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Art, Power, and Resistance in the Middle Ages
This volume addresses a vital point of intersection between images in the Middle Ages and those in the modern world: the potential of medieval works of art to convey messages of …
The Socialist Industrial State
The Socialist Industrial State (1976) examines the state-socialist system, taking as the central example the Soviet Union – where the goals and values of Marxism-Leninism and the …
Lordship and State Transformation
Although state transformation – continuous struggle and bargaining between rulers and their subjects, producing an unpredictable variety of political structures – is often …
The State of Asia
The State of Asia (1951) examines the developments in Asia in the key post-war period of five years following 1945. Prewar and wartime background are provided for each country …
Seamus Heaney's Gifts
The fact of the matter,"" Seamus Heaney said in a 1997 interview with the Paris Review, ""is that the most unexpected and miraculous thing in my life was the arrival in it of …
The Evolving Project of Cormac McCarthy
The Evolving Project of Cormac McCarthy presents eleven essays of original scholarship that undertake a programmatic reassessment of McCarthy's literary and philosophical …
Carex of Illinois and Surrounding States
A common group of plants in the Midwest’s natural areas, the oval sedges supply food for wildlife while their roots bind the soil and their vegetation creates habitat. Carex of …
Atlantic Crossroads in Lisbon’s New Golden Age, 1668-1750
Long dependent on the Asian spice trade, Portugal suffered serious setbacks during the period of political union with Spain (1580–1640), as the Dutch and others seized key regions …
Foreign Aid and State Building in Interwar Romania
The decades following World War I were a period of political, social, and economic transformation for Central and Eastern Europe. This book considers the role of foreign aid in …
Ungrafted
The poetry of Claudia Emerson is marked by a precise, evocative handling of subjects drawn from her upbringing in the rural South yet recognizable to readers across cultures: …