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  Persuasion and Propaganda: Monuments and the Eighteenth-Century British Empire - Joan Coutu - Google Books

  https://books.google.de/books?id=ccwzxJyFJ0sC&pg=PA143

  Lavishly illustrated, Persuasion and Propaganda is the first study of these works of art within the framework of colonial politics and political culture. While examining the rise of the idea of the public in the modern world, Joan Coutu also explores how…

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  Archaeology of African Plant Use - Google Books

  https://books.google.de/books?id=32-TDAAAQBAJ&pg=PA252

  The first major synthesis of African archaeobotany in decades, this book focuses on Paleolithic archaeobotany and the relationship between agriculture and social complexity. It explores the effects that plant life has had on humans as they evolved from…

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  Yiddish and the Creation of Soviet Jewish Culture: 1918-1930 - David Shneer - Google Books

  https://books.google.de/books?id=eS03_4qpDo4C&pg=PA113&lpg=PA113&dq=Communist+Youth+Haggadah&source=bl&ots=sYadZqd2oN&sig=aXhcUq

  Yiddish and the Creation of Soviet Jewish Culture gives voice to the Soviet Jewish activists empowered by the state to create a Soviet Jewish national culture. Jewish activists were interested in building a Soviet Jewish culture because they were striving…

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  The Roads of Chinese Childhood: Learning and Identification in Angang - Charles Stafford - Google Books

  https://books.google.de/books?id=_8d_pnOaLXAC&pg=PA48#v=onepage

  Children in the Taiwanese fishing community of Angang have their attention drawn, consciously and unconsciously, to various forms of identification through their participation in schooling, family life and popular religion. In particular they learn about…

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  Dutch Art: An Encyclopedia - Google Books

  https://books.google.de/books?id=ZPhLoy0FICMC&pg=PA447#v=onepage

  An illustrated feast for the eye and intellect Dutch Art explores developments in art, art history, art criticism, and cultural history of the Netherlands from the artists' workshops for the Utrecht Dom in 1475 to the latest movements of the 1990s. it is…

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  A Victorian Traveler in the Middle East: The Photography and Travel Writing ... - Nancy Micklewright, Annie Brassey - Google Books

  http://books.google.de/books?id=Asf_kpawGnMC&pg=PA21&dq=October+7,+1839+Brassey&hl=de&ei=lQCnTIPrJMbCswbVqfGzDA&sa=X&oi=book_res

  Juxtaposing the albums of Lady Brassey, an overlooked figure among Victorian women travelers, with Brassey's travel books, Nancy Micklewright takes advantage of a unique opportunity to examine the role of photography in the 1870s and 1880s in constructing…

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  Islam, Arabs, and Intelligent World of the Jinn - Amira El-Zein - Google Books

  https://books.google.de/books?id=JjTctEZXHCQC&printsec=frontcover&hl=de&source=gbs_atb#v=onepage&q&f=false

  According to the Qur’an, God created two parallel species, man and the jinn, the former from clay and the latter from fire. Beliefs regarding the jinn are deeply integrated into Muslim culture and religion, and have a constant presence in legends, myths,…

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  Ukraine: State and Nation Building - Taras Kuzio - Google Books

  http://books.google.de/books?id=CbGGAgAAQBAJ&printsec=frontcover&dq=taras+kuzio&hl=de&sa=X&ei=tAsVU6rJGMidtQb684GoDw&ved=0CDoQ6A

  Ukraine: State and Nation Building explores the transformation of Soviet Ukraine into an independent state and examines the new elites and their role in the state building process, as well as other attributes of the modern nation-state such as borders,…

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  Racine: Phèdre - Edward D. James, Gillian Jondorf - Google Books

  http://books.google.de/books?id=otNMwUOl5SsC&pg=PA87&lpg=PA87&dq=racine+phedre+interpretation&source=bl&ots=_UZY9lNN7n&sig=rGYFr

  This introductory study presents Racine's Phèdre as the culmination of French classical tragedy. It situates the play in its historical, literary and theatrical context, shows its relationship with other tragedies of Racine, and sketches its influence on…

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  Zimbabwe's Cinematic Arts: Language, Power, Identity - Katrina Daly Thompson - Google Books

  https://books.google.de/books?id=xQBbVfPukGMC&pg=PA37&lpg=PA37&dq=%22African+Script+Development+Fund%22++Harare&source=bl&ots=27

  This timely book reflects on discourses of identity that pervade local talk and texts in Zimbabwe, a nation beset by political and economic crisis. As she explores questions of culture that play out in broadly accessible local and foreign film and…

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