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The Narrative Arts of Tianjin: Between Music and Language - Francesca R. Sborgi Lawson - Google Books
http://books.google.de/books?id=9UVqzgmV1jEC&pg=PA118&lpg=PA118&dq=#v=onepage&q&f=false
The author explores the relationships between language and music in the performance of four narrative genres in the city of Tianjin, China, based upon original field research conducted in the People's Republic of China in the mid 1980s and in 1991.
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The Greek State at War, Part IV - W. Kendrick Pritchett - Google Books
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The volumes of The Greek State at War are an essential reference for the classical scholar. Professor Pritchett has systematically canvassed ancient texts and secondary literature for references to specific topics; each volume explores a unique aspect of…
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Constructing Democracy in Transitioning Societies of Africa ... - S. Wing - Google Books
https://books.google.de/books?id=LdXGAAAAQBAJ&pg=PA87&dq=Ti%C3%A9oul%C3%A9+Konat%C3%A9&hl=de&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwjo1fmcnLfTAhWMalAKH
This book explores the process by which constitutions and democratic institutions are constructed. Wing focuses on how innovative constitutional dialogues involving participation, negotiation, and recognition of groups previously excluded from political…
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Die Rifāʽīya aus Damaskus: Eine Privatbibliothek im osmanischen Syrien und ... - Boris Liebrenz - Google Books
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In Die Rifāʽīya Boris Liebrenz explores the book culture of Ottoman Syria (16th to 19th century) through a unique Damascene private library and asks about the practice of producing and transmitting knowledge, as well as the nature of the reading audience.
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Colonial Survey and Native Landscapes in Rural South Africa, 1850 - 1913 ... - Lindsay F. Braun - Google Books
https://books.google.de/books?id=wAsSBQAAQBAJ&pg=PA289&lpg=PA289&dq=%22Adolf+Schiel%22&source=bl&ots=-NhMq8wRSc&sig=KmzPvhlvSf3f
In Colonial Survey and Native Landscapes in Rural South Africa, 1850 - 1913, Lindsay Frederick Braun explores the technical processes and struggles surrounding the creation and maintenance of boundaries and spaces in South Africa in the nineteenth and…
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The Politics of the Piazza: The History and Meaning of the Italian Square - Eamonn Canniffe - Google Books
http://books.google.de/books?id=TXOmz1NjiVgC&pg=PA194&lpg=PA194&dq=Piazzale+del+Impero&source=bl&ots=HE7ns7kvkW&sig=56MMY9ySEfTK
Through a detailed study of the principal spaces of Italian cities, this book explores the relationship between political systems and their methods of representation in architecture. It examines approximately 70 significant piazzas and situates these in…
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Sugar in the Social Life of Medieval Islam - Tsugitaka Sato - Google Books
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In Sugar in the Social Life of Medieval Islam, Tsugitaka Sato explores actual day-to-day life in medieval Muslim societies through sugar cultivation, production, and trade, and sugar’s use as a sweetener, a medicine, and a symbol of power.
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Medizin im Konflikt: Fakultäten, Märkte und Experten in deutschen ... - Jana Madlen Schütte - Google Books
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In Medizin im Konflikt, Jana Madlen Schütte analyses the position of medical doctors between university and market (from the 14th to the 16th centuries) and explores the strategies that they used to emphasize their authority and to distinguish themselves…
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Pacific Pioneers: Japanese Journeys to America and Hawaii, 1850-80 - John E. Van Sant - Google Books
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This volume profiles the first Japanese who resided in the United States or the Kingdom of Hawaii for a substantial period of time and the Westerners who influenced their experiences in the New World. It explores the motivations and accomplishments of…
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War and Warfare in Late Antiquity (2 vols.): Current Perspectives - Google Books
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This collection of papers, arising from the Late Antique Archaeology conference series, explores war and warfare in Late Antiquity. Papers examine strategy and intelligence, weaponry, literary sources and topography, the West Roman Empire, the East Roman…