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Rosa Andújar
Playing the Chorus in Greek Tragedy

Modern audiences see the chorus as an emblematic yet static element of ancient Greek drama, whose reflective songs puncture the action. This is the first book to look beyond these odes to the group's comp…

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Cheng Guan Ang
The Third Indochina War

The Third Indochina War - comprised of the Vietnam-Kampuchea War from 1978 to 1990 and the brief Sino-Vietnamese War in February 1979 - has received far less scholarly attention than the earlier two Indoc…

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Rakesh Ankit
India in the Interim

This book looks at the governmental interregnum from August 1947 to the start of the first general election in October 1951, and is a narrative of some of its intermediate moments in light of contemporary…

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Camilla Annerfeldt
Clothing and Identity in Early Modern Rome

This is the first book-length exploration of the clothes worn in early modern Rome and provides novel insights into the city of Rome during one of its most fascinating periods. It also challenges the noti…

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Epp Annus
Environment and Society in Soviet Estonia, 1960-1990

Russia's twenty-first-century military aggression has inspired calls for rethinking the Soviet era and its aftermath - for drawing attention to decolonizing efforts within the (former) USSR and to Russia'…

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Ali Anooshahr
Slavery in the Early Mughal World

This is a micro-historical study and biography of a sixteenth-century slave in India named Jawhar Aftabachi (d. after 1587) who served as the water-carrier for the Mughal Emperor Humayun (d. 1556).

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Tamim Ansary
The Invention of Yesterday

In this "terrific" (San Francisco Chronicle) book, an award-winning author tells the story of how humans invented history, from the Stone Age to the Virtual AgeTraveling across millennia and cul…

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Alex A Antoniou
Roman Priests from Republic to Empire

Roman Priests from Republic to Empire provides a reconceptualisation of the worth of priests and priesthoods in ancient Rome. The book is an essential resource in understanding the intersections between R…

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Brian Antonson, Mary Trainer, Rick Antonson
Slumach's Gold

Full of intrigue, adventure, greed, and tragedy, the enduring legend of Slumach's Gold is examined in riveting forensic detail in this newly expanded edition of a bestselling classic.

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Nikolay Antov,
The Ottoman "Wild West"

ENGIn the late fifteenth century, the north-eastern Balkans were under-populated and under-institutionalized. Yet, by the end of the following century, the regions of Deliorman and Gerlovo were home to on…

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Seth Anziska
Preventing Palestine

A groundbreaking history that shows how peace between Egypt and Israel ensured lasting Palestinian statelessnessThe 1978 Camp David Accords and the signing of the Egypt-Israel peace treaty are widely view…

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Charles E Apekaum,
Autobiography of a Kiowa Indian

Anthropologist Benjamin R. Kracht presents one of the few Kiowa autobiographies in publication---the life narrative of Charles E. Apekaum of the Kiowa Nation of Oklahoma, whose services as a translator we…

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Ana Lucia Araujo
Humans in Shackles

"Ana Lucia Araujo's Humans in Shackles is an Atlantic cultural history of slavery in the Americas that sets out to redress the imbalances of existing general histories of slavery by centering on the …

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Marco Armiero
Vajont

The sobering political implications of a disaster---the Vajont landslide in Italy in 1963---and how it speaks directly to our present environmental crisis.On October 9, 1963, two thousand people perished …

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Edward Armston-Sheret
On the Backs of Others

Edward Armston-Sheret offers new perspectives on British exploration during the Victorian and Edwardian eras by focusing on the contributions of those people and animals ordinarily written out of mainstre…

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Jeremy Armstrong
Children of Mars

This book provides a new narrative account of the rise of Rome as an imperial force in the centuries before Julius Caesar and Augustus. It presents a new interpretation of the early Roman army, highlighti…

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Dorothy Armstrong
Threads of Empire

"Carpet specialist Dorothy Armstrong tells the stories surrounding twelve of the world's most fascinating carpets. Dorothy Armstrong's Threads of Empire is a spellbinding look at the history of the w…

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Sabine Arnaud
Deaf People, Language, and Emancipation in Modern France, 1789-1914

Drawing on a wide range of contemporary debates about deaf identity, the book considers how philosophers, teachers, physicians, legal advisors, and governmental representatives understood deafness, and ho…

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Michael Arnheim
Five Thousand Years of Monarchy

"Journey through the complete history of human power structures with Dr. Michael Arnheim's groundbreaking book, Five Thousand Years of Monarchy. This meticulously researched work offers a fresh and o…

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John H Arnold
Making of Lay Religion in Southern France, C. 1000-1350

A rich study of what medieval Christianity meant for ordinary people, and how it changed across the middle ages, arguably as profound as changes in the Reformation period, providing a wider context for me…

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