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Once sidelined from public memory, World War II is now a historical touchstone in China. Rana Mitter links reassessment of the war to... Læs mere
Twenty-five years after his prescient Democracy’s Discontent, Michael Sandel updates his classic work for our more fractious age. He shows... Læs mere
Architect Frida Escobedo’s early project Split Subject deconstructs a fraught allegory of national identity and modernism in Mexico. Frida Escobedo: Split Subject unpacks it... Læs mere
Grounded in the legacies of two pioneering scholars of oral literature, Milman Parry and Albert Lord, Singers and Tales in the Twenty-First Century gathers... Læs mere
Imagined Geographies in the Mediterranean, Middle East, and Beyond is a collaborative volume focusing on imagined geography and the... Læs mere
The Qing dynasty office purchase system (juanna), which allowed individuals to pay for government appointments, was regarded in... Læs mere
The prolific scholar-poet Callimachus of Cyrene spent his career at the royal court and great Library at Alexandria. Creatively reworking the... Læs mere
The prolific scholar-poet Callimachus of Cyrene spent his career at the royal court and great Library at Alexandria. Creatively reworking the language and generic properties of... Læs mere
The prolific scholar-poet Callimachus of Cyrene spent his career at the royal court and great Library at Alexandria. Creatively reworking the language and generic properties of his... Læs mere
The Epic of Ram, Volume 7 completes Tulsidas’s grand epic. Ram reunites with his family and begins his long reign. Then, an immortal sage embodied in a lowly crow reflects on Ram’s life.... Læs mere