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Cauldron of Resistance - Ngo Dinh Diem, the United States, and 1950s Southern Vietnam - Jessica M. Chapman - Paperback Bog - Cornell University Press

In 1955, Ngo Dinh Diem organized an election to depose chief-of-state Bao Dai, after which he proclaimed himself the first president of the newly crea...

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A Medicated Empire - The Pharmaceutical Industry and Modern Japan - Timothy M. Yang - Paperback Bog - Cornell University Press - 2025 - Engelsk -

In A Medicated Empire, Timothy M. Yang explores the history of Japan's pharmaceutical industry in the early twentieth century through a close account ...

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Frantz Fanon - A Portrait - Alice Cherki - Paperback Bog - Cornell University Press - 2006 - Engelsk - Booktok.dk

"Fanon was consummately incapable of telling the story of himself. He lived in the immediacy of the moment, with an intensity that embodied everything...

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The Futurist Files - Avant-Garde, Politics, and Ideology in Russia, 1905–1930 - Iva Glisic - Paperback Bog - Cornell University Press - 2018 - Engelsk

Futurism was Russia's first avant-garde movement. Gatecrashing the Russian public sphere in the early twentieth century, the movement called for the d...

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Symphonia - A Critical Edition of the "Symphonia Armonie Celestium Revelationum" (Symphony of the Harmony of Celestial Revelations) - Hildegard Of

For this revised edition of Hildegard's liturgical song cycle, Barbara Newman has redone her prose translations of the songs, updated the bibliography...

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The New Science of Giambattista Vico - Unabridged Translation of the Third Edition (1744) with the Addition of "Practic of the New Science" -

A pioneering treatise that aroused great controversy when it was first published in 1725, Vico's "New Science" is acknowledged today to be one of the ...

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The Sanctity of Louis IX - Early Lives of Saint Louis by Geoffrey of Beaulieu and William of Chartres - - Paperback Bog - Cornell University Press -

The first English translations of two of the earliest accounts of Louis IX’s life, along with helpful biographical, historical, documentary, and criti...

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Ordering Violence - Explaining Armed Group-State Relations from Conflict to Cooperation - Paul Staniland - Paperback Bog - Cornell University Press -

In Ordering Violence, Paul Staniland advances a broad approach to armed politics—bringing together governments, insurgents, militias, and armed politi...

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The Day After - Why America Wins the War but Loses the Peace - Brendan R. Gallagher - Hardback Bog - Cornell University Press - 2019 - Engelsk -

Since 9/11, why have we won smashing battlefield victories only to botch nearly everything that comes next? In the opening phases of war in Afghanista...

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Stalemate - Autonomy and Insurgency on the China-Myanmar Border - Andrew Ong - Paperback Bog - Cornell University Press - 2023 - Engelsk - Booktok.dk

Stalemate reveals the history and contemporary politics of the United Wa State Army (UWSA), Asia's strongest insurgent army on Myanmar's border with C...

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Geoffroy of Villehardouin, Marshal of Champagne - His Life and Memoirs of the Fourth Crusade - Theodore Evergates - Hardback Bog - Cornell University

Traces the remarkable life of Geoffroy of Villehardouin (c. 1148–c.1217) from his earliest years in Champagne through his last years in Greece after t...

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A Medicated Empire - The Pharmaceutical Industry and Modern Japan - Timothy M. Yang - Hardback Bog - Cornell University Press - 2021 - Engelsk -

Winner of the 2022 Hagley Prize in Business History In A Medicated Empire, Timothy M. Yang explores the history of Japan's pharmaceutical industry in ...

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Cultures of the Medieval Kingdom of Jerusalem - Frontier Inventiveness in the Age of the Crusades - Benjamin Z. Kedar - Hardback Bog - Cornell

Cultures of the Medieval Kingdom of Jerusalem is a revelatory portrait of the Frankish Levant at the time of the Crusades. Following victory in the Fi...

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Out of Line, Out of Place - A Global and Local History of World War I Internments - - Paperback Bog - Cornell University Press - 2022 - Engelsk -

With expert scholars and great sensitivity, Out of Line, Out of Place illuminates and analyzes how the proliferation of internment camps emerged as a ...

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Empire of Humanity - A History of Humanitarianism - Michael Barnett - Paperback Bog - Cornell University Press - 2013 - Engelsk - Booktok.dk

Empire of Humanity explores humanitarianism''s remarkable growth from its humble origins in the early nineteenth century to its current prominence in ...

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America Unrivaled - The Future of the Balance of Power - - Paperback Bog - Cornell University Press - 2002 - Engelsk - Booktok.dk

American power today is without historical precedent, dominating the world system. No other nation has enjoyed such formidable advantages in military,...

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Scientific Americans - Invention, Technology, and National Identity - Susan Branson - Hardback Bog - Cornell University Press - 2022 - Engelsk -

In Scientific Americans, Susan Branson explores the place of science and technology in American efforts to achieve cultural independence from Europe a...

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Music in the Moment - - Jerrold Levinson - Paperback Bog - Cornell University Press - 2007 - Engelsk - Booktok.dk

What is required for a listener to understand a piece of music? Does aural understanding depend upon reflective awareness of musical architecture or l...

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Sociology of Corruption - Patterns of Illegal Association in Hungary - David Jancsics - Hardback Bog - Cornell University Press - 2024 - Engelsk -

In Sociology of Corruption, David Jancsics provides a fresh approach to the study of corruption in Hungary, which once seemed to be the most likely of...

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The Forest of Symbols - Aspects of Ndembu Ritual - Victor Turner - Paperback Bog - Cornell University Press - 1970 - Engelsk - Booktok.dk

A collection of ten of the most brilliant and important essays on ritual yet written. These papers by Victor Turner... are all seminal and distinguish...

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Objects of War - The Material Culture of Conflict and Displacement - - Paperback Bog - Cornell University Press - 2018 - Engelsk - Booktok.dk

Historians have become increasingly interested in material culture as both a category of analysis and as a teaching tool. And yet the profession tends...

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City of Big Shoulders - A History of Chicago - Robert G. Spinney - Hardback Bog - Cornell University Press - 2020 - Engelsk - Booktok.dk

"Condensed yet energetic and substantial history of Chicago. Spinney has a firm sense of historical narrative as well as a keen eye for entertaining a...

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Bounds of Blackness - African Americans, Sudan, and the Politics of Solidarity - Christopher Tounsel - Hardback Bog - Cornell University Press - 2024

Bounds of Blackness explores the history of Black America's intellectual and cultural engagement with the modern state of Sudan. Ancient Sudan occupie...

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Words of War - Negotiation As a Tool of Conflict - Eric Min - Hardback Bog - Cornell University Press - 2025 - Engelsk - Booktok.dk

In Words of War, Eric Min pulls back the curtain on when, why, and how belligerents negotiate while fighting. By revealing that diplomacy can sometime...

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Allegories of Format - A Media History of Gottfried Keller's Unlikely Oeuvre - Malika Maskarinec - Paperback Bog - Cornell University Press - 2025 -

Allegories of Format examines the significance of format to the literary oeuvre of the nineteenth-century Swiss author, Gottfried Keller (1819–1890), ...

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Shades of Blue - Claiming Europe in the Age of Disintegration - Felix Krawatzek - Hardback Bog - Cornell University Press - 2025 - Engelsk -

Investigates the political project of 'Europe' as it oscillates between the extremes of expectations of an ever-wider integration and fear of disinteg...

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The Good Wife's Guide (Le Menagier De Paris) - A Medieval Household Book - - Paperback Bog - Cornell University Press - 2009 - Engelsk - Booktok.dk

"You said that you would not fail to improve yourself according to my teaching and correction, and you would do everything in your power to behave acc...

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Provincial Russia in the Age of Enlightenment - The Memoir of a Priest's Son - Dmitrii Ivanovich Rostislavov - Paperback Bog - Cornell University

Dmitrii Ivanoich Rostislavov was a mathematician, teacher and social critic in the late 18th and early 19th centuries. Translated into English for the...

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The Republic of Letters - A Cultural History of the French Enlightenment - Dena Goodman - Paperback Bog - Cornell University Press - 1996 - Engelsk -

In the first major reinterpretation of the French Enlightenment in twenty years, Dena Goodman moves beyond the traditional approach to the Enlightenme...

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Women of the Catacombs - Memoirs of the Underground Orthodox Church in Stalin's Russia - - Paperback Bog - Cornell University Press - 2021 - Engelsk -

The memoirs presented in Women of the Catacombs offer a rare close-up account of the underground Orthodox community and its priests during some of the...

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The Republic of Letters - A Cultural History of the French Enlightenment - Dena Goodman - Hardback Bog - Cornell University Press - 1994 - Engelsk -

The Republic of Letters - A Cultural History of the French Enlightenment - Dena Goodman - Hardback Bog - Cornell University Press - 1994 - Engelsk - B...

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The Meaning of the Nuclear Revolution - Statecraft and the Prospect of Armageddon - Robert Jervis - Hardback Bog - Cornell University Press - 1989 -

Robert Jervis argues here that the possibility of nuclear war has created a revolution in military strategy and international relations. He examines h...

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The Topography of Modernity - Karl Philipp Moritz and the Space of Autonomy - Elliott Schreiber - Paperback Bog - Cornell University Press - 2013 -

Elliott Schreiber explores Karl Philipp Moritz's many contributions to the intellectual evolution of the Enlightenment and positions the German thinke...

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The Purpose of Intervention - Changing Beliefs About the Use of Force - Martha Finnemore - Paperback Bog - Cornell University Press - 2004 - Engelsk -

Finnemore examines changes over the past 400 years about why countries intervene militarily as well as in the ways they have intervened.

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kr 259.00

Handbook of Larval Amphibians of the United States and Canada - - Ronald Altig - Hardback Bog - Cornell University Press - 2015 - Engelsk - Booktok.dk

Generously illustrated, this essential handbook for herpetologists, ecologists, and naturalists features comprehensive keys to eggs, embryos, salamand...

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Artillery of Heaven - American Missionaries and the Failed Conversion of the Middle East - Ussama Makdisi - Paperback Bog - Cornell University Press -

The complex relationship between America and the Arab world goes back further than most people realize. In Artillery of Heaven, Ussama Makdisi present...

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Anatomy of the Red Brigades - The Religious Mind-set of Modern Terrorists - Alessandro Orsini - Hardback Bog - Cornell University Press - 2011 -

An award-winning attempt to understand the logic of revolutionary terrorism.

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Visions of Deliverance - Moriscos and the Politics of Prophecy in the Early Modern Mediterranean - Mayte Green Mercado - Hardback Bog - Cornell

In Visions of Deliverance, Mayte Green-Mercado traces the circulation of Muslim and crypto-Muslim apocalyptic texts known as joferes through formal an...

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Ambassadors of Social Progress - A History of International Blind Activism in the Cold War - Maria Cristina Galmarini - Hardback Bog - Cornell

A deeper, bottom-up understanding of cultural relations during the Cold War. Galmarini ultimately shows that disability activism did not start as an i...

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Empire of Nations - Ethnographic Knowledge and the Making of the Soviet Union - Francine Hirsch - Paperback Bog - Cornell University Press - 2005 -

In Empire of Nations, Francine Hirsch examines the ways in which former imperial ethnographers and local elites provided the Bolsheviks with ethnograp...

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Dynasties Intertwined - The Zirids of Ifriqiya and the Normans of Sicily - Matt King - Hardback Bog - Cornell University Press - 2022 - Engelsk -

Dynasties Intertwined traces the turbulent relationship between the Zirids of Ifriqiya and the Normans of Sicily during the eleventh and twelfth centu...

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kr 535.00

Charles Austin Beard - The Return of the Master Historian of American Imperialism - Richard Drake - Paperback Bog - Cornell University Press - 2023 -

Richard Drake presents a new interpretation of Charles Austin Beard's life and work. The foremost American historian and a leading public intellectual...

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The Geopolitics of Spectacle - Space, Synecdoche, and the New Capitals of Asia - Natalie Koch - Hardback Bog - Cornell University Press - 2018 -

Why do autocrats build spectacular new capital cities? In The Geopolitics of Spectacle, Natalie Koch considers how autocratic rulers use "spectacular"...

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The Purpose of Intervention - Changing Beliefs About the Use of Force - Martha Finnemore - Hardback Bog - Cornell University Press - 2003 - Engelsk -

Finnemore examines changes over the past 400 years about why countries intervene militarily as well as in the ways they have intervened.

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kr 546.00

Introduction to the Reading of Hegel - Lectures on the "Phenomenology of Spirit" - Alexandre Kojeve - Paperback Bog - Cornell University Press - 1980

This collection of lectures shows the intensity of Kojève's study and thought and the depth of his insight into Hegel's Phenomenology of Spirit.

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A Disability of the Soul - An Ethnography of Schizophrenia and Mental Illness in Contemporary Japan - Karen Nakamura - Paperback Bog - Cornell

Bethel House, located in a small fishing village in northern Japan, was founded in 1984 as an intentional community for people with schizophrenia and ...

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Persistence of Folly - On the Origins of German Dramatic Literature - Joel B. Lande - Paperback Bog - Cornell University Press - 2018 - Engelsk -

Joel B. Lande’s Persistence of Folly challenges the accepted account of the origins of German theater by focusing on the misunderstood figure of the f...

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England's Cross of Gold - Keynes, Churchill, and the Governance of Economic Beliefs - James A. Morrison - Hardback Bog - Cornell University Press -

In England's Cross of Gold, James Ashley Morrison challenges the conventional view that the UK's ruinous return to gold in 1925 was inevitable. Instea...

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kr 593.00

The Invention of Decolonization - The Algerian War and the Remaking of France - Todd Shepard - Paperback Bog - Cornell University Press - 2008 -

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

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Machines As the Measure of Men - Science, Technology, and Ideologies of Western Dominance - Michael Adas - Paperback Bog - Cornell University Press -

Over the past five centuries, advances in Western understanding of and control over the material world have strongly influenced European responses to ...

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kr 335.00

Causes of War - Power and the Roots of Conflict - Stephen Van Evera - Hardback Bog - Cornell University Press - 1999 - Engelsk - Booktok.dk

What causes war? How can military conflicts best be prevented? In this book, Stephen Van Evera frames five conditions that increase the risk of inters...

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Wars of Law - Unintended Consequences in the Regulation of Armed Conflict - Tanisha M. Fazal - Hardback Bog - Cornell University Press - 2018 -

In Wars of Law, Tanisha M. Fazal assesses the unintended consequences of the proliferation of the laws of war for the commencement, conduct, and concl...

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The Deeds of Philip Augustus - An English Translation of Rigord's "Gesta Philippi Augusti" - Rigord - Paperback Bog - Cornell University Press - 2022

The first full English translation of Rigord's Gesta Philippi Augusti, The Deeds of Philip Augustus makes available to Anglophone readers the most imp...

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Exposed - A Visual History of the Destruction of the Indonesian Left - Geoffrey Robinson - Hardback Bog - Cornell University Press - 2025 - Engelsk -

Exposed tells the story of the orchestrated mass violence of 1965–1968 in Indonesia and its aftermath. By highlighting visual imagery, Geoffrey Robins...

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kr 489.00

Pastoral Care and Community in Late Medieval Germany - Albert of Diessen's "Mirror of Priests" - Deeana Copeland Klepper - Hardback Bog - Cornell

Pastoral Care and Community in Late Medieval Germany explores how local religious culture was constructed in medieval European Christian society throu...

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kr 474.00

Causes of War - Power and the Roots of Conflict - Stephen Van Evera - Paperback Bog - Cornell University Press - 2001 - Engelsk - Booktok.dk

What causes war? How can military conflicts best be prevented? In this book, Stephen Van Evera frames five conditions that increase the risk of inters...

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kr 307.00

The Origins of Modern Russian Education - An Intellectual Biography of Count Sergei Uvarov, 1786–1855 - Cynthia H. Whittaker - Paperback Bog - Cornell

As minister of education and president of the Academy of Sciences, Count Sergei Uvarov was one of the most important statesmen in nineteenth-century R...

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The Emperor and the Saint - Frederick II of Hohenstaufen, Francis of Assisi, and Journeys to Medieval Places - Richard Cassady - Hardback Bog -

The Emperor and the Saint is a vivid place-by-place telling of the life and times of the most enlightened, creative, and dynamic ruler of Medieval Eur...

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Sacred Folly - A New History of the Feast of Fools - Max R. Harris - Paperback Bog - Cornell University Press - 2014 - Engelsk - Booktok.dk

The real history and meaning of the Feast of Fools—usually misunderstood as a sacrilegious festival.

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kr 340.00

A Sense of Power - The Roots of America's Global Role - John A. Thompson - Hardback Bog - Cornell University Press - 2015 - Engelsk - Booktok.dk

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 que...

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Ingredients of Change - The History and Culture of Food in Modern Bulgaria - Mary C. Neuburger - Paperback Bog - Cornell University Press - 2022 -

Ingredients of Change explores modern Bulgaria's foodways from the Ottoman era to the present, outlining how Bulgarians domesticated and adapted diver...

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kr 271.00

Quarters - The Accommodation of the British Army and the Coming of the American Revolution - John Gilbert Mccurdy - Paperback Bog - Cornell University

When Americans declared independence in 1776, they cited King George III "for quartering large bodies of armed troops among us." In Quarters, John Gil...

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Images from the Region of the Pueblo Indians of North America - - Aby M. Warburg - Paperback Bog - Cornell University Press - 2016 - Engelsk -

Aby M. Warburg (1866–1929) is recognized not only as one of the century''s preeminent art and Renaissance historians but also as a founder of twentiet...

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The Residue of Dreams - Selected Poems of Jao Tsung-i - Tsung I Jao - Hardback Bog - Cornell University Press - 2016 - Engelsk - Booktok.dk

Presents the first English-language publication of the classical-style poems of Jao Tsung-i (born 1917), a prominent artist-calligrapher, scholar-poet...

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kr 454.00

For the End of Time - The Story of the Messiaen Quartet - Rebecca Rischin - Paperback Bog - Cornell University Press - 2006 - Engelsk - Booktok.dk

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

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The Nature of New York - An Environmental History of the Empire State - David Stradling - Hardback Bog - Cornell University Press - 2010 - Engelsk -

Stradling shows how New York's varied landscape and abundant resources have played a fundamental role in shaping the state's culture and economy. Simu...

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kr 299.00

Tales of Old Odessa - Crime and Civility in a City of Thieves - Roshanna Sylvester - Hardback Bog - Cornell University Press - 2005 - Engelsk -

How did Odessans understand the city and their place in it? What did modernization mean in Odessa? Answering such questions, this book reveals the inn...

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kr 420.00

In Search of the Free Individual - The History of the Russian-Soviet Soul - Svetlana Alexievich - Paperback Bog - Cornell University Press - 2018 -

"I love life in its living form, life that’s found on the street, in human conversations, shouts, and moans." So begins this speech delivered in Russi...

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The Mysterious Romance of Murder - Crime, Detection, and the Spirit of Noir - David Lehman - Hardback Bog - Cornell University Press - 2022 - Engelsk

From Sherlock Holmes to Sam Spade; Nick and Nora Charles to Nero Wolfe and Archie Goodwin; Harry Lime to Gilda, Madeleine Elster, and other femmes fat...

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kr 248.00

The Dutch World of Washington Irving - Knickerbocker's History of New York and the Hudson Valley Folktales - Elisabeth Paling Funk - Hardback Bog -

The Dutch World of Washington Irving tells an alternative origin story of American literary culture. In December of 1809, before finding fame with "Ri...

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The Origins of Modern Russian Education - An Intellectual Biography of Count Sergei Uvarov, 1786–1855 - Cynthia H. Whittaker - Hardback Bog - Cornell

As minister of education and president of the Academy of Sciences, Count Sergei Uvarov was one of the most important statesmen in nineteenth-century R...

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kr 360.00

Freedom of Conscience in (Post)Soviet Space - Legacies of Michael Bourdeaux and the Keston Archive - - Paperback Bog - Cornell University Press - 2025

Freedom of Conscience in (Post)Soviet Space , a collection of original essays edited by Julie K. deGraffenried, Michael Long, and Xenia Dennen, is ins...

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Solid State - The Story of "Abbey Road" and the End of the Beatles - Kenneth Womack - Hardback Bog - Cornell University Press - 2019 - Engelsk -

Acclaimed Beatles historian Kenneth Womack offers the most definitive account yet of the writing, recording, mixing, and reception of Abbey Road.In Fe...

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The Promise of Piety - Islam and the Politics of Moral Order in Pakistan - Arsalan Khan - Paperback Bog - Cornell University Press - 2024 - Engelsk -

Shows how Tablighis constitute a distinct form of pious relationality in the ritual processes and everyday practices of dawat. Khan explores both the ...

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On the Periphery of Europe, 1762–1825 - The Self-Invention of the Russian Elite - Andreas Schonle - Paperback Bog - Cornell University Press - 2018 -

Throughout the eighteenth century, the Russian elite assimilated the ideas, emotions, and practices of the aristocracy in Western countries to various...

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Bonds of Community - The Lives of Farm Women in Nineteenth-Century New York - Nancy Grey Osterud - Paperback Bog - Cornell University Press - 1991 -

Women held a central place in long-settled rural communities like the Nanticoke Valley in upstate New York during the late nineteenth century. Their l...

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Mother of the Church - Sofia Svechina, the Salon, and the Politics of Catholicism in Nineteenth-Century Russia and France - Tatyana V. Bakhmetyeva -

Sofia Petrovna Svechina (1782–1857), better known as Madame Sophie Swetchine, was the hostess of a famous nineteenth-century Parisian salon. A Russian...

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Politics of Tranquility - The Material and Mundane Lives of Buddhist Nuns in Post-Mao Tibet - Yasmin Cho - Paperback Bog - Cornell University Press -

Politics of Tranquility concerns the Tibetan Buddhist revival in China, illustrating the lives of Tibetan Buddhist nuns and exploring the political ef...

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Places of Tenderness and Heat - The Queer Milieu of Fin-de-Siecle St. Petersburg - Olga Petri - Hardback Bog - Cornell University Press - 2022 -

Places of Tenderness and Heat is a ground-level exploration of queer St. Petersburg at the fin-de-siècle. Olga Petri takes us through busy shopping ar...

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kr 456.00

The Rise of the Russian Novel - Carnival, Stylization, and Mockery of the West - David W. Gasperetti - Hardback Bog - Cornell University Press - 1998

Overturning the view of early Russian prose fiction as a pale imitation of European models, this discussion locates the origins of the Russian novel i...

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kr 363.00

Things of Darkness - Economies of Race and Gender in Early Modern England - Kim F. Hall - Paperback Bog - Cornell University Press - 1995 - Engelsk -

The "Ethiope," the "tawny Tartar," the "woman blackamoore," and "knotty Africanisms"—allusions to blackness abound in Renaissance texts. Kim F. Hall's...

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Children of Rus' - Right-Bank Ukraine and the Invention of a Russian Nation - Faith Hillis - Paperback Bog - Cornell University Press - 2017 - Engelsk

Faith Hillis recovers an all but forgotten chapter in the history of the tsarist empire and its southwestern borderlands.

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kr 316.00

The Ideology of the Offensive - Military Decision Making and the Disasters of 1914 - Jack L. Snyder - Paperback Bog - Cornell University Press - 1989

Jack Snyder's analysis of the attitudes of military planners in the years prior to the Great War demonstrates that it is not only rational analysis th...

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A Kingdom of Stargazers - Astrology and Authority in the Late Medieval Crown of Aragon - Michael A. Ryan - Hardback Bog - Cornell University Press -

In A Kingdom of Stargazers, Michael A. Ryan examines the interest in astrology in the Iberian kingdom of Aragon, where ideas about magic and the occul...

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kr 494.00

The House of Hemp and Butter - A History of Old Riga - Kevin C. O'connor - Paperback Bog - Cornell University Press - 2023 - Engelsk - Booktok.dk

Founded as an ecclesiastical center and trading hub, Riga was Old Livonia's greatest city and its indispensable port. O’Connor begins in the twelfth c...

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The Light of Knowledge - Literacy Activism and the Politics of Writing in South India - Francis Cody - Paperback Bog - Cornell University Press - 2013

Since the early 1990s hundreds of thousands of Tamil villagers in southern India have participated in literacy lessons, science demonstrations, and ot...

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Indians and Colonists at the Crossroads of Empire - The Albany Congress of 1754 - Timothy J. Shannon - Paperback Bog - Cornell University Press - 2002

On the eve of the Seven Years' War in North America, the British crown convened the Albany Congress, an Anglo-Iroquois treaty conference, in response ...

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I Try not to Think of Afghanistan - Lithuanian Veterans of the Soviet War - Anna Reich - Hardback Bog - Cornell University Press - 2024 - Engelsk -

I Try Not to Think of Afghanistan includes photographs and commentaries from Lithuanian veterans of the Soviet War in Afghanistan (1979–89), addressin...

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The Prince of Darkness - Radical Evil and the Power of Good in History - Jeffrey Burton Russell - Paperback Bog - Cornell University Press - 1992 -

While recounting how past generations have personified evil, Jeffrey Burton Russell deepens our understanding of the ways in which people have dealt w...

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kr 246.00

Spaces of Enslavement - A History of Slavery and Resistance in Dutch New York - Andrea C. Mosterman - Paperback Bog - Cornell University Press - 2025

In Spaces of Enslavement, Andrea C. Mosterman addresses the persistent myth that the colonial Dutch system of slavery was more humane. Investigating p...

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kr 264.00

The Revolution of '28 - Al Smith, American Progressivism, and the Coming of the New Deal - Robert Chiles - Hardback Bog - Cornell University Press -

The Revolution of ’28 explores the career of New York governor and 1928 Democratic presidential nominee Alfred E. Smith. Robert Chiles peers into Smit...

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kr 408.00

The Five - A Novel of Jewish Life in Turn-of-the-Century Odessa - Vladimir Jabotinsky - Paperback Bog - Cornell University Press - 2005 - Engelsk -

The Five is an captivating novel of the decadent fin-de-siècle written by Vladimir Jabotinsky (1880–1940), a controversial leader in the Zionist movem...

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kr 229.00

Blue Helmets and Black Markets - The Business of Survival in the Siege of Sarajevo - Peter Andreas - Paperback Bog - Cornell University Press - 2016 -

A major contribution to our understanding of contemporary urban warfare, war economies, and the political repercussions of humanitarian action.

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kr 211.00

The Chain of Things - Divinatory Magic and the Practice of Reading in German Literature and Thought, 1850–1940 - Eric Downing - Paperback Bog -

In The Chain of Things, Eric Downing shows how the connection between divinatory magic and reading shaped the experience of reading and aesthetics amo...

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kr 294.00

Mirages of Reform - The Politics of Elite Protectionism in the Arab World - Steve L. Monroe - Hardback Bog - Cornell University Press - 2025 - Engelsk

Drawing on elite interviews, firm and industry-level data, and evidence from Jordan to Morocco, Mirages of Reform reveals how international and domest...

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kr 424.00

Blue Helmets and Black Markets - The Business of Survival in the Siege of Sarajevo - Peter Andreas - Hardback Bog - Cornell University Press - 2008 -

The 1992–1995 battle for Sarajevo was the longest siege in modern history. It was also the most internationalized, attracting a vast contingent of aid...

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kr 259.00

The Sewards of New York - A Biography of a Leading American Political Family - Thomas P. Slaughter - Hardback Bog - Cornell University Press - 2025 -

The Sewards of New York shines a light on one of the most important and fascinating political families of the nineteenth century. Through recently dis...

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The Ideology of the Offensive - Military Decision Making and the Disasters of 1914 - Jack L. Snyder - Hardback Bog - Cornell University Press - 1984 -

Jack Snyder's analysis of the attitudes of military planners in the years prior to the Great War demonstrates that it is not only rational analysis th...

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Order Out of Chaos - Islam, Information, and the Rise and Fall of Social Orders in Iraq - David Siddhartha Patel - Paperback Bog - Cornell University

Order out of Chaos explains why Iraqis turned to the mosque after state collapse. In 2003, the US-led invasion of Iraq destroyed the Bathist state. De...

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Memoirs of Pham Duy, a Vietnamese Musician in a Turbulent Century - Coming of Age in the North (1921-1945) - - Paperback Bog - Cornell University

Memoirs of Ph?m Duy, A Vietnamese Musician in a Turbulent Century tells the story of the triumphs, scandals, and adventures of Vietnam's most prolific...

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