Monetary Statecraft in Brazil: 1808-2014
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Brazil has one of the world's fastest growing economies and a fascinating history underpinning its...
Dust of the Zulu: Ngoma Aesthetics After Apartheid
Louise Meintjes and T.J. Lemon
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In Dust of the Zulu Louise Meintjes traces the political and aesthetic significance of ngoma, a...
A History of Groves
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The grove, a grouping of trees, intentionally cultivated or found growing wild, has a long diverse...
Max Eastman: A Life
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The definitive biography of a radical activist and intellectual Max Eastman (1883-1969) was a...
Marshall Plan Modernism: Italian Postwar Abstraction and the Beginnings of Autonomia
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Focusing on artwork by Lucio Fontana, Alberto Burri, and Piero Manzoni, Jaleh Mansoor demonstrates...
The Face of Medicine: Visualising Medical Masculinities in Late Nineteenth-Century Paris
Marsha Meskimmon, Amelia Jones and Mary Hunter
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The face of medicine examines the overlapping worlds of art and medicine in late nineteenth-century...
Soul Food: The Surprising Story of an American Cuisine, One Plate at a Time
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In this insightful and eclectic history, Adrian Miller delves into the influences, ingredients, and...
The Dilemmas of Lenin: Terrorism, War, Empire, Love
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“Without Lenin there would have been no socialist revolution in 1917. Of this much we can be...
History Politics
The Voice of England in the East: Stratford Canning and Diplomacy with the Ottoman Empire
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In the age of the Great Powers, with Russia and France at war, and the Ottoman Empire at the height...
The Vernacularization of Labour Politics
Sabyasachi Bhattacharya and Rana P. Behal
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The decline of trade unionism and the absence of labor unions in the public sphere in India as well...