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The Idea of China: A Contested History (Bog, Hardback, Engelsk)
Xu Guoqi navigates the fraught terrain of Chinese identity, arguing that the idea of China has always been constructed and reconstructed in concert with the broader... Læs mere
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Tojo: The Rise and Fall of Japan's Most Controversial World War II General (Bog, Hardback, Engelsk)
Japan’s prime minister and top military general during WWII, Hideki Tojo is today associated above all with the ignominy of... Læs mere
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Born to Rule: The Making and Remaking of the British Elite (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
This data-rich sociological study uses everything from census figures to Who’s Who to analyze how, over 125 years, the British elite have used... Læs mere
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Omeljan Pritsak and the Intellectual Origins of the Ukrainian "Harvard Miracle" (Bog, Hardback, Engelsk)
Omeljan Pritsak and the Intellectual Origins of the Ukrainian “Harvard Miracle” is the first English-language intellectual... Læs mere
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We Are the Leaders We Have Been Looking For (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
Eddie S. Glaude Jr. weaves personal anecdotes and meditations to offer a positive vision for Black politics: the importance of ordinary people assuming the... Læs mere
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Performing Transgression: Crowds and Bodies in Heian Japan (Bog, Hardback, Engelsk)
What happens when performance defies social and political boundaries? Performing Transgression offers a new cultural history of non-elite... Læs mere
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Court Poetry and the Culture of Learning in Japan (Bog, Hardback, Engelsk)
In Court Poetry and the Culture of Learning in Japan, Ariel Stilerman examines the transformation of classical Japanese poetry (waka) from the exclusive... Læs mere
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Uncanny Beliefs: Superstition in Modern Chinese History (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
Uncanny Beliefs seeks to understand what “superstition” has meant in modern China—and questions why superstitious thinking has remained such an... Læs mere
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Mezukak Shivatayim: Studies in Jewish Life and Literature in Honor of Bernard Septimus (Bog, Hardback, Engelsk)
The essays in Mezukak Shivatayim pay tribute to Bernard Septimus’s writing and teaching, covering rabbinic culture, Jewish thought and literature, and Jewish communities in their Christian and Muslim contexts from the tenth to the twentieth centuries.
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Through the Looking Glass: The Narrative Performance of Anarkali (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
Informed by oral poetics, performance theory, and memory studies, Through the Looking Glass approaches Anarkali—the supposed lover of both... Læs mere
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By Heart or From the Scroll: Text Quotation and Memory on the Grammatika Vases (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
By Heart or From the Scroll studies six grammatika vases depicting scenes from the Odyssey, offering new insights into the... Læs mere
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Time, Tripods, Textiles, and Trees: Metaphors and Metonyms that Construct the Homeric Odyssey (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
Time, Tripods, Textiles, and Trees focuses on metaphorical and metonymical elements in the Odyssey to better... Læs mere
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