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Encountering China : early modern European responses /

Table of Contents: “…European responses to child abandonment, sale of children and social welfare policies in Ming China / Rachana Sachdev -- Of golden lilies and gentlewomen : constructions of Chinese women in early modern European travel narratives / Qingjun Li -- Earlier moderns : the novel form as national development in China and Europe / Daniel Dooghan -- "A strong resemblance" : Samuel Richardson, Chinese talent-beauty novels, and a secret origin of "world literature" / Ning Ma -- 'Magicians, enchanters, and professional crooks' : early modern understandings of Daoism / Ronnie Littlejohn -- Buddhism and idolatry / Terry Logan Mazurak.…”
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Black garden Armenia and Azerbaijan through peace and war / by De Waal, Thomas

Table of Contents: “…Crossing the line -- February 1988 : an Armenian revolt -- February 1988 : Azerbaijan : puzzlement and pogroms -- Shusha : the neighbors' tale -- 1988-89 : an Armenian crisis -- Yerevan : mysteries of the East -- 1988-90 : an Azerbaijani tragedy -- Baku : an eventful history -- 1990 : a Soviet civil war -- Divisions : a twentieth century story -- Hurekavank : the unpredictable past -- August 1991-May 1992 : war breaks out -- Shusha : the last citadel -- June 1992-September 1993 : escalation -- Sabirabad : the children's republic -- September 1993 : exhaustion -- Stepanakert : a state apart -- 1994-2001 : no war, no peace -- Sadakhlo : the future.…”
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Remains of the Social : Desiring the post-apartheid /

Table of Contents: “…Traversing the social / Maurits van Bever Donker [and three others] -- The Mandela imaginary : reflections on post-reconciliation libidinal economy / Derek Hook -- The return of empathy : postapartheid fellow feeling / Ross Truscott -- The ethics of precarity : Judith Butler's reluctant universalism / Mari Ruti -- Hannah Arendt's work of mourning : the politics of loss, 'the rise of the social' and the ends of apartheid / Jaco Barnard-Naud{acute}e -- Souvenir / Annemarie Lawless -- Re-cover : Afrikaans rock, apartheid's children and the work of the cover / Aiden Erasmus -- The graves of Dimbaza : temporal remains / Gary Minkley and Helena Pohlandt-McCormick -- The principle of insufficiency : ethics and community at the edge of the social / Maurits van Bever Donker -- The Trojan Horse and the 'becoming technical of the human' / Premesh Lalu.…”
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New directions in Anglo-Jewish history

Table of Contents: “…: the changing titles of Norwood, the Jewish children's orphanage / Lawrence Cohen -- "True art makes for the integration of the race": Israel Zangwill and the varieties of the Jewish normalization discourse in fin de siècle Britain / Arie M. …”
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Culture and dignity dialogues between the Middle East and the West / by Nader, Laura

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Collective killings in rural China during the Cultural Revolution by Su, Yang, 1964-

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Egypt's culture wars politics and practice / by Mehrez, Samia

Table of Contents: “…Prologue: take them out of the ball game - Egypt's cultural players in crisis -- Dr Ramzi and Mr Sharaf: Sonallah Ibrahim and the duplicity of the literary field -- Children of our alley: the AUC Naguib Mahfouz award and the Egyptian literary field -- The big one: the intellectual and the political in modern Egyptian literary field -- The value of freedom: the writer against the establishment -- Lost in globalization: education and the stranded Egyptian elite -- Translating gender between the local and the global -- Where have all the families gone? …”
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The sites of Rome time, space, memory /

Table of Contents: “…Larmour -- Victim and voyeur : Rome as a character in Tacitus' Histories 3 / Rhiannon Ash -- The gates of Janus : Bakhtin and Plutarch's Roman meta-chronotope / Jason Banta -- Staging Rome : the Renaissance, Rome, and humanism's classical crisis / Jacob Blevins -- Sizing up Rome, or theorizing the overview / Caroline Vout -- Ancient Rome for little comrades : the legacy of classical antiquity in Soviet childrens' literature / Marina Balina -- The sites and sights of Rome in Fellini's films : 'not a human habitation but a psychical entity' / Elena Theodorakopoulos.…”
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Petrified utopia happiness Soviet style /

Table of Contents: “…: crafting happy citizens in Soviet children's literature of the 1920s / Marina Balina -- Sew yourself Soviet : the pleasures of textile in the machine age / Emma Widdis -- Happy housewarming! …”
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German history from the margins

Table of Contents: “…-occupied Germany, 1945-49 / Atina Grossmann -- Afro-German children and the social politics of race after 1945 / Heide Fehrenbach -- The difficult task of managing migration: the 1973 recruitment stop / Karen Schönwälder -- How and where is German history centered? …”
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Empress Wu the Great Tang dynasty China / by Woo, X. L.

Table of Contents: “…Wu's sponsor becomes the second emperor of the tang dynasty -- Empress Changsun and a few of the courtiers -- Miss Wu becomes an imperial concubine -- The sons vie for the succession -- Selecting the crown prince -- Introduction to the crown prince -- Sent to a nunnery -- The new emperor reigns -- Empress Wang gets Wu back to the palace -- Empress Wang and concubine Xiao unite against concubine Wu -- Concubine Wu fights back -- The courtiers take sides -- Empress Wang and her supporters take a mis-step -- Empress Wang and the crown prince are removed -- Wu becomes empress -- From empress to empress dowager -- Advancing supporters and annihilating opponents -- Taking part in politics -- The pleasures of traveling -- Relationship with her children -- The empress dowager consolidates her power -- Standing at the top -- View from the summit -- Rebellions -- The largest rebellion -- The rebellions of the Princes Li -- Other rebellions -- Abuse of power at every level -- Picking favorites -- Naming a successor -- Empress Wu's favorites -- Relations with other nations -- Tibet -- Korea -- The Tujue clan -- Japan and Arabia -- Famous legends about Empress Wu -- Face reading -- Flowers blooming in winter -- Other legends.…”
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Memories of 1968 international perspectives /

Table of Contents: “…Introduction: 1968 in memory and place / Sarah Waters -- Revisiting the revolution: 1968 in transnational cultural memory / Martin Klimke -- Memories of 1968 in France: reflections on the 40th anniversary / Daniel A. Gordon -- Hitler's children?: the German 1968 movement in the shadow of the Nazi past / Wolfgang Kraushaar -- Looking back on Italy's 'Long "68"'. …”
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Jews in the East European borderlands essays in honor of John D. Klier /

Table of Contents: “…The Mariinsko Sergievskii Shelter for Converted Jewish Children in St. Petersburg / Chae Ran Y. Freeze -- Yiddish in imperial Russia's civil society / Gennady Estraikh -- Ansky in Liozno: "Sins of Youth" and the archival diary / Gabriella Safran -- In the evil kingdom of things: Sholem-Aleichem and the writing of everyday life in Jewish literature / Olga Litvak -- A paper life: model letters and real letters as a key to Russian-Jewish aspirations at the turn of the twentieth century / Alice Nakhimovsky and Roberta Newman -- Upheaval, violence, and antisemitism. …”
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Medieval Italy texts in translation /

Table of Contents: “…Marriage, family, and children in the Datini family : nine texts (1375-1401) -- 97. …”
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Enduring loss in early modern Germany cross disciplinary perspectives /

Table of Contents: “…Wade -- Loss and emotion in funeral works on children in seventeenth-century Germany / Claudia Jarzebowski -- Enduring death in pietism : regulating mourning and the new intimacy / Ulrike Gleixner -- Between the old faith and the new : spiritual loss in Reformation Germany / Christopher Ocker -- Loss and gain in a Salzburg convent : Tridentine reform, princely absolutism, and on the nuns of Nonnberg (1620 to 1696) / Barbara Lawatsch Melton -- Themes of exile and (re-)enclosure in music for the Franciscan convents of Counter-Reformation Munich during the Thirty Years' War / Alexander J. …”
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