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Making the World Over: Confronting Racism, Misogyny, and Xenophobia in US History (Bog, Hardback, Engelsk)
Examines the histories behind the issues at the root of America's conflicts both past and present, from race and... 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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Ireland and America: Empire, Revolution, and Sovereignty (Bog, Hardback, Engelsk)
Looking at America through the Irish prism and employing a comparative approach, leading and emerging scholars of early American and Atlantic... Læs mere
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Meditation and the Martial Arts (Bog, Hardback, Engelsk)
This book provides an approach to understanding the connection between martial arts and spirituality in such diverse disciplines as Japanese aikido, Chinese tai chi chuan, Hindu yoga, Christian asceticism, Zen Buddhism and Islamic Jihad.
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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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Women in George Washington's World (Bog, Hardback, Engelsk)
A lively and accessibly written volume, this book highlights some of the women whom Washington knew. Women who admired and memorialized him, women who provided him... Læs mere
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Divided by the Word: Colonial Encounters and the Remaking of Zulu and Xhosa Identities (Bog, Hardback, Engelsk)
Using archival sources from three continents written in multiple languages, this book offers a new appreciation for... 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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