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Vital Subjects : Race and Biopolitics in Italy 1860-1920 / by Welch, Rhiannon Noel

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Vital Subjects : Race and Biopolitics in Italy 1860-1920 / by Welch, Rhiannon Noel

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Soundings in Atlantic history latent structures and intellectual currents, 1500-1830 /

Table of Contents: “…Thornton -- The triumphs of Mercury : connection and control in the emerging Atlantic economy / David J. Hancock -- Inter-imperial smuggling in the Americas, 1600-1800 / Wim Klooster -- Procurators and the making of the Jesuits' Atlantic network / J. …”
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Ancient Rome by Dunstan, William E.

Table of Contents: “…From Tiberius to Nero : the Julio-Claudian dynasty -- From Vespasian to Domitian : the Flavian dynasty -- From Nerva to Marcus Aurelius : the five good emperors -- Government, economy, and society in the first and second centuries -- Architecture and sculpture in the first and second centuries -- Literature in the first and second centuries -- Commodus and the Severan dynasty -- Third-century imperial crisis and first phase of recovery -- Reorganization of Diocletian and Constantine -- Last years of the united empire -- Society and culture in the later empire -- Rise of Christianity -- Christian triumph and controversy -- Dismemberment of the Roman Empire in the West -- Epilogue : the thousand-year survival of the Roman Empire in the East.…”
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The postclassic to Spanish-era transition in Mesoamerica archaeological perspectives /

Table of Contents: “…Otis Charlton, and Patricia Fournier García -- From imperial core to colonial periphery : the Lake Pátzcuaro Basin 1400-1800 / Helen Perlstein Pollard -- The consequences of Spanish colonial rule for the indigenous peoples of Chiapas, Mexico / Janine Gasco -- On the margins of peripheries : the consequences of differential incorporation in the colonial southwest / Mark T. …”
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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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Rituals, collapse, and radical transformation in archaic states /

Table of Contents: “…Murphy -- The legacy of Byzantine Christianity in the southern Mani Peninsula, Greece, after imperial collapse / Rebecca Seifried -- As Wari weakened : ritual transitions in the terminal middle horizon of Moquegua, Peru / Donna Nash and Ryan Williams -- Ritual resilience and adaptation in the wake of political transformation at Dainzú, Oaxaca, Mexico / Ronald K. …”
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Piracy in World History /

Table of Contents: “…White -- 8 Piracy, Empire, and Sovereignty in Late Imperial China -- Robert J. Antony -- 9 Persistent Piracy in Philippine Waters -- Metropolitan Discourses about Chinese, Dutch, Japanese, and Moro Coastal Threats, 1570-1800 -- Birgit Tremml-Werner -- 10 Sweden, Barbary Corsairs, and the Hostis Humani Generis -- Justifying Piracy in European Political Thought -- Joachim Östlund and Bruce Buchan -- 11 "Pirates of the Sea and the Land"…”
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Piracy in World History /

Table of Contents: “…White -- 8 Piracy, Empire, and Sovereignty in Late Imperial China -- Robert J. Antony -- 9 Persistent Piracy in Philippine Waters -- Metropolitan Discourses about Chinese, Dutch, Japanese, and Moro Coastal Threats, 1570-1800 -- Birgit Tremml-Werner -- 10 Sweden, Barbary Corsairs, and the Hostis Humani Generis -- Justifying Piracy in European Political Thought -- Joachim Östlund and Bruce Buchan -- 11 "Pirates of the Sea and the Land"…”
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Early Film Culture in Hong Kong, Taiwan, and Republican China : Kaleidoscopic Histories /

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Sri Lanka at the Crossroads of History /

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Early Film Culture in Hong Kong, Taiwan, and Republican China : Kaleidoscopic Histories /

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Sri Lanka at the Crossroads of History /

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Empress Wu the Great Tang dynasty China / by Woo, X. L.

Table of Contents: “…Wu's sponsor becomes the second emperor of the tang dynasty -- Empress Changsun and a few of the courtiers -- Miss Wu becomes an imperial concubine -- The sons vie for the succession -- Selecting the crown prince -- Introduction to the crown prince -- Sent to a nunnery -- The new emperor reigns -- Empress Wang gets Wu back to the palace -- Empress Wang and concubine Xiao unite against concubine Wu -- Concubine Wu fights back -- The courtiers take sides -- Empress Wang and her supporters take a mis-step -- Empress Wang and the crown prince are removed -- Wu becomes empress -- From empress to empress dowager -- Advancing supporters and annihilating opponents -- Taking part in politics -- The pleasures of traveling -- Relationship with her children -- The empress dowager consolidates her power -- Standing at the top -- View from the summit -- Rebellions -- The largest rebellion -- The rebellions of the Princes Li -- Other rebellions -- Abuse of power at every level -- Picking favorites -- Naming a successor -- Empress Wu's favorites -- Relations with other nations -- Tibet -- Korea -- The Tujue clan -- Japan and Arabia -- Famous legends about Empress Wu -- Face reading -- Flowers blooming in winter -- Other legends.…”
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Judah and the Judeans in the neo-Babylonian period

Table of Contents: “…Sack -- Babylonian strategies of imperial control in the West -- David Vanderhooft -- Neo-Babylonian military operations other than war in Judah and Jerusalem / John W. …”
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Child slaves in the modern world

Table of Contents: “…Lawrance, "All we want is make us free" : the voyage of la amistad's children through the worlds of the illegal slave trade -- Gwyn Campbell, Children and bondage in imperial Madagascar, ca. 1790/1895 -- Cecily Jones, Youthful rebels : young people, agency, and resistance against colonial slavery in the British Caribbean plantation world -- Sue Taylor, Family strategies : slave parents and children in the Caracas courts, 1750/1854 -- Nara Milanich, Degrees of bondage: children's tutelary servitude in modern Latin America -- Martin Klein, Children and slavery in the western Sudan -- Bernard Moitt, Slavery and guardianship in postemancipation Senegal : colonial legislation and minors in Tutelle, 1848/1905 -- Trevor R. …”
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Chinese religiosities afflictions of modernity and state formation /

Table of Contents: “…Redeploying Confucius : the imperial state dreams of the nation, 1902-1911 / Ya-pei Kuo -- Pt. …”
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Demystifying China new understandings of Chinese history /

Table of Contents: “…Cultural Traditions -- The "Decline" of Buddhism in China / Tansen Sen -- Islam in China / Michael Brose -- Chinese Medicine / Bridie Andrews -- Traditional Chinese and the Environment / Ling Zhang -- Chinese Martial Arts / Stanley Henning -- Women in Chinese History / Clara Wing-chung Ho -- Part III. Imperial China -- China's Age of Seafaring / Ruth Mostern -- Civil Service Examinations / Elif Akcetin -- Xinjiang at the Center / Judd Kinzley -- Tibet / Elliott Sperling -- Modern China's Borders / Andres Rodriguez -- The Opium War and China's "Century of Humiliation" / Julia Lovell -- Part IV. …”
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Russia's Turn to the East Domestic Policymaking and Regional Cooperation /

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Humanitarian intervention a history /

Table of Contents: “…Humanitarian intervention, democracy, and imperialism: the American war with Spain, 1898, and after Mike Sewell; 14. …”
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