
Contesting French West Africa: Battles Over Schools and the Colonial Order, 1900-1950
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After the turn of the twentieth century, schools played a pivotal role in the construction of French...

Sophocles: Four Tragedies: Oedipus the King, Aias, Philoctetes, Oedipus at Colonus
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Sophocles stands as one of the greatest dramatists of all time, influencing a vast array of artists...
Regulating the Lives of Women: Social Welfare Policy from Colonial Times to the Present
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Widely praised as an outstanding contribution to social welfare and feminist scholarship, Regulating...

Amazons, Wives, Nuns, and Witches: Women and the Catholic Church in Colonial Brazil, 1500-1822
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The Roman Catholic church played a dominant role in colonial Brazil, so that women's lives in the...
American Imperial Pastoral: The Architecture of Us Colonialism in the Philippines
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In 1904, renowned architect Daniel Burnham, the Progressive Era urban planner who famously "Made No...
Cattle Colonialism: An Environmental History of the Conquest of California and Hawai'i
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In the nineteenth century, the colonial territories of California and Hawai'i underwent important...