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The Imagined Empire

|9780822944652|Balloon Enlightenments in Revolutionary Europe| The hot-air balloon, invented by the Montgolfier brothers in 1783, launched for the second time just days before the Treaty of Paris would end the…

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Nature and the Iron Curtain

Europe.| Astrid Kirchhof J. R. McNeill| Russian and East European Studies| History / Europe / Russia & the Former Soviet Union Political Science / Public Policy / Environmental Policy Political…

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Strategic Frames

|9780822965114|Europe, Russia, and Minority Inclusion in Estonia and Latvia| Strategic Frames analyzes minority policies in Estonia and Latvia following their independence from the Soviet Union. It weighs the powerful influence…

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World’s Fairs in the Cold War

|9780822945789|Science, Technology, and the Culture of Progress|The post–World War II science-based technological revolution inevitably found its way into almost all international expositions with displays on atomic energy, space exploration, transportation,…

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Conscript Nation

…simply an assimilatory project. It instead reflected a dialectical process to define the state and its relationships.| Elizabeth Shesko| Pitt Latin American Series| History / Latin America / South America

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