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Cold War Cosmopolitanism
"Han Hyung-mo was a major figure within South Korea’s Golden Age cinema. The director of Madame Freedom (1956), the most famous film of the 1950s, Han made popular films that explored women’s relationship to modernity. He was also a master stylist who introduced technological innovations and fresh ideas about film form and genre into Korean cinema. This book offers a transnational cultural …
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The Making of an Imperial Polity :Civility and America in the Jacobean Metrop…
Bringing to life the interaction between America, its peoples, and metropolitan gentlemen in early seventeenth-century England, this book argues that colonization did not just operate on the peripheries of the political realm, and confronts the entangled histories of colonialism and domestic status and governance. The Jacobean era is reframed as a definitive moment in which the civil self-prese…
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- 9781108625227
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- xiv, 270 p ; ill
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- 970.02 MAK L
Disorder Contained :Mental Breakdown and the Modern Prison in England and Ire…
Disorder Contained is the first historical account of the complex relationship between prison discipline and mental breakdown in England and Ireland. Between 1840 and 1900 the expansion of the modern prison system coincided with increased rates of mental disorder among prisoners, exacerbated by the introduction of regimes of isolation, deprivation and hard labour. Drawing on a range of archival…
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- 9781108993586
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- ix, 318 p ; ill
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- 365.608740941 DIS C
Polio Across the Iron Curtain :Hungary's Cold War with an Epidemic
By the end of the 1950s, Hungary became an unlikely leader in what we now call global health. Only three years after Soviet tanks crushed the revolution of 1956, Hungary became one of the first countries to introduce the Sabin vaccine into its national vaccination programme. This immunization campaign was built on years of scientific collaboration between East and West, in which scientists, spe…
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- 9781108355421
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- ix, 268 p ; ill
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- 616.835009439 POL D
The vienna genesis :material analysis and conservation of a Late antique illu…
The Vienna Genesis (Austrian National Library, Codex Theologicus graecus 31) is a fragmentary Greek manuscript of the Book of Genesis written on purple dyed parchment with silver ink. It is assumed that the book was created in the first half of the 6th century in the Near East. 24 folios with 48 miniatures have survived and have been stored at the Austrian National Library since 1664. The Vienn…
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- 9783205210580
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- 745.67487. THE c
Gender And Sport; Changes And Challenges
This volume covers current issues, cutting-edge debates and new knowledge on women and sport. The range of topics extends from female coaches and women in sport to sexual harassment, from snowboarders to schoolgirls, and from physical education to football. The aim of this book is to provide an overview of the current debates on gender and sport from a women’s perspective, to share new knowle…
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Encounters and Practices of Petty Trade in Northern Europe, 1820–1960
This open access book uncovers one important, yet forgotten, form of itinerant livelihoods, namely petty trade, more specifically how it was practiced in Northern Europe during the period 1820–1960. It investigates how traders and customers interacted in different spaces and approaches ambulatory trade as an arena of encounters by looking at everyday social practices. Petty traders often belo…
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- 9783030980801
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- xiv; 353p; ill.
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- 381.094809034 ENC J
Ruptures :anthropologies of discontinuity in times of turmoil
Ruptures brings together leading and emerging international anthropologists to explore the concept of ‘rupture’. Understood as radical and often forceful forms of discontinuity, rupture is the active ingredient of the current sense of a world in turmoil, lying at the heart of some of the most defining experiences of our time: the rise of populist politics, the corollary impulse towards prot…
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- 9781787356184
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- xi, 250 p. ill;
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- 303.4 RUP M
The saburo hasegawa reader
Published on the occasion of the 2019 exhibition “Changing and Unchanging Things: Noguchi and Hasegawa in Postwar Japan,” The Saburo Hasegawa Reader encompasses a selection of writings by the Japanese artist, theorist, essayist, teacher, and curator Saburo Hasegawa (1908–1957), translated into English for the first time. Credited with introducing abstract art to Japan in the 1930s, Hasega…
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- 9780520970922
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- xxv. :ill. ;166 p.
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Placing empire :travel and the social imagination in imperial japan
Placing Empire examines the spatial politics of Japanese imperialism through a study of Japanese travel and tourism to Korea, Manchuria, and Taiwan between the late nineteenth century and the early 1950s. In a departure from standard histories of Japan, this book shows how debates over the place of colonized lands reshaped the social and spatial imaginary of the modern Japanese nation. In turn,…
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- 9780520967236
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- xiii. ;ill. :245 p.
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- 306.4819089956051. PLA m
Civil and environmental engineering for the sustainable development goals :em…
This open access volume collects emerging issues in Environmental and Civil Engineering, originating from outstanding doctoral dissertations discussed at Politecnico di Milano in 2021. The advanced innovative insights provided are presented with reference to the relevant sustainable development goals (SDGs), hoping that scientists, technicians and decision makers will find them as a valid suppo…
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- 9783030995935
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- IX, 108p ; ill
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- 628 CIV
Genres of listening :an ethnography of psychoanalysis in Buenos Aires
Xochitl Marsilli-Vargas explains how psychoanalytic listening practices have expanded beyond the clinical setting to influence everyday social interactions in Buenos Aires.
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- 9781478092698
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- ix, 249p.
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Migrants' Rights, Populism and Legal Resilience in Europe
Bringing together scholars of migration and constitutional law, this volume analyses the problematic relationship between the rise of populism, restrictions of migrants' rights and democratic decay in Europe. By offering both constructive and critical accounts, it creates a nuanced debate on the possibilities for and limitations of legal resilience against populist erosion of migrants' rights. …
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- 9781009040396
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- xiii, 410 p
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- 342.4082 MIG V
Ageing with smartphones in urban Brazil :a work in progress
With people living longer all over the world, ageing has been framed as a socio-economic problem. In Brazil, older people are expected to remain healthy and autonomous while actively participating in society. Based on ethnographic research in São Paulo, Ageing with Smartphones in Urban Brazil shows how older people in a middle-class neighbourhood conciliate these expectations with the freedom …
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- 9781787359963
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- x, 293 p. ill;
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Monetary authorities :capitalism and decolonization in the American colonial …
Allan E. S. Lumba explores how the United States used monetary policy and banking systems to justify racial and class hierarchies, enforce capitalist exploitation, and counter movements for decolonization in the American colonial Philippines.
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- 9781478092582
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- ix, 233p.
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Architecture and development :Israeli construction in Sub-Saharan Africa and …
comPosing these notes during the coviD- 19 pandemic deepens my appreciation of the intellectual community that sustains prolonged efforts such as writing a book—and renders them worthwhile. From its beginning as a seminar paper, Architecture and Development has owed its formation at every step to an always converging and diverging circle of friends and family, mentors and colle…
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- 9781478091820
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- ix, 337p.; ill.
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- 720.95694 ARC l
The responsibility of intellectuals :reflections by Noam Chomsky and others a…
With the publication of ‘The Responsibility of Intellectuals’ half a century ago, Noam Chomsky burst onto the US political scene as a leading critic of the war in Vietnam. Privilege, he argues, brings with it the responsibility to tell the truth and expose lies, but our intellectual culture only pays lip-service to this ideal. The essay has been described as ‘the single most influential p…
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- 9781787355514
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- x, 138 p. ill;
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The politics and poetics of authenticity :a cultural genealogy of Sinhala nat…
What is the role of cultural authenticity in the making of nations? Much scholarly and popular commentary on nationalism dismisses authenticity as a romantic fantasy or, worse, a deliberately constructed mythology used for political manipulation. The Politics and Poetics of Authenticity places authenticity at the heart of Sinhala nationalism in late nineteenth and twentieth-century Sri Lanka. I…
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- 9781787351288
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- xi, 161 p. ill;
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- 305.8914805493 POL H
WORKING THROUGH COLONIAL COLLECTIONS :an ethnography of the ethnological muse…
Reckoning with colonial legacies in Western museum collections What are the possibilities and limits of engaging with colonialism in ethnological museums? This book addresses this question from within the Africa department of the Ethnological Museum in Berlin. It captures the Museum at a moment of substantial transformation, as it prepared the move of its exhibition to the Humboldt Forum, a new…
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- 321p.; ill.
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- 301 WOR v
Bronze Age Maritime and Warrior Dynamics in Island East Asia
Recent interdisciplinary studies, combining scientific techniques such as ancient DNA analysis with humanistic re-evaluations of the transcultural value of bronze, have presented archaeologists with a fresh view of the Bronze Age in Europe. The new research emphasises long-distance connectivities and political decentralisation. 'Bronzisation' is discussed as a type of proto-globalisation. In th…
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- 9781108982955
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- 82 p ; ill
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- 959 BRO M
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