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Nicholas L Caverly
Demolishing Detroit

Pioneering field work reveals how infrastructural systems-buildings, laws, algorithms, excavators, regulations, toxins-maintain white supremacy within the urban landscapeFor decades, Detroit residents, po…

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Roseanne Chambers
The Monumental Andes

When geologist Roseanne Chambers made her first visit to Machu Picchu in 2006, it sparked a deep fascination with the geology and culture of the Peruvian Andes. While there, she couldn't find a book that …

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Wen-Chin Chang
Echoes from the Sino-Burmese Borderlands

Grounded in extensive fieldwork and archival research, Echoes from the Sino-Burmese Borderlands explores the clandestine travel of primarily Yunnanese Chinese migrants during the Cold War. Wen-Chin Chang …

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Wen-Chin Chang
Echoes from the Sino-Burmese Borderlands

Grounded in extensive fieldwork and archival research, Echoes from the Sino-Burmese Borderlands explores the clandestine travel of primarily Yunnanese Chinese migrants during the Cold War. Wen-Chin Chang …

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Persis B Clarkson
Caravan Trails of Tamentica

An anthropological and narrative exploration of ancient llama caravans and their associated geoglyphs in the Chilean Atacama DesertCaravan Trails of Tamentica is a vivid exploration of ancient Andean llam…

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Céline Coderey
The Power of Remainder

In The Power of Remainder , Céline Coderey redefines how we understand health, healing, and marginality in Myanmar. Focusing on the Buddhist communities of Rakhine, a geopolitically peripheral state, she …

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Lindsay P Cohn,
On Order, Authority, and Modern Civil-Military Relations

This volume presents a reading of Augustine from the perspective of research into modern civil-military relations.

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Tomas Cole,
Possessed Landscapes

When spirits guard forests, conservation becomes revolution - and liberation grows from the soil In 2011 Myanmar emerged from what was by some counts the longest ongoing war in the world. Amid the flurry …

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Alice L. Conklin
In the Museum of Man

В книге представлен новый взгляд на сложные взаимоотношения науки, общества и власти в период расцвета французского империализма и европейского расизма. Автор переносит нас в годы становления французской …

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Hervé Corvellec
Waste as a Critique

Waste as a Critique reveals how waste in its manifold variety provides an innovative starting point for interrogating 21st century society.

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Michael B. Cosmopoulos
The World of Homer

Epic poetry, notably the Iliad and the Odyssey, stands as one of the most enduring legacies of ancient Greece. Although the impact of these epics on Western civilization is widely recognized, their origin…

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Diletta de Cristofaro
Sleep and Its Meanings

A wide-ranging collection exploring the many meanings of sleep, within the context of the humanities and social sciences.Sleep has been an object of specialized medical research for more than a century no…

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Marc David
Remembering the Cajun Past

Exploring how public history creates collective memory of this white ethnic group through memorialsCajuns arrived in southern Louisiana in the 18th century after the British exiled them from eastern Canad…

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Marc David
Remembering the Cajun Past

Exploring how public history creates collective memory of this white ethnic group through memorialsCajuns arrived in southern Louisiana in the 18th century after the British exiled them from eastern Canad…

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Philip John Victor Davies
Standing Among the Spartans

Conformity, uniformity, institutionality, exceptionality - each of these terms encapsulates an aspect of the common perception of Sparta, both among scholars and in the popular imagination.This volume see…

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H P R Twiston Davies
The Transmission of the Book of the Dead in New Kingdom Tombs at Saqqara

T exts and images from the Book of the Dead were widely used to decorate the walls of tombs during Egypt's New Kingdom (c. 1550-1077 BCE). Prior research has tended to focus on either individual tombs, or…

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Chris Deacy
Nostalgia, Religion and Popular Culture

Drawing on the event of Queen Elizabeth II's death in 2022 as a central case study, this book explores the way we navigate the relationship between nostalgia and religion.Focusing on the lived experiences…

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Beth Derderian
Art Capital

Museums often served nationalist and imperialist interests in the past, but the primary force in the 21st century is the market. Museum franchising-exemplified by the Louvre Abu Dhabi-is one of the most v…

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Beth Derderian
Art Capital

Museums often served nationalist and imperialist interests in the past, but the primary force in the 21st century is the market. Museum franchising-exemplified by the Louvre Abu Dhabi-is one of the most v…

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Robin Derricourt
Five Innovations That Changed Human History

Drawing on both historical sources and archaeological discoveries, this book explores the origins and earliest development of five major achievements in our deep history, and their impacts on human lives.…

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