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Working the System. A Political Ethnography of the New Angola, Hardback - Jon Schubert

855,99 RON

Working the System offers key insights into the politics of the everyday in twenty-first-century dominant party and neo-authoritarian regimes in Af...

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Why Noncompliance: The Politics of Law in the European Union, Paperback - Tanja A. Börzel

136,99 RON

Why Noncompliance traces the history of noncompliance within the European Union (EU), focusing on which states continuously do or do not follow EU ...

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Strategies for Governing. Reinventing Public Administration for a Dangerous Century, Hardback - Alasdair Roberts

855,99 RON

With the fields of public administration and public management suffering a crisis of relevance, Alasdair Roberts offers a provocative assessment of...

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Barns of New York: Rural Architecture of the Empire State, Paperback - Cynthia G. Falk

163,99 RON 175,99 RON

Reducere. Barns of New York explores and celebrates the agricultural and architectural diversity of the Empire State--from Long Island to Lake Erie, the Sout...

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Divided Highways: Building the Interstate Highways, Transforming American Life (Updated), Paperback - Tom Lewis

118,99 RON 127,99 RON

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Tom LewisIn Divided Highways, Tom Lewis offers an encompassing account of highway development in the United States. In the ...

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Research as Development. Biomedical Research, Ethics, and Collaboration in Sri Lanka, Hardback - Robert Simpson

359,99 RON

In Research as Development, Salla Sariola and Bob Simpson show how international collaboration operates in a setting that is typically portrayed as...

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Covert Regime Change: America's Secret Cold War, Hardcover - Lindsey A. O'Rourke

282,99 RON

DescriptionStates seldom resort to war to overthrow their adversaries. They are more likely to attempt to covertly change the opposing regime, by a...

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Dust and Dignity. Domestic Employment in Contemporary Ecuador, Hardback - Erynn Masi de Casanova

855,99 RON

What makes domestic work a bad job, even after efforts to formalize and improve working conditions? Erynn Masi de Casanova's case study, based part...

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For the End of Time: The Story of the Messiaen Quartet, Paperback - Rebecca Rischin

134,99 RON 144,99 RON

Reducere. The clarinetist Rebecca Rischin has written a captivating book. . . . Her research dispels several long-cherished myths about the 1941 premiere. . ...

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Desertion. Trust and Mistrust in Civil Wars, Hardback - Theodore McLauchlin

342,99 RON

Publisher: Cornell University PressAuthor(s): Theodore McLauchlinIllustration(s): 1 Maps; 7 ChartsNumber of pages: 280Publication date: 2020Dimensi...

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The Idea of the Labyrinth from Classical Antiquity Through the Middle Ages, Paperback - Penelope Reed Doob

134,00 RON

DescriptionAncient and medieval labyrinths embody paradox, according to Penelope Reed Doob. Their structure allows a double perspective--the baffli...

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Everyday Law in Russia, Hardcover - Kathryn Hendley

333,99 RON

Contributor(s): Author: Kathryn HendleyEveryday Law in Russia challenges the prevailing common wisdom that Russians cannot rely on their law and th...

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Recasting Islamic Law. Religion and the Nation State in Egyptian Constitution Making, Paperback - Rachel M. Scott

136,99 RON

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The Romanian Revolution of December 1989 - Peter Siani-Davies

214,99 RON

DescriptionThe Romanian Revolution of 1989 was the most spectacularly violent and remains today the most controversial of all the East European uph...

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Planning for Empire. Reform Bureaucrats and the Japanese Wartime State, Paperback - Janis Mimura

218,99 RON

The origins and evolution of technocratic fascism in wartime Japan.Publisher: Cornell University PressAuthor(s): Janis MimuraNumber of pages: 240Co...

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Populist Persuasion: An American History (Revised), Paperback - Michael Kazin

135,99 RON 145,99 RON

Reducere. In The Populist Persuasion, the distinguished historian Michael Kazin guides readers through the expressions of conflict between powerful elites an...

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The Search for God in Ancient Egypt: The Symbolic Politics of Ethnic War, Paperback - Jan Assmann

191,99 RON

First English-language edition, with revisions and additions by the author.This classic work by one of the world's most distinguished Egyptologists...

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Making the Fascist Self. The Political Culture of Interwar Italy, Paperback - Mabel Berezin

255,99 RON

In her examination of the culture of Italian fascism, Mabel Berezin focuses on how Mussolini's regime consciously constructed a nonliberal public s...

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Employment with a Human Face: Balancing Efficiency, Equity, and Voice, Paperback - John W. Budd

146,99 RON 157,99 RON

Reducere. John W. Budd contends that the turbulence of the current workplace and the importance of work for individuals and society make it vitally important...

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American Catholic: The Politics of Faith During the Cold War, Hardcover - D. G. Hart

159,99 RON 171,99 RON

Reducere. American Catholic places the rise of the United States' political conservatism in the context of ferment within the Roman Catholic Church. How did ...

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The Public Universal Friend: Jemima Wilkinson and Religious Enthusiasm in Revolutionary America, Hardcover - Paul B. Moyer

160,99 RON 172,99 RON

Reducere. Amid political innovation and social transformation, Revolutionary America was also fertile ground for religious upheaval, as self-proclaimed visio...

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The Making of Southeast Asia: International Relations of a Region, Paperback - Amitav Acharya

151,99 RON 162,99 RON

Reducere. Developing a framework to study "what makes a region, " Amitav Acharya investigates the origins and evolution of Southeast Asian regionalism and in...

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The Image of Christ in Russian Literature. Dostoevsky, Tolstoy, Bulgakov, Pasternak, Paperback - John Givens

209,99 RON

Publisher: Cornell University PressAuthor(s): John GivensNumber of pages: 288Collection: NIU Series in Orthodox Christian StudiesPublication date: ...

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Bowling for Communism: Urban Ingenuity at the End of East Germany, Hardcover - Andrew Demshuk

250,99 RON

Bowling for Communism illuminates how civic life functioned in Leipzig, East Germany's second-largest city, on the eve of the 1989 revolution by ex...

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The Ideological Origins of Great Power Politics, 1789-1989, Paperback - Mark L. Haas

130,99 RON 140,99 RON

Reducere. How do leaders perceive threat levels in world politics, and what effects do those perceptions have on policy choices? Mark L. Haas focuses on how ...

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Contradiction in Motion. Hegel's Organic Concept of Life and Value, Hardback - Songsuk Susan Hahn

530,99 RON

"Everything is contradictory, " Hegel declares in Science of Logic. In this analysis of one of the most difficult and neglected topics in Hegelian ...

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Landlords and Farmers in the Hudson-Mohawk Region, 1790-1850, Paperback - David Maldwyn Ellis

183,00 RON

The transition from a predominantly self-sufficient economy to one primarily dependent on the market in the first half of the nineteenth century wa...

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Invention of Decolonization. The Algerian War and the Remaking of France, Paperback - Todd Shepard

209,99 RON

In this account of the Algerian War's effect on French political structures and notions of national identity, Todd Shepard asserts that the separat...

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"I'm Not a Racist, But...". The Moral Quandary of Race, Paperback - Lawrence Blum

171,99 RON

Blum develops a historically grounded account of racism as the deeply morally charged notion it has become. He addresses the question whether peopl...

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Making Good Neighbors: Civil Rights, Liberalism, and Integration in Postwar Philadelphia, Paperback - Abigail Perkiss

213,99 RON 228,99 RON

Reducere. In the 1950s and 1960s, as the white residents, real estate agents, and municipal officials of many American cities fought to keep African American...

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Warsaw Ghetto Police: The Jewish Order Service During the Nazi Occupation, Hardcover - Katarzyna Person

170,99 RON 182,99 RON

Reducere. In Warsaw Ghetto Police, Katarzyna Person shines a spotlight on the lawyers, engineers, young yeshiva graduates, and sons of connected businessmen ...

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Language as Hermeneutic: A Primer on the Word and Digitization, Paperback - Walter J. Ong

106,99 RON 114,99 RON

Reducere. Language in all its modes--oral, written, print, electronic--claims the central role in Walter J. Ong's acclaimed speculations on human culture. Af...

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Pop City: Korean Popular Culture and the Selling of Place, Paperback - Youjeong Oh

136,99 RON

Pop City examines the use of Korean television dramas and K-pop music to promote urban and rural places in South Korea. Building on the phenomenon ...

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Dragonslayer: The Legend of Erich Ludendorff in the Weimar Republic and Third Reich, Hardcover - Jay Lockenour

173,99 RON 186,99 RON

Reducere. In this fascinating biography of the infamous ideologue Erich Ludendorff, Jay Lockenour complicates the classic depiction of this German World War ...

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The Witness and the Other World. Exotic European Travel Writing, 400-1600, Paperback - Mary Baine Campbell

250,99 RON

Surveying exotic travel writing in Europe from late antiquity to the age of discover, The Witness and the Other World illustrates the fundamental h...

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Ingredients of Change. The History and Culture of Food in Modern Bulgaria, Paperback - Mary C. Neuburger

188,99 RON

Publisher: Cornell University PressAuthor(s): Mary C. NeuburgerIllustration(s): 18 Halftones, black and whiteNumber of pages: 246Publication date: ...

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Heretics and Colonizers: Forging Russia's Empire in the South Caucasus, Paperback - Nicholas B. Breyfogle

184,99 RON 197,99 RON

Reducere. In Heretics and Colonizers, Nicholas B. Breyfogle explores the dynamic intersection of Russian borderland colonization and popular religious cultur...

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Under the Surface: Fracking, Fortunes, and the Fate of the Marcellus Shale, Paperback - Tom Wilber

116,99 RON 125,99 RON

Reducere. For the updated paperback edition of Under the Surface, Tom Wilber has written a new chapter and epilogue covering developments since the book's in...

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In Defense of Christian Hungary. Religion, Nationalism, and Antisemitism, 1890-1944, Paperback - Paul A. Hanebrink

179,00 RON

In this important historical account of the role that religion played in defining the political life of a modern national society, Paul A. Hanebrin...

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The Borscht Belt: Revisiting the Remains of America's Jewish Vacationland, Hardcover - Marisa Scheinfeld

200,99 RON 215,99 RON

Reducere. Today the Borscht Belt is recalled through the nostalgic lens of summer swims, Saturday night dances, and comedy performances. But its current stat...

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A Sense of Power: The Roots of America's Global Role, Hardcover - John A. Thompson

164,99 RON 176,99 RON

Reducere. Why has the United States assumed so extensive and costly a role in world affairs over the last hundred years? The two most common answers to this ...

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Future Conditional. Building an English-Speaking Society in Northeast China, Paperback - Eric S. Henry

191,99 RON

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Private Regulation of Labor Standards in Global Supply Chains. Problems, Progress, and Prospects, Paperback - Sarosh Kuruvilla

209,99 RON

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Amazing Dogs: A Cabinet of Canine Curiosities, Hardcover - Jan Bondeson

175,99 RON 188,99 RON

Reducere. Dogs have a cherished role as close companions, and their sometimes startling abilities have been a never-ending source of fascination for their ob...

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Rebel Politics. A Political Sociology of Armed Struggle in Myanmar's Borderlands, Paperback - David Brenner

191,99 RON

Rebel Politics analyzes the changing dynamics of the civil war in Myanmar, one of the most entrenched armed conflicts in the world. Since 2011, a n...

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Arguing about Alliances. The Art of Agreement in Military-Pact Negotiations, Hardback - Paul Poast

295,00 RON

Why do some attempts to conclude alliance treaties end in failure? From the inability of European powers to form an alliance that would stop Hitler...

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Take Back Our Future. An Eventful Sociology of the Hong Kong Umbrella Movement, Paperback - ***

218,99 RON

In a comprehensive and theoretically novel analysis, Take Back Our Future unveils the causes, processes, and implications of the 2014 seventy-nine-...

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strong of Body, Brave and Noble": Chivalry and Society in Medieval France, Paperback - Constance Brittain Bouchard

244,99 RON 262,99 RON

Reducere. DescriptionMedieval society was dominated by its knights and nobles. The literature created in medieval Europe was primarily a literature of knight...

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Unbuttoning America: A Biography of "peyton Place, Hardcover - Ardis Cameron

132,99 RON 142,99 RON

Reducere. Published in 1956, Peyton Place became a bestseller and a literary phenomenon. A lurid and gripping story of murder, incest, female desire, and soc...

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Restraint: A New Foundation for U.S. Grand Strategy, Paperback - Barry R. Posen

111,99 RON 119,99 RON

Reducere. The United States, Barry R. Posen argues in Restraint, has grown incapable of moderating its ambitions in international politics. Since the collaps...

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Clothing the Clergy. Virtue and Power in Medieval Europe, c. 800-1200, Paperback - Maureen C. Miller

328,99 RON

Maureen C. Miller traces the ways in which clerical garb changed over the Middle Ages. Miller goes into detail about craft, artistry, and textiles ...

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Contesting Precarity in Japan. The Rise of Nonregular Workers and the New Policy Dissensus, Paperback - Saori Shibata

200,99 RON

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Plots Against Russia: Conspiracy and Fantasy After Socialism, Paperback - Eliot Borenstein

207,00 RON

DescriptionIn this original and timely assessment of cultural expressions of paranoia in contemporary Russia, Eliot Borenstein samples popular fict...

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Princes, Brokers, and Bureaucrats. Oil and the State in Saudi Arabia, Paperback - Steffen Hertog

200,99 RON

In Princes, Brokers, and Bureaucrats, the most thorough treatment of the political economy of Saudi Arabia to date, Steffen Hertog uncovers an unto...

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American Labyrinth: Intellectual History for Complicated Times, Paperback - Raymond Haberski

237,99 RON

DescriptionIntellectual history has never been more relevant and more important to public life in the United States. In complicated and confounding...

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Sacred Gifts, Profane Pleasures: A History of Tobacco and Chocolate in the Atlantic World, Paperback - Marcy Norton

242,99 RON 259,99 RON

Reducere. Before Columbus's fateful voyage in 1492, no European had ever seen, much less tasted, tobacco or chocolate. Initially dismissed as dry leaves and ...

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Race-Ing Fargo: Refugees, Citizenship, and the Transformation of Small Cities, Paperback - Jennifer Erickson

231,99 RON 248,99 RON

Reducere. Tracing the history of refugee settlement in Fargo, North Dakota, from the 1980s to the present day, Race-ing Fargo focuses on the role that gender...

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Politics of Veteran Benefits in the Twentieth Century: A Comparative History, Hardcover - Martin Crotty

304,99 RON 326,99 RON

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Images from the Region of the Pueblo Indians of North America, Paperback - Aby M. Warburg

118,99 RON

Images from the Region of the Pueblo Indians of North America translates Aby M. Warburg's seminal study of the "serpent ritual" of the Hopi people,...

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To Set This World Right: The Antislavery Movement in Thoreau's Concord, Hardcover - Sandra Harbert Petrulionis

165,99 RON 177,99 RON

Reducere. In the decade before the Civil War, Concord, Massachusetts, was a center of abolitionist sentiment and activism. To Set this World Right is the fir...

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Treasures from Olana: Landscapes by Frederic Edwin Church, Hardcover - Kevin J. Avery

148,99 RON 159,99 RON

Reducere. "The wide variety of selections from Frederic Edwin Church's collection of his own paintings shows the master in all phases of his career, in sketc...

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History and Its Objects. Antiquarianism and Material Culture since 1500, Hardback - Peter N. Miller

299,99 RON

In History and Its Objects, Peter N. Miller uncovers the forgotten origins of our fascination with exploring the past through its artifacts by high...

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Afterlives. The Return of the Dead in the Middle Ages, Paperback - Nancy Mandeville Caciola

191,99 RON

In Afterlives, Nancy Mandeville Caciola explores this extraordinary phenomenon of the living's relationship with the dead in Europe during the five...

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Protest Politics in the Marketplace. Consumer Activism in the Corporate Age, Paperback - Caroline Heldman

218,99 RON

Protest Politics in the Marketplace examines how social media has revolutionized the use and effectiveness of consumer activism. In her groundbreak...

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Financial Stabilization in Meiji Japan: The Impact of the Matsukata Reform, Hardcover - Steven J. Ericson

418,99 RON 448,99 RON

Reducere. With a new look at the 1880s financial reforms in Japan, Steven J. Ericson's Financial Stabilization in Meiji Japan overturns widely held views of ...

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By Sword and Plow. France and the Conquest of Algeria, Paperback - Jennifer E. Sessions

245,99 RON

Generously illustrated with examples of this imperialist iconography, Sessions's work connects a wide-ranging culture of empire to specific policie...

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Lethal Provocation: The Constantine Murders and the Politics of French Algeria, Hardcover - Joshua Cole

261,99 RON

Part murder mystery, part social history of political violence, Lethal Provocation is a forensic examination of the deadliest peacetime episode of ...

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Roger Martin du Gard and Maumort. The Nobel Laureate and His Unfinished Creation, Paperback - Benjamin Franklin Martin

191,99 RON

In the late 1930s and early 1940s, Roger Martin du Gard was one of the most famous writers in the Western world. He won the Nobel Prize for Literat...

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Liberal Peace, Liberal War. American Politics and International Security, Paperback - John M., IV Owen

241,99 RON

Liberal democracies very rarely fight wars against each other, even though they go to war just as often as other types of states do. John M. Owen I...

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The Ethics of Narrative. Essays on History, Literature, and Theory, 1998-2007, Paperback - Hayden White

209,99 RON

Publisher: Cornell University PressAuthor(s): Hayden WhiteNumber of pages: 282Publication date: 2022Dimensions: 152 x 229 x 21Cover type: Paperback...

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