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Lombroso in the Americas

This volume explores, for the first time, the multifaceted influence and impact of Italian criminologist Cesare Lombroso (1835-1909) in the Americas from the late nineteenth century to the mid-twentieth c…

lieferbar ab 27.5.2027.

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Alice Mandell
The Amarna Letters and the Scribes Who Wrote Them

Elements in the Ancient Near Eastern World and the Bible

This Element offers readers an introduction to the Amarna letters. This group of 350 cuneiform tablets was discovered at the site of Tell el-Amarna (ancient Akhetaten) in Egypt. They date to the mid-fourt…

lieferbar ab 31.8.2026.

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Astronomical Observatories and Chronometry, 18th-20th Century

History of Physics

This book presents research perspectives and open questions on the intersections between astronomy and chronometry. Their study is of crucial importance to the new historiography of observatories. On the …

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Nicole Nehrig
With Her Own Hands

WW Norton & Co

Psychologist and knitter Nicole Nehrig delves into the myriad ways that art forms such as knitting, sewing and embroidery are liberating for women. Spanning continents and centuries, Nehrig brings togethe…

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Joaquin Villanueva
Making Space for Empire

In Making Space for Empire , Joaquín Villanueva documents how white elites in Puerto Rico and the United States collaborated to produce the physical and ideological landscapes of the archipelago in the mo…

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Anandarup Biswas
Inveterate Walkers, Literary Minds

Inveterate Walkers, Literary Minds: Bengal's Pilgrims and Their Himalayan Journeys brings under its critical focus the writings of Bengal's travellers (mostly pilgrims) who went, on foot, into Himalayan t…

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Cold War Liberalism

In the mid-twentieth century, Cold War liberalism exerted a profound influence on the US state, US foreign policy, and liberal thought across the North Atlantic world. The essays in this volume examine th…

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Carman Miller
The Black Box

In a remarkable tale of tragedy, war, family conflict, and imperial diplomacy, The Black Box presents a collective biography of four generations of women in an elite Nova Scotia family during the late-nin…

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Seyedamirhossein Asghari
Sufism and Philosophy in the Contemporary Shia Seminary

What is the place of Sufi and philosophical thought in Shi'ism today?This book delves into the ongoing debate within the contemporary Shia seminary over the role of Sufi and philosophical thought in inter…

lieferbar ab 21.1.2027.

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Robert D. Koch
Juan Perón's Anti-Imperialist Geopolitics

Using a blend of global, intellectual and cultural history, this book explores the geopolitics of Juan Perón and their relationship to, and impact on, the international history of the mid-20th century.Beg…

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Eduardo Elena
Emerging El Dorado

The scramble for distant riches has featured centrally in the history of the Global South--from the first forays of European imperialists to the recent fascination with emerging markets. In the mid-ninete…

lieferbar ab 28.7.2026.

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Scott Ritner
Revolutionary Pessimism

Scott B. Ritner argues that the antifascist philosopher and mystic Simone Weil's critical writings about the social crises of the mid-twentieth century, especially fascism, are particularly instructive fo…

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Martin M. Checa-Artasu
Neo-Gothic Architecture in Mexico

The Latin American Studies Book Series

Neo-Gothic architecture is a global phenomenon observed in Mexico from the 1850s to the mid-20th century, even with current examples. In Mexico there are more than 500 buildings with some neo-Gothic eleme…

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Ideas of Africa

A rich examination of the role of portrait photography in the construction of Africa as a political ideaAt a moment of profound change marked by decolonization and the Civil Rights period of the mid-twent…

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Brett Rushforth, Christopher Hodson
Beyond the Ocean

A bold reinterpretation of French colonialism from its medieval roots to the early nineteenth centuryBetween 1400 and 1800, the people of Europe, Africa, and the Americas grew ever more connected by overs…

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Jerry Moore
The Handbook for Historical Pattern Cutting

The Handbook for Historical Pattern Cutting: Women's Dress from 1550 to 1950 is a comprehensive tool to draft historical patterns for modern bodies.This book bridges four centuries of women's fashion hist…

lieferbar ab 23.7.2026.

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Joaquin Villanueva
Making Space for Empire

In Making Space for Empire , Joaquín Villanueva documents how white elites in Puerto Rico and the United States collaborated to produce the physical and ideological landscapes of the archipelago in the mo…

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Beans Velocci
Sex Isn't Real

In Sex Isn't Real, Beans Velocci traces the history of current high stakes attempts to define sex and to create a world devoid of trans life. Drawing on lab notes, family genealogies, medical case studies…

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Gabriela Soto Laveaga
The World in a Wheat Field

In the mid-twentieth century, researchers at an experiment station in Sonora's Yaqui Valley designed high-yielding wheat seeds with the promise that increasing crop productivity would end world hunger. Th…

lieferbar ab 15.12.2026.

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Jonathan W White
Shipwrecked

From the New York Times : "The astonishing stories in Shipwrecked ... [offer] a fresh perspective on the mess of pitched emotions and politics in a nation at war over slavery."Historian Jonathan…

lieferbar ab 21.1.2027.

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