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Lonesome Words: The Vocal Poetics of the Old English Lament and the African-American Blues Song (Bog, Hardback, Engelsk)
The tenth-century Old English lament and twentieth-century blues song each speak the language of a distinct... Læs mere
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A Catholic in the White House?: Religion, Politics, and John F. Kennedy's Presidential Campaign (Bog, Hardback, Engelsk)
If John F. Kennedy's victory in the 1960 US presidential election was a turning point for Catholics in American... Læs mere
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African American Childhoods: Historical Perspectives from Slavery to Civil Rights (Bog, Hardback, Engelsk)
African American Childhoods seeks to fill a vacuum in the study of African American children. Recovering the voices or experiences of these children, we observe nuances in their lives based on their legal status, class standing, and social development.
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Charlemagne's Mustache: And Other Cultural Clusters of a Dark Age (Bog, Hardback, Engelsk)
Charlemagne's Mustache presents the reader with seven engaging studies, 'thick descriptions', of cultural life and thought in the... Læs mere
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From Impressionism to Anime: Japan as Fantasy and Fan Cult in the Mind of the West (Bog, Hardback, Engelsk)
What is it about anime that is so appealing to a transnational fan base? This book takes a look at anime fans and the place they occupy, both in terms of subculture in Japan and America, and in relation to Western perceptions of Japan since the late 1800s.
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Sicques, Tigers or Thieves: Eyewitness Accounts of the Sikhs (1606-1810) (Bog, Hardback, Engelsk)
In 1812, Sir John Malcolm, a Lieutenant General in the British Army wrote A Sketch of the Sikhs , commonly believed to be the first account of the Sikhs written by a non-Sikh.
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Medieval Fabrications: Dress, Textiles, Clothwork, and Other Cultural Imaginings (Bog, Hardback, Engelsk)
The varied cultural functions of dress, textiles, and clothwork are used in this collection of essays to examine long-standing assumptions about the Middle Ages.
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Poetic Animals and Animal Souls (Bog, Hardback, Engelsk)
This book offers a new paradigm for reading and appreciating animals in literature and addresses how human culture views animals in poetry.
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Franklin D. Roosevelt, The Vatican, and the Roman Catholic Church in America, 1933-1945 (Bog, Hardback, Engelsk)
From the multiplicity of Catholic responses to the New Deal, through Roosevelt's diplomatic relationship with the... Læs mere
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Erich Fromm and the Quest for Solidarity (Bog, Hardback, Engelsk)
Erich Fromm and the Quest for Solidarity argues that Fromm's humanistic ethics provides a framework for the analysis of alienation in affluent societies and his exploration of the social forces capable of challenging that alienation.
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Manhood and the Duel: Masculinity in Early Modern Drama and Culture (Bog, Hardback, Engelsk)
As cultural practice, the early modern duel both indicated and shaped the gender assumptions of wealthy young men; As Jennifer Low... Læs mere
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Becoming Cleopatra: The Shifting Image of an Icon (Bog, Hardback, Engelsk)
Royster begins with Shakespeare's original appropriation of Plutarch, and then moves on to analyze performances of the Cleopatra icon by Josephine Baker, Elizabeth Taylor, Pam Grier (Cleopatra Jones) and Queen Latifah (in Set It Off ).
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