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Urbanism and Empire in Roman Sicily (Bog, Hardback, Engelsk)
Examining patterns of urban settlement and abandonment across several centuries, this book offers the first comprehensive overview of Sicily’s strategic importance to ancient Rome and broader Mediterranean-wide networks.
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The Jemima Code: Two Centuries of African American Cookbooks (Bog, Hardback, Engelsk)
Showcasing one of the world’s largest private collections of African American cookbooks, ranging from rare nineteenth-century texts to modern classics by Edna Lewis and Vertamae Grosvenor, this lavishly illustrated collection speaks volumes about America’s food culture.
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Acting Egyptian: Theater, Identity, and Political Culture in Cairo, 1869–1930 (Bog, Hardback, Engelsk)
Putting the spotlight on theatrical performance and cultural identity in Cairo at the turn of the last century, a historian reveals new aspects of the transition from the Ottoman to the British regimes on Egypt’s path to self-rule.
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Accountability Across Borders: Migrant Rights in North America (Bog, Hardback, Engelsk)
A timely, transnational examination of the institutions in Mexico, Canada, and the United States that engage migrant populations in becoming agents of change for immigrant rights while holding government authorities accountable.
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Lightning Through the Clouds: ?Izz Al-Din Al-Qassam and the Making of the Modern Middle East (Bog, Hardback, Engelsk)
This is the first English-language book-length biography of ‘Izz al-Din al-Qassam, sometimes seen as a “Che Guevara of the Middle East”; understanding him is a key to understanding the region, particularly Palestinian nationalism.
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Landed Internationals: Planning Cultures, the Academy, and the Making of the Modern Middle East (Bog, Hardback, Engelsk)
Landed Internationals explores how postwar encounters in housing and planning helped transform the dynamics of international development and challenged American modernity.
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Veii (Bog, Hardback, Engelsk)
With essays by multiple generations of Etruscan scholars, this volume offers the most complete English-language overview of Veii, an ancient Etruscan city that was the ally and rival of Rome for over three hundred years.
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Avedon at Work: In the American West (Bog, Hardback, Engelsk)
Acclaimed for his portraits of people and women of great beauty, Richard Avedon was one of the 20th century's greatest photographers - but perhaps not the most... Læs mere
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Big Wonderful Thing: A History of Texas (Bog, Hardback, Engelsk)
A tour de force by a New York Times best-selling author and master storyteller who captures the rich history of a state that sits at the center of the nation, yet defiantly stands apart.
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Life in Oil: Cofan Survival in the Petroleum Fields of Amazonia (Bog, Hardback, Engelsk)
Revealing how the key fuel of the global era affects the communities where petroleum is extracted, this beautifully written ethnography describes how the Cofán people are surviving at the center of the Ecuadorian oil industry.
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The Codex Mexicanus: A Guide to Life in Late Sixteenth-Century New Spain (Bog, Hardback, Engelsk)
This groundbreaking book offers the first scholarly analysis of the entire Codex Mexicanus, an enigmatic sixteenth-century pictorial manuscript, and shows how it helped the Aztec adapt to life in colonial Mexico
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Uchi: The Cookbook (Bog, Hardback, Engelsk)
Expand your gastronomic boundaries with some of the most celebrated recipes of Tyson Cole, one of Food and Wine magazine's "Best New Chefs," and founder of one of America's premier restaurants for innovative Japanese cuisine, Uchi.
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