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Medicating Race: Heart Disease and Durable Preoccupations with Difference (Bog, Hardback, Engelsk)
In Medicating Race, Anne Pollock traces the intersecting discourses of race, pharmaceuticals, and heart disease in the United States over the past century, from the founding of cardiology through the FDA's approval of BiDil, the first drug sanctioned for use in a specific race.
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Jazz Cosmopolitanism in Accra: Five Musical Years in Ghana (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
Looks at the vernacular cosmopolitanism of a group of jazz players in Ghana, who have traveled widely, played with American jazz greats, and... Læs mere
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Bad Souls: Madness and Responsibility in Modern Greece (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
As part of the agreement for Greece to join the EU, the country had to undertake a massive psychiatric reform, moving patients out of custodial... Læs mere
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Tracking Europe: Mobility, Diaspora, and the Politics of Location (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
A critique of claims regarding the free movement of goods, people, services, and capital throughout Europe. It interrogates European... Læs mere
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The Environment and the People in American Cities, 1600s-1900s: Disorder, Inequality, and Social Change (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
Examines the development of urban environments, and urban environmentalism, in the United States over... Læs mere
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Mourning the Nation: Indian Cinema in the Wake of Partition (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
A work of film studies that traces how the traumatic Partition of India and Pakistan has been represented (or not represented) in Indian cinema from 1947 to the present.
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The Indian Craze: Primitivism, Modernism, and Transculturation in American Art, 1890–1915 (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
An historical examination of the early-twentieth-century Indian Craze, a widespread interest in Native American art, that explores its importance for Native Americans, Euro Americans, and the history of modernism.
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Child of the Fire: Mary Edmonia Lewis and the Problem of Art History's Black and Indian Subject (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
An argument against reductive accounts of the nineteenth-century sculptor Mary Edmonia Lewis s work as the product of her identity as an African American and Native American woman.
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After Eden: The Evolution of Human Domination (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
Combining insights from paleontology, archaeology, and anthropology, Kirkpatrick Sale points to the beginning of big-game hunting as the origin of humans' damaging estrangement from the natural environment.
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Liberalism Without Democracy: Nationhood and Citizenship in Egypt, 1922–1936 (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
This analysis of the failure of efforts to achieve liberal reform in Egypt following its independence from Great Britain in 1922 has implications for modern-day nation-building efforts in the Mideast.
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Imperialism and the Corruption of Democracies (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
Develops an historical argument with contemporary relevance - Empire abroad inevitably undermines democracy at home. Focusing on France and to a lesser... Læs mere
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Gender and Slave Emancipation in the Atlantic World (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
A comparative perspective on the way ideas of gender relations and identities shaped the struggle over resources, cultural practices, and political rights that followed the end of slavery in the Atlantic world
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