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Botanical Poetics: Early Modern Plant Books and the Husbandry of Print (Bog, Hardback, Engelsk)Levering: 6 - 9 hverdage
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Robert McNamara's Other War: The World Bank and International Development (Bog, Hardback, Engelsk)
Robert McNamara's Other War chronicles the former defense secretary's thirteen-year presidency of the World Bank. Using previously unstudied World Bank documents, Patrick Allan Sharma recounts the World Bank's transformation under McNamara and highlights his complex legacy.
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The Literary Market: Authorship and Modernity in the Old Regime (Bog, Hardback, Engelsk)
This study offers a new reading of the development of modern authorship in seventeenth- and eighteenth-century France, through a detailed... Læs mere
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Reading Children: Literacy, Property, and the Dilemmas of Childhood in Nineteenth-Century America (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
Reading Children offers a history of the relationship between children and books in Anglo-American... Læs mere
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Set the World on Fire: Black Nationalist Women and the Global Struggle for Freedom (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
Set the World on Fire highlights the black nationalist women who fought for national and transnational black liberation from the early to mid-twentieth century.
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Colonial Revivals: The Nineteenth-Century Lives of Early American Books (Bog, Hardback, Engelsk)
Colonial Revivals examines the rise of American antiquarianism and historical reprinting in antebellum America. Not merely vehicles... Læs mere
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Historic Real Estate: Market Morality and the Politics of Preservation in the Early United States (Bog, Hardback, Engelsk)
In Historic Real Estate, Whitney Martinko shows how early Americans debated whether, and how, to preserve... Læs mere
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Translating Nature: Cross-Cultural Histories of Early Modern Science (Bog, Hardback, Engelsk)
Translating Nature recasts the era of early modern science as an age of translation across linguistic, cultural, and geographical boundaries. Contributors highlight the vital roles that Native Americans, Africans, and European Catholics played in the global history of science.
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The Venetian Qur'an: A Renaissance Companion to Islam (Bog, Hardback, Engelsk)
In The Venetian Qur'an, Pier Mattia Tommasino uncovers the author, origin, and lasting influence of the Alcorano di Macometto, a book that purported to be the first printed European vernacular translation of the Qur'an.
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The Classic Christian Townsite at Arminna West (Bog, Hardback, Engelsk)
An illustrated report on the 1963 excavation of a town in Lower Nubia which dated to the Christian Period which reached its zenith between c.AD 850 and 1100. Includes a general discussion of the town's history and its relations with Egypt and the rest of Nubia.
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Gandhi's Body: Sex, Diet, and the Politics of Nationalism (Bog, Hardback, Engelsk)
"This brilliant and infuriating book is the latest intriguing offering from one of the most original anthropologists working... It offers us unpredictable and illuminating interpretations of classical material."-Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute
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After Augustine: The Meditative Reader and the Text (Bog, Hardback, Engelsk)
The essays in this volume discuss the changing purpose of reading from late antiquity to the Renaissance. "A most unusual, fascinating, and rich book, very well written, with copious scholarly notes."-Choice
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