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Prehistories Of The Future - The Primitivist Project And The Culture Of Modernism

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 Examining the emergence of modernism from the fin-de-siecle primitivist project this volume shows how ethnographic materials shaped a variety of high and low discourses (ethnology, social theory, gender construction, classical scholarship, as well as travel photography) at the turn of the century. Illustrated with 98 photographs and drawings.
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How To Write The History Of The New World - Histories, Epistemologies, And Identities In The Eighteenth-Century Atlantic World

by Jorge Canizares-Esguerra

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 In the mid-18th century, the French naturalist Buffon contended that the New World was in fact geologically new. Many historians, naturalists and philosophers sought either to confirm or refute these views. This book maintains that the dispute was also a debate over historical authority.
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Museums And Memory

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 This volume considers museums from personal experience and historical study, and from the memories of museum visitors, curators, and scholars. Representing a variety of fields, the essays range widely over time and place, in exhibitions explored, and types of institutions.
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Early American Railroads - Franz Anton Ritter Von Gerstner'S `Die Innern Communicationen'1842-1843

by Franz Anton Ritter Von Gerstner

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 The first English translation of the most comprehensive and detailed work on the development, construction, finance, and operation of early American railroads and canals.
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The Nahuas After The Conquest - A Social And Cultural History Of The Indians Of Central Mexico, Sixteenth Through Eighteenth Centuries

by James Lockhart

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 A monumental achievement of research, synthesis, and analysis, this volume on the Nahua Indians of central Mexico (often called Aztecs) constitutes our best understanding of any New World indigenous society in the period following European contact.
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Building Experiments - Testing Social Theory

by Henry A. Walker

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 Ranging from abstract theory to practical design solutions, this book provides the reader with the understandings needed to design and run cutting edge experiments.
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Enlightenment, Passion, Modernity - Historical Essays In European Thought And Culture

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 The essays in this volume, by an internationally distinguished group of scholars, represent a generous sampling of contemporary studies in areas such as social history, the history of linguistics, anthropology, literary theory, art history, and intellectual and cultural history.
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Patterns Of Disengagement - The Practice And Portrayal Of Reclusion In Early Medieval China

by Alan J. Berkowitz

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 This work traces the formulation and portrayal of the practice of reclusion in China from the earliest times through the sixth century, by which time reclusion had taken on its enduring character.
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How To Write The History Of The New World - Histories, Epistemologies, And Identities In The Eighteenth-Century Atlantic World

by Jorge Canizares-Esguerra

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 In the mid-18th century, the French naturalist Buffon contended that the New World was in fact geologically new and that it had recently emerged from the water. This text looks at the debate surrounding the geological history of the New World, and the effect on historiographical concepts.
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Making A Nation, Breaking A Nation - Literature And Cultural Politics In Yugoslavia

by Andrew Baruch Wachtel

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 This work explores the role of literature in the former Yugoslavia's attempts to create a multicultural nation. It focuses on the cultural processes by which the idea of a nation was developed and on the reasons that this idea failed to bind the South Slavs into a viable nation and state.
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The Mind Of Modernism - Medicine, Psychology, And The Cultural Arts In Europe And America, 1880-1940

by Mark S. Micale

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 This vanguard collection of original and in-depth essays seeks to explore the intricate interplay of the aesthetic and psychological domains during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, and to consider the reasons why a common Modernist project took shape when and in the circumstances it did.
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Democratic Institutional Design - The Powers And Incentives Of Venezuelan Politicians And Interest Groups

by Brian F. Crisp

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 Based on the policy-making structures of the Venezuelan government, this book examines the constitutionally allocated powers of the executive and legislature, and shows how the powers of each branch are exercised given the incentives established by the electoral system and changing partisan strengths.
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Museums And Memory

by Susan A. Crane

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 This volume considers museums from personal experience and historical study, and from the memories of museum visitors, curators, and scholars. Representing a variety of fields, the essays range widely over time and place, in exhibitions explored, and types of institutions.
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Alternatives - Black Feminism In The Postimperial Nation

by Ranu Samantrai

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 This is the history of the black British women's movement of the 1980s (comprising women of African-Caribbean and South Asian origin), and its place in postwar British politics, racism, and feminism.
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Confronting Development - Assessing Mexico'S Economic And Social Policy Challenges

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 Since the 1980s, Mexico has alternately served as a model of structural economic reform and as a cautionary example of the limitations associated with market-led development. This book provides an assessment of the principle economic and social policies adopted by Mexico during the 1980s and 1990s.
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The Virgin, The King, And The Royal Slaves Of El Cobre - Negotiating Freedom In Colonial Cuba, 1670-1780

by María Elena Díaz

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 This book tells the extraordinary story of a village of peasants and miners who were slaves belonging to the king of Spain and whose local patroness was a vision of the virgin. It explores the ways the royal slaves, assisted by te force of popular religion, achieved a degree of freedom unprecedented in other colonial societies of the New World.
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Shanghai On Strike - The Politics Of Chinese Labor

by Elizabeth J. Perry

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 This is a comprehensive study on the social history of China during the first half of the 20th century. It draws on abundant sources and studies which have appeared in the People's Republic of China since the early 1980sand which have not been systematically used in Western historiography.
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Prehistories Of The Future - The Primitivist Project And The Culture Of Modernism

by Elazar (Claremont Graduate Humanities Center) Barkan e Ronald (California Institute Of Technology) Bush

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 Examining the emergence of modernism from the fin-de-siecle primitivist project this volume shows how ethnographic materials shaped a variety of high and low discourses (ethnology, social theory, gender construction, classical scholarship, as well as travel photography) at the turn of the century. Illustrated with 98 photographs and drawings.
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The Mind Of Modernism - Medicine, Psychology, And The Cultural Arts In Europe And America, 1880-1940

by Mark S. Micale

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 This vanguard collection of original and in-depth essays seeks to explore the intricate interplay of the aesthetic and psychological domains during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, and to consider the reasons why a common Modernist project took shape when and in the circumstances it did.
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A Genealogy Of The Modern Self - Thomas De Quincey And The Intoxication Of Writing

by Alina Clej

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 The author argues that De Quincey's literary output, which is both a symptom and an effect of his addictions to opium and writing, plays an important role in the development of modern and modernist forms of subjectivity.
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Natural Masques - Gender And Identity In Fielding'S Plays And Novels

by Jill Campbell

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 This is an examination of issues of gender in Henry Fielding's work. Looking at Fielding's sustained, often ambivalent engagement with questions of gender, this volume aims to break with critical conventions that contrast Fielding's robust "masculinity" with Richardson's "feminine" sensibilities.
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Trauma And Memory - Reading, Healing, And Making Law

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 The book explores the social construction of different dimensions of trauma in law and medicine.
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After Empire - The Conceptual Transformation Of The Chinese State, 1885-1924

by Peter Zarrow

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 After Empire offers a new analysis of how Chinese thinkers constructed a modern constitutional state in place of the age-old imperial state at the turn of the twentieth century, and the revolutionary processes thereby engendered.
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Rediscovering History - Culture, Politics, And The Psyche

by Michael S. Roth

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 This wide-ranging collection of essays on the cultural history of modern Europe is unified by a concern with how the relation between self and society finds expression in cultural production.
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