National Museums and Nation-Building in Europe 1750-2010: Mobilization and Legitimacy, Continuity and Change
Peter Aronsson and Gabriella Elgenius
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Europe's national museums have since their creation been at the centre of on-going nation making...
Qatar: The Rise to Power and Influence
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Qatar plays a crucial part in the Middle East today. With the second greatest natural gas resources...
The Discovery of France: Picador Classic
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With an introduction by Colm Toibin Ten years ago, I began to explore the country on which I was...
Women in This Town
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In his follow-up to Men in this Town, photographer, art director and blogger Giuseppe Santamaria...
The Politics of Work-Family Policy Reforms in Germany and Italy
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One of the fundamental challenges facing modern welfare states is the question of work-family...
The Secret World of Oil
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The oil industry provides the lifeblood of modern civilization...But the modern oil industry is an...
Aeschylus: Libation Bearers
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Libation Bearers is the 'middle' play in the only extant tragic trilogy to survive from antiquity,...
The Story of Manu
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Manucaritramu, or The Story of Manu, by the early sixteenth-century poet Allasani Peddana, is the...
Therigatha: Poems of the First Buddhist Women
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The Therigatha, composed more than two millennia ago, is an anthology of poems in the Pali language...
Childhood and Cinema
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Since its inception the world of cinema has embraced the image of the child and both extended and...