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Frontier figures American music and the mythology of the American West /
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The Nazi symbiosis human genetics and politics in the Third Reich /
Published 2010Table of Contents: “…An old legend and a new legacy -- Human heredity and eugenics make their international debut -- The devil's directors at Dahlem -- The Munich pact -- The politics of professional talk -- Politicized pedagogy -- The international human genetics community faces Nazi Germany -- The road not taken elsewhere : was there something unique about human heredity during the Third Reich?…”
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The nonconformists culture, politics, and nationalism in a Serbian intellectual circle, 1944-1991 /
Published 2007Table of Contents: “…Simina 9a in a new Yugoslavia -- Nonconformist initiations -- Ćosić : engagement and disillusionment, 1956-1966 -- Drama and politics: Mihiz in the sixties -- The suicide and rebirth of the painting: Mića Popović, 1959-1974 -- Fragmented Serbia -- Ćosić and Popović return to Serbia -- From principle to catharsis -- The children of Cain -- The limits of revelation -- The legend of Simina 9a in Serbia's modern history.…”
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Jews on Broadway an historical survey of performers, playwrights, composers, lyricists and producers /
Published 2011Table of Contents: “…Introduction : setting the stage -- Immigration, Yiddish theater and building Broadway -- Part of the melting pot : from Vaudeville to Broadway -- Music of Broadway : classic composers, legendary lyricists -- Group theater, acting teachers and life during wartime -- From communism to the Catskills -- Jewish themes, legends and life in the 1960s and 1970s -- Young playwrights with a message, inflation, Disney and me -- New millennium sees Broadway breakthroughs : veterans and newcomers -- Epilogue.…”
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Cambodge the cultivation of a nation, 1860-1945 /
Published 2007Table of Contents: “…Introduction : originations -- The temple complex : Angkor and the archaeology of colonial fantasy, 1860-1906 -- Urban legend : capitalising on Angkor -- Les fidèles cambodgiens and Les khmèrophiles : scripting a Khmer nation, 1870-1935 -- Colonialism and its demerits : bringing Buddhism to book, 1863-1922 -- Violent lives : disengaging Angkor, 1907-1916 -- Copy rites : Angkor and the art of authenticity -- Secularizing the Sangha, 1900-1935 -- Holy trinity : Chuon Nath, Huot Tath, and Suzanne Karpeles -- Traffic : setting Khmerism in motion, 1935-1945 -- Past colonial?…”
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John Wayne's world transnational masculinity in the fifties /
Published 2013Table of Contents: “…Introduction: reexamining John Wayne -- The emergence of "John Wayne": Red River, global masculinity, and Wayne's romantic anxieties -- Exile, community, and wandering: international migration and the spatial dynamics of modernity in John Ford's cavalry trilogy -- John Wayne's cold war: mass tourism and the anticommunist crusade -- John Wayne's body: technicolor and 3-D anxieties in Hondo and the Searchers -- John Wayne's Africa: European colonialism versus U.S. global leadership in Legend of the lost -- John Wayne's Japan: international production, global trade -- And John Wayne's diplomacy in the Barbarian and the Geisha -- Men at work in tight spaces: masculinity, professionalism, and politics in Rio Bravo and the Alamo -- Conclusion: the man who shot Liberty Valance and nostalgia for John Wayne's world.…”
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Theatres in the round multi-ethnic, indigenous, and intertextual dialogues in drama /
Published 2011Table of Contents: “…Davis -- Land and cultural memory: Djanet Sears's The adventures of a black girl in search of God and Diane Glancy's Jump kiss: an Indian legend / Caroline De Wagter -- The high stakes of mixed race: post-race, post-apartheid performance in the U.S. and South Africa / Harry J. …”
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