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Splintered Sisterhood: Gender and Class in the Campaign Against Woman Suffrage (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
Drawing on surviving records of antisuffrage organizations, the author argues that antisuffrage women organized to protect... Læs mere
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Film Essays and Criticism (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
This is an English translation of Arnheim's ""Kritiken und Aufsatze zum Film"", which collects both film reviews and theoretical essays written between 1925 and 1940. The 30... Læs mere
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Hellenistic Architectural Sculpture: Figural Motifs in Western Anatolia and the Aegean Islands (Bog, Hardback, Engelsk)
Focusing specifically on the figural adornment of Hellenistic architecture, this study provides extensive information about the chronology and interpretation of figural motifs adorning religious, civic, commercial, commemorative and domestic constructions.
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Contested Meanings: Construction of Alcohol Problems (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
This work brings together a selection of the author's articles, written over a period of 20 years, observing the place of alcohol in American culture.... Læs mere
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Word of God & the Languages of Man: Interpreting Nature in Early Modern Science and Medicine Volume I, Ficino to Descartes (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
This work relates changes in scientific and medical thought during the Scientific Revolution (c1500-1700) to the emergence of new principles and practices for interpreting language, texts and nature. It also explores the wider cultural origins and impact of these ideas.
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Flinders Petrie: A Life in Archaeology (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
Flinders Petrie has been called the ""Father of Modern Egyptology"" and was one of the pioneers of modern archaeology. Here Drower, a student of his in the 1930s,... Læs mere
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People of the Plow: Agricultural History of Ethiopia, 1800-1900 (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
This text documents Ethiopian agricultural practices since the early 19th century by examining travel narratives, agricultural surveys and... Læs mere
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Volksgeist As Method and Ethic: Essays on Boasian Ethnography and the German Anthropological Tradition (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
Franz Boas, the founding figure of anthropology in America, came to the United States from Germany... Læs mere
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Volksgeist As Method and Ethic: Essays on Boasian Ethnography and the German Anthropological Tradition (Bog, Hardback, Engelsk)
Franz Boas, the founding figure of anthropology in America, came to the United States from Germany... Læs mere
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Eat not This Flesh: Food Avoidances from Prehistory to the Present (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
This text explores taboos against eating certain kinds of flesh from a historical and cultural perspective. New research on the use and avoidance of flesh foods, from antiquity to the present day, is integrated in this edition.
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Living Under Contract: Contract Farming and Agrarian Transformation in Sub-Saharan Africa (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
This study examines agricultural restructuring and its effect upon various African societies. It documents how... Læs mere
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Spain's First Democracy: The Second Republic, 1931-36 (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
Payne's study places Spain's Second Republic within the historical framework of Spanish liberalism, and the rapid modernisation of inter-war Europe. He aims to present a consistent and detailed interpretation, demonstrating striking parallels to the German Weimar Republic.
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