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Contemporary theory of conservation. Elsevier Butterworth-Heinemann, 2005.

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Contemporary theory of conservation. Butterworth-Heinemann, 2004.

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Conservation of monuments and sites: International principles in theory and practice = Denkmalpflege : internationale Grundsätze in Theorie und Praxis. Hendrik Bässler Verlag, 2013.

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Andrzej, Tomaszewski, and Giometti Simone, eds. The image of heritage: Changing perception, permanent responsabilities : proceedings of the International Conference of the ICOMOS International Scientific Committee for Theory and the Philosophy of Conservation and Restoration : 6-8 March 2009, Florence, Italy. Polistampa, 2011.

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De Vita, Maurizio, ed. Città storica e sostenibilità / Historic Cities and Sustainability. Firenze University Press, 2012. http://dx.doi.org/10.36253/978-88-6655-305-2.

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A subject that is inexplicably little studied at present, or indeed not at all, is that of the quest for possible applications and feasible objectives in the energy requalification of existing buildings, existing or planned open spaces, old city centres and the monumental and diffuse cultural heritage. At the present time it is crucial that the issues, research and techniques linked to the possibilities of an aware use of energy are applied to the old city centres and the existing heritage. This must start from a knowledge and investigation of the traditional building materials and techniques,

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Gramolati, Alessio, and Giovanni Mari, eds. Bruno Trentin. Lavoro, libertà, conoscenza. Firenze University Press, 2010. http://dx.doi.org/10.36253/978-88-8453-519-1.

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Bruno Trentin. Lavoro, libertà, conoscenza takes into consideration the figure of Bruno Trentin (1926-2007) and his work as a union leader and politician, his numerous writings in the framework of the history of Republican Italy and the transformations induced by the processes of globalisation. From this reflection, conducted from different disciplinary angles and with different political and cultural sensitivity, what emerges clearly is the extremely idiosyncratic significance of Bruno Trentin in both the practice and the theoretical analysis of the labour struggle and the exploration of its

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De Zordo, Ornella, and Fiorenzo Fantaccini, eds. Saggi di anglistica e americanistica. Firenze University Press, 2013. http://dx.doi.org/10.36253/978-88-6655-317-5.

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The third volume of Saggi di anglistica e americanistica is the last in the series published under the aegis of the University of Florence PhD course in English and American Studies which, after 25 years, will terminate its activities in 2013. This last collection once again attests to the worth of the PhD's educational programme and aims: it brings together the essays produced by ten young scholars over the last three years of research, in view of preparing their PhD dissertations. They are essays that range from literary phenomena and their historic, linguistic and socio-cultural contexts, t

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Bandini, Gianfranco, ed. Manuali, sussidi e didattica della geografia. Firenze University Press, 2012. http://dx.doi.org/10.36253/978-88-8453-958-8.

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This publication is comprised within a recent strand of studies devoted to scholastic culture, understood as an original and complex form of mediation between academic and popular culture. The history of scholastic disciplines is actually one of the most innovative and interesting sectors of the social history of education, and also links up with similar initiatives in other academic sectors, even at international level. These include studies on scholastic and educational publishing, the history of professional associations in the area of geography and cartography (both local and national), an

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Chiarelli, Cosimo, and Walter Pasini, eds. Paolo Mantegazza e l'Evoluzionismo in Italia. Firenze University Press, 2010. http://dx.doi.org/10.36253/978-88-6453-186-1.

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An eclectic figure – a scientist, novelist, anthropologist, politician and man of his time – Paolo Mantegazza (1831-1910) played a leading role in Italian society and the cultural scene of the late nineteenth century, even if historic events then partially eclipsed his memory. The retrieval and valorisation of the legacy of Mantegazza were the focus of the meetings that were held in the main sites connected with his life (Monza, Florence, Lerici) at which academics in different disciplines exchanged notes on various aspects, some even little known, of his multifaceted activity. This book bring

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Landscapes under Pressure: Theory and Practice of Cultural Heritage Research and Preservation. Springer, 2007.

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R, Lozny Ludomir, ed. Landscapes under pressure: Theory and practice of cultural heritage research and preservation. Springer, 2006.

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Keitumetse, Susan Osireditse. African Cultural Heritage Conservation and Management: Theory and Practice from Southern Africa. Springer, 2018.

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Keitumetse, Susan Osireditse. African Cultural Heritage Conservation and Management: Theory and Practice from Southern Africa. Springer, 2016.

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Contemporary Theory of Conservation. Taylor & Francis Group, 2015.

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Ferguson, T. J., and Leigh Kuwanwisiwma. Traditional Cultural Properties. Edited by Barbara Mills and Severin Fowles. Oxford University Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199978427.013.9.

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Traditional cultural properties are significant because of the role they play in the retention and transmission of historically rooted beliefs, customs, and practices of a living traditional community. They are routinely identified and evaluated as historic properties during research activities needed for compliance with Section 106 of the National Historic Preservation Act, which requires federal agencies to consider the effects of their undertakings on cultural resources. To be eligible for the National Register of Historic Places, traditional cultural properties need to be tangible places (

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Williams Morris and the Society for the Protection of Ancient Buildings (Literary Criticism and Cultural Theory). Routledge, 2007.

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Sgarlata, Cosimo A., David G. Orr, and Morrison Bethany A., eds. Historical Archaeology of the Revolutionary War Encampments of Washington's Army. University Press of Florida, 2019. http://dx.doi.org/10.5744/florida/9780813056401.001.0001.

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Historical Archaeology of the Revolutionary War Encampments of Washington’s Army presents archaeological and ethno-historic research concerning Washington’s Army’s encampments, trails, and support structures during the American Revolution. Important sites and preserves that the following chapters discuss include Valley Forge in Pennsylvania; Putnam Park and General Parson’s Preserve in Redding, Connecticut; Morristown National Historic Park in New Jersey; and Rochambeau’s marching trail through Connecticut. Topics pursued by contributors to the volume are the military discipline and training o

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Warren-Findley, Jannelle. Public History, Cultural Institutions, and National Identity. Edited by Paula Hamilton and James B. Gardner. Oxford University Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199766024.013.17.

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Public surveys in Anglophone countries suggest that many individuals learn most of their history from family or cultural institutions, rather than from reading scholarship or sitting in classrooms. As histories of silenced groups, forgotten tribes, and ignored communities gain a place in the contemporary narrative of national histories, we must explore the methods and assumptions used by those who created the intellectual and legal frameworks that determine who in the past were represented as historical players and why others were not. Analyzing public policy documents can help us understand t

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Cohn, Arthur B., and Joanne M. Dennis. Maritime Archaeology, the Dive Community, and Heritage Tourism. Edited by Ben Ford, Donny L. Hamilton, and Alexis Catsambis. Oxford University Press, 2012. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199336005.013.0046.

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In modern times, the development of new survey, navigation, diving, and remotely operated vehicle technologies have made the location, exploration, and excavation of historic shipwrecks feasible to the general public. The debate on the value of underwater cultural heritage is recent and the issues of protecting underwater sites are now accepted. The diving community has been engaged in this debate for several decades, and a wide variety of viewpoints have developed. Museums focusing on underwater cultural heritage serve as platforms to foster discussions on submerged cultural resource protecti

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Colwell, Chip. Oral Traditions. Edited by Barbara Mills and Severin Fowles. Oxford University Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199978427.013.2.

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Never before have oral narratives been more important in Southwest archaeology than they are today. Spoken histories—variously known as oral traditions, oral histories, Native literature, and verbal arts—play key roles in fostering a dialogue between descendant communities and archaeologists, affording broader anthropological understandings of Native cultures and their heritage, and providing novel and more informed understandings of the past. Ultimately, oral traditions are a cultural act of memory, often enveloped in metaphor but grounded in real historic events, personalities, and processes

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McNally, Michael D. Defend the Sacred. Princeton University Press, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.23943/princeton/9780691190907.001.0001.

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From North Dakota's Standing Rock encampments to Arizona's San Francisco Peaks, Native Americans have repeatedly asserted legal rights to religious freedom to protect their sacred places, practices, objects, knowledge, and ancestral remains. But these claims have met with little success in court because Native American communal traditions don't fit easily into modern Western definitions of religion. This book explores how, in response to this situation, Native peoples have creatively turned to other legal means to safeguard what matters to them. To articulate their claims, Native peoples have

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Lucey, Conor. Building reputations. Manchester University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.7228/manchester/9781526119940.001.0001.

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This book advances an innovative look at a well known, if arguably often misunderstood, historic building typology: the eighteenth-century brick terraced (or row) house. Created for the upper tier of the social spectrum, these houses were largely designed and built by what is customarily regarded as the lower tier of the architectural hierarchy; that is, by artisan communities of bricklayers, carpenters, plasterers and related tradesmen. From London and Dublin to Boston and Philadelphia, these houses collectively formed the streets and squares that became the links and pivots of ‘enlightened’

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Grove, M. Annette, and David F. Lancy. Cultural Models of Stages in the Life Course. Edited by Sally Crawford, Dawn M. Hadley, and Gillian Shepherd. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199670697.013.5.

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It is clear that societies differ with respect to their locally constructed, cultural, or ‘folk’ models of the life course. However, predictable transitions can be found as children progress through naturally occurring stages (walking, talking, gaining sense, puberty). Societies draw upon these predictable transitions to construct models of development. Ethnographic and historic records provide evidence of behavioural changes in children and the response of family members that signal a shift in the child’s status. Drawing on these data, we construct a broadly applicable cultural model of child

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Simonton, Dean Keith. Cultural-Historiometric Studies of Creativity. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780190455675.003.0003.

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Beginning with the idea that world civilizations are largely defined by the geniuses—and especially the “Big-C” creators who highlight their histories—the chapter then turns to how creative genius is distributed across both time and place, thus permitting both transhistorical and cross-cultural studies. Yet the sole method that enables such investigations is historiometry. After defining historiometry in terms of nomothetic hypotheses, quantitative analyses, and multiple historic cases, a brief history of the technique is presented. There follows an overview of historiometric research on creat

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Çakırlar, Canan, and Levent Atici. Patterns of animal exploitation in western Turkey. Edited by Umberto Albarella, Mauro Rizzetto, Hannah Russ, Kim Vickers, and Sarah Viner-Daniels. Oxford University Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199686476.013.53.

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This chapter presents a first overview of zooarchaeological research in western Turkey, a vast region between the Anatolian Plateau and the Aegean Sea. The reason for this overview is twofold. First, although zooarchaeological research began early on within the history of archaeology in the region, almost all zooarchaeological studies have been site-based, masking their potential contribution to the cultural and environmental narrative of the region and beyond. Second, recent zooarchaeological research has shown that the region carries path-breaking potential for elucidating patterns of human–

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Steffian, Amy, Patrick Saltonstall, and Linda Finn Yarborough. Maritime Economies of the Central Gulf of Alaska after 4000 . Edited by Max Friesen and Owen Mason. Oxford University Press, 2016. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199766956.013.19.

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Alaska’s central gulf coast encompasses four environmentally diverse regions stretching from Prince William Sound to the Pacific coast of the Alaska Peninsula. Despite their unique geographic and biological settings, these regions have a distinct and cohesive cultural history. Here, the historic distribution of Alutiiq or Sugpiaq peoples reflects the distribution of prehistoric cultures, illustrating a broadly unified evolutionary trajectory. Archaeological data from the past 4,000 years suggest the development of prosperous, permanent villages from smaller, more fluid foraging communities thr

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Allen, Nicholas, Nick Groom, and Jos Smith, eds. Coastal Works. Oxford University Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198795155.001.0001.

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In all the complex cultural history of the islands of Britain and Ireland, the idea of the coast as a significant representative space is critical. For many artists, coastal space has figured as a site from which to braid ideas of empire, nation, region, and archipelago. They have been drawn to the coast as a zone of geographical uncertainty in which the self-definitions of the nation founder; a peripheral space of vestigial wildness, of island retreats and experimental living; a network of diverse localities richly endowed with distinctive forms of cultural heritage; and a dynamically interco

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Boggs, Colleen Glenney. Patriotism by Proxy. Oxford University Press, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198863670.001.0001.

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Patriotism by Proxy develops a new understanding of the connections between American literature and American lives by focusing on a historic moment when the military transformed both. At the height of the Civil War in 1863, the Union instated the first-ever federal draft. Paired with the Emancipation Proclamation, the draft inaugurated new relationships between the nation and its citizens. A massive bureaucratic undertaking, the draft redefined the American people as a population. Equitable as the system was in theory, the draft laid bare social divisions, as wealthy draftees could hire substi

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Magerstädt, Sylvie. TV antiquity. Manchester University Press, 2019. http://dx.doi.org/10.7228/manchester/9781784995324.001.0001.

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TV antiquity explores representations of ancient Greece and Rome throughout television history. It is the first comprehensive overview of the genre in television. More specifically, the author argues that serial television set in antiquity offers a perspective on the ancient world quite distinct from their cinematic counterparts. The book traces the historic development of fictional representations of antiquity from the staged black-and-white shows of the 1950s and 60s to the most recent digital spectacles. A key argument explored throughout the book is that the structure of serial television

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Davie, Grace. Religion, Territory, and Choice. Oxford University Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198798071.003.0017.

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This core of this chapter describes and explains a paradox in the religious life of modern Europe: without doubt, Europe is more secular than it used to be, but in terms of public debate, religion is rising rather than falling in significance. The factors that lie behind this seeming contradiction are explored both singly and together. They include deeply embedded cultural factors, the shifts in the historic churches, new forms of religious life, new arrivals, and secular reactions. In each case, the comparison with the American case is carefully considered. The initial sections of the chapter

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Salmon, Philip. Parliament. Edited by David Brown, Gordon Pentland, and Robert Crowcroft. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780198714897.013.31.

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This chapter focuses on the changing functions and organization of Parliament in areas that have received less attention in existing scholarship. The ‘rise of democracy’ was not the only imperative driving Parliament’s almost complete remodelling as an institution during the period under study. Broader cultural factors also played their part, as a number of innovative studies examining the environment of Parliament from the perspective of architectural space, historic identity, parliamentary debate, scientific inquiry, and the concept of time (to name but a few) have sought to indicate. Gaps s

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Schmidt, Dieter, and Simon Shorvon. The End of Epilepsy? Oxford University Press, 2016. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/med/9780198725909.001.0001.

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Epilepsy is a common disease of the brain, occurring in roughly 1% of all people, and although repeated epileptic seizures are its clinical hallmark, epilepsy is not just a medical phenomenon, but a social construct, with cultural, political, and financial consequences. People with epilepsy are exposed to stigma and burdened with disadvantages which can be far reaching. There are indeed many remedies, but no cure. This book provides a biography of modern epilepsy in the form of a brief and selective narrative of some of the important developments in medical and social epilepsy research, with i

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Moser, Peter. Growing Community Music Through a Sense of Place. Edited by Brydie-Leigh Bartleet and Lee Higgins. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780190219505.013.26.

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Our relationships to places, people, and our physical and metaphysical environment drive our personal journeys. Our identity develops from birth through this complex web of relationships where skills, creativity, and personality grow in unique pathways. A sense of place is about this personal development as well as the way communities grow in response to their constituents in a symbiotic process of sympathetic exchange. This chapter will examine how music and culture articulate these changes and through examining forms of practice in historic and geographic contexts I will also investigate asp

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Buckley, James Michael. People in Place. Edited by Angela M. Labrador and Neil Asher Silberman. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780190676315.013.6.

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Public heritage practice in American cities has largely focused on the physical landscape of the European-based majority culture. As the nation’s urban areas continue to become more culturally diverse, preservationists have begun to explore new approaches to serve the needs of minority populations through community development planning. Examples include programs in San Francisco that focus less on physical fabric and more on the intangible cultural aspects associated with marginalized groups, and the work of Project Row Houses in Houston, which uses the historic building fabric of an African-A

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Florini, Sarah. Beyond Hashtags. NYU Press, 2019. http://dx.doi.org/10.18574/nyu/9781479892464.001.0001.

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In a culture dominated by discourses of “colorblindness” but still rife with structural racism, digital and social media have become a resource for Black Americans navigating a society that simultaneously perpetuates and obscures racial inequality. Though the Ferguson protests made such Black digital networks more broadly visible, these networks did not coalesce in that moment. They were built over the course of years through much less spectacular, though no less important, everyday use, including mundane social exchanges, humor, and fandom. This book explores these everyday practices and thei

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Demshuk, Andrew. Demolition on Karl Marx Square. Oxford University Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780190645120.001.0001.

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Communist East Germany’s demolition of Leipzig’s intact medieval University Church in May 1968 was an act widely decried as “cultural barbarism”. Although overshadowed by the crackdown on Prague Spring mere weeks later, the willful destruction of this historic landmark on a central site called Karl Marx Square represents an essential turning point in relations between the Communist authorities and the “people” they claimed to serve. As the largest case of East German protest between the 1953 Uprising and 1989 Revolution, this intimate local trauma exhibits how the inner workings of a “dictator

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Gillett, Rachel Anne. At Home in Our Sounds. Oxford University Press, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780190842703.001.0001.

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This book shows how and why music became part of the social changes Europe faced in the aftermath of World War I. It focuses on the story of Black music in Paris and the people who created it, enjoyed it, criticized it, and felt at home when they heard it. African Americans, French Antilleans, and French West Africans wrote, danced, sang, and acted politically in response to the heightened visibility of racial difference in Paris during this era. They were consumed with questions that continue to resonate today. Could one be Black and French? Was Black solidarity more important than national a

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Colden, Cadwallader. The History of the Five Indian Nations Depending on the Province of New-York in America. Cornell University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.7591/cornell/9781501713903.001.0001.

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This book, originally published in 1727 and revised in 1747, is one of the most important intellectual works published in eighteenth-century British America. The author was among the most learned American men of his time, and his history of the Iroquois tribes makes fascinating reading. The book discusses the religion, manners, customs, laws, and forms of government of the confederacy of tribes composed of the Mohawks, Oneidas, Onondagas, Cayugas, and Senecas (and, later, the Tuscaroras), and gives accounts of battles, treaties, and trade with these Indians up to 1697. Since the book was first

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Brown, Candy Gunther. Debating Yoga and Mindfulness in Public Schools. University of North Carolina Press, 2019. http://dx.doi.org/10.5149/northcarolina/9781469648484.001.0001.

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The introduction explains how yoga, mindfulness, and meditation entered the U.S. cultural mainstream, including public schools, between the 1970s and 2010s, and why it matters for education, law, and religion. In the 1960s, the U.S. Supreme Court prohibited public schools from endorsing prayer and devotional Bible reading. Yoga and meditation advocates reframed these practices as secular by downplaying religious beliefs and advertising scientific evidence of health benefits and cultivation of universal morality and ethics. Certain promoters used tactics of self-censorship, camouflage, code-swi

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Golemon, Larry Abbott. Clergy Education in America. Oxford University Press, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780195314670.001.0001.

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This book explores the first 150 years of how pastors, priests, rabbis were educated in the United States. These clerical and professions were educated to lead in both religious and public life—specifically through cultural production in five social arenas: the family, the congregation or parish, schools, voluntary associations, and publishing. Protestants, Roman Catholics, and Jews established distinct traditions of graduate theological education during this period of development. These schools placed theological and rabbinical disciplines within liberal arts pedagogies that emphasized the fo

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Pollock, Emily Richmond. Opera After the Zero Hour. Oxford University Press, 2019. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780190063733.001.0001.

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Opera after the Zero Hour argues that newly composed opera in West Germany after World War II was a site for the renegotiation of musical traditions during an era in which tradition had become politically fraught. The idea of the “Zero Hour,” which put a rhetorical caesura between National Socialism and postwar occupied and divided Germany, was belied by significant continuities with earlier periods and by repeated efforts at conservative restoration. Opera’s social, aesthetic, and political value systems made it an essential piece of this cultural ethos. Its conservatism was creative and mult

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Kurizki, Gershon, and Goren Gordon. The Quantum Matrix. Oxford University Press, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198787464.001.0001.

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“Meet Henry Bar, a physicist and … quantum superhero.” The title The Quantum Matrix refers to a central concept in quantum physics, but also (allegorically) to our enigmatic world. In this book, Henry Bar, physicist and the first quantum superhero, guides the reader through the amazing quantum world. Henry’s hair-raising adventures in his perilous struggle for quantum coherence are graphically depicted by comics and thoroughly explained to the lay reader. Behind each adventure lies a key concept in quantum physics. These concepts range from the basic quantum coherence and entanglement through

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Campbell, John, and Matthew T. Page. Nigeria. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/wentk/9780190657970.001.0001.

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As the “Giant of Africa,” Nigeria is home to about twenty percent of the population of Sub-Saharan Africa, serves as Africa’s largest producer of oil and natural gas, comprises Africa’s largest economy, and represents the cultural center of African literature, film, and music. Yet it is plagued by problems that keep it from realizing its potential as a world power. Boko Haram, a radical, Islamist insurrection centered in the northeast of the country, is a pervasive security challenge, as is the continuous restiveness in the Niger Delta, the heartland of Nigeria’s petroleum wealth. The former s

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Harding, Dennis. Rewriting History. Oxford University Press, 2019. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198817734.001.0001.

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‘Every generation re-writes history in its own way’. Re-writing History applies Collingwood’s dictum to a series of topics and themes, some of which have been central to prehistoric and protohistoric archaeology for the past century or more, while some have been triggered by more recent changes in technology or social attitudes. Some issues are highly controversial, like the proposals for the Stonehenge World Heritage sites. Others challenge long-held popular myths, like the deconstruction of the Celts and by extension the Picts. Yet some traditional tenets of scholarship have gone unchallenge

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