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Anthropology without informants : collected works in paleoanthropology
"It is my sincere hope that this volume will be much read and reflected upon by new generations of American students of prehistoric archaeologists. Freeman's career is a model for long-term international collaboration, theoretical eclecticism, the centrality of field research, and the ability to 'dream big,' but with a commonsense approach to the record and its limitations." Lawrence Guy Straus…
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- 9781607327066
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- 376p. : ill
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- 936.6 FRE a
Chivalry, reading, and women's culture in early modern Spain: from Amadís de…
The Iberian chivalric romance has long been thought of as an archaic, masculine genre and its popularity as an aberration in European literary history. Chivalry, Reading, and Women’s Culture in Early Modern Spain contests this view, arguing that the surprisingly egalitarian gender politics of Spain’s most famous romance of chivalry has guaranteed it a long afterlife. Amadís de Gaula had a …
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- 9789048536641
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- 281 p.
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- Gendering the Late Medieval and Early Modern World, 3
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- 860.93522 TRI c
Plurilingual classroom practices and participation : analysing interaction in…
Plurilingual Classroom Practices and Participation contributes to a better understanding of plurilingual education in Catalonia by providing a description of the interactional resources mobilised by learners as social actors. This volume is a collection of studies that show interactions containing plurilingual and multimodal sequences that illustrate moments of potential acquisition of aspects …
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- 9781003169123
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- XXVI, 216 p.
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- 370.117509467 PLU p
Spain, China and Japan in Manila, 1571-1644 : local comparisons and global co…
This book offers a new perspective on the connected histories of Spain, China, and Japan as they emerged and developed following Manila’s foundation as the capital of the Spanish Philippines in 1571. Examining a wealth of multilingual primary sources, Birgit Tremml-Werner shows that crosscultural encounters not only shaped Manila’s development as a “Eurasian” port city, but also had pro…
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- 9789048526819
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- viii, 365 p.
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- 959.91602 TRE s
Global history with Chinese characteristics : autocratic states along the sil…
This open access book examines perceptions and dialogues between China and Europe by analysing strategic geopolitical sites which fostered commerce, consumption and socioeconomic networks between China and Europe through a particular case study: Macau, connecting with South China, and Marseille in Mediterranean Europe from 1680 to 1800. How did foreign merchant networks and trans‐national com…
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- 9789811578656
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- xxxv, 244p. : ill.
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- 330.95103 PER g
Spanish economic growth, 1850-2015
This text offers a comprehensive and nuanced view of the economic development of Spain since 1850. It provides a new set of historical GDP estimates for Spain from the demand and supply sides, and presents a reconstruction of production and expenditure series for the century prior to the introduction of modern national accounts. The author splices available national accounts sets over the perio…
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- 9783319580425
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- xxiv, 383p. : ill.
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- 330.9 DE s
The social metabolism of Spanish agriculture, 1900–2008 : the mediterranean…
This open access book provides a panoramic view of the evolution of Spanish agriculture from 1900 to the present, offering a more diverse picture to the complex and multidimensional reality of agrarian production. With a clear transdisciplinary ambition, the book applies an original and innovative theoretical and methodological tool, termed Agrarian Social Metabolism, combining Social Metabolis…
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- 9783030209001
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- xix, 281p. : ill.
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- 630.946 SOC s
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