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The Soviet Gulag

…camps in Africa and India, the Tsarist-era system of exile in Siberia, Chinese and North Korean reeducation camps, the post-Soviet penal system in the Russian Federation, and of course the…

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Singing The City

|9780822957928|The Bonds Of Home In An Industrial Landscape| Singing the City is an eloquent tribute to a way of life largely disappearing in America, using Pittsburgh as a lens. Graham…

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The Persistence of Local Caudillos in Latin America

|9780822948124|Informal Political Practices and Democracy in Unitary Countries|Despite democratization at the national level, local political bosses still govern many municipalities in Latin America. Caudillos and clans often use informal political…

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Poetry in America

|9780822961567|Poetry in America offers extravagantly formed lyric and narrative poems that function like works of social realism for our times: hard times, wartime, divorce, times of downturn and dissipated resources….

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Ideals of the Body

…citizen. These forgotten efforts to renew and reform the physical and moral health of the urban subject found expression in the built environment of the city—in the gymnasiums, swimming pools,…

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