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The Ignorant Schoolmaster: Five Lessons in Intellectual Emancipation, Paperback - Jacques Ranciere

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Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Jacques RanciereThis extraordinary book can be read on several levels. Primarily, it is the story of Joseph Jacotot, an exi...

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Formations of the Secular: Christianity, Islam, Modernity, Paperback - Talal Asad

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Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Talal AsadOpening with the provocative query "what might an anthropology of the secular look like?" this book explores the ...

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From Raj to Republic. Sovereignty, Violence, and Democracy in India, Paperback - Sunil Purushotham

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The Instant of My Death /Demeure: Fiction and Testimony, Paperback - Maurice Blanchot

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Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Maurice BlanchotAuthor: Jacques DerridaTranslator: Elizabeth RottenbergThis volume records a remarkable encounter in critic...

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Great Mirror of Male Love, Paperback - Ihara Saikaku

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Contributor(s): Translator: Paul Gordon SchalowAuthor: Ihara SaikakuThe first complete translation of Nanshoku okagami by Ihara Saikaku (1642-93), ...

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Marc Chagall and His Times: A Documentary Narrative, Hardcover - Benjamin Harshav

581,99 RON

DescriptionThis book presents a new and comprehensive biography of one of the most prominent artists of the twentieth century in dialogue with the ...

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The Lived Nile: Environment, Disease, and Material Colonial Economy in Egypt, Paperback - Jennifer L. Derr

159,99 RON

DescriptionIn October 1902, the reservoir of the first Aswan Dam filled, and Egypt's relationship with the Nile River forever changed. Flooding vil...

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The Political Theology of Paul, Paperback - Jacob Taubes

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Reducere. This highly original interpretation of Paul by the Jewish philosopher of religion Jacob Taubes was presented in a number of lectures held in Heidel...

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Markets in the Name of Socialism: The Left-Wing Origins of Neoliberalism, Paperback - Johanna Bockman

239,99 RON

DescriptionThe worldwide spread of neoliberalism has transformed economies, polities, and societies everywhere. In conventional accounts, American ...

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Into the Field. Human Scientists of Transwar Japan, Paperback - Miriam L. Kingsberg Kadia

160,00 RON

Into the Field is a collective biography of the generation of Japanese human scientists who created "objective" field knowledge of human diversity ...

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Scripting Revolution. A Historical Approach to the Comparative Study of Revolutions, Paperback - ***

199,99 RON

This volume of essays proposes a new, historical approach to the comparative study of revolutions by exploring the ways in which they create, inher...

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The Social Imperative: Race, Close Reading, and Contemporary Literary Criticism, Paperback - Paula L. Moya

131,99 RON

DescriptionIn the context of the ongoing crisis in literary criticism, The Social Imperative reminds us that while literature will never by itself ...

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The Practice of Conceptual History: Timing History, Spacing Concepts, Paperback - Reinhart Koselleck

199,99 RON

Contributor(s): Author: Reinhart KoselleckReinhart Koselleck is one of the most important theorists of history and historiography of the last half ...

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Law, Liberty, and Morality, Paperback - H. L. a. Hart

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Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: H. L. a. HartThis incisive book deals with the use of the criminal law to enforce morality, in particular sexual morality, ...

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The Reconstruction of Religious Thought in Islam, Paperback - Mohammad Iqbal

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Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Mohammad IqbalIntroduction by: Javed MajeedThe Reconstruction of Religious Thought in Islam (1930) is Muhammad Iqbal's majo...

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Present Pasts: Urban Palimpsests and the Politics of Memory, Paperback - Andreas Huyssen

150,99 RON 161,99 RON

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Andreas HuyssenMemory of historical trauma has a unique power to generate works of art. This book analyzes the relation of ...

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Classical Japanese Prose: An Anthology - Helen Craig McCullough

334,99 RON 358,99 RON

Reducere. DescriptionThis volume brings together in convenient form a rich selection of Japanese prose dating from the ninth to the seventeenth centuries, a ...

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I Am the Truth: Toward a Philosophy of Christianity, Paperback - Michel Henry

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Reducere. A part of the "return to religion" now evident in European philosophy, this book represents the culmination of the career of a leading phenomenolog...

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Reclaiming Community: Race and the Uncertain Future of Youth Work, Paperback - Bianca J. Baldridge

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Reducere. DescriptionApproximately 2.4 million Black youth participate in after-school programs, which offer a range of support, including academic tutoring,...

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Wild Policy. Indigeneity and the Unruly Logics of Intervention, Paperback - Tess Lea

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Street Sounds. Listening to Everyday Life in Modern Egypt, Paperback - Ziad Fahmy

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Magnificent Reverend Peter Thomas Stanford, Transatlantic Reformer and Race Man, Hardback - ***

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The charismatic Rev. Peter Thomas Stanford (1860-1909) rose from humble and challenging beginnings to emerge as an inventive and passionate activis...

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Categorically Famous. Literary Celebrity and Sexual Liberation in 1960s America, Hardback - Guy Davidson

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Women as War Criminals. Gender, Agency, and Justice, Paperback - Jessica Trisko Darden

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Healing Labor. Japanese Sex Work in the Gendered Economy, Hardback - Gabriele Koch

632,99 RON

Healing Labor is an ethnography of how adult Japanese women working in Tokyo's sex industry experience and understand the contradictions that defin...

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Theory of Society, Volume 2, Paperback - Niklas Luhmann

190,99 RON 204,99 RON

Reducere. This second volume of Niklas Luhmann's two-part final work was first published in German in 1997. The culmination of his thirty-year theoretical pr...

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Woman, Culture, and Society, Paperback - Michelle Zimbalist Rosaldo

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Reducere. Sixteen women anthropologists analyze the place of women in human societies, treating as problematic certain questions and observations that in the...

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Manifesto for a Dream: Inequality, Constraint, and Radical Reform, Paperback - Michelle Jackson

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A searing critique of our contemporary policy agenda, and a call to implement radical change. Although it is well known that the United States has ...

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Contested Embrace. Transborder Membership Politics in Twentieth-Century Korea, Paperback - Jaeeun Kim

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The Current Economy: Electricity Markets and Techno-Economics, Paperback - Canay Özden-Schilling

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Electricity is a quirky commodity: more often than not, it cannot be stored, easily transported, or imported from overseas. Before lighting up our ...

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Image, Icon, Economy: The Byzantine Origins of the Contemporary Imaginary, Paperback - Marie-José Mondzain

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Reducere. This book argues that the extraordinary force of the image in contemporary life-the contemporary imaginary-can be traced back to the Byzantine icon...

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Mexican American Fastpitch: Identity at Play in Vernacular Sport, Paperback - Ben Chappell

166,99 RON 178,99 RON

Reducere. In Mexican American communities in the central United States, the modern tradition of playing fastpitch softball has been passed from generation to...

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Experimental Imagination. Literary Knowledge and Science in the British Enlightenment, Hardback - Tita Chico

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This book shows how British Enlightenment writers and thinkers used science as a metaphor to reconfigure evidence and authority, to reimagine the s...

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Contemporary Middle East in an Age of Upheaval, Paperback - ***

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Food in Cuba: The Pursuit of a Decent Meal, Paperback - Hanna Garth

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Reducere. Food in Cuba follows Cuban families as they struggle to maintain a decent quality of life in Cuba's faltering, post-Soviet welfare state by specifi...

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Plunder. The 1898 Anti-Jewish Riots in Habsburg Galicia, Hardback - Daniel L. Unowsky

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The Grip of Sexual Violence in Conflict: Feminist Interventions in International Law, Paperback - Karen Engle

167,99 RON

Contemporary feminist advocacy in human rights, international criminal law, and peace and security is gripped by the issue of sexual violence in co...

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Knowledge, Belief, and Witchcraft. Analytic Experiments in African Philosophy, Paperback - J. Olubi Sodipo

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This is the only analysis of indigenous discourse about an African belief system undertaken within the framework of Anglo-American analytical philo...

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Coalition Challenges in Afghanistan. The Politics of Alliance, Paperback - ***

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The Whole World Was Watching: Sport in the Cold War, Hardcover - Robert Edelman

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In the Cold War era, the confrontation between capitalism and communism played out not only in military, diplomatic, and political contexts, but al...

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Prose of the World: Denis Diderot and the Periphery of Enlightenment, Hardcover - Hans Ulrich Gumbrecht

186,99 RON 200,99 RON

Reducere. A lively examination of the life and work of one of the great Enlightenment intellectuals Philosopher, translator, novelist, art critic, and editor...

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The Messianic Reduction: Walter Benjamin and the Shape of Time, Paperback - Peter Fenves

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Reducere. The Messianic Reduction is a groundbreaking study of Walter Benjamin's thought. Fenves places Benjamin's early writings in the context of contempor...

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Birthing a Movement: Midwives, Law, and the Politics of Reproductive Care, Paperback - Renée Ann Cramer

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Reducere. Rich, personal stories shed light on midwives at the frontier of women's reproductive rights. Midwives in the United States live and work in a comp...

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The Method of Hope. Anthropology, Philosophy, and Fijian Knowledge, Paperback - Hirokazu Miyazaki

164,99 RON

This book juxtaposes the long-standing hope of a group of dispossessed Fijians of regaining their ancestral land with the concept of hope in the ph...

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Unauthorized Love. Mixed-Citizenship Couples Negotiating Intimacy, Immigration, and the State, Paperback - Jane Lilly Lopez

159,99 RON

A rich, narrative exploration of the ways love defies, survives, thrives, and dies as lovers contend with U.S. immigration policy.Publisher: Stanfo...

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Modern Girls on the Go. Gender, Mobility, and Labor in Japan, Paperback - ***

159,99 RON

This collection brings together diverse analyses of women in Japan-including department store elevator girls, tour bus guides, airline stewardesses...

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Iran in Motion: Mobility, Space, and the Trans-Iranian Railway, Hardcover - Mikiya Koyagi

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Reducere. Completed in 1938, the Trans-Iranian Railway connected Tehran to Iran's two major bodies of water: the Caspian Sea in the north and the Persian Gul...

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1368. China and the Making of the Modern World, Hardback - Ali Humayun Akhtar

189,99 RON

Publisher: Stanford University PressAuthor(s): Ali Humayun AkhtarNumber of pages: 256Publication date: 2022Dimensions: 159 x 237 x 23Cover type: Ha...

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Translating Food Sovereignty. Cultivating Justice in an Age of Transnational Governance, Hardback - Matthew C. Canfield

599,99 RON

An ethnographic analysis of the social movement challenging industrial food systems and re-imagining social justice within a shifting global legal ...

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Green Mass: The Ecological Theology of St. Hildegard of Bingen, Paperback - Michael Marder

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Reducere. A musical and philosophical meditation on twelfth-century mystic and Saint Hildegard of Bingen and her vegetal vision of creation.About author(s): ...

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Gender and the Modern Research University. The Admission of Women to German Higher Education, 1865-1914, Hardback - Patricia Mazon

530,99 RON

In the 1890s, German feminists fighting for female higher education envied American women their small colleges. Yet by 1910, German women could stu...

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Reading Colonial Japan: Text, Context, and Critique, Paperback - Michele Mason

142,99 RON

By any measure, Japan's modern empire was formidable. The only major non-western colonial power in the 20th century, Japan controlled a vast area o...

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Anthropology's Politics: Disciplining the Middle East, Paperback - Lara Deeb

145,99 RON

U.S. involvement in the Middle East has brought the region into the media spotlight and made it a hot topic in American college classrooms. At the ...

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Souffles-Anfas. A Critical Anthology from the Moroccan Journal of Culture and Politics, Paperback - ***

141,99 RON

This book makes available, for the first time in English, essays and poetry published in the seminal postcolonial Moroccan journal of culture and p...

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Your Rugged Constitution, Hardcover - Bruce Allyn Findlay

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Reducere. Your Rugged Constitution was first published sixty-four years ago. It quickly became a go-to resource for generations of young Americans (and some ...

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Choosing Daughters: Family Change in Rural China, Paperback - Lihong Shi

147,99 RON

Contributor(s): Author: Lihong ShiChina's patrilineal and patriarchal tradition has encouraged a long-standing preference for male heirs within fam...

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Ethical Know-How: Action, Wisdom, and Cognition, Paperback - Francisco J. Varela

115,99 RON

How can science be brought to connect with experience? This book addresses two of the most challenging problems facing contemporary neurobiology an...

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Reducing Uncertainty: Intelligence Analysis and National Security, Paperback - Thomas Fingar

133,99 RON 143,99 RON

Reducere. The US government spends billions of dollars every year to reduce uncertainty: to monitor and forecast everything from the weather to the spread of...

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A General Theory of Crime, Paperback - Michael R. Gottfredson

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Contributor(s): Author: Michael R. GottfredsonAuthor: Travis HirschiBy articulating a general theory of crime and related behavior, the authors pre...

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Jewish Salonica: Between the Ottoman Empire and Modern Greece, Paperback - Devin E. Naar

140,99 RON

Contributor(s): Author: Devin E. NaarTouted as the "Jerusalem of the Balkans, " the Mediterranean port city of Salonica (Thessaloniki) was once hom...

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The Strange Death of Liberal England, Paperback - George Dangerfield

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Reducere. At the beginning of the twentieth century England's empire spanned the globe, its economy was strong, and its political system seemed immune to the...

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Democracy from Above?: The Unfulfilled Promise of Nationally Mandated Participatory Reforms, Paperback - Stephanie L. McNulty

183,99 RON

DescriptionPeople are increasingly unhappy with their governments in democracies around the world. In countries as diverse as India, Ecuador, and U...

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Beyond Good and Evil/On the Genealogy of Morality, Paperback - Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

134,99 RON

Beyond Good and Evil is Nietzsche's first sustained philosophical treatment of issues important to him. Unlike the expository prose of the essayist...

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Dawn: Thoughts on the Presumptions of Morality, Volume 5, Paperback - Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

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Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Friedrich Wilhelm NietzscheTranslator: Brittain SmithDawn is the most recent volume to appear in the first complete, critic...

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Shakesplish: How We Read Shakespeare's Language, Paperback - Paula Blank

143,99 RON

DescriptionFor all that we love and admire Shakespeare, he is not that easy to grasp. He may have written in Elizabethan English, but when we read ...

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When Half Is Whole: Multiethnic Asian American Identities, Paperback - Stephen Murphy-Shigematsu

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Reducere. "I listen and gather people's stories. Then I write them down in a way that I hope will communicate something to others, so that seeing these stori...

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Citizen Strangers: Palestinians and the Birth of Israel's Liberal Settler State, Paperback - Shira N. Robinson

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Reducere. Following the 1948 war and the creation of the state of Israel, Palestinian Arabs comprised just fifteen percent of the population but held a much ...

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The Mark of the Sacred, Paperback - Jean-Pierre Dupuy

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Jean-Pierre Dupuy, prophet of what he calls "enlightened doomsaying, " has long warned that modern society is on a path to self-destruction. In thi...

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American Disruptor: The Scandalous Life of Leland Stanford, Hardcover - Roland de Wolk

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DescriptionAmerican Disruptor is the untold story of Leland Stanford - from his birth in a backwoods bar to the founding of the world-class univers...

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Nahuatl as Written: Lessons in Older Written Nahuatl, with Copious Examples and Texts, Paperback - James Lockhart

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Reducere. Nahuatl was the primary native language of central Mexico both before and after the Spanish conquest. It is the Latin of the indigenous languages o...

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