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Historical Evolution of World-Systems(2005) CHASE-DUNN, C.,ANDERSON, E.This book brings together leading scholars to explore the historical evolution of world systems through examining the ebb and flow of great powers over time, with particular emphasis on early time periods.Vezava: Mehka68,89 € -
Comic Provocations(2007) CROCKER, H.This collection explores how Old French fabliaux disrupt literal and figurative bodies. Essays cover theoretical issues including fragmentation and multiplication, social anxiety and excessive circulation, performative productions and creative formations,Vezava: Mehka68,89 €
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Latin American Fiction and the Narratives of the Perverse(2005) O'CONNOR, P.Latin American Fiction and the Narratives of the Perverse contains analysis of sexual perversion and narrative creativity in fictions from the Latin American boom and post-boom.Vezava: Mehka68,89 €
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Citizen Shakespeare(2005) ARCHER, J.This book combines London historiography, close reading, and recent theories of citizen subjectivity to demonstrate for the first time that Shakespeare's plays embody citizen and alien identities despite their aristocratic settings.Vezava: Mehka68,89 €
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Beyond Arthurian Romances(2005)Leaving the traditional focus on Arthurian romance and Gothic tales, the essays in this collection address how the Victorians looked back to the Middle Ages to create a sense of authority for their own ideas in areas such as art, religion, gender expectatVezava: Mehka68,89 €
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New Threats and New Actors in International Security(2005)Non-state threats and actors have become key topics in contemporary international security as since the end of the Cold War the notion that state is the primary unit of interest in international security has increasingly been challenged.Vezava: Mehka68,89 €
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Medieval Author in Medieval French Literature(2007)Thirty-five years ago Roland Barthes proclaimed the death of the Author. For medievalists no death has been more timely. The essays in this volume create a prism through which to understand medieval authorship as a process and the medieval author as an agVezava: Mehka68,89 €
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Gentlemen Callers(2005) PALLER, M.From the early Cat on a Hot Tin Roof and one-act Auto-da-Fé , through The Two-Character Play and Something Cloudy, Something Clear , Paller's book investigates how Williams's earliest critics marginalized or ignored his gay characters and why, beginning iVezava: Mehka46,56 €
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Our Common Dwelling(2005) NEWMAN, LANCEOurCommonDwelling explores why America's first literary circle turned to nature in the 1830s and '40s. The works of these great authors, interpreted in historical context, show that both environmental exploitation and conscious love of nature co-evolved aVezava: Mehka68,89 €
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Building a Modern Japan(2005)In the late Nineteenth-century, the Japanese embarked on a program of westernization in the hope of building a strong and modern nation. The second part of the book is devoted to examining the role of technology, and business-state relations in building aVezava: Mehka68,89 €
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Proliferation of Weapons of Mass Destruction in the Middle East(2006) RUSSELL, J.This vital book examines why states seek to gain Weapons of Mass Destruction, a crucial issue in developing strategies against proliferation. Leading experts examine specific countries and the interplay among political, economic, cultural and regional facVezava: Mehka68,89 €
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Presidential Risk Behavior in Foreign Policy(2005) BOETTCHER, WILLIAM A., IIIBringing together research on the situational determinants of risk propensity and on individual personality predispositions, Boettcher draws on findings from political science, psychology, economics, business, and sociology to develop a Risk Explanation FVezava: Mehka68,89 €
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Literary Career and Legacy of Elizabeth Cary, 1613-1680(2007)This is the first book to study the work and influence of Elizabeth Cary, author of the first original play by a woman to be printed in English, The Tragedyie of Mariam (1613). Previous criticism focused concentrated on this and The History of Edward II ,Vezava: Mehka68,89 €
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Partition of Korea After World War II(2006) LEE, JONGSOO JAMESDrawing on multi-archival research in Korean, Russian and English, this book looks at the complexity and changes in Stalin's policy toward Korea for answers about the division of Korea in 1945 and the failure of reunification between 1945 and 1948. Lee arVezava: Mehka68,89 €
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Medieval Literacy and Textuality in Middle High German(2007) VOLFING, A.This study addresses the topics of literacy and texuality in order to develop a new line of interpretation for a landmark of Middle High German literature. Albrecht's Der jüngere Titurel is an intellectually ambitious narrative written ca. 1270 as a prequVezava: Mehka68,89 €
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Van Loon(2005) MINNEN, CORNELIS VANUpon his death, Hendrik van Loon was described in The Times obituary as 'one of the most engaging products of the marriage between Holland and the United States'.Vezava: Mehka68,89 €
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Hidden History of Realism(2006) MOLLOY, S.Challenging the received notions of International Relations theory about a central tradition - Realism - Molloy demonstrates how a belief in a mode of theorization has distorted Realism, forcing the theory of power politics in IR into a paradigmatic straiVezava: Mehka68,89 €
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Democratization and Development(2006)Exploring the political economy of development and democracy in the Middle East, this book provides new insight into the effects of external initiatives for the support of good governance in Arab states, the impact of transnational Islamist networks on deVezava: Mehka68,89 €
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Power, Community, and Racial Killing in East St. Louis(2005) MCLAUGHLIN, M.Malcolm McLaughlin's work presents a detailed analysis of the East St. Louis race riot in 1917, offering new insights into the construction of white identity and racism.Vezava: Mehka68,89 €
