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The Myths that made America: an introduction to American studies
This essential introduction to American studies examines the core foundational myths upon which the nation is based and which still determine discussions of US-American identities today. These myths include the myth of »discovery,« the Pocahontas myth, the myth of the Promised Land, the myth of the Founding Fathers, the melting pot myth, the myth of the West, and the myth of the self-made man…
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- 9783839414859
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- 451p.: ill.
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- 970.3 PAU m
Pandemic disease in the medieval world: rethinking the Black Death
This ground-breaking book brings together scholars from the humanities and social and physical sciences to address the question of how recent work in the genetics, zoology, and epidemiology of plague's causative organism (Yersinia pestis) can allow a rethinking of the Black Death pandemic and its larger historical significance.
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- 9781942401018
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- xx, 339 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 25 cm.
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- Medieval globe ; v. 1
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- 614.4 PAN p
International Labour Organization and global social governance
This open access book explores the role of the ILO (International Labour Organization) in building global social governance from multiple and mutually complementary perspectives. It explores the impact of this UN´s oldest agency, founded in 1919, on the transforming world of work in a global setting, providing insights into the unique history and functions of the ILO as an organization and the…
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- 9783030554002
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- 331.88 INT i
Animal rights activism: a moral sociological perspective on social movements
We’re in an era of ever increasing attention to animal rights, and activism around the issue is growing more widespread and prominent. In this volume, Kerstin Jacobsson and Jonas Lindblom use the animal rights movement in Sweden to offer the first analysis of social movements through the lens of Emile Durkheim’s sociology of morality. By positing social movements as essentially a moral phen…
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- 9789089647641
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- 145p.: ill.
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- 303.484 JAC a
Diamonds and war: state, capital and labor in British-ruled Palestine
Based on previously unexamined historical documents found in archives in Belgium, England, Israel, the Netherlands, and the United States, this book is the first in English to tell the story of the formation of one of the world’s main strongholds of diamond production and trade in Palestine during the 1930s and 1940s. The history of the diamond-cutting industry, characterized by a long-standi…
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- 9781789201178
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- xvi, 354p.: ill.
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- 338.477362309569409043 VRI d
Explorations in early Southeast Asian history : the origins of Southeast Asia…
While following the probes of foreign individuals into various obscure parts of Southeast Asia over the centuries is a diverting and entertaining pastime, the purpose of this volume is to investigate this past with the mind, to question and postulate upon the historical patterns that have developed from earlier study of the area, and to bring concepts from other areas and disciplines to bear on…
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- 9780472901951
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- XIV, 538 p.
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- Michigan Papers On South And Southeast Asia, 11
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- 959 EXP e
Cars, conduits and kampongs: the modernization of the Indonesiaan city, 1920-…
Cars, Conduits and Kampongs offers a wide panorama of the modernization of Indonesian cities between 1920 and 1960. In examining the multiple responses to innovations introduced by Western colonialism, the contributors demonstrate how modernization, urbanization, and decolonization were intrinsically linked. A full text Open Access version is also available.
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- 9789004280724
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- xiv, 351p.: ill.
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- 307.760998 CAR c
Stories that make history : the experience and memories of the Japanese milit…
What would it be like if your existence was erased for half a century? This is the reality for the Korean comfort girls-women whose lives had been erased since the time of the expansion of comfort stations by the Japanese military in 1937. This book is an effort to bring these women back to life and to make their voices, experiences and memories available to future generations. The experiences …
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- 9783110670523
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- XXX, 304 p.
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- Genocide and Mass Violence in the Age of Extremes, 3
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- 952 STO s
Reading by numbers : recalibrating the literary field
Reading by Numbers: Recalibrating the Literary Field’ is the first book to use digital humanities strategies to integrate the scope and methods of book and publishing history with issues and debates in literary studies. By mining, visualising and modelling data from ‘AustLit’ – an online bibliography of Australian literature that leads the world in its comprehensiveness and scope – th…
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- 9780857284549
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- ix, 237 p.; 22 cm.
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- 820.9’994 BOD r
Competing knowledges – wissen im widerstreit
Whatever societies accept as ‘knowledge’ is embedded in epistemological, institutional, political, and economic power relations. How is knowledge produced under such circumstances? What is the difference between general knowledge and the sciences? Can there be science without universal truth claims? Questions like these are discussed in eleven essays from the perspective of Sociology, Law, …
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- 9783110659658
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- X, 220 p.
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- Abhandlungen der Akademie der Wissenschaften in Hamburg, 9
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- 121 COM c
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