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Amazonian Cosmopolitans: Navigating a Shamanic Cosmos, Shifting Indigenous Policies, and Other Modern Projects (Bog, Hardback, Engelsk)
Amazonian Cosmopolitans explores how two Kawaiwete Indigenous leaders, Sabino and Prepori, lived in a much more complicated and globally connected Amazon than most people realize.
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The Places of Modernity in Early Mexican American Literature, 1848–1948 (Bog, Hardback, Engelsk)
José F. Aranda Jr. demonstrates how the burdens of modernity become the dominant discursive logic for understanding why people of Mexican descent nonetheless wrote and invested in print culture without any guarantee of its social, cultural, or political efficacy.
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Marianne Is Watching: Intelligence, Counterintelligence, and the Origins of the French Surveillance State (Bog, Hardback, Engelsk)
Deborah Bauer presents the history of French espionage and counterespionage services in the era of their professionalization, arguing that the expansion of surveillance practices reflects a change in understandings of how best to protect the nation.
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Managing Sex in the U.S. Military: Gender, Identity, and Behavior (Bog, Hardback, Engelsk)
Historians and policy scholars offer insight into the ways the U.S. military manages the sexual behaviors, practices, and identities of its service members.
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On the Other Shore: The Atlantic Worlds of Italians in South America During the Great War (Bog, Hardback, Engelsk)
John Starosta Galante explores the presence, pull, and rejection of Italian nationalism and italianità (or Italianness) in Buenos Aires, Montevideo, and São Paulo during World War I.
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A History of Icelandic Literature (Bog, Hardback, Engelsk)
Provides an overview of the literature of Iceland, since the country's settlement in the ninth century, including chapters on lesser-known areas such as drama, children's literature, women's literature, and North American Icelandic literature.
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Fermented Landscapes: Lively Processes of Socio-environmental Transformation (Bog, Hardback, Engelsk)
Fermented Landscapes applies the concept of fermentation as a mechanism through which to understand and analyze processes of landscape and cultural change as related to the production and consumption of fermented products.
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Transmedial Narratology and Contemporary Media Culture (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
Narratives are everywhere - and since a significant part of contemporary media culture is defined by narrative forms, media studies need a... Læs mere
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The Story of the Little Big Horn: Custer's Last Fight (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
Suggests that a series of circumstances ensured the defeat of the Seventh Cavalry. This book addresses questions such as: What were the causes of the... Læs mere
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The Home Place (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
This account in first-person narrative and photographs of the one-day visit of Clyde Muncy to “the home place” at Lone Tree, Nebraska, has been called “as near to a new fiction form as... Læs mere
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The Sinking of the Laconia and the U-Boat War: Disaster in the Mid-Atlantic (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
Packed with rich detail and analysis of what often transpired when merchant ships were sunk by U-boats, this dramatic book... Læs mere
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The Madness of March: Bonding and Betting with the Boys in Las Vegas (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
Offers an account of the Las Vegas gambling scene that surrounded the first weekend of the NCAA men's basketball tournament. This book raises the question of whether this subculture of March Madness is a blessing or a curse - and what, finally, it all means.
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