Pennsylvania State University Press Forlag
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Salvador Dali, or the Art of Spitting on Your Mother's Portrait (Bog, Hardback, Engelsk)
This is a picture of Dali's life and art, with an approach somewhere between biography, Freudian analysis, and art and literary interpretation. Dali is shown as haunted by the devouring phantom of his mother, the praying mantis on whose portrait he would like to spit.
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Gender and Welfare in Mexico: The Consolidation of a Postrevolutionary State (Bog, Hardback, Engelsk)
Examines the political and social influences behind the creation of the postrevolutionary Mexican welfare state in the 1930s, 1940s, and 1950s.
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Crude: A Memoir (Bog, Hardback, Engelsk)
A graphic novel exploring Texaco’s involvement in the Amazon, as well as the ensuing legal battles between the oil company, the Ecuadorian government, and the region’s inhabitants, from the perspective of Ecuadorian lawyer and activist Pablo Fajardo.
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Animals on Display: The Creaturely in Museums, Zoos, and Natural History (Bog, Hardback, Engelsk)
A collection of essays on the historical representation and display of animals. Using examples from the eighteenth century to the... Læs mere
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A Peculiar Mixture: German-Language Cultures and Identities in Eighteenth-Century North America (Bog, Hardback, Engelsk)
A collection of essays that explore the transatlantic German cultures and identities of the colonial period.
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Political Solidarity (Bog, Hardback, Engelsk)
Examines the relations and obligations of committed individuals working to create social change. Addresses issues involving forms of solidarity, the role of violence in activism, the... Læs mere
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The Truman Administration and Bolivia: Making the World Safe for Liberal Constitutional Oligarchy (Bog, Hardback, Engelsk)
Examines the interaction of the Truman administration in U.S. and five Bolivian governments in years leading up to Victor Paz Estenssoro's National Revolution, focusing on negotiations over the price of tin.
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The Parakeet (Bog, Hardback, Engelsk)
An account in graphic novel format, based on the author’s own experiences, of a boy coping with his mother’ suffering from bipolar disorder and schizophrenia, showing how mental illness can both tear families apart and reaffirm the bonds of love.
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An Empire of Print: The New York Publishing Trade in the Early American Republic (Bog, Hardback, Engelsk)
Traces the evolution of New York’s publishing trade from the end of the American Revolution to the Age of Jackson. Explores the gradual development of local, regional, and national distribution networks in the early republic.
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Imagining the Americas in Medici Florence (Bog, Hardback, Engelsk)
Studies the impact of the discovery of the Americas on Italian Renaissance art and culture, focusing on the Medici engagement with the New World and its effects on collecting and art production in Florence during the sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries.
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Gothic Architecture and Sexuality in the Circle of Horace Walpole (Bog, Hardback, Engelsk)
Addresses the question of how and why Horace Walpole and the men of his circle promoted the Gothic style in art, architecture, and literature in the latter half of the eighteenth century.
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Child Sacrifice in Ancient Israel (Bog, Hardback, Engelsk)Levering: Skaffevare (forvent 14 - 30 hverdage)
