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Licensing Loyalty: Printers, Patrons, and the State in Early Modern France (Bog, Hardback, Engelsk)Explores the evolution of the idea that the rise of print culture was a threat to the royal government of eighteenth-century France. Argues that French printers did much to foster this view as they negotiated a place in the expanding bureaucratic apparatus of the state.
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Mining for the Nation: The Politics of Chile's Coal Communities from the Popular Front to the Cold War (Bog, Hardback, Engelsk)Examines the politics of coal miners in Chile during the 1930s and '40s, when they supported the Communist Party in a project of cross-class alliances aimed at defeating fascism, promoting national development, and deepening Chilean democracy.
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Seeking Nature's Logic: Natural Philosophy in the Scottish Enlightenment (Bog, Hardback, Engelsk)Studies the path of natural philosophy (i.e., physics) from Isaac Newton through Scotland into the nineteenth-century background to... Læs mere
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The Life of Titian (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)After Vasari, Carlo Ridolfi provides the most important contemporary documentary source for understanding Titian. This edition provides a translation into English of Ridolfi's biography which illuminates Titian's life, artistic production and early critical reputation.
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Religious Upbringing and the Costs of Freedom: Personal and Philosophical Essays (Bog, Hardback, Engelsk)Brings together autobiographical narratives and reflections by philosophers who were brought up in strict religious environments.
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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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Twister (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)A fictionalized narrative, in graphic novel format, of the author’s experiences as a quadriplegic following injuries he sustained from an accident.
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The Letters of Mary Penry: A Single Moravian Woman in Early America (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)A collection of letters by Mary Penry (1735–1804), who immigrated to America from Wales and lived in Moravian communities for more than forty years. Offers a sustained view of the spiritual and social life of a single woman in early America.
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Advocating Weapons, War, and Terrorism: Technological and Rhetorical Paradox (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)Examines commonplace conflicting beliefs that technology will either annihilate humanity or preserve humanity from annihilation. Argues that the paradoxical capacities of weapons influence how humanity understands violent conflict.
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The Art and Culture of Scandinavian Central Europe, 1550–1720 (Bog, Hardback, Engelsk)Explores early modern Scandinavia as an integral and essential part of Central Europe. Examines the visual arts in all media from the Reformation to the fall of Sweden as a great power in the earlier eighteenth century.
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Iconoclasm in New York: Revolution to Reenactment (Bog, Hardback, Engelsk)Explores iconoclasm in American art history, focusing on the destruction of the statue of King George III in New York City in 1776. Argues that the destruction of art and objects has propelled the formation of an American creation story.
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Bells for America: The Cold War, Modernism, and the Netherlands Carillon in Arlington (Bog, Hardback, Engelsk)Recounts the history of the Netherlands Carillon, given to the United States in the 1950s by the Dutch government, and explores its paradoxical placement in the American memorial landscape.
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