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A Few Acres of Ice is an in-depth study of France's complex relationship with the Antarctic, from the search for Terra Australis by French navigators in the sixteenth century to France's role today...

A Few Acres of Ice is an in-depth study of France's complex relationship with the Antarctic, from the search for Terra Australis by French navigators in the sixteenth century to France's role today...

"With this guide, students and scholars can locate the impressive plaster casts made from classical Greek and Roman statues and other pieces that were brought to Cornell by A. D. White. They can also...

A Happier Eden maps the largely unexplored terrain of the Stuart epithalamium, or wedding poem, focusing in particular on the complex attitudes toward marriage it reflects. Heather Dubrow examines...

This book traces the evolution of historically white colleges and universities and highlights histories of race-based exclusion and oppression. Drawing on abolitionist frameworks of social change, it...

Winner of the 2022 Hagley Prize in Business HistoryIn A Medicated Empire, Timothy M. Yang explores the history of Japan's pharmaceutical industry in the early twentieth century through a close...

Afterlives of Endor offers an analysis of the way early modern English literature addressed the period's anxieties about witchcraft and theatricality. What determined whether or not a demonologist...

Afterlives of Endor offers an analysis of the way early modern English literature addressed the period's anxieties about witchcraft and theatricality. What determined whether or not a demonologist...

Tracing the moral and medical panics about addictive commodities that flourished after tobacco, chocolate, sugar, coffee, tea, and gin were introduced into Europe as a result of early modern colonial...

In America's Cold Warrior, James Graham Wilson traces Paul Nitze's career path in national security after World War II, a time when many of his mentors and peers returned to civilian life. Serving in...

Focusing on the parallels and intersections between late eighteenth century revolutionary textual dissemination and present-day methods in the digital humanities, this collection of essays evaluates...

In Among Women across Worlds, Suzy Kim explores the transnational connections between North Korean women and the global women's movement. Asian women, especially communists, are often depicted as...

An Imaginary Cinema is the first systematic study of Sergei Eisenstein's unrealized films as well as a deeply informed historical and theoretical inquiry into the role and meaning of the unmade in...

Animal People introduces readers to the professionalized world of animal protection from the perspective of those who consider themselves to be "moderate" activists. Adam Reed explores the...

Animal People introduces readers to the professionalized world of animal protection from the perspective of those who consider themselves to be "moderate" activists. Adam Reed explores the...

This book portrays the lives and work of 10 architects who comprise the Millar Howard Workshop architectural firm based in the Cotswolds in the United Kingdom. Focusing on their activities and their...

The book's trans-imperial approach draws connections among Belgian, British, French, German, Italian, and Portuguese colonies to show that the technological and infrastructural imperatives of motor...

Beyond Description brings anthropologists and other social scientists together to examine the problem of explanation. What is "an explanation?" What can it add? What makes it authoritative,...

Beyond Description brings anthropologists and other social scientists together to examine the problem of explanation. What is "an explanation?" What can it add? What makes it authoritative,...

Winner of the George Louis Beer PrizeBlack France, White Europe illuminates the deeply entangled history of European integration and African decolonization. Emily Marker maps the horizons of...

Drawing on sources in Japanese, Korean, Chinese, and English, this book examines how the seasonal freezing, thawing, and flooding of the Yalu River between Korea and Manchuria (northeast China)...

Rather than the exclusive focus on discourses about the eleventh-century medieval Church's religious reform, this book's study of economic practices, religious traditions, and the natural environment...

Beginning with Anglo-Egyptian colonialism and ending with Barack Obama's presidency, Bounds of Blackness explores the history of Black America's engagements with modern Sudan.--Author: Christopher...

Burying Mussolini addresses the global resurgence in authoritarian and nationalist populism and its connection with valorizations of ordinary life. Predappio is the birthplace and burial site of...

Burying Mussolini addresses the global resurgence in authoritarian and nationalist populism and its connection with valorizations of ordinary life. Predappio is the birthplace and burial site of...

An analysis of the role played by slavery in the making and execution of American foreign policy from George Washington to Abraham Lincoln--Author: Steven J BradyPublisher: Cornell University...

In The Chinese Revolution on the Tibetan Frontier, Benno Weiner provides the first in-depth study of an ethnic minority region during the first decade of the People's Republic of China: the Amdo...

Collectivization Generation is a history of agricultural collectivization in Soviet Uzbekistan, but it is not focused on Party decisions. Instead, Marianne Kamp offers a history of everyday life that...

Collectivization Generation is a history of agricultural collectivization in Soviet Uzbekistan, but it is not focused on Party decisions. Instead, Marianne Kamp offers a history of everyday life that...

Robert W. Snyder's Crossing Broadway tells how disparate groups overcame their mutual suspicions to rehabilitate housing, build new schools, restore parks, and work with the police to bring safety to...