The Risk of Regional Governance: Cultural Cognition and Interlocal Cooperation
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Creating metropolitan regions that are more efficient, equitable, and sustainable depends on the...
Going to the Palais: A Social and Cultural History of Dancing and Dance Halls in Britain, 1918-1960
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From the mid-1920s, the dance hall occupied a pivotal place in the culture of working- and...
Writing China: Essays on the Amherst Embassy (1816) and Sino-British Cultural Relations
Peter J. Kitson and Robert Markley
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On 29 August 1816, Lord Amherst, exhausted after travelling overnight during an embassy to China,...
Victorian Jesus: J.R. Seeley, Religion, and the Cultural Significance of Anonymity
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Ecce Homo: A Survey in the Life and Work of Jesus Christ, published anonymously in 1865, alarmed...
Executing Freedom: The Cultural Life of Capital Punishment in the United States
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In the mid-1990s, as public trust in big government was near an all-time low, 80% of Americans told...
What's Left? What's Right?: A Political Journey via North Korea and the Chinese Cultural Revolution
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What's Left? What's Right? is Muriel Seltman's political autobiography. Muriel and her husband were...
Heritage Sites in Contemporary China: Cultural Policies and Management Practices
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Archeological Sites in Contemporary Chinese Cities investigates archeological development and...
Neoliberal Moral Economy: Capitalism, Socio-Cultural Change and Fraud in Uganda
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This book offers a fresh take on a major question of global debate: what explains the rise in...
William Hunter and His Eighteenth-Century Cultural Worlds: The Anatomist and the Fine Arts
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The eminent physician and anatomist Dr William Hunter (1718-1783) made an important and significant...