Making Amulets Christian: Artefacts, Scribes, and Contexts
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Making Amulets Christian: Artefacts, Scribes, and Contexts examines Greek amulets with Christian...
Intimate Bonds: Family and Slavery in the French Atlantic
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Following the stories of families who built their lives and fortunes across the Atlantic Ocean,...
Kathmandu: Biography of a City
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One of the greatest cities of the Himalaya, Kathmandu, Nepal, is a unique blend of thousand-year-old...
Magic and Medieval Society
Anne Lawrence-Mathers and Carolina Escobar-Vargas
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Magic and Medieval Society presents a thematic approach to the topic of magic and sorcery in Western...
Medusa: In the Mirror of Time
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Medusa, literally, petrifies: her face turned the ancients to stone. For Perseus and his patriarchal...
Mingqi Pottery Buildings of Han Dynasty China 206 BC AD 220: Architectural Representations & Represented Architecture
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An enormous number of burial objects have been unearthed from ancient tombs in archaeological...
Negotiating Religion: Cross-Disciplinary Perspectives
Francois Guesnet, Cecile Laborde and Lois Lee
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Negotiating religious diversity, as well as negotiating different forms and degrees of commitment to...
Never Had it So Good: A History of Britain from Suez to the Beatles
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In 1956 the Suez Crisis finally shattered the old myths of the British Empire and paved the way for...
New York's Yiddish Theater: From the Bowery to Broadway
Edna Nashon and Museum of the City of New York
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In the early decades of the twentieth century, a vibrant theatrical culture took shape on New York...
Salonica, City of Ghosts: Christians, Muslims and Jews
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The history of a bewilderingly exotic city, rarely written about: five hundred years of clashing...