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Fabricating the People: Politics and Administration in the Biopolitical State (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
Fabricating the People boldly proposes post-representational governance that reframes the practice of modern democracy and reinvents the role of public administration.
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Amulets, Effigies, Fetishes, and Charms: Native American Artifacts and Spirit Stones from the Northeast (Bog, Hardback, Engelsk)
Amulets, Effigies, Fetishes, and Charms rounds out Edward J. Lenik’s comprehensive and expert study of the rock art of northeastern Native Americans. This volume provides a basis for interpreting the symbolism of more than eighty portable stone artifacts found in the region.
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A Cuban City, Segregated: Race and Urbanization in the Nineteenth Century (Bog, Hardback, Engelsk)
Drawing on the insights of intersectional feminism, Bonnie Lucero shows that the key to understanding racial segregation in Cuba... Læs mere
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Cather Among the Moderns (Bog, Hardback, Engelsk)
Willa Cather is often pegged as a regionalist, a feminine and domestic writer, or a social realist. In Cather Among the Moderns, Janis P. Stout firmly situates Cather as a visionary practitioner of literary modernism, something other scholars have hinted at but rarely affirmed.
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Garden Creek: The Archaeology of Interaction in Middle Woodland Appalachia (Bog, Hardback, Engelsk)
The term glocalization describes how the global circulation of products and ideas requires accommodations to local conditions,... Læs mere
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Between Home and Homeland: Youth Aliyah from Nazi Germany (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
Youth Aliyah is considered by Israelis as a major contributor to the foundation of a Jewish presence leading to the modern state of Israel. Brian... Læs mere
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The Blues Muse: Race, Gender, and Musical Celebrity in American Poetry (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
Focuses on five key blues musicians and singers - Gertrude ""Ma"" Rainey, Bessie Smith, Billie Holiday, Robert Johnson, and Lead Belly - and traces the ways in which these artists and their personas have been invoked and developed throughout American poetry.
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Civil Wars, Civil Beings, and Civil Rights in Alabama's Black Belt: A History of Perry County (Bog, Hardback, Engelsk)
In his fascinating, in-depth study, Bertis English analyses why Perry county, situated in the heart of a violence-prone subregion, enjoyed more peaceful race relations and less bloodshed than several neighbouring counties.
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The Spaces of Violence (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
Probes the interrelationship of violence and space in ten contemporary American novels
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American Poetry As Transactional Art (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
Explores a salient quality of much avant-garde American poetry that has so far lacked sustained treatment: namely, its role as a transactional art. Specifically... Læs mere
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Aesthetics from Classical Greece to the Present (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
Beardsley's book … It illuminates an area of history from a certain perspective as was never done before.... The distinguishing feature of his book is an... Læs mere
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Alabama Creates: 200 Years of Art and Artists (Bog, Hardback, Engelsk)
A visually rich survey of two hundred years of Alabama fine arts and artists. The works of art included in this volume have all emerged from a distinctive milieu that has nourished the creation of powerful visual expressions, statements that are both universal and indigenous.
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