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Iain Jackson, Ewan Harrison, Michele Tenzon, Rixt Woudstra
Architecture, Empire, and Trade

"This open access book tells a new and untold history of the architecture of West Africa in the colonial era, as revealed for the first time through the archives of the United Africa Company (UAC). W…

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Michael Mcbride
How to Sound Smart at Parties

"Packed with over 150 fun facts spanning the topics of ancient civilizations, animal behavior, natural science, outer space, human accomplishments, pop culture, and more..."--Provided by publish…

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Uday Chandra
Resistance as Negotiation

""Tribes" appear worldwide today as vestiges of a pre-modern past at odds with the workings of modern states. Acts of resistance and rebellion by groups designated as "tribal" hav…

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Claudio Vellutini
Entangled Histories

Through a wealth of archival documents and printed materials, Entangled Historiesshows how, over the first half of the nineteenth century, opera helped redefine questions of collective identity in the Aus…

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Louisa Frederici Cody
Memories of Buffalo Bill

Written with the help of Courtney Ryley Cooper, Annie Oakley's first biographer, Memories of Buffalo Bill offers an idealized account of William F. Cody's life from the perspective of his wife, Louisa.

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Mostafa Mohie
Biographies of Port Said: Everydayness of State, Dwellers, and Strangers

"Founded in 1859, as part of the Suez Canal project and named after Khedive Said, the city of Port Said has always stood at the juncture of global, national, and local networks of forces, the city it…

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What Is African American Religion?

Is there really a monolithic "Black church"? Distilling the arguments of Anthony Pinn's important and provocative work in Terror and Triumph, this brief volume asks the central question: What re…

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Ed Simon
Devil's Contract

"Lively . . . excoriating, eloquent . . . We are all Faustians now." --- James Wood, The New Yorker A devilishly fascinating tour of the Faustian bargain through the ages, from brimstone to blue…

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Shelley Hales
Mirrors and Masks in the Roman Empire

This book explores the ways in which masks and mirrors mediated encounters, enabled performances and effected visual and social metamorphoses across the Roman empire. The complex and multifaceted roles pl…

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John Blair
Killing the Dead

A riveting history of vampire panics across cultures and down through the millennia---and why killing the dead is better than killing the livingKilling the Dead provides the first in-depth, global account…

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Bruno Huberman,
The Palestinians and East Jerusalem

"Over the last two decades, the Israeli government has implemented policies for the development of East Jerusalem. These comprise urban revitalization as well as professional training and the promoti…

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Jonina Abron-Ervin
Driven by the Movement

A collective portrait of the Black Power movement by radical journalist and former Black Panther JoNina Abron-ErvinDriven by the Movement collects the stories of twenty ordinary people who did extraordina…

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Dylan C Penningroth
Before the Movement

The familiar story of civil rights goes like this: once, America's legal system shut Black people out and refused to recognize their rights, their basic human dignity, or even their very lives. When lynch…

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Jeremy B Jones
Cipher

In the 1800s, Appalachian farmer and rogue William Prestwood kept salacious coded diaries, leaving his descendent, Jeremy Jones, to reflect on his complicated legacy.In 1975, a man stumbled upon a box of …

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Christian Frost
Architecture and Cultural Continuity

"Bridging together architecture and festival, ritual and community, past and present, Architecture and Cultural Continuity provides an interdisciplinary philosophical framework for evaluating archite…

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Christian Frost
Architecture and Cultural Continuity

"Bridging together architecture and festival, ritual and community, past and present, Architecture and Cultural Continuity provides an interdisciplinary philosophical framework for evaluating archite…

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Frederic May Holland
The reign of the Stoics. History. Religion. Maxims of self-control, self-culture, benevolence, justice. Philosophy. With citations of authors quoted from on each page

Reprint of the original, first published in 1879. The Antigonos publishing house specialises in the publication of reprints of historical books. We make sure that these works are made available to the pub…

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Stephanie Gray
Restoring America

Exploring how the New Deal shaped history through politically driven commemorationDuring the Great Depression, Americans employed historic preservation as a tool to address the political, economic, and so…

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Grant Farred
Grievance

Reveals how America is a nation founded on grievance.Grievance is an American mode of being that can be traced back to the Declaration of Independence, that is at the root of the Civil War and accounts in…

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Howard Amos
Russia Starts Here

Why do ordinary people support Putin? Why does Russia act so aggressively abroad? How fragile is the regime?In Russia Starts Here, Howard Amos paints a fascinating portrait of the lives of ordinary Russia…

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