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For Glory and Bolivar: The Remarkable Life of Manuela Saenz (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
She was a friend, lover, and confidante of charismatic Spanish American independence hero Simon Bolivar and, after her death, a nationalist... Læs mere
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How Writing Came About (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
A groundbreaking theory on the origins of writing, now presented for a general audience.
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Men and Popular Music in Algeria: The Social Significance of Rai (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
A popular music form as a lens for viewing Algerian society.
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Princess, Priestess, Poet: The Sumerian Temple Hymns of Enheduanna (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
The first collection of original translations of all forty-two temple hymns of Enheduanna, the world's earliest known writer.
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Indie, Inc.: Miramax and the Transformation of Hollywood in the 1990s (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
Surveys Miramax's evolution from independent producer-distributor to studio subsidiary, chronicling how one company transformed not just the independent film world but the film and media industries more broadly.
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Left of Hollywood: Cinema, Modernism, and the Emergence of U.S. Radical Film Culture (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
The first study dedicated to the emergence of U.S. Left film theory and criticism, combining close readings of films with archival research to explore the origins of a movement that aspired toward a popular cinema of social change.
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The Berber Identity Movement and the Challenge to North African States (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
The first full-length treatment of the emergence of the modern Berber identity movement in North Africa and the Berber diaspora, the challenges it poses to Moroccan and Algerian authorities and to competing Islamist movements, and their responses to it
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Portraying the Aztec Past: The Codices Boturini, Azcatitlan, and Aubin (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
Offering the first extended comparison of three closely related painted manuscripts from colonial Mexico, this book reveals how differences in their materials and composition show the evolution of the native pictorial tradition.
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Moving in and Out of Islam (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
With empirical case studies from Western and Central Europe, the United States, Canada, and the Middle East, this anthology opens a new field of study by exploring people’s rationales for leaving, as well as converting to, Islam.
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Murder Was not a Crime: Homicide and Power in the Roman Republic (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
This pathfinding study looks at how homicide was treated in Roman law from the Roman monarchy through the dictatorship of Sulla (ca. 753-79 BC) to show how criminal law can reveal important aspects of the nature and evolution of political power.
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Song of the Heart: Selected Poems by Ramon Lopez Velarde (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
This bilingual collection, drawn primarily from Poesías completas y el minutero, offers English-language readers our first book-length introduction to López Velarde's poetry.
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Star Gods of the Maya: Astronomy in Art, Folklore, and Calendars (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
Observations of the sun, moon, planets, and stars played a central role in ancient Maya lifeways, as they do among contemporary Maya who... Læs mere
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