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    Grassroots post-modernism : remaking the soil of cultures / by Esteva, Gustavo, Prakash, Madhu Suri

    Published 2014
    “…Developing countries Civilization Western influences.…”
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    Western education and political domination in Africa a study in critical and dialogical pedagogy / by Bassey, Magnus O.

    Published 1999
    “…Africa Civilization Western influences.…”
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    Not dead things : the dissemination of popular print in England and Wales, Italy, and the Low Countries, 1500-1820 /

    Published 2013
    Table of Contents: “…/ Jeroen Salman -- 'Selling prints for the Remondini' : Italian pedlars travelling through Europe during the eighteenth century / Alberto Milano -- 'Wandering with pamphlets' : the infrastructure of news circulation in civil war England / Jason Peacey -- The cries of London from the Renaissance to the nineteenth century : a short history / Sean Shesgreen -- Peddling in texts and images : the Dutch visual perspective / Karen Bowen -- Costumes and customs in print : travel, ethnography, and the representation of street-sellers in early modern Italy / Melissa Calaresu -- The dissemination of Quaker pamphlets in the 1650s / Kate Peters -- International news and the seventeenth-century English newspaper / Joad Raymond -- Storehouses of news : the meaning of early modern news periodicals in Western Europe / Joop W. …”
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    In search of the lost feminine decoding the myths that radically reshaped civilization / by Barnes, Craig S.

    Published 2006
    Table of Contents: “…Introduction : rewriting the story of western civilization -- Minoan artifacts challenge the inevitability of patriarchy -- The mystery of Minoan civilization -- An expectation of rebirth or immortality -- Time as a circle rather than a line -- The troubling question of war -- Crete and the issue of female sexuality -- The ecstatic and the divine as inseperable -- Five values dramatically at odds with patriarchy -- The collapse of the Minoan world -- The invasions of 1600 BCE : a war culture emerges -- The Theran explosion : the loss of faith in Mother Earth -- The growth of trade : the diminishment of daughters -- The great civil war over marriage : the end of women-centered culture in the eastern Mediterranean -- A warrior civilization emerges -- Four hundred years of chaos sets the stage -- Values shaped by storytellers -- An exaggerated feminine is made monstrous -- Mother Earth is overthrown -- Jason resists the many shapes of seductive women -- Odysseus rejects Calypso -- Homer poses the choice between love and property -- Clytemnestra is sacrificed on the altar of marriage -- Marriage destroys the mother-daughter bond -- Daughters die for civic good -- A multitude of myths to tame, punish, and disparage women -- Oedipus, the lost son -- A glorious monument enshrining the subordination of women -- Biblical patriarchs match the Greek story -- Objections to the warrior civilization -- Jesus carries forward the Eleusian symbolism of grain and wine -- Jesus takes on the threat of military destruction -- Ancient beliefs spring up among the Celts -- A short-lived Islamic challenge -- The metaphor of the holy grail -- Devil talk and witch burnings -- Closing the book on the patriarchy -- History as a choice of stories -- Women coming home to dignity -- The declining utility of war -- Another story all along.…”
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