Duke University Press Forlag
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Houses in a Landscape: Memory and Everyday Life in Mesoamerica (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
An examination of the connections between social identity and social memory using archaeological research on indigenous societies that existed more than one thousand years ago in what is now Honduras.
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Empire of Care: Nursing and Migration in Filipino American History (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
Presents an examination of how the migration of nurses from the Philippines to the US is inextricably linked to American imperialism and the US colonization of the Philippine Islands in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.
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Tropical Zion: General Trujillo, FDR, and the Jews of Sosua (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
A history of Sosua, a Dominican Republic settlement founded as a refuge for Jews fleeing Nazi Europe, and an analysis of the geopolitics underlying the settlement s formation.
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Babylon Girls: Black Women Performers and the Shaping of the Modern (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
Presents a cultural history of the African American women who performed in variety shows - chorus lines, burlesque revues, cabaret... Læs mere
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A Master on the Periphery of Capitalism: Machado De Assis (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
A translation (from the original Portuguese) of the author's study of Brazilian novelist Machado de Assis (1839-1908). It focuses on Machado's... Læs mere
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Cold War Femme: Lesbianism, National Identity, and Hollywood Cinema (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
Interpretations of Hollywood films of the 1950s and 1960s demonstrate how Cold War homophobia focused on the femme as the lesbian who posed the greatest threat to the nation.
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Canadian Cultural Studies: A Reader (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
An anthology that brings work by contemporary Canadian cultural analysts together with that of an earlier generation, including Harold Cardinal, Northrup Frye, Harold Innis, and Marshall McLuhan.
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Confronting Mass Democracy and Industrial Technology: Political and Social Theory from Nietzsche to Habermas (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
This is an analysis of how Heidegger, Brecht, Habermas, Adorno, and other German thinkers came to terms with the proliferation of technologies - technologies of bureaucratic democracy, of surveillance and military conquest, and those that affect the human psyche and soul.
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Reproducing the French Race: Immigration, Intimacy, and Embodiment in the Early Twentieth Century (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
Argues that immigration was a defining feature of early-twentieth-century France. This book examines the political, cultural, and social issues implicated in public debates about immigration and national identity at the time.
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Pop Out: Queer Warhol (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
Andy Warhol was queer in more ways than one. A fabulous queen, a fan of prurience and pornography, a great admirer of the male body, he was well known to the gay audiences who... Læs mere
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The Color Black: Enslavement and Erasure in Iran (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)Levering: Skaffevare (forvent 14 - 30 hverdage)
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Freedom's Empire: Race and the Rise of the Novel in Atlantic Modernity, 1640-1940 (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
A sweeping argument that from the mid-seventeenth century until the mid-twentieth, the English-language novel encoded ideas equating race with liberty.
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