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Latter-day Screens : Gender, Sexuality, and Mediated Mormonism / by Weber, Brenda R., 1964-

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Latter-day Screens : Gender, Sexuality, and Mediated Mormonism / by Weber, Brenda R., 1964-

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The Roman Salute : Cinema, History, Ideology / by Winkler, Martin M.

Table of Contents: “…Saluting gestures in Roman art and literature -- Jacques-Louis David's Oath of the Horatii -- Raised-arm salutes in the United States before fascism : from the pledge of allegiance to Ben-Hur on stage -- Early cinema : American and European epics -- Cabiria : the intersection of cinema and politics -- Gabriele d'Annunzio and Cabiria -- Fiume : the Roman salute becomes a political symbol -- From D'Annunzio to Mussolini -- Nazi cinema and its impact on Hollywood's Roman epics : from Leni Riefenstahl to Quo vadis -- Visual legacies : antiquity on the screen from Quo vadis to Rome -- Cinema : from Salome to Alexander -- Television : from Star trek to Rome -- Conclusion.…”
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The Roman Salute : Cinema, History, Ideology / by Winkler, Martin M.

Table of Contents: “…Saluting gestures in Roman art and literature -- Jacques-Louis David's Oath of the Horatii -- Raised-arm salutes in the United States before fascism : from the pledge of allegiance to Ben-Hur on stage -- Early cinema : American and European epics -- Cabiria : the intersection of cinema and politics -- Gabriele d'Annunzio and Cabiria -- Fiume : the Roman salute becomes a political symbol -- From D'Annunzio to Mussolini -- Nazi cinema and its impact on Hollywood's Roman epics : from Leni Riefenstahl to Quo vadis -- Visual legacies : antiquity on the screen from Quo vadis to Rome -- Cinema : from Salome to Alexander -- Television : from Star trek to Rome -- Conclusion.…”
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Diasporic Africa a reader /

Table of Contents: “…The evolution of ritual in the African diaspora: Central African Kilundu in Brazil, St. Domingue, and the United States, seventeenth-nineteenth centuries /…”
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Diasporic Africa a reader /

Table of Contents: “…The evolution of ritual in the African diaspora: Central African Kilundu in Brazil, St. Domingue, and the United States, seventeenth-nineteenth centuries /…”
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Ancient Rome by Dunstan, William E.

Table of Contents: “…Early Italy -- Origins of Rome -- The young republic -- Roman conquest of Italy -- Duel with Carthage -- Roman conquest of the Mediterranean world -- Impact of overseas conquests on the senatorial oligarchy -- Impact of overseas conquests of the economic and social organization of Italy -- Greek cultural influences on Rome -- Rival conceptions of state and society plague Roman politics : from the Gracchi to the Social War -- Sulla -- Pompey and Caesar -- Antony and Octavian wrestle for empire : final dissolution of the old republican order -- Economic, social, and cultural climate of the late republic -- Augustus and the founding of the Roman Empire -- Augustan social and religious policy -- Augustan art and literature and the Augustan legacy.…”
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Ancient Rome by Dunstan, William E.

Table of Contents: “…Early Italy -- Origins of Rome -- The young republic -- Roman conquest of Italy -- Duel with Carthage -- Roman conquest of the Mediterranean world -- Impact of overseas conquests on the senatorial oligarchy -- Impact of overseas conquests of the economic and social organization of Italy -- Greek cultural influences on Rome -- Rival conceptions of state and society plague Roman politics : from the Gracchi to the Social War -- Sulla -- Pompey and Caesar -- Antony and Octavian wrestle for empire : final dissolution of the old republican order -- Economic, social, and cultural climate of the late republic -- Augustus and the founding of the Roman Empire -- Augustan social and religious policy -- Augustan art and literature and the Augustan legacy.…”
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Never say die! : a thousand years of Yiddish in Jewish life and letters /

Table of Contents: “…Educational assessment of the Yiddish secular school movements in the United States /…”
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Never say die! : a thousand years of Yiddish in Jewish life and letters /

Table of Contents: “…Educational assessment of the Yiddish secular school movements in the United States /…”
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Crossing Central Europe : Continuities and Transformations, 1900 and 2000 /

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Crossing Central Europe : Continuities and Transformations, 1900 and 2000 /

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Mo Yan in Context : Nobel Laureate and Global Storyteller /

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Mo Yan in Context : Nobel Laureate and Global Storyteller /

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Memories of 1968 international perspectives /

Table of Contents: “…Public, private and divided memories / John Foot -- United States of amnesia?: 1968 in the USA / Timothy S. …”
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Memories of 1968 international perspectives /

Table of Contents: “…Public, private and divided memories / John Foot -- United States of amnesia?: 1968 in the USA / Timothy S. …”
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Tango Lessons : Movement, Sound, Image, and Text in Contemporary Practice /

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Tango Lessons : Movement, Sound, Image, and Text in Contemporary Practice /

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Forging people race, ethnicity, and nationality in Hispanic American and Latino/a thought /

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Forging people race, ethnicity, and nationality in Hispanic American and Latino/a thought /

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