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Showing results under subject: 'urbanization and infrastructure development'

Unpacking Duchamp: art in transit 

Author: Judovitz, Dalia
Publisher: University of California Press,  1995
Abstract: Perhaps no twentieth-century artist utilized puns and linguistic ambiguity with greater effect - a…

To craft democracies: an essay on democratic transitions 

Author: Di Palma, Giuseppe
Publisher: University of California Press,  1990
Abstract: Is democracy a hot-house plant? Is it difficult to transplant it into new soil? The fall of so man…

Urban forms and colonial confrontations: Algiers under French rule 

Author: Çelik, Zeynep
Publisher: University of California Press,  1997
Abstract: During its long history as the French colonial city par excellence , Algiers was the site of recur…

A nation of empire: the Ottoman legacy of Turkish modernity 

Author: Meeker, Michael E
Publisher: University of California Press,  2002
Abstract: This innovative study of modern Turkey is the result of many years of ethnographic fieldwork and a…

The politics of desire: Propertius IV 

Author: Janan, Micaela Wakil
Publisher: University of California Press,  2000
Abstract: Propertius (ca. 54 b.c.--ca. 2 b.c.) was a Roman poet who composed four compelling books of elegie…

Songs to make the dust dance: the Ryōjin hishō of twelfth-century Japan 

Author: Kwon, Yung-Hee K
Publisher: University of California Press,  1994
Abstract: Breaking through the long-established image of Heian Japan (794-1185) as a culture dominated by ri…

American literary realism and the failed promise of contract 

Author: Thomas, Brook
Publisher: University of California Press,  1997
Abstract: In law, the late nineteenth century is often called the Age of Contract; in literature, the Age of…

Classicism, politics, and kinship: the Chʿang-chou school of new text Confucianism in late imperial China 

Author: Elman, Benjamin A 1946-
Publisher: University of California Press,  1990
Abstract: Scholars have generally agreed that the story of New Text Confucianism in late imperial China cent…

Theocritus's urban mimes: mobility, gender, and patronage 

Author: Burton, Joan B 1951-
Publisher: University of California Press,  1995
Abstract: Drawing on current literary, cultural, and historical approaches, Joan Burton presents sophisticat…

At the heart of the Empire: Indians and the colonial encounter in late-Victorian Britain 

Author: Burton, Antoinette M 1961-
Publisher: University of California Press,  1998
Abstract: Antoinette Burton focuses on the experiences of three Victorian travelers in Britain to illustrate…
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