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Before Writing, Vol. I: From Counting to Cuneiform (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
Before Writing gives a new perspective on the evolution of communication. It points out that when writing began in Mesopotamia it was not, as previously... Læs mere
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The Mexican American Experience in Texas: Citizenship, Segregation, and the Struggle for Equality (Bog, Hardback, Engelsk)Levering: Skaffevare (forvent 14 - 30 hverdage)
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The Concept of Academic Freedom (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
Essays on the conceptual issues underlying the battle for academic freedom.
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Masters of Contemporary Brazilian Song: MPB, 1965-1985 (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
Masters of Contemporary Brazilian Song is a critical study of MPB (musica popular brasileira), a term that refers to varieties of urban popular music of the 1960s and 1970s, incorporating samba, Bossa Nova, and new materials.
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Pakistan's Blasphemy Laws: From Islamic Empires to the Taliban (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
This pioneering study of the evolution of blasphemy laws from the early Islamic empires to the present-day Taliban uncovers the history and questionable motives behind Pakistan’s blasphemy laws and calls for a return to the prophet Muhammad’s peaceful vis
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How Happy to Call Oneself a Turk: Provincial Newspapers and the Negotiation of a Muslim National Identity (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
Challenging established views about the development of a secular Turkish national identity, this history explores how the Turkish people used print media to incorporate their Islamic heritage into Turkish nationalism following World War II
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Ancient Andean Political Economy (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
Argues that major theories in Andean anthropology are not exclusive and competing models, but rather can be understood as variations within a larger theoretical framework
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Cuban Artists Across the Diaspora: Setting the Tent Against the House (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
Continuing the conversation she began in ReMembering Cuba: Legacy of a Diaspora, O'Reilly Herrera interviews artists who have participated in the ongoing exhibition CAFE: The Journeys of Cuban Artists to discover how these artists preserve and transform their Cuban identity.
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Valorizing the Barbarians: Enemy Speeches in Roman Historiography (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
Eric Adler explores the degree to which ancient historians of Rome were capable of valorizing foreigners and presenting criticisms of... Læs mere
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Positivism in Mexico (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
Leopoldo Zea traces the forerunners of Mexican liberal thought and their influence during Juárez’s time and shows how this ideology degenerated into an “order and progress” philosophy that served merely to maintain colonial forms of exploitation
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Attack and Counterattack: The Texas-Mexican Frontier, 1842 (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
Tells from original sources the full story of Texas-Mexican relations from the time of the Santa Fe Expedition through the return of the Somervell Expedition from the Rio Grande
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Women Who Live Evil Lives: Gender, Religion, and the Politics of Power in Colonial Guatemala (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
Documents the lives and practices of mixed-race, Black, Spanish, and Maya women sorcerers, spell-casters, magical healers, and midwives in the social relations of power in Santiago de Guatemala, the capital of colonial Central America.
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