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Frontier Tibet : Patterns of Change in the Sino-Tibetan Borderlands /

Table of Contents: “…Mortensen -- Trade, territory, and missionary connections in the Sino-Tibetan borderlands / John Bray -- Settling authority : Sichuanese farmers in early twentieth-century eastern Tibet / Scott Relyea -- Wheat dreams : scientific interventions at Chinese model farms in Kham, 1937-1949 / Mark E. …”
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The Planetary Turn : Relationality and Geoaesthetics in the Twenty-First Century /

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Pacific Strife : The Great Powers and their Political and Economic Rivalries in Asia and the Western Pacific, 1870-1914 / by Dijk, C. van (Cornelis), 1946-

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People's Wars in China, Malaya, and Vietnam / by Opper, Marc

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Frontier Tibet : Patterns of Change in the Sino-Tibetan Borderlands /

Table of Contents: “…Mortensen -- Trade, territory, and missionary connections in the Sino-Tibetan borderlands / John Bray -- Settling authority : Sichuanese farmers in early twentieth-century eastern Tibet / Scott Relyea -- Wheat dreams : scientific interventions at Chinese model farms in Kham, 1937-1949 / Mark E. …”
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Entanglements in Legal History: Conceptual Approaches /

Table of Contents: “…Buis -- A transnational empire built on law : the case of the commercial jurisprudence of the House of Trade of Seville (1583-1598) / Ana Belem Fernández Castro -- Entangled up in red, white, and blue : Spanish West Florida and the American territory of Orleans, 1803-1810 / Seán Patrick Donlan -- German colonial law and comparative law, 1884-1919 Jakob Zollmann -- Napoleon in America? …”
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Entanglements in Legal History: Conceptual Approaches /

Table of Contents: “…Buis -- A transnational empire built on law : the case of the commercial jurisprudence of the House of Trade of Seville (1583-1598) / Ana Belem Fernández Castro -- Entangled up in red, white, and blue : Spanish West Florida and the American territory of Orleans, 1803-1810 / Seán Patrick Donlan -- German colonial law and comparative law, 1884-1919 Jakob Zollmann -- Napoleon in America? …”
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Who owns the Crown lands of Hawaii? by Van Dyke, Jon M.

Table of Contents: “…Land tenure at the eve of Western contact -- Before the Mahele -- The Mahele -- The government lands -- The transfer of lands from Kauikeaouli to Alexander Liholiho (1854-55) -- The passing of Alexander Liholiho (1863) -- In the matter of the estate of his Majesty Kamehameha IV (1864) -- The 1865 statute making the Crown lands inalienable -- The ascension of William Charles Lunalilo to the throne (1872) -- The transition between the Kamehameha line and Kaläkaua's Keawe-a-heulu line -- Claus Spreckels, Princess Ruth Keelikolani, and the claim to a half -- Interest in the Crown lands -- The inalienable Crown lands (1865-93) -- 1887 Bayonet Constitution and the Reciprocity/Pearl-Harbor Treaty : preludes to overthrow -- Population, voting and citizenship in the Kingdom of Hawaii -- The 1893 overthrow of the kingdom -- The Republic of Hawaii (1894-98) -- The 1895 Land Act -- Annexation by the United States (1898) -- The Crown lands during the territorial period (1898-1959) -- Liliuokalani v. United States (1910) -- The Hawaiian homes Commission Act (1921) -- Statehood (1959-present) -- The painful irony of Rice v. …”
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Thinking on thresholds the poetics of transitive spaces /

Table of Contents: “…Windows: looking in, looking out, breaking through / Gillian Beer; Permeable walls and off-stage spaces / Jean Chothia; The queer part doors play in Nabokov's Laughter in the dark / Beci Dobbin; Invasion from outer space: the threshold of annunciations / Subha Mukherji -- Part II: Lives and narratives, territories and worlds. Unsettling thresholds: Mignon and her afterlives / Terence Cave; Dangerous liaisons: desire and limit in The home and The world / Supriya Chaudhuri; Writing through osmotic borders: boundaries, liminality and language in Mehmet Yasin's poetics / Rosita D'Amora; Dancing and romancing: the obstacle of the beach and the threshold of the past / Jonathan Lamb -- Part III: Matter, mind, psyche. …”
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Who owns the Crown lands of Hawaii? by Van Dyke, Jon M.

Table of Contents: “…Land tenure at the eve of Western contact -- Before the Mahele -- The Mahele -- The government lands -- The transfer of lands from Kauikeaouli to Alexander Liholiho (1854-55) -- The passing of Alexander Liholiho (1863) -- In the matter of the estate of his Majesty Kamehameha IV (1864) -- The 1865 statute making the Crown lands inalienable -- The ascension of William Charles Lunalilo to the throne (1872) -- The transition between the Kamehameha line and Kaläkaua's Keawe-a-heulu line -- Claus Spreckels, Princess Ruth Keelikolani, and the claim to a half -- Interest in the Crown lands -- The inalienable Crown lands (1865-93) -- 1887 Bayonet Constitution and the Reciprocity/Pearl-Harbor Treaty : preludes to overthrow -- Population, voting and citizenship in the Kingdom of Hawaii -- The 1893 overthrow of the kingdom -- The Republic of Hawaii (1894-98) -- The 1895 Land Act -- Annexation by the United States (1898) -- The Crown lands during the territorial period (1898-1959) -- Liliuokalani v. United States (1910) -- The Hawaiian homes Commission Act (1921) -- Statehood (1959-present) -- The painful irony of Rice v. …”
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Thinking on thresholds the poetics of transitive spaces /

Table of Contents: “…Windows: looking in, looking out, breaking through / Gillian Beer; Permeable walls and off-stage spaces / Jean Chothia; The queer part doors play in Nabokov's Laughter in the dark / Beci Dobbin; Invasion from outer space: the threshold of annunciations / Subha Mukherji -- Part II: Lives and narratives, territories and worlds. Unsettling thresholds: Mignon and her afterlives / Terence Cave; Dangerous liaisons: desire and limit in The home and The world / Supriya Chaudhuri; Writing through osmotic borders: boundaries, liminality and language in Mehmet Yasin's poetics / Rosita D'Amora; Dancing and romancing: the obstacle of the beach and the threshold of the past / Jonathan Lamb -- Part III: Matter, mind, psyche. …”
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Privatizing China socialism from afar /

Table of Contents: “…Read -- Socialist land masters : the territorial politics of accumulation / You-tien Hsing -- Tax tensions : struggles over income and revenue / Bei Li and Steven M. …”
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Is our house in order? Canada's implementation of international law /

Table of Contents: “…Daimsis -- Libman at twenty-five; or, Canada and qualified territoriality : do we understand jurisdiction yet? / Robert J. …”
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Privatizing China socialism from afar /

Table of Contents: “…Read -- Socialist land masters : the territorial politics of accumulation / You-tien Hsing -- Tax tensions : struggles over income and revenue / Bei Li and Steven M. …”
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Is our house in order? Canada's implementation of international law /

Table of Contents: “…Daimsis -- Libman at twenty-five; or, Canada and qualified territoriality : do we understand jurisdiction yet? / Robert J. …”
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Cultural Heritage in a Changing World

Table of Contents: “…The National Archaeological Museum of Cagliari became “liquid” -- The museum as information space -- The Museum of Gamers -- Part III: Co-creation and living heritage for social cohesion -- Change of museums by change of perspective – Reflecting experiences of museum development in the context of “EuroVision – Museums Exhibiting Europe” (EU Culture Project) -- Technologies lead to adaptability and lifelong engagement with culture throughout the cloud -- Urban cultural heritage festivals: a resource for promoting community and territorial cohesion -- Tools you can trust? Co-design in community heritage work -- Crowdsourcing Culture: Challenges to Change -- Part IV: Identity -- The Spanish Republican exile: identity, belonging and memory in a digital way -- Chinese is getting back their own culture and tradition in digital era.…”
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Cultural Heritage in a Changing World

Table of Contents: “…The National Archaeological Museum of Cagliari became “liquid” -- The museum as information space -- The Museum of Gamers -- Part III: Co-creation and living heritage for social cohesion -- Change of museums by change of perspective – Reflecting experiences of museum development in the context of “EuroVision – Museums Exhibiting Europe” (EU Culture Project) -- Technologies lead to adaptability and lifelong engagement with culture throughout the cloud -- Urban cultural heritage festivals: a resource for promoting community and territorial cohesion -- Tools you can trust? Co-design in community heritage work -- Crowdsourcing Culture: Challenges to Change -- Part IV: Identity -- The Spanish Republican exile: identity, belonging and memory in a digital way -- Chinese is getting back their own culture and tradition in digital era.…”
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The promise of wilderness American environmental politics since 1964 / by Turner, James Morton, 1973-

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The promise of wilderness American environmental politics since 1964 / by Turner, James Morton, 1973-

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Balancing the Tides : Marine Practices in American S?moa / by Poblete, JoAnna, 1974-

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