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A global Middle East : mobility, materiality and culture in the modern age, 1880-1940 /

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Cairo histories of a city / by AlSayyad, Nezar

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Spanish humanism on the verge of the picaresque : Juan Maldonado's Ludus Chartarum, Pastor Bonus, and Bacchanalia / by Maldonado, Juan, ca. 1485-1554

Subjects: “…Latin literature, Medieval and modern History and criticism.…”
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The Play in the System : The Art of Parasitical Resistance / by Fisher, Anna Watkins

Subjects: “…Arts, Modern 21st century. 12203…”
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McClellan's war the failure of moderation in the struggle for the Union / by Rafuse, Ethan Sepp, 1968-

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When ethnicity did not matter in the Balkans a study of identity in pre-nationalist Croatia, Dalmatia, and Slavonia in the medieval and early-modern periods / by Fine, John V. A. (John Van Antwerp), 1939-

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The cult of happiness nianhua, art, and history in rural north China / by Flath, James A.

Table of Contents: “…The production of print culture in north China -- Home and domesticity -- State and society -- Retelling history through the narrative print -- Rural print and the cosmopolitan mystique -- The politics of the popular -- Exorcising modernity.…”
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Egypt a short history : with a new afterword by the author / by Tignor, Robert L.

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American evangelicals a contemporary history of a mainstream religious movement / by Hankins, Barry, 1956-

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All the missing souls a personal history of the war crimes tribunals / by Scheffer, David

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Imagining Global Amsterdam : History, Culture, and Geography in a World City /

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Religion and the body modern science and the construction of religious meaning /

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A disturbing and alien memory southern novelists writing history / by Mitchell, Douglas L., 1968-

Table of Contents: “…"Memory enough for the best and bravest of us all": William Gilmore Simms and the failure of romantic history -- "It will be as I now remember it": Thomas Nelson Page and the old south -- "The exasperated genius of Africa": William Wells Brown and African American history -- "A disturbing and alien memory": Allen Tate, modernism, and the use of the past -- "History is blind, but man is not": Robert Penn Warren and the rebuke of the past -- "The conflict is behind me now": Shelby Foote writes the Civil War.…”
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Immortal a military history of Iran and its armed forces / by Ward, Steven R.

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West African Masking Traditions and Diaspora Masquerade Carnivals : History, Memory, and Transnationalism / by Njoku, Raphael Chijioke

Table of Contents: “…Introduction -- On Origins of Masking: History, Memory, and Ritual Observances -- Aspects of Society and Culture in the Biafra Hinterland -- Bantu Migrations and Cultural Transnationalism in the Ancient Global Age, c. 2500 BCE-1400 CE -- Bight of Biafra, Slavery, and Diasporic Africa in the Modern Global Age, 1400-1800 -- Igbo Masquerade Dances in the African Diasporas:Symbols and Meanings -- Unmasking the Masquerade: Counterideologies and Contemporary Practices -- Idioms of Religion, Music, Dance, and African Art Forms -- Memory and Masquerade Narratives: The Art of Remembering.…”
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Sick economies drama, mercantilism, and disease in Shakespeare's England / by Harris, Jonathan Gil

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The challenge of linear time : nationhood and the politics of history in East Asia /

Table of Contents: “…Introduction / Viren Murthy, Axel Schneider -- [1] Time, history, and moral responsibility -- Negativity and historicist time : facticity and intellectual history of the 1930s / Naoki Sakai -- Ontological optimism, cosmological confusion, and unstable evolution : Tan Sitong's Renxue and Zhang Taiyan's response / Viren Murthy -- Nation, history and ethics : the choices of post-imperial historiography in China / Axel Schneider -- Reading Takeuchi Yoshimi and reading history / Sun Ge -- [2] The burden of the past and the hope for a better future -- An eschatological view of history : Yoshimi Takeuchi in the 1960s / Takahiro Nakajima -- The campaign to criticize Lin Biao and Confucius and the problem of "Restoration" in Chinese Marxist historiography / Susanne Weigelin-Schwiedrzik -- [3] Recollection of the past and the popularization of history -- Popular readings and wartime historical writings in modern China / Long-Hsin Liu -- Figuring history and horror in a provincial museum : the water dungeon, the rent collection courtyard, and the socialist undead / Haiyan Lee -- [4] History and the definition of spatial, cultural and temporal boundaries -- Revolution as restoration : meanings of "national essence" and "national learning" in Guocui Xuebao / Tze-Ki Hon -- Temporality of knowledge and history writing in early twentieth-century China : Liu Yizheng and The history of Chinese culture / Ya-Pei Kuo.…”
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Counterpreservation : Architectural Decay in Berlin since 1989 / by Sandler, Daniela, 1974-

Subjects: “…Ruins, Modern. fast (OCoLC)fst01749029 151832…”
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Amazon Peasant Societies in a Changing Environment Political Ecology, Invisibility and Modernity in the Rainforest / by Adams, Cristina

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A guide to romance reference grammars the modern standard languages / by McKay, John C.

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