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Harvey Claflin Mansfield
The Rise and Fall of Rational Control

Harvey C. Mansfield traces the birth of modern political philosophy to Machiavelli's brief on behalf of rational control of human affairs, which became the basis of liberalism. But Rousseau, Kant, Marx, a…

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Vin Nardizzi
Marvellous Vegetables in the English Renaissance

John Gerard's natural history of plants, The Herball (1597), is considered a failure in the history of science. Despite this reputation, it has endured as an aesthetic resource. Its illustrations were use…

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Edward Watts
Berserk Violence, Racial Vengeance, and Settler Colonialism in American Writing from Franklin to Melville

Berserk Violence, Racial Vengeance, and Settler Colonialism in American Writing from Franklin to Melville studies the literary and cultural tradition of the "Indian Hater" in American writing fr…

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Hannah Kim
Ties That Bind

Hannah Kim examines the efforts of nongovernmental actors such as American missionaries, the press, Korean expatriates, social workers, and educators in strengthening Korean and American relations from th…

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Harriet Fletcher
Gothic Celebrity

Covering literature, visual media and popular culture, this book explores how the Gothic is consistently used to disrupt the narrative of immortality that modern celebrity culture has created and how toge…

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A Cultural History of Fairy Tales in the Modern Age

How have fairy tales from around the world changed over the centuries? What do they tell us about different cultures and societies? Drawing together contributions from an international range of scholars i…

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John Muthyala,
Drone Cultures

Expanding on common perceptions of the drone as a tool of war and surveillance, this book argues that they are also instruments for creative activity, entertainment, and innovative education and public sa…

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A Cultural History of Fairy Tales in the Long Eighteenth Century

How have fairy tales from around the world changed over the centuries? What do they tell us about different cultures and societies?This volume traces the evolution of the genre over the period known as th…

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John Muthyala,
Drone Cultures

Expanding on common perceptions of the drone as a tool of war and surveillance, this book argues that they are also instruments for creative activity, entertainment, and innovative education and public sa…

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Peter S Soppelsa
Paris After Haussmann

Modern Paris is often hailed as a capital of urban infrastructure. Baron Georges-Eugène Haussmann's rebuilding of Paris in 1853-1870, branded "Haussmannization," helped define urban modernity fo…

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Alex Boodrookas
Comrades Estranged

In 1975, Kuwaiti workers orchestrated arguably the most powerful citizen-led movement for noncitizen rights in the history of the Persian Gulf. Their efforts built on decades of wide-ranging struggle over…

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Alex Boodrookas
Comrades Estranged

In 1975, Kuwaiti workers orchestrated arguably the most powerful citizen-led movement for noncitizen rights in the history of the Persian Gulf. Their efforts built on decades of wide-ranging struggle over…

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Colonialism and Enlightenment

For the last 30 years, scholars have treated Enlightenment race theory and nineteenth-century German colonialism as two distinct events. In Colonialism and Enlightenment , editors Bettina Brandt and Danie…

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Esther Zwinkels
The Harsh Sword of Lady Justice

During the Indonesian War of Independence, Lady Justice played an important role on the Dutch side. Soldiers were, and are, required to comply with the law and a range of rules and regulations, both in an…

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Austrian Identity and Modernity

Bringing together an interdisciplinary cast of scholars, this volume explores national and nationalist identification(s) in Austria, as they were represented through culture and design, in response to the…

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Shawn William Miller
Dream Road to Pan America

An expansive and subversive history of the Pan-American Highway.A century after the Pan-American Highway was first conceived, its story remains largely unknown--even to the hundreds of motorists who annua…

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Peter C Grace
The Intelligence Intellectuals

The untold story of how America's brightest academic minds revolutionized intelligence analysis at the CIAIn the early days of the Cold War, the United States faced a crisis in intelligence analysis. A se…

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Secrets on Display

Intelligence history comes alive in this delightful collection of stories and photographs.Secrets on Display takes readers on a tour of the thrilling, real-life history of intelligence and espionage from …

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Michael Gardiner
Empire of Deterrence

A nuclear-extinction unconscious has worked over the last 30 years to 'automate' much political thinking and recuperate it into individualist culture wars that reaffirming the extinction regimesEmpire of …

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Gayle Lonergan
The Communist Party in the Russian Civil War

Traditionally, the in-fighting within the communist party during the Russian Civil War has been interpreted by historians as a struggle between good and evil, between Trotsky's democratically inclined par…

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