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What Else Is Pastoral?: Renaissance Literature and the Environment (Bog, Hardback, Engelsk)A corrective to the prevailing interpretation of pastoral poetry that shows the value of reading literature ecologically.
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Trading Places: Colonization and Slavery in Eighteenth-Century French Culture (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)Dobie explores the place of the colonial world in the culture of the French Enlightenment, tracing the displacement of colonial questions onto two familiar aspects of Enlightenment thought: Orientalism and fascination with Amerindian cultures.
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Whole World on Fire: Organizations, Knowledge, and Nuclear Weapons Devastation (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)Whole World on Fire focuses on a technical riddle wrapped in an organizational mystery: How and why, for more than half a century, did the U.S. government fail to predict nuclear fire damage as it drew up plans to fight strategic nuclear war? U.S...
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Warring Friends: Alliance Restraint in International Politics (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)Pressman draws on and critiques realist, normative, and institutionalist understandings of how alliance decisions are made.
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The Witness and the Other World: Exotic European Travel Writing, 400–1600 (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)Surveying exotic travel writing in Europe from late antiquity to the age of discover, The Witness and the Other World illustrates the fundamental human desire to change places, if only in the imagination. Mary B. Campbell looks at works by pilgrims...
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Red to Green: Environmental Activism in Post-Soviet Russia (Electronic book text, Engelsk)Red to Green is an organizational analysis of popular environmental mobilization that addresses the continuing role of the Soviet legacy, the influence of transnational actors, and the relevance of social mobilization theory to the Russian case.
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Lines of Equity: Literature and the Origins of Law in Later Stuart England (Electronic book text, Engelsk)Confronted by a public that seemed to be sunk in barbarism and violence, English writers including John Milton, John Dryden, and Aphra Behn imagined serious literature as an instrument for change.
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An Outsider in the White House: Jimmy Carter, His Advisors, and the Making of American Foreign Policy (Electronic book text, Engelsk)Jimmy Carter entered the White House with a desire for a collegial staff that would aid his foreign-policy decision making. He wound up with a "team of rivals" who contended for influence and who fought over his every move regarding foreign affairs.
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Fictions of Embassy: Literature and Diplomacy in Early Modern Europe (Electronic book text, Engelsk)Historians of early modern Europe have long stressed how new practices of diplomacy that emerged during the period transformed European politics. Fictions of Embassy is the first book to examine the cultural implications of the rise of modern...
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Melting-Pot Modernism (Electronic book text, Engelsk)"An intelligent and beautifully written examination of the 'melting pot' as taken up in the work of four modernist writers: Henry James, James Weldon Johnson, Willa Cather, and Gertrude Stein."-Christopher Douglas, University of Victoria
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The Lotus and the Lion: Buddhism and the British Empire (Electronic book text, Engelsk)Buddhism is indisputably gaining prominence in the West, as is evidenced by the growth of Buddhist practice within many traditions and keen interest in meditation and mindfulness. In The Lotus and the Lion, J. Jeffrey Franklin traces the historical...
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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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