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Photography and the Making of the Nazi Racial Community examines the role of photography in the construction of the Nazi Volksgemeinschaft, a racially exclusive community, during the Third Reich...

Photography and the Making of the Nazi Racial Community examines the role of photography in the construction of the Nazi Volksgemeinschaft, a racially exclusive community, during the Third Reich...

In Plato's "Letters", Ariel Helfer provides to readers, for the first time, a highly literal translation of the Letters, complete with extensive notes on historical context and issues of manuscript...

An account of the central tradition in the history of philosophy, Platonism, along with the class of philosophical positions collectively known as Naturalism and the 'anti-Platonism' of Naturalism...

Even powerful states face disaster if their armies do not adapt military doctrine to meet new challenges. Comparing the cases of the United States Army in Vietnam and the British Army during the Boer...

Author: Jean-Jacques RousseauPublisher: Cornell University PressPublication Date: Oct 31, 1968Number of Pages: 196 pagesLanguage: EnglishBinding: PaperbackISBN-10: 0801490715ISBN-13: 9780801490712

Politics of Tranquility concerns the Tibetan Buddhist revival in China, illustrating the lives of Tibetan Buddhist nuns and exploring the political effects that arise from their nonpolitical daily...

Politics of Tranquility concerns the Tibetan Buddhist revival in China, illustrating the lives of Tibetan Buddhist nuns and exploring the political effects that arise from their nonpolitical daily...

This book traces a cultural history of hoarding to expose the psychic, economic, epistemological, and ecological conditions of modernityAuthor: Rebecca R. FalkoffPublisher: Cornell University...

Attempts to determine and provide a methodology for assessing the value of land in the Cayuga Land Claim case and across frontier New York-Author: Scott W. AndersonPublisher: Cornell University...

This book traces the late medieval rise of Santa Maria di Loreto, a wealthy and powerful Marian shrine in central Italy. Devotees venerated the shrine as an emotional response to multiple plagues,...

Rebel groups are often portrayed as predators, their leaders little more than warlords. In conflicts large and small, however, insurgents frequently take and hold territory, establishing...

New England Indians created the multitribal Brothertown and Stockbridge communities during the eighteenth century with the intent of using Christianity and civilized reforms to cope with white...

Hurricane Katrina devastated New Orleans in 2005, but in the subsequent ten years, the city has demonstrated both remarkable resilience and frustrating stagnation. In Reforming New Orleans, Peter F...

Reimagining Citizenship in Postwar Europe maps the generation and growth of novel forms of belonging in the years after World War II, crisscrossing the continent from Madrid to Warsaw and from Athens...

Reimagining Citizenship in Postwar Europe maps the generation and growth of novel forms of belonging in the years after World War II, crisscrossing the continent from Madrid to Warsaw and from Athens...

Religious Appeals in Power Politics examines how states use, or attempt to use, confessional appeals to religious belief and conscience to advance political strategies and objectives. Through case...

Religious Appeals in Power Politics examines how states use, or attempt to use, confessional appeals to religious belief and conscience to advance political strategies and objectives. Through case...

How have state policies influenced the development of Japan's telecommunications, computer hardware, computer software, and semiconductor industries and their stagnation since the 1990s? Marie...

The United States, Barry R. Posen argues in Restraint, has grown incapable of moderating its ambitions in international politics. Since the collapse of Soviet power, it has pursued a grand strategy...

Examines the origins, development, and impact of the French Army's strategy of Pacification during the Algerian War of independence from France, 1954-1962. It illuminates how French efforts to...

After terrorists crashed passenger jets into the World Trade Center towers, which later collapsed, mariners delivered an estimated 400,000 to 500,000 people off Manhattan Island. This unplanned...

In Schoolishness, Susan D. Blum continues her journey as an anthropologist and educator. The author defines "schoolishness" as educational practices that emphasize packaged "learning," unimaginative...

An ethnography of an agroenvironmental research center in southwest China. The book takes the experiences of the staff navigating diverse international funding regimes and authoritarian state...

Incorporates contemporary feminist theories and provides interdisciplinary perspectives on motherhood within Ovidian works and classical literature more broadly and questions the widely acknowledged...

In Selling the Future, Ryan Moran explains how the life insurance industry in Japan exploited its association with mutuality and community to commodify and govern lives. Covering the years from the...

In Shades of Blue, F?lix Krawatzek, Friedemann Pestel, Rieke Trim?ev, and Gregor Feindt investigate the political project of "Europe" as it oscillates between the extremes of expectations of an...

This book focuses on the lonely women of the long eighteenth century-both literary characters and poets themselves-who exploited the sense of vulnerability that loneliness entails for their poetic...

In Sociology of Corruption, David Jancsics provides a fresh approach to the study of corruption in Hungary, which once seemed to be the most likely of the ex-communist bloc nations to catch up to the...

Staging the Promises reveals how inhabitants of Bor, a Serbian copper-processing and mining town that lived through prosperous Yugoslav times and a post-socialist decline, were the audience...