Wit as a weapon: The political joke in history [1 ed.] 0584103956, 9780584103953

The Hysterical History Joke Book 9781838578664

Q: When did early people start wearing uncreased clothes? A: In the Iron Age Take a time trip with this hilarious collec

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A technical history of America’sNuclear Weapon s

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Weapon: A Visual History of Arms and Armor 9780756665401, 075666540X

Объемное и очень красочное издание посвященное истории вооружений. От копий до Колашникова, от Римского легионера до Аме

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Prayer as a Political Problem

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The artist's joke

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The Image before the Weapon: A Critical History of the Distinction between Combatant and Civilian 9780801460784

Since at least the Middle Ages, the laws of war have distinguished between combatants and civilians under an injunction

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The Ruble: A Political History 9780197663714, 9780197663738

A groundbreaking history of Russia, from empire to the Soviet era, viewed through the lens of its money. Money seems pa

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The Employee: A Political History 9780812209235

The Employee examines how American businesses dominated and influenced labor law as they pushed for an ever-narrower def

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Landscape as Weapon: Cultures of Exhaustion and Refusal 1789143055, 9781789143058

Once the playgrounds and raw material for the avantgarde, abandoned places and things—decommissioned military sites, pos

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Wit and the Writing of History: The Rhetoric of Historiography in Imperial Rome 0299118045, 9780299118044

Wit has many uses in political discourse—to entertain, to underscore or unmask, to hinder or enhance insight. Wit and th

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