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The Center of the World
This sweeping history reorients our understanding of the Middle East, placing the Gulf at the heart of globalized trade and cross-cultural encounters. World history began in the Persian Gulf. The ...
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Sculpture at the Ends of Slavery
From abolitionist medallions to statues of bondspeople bearing broken chains, sculpture gave visual and material form to narratives about the end of slavery in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries.
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From the Royal to the Republican Body
In this innovative volume, leading scholars examine the role of the body as a primary site of political signification in seventeenth- and eighteenth-century France. Some essays focus on the ...
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Togo Mizrahi and the Making of Egyptian Cinema
A free open access ebook is available upon publication. Learn more at www.luminosoa.org. In this book, Deborah A. Starr recuperates the work of Togo Mizrahi, a pioneer of Egyptian cinema. Mizrahi, an ...
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The first attempt to understand medieval emotional responses to buildings like Notre-Dame built across the whole of Western Europe. In this time of rapid evolution, we offer a thoroughly updated and ...
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The Myth of Continents
In this thoughtful and engaging critique, geographer Martin W. Lewis and historian Kären Wigen reexamine the basic geographical divisions we take for granted, and challenge the unconscious spatial ...
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Prematurity in Scientific Discovery
One of the depressing by-products of the fantastically rapid progress that was made in molecular genetics in the past twenty-five years is that now merely middle-aged participants in its early ...
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Relaying Cinema in Midcentury Iran
Relaying Cinema in Midcentury Iran investigates how the cultural translation of cinema has been shaped by the physical translation of its ephemera. Kaveh Askari examines film circulation and its ...
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Researching and Writing in History
Much agony over writing research papers originates in the failure of the academic system to teach students how to use the library and how to write formally structured English. This handbook is ...
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The History of Polish Literature, Updated edition
This book is a survey of Polish letters and culture from its beginnings to modern times. Czeslaw Milosz updated this edition in 1983 and added an epilogue to bring the discussion up to date. Czeslaw ...
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UC Press November Award Winners
Timothy O. Benedict is Assistant Professor in the School of Sociology at Kwansei Gakuin University, Japan. What role does religion play at the end of life in Japan? Spiritual Ends draws on ...
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Reading List: Democracy and Its Threats, Essential Reads for Navigating an Uncertain Future
With The Wannabe Fascists, historian Federico Finchelstein offers a precise explanation of why Trumpism and similar movements across the world belong to a new political breed, the last outcome of the ...