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Race Against Empire: Black Americans and Anticolonialism, 1937–1957 (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)Marshaling evidence from a wide array of international sources, Penny M. Von Eschen offers a vivid portrayal of the African diaspora in its international heyday, from the 1945 Manchester Pan-African Congress to the UN.
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The Origins of Major War (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)Copeland asks why governments make decisions that lead to, sustain, and intensify conflicts, drawing on detailed historical narratives of several twentieth-century cases, including World War I, World War II, and the Cold War.
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The Origins of Greek Thought (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)Jean-Pierre Vernant's concise, brilliant essay on the origins of Greek thought relates the cultural achievement of the ancient Greeks to their physical and social environment and shows that what they believed in was inseparable from the way they...
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Subterranean Cities: The World Beneath Paris and London, 1800–1945 (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)The underground has been a dominant image of modern life since the late eighteenth century. A site of crisis, fascination, and hidden truth, the underground is a space at once more immediate and more threatening than the ordinary world above. In...
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The Possible and the Actual: Readings in the Metaphysics of Modality (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)This well-chosen collection of fifteen important essays in the fields of philosophical logic and metaphysics addresses questions relating to the nature and status of possible...
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Perceiving God: The Epistemology of Religious Experience (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)A clear and provocative account of the epistemology of religious experience.
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Pivotal Deterrence: Third-Party Statecraft and the Pursuit of Peace (Bog, Hardback, Engelsk)As the preponderant world power, the United States is a potential arbiter of war and peace between such feuding rivals as India and Pakistan, Turkey and Greece, China and Taiwan. How can it deter them from going to war and impel them to accept...
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The Peace of Nicias and the Sicilian Expedition (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)In the third volume of his four-volume history of the Peloponnesian War, Donald Kagan examines the years between the signing of the peace treaty and the destruction of the Athenian expedition to Sicily in 413 B.C.
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The Prince of Darkness: Radical Evil and the Power of Good in History (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)While recounting how past generations have personified evil, Jeffrey Burton Russell deepens our understanding of the ways in which people have dealt with the enduring problem of radical evil.
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Story and Discourse: Narrative Structure in Fiction and Film (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)For the specialist in the study of narrative structure, this is a solid and very perceptive exploration of the issues salient to the telling of a story—whatever the medium.
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Shimmering in a Transformed Light: Writing the Still Life (Bog, Hardback, Engelsk)Although much has been written lately on the links between painting and writing, little or no attention has been paid to those moments in literature when the narrative stops to allow for the description of those objects we associate with still life...
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Talking About Machines: An Ethnography of a Modern Job (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)This is a story of how work gets done. It is also a study of how field service technicians talk about their work and how that talk is instrumental in their success. In his innovative ethnography, Julian E. Orr studies the people who repair...
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