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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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The Politics of Method in the Human Sciences: Positivism and Its Epistemological Others (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
Collection of new essays on the past, present, and future of positivism in the various social sciences
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Histories of the Future (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
An anthropologically based interdisciplinary collection on sites and projections of imagined futures from conspiracy theorists to technological dystopias.
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The Cultural Turn in Late Ancient Studies: Gender, Asceticism, and Historiography (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
Collection of essays that focuses on questions of gender and culture in early Christianity.
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A Jewish Family in Germany Today: An Intimate Portrait (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
Shares the life experiences of the children of 4 siblings who out of eight siblings, parents and grandparents, survived the Holocaust. It explores the ways in which these children from the same socio-cultural background have built diverse lives in German
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Agrarian Environments: Resources, Representations, and Rule in India (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
An interdisciplinary exploration of the connections between the politics of environmental degradation and agrarian life in India.
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Bold! Daring! Shocking! True!: A History of Exploitation Films, 1919-1959 (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
Presents a social and cultural history of exploitation films. Analysing many films, such as "The Road to Ruin", "Modern Motherhood",... Læs mere
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