Mapping the Chinese and Islamic Worlds: Cross-cultural Exchange in Pre-modern Asia
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Long before Vasco da Gama rounded the Cape of Good Hope en route to India, the peoples of Africa,...
Maritime Heritage in Crisis: Indigenous Landscapes and Global Ecological Breakdown
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Grounded in critical heritage studies and drawing on a Pacific Northwest Coast case study, Maritime...
Mercenary Mediterranean: Sovereignty, Religion, and Violence in the Medieval Crown of Aragon
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Sometime in April 1285, five Muslim horsemen crossed from the Islamic kingdom of Granada into the...
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...
Remarkable Plants That Shape Our World
Helen Bynum and William F. Bynum
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Plants are truly remarkable: even with all our modern technological prowess they still feed, clothe...
Sharks Never Sleep
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Following a year of record numbers of shark attacks, Sharks Never Sleep takes us around the world to...
Waste Prevention Policy and Behaviour: New Approaches to Reducing Waste Generation and its Environmental Impacts
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As prosperity levels rise, so too does the number of products and services being consumed. For...
The Ethnomusicology: A Contemporary Reader: Volume II
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Ethnomusicology: A Contemporary Reader, Volume II provides an overview of developments in the study...
Transmission in Motion: The Technologizing of Dance
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How can various technologies, from the more conventional to the very new, be used to archive, share...
Social History of the Media: From Gutenberg to the Internet
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Written by two leading social and cultural historians, the first two editions of A Social History of...