as a way of understanding the world, what replaced it in people's minds?
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War, Revenue, and State Building: Financing the Development of the American State (Electronic book text, Engelsk)Pollack shows how war, revenue, and institutional development are inextricably linked in the United States, delineating the mechanisms of political development and revealing the ways in which the United States, too, once was a "developing nation."
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Subprime Nation: American Power, Global Capital, and the Housing Bubble (Electronic book text, Engelsk)In his exceedingly timely and innovative look at the ramifications of the collapse of the U.S. housing market, chwartz makes the case that worldwide, U.S. growth and power over the last twenty years has depended in large part on domestic housing markets.
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