An Opera for Everybody: The Story of English National Opera
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Susie Gilbert traces the development of ENO from its earliest origins in the darkest Victorian slums...
Invasion USA: Anti-Communist Movies of the 1950s and 1960s
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In 1947 and again in 1951, when the queasy wartime alliance of the United States and the Soviet...
Karama!: Journeys Through the Arab Spring
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Johnny West has lived in this area for the past decade and speaks fluent Arabic, and so has the...
Mapping Chinese Rangoon: Place and Nation Among the Sino-Burmese
Jayde Lin Roberts, Charles F. Keyes, Laurie J. Sears and Vicente Rafael
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Mapping Chinese Rangoon is both an intimate exploration of the Sino-Burmese, people of Chinese...
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...
Popular Democracy: The Paradox of Participation
Gianpaolo Baiocchi and Ernesto Ganuza
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Local participation is the new democratic imperative. In the United States, three-fourths of all...
Popular Music and Cultural Policy
Martin Cloonan, Shane Homan and Jen Cattermole
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Popular music is increasingly visible in government strategies and policies. While much has been...
Praetorian: The Rise and Fall of Rome's Imperial Bodyguard
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A riveting account of ancient Rome's imperial bodyguard, the select band of soldiers who wielded the...
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...
Resilience and Collapse in African Savannahs: Causes and Consequences of Environmental Change in East Africa
Michael Bollig and David M. Anderson
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This book assesses the causes and consequences of environmental change in East Africa, asking...