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Irving, Sarah
Over the past decade, histories of Late Ottoman and especially Mandate Palestine have moved away from the political framing of the Arab-Israeli conflict to consider questions of social and cultural history, as well as, increasingly, adopting new fram
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Daniel Whittingham, Stuart Mitchell
An overview of modern Western militaries'response to armed rebellion, from Indochina to Northern Ireland to Iraq. Counterinsurgency—or efforts to defeat and confine a rebellion against a constituted authority—has become a buzzword in recent times
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Nicole Hudgins
It would be unthinkable now to omit early female pioneers from any survey of photography's history in the Western world. Yet for many years the gendered language of American, British and French photographic literature made it appear that women's inte
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Benjamin Fraser
People with Down syndrome possess a culture. They are producers of culture. And in the 21st century, this culture is increasingly visible as a global phenomenon. Down Syndrome Culture examines Down syndrome alongside its social, cultural, and artisti
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Josiane Boulad-Ayoub
En collaboration avec l'Istituto Italiano di Cultura, l'Institut d'études internationales de Montréal et la Chaire Unesco d'étude des fondements philosophiques de la justice et de la société démocratique, des « journées italiennes » ont
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Steven L. Piott
This volume reveals the everyday actions of individuals and their reflections on their lives during the 1920s.The Jazz Age was a tumultuous time for Americans as they attempted to come to terms with'modernity.'Daily Life in Jazz Age America tells the
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Ivan Goncharov
Goncharov was the leading Russian writer of the 1850s and, as the author of The Same Old Story, was regarded as “the real heir to Nikolai Gogol”. But the publication of Turgenev's first full-length novel, A Nest of the Gentry, in 1859, at around
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Matthew S. Seligmann
'Naval tradition? Naval tradition? Monstrous. Nothing but rum, sodomy, prayers and the lash.'This quotation, from Winston Churchill, is frequently dismissed as apocryphal or a jest, but, interestingly, all four of the areas of naval life singled out
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Benjamin G. Rader
In Down on Mahans Creek, Benjamin Rader provides a fascinating look at a neighborhood in the Missouri Ozarks from the early nineteenth to the mid-twentieth century. He explores the many ways in which Mahans Creek, though remote, was never completely
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Doris Kadish
The Secular Rabbi is an intellectual biography of Philip Rahv, co-founder of Partisan Review, which T.S. Eliot called the best American literary periodical. It focuses on the ambivalent ties that Rahv, a Russian immigrant, retained to his Jewish cult