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A Place for Utopia: Urban Designs from South Asia (Bog, Hardback, Engelsk)
Exploring several utopian imaginaries and practices, A Place for Utopia ties different times together from the early twentieth century to the present, the biographical and the anthropological, the cultural and the conjunctional, South Asia, Europe, and North America.
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Resisting Disappearance: Military Occupation and Women's Activism in Kashmir (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)Levering: 6 - 9 hverdage
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Top-Down Democracy in South Korea (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
While popular movements in South Korea rightly grab the headlines for forcing political change and holding leaders to account, those movements are only part of the story of the construction and practice of democracy.
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Shapes of Native Nonfiction: Collected Essays by Contemporary Writers (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)Levering: 6 - 9 hverdage
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Citizens of Beauty: Drawing Democratic Dreams in Republican China (Bog, Hardback, Engelsk)
In the early twentieth century China’s most famous commercial artists promoted new cultural and civic values through sketches of idealized modern women in journals, newspapers, and compendia called One Hundred Illustrated Beauties.
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One Left: A Novel (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
A powerful tale of trauma and endurance that transformed a nation’s understanding of Korean comfort womenDuring the Pacific War, more than 200,000 Korean girls were forced into sexual servitude for Japanese soldiers.
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Post Romantic: Poems (Bog, Hardback, Engelsk)
Expansive poems connect personal, national, and global historiesIn her wide-ranging third book, poet Kathleen Flenniken undertakes the difficult task of re-seeing what is before us.
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Bad Dog: Pit Bull Politics and Multispecies Justice (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)Levering: 6 - 9 hverdage
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The Shaman's Wages: Trading in Ritual on Cheju Island (Bog, Hardback, Engelsk)Levering: 6 - 9 hverdage
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History and Collective Memory in South Asia, 1200–2000 (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
In this far-ranging and erudite exploration of the South Asian past, Sumit Guha discusses the shaping of social and historical memory in world-historical context.
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Puer Tea: Ancient Caravans and Urban Chic (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
Puer tea has been grown for centuries in the “Six Great Tea Mountains” of Yunnan Province, and in imperial China it was a prized commodity, traded to Tibet by horse or mule caravan via the so-called Tea Horse Road and presented as tribute to the emperor in Beijing.
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Homo Aestheticus: Where Art Comes from and Why (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
“Dissanayake argues that art was central to human evolutionary adaptation and that the aesthetic faculty is a basic psychological component of every human being.
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