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Vodun: Secrecy and the Search for Divine Power (Bog, Hardback, Engelsk)
Highlighting the ways in which racialization, power, and the legacy of colonialism affect the procurement and transmission of secret knowledge in West Africa and beyond, Landry demonstrates how, paradoxically, secrecy is critically important to Vodun's global expansion.
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Toppling Foreign Governments: The Logic of Regime Change (Bog, Hardback, Engelsk)
In Toppling Foreign Governments, Melissa Willard-Foster argues that as long as domestic opposition drives leaders to resist the demands of stronger states, the strong are likely to opt for regime change, seeing it as more cost effective than negotiations.
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Becoming Jane Jacobs (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
In Becoming Jane Jacobs, an intellectual biography of the great urbanist, Peter L. Laurence asserts that The Death and Life of Great American Cities was not the spontaneous epiphany... Læs mere
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Inventing Exoticism: Geography, Globalism, and Europe's Early Modern World (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
Lavishly illustrated and impressively interdisciplinary, Inventing Exoticism narrates a vital chapter in the history of European... Læs mere
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Making Peace with Your Enemy: Algerian, French, and South African Ex-Combatants (Bog, Hardback, Engelsk)
In its comparative analysis of postcolonial South Africa and Algeria and its examination of narratives of ex-combatants,... Læs mere
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Transforming the Urban University: Northeastern, 1996-2006 (Bog, Hardback, Engelsk)
Richard M. Freeland reviews how Northeastern University in Boston, historically an access-oriented, private urban university serving commuter... Læs mere
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Paper Monsters: Persona and Literary Culture in Elizabethan England (Bog, Hardback, Engelsk)
In Paper Monsters, Samuel Fallon charts the striking rise in the 1590's of a new species of textual being: the serial, semifictional... Læs mere
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Recipes for Thought: Knowledge and Taste in the Early Modern English Kitchen (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
Situated at the vital intersection of physiology, gastronomy, decorum, knowledge-production, and labor, recipes from the past allow us to understand the significant ways that kitchen work was an intellectual and creative enterprise.
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Science in the Service of Human Rights (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
Science in the Service of Human Rights presents a framework for debate on controversial questions surrounding scientific freedom and responsibility by illuminating the many critical points of intersection between human rights and science.
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Sound in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
Scholars investigate sound as part of the social construction of historical experience and as an element of the sensory relationship people have to the world, showing how hearing and listening can inform people's feelings, ideas, decisions, and actions.
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Why Don't American Cities Burn? (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
Urban historian Michael B. Katz traces the collision of urban transformation with the rightward-moving social politics of late twentieth- and early twenty-first-century America.
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The Beguines of Medieval Paris: Gender, Patronage, and Spiritual Authority (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
This book reconstructs the history of beguine communities in Paris, one of medieval Europe's most vibrant and cosmopolitan cities.... Læs mere
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