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Ece Temelkuran

Nation of Strangers

Dear stranger. Are you home? Do you feel at home? For how much longer?Across the world the number of refugees and exiles, the dispossessed and displaced, the politically homeless and the economically excl…

Steve Vai

Where The Wild Things Are: Live In Minneapolis 2007

Penny Penny

Yogo Yogo

Product Information The rags-to-riches chronicle of Penny Penny's life would be remarkable if he had only released his smash debut Shaka Bundu and packed houses for a few years. But the inimitable South…

Patricia Seed

Sails and Shadows

How the early Portuguese Empire facilitated the modern slave trade.The Portuguese conquered the challenges of sailing the unforgiving Atlantic Ocean, extending their colonial empire along Africa's western…

Anto Mohsin

Electrifying Indonesia

Electrifying Indonesia tells the story of the entanglement of politics and technology during Indonesia's rapid post--World War II development. As a central part of its nation-building project, the Indones…

Stefano Serafini

Gothic Italy

Gothic Italy explores how the Gothic permeated and shaped the project of nation-building in the aftermath of Italy's unification.

Jonas Tinius

State of the Arts

Introducing key debates about German public theatre, Jonas Tinius shows how anthropological methods provide insights into cultural history, nation-building, and artistic production. His rigorous analysis …

Nicholas Kuipers

States against Nations

Focusing on the challenges of bureaucratic recruitment, this book questions the virtues of meritocracies and develops a new theory about the conflicts facing governments that engage in both state- and nat…

Nicholas Kuipers

States against Nations

"Focusing on the challenges of bureaucratic recruitment, this book questions the virtues of meritocracies and develops a new theory about the conflicts facing governments that engage in both state- a…

Linda Freedman

The Myth of the Fall in Nineteenth-Century Literature

The Myth of the Fall in Nineteenth-Century Literature offers fresh close readings of both canonical and less well-known works and is divided into two parts, fiction-making and nation-building, addressing …

José Felipe Alvergue

Purplish

José Felipe Alvergue examines anger in American poetry, while reflecting on the permissible/policed cultural affects of our time. purplish challenges the idea of an objective or unbiased cultural rational…

Péter Hajdu,

Modern Hungarian Culture and the Classics

Péter Hajdu examines the cultivation of the Classics as an intellectual framework and crucial ingredient of the western aspect of Hungarian national identity. This book approaches the relationship of mode…

Arab Modern

The Arab world's modern built environment was shaped largely during a period when several Arab countries were on the cusp of gaining independence from colonial rule. Contributions in this volume present A…

Mary A. Seiwaa Owusu

Cosmopolitan Nationalism in Ghana

Nineteenth and twentieth-century West African writer-intellectuals harnessed their Atlantic networks to explore ideas of race, regeneration, and nation-building. Yet, the ultimately cosmopolitan nature of…

Representations and Uses of the American Revolution in Past and Present

Undoubtedly, the American Revolution is the founding moment of the United States of America. However, it also had major repercussions outside the U.S., as an inspiration for independence and social moveme…

Marshall C Eakin

Empires and Exploration

Empires and Explorations interweaves nineteenth-century Brazilian history, the extraordinary life of Richard Francis Burton, and the use of travel writing by historians. Burton witnessed the origins of th…

Fabio Spirinelli

Staging the Nation in an Intermediate Space

In Luxembourg, the evolution of cultural policy remains underexplored despite its pivotal role in the nation-building process. This book investigates how national cultural policy evolved from the 1920s to…

Jean François Dally

Political Citizenship

Following its independence, Côte d'Ivoire implemented a nation-building strategy based on the valorization of the plantation economy. As a result, the country has embarked on a process of economic, social…

Conversations on Dictionaries

How did dictionaries come to be? When and how did they originate in a specific language? Who was involved in that origin story? How have they evolved over time? What is the tension between scholarly and c…