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Rethinking Race, Politics, and Poetics

C.L.R. James' Critique of Modernity

By Brett St Louis

Rethinking Race, Politics, and Poetics offers a critical appraisal of C.L.R. James as a major twentieth-century activist-intellectual, exploring his prolific output spanning decades within genres as...

Published October 25th 2007 by Routledge.

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Myth and the Greatest Generation

A Social History of Americans in World War II

By Kenneth D. Rose

Myth and the Greatest Generation calls into question the glowing paradigm of the World War II generation set up by such books as The Greatest Generation...

Published October 8th 2007 by Routledge.

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Disability and/in Prose

Edited by Brenda J. Brueggemann, Marian E. Lupo

Through a series of critical essays this book concerns the relationships and possibilities in and between "prose" and "disability". It covers a diverse range from...

Published September 21st 2007 by Routledge.

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Jewish Cultural Nationalism

Origins and Influences

By David Aberbach

Jewish Cultural Nationalism explores the development of Jewish nationalism from the Bible to modern times, focusing on particular movements and places as well as texts...

Published September 20th 2007 by Routledge.

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Histories of Postmodernism

Edited by Mark Bevir, Jill Hargis, Sara Rushing

Histories of Postmodernism reexamines the history of the constellation of ideas and thinkers associated with postmodernism. The increasingly dominant historical narrative depicts a relatively smooth...

Published September 18th 2007 by Routledge.

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Women and Smoking since 1890

By Rosemary Elliot

The changing face of the female smoker, from the lady smokers of the late nineteenth century to the lone mother of the late twentieth century,...

Published September 7th 2007 by Routledge.

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Locating Asian Australian Cultures

Edited by Tseen Khoo

Locating Asian Australian Cultures is a timely and challenging interdisciplinary compilation that sets a contemporary benchmark for Asian Australian studies and its future directions.

In...

Published September 5th 2007 by Routledge.

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Nineteenth-Century British Women's Education, 1840–1900

Edited by Susan Hamilton, Janice Schroeder

This new six-volume collection from Routledge and Edition Synapse brings together key documents from the Victorian feminist campaign to establish and improve girls’ and women’s...

Published August 29th 2007 by Routledge.

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Africa after Modernism

Transitions in Literature, Media, and Philosophy

By Michael Janis

Africa after Modernism traces shifts in perspectives on African culture, arts, and philosophy from the conflict with European modernist interventions in the climate of colonialist...

Published August 27th 2007 by Routledge.

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Histories of the Normal and the Abnormal

Social and cultural histories of norms and normativity

By Waltraud Ernst

This fascinating volume tackles the history of the terms 'normal' and 'abnormal'. Originally meaning 'as occurring in nature', normality has taken on significant cultural gravitas...

Published August 6th 2007 by Routledge.

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