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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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Portrait of a Russian Province

…number of significant conclusions flowed from this understanding. Deep and abiding social divisions obstructed the evolution of modernity, as experienced “naturally” in other parts of Europe, so there was no…

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The Afterlife of Austria-Hungary

|9780822962656|The Image of the Habsburg Monarchy in Interwar Europe| The assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand in 1914 was just one link in a chain of events leading to World War…

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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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