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  • Capturing the Pícaro in Words Capturing the Pícaro in Words
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    Capturing the Pícaro in Words

    Capturing the Pícaro in Words discusses the framing of the transient marginals of early modern Madrid in the literary pícaro. It compares the perceptions of constables, shopkeepers, and criminals, to those of mass-produced literary representations, and...
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  • "Who's Afraid of ISIS?" "Who's Afraid of ISIS?"
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    "Who's Afraid of ISIS?"

    "Who's Afraid of ISIS?" eschews familiar debates about the status of ISIS as an existential threat to the West, with the aim of submitting those types of arguments to a reasoned examination of the political place of anxiety itself. This collection...
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  • Tuberculosis in the Americas, 1870-1945 Tuberculosis in the Americas, 1870-1945
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    Tuberculosis in the Americas, 1870-1945

    This book focuses on the era during which the cause of tuberculosis had been identified, and public health officials were seeking to prevent it, but scientists had not yet found a cure. By examining tuberculosis comparatively in two Atlantic port cities,...
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  • Indian Cinema Beyond Bollywood Indian Cinema Beyond Bollywood
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    Indian Cinema Beyond Bollywood

    This is the first edited volume on new independent Indian cinema. It aims to be a comprehensive compendium of diverse theoretical, philosophical, epistemological and practice-based perspectives, featuring contributions from multidisciplinary scholars and...
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  • Informal Marriages in Early Modern Venice Informal Marriages in Early Modern Venice
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    Informal Marriages in Early Modern Venice

    Conditions of the marriage market and sexual culture, and the needs of wealthy families and their members created social tensions in the late sixteenth and early-seventeenth century Venice. This study details these tensions and discusses concubinage- a...
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  • The Transatlantic Genealogy of American Anglo-Saxonism The Transatlantic Genealogy of American Anglo-Saxonism
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    The Transatlantic Genealogy of American Anglo-Saxonism

    This book traces the myth of Anglo-Saxonism as it crosses from Britain to the New World as both a cultural construct and ideological nation-building tool. Through extensive investigations of both early American and English cultural attitudes toward...
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  • Power and Illicit Drugs in the Global South Power and Illicit Drugs in the Global South
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    Power and Illicit Drugs in the Global South

    More than a hundred years have passed since the adoption of the first prohibitionist laws on drugs. Increasingly, the edifice of international drug control and laws is vacillating under pressures of reform. Scholarship on drugs history and policy has had...
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  • Masculinities at the Margins Masculinities at the Margins
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    Masculinities at the Margins

    Across a rich terrain of empirical and theoretical trajectories, the concept of military masculinity (now understood in its plural as military masculinities) has been a significant conceptual tool in both feminist international relations (IR) and in...
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  • Japan's "New Deal" for China Japan's "New Deal" for China
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    Japan's "New Deal" for China

    In the decade leading up to the attack on Pearl Harbor, at a time when Japan was expanding its influence in Asia, several Japanese institutions set about trying to convince Americans to support Tokyo's plans and ambitions for China. This book seeks to...
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  • Routledge Handbook of Naval Strategy and Security Routledge Handbook of Naval Strategy and Security
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    Routledge Handbook of Naval Strategy and Security

    This new handbook provides a comprehensive overview of the issues facing naval strategy and security in the twenty-first century. Featuring contributions from some of the world's premier researchers and practitioners in the field of naval strategy and...
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  • Routledge Handbook of Media, Conflict and Security Routledge Handbook of Media, Conflict and Security
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    Routledge Handbook of Media, Conflict and Security

    This Handbook links the growing body of media and conflict research with the field of security studies. The academic sub-field of media and conflict has developed and expanded greatly over the past two decades. Operating across a diverse range of...
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  • The Routledge History of East Central Europe since 1700 The Routledge History of East Central Europe since 1700
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    The Routledge History of East Central Europe since 1700

    Covering territory from Russia in the east to Germany and Austria in the west, The Routledge History of East Central Europe since 1700 explores the origins and evolution of modernity in this turbulent region. This book applies fresh critical approaches...
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  • The United States and Southeast Asian Regionalism The United States and Southeast Asian Regionalism
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    The United States and Southeast Asian Regionalism

    The Nixon or Guam Doctrine of 1969 stressed the importance of progress towards regional cooperation and Asian collective security, indicating that Asian countries themselves should take the initiative in creating programs in which the United States could...
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  • Agrarian Reform and Resistance in an Age of Globalisation Agrarian Reform and Resistance in an Age of Globalisation
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    Agrarian Reform and Resistance in an Age of Globalisation

    This book investigates the causes and effects of modernisation in rural regions of Britain and Ireland, continental Europe, the Americas, and Australasia between 1780 and 1914. In this period, the transformation of the world economy associated with the...
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  • The Routledge Companion to Military Research Methods The Routledge Companion to Military Research Methods
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    The Routledge Companion to Military Research Methods

    This new handbook is about the practices of conducting research on military issues.  As an edited collection, it brings together an extensive group of authors from a range of disciplinary perspectives whose chapters engage with the conceptual, practical...
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  • The Routledge Companion to Strabo The Routledge Companion to Strabo
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    The Routledge Companion to Strabo

    The Routledge Companion to Strabo explores the works of Strabo of Amasia (c. 64 BCE - c. CE 24), a Greek author writing at the prime of Roman expansion and political empowerment. While his earlier historiographical composition is almost entirely lost,...
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  • Routledge Handbook of Premodern Japanese History Routledge Handbook of Premodern Japanese History
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    Routledge Handbook of Premodern Japanese History

    Scholarship on premodern Japan has grown spectacularly over the past four decades, in terms of both sophistication and volume. A new approach has developed, marked by a higher reliance on primary documents, a shift away from the history of elites to...
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  • Medieval Greece Medieval Greece
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    Medieval Greece

    Medieval Greece brings together twelve articles by historian Michael Heslop, showcasing his long-standing interest in the medieval castles of Greece.Ten of the articles in this volume focus on the Dodecanese islands, mainly Rhodes, at the time of their...
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  • Cosmopolitan Italy in the Age of Nations Cosmopolitan Italy in the Age of Nations
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    Cosmopolitan Italy in the Age of Nations

    Modern Italian historiography has undergone a substantial revision in the last quarter of a century. From an almost exclusive focus on the process of nation-building, the attention of historians has shifted. The most innovative research is now devoted to...
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  • Politics and Trade in Britain, 1776-1914 Politics and Trade in Britain, 1776-1914
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    Politics and Trade in Britain, 1776-1914

    This volume explores the period between Smith's 1776 The Wealth of Nations and ends in the early days of the Anti-Corn Law League campaign on the eve of the 1841 General Election. The collection includes contemporary sources and extensive editorial...
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  • Reading Texts for Performance and Performances as Texts Reading Texts for Performance and Performances as Texts
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    Reading Texts for Performance and Performances as Texts

    This volume brings together nineteen important articles by Pamela M. King, one of the foremost British scholars working on Early English Drama. Unique to this collection are five articles on the 'living' traditions of performances in Spain,...
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  • Politics and the Slavic Languages Politics and the Slavic Languages
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    Politics and the Slavic Languages

    During the last two centuries, ethnolinguistic nationalism has been the norm of nation building and state building in Central Europe. The number of recognized Slavic languages (in line with the normative political formula of language = nation = state)...
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  • Mirror of the World Mirror of the World
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    Mirror of the World

    In the late fifteenth century, the production of print editions of Claudius Ptolemy's second-century Geography sparked one of the most significant intellectual developments of the era-the production of mathematically-based, north-oriented maps. The...
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  • Labour Rights and the Catholic Church Labour Rights and the Catholic Church
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    Labour Rights and the Catholic Church

    This book explores the extent of parallelism and cross-influence between Catholic Social Teaching and the work of the world's oldest human rights institution, the International Labour Organisation (ILO). Sometimes there is a mutual attraction between...
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  • Euhemerism and Its Uses Euhemerism and Its Uses
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    Euhemerism and Its Uses

    Euhemerism and Its Uses offers the first interdisciplinary, focussed, and all-round view of the long history of an important but understudied phenomenon in European intellectual and cultural history. Euhemerism - the claim that the Greek gods were...
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  • Capitalism and Individualism in America Capitalism and Individualism in America
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    Capitalism and Individualism in America

    This book provides a concise and accessible history of the relationship between the individual and capitalism in the United States. The text is devoted to tracking the historical development of important themes, whilst addressing key episodes in the...
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  • Migrants and the Making of the Urban-Maritime World Migrants and the Making of the Urban-Maritime World
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    Migrants and the Making of the Urban-Maritime World

    This volume explores the mutually transformative relations between migrants and port cities. Throughout the ages of sail and steam, port cities served as nodes of long-distance transmissions and exchanges. Commercial goods, people, animals, seeds,...
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  • Hearing Enslaved Voices Hearing Enslaved Voices
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    Hearing Enslaved Voices

    This book focuses on alternative types of slave narratives, especially courtroom testimony, and interrogates how such narratives were produced, the societies (both those that were majority slave societies and those in which slaves were a distinct...
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  • Merchants and Society in Modern China Merchants and Society in Modern China
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    Merchants and Society in Modern China

    In ancient China, as the lowermost class in the social hierarchy, merchants were viewed as greedy and immoral, commanding little respect. But since the sixteenth century, when China entered modern times with the sprout of capitalism, merchants...
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  • The Japanese in the Western Mind The Japanese in the Western Mind
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    The Japanese in the Western Mind

    This fascinating book is an insightful exploration of Western perceptions and representations of Japanese culture and society, drawing on social and cultural psychological ideas around stereotypes and intercultural relations.Hinton considers how the West...
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  • Modern Japanese Economic Thought Modern Japanese Economic Thought
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    Modern Japanese Economic Thought

    Since the late-19th century, Japan has made remarkable strides in industrialization. Beginning with the economic vision of Miura Baien in the 18th century, and employing a detailed comparison with the West, this book delves into the economic thought of...
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  • Accounting in Eighteenth Century Scotland Accounting in Eighteenth Century Scotland
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    Accounting in Eighteenth Century Scotland

    This book, first published in 1988, is a study of the development of accounting in eighteenth century Scotland. The investigation is organised around a survey of early Scottish accounting texts, an analysis of their exposition of the Italian method of...
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  • Miller-Simon-Hansen Genealogy of Cordova Illinois Miller-Simon-Hansen Genealogy of Cordova Illinois
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    Miller-Simon-Hansen Genealogy of Cordova Illinois

    When first beginning research to find her family's history, Diana sought out the descendants of the Simon family in the St. Louis area to learn that the place they came from had something to do with 'swans.' She later learned that they came from Swanden,...
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  • Robert Harris Sr. (1702-1788) Descendants, Vol 1 Robert Harris Sr. (1702-1788) Descendants, Vol 1
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    Robert Harris Sr. (1702-1788) Descendants, Vol 1

    This is Volume 1 of a 2-part genealogy of the Harris family, tracing the lineage of Robert Harris Sr. (1702-1788).This work is part of The Families of Old Harrisburg Series, compiled and published by The Harris Depot Project.
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  • Atlantis Unveiled Atlantis Unveiled
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    Atlantis Unveiled

    Atlantis, its existence is one of basic pillars for interpretation of mankind's history. a theory supported by written records, artifacts, ... according to which on the Earth existed, there were advanced civilizations comparable with our one before...
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  • Adriatica Village @ Mckinney, Texas Adriatica Village @ Mckinney, Texas
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    Adriatica Village @ Mckinney, Texas

    Adriatica Village in McKinney is a unique housing development at Stonebridge Ranch in McKinney, Texas nearing completion at the writing of this book. It is notable for being a partial replica of the town of Supetar, Croatia.
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  • دراسات في شؤون العراق دراسات في شؤون العراق
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    دراسات في شؤون العراق

    خلاصة الكتابالمعروض كتاب يتضمن ثلاثة مباحث تم العمل عليها ومناقشة بعضها في حلقات متعددة داخل بعض الجامعات والمنتديات ومراكز البحوث العلمية الاجنبية .ولاغراض منهجية وطبيعة التدرجية فقد بدأنا كتابنا هذا ببحث مستقل معزز بالصور قدمه الباحث طه الياس في جامعة...
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  • Southern Railway In Kentucky As Seen Through Postcards Southern Railway In Kentucky As Seen Through Postcards
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    Southern Railway In Kentucky As Seen Through Postcards

    This story will be of interest to those interested in the development of rail transportation in Kentucky and to those who fancy the history of the Cincinnati, New Orleans & Texas Pacific and the Southern Railway. There stories of mergers and progress...
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  • Sub aripa neagră a războiului Sub aripa neagră a războiului
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    Sub aripa neagră a războiului

    Acest volum cred că va fi aşezat în rafturile de sus ale bibliotecilor lumii oferind o lectură provocatoare şi incitantă, prin aerul de imensitate al lumii şi al literaturii, prin sentimentul responsabilităţii scrisului în faţa istoriei şi fermitatea cu...
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