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Akintunde Akinyemi
Echoes of Yoruba Oral Traditions in Contemporary Nigerian Dramaturgy

This book discusses the new roles assigned to oral traditions in the works of contemporary playwrights, and asserts that these oral materials, though old, have enduring vitality and relevance for modern-d…

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Alexei Penzin,
Insomnia

Contemporary theorists, including Walter Benjamin, Emmanuel Levinas and Jean-Luc Nancy, have identified that an essential feature of capitalism is an uninterrupted or permanently wakeful continuity of pro…

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Alexei Penzin,
Insomnia

Contemporary theorists, including Walter Benjamin, Emmanuel Levinas and Jean-Luc Nancy, have identified that an essential feature of capitalism is an uninterrupted or permanently wakeful continuity of pro…

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Nana Ariel, Dana Riesenfeld
Clichés We Live by

clichés We Live By shows how clichés - those everyday phrases we love to hate - shape our world. It traces their trajectory from modernity to the contemporary digital and artificial intelligence eras, rev…

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Harriet A Washington
Renaissance Men

The gripping, untold stories of three unsung Black physicians and their critical contributions to the field of medicine and American culture, from the National Book Critics Circle Award-winning author of …

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W Ian Bourland
Black and Gold

For centuries, Africa has been the center of the global trade in gold. Synonymous with wealth and power in African cultures, this precious metal was also central to the emergence of Europe's colonial empi…

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W. Ian Bourland
Black and Gold

AFRICANAS

For centuries, Africa has been the center of the global trade in gold. Synonymous with wealth and power in African cultures, this precious metal was also central to the emergence of Europe's colonial empi…

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Lora Walsh
Lady Church in the Christian Imagination

How did Lady Church become a theological person and literary figure in patristic, medieval, and early modern texts? In this study, Lora Walsh recovers a feminine figure whose historical prominence has bee…

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Chiara Formichi
Domestic Nationalism

Chiara Formichi argues that Muslim women in Java and Sumatra, from the late 1910s to the 1950s, were central to Indonesia's progress as guardians and promoters of health and piety through gendered activit…

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Matthew Costa
Mother of Capital

Rent, or unearned income, is a pervasive concept in contemporary economics. Economists of all stripes see today's global economy as riddled with harmful rents, but most deny these are intrinsic to capital…

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Jewish Dealers and the European Art Market, c. 1860-1940

Bloomsbury Visual Arts

Before the tragedy of the Holocaust, many of the leading art and antiques dealers across Europe were Jewish, establishing dynamic cross-Channel, international and transatlantic networks. Aside from a few …

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Chiara Formichi
Domestic Nationalism

Chiara Formichi argues that Muslim women in Java and Sumatra, from the late 1910s to the 1950s, were central to Indonesia's progress as guardians and promoters of health and piety through gendered activit…

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Auke de Haan
The History of Philosophy

Philosophy is not a relic of university lecture halls - it is the ongoing human attempt to understand the world, establish how to live well, and ask questions that resist easy answers. The History of Phil…

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Hongling Liang
Educating China in Europe

This book offers the first comprehensive study of cosmopolitanism in education between China and Europe from the late Qing to the Republican period.Drawing on previously untapped archives, it examines tra…

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Musa Sadr,
Musa Sadr

Musa Sadr was a leading force in Lebanese politics from the early 1960s until his disappearance in Libya in 1978. Like now, this was a time of turmoil, violence, and change in the Middle East. Sadr has be…

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Heather Brink-Roby
A Wider Reality

Thinking Literature

Theorizes how treating lives as "representative" has been used, in and beyond the novel, to frame the problems and paradoxes of modernity.In the nineteenth century, claims that someone or someth…

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Adriana Novoa
From Virile to Sterile

As rigorous scientific and philosophical discourse circulated during the Enlightenment, aided by the Republic of Letters, a revolutionary understanding of gender emerged that would impact nation building …

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Kathryn Brush
Arthur Kingsley Porter's Pilgrimage to Romanesque Art

The author of trailblazing studies of medieval art and a globetrotter who vanished in Ireland, Harvard scholar Arthur Kingsley Porter (1883--1933) remains a legendary figure. A century ago Porter and his …

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Ingolfur Bluhdorn
Beyond the Green Transformation

Until very recently, the climate crisis was considered the most serious and urgent challenge facing contemporary societies. There was widespread agreement that a comprehensive green transformation is nece…

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Tony Claydon
The Revolution in Time

The Revolution in Time explores the idea that people in Western Europe changed the way they thought about the concept of time over the early modern period, by examining reactions to the 1688-1689 revoluti…

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