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The Art of Freedom

|9780822967620|Kamaladevi Chattopadhyay and the Making of Modern India|Kamaladevi Chattopadhyay (1903–1988) was a prominent socialist, anticolonial and antiracist activist, champion of women’s rights, and advocate for the arts and crafts. Defying…

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History and Context in Comparative Public Policy

…confined to prevailing methods of social science. Policy-making behavior involves historical, contextual, and philosophical factors that also raise critical questions about the concepts and theory of the discipline. Ashford asks…

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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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The Optic of the State

…in time and space, thus presenting historical processes as natural “givens.” | Jens Andermann| Illuminations: Cultural Formations of the Americas| History / General History / Latin America / South America

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