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Connecting China, Latin America, and the Caribbean

|9780822947851|Infrastructure and Everyday Life|A long history of migration, trade, and shared interests links China to Latin America and the Caribbean. Over the past twenty years, China has increased direct investment…

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The Failure of Latin America

|9780822945673|Postcolonialism in Bad Times|The Failure of Latin America is a collection of John Beverley’s previously published essays and pairs them with new material that reflects on questions of post-colonialism and

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Communicating Physics

…their influence as far as North America, Australia, India and Japan. Simon’s Franco-British case study looks at the role of Ganot’s two textbooks: Traite elementaire de physique experimentale et appliquee…

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Kaufmann’s

…tailor shops in Pittsburgh’s North and South sides, the Kaufmann brothers caught the wave of a new type of merchandising—the department store—and launched what would become their retail dynasty with…

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From Citizens to Subjects

…all European states, arguing instead that centralization failed to improve the socioeconomic position of urban residents in the former Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth over a hundred-year period. Murphy examines the government of…

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