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The creation of the Egyptian monarchy in 1922, under King Fuad II, opened contests and debates over fundamental cultural
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At the dawn of the 1930s a new empowered and liberated image of the female was taking root in popular culture in the Wes
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Uncovers the politics of nostalgia and madness inherent in the Arabic novel The Arabic novel has taken shape in the int
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Staging Francebetween the World Wars aims to establish the nature and significance of the modernist transformation of Fr
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In any age and any given society, cultural practices reflect the material circumstances of people's everyday lives.
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Barry R. Posen explores how military doctrine takes shape and the role it plays in grand strategy—that collection of mil
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How does cultural context affect the interpretation of art? What makes artists' work transnational or national in c
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This book explores the position of art and artists under a number of different political regimes of the twentieth and tw
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"An interdisciplinary group of scholars explores the social history and anthropology of Daoism from the late ninete
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