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Deep roots rice farmers in West Africa and the African diaspora / by Fields-Black, Edda L.

Table of Contents: “…The Rio Nunez region : a small corner of West Africa's rice coast region -- The first-comers and the roots of coastal rice-growing technology -- The newcomers and the seeds of tidal rice-growing technology -- Coastal collaboration and specialization : flowering of tidal rice-growing technologies -- The strangers and the branches of coastal rice-growing technology -- Feeding the slave trade : the trade in rice and captives from West Africa's rice coast -- Conclusion -- Appendix 1 : fieldwork interviews -- Appendix 2 : rice terminology in Atlantic languages spoken in the coastal Rio Nunez region.…”
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The Roots of Nationalism : National Identity Formation in Early Modern Europe, 1600-1815 /

Table of Contents: “…Maps, Language and Canonisation -- 12. The Roots of Modern Hungarian Nationalism: A Case Study and a Research Agenda / Laszlo Maracz -- 13. …”
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The Economic Thought of William Petty : Exploring the Colonialist Roots of Economics / by Goodacre, Hugh

Table of Contents: “…chapter 2 Petty and the colonialist roots of development economics 1 /…”
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Settlers, liberty, and empire the roots of early American political theory, 1675-1775 / by Yirush, Craig, 1968-

Table of Contents: “…Machine generated contents note: Introduction: Jasper Maudit's 'instructions': the imperial roots of early American political theory; Part I. …”
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Herder on nationality, humanity, and history by Barnard, F. M. (Frederick M.)

Table of Contents: “…The Hebraic roots of Herder's nationalism -- Cultural nationalism and political romanticism -- Nationality and humanity : Heine and Herder -- Humanism and titanism : Masaryk and Herder -- Humanity and history : causation and continuity -- The dynamics of culture and "globalization" -- Historical and political consciousness : Herder and Rousseau.…”
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Diotima's children German aesthetic rationalism from Leibniz to Lessing / by Beiser, Frederick C., 1949-

Table of Contents: “…-- Theory of aesthetic judgment -- The rationalist aesthetic -- The meaning of rules -- Kant's paltry polemic -- Diotima versus Dionysus -- The challenge of irrationalism -- Gadamer and the rationalist tradition -- Leibniz and the roots of aesthetic rationalism -- The grandfather's strange case -- Theory of beauty -- Analysis of sense -- The classical Trinity -- Wolff and the birth of aesthetic rationalism -- Wolff and the aesthetic tradition -- Theory of the arts -- Psychology -- Theory of beauty -- Foundations of neo-classicism -- Gottsched and the high noon of rationalism -- Herr Professor Gottsched's Peruke -- The importance of taste -- Defense of tragedy -- Theory of taste -- Poetics -- The rules -- Dr. …”
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