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Bad Men: Creative Touchstones of Black Writers (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
How have African American writers drawn on bad men and black boys as creative touchstones for their evocative and vibrant art? This is the question posed by... Læs mere
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The Elections of 2020 (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
Offers a timely, comprehensive, scholarly, and engagingly written account of the 2020 elections. The book features essays by an all-star team of political scientists in the... Læs mere
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The Presidency: Facing Constitutional Crossroads (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
Following the election of Donald Trump, the office of the US president has come under scrutiny like never before. Featuring penetrating insights from... Læs mere
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Fellow Travelers: How Road Stories Shaped the Idea of the Americas (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
Examining three turning points that shaped exceptionalism in both Americas - the late colonial and early Republican period, expansion into the frontier, and the Cold War - John Ochoa pursues literary travellers across landscapes and centuries.
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Fictions of Whiteness: Imagining the Planter Caste in the French Caribbean Novel (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
The first book-length study to engage with the literary construction of whiteness in the francophone Caribbean, Fictions of Whiteness examines the neglected beke figure in the longer history of Antillean literature and culture.
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Botanical Entanglements: Women, Natural Science, and the Arts in Eighteenth-Century England (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
To this day, women face barriers in entering scientific professions, and in earlier eras the challenges were... Læs mere
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The Celebrated Elizabeth Smith: Crafting Genius and Transatlantic Fame in the Romantic Era (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
In this elegantly written biography, Lucia McMahon reconstructs the places and social constellations that... Læs mere
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Orienting Virtue: Civic Identity and Orientalism in Britain's Global Eighteenth Century (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
Examines how England’s sense of collective virtue was inflected and informed by Eastern empires. Bethany Williamson... Læs mere
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On the Perpetual Strangeness of the Bible (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
The language of the Bible can be beautiful but profoundly elusive, possessing a strangeness that only deepens the committed reader’s sense of its... Læs mere
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Constitutional Powers and Politics: How Citizens Think About Authority and Institutional Change (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
In this timely book, Eileen Braman explores how American citizens think about government across all three branches, applying a rigorous political scientific methodology to explore why citizens may support potentially risky changes to the American governing system.
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Inkface: Othello and White Authority in the Era of Atlantic Slavery (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
Traces productions of Shakespeare’s Othello from seventeenth-century London to the Metropolitan Opera in twenty-first-century New York.... Læs mere
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