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  • Portraiture and Photography in Africa

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    Beautifully illustrated, Portrait Photography in Africa offers new interpretations of the cultural and historical roles of photography in Africa. Twelve leading scholars look at early photographs, important photographers' studios, the uses of portraiture in the 19th century, and the current passion for portraits in Africa. They review a variety of topics, including what defines a common culture of ... Read more

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  • Enlarging the European Union

    The Commission Seeking Influence, 1961-1973

    by M. Geary ...
    Series series History (R0)
    The book presents a new history of the first enlargement of the EU. It charts the attempts by the European Commission to influence the outcome of the British and Irish bids to join the Common Market during the 1960s and 1970s. The most politically divisive EU enlargement is examined through extensive research in British, Irish, EU, and US archives. ... Read more

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  • Sea of Sand

    A History of Great Sand Dunes National Park and Preserve

    Series series Public Lands History
    Sculpted into graceful contours by countless centuries of wind and water, the Great Sand Dunes sprawl along the eastern fringes of the vast San Luis Valley of south-central Colorado. Covering an area of nearly thirty square miles, they are the tallest aeolian, or wind-produced, dunes in North America, towering 750 feet above the valley floor. With the addition of the enormous Baca Ranch and other ... Read more

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    The Life and Unsolved Disappearance of a Legendary Wilderness Explorer

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  • A Community of Europeans?

    Transnational Identities and Public Spheres

    by Thomas Risse ...
    In A Community of Europeans? a thoughtful observer of the ongoing project of European integration evaluates the state of the art about European identity and European public spheres. Thomas Risse argues that integration has had profound and long-term effects on the citizens of EU countries, most of whom now have at least a secondary "European identity" to complement their national identities. Risse ... Read more

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  • Exploring Lewis and Clark

    Reflections on Men and Wilderness

    This provocative work challenges traditional accounts of Meriwether Lewis and William Clark’s expedition across the continent and back again. Uncovering deeper meanings in the explorers’ journals and lives, Exploring Lewis and Clark exposes their self-perceptions and deceptions, and how they interacted with those who traveled with them, the people they discovered along the way, the animals they ... Read more

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  • Italian Military Operations Abroad

    Just Don't Call it War

    Series series Political Science and International Studies (R0)
    Peace support operations are one of the most important tools in the foreign policy of Western democracies. This book is a study of Italian military operations in the last twenty years. Italy's operations are examined through an analysis of parliamentary debates and interviews with leading policy-makers. ... Read more

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  • Wicked Portland

    The Wild and Lusty Underworld of a Frontier Seaport Town

    Tucked away in the northwestern frontier, Portland offered all the best vices: opium dreams, gambling, cheap prostitutes, and drunken brawling. In its early days, Portland was a "combination rough-and-ready logging camp and gritty, hard-punching deep-water port town," and as a young city (established in the late 1840s) it developed an international reputation for lawlessness and violence. In the ... Read more

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  • Reform of the House of Lords

    by Philip Norton ...
    This book is the only one of its kind, providing a clear and exhaustive analysis of the different approaches to the future of Britain’s second chamber. The House of Lords has long been the subject of proposals for reform – some successful, others not – and calls for the existing membership to be replaced by elected members have been a staple of political debate. The debate has been characterised ... Read more

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  • The Emerging American Garrison State

    Series series Political Science and International Studies (R0)
    The constitutional structure of the American federal government is no longer providing responsible and effective governance. To overcome the current paralysis in government, to resume effective management of its crippled economy and of its global empire, a new pattern of government is emerging, one that adheres to the earlier outlines of the garrison state. This volume takes account of the gradual ... Read more

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  • Uncovering Nevada's Past

    A Primary Source History of the Silver State

    Edited by John B. Reid, Ronald M. James ...
    Series series Shepperson Series in Nevada History
    Nevada’s relatively brief history has been nonetheless remarkably eventful. From the activities of the first Euro-American explorers to the booms and busts of the mining industry, from the struggles and artistry of the Native Americans to the establishment of liberal divorce laws and such unique industries as legalized gambling and prostitution, from Cold War atomic tests to the civil rights ... Read more

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  • British Foreign Policy and the National Interest

    Identity, Strategy and Security

    Edited by T. Edmunds, J. Gaskarth, R. Porter ...
    Series series Political Science and International Studies (R0)
    Whose interests does British foreign policy serve? Is the national interest a useful explanatory tool for foreign policy analysts? This interdisciplinary collection responds to these questions exploring ideas of Britain's national interest and their impact on strategy, challenging current thinking and practice in the making of foreign policy. ... Read more

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