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Vision and reality in Pacific religion essays in honour of Niel Gunson /

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The African origin of civilization: myth or reality/ by Diop, Cheikh Anta

The 1930s : the reality and the promise /

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Modern Kazakhstan image and realities /

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Defining Chu image and reality in ancient China /

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Afro-Mexico dancing between myth and reality / by Gonzalez, Anita

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Transatlantic passages literary and cultural relations between Quebec and Francophone Europe /

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Uneven modernity : literature, film, and intellectual discourse in postsocialist China / by Gong, Haomin

Table of Contents: “…Uneven modernity in postsocialist China -- Popularization of traditional culture in postsocialist China -- Constructing a neorealist reality -- Commerce and the critical edge -- Geopolitics in postsocialist art film and beyond.…”
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Utopias of otherness nationhood and subjectivity in Portugal and Brazil / by Arenas, Fernando, 1963-

Table of Contents: “…Introduction -- Portugal : ideas of empire and nationhood -- Brazilian national identity : intellectual debates and changing cultural realities -- Subjectivities and homoerotic desire in contemporary Brazilian fiction : the nation of Caio Fernando Abreu -- Women's difference in contemporary Portuguese fiction : the case of Maria Isabel Barreno -- Worlds in transition and utopias of otherness.…”
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The empire of civilization the evolution of an imperial idea / by Bowden, Brett, 1968-

Table of Contents: “…-- The art and science of empire -- The expansion of Europe and the classical standard of civilization -- The burden of civilization and the "art and science of colonization" -- New barbarism, old civilization, revived imperialism -- New barbarism and the test of modernity -- The "new realities" of imperialism -- Conclusion: The future of intercivilizational relations.…”
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Spain, Europe & the wider world, 1500-1800 by Elliott, John Huxtable

Table of Contents: “…: the eclipse of empire in British and Spanish America -- El Greco's Mediterranean : the encounter of civilisations -- Court society in seventeenth-century Europe : Madrid, Brussels, London -- Appearance and reality in the Spain of Velázquez.…”
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Africa : altered states, ordinary miracles / by Dowden, Richard

Table of Contents: “…Africa is a night flight away: images and realities -- Africa is different: Uganda I -- How it all went wrong: Uganda II -- The end of colonialism: new states, old societies -- Amazing, but is it Africa? …”

The Greek polis and the invention of democracy a politico-cultural transformation and its interpretations /

Table of Contents: “…Changing a Way of Life : Democracy's Impact on polis-Society -- The Impact of Democracy on Communal Life / Sara Forsdyke -- The Participation of the demos in Decision-Making : Principles and Reality / Claude Mossé -- Democracy and Religion in Classical Greece / Robin Osborne -- Democracy and War / Lawrence A. …”
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Waddenland Outstanding : History, Landscape and Cultural Heritage of the Wadden Sea Region /

Table of Contents: “…Cover; Contents; Preface; 1 Introduction; Linde Egberts, Meindert Schroor and Jos Bazelmans; Part 1 Setting the scenes; 2 Waddenland: Concoction or reality?; Defining the Wadden Sea region in a geographical and historical context; Meindert Schroor; 3 The Wadden Sea region as a cultural landscape; History, heritage, management; Hans Renes; Part 2 The relationship between natural and cultural heritage; 4 Protecting the natural and cultural values of the Wadden Sea coast in the Anthropocene; An urgent call for integration; Jens Enemark, Ludwig Fischer and Karsten Reise.…”
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Waddenland Outstanding : History, Landscape and Cultural Heritage of the Wadden Sea Region /

Table of Contents: “…Cover; Contents; Preface; 1 Introduction; Linde Egberts, Meindert Schroor and Jos Bazelmans; Part 1 Setting the scenes; 2 Waddenland: Concoction or reality?; Defining the Wadden Sea region in a geographical and historical context; Meindert Schroor; 3 The Wadden Sea region as a cultural landscape; History, heritage, management; Hans Renes; Part 2 The relationship between natural and cultural heritage; 4 Protecting the natural and cultural values of the Wadden Sea coast in the Anthropocene; An urgent call for integration; Jens Enemark, Ludwig Fischer and Karsten Reise.…”
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Rethinking the Andes–Amazonia Divide : A cross-disciplinary exploration

Table of Contents: “…-- Andes-Amazonia: What it means, why it matters -- A case study in environmental determinism -- Reality, myth or scholarly tradition?…”
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Rethinking the Andes–Amazonia Divide : A cross-disciplinary exploration

Table of Contents: “…-- Andes-Amazonia: What it means, why it matters -- A case study in environmental determinism -- Reality, myth or scholarly tradition?…”
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Memories of utopia : the revision of histories and landscapes in Late Antiquity /

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Scotland, Britain, Empire : Writing the Highlands, 1760-1860 / by McNeil, Kenneth

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Scotland, Britain, Empire : Writing the Highlands, 1760-1860 / by McNeil, Kenneth

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