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Robyn Creswell
City of Beginnings

"City of Beginnings is an exploration of modernism in Arabic poetry, a movement that emerged in Beirut during the 1950s and became the most influential and controversial Arabic literary development o…

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Troubled Lands

A landmark book---the first complete publication of Langston Hughes's translations of thirty-three stories by eighteen Mexican and Cuban writersIn late 1934, Langston Hughes, already established as a lead…

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Peter J Kalliney
The Aesthetic Cold War

How decolonization and the cold war influenced literature from Africa, Asia, and the CaribbeanHow did superpower competition and the cold war affect writers in the decolonizing world? In The Aesthetic Col…

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Alan Dershowitz
The Preventive State

"You shall thank Alan Dershowitz for writing this [valuable] book." -- Stephen Breyer, Former Associate Justice of the Supreme Court If reliable but uncertain intelligence predicted a mass casua…

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Devin O Pendas
Genocide in Comparative Perspective

Genocide in Comparative Perspective offers a concise introduction to genocide in modern world history. It emphasizes the transnational dimensions of the phenomenon, looking at the way in which victim and …

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Devin O Pendas
Genocide in Comparative Perspective

Genocide in Comparative Perspective offers a concise introduction to genocide in modern world history. It emphasizes the transnational dimensions of the phenomenon, looking at the way in which victim and …

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Women on the Right

Women on the Right explores the complex relationships between conservative and right-wing politics, social action, and women actors from the late 19th to the late 20th century. Edited by Clarisse Berthezè…

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Michael Loewe, Michael Nylan, T. Corey Brennan
Imperial Institutions in Ancient Rome and Early China

Written by the eminent sinologist Michael Loewe, and edited for publication by T. Corey Brennan and Michael Nylan, this book gives an overview of the considerations and practices of two major world empire…

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Michael Loewe, Michael Nylan, T Corey Brennan
Imperial Institutions in Ancient Rome and Early China

"Written by the eminent sinologist Michael Loewe, this book gives an overview of the considerations and practices of two major world empires that together ruled one-half of the earth's population in …

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Wissenschaft des Judentums in Europe

Studia Judaica - Band 76

Despite the fact that it was never really accepted as part of European academia before the Shoah, the tradition of Wissenschaft des Judentums that emerged after the Enlightenment period spread throughout …

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Communist Actors in African Decolonial Transitions

Dialectics of the Global - Band 22

In the long and protracted process of decolonization in sub-Saharan Africa (1957-1994), three key moments in the transitions from colonial/white-ruled states to independent majority-ruled states can be id…

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Robb Nelson
The Anatomy of Colorism in America

The Anatomy of Colorism in America addresses the significance that colorism, racial hierarchy, and white skin idealization have each had on the lives of individuals across multiple communities and how tho…

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Nicholas Dames
The Chapter

A history of the chapter from its origins in antiquity to today

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The New Cambridge History of the English Language: Volume 4

"Various kinds of text which document the history of English form the focus of the current volume. Vernacular speech in writing and orality along with issues of literacy and manuscripts are highlight…

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The New Cambridge History of the English Language: Volume 3

How language change manifests itself in the history of English is the primary focus of this volume. It considers the transmission of English though dictionaries and grammars down to the digital means foun…

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The New Cambridge History of the English Language: Volume 1

This volume investigates the Indo-European and Germanic background to the English language, looking at how inherited elements of phonology and morphology survived into the Old English period. It then cons…

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The New Cambridge History of the English Language: Volume 2

This volume considers the various kinds of text which document the history of the English language. It looks closely at vernacular speech in writing and the broader context of orality along with issues of…

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Theo D'Haen, Anders Pettersson
A History of European Literature

An ideal introduction and a reliable guide for students and teachers of European literature Uniquely broad in both geographic and chronological scope, A History of European Literature introduces students …

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Danny Bate
Why Q Needs U

'A breathtaking adventure through the alphabet... An absolutely delightful read, filled with jewels of lightly worn scholarship and dazzling insight. I just couldn't recommend it more highly.' Stephen Fry…

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Short Story as World Literature

Global in scope, this volume uncovers the deep history of the short story as an "impure" genre by challenging the commonplace understanding in contemporary literary studies that the short story …

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