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The Necro-President = Trump, MAGA, and the Decline of the American Republic
This Brief develops the necro-president as a figure through which the collapse of American political life becomes visible. In our present moment of political upheaval, the necro-president reflects how death, not law or the people, has come to shape the meaning of the presidency. The office, once imagined as a source of vitality and democratic promise, now signals exhaustion, spectacle, and s…
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The Ndebele, Frank Oates, and Knowledge Production in the 1870s = Encounters …
This open access book addresses a question fundamental to the histories of empire and Africa: at the point of the colonial encounter, how was knowledge made? How did different communities, with little or no prior contact, construct meaning about one another? Amidst huge changes in the politics and economics of a continent, on the cusp of almost complete colonization at the hands of European pow…
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- 9783031759635
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مؤلّفات يوسف بن حسن بن عبد الهادي ومساهمته…
On the basis of a newly discovered manuscript this book offers the most comprehensive bibliography of the enormous output of the fifteenth-century scholar Ibn ʿAbd al-Hādī – enlarging our view of his scholarly contribution and correcting numerous mistakes in this regard. This book is thus essential reading for all those interested in the writerly world of Damascus and the scholarly world o…
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- 9789004462922
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- الحضارة العربية والإسلامية, Volume: 02
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Writing Tamil Catholicism = Literature, Persuasion and Devotion in the Eighte…
In Writing Tamil Catholicism: Literature, Persuasion and Devotion in the Eighteenth Century, Margherita Trento explores the process by which the Jesuit missionary Costanzo Giuseppe Beschi (1680-1747), in collaboration with a group of local lay elites identified by their profession as catechists, chose Tamil poetry as the social and political language of Catholicism in eighteenth-century South I…
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- 9789004511620
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- Philological Encounters Monographs, Volume: 3
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Drinking in Victorian and Edwardian Britain : Beyond the Spectre of the Drunkard
This open access book surveys drinking in Britain between the Licensing Act of 1869 and the wartime regulations imposed on alcohol production and consumption after 1914. This was a period marked by the expansion of the drink industry and by increasingly restrictive licensing laws. Politics and commerce co-existed with moral and medical concerns about drunkenness and combined, these factors push…
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- 9783319929644
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Time and the Ancestors : Aztec and Mixtec Ritual Art
In Time and the Ancestors: Aztec and Mixtec Ritual Art, Maarten Jansen and Aurora Pérez present new interpretations of enigmatic masterpieces from ancient Mexico. Combining iconographical analysis with the study of archaeological contexts, historical sources and living cultural traditions, they shed light on central symbols and values of the religious heritage of indigenous peoples, paying spe…
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- 9789004340527
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- The Early Americas: History and Culture, Volume: 5
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Traces of Ink : Experiences of Philology and Replication
Traces of Ink. Experiences of Philology and Replication is a collection of original papers exploring the textual and material aspects of inks and ink-making in a number of premodern cultures (Babylonia, the Graeco-Roman world, the Syriac milieu and the Arabo-Islamic tradition). The volume proposes a fresh and interdisciplinary approach to the study of technical traditions, in which new results …
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- 9789004444805
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- 216 hlm; ill., lamp.,
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- Nuncius Series, Volume: 7
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Worlds of Labour Turned Upside Down = Revolutions and Labour Relations in Glo…
This volume offers a bold restatement of the importance of social history for understanding modern revolutions. The essays collected in Worlds of Labour Turned Upside Down provide global case studies examining: - changes in labour relations as a causal factor in revolutions; - challenges to existing labour relations as a motivating factor during revolutions; - the long-term impact of revolut…
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- '9789004440395
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- Studies in Global Social History, Volume: 41
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Translating the Hebrew Bible in Medieval Iberia : Oxford, Bodleian Library, M…
Translating the Hebrew Bible in Medieval Iberia provides the princeps diplomatic edition and a comprehensive study of Oxford, Bodleian Library, MS Hunt. 268. The manuscript, produced in the Iberian Peninsula in the late thirteenth century, features a biblical glossary-commentary in Hebrew that includes 2,018 glosses in the vernacular and 156 in Arabic, and to date is the only manuscript of thes…
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- The Iberian Religious World, Volume: 7
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Vagaries of Desire: A Collection of Philosophical Essays
Vagaries of Desire is a major collection of new essays by Timo Airaksinen on the philosophy of desire. The first part develops a novel account of the philosophical theory of desire, including Girard. The second part discusses Kafka’s main works, namely The Castle, The Trial, and Amerika, and Thomas Hobbes and the problems of intentionality. The text develops such linguistic tropes as metaphor…
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- 9789004410305
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- 236 hlm; ill., lamp.,
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- Value Inquiry Book Series, Volume: 340 Value Inquiry Book Series Online, Volume: 340 Philosophy, Literature, and Politics, Volume: 340
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