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Despite our analytical intelligence, humans are the most cooperative species on the planet. This book argues that this is due to our consciousness. Using concepts from Schopenhauer, Russell, and information technology, it defines consciousness as a super-compound quale.
Despite our analytical intelligence, humans are the most cooperative species on the planet. This book argues that this is due to our consciousness. Using concepts from Schopenhauer, Russell, and information technology, it defines consciousness as a super-compound quale.
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Conserving Fortified Heritage
The Proceedings of the 1st International Conference on Fortifications and World Heritage, New Delhi, 2015
Bringing together papers from a heritage conference, this title examines solutions to the problems faced in site management and interpretation of fortifications. Areas covered include conservation and management challenges and interpretation and tourism challenges in forts.
Bringing together papers from a heritage conference, this title examines solutions to the problems faced in site management and interpretation of fortifications. Areas covered include conservation and management challenges and interpretation and tourism challenges in forts.
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Constitutional Cultures
On the Concept and Representation of Constitutions in the Atlantic World
This volume explores constitutions in the Atlantic World, showing their connectedness. To fully understand a constitutional order, it is necessary to analyse not just the legal text, but its implementation, legitimisation, and especially its culture.
This volume explores constitutions in the Atlantic World, showing their connectedness. To fully understand a constitutional order, it is necessary to analyse not just the legal text, but its implementation, legitimisation, and especially its culture.
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This book explores the colonial history of Cyprus through technology. Examining infrastructural projects like the island's railway, harbours, and electrification, it reveals how the British Empire used technological development to reproduce and prolong its rule.
This book explores the colonial history of Cyprus through technology. Examining infrastructural projects like the island’s railway, harbours, and electrification, it reveals how the British Empire used technological development to reproduce and prolong its rule.
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On St. Patrick’s Day, ‘Everyone is Irish’. But how is this day celebrated, consumed, and contested around the world? This volume explores its global appeal and how it has been commoditized, from the symbolic and religious to the political.
On St. Patrick’s Day, ‘Everyone is Irish’. But how is this day celebrated, consumed, and contested around the world? This volume explores its global appeal and how it has been commoditized, from the symbolic and religious to the political.
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This volume considers the European contexts framing cultural contact. Essays explore encounters far afield and ‘contact within’ Europe, as the arrival of other peoples displaced interaction from distant beaches to European towns and cities.
This volume considers the European contexts framing cultural contact. Essays explore encounters far afield and ‘contact within’ Europe, as the arrival of other peoples displaced interaction from distant beaches to European towns and cities.
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Containing Iran
Obama’s Policy of “Tough Diplomacy”
This book examines the Obama Administration’s policy toward Iran, arguing its “tough diplomacy” was a facade. Designed with Israeli interests, it used sanctions and military threats to create a pretext for aggression—a policy that ultimately failed to contain Iran.
This book examines the Obama Administration’s policy toward Iran, arguing its “tough diplomacy” was a facade. Designed with Israeli interests, it used sanctions and military threats to create a pretext for aggression—a policy that ultimately failed to contain Iran.
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This collection of essays provides insights into the culturally conditioned structure of Asian societies, questioning Eurocentric views of modernity that assume that Confucianism would have to be abandoned if East Asia wanted to develop a dynamic, modern society.
This collection of essays provides insights into the culturally conditioned structure of Asian societies, questioning Eurocentric views of modernity that assume that Confucianism would have to be abandoned if East Asia wanted to develop a dynamic, modern society.
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Binicewicz analyses issues associated with the contemporary and memory in the Polish-German borderlands, showing it to be a complex, multidimensional cultural and geographic area.
Binicewicz analyses issues associated with the contemporary and memory in the Polish-German borderlands, showing it to be a complex, multidimensional cultural and geographic area.
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This book contrasts the American and French Revolutions. While American patriots sought independence to secure life and liberty, French revolutionists aimed to overturn society itself—destroying institutions in the name of a fraternity that exterminated its enemies.
This book contrasts the American and French Revolutions. While American patriots sought independence to secure life and liberty, French revolutionists aimed to overturn society itself—destroying institutions in the name of a fraternity that exterminated its enemies.
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Cosmic Order and Cultural Astronomy
Sacred Cities of India
In India, sacredscapes arise where culture, geography, and cosmos create transcendent power. This volume's essays explore cultural astronomy and cosmic order through case studies of sacred sites like Khajuraho, Gaya, Kashi, Vindhyachal, and Chitrakut.
In India, sacredscapes arise where culture, geography, and cosmos create transcendent power. This volume’s essays explore cultural astronomy and cosmic order through case studies of sacred sites like Khajuraho, Gaya, Kashi, Vindhyachal, and Chitrakut.
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Crafting Identities, Remapping Nationalities
The English-Speaking World in the Age of Globalization
In multicultural societies, identity is a battleground between myths of purity and the need to belong. This book explores how people use the politics of memory to forge personal and communal narratives of self-definition and belonging.
In multicultural societies, identity is a battleground between myths of purity and the need to belong. This book explores how people use the politics of memory to forge personal and communal narratives of self-definition and belonging.
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This collection investigates Portuguese presence in Guinea, Cape Verde, Angola, São Tomé, Brazil and Goa, and the resultant formation of mixed or creole communities which were influenced culturally both by Portugal and indigenous societies.
This collection investigates Portuguese presence in Guinea, Cape Verde, Angola, São Tomé, Brazil and Goa, and the resultant formation of mixed or creole communities which were influenced culturally both by Portugal and indigenous societies.
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Crime Over Time
Temporal Perspectives on Crime and Punishment in Australia
Marrying criminology and history, this book offers a unique examination of crime over 200 years of Australian history. It explores how crime has evolved, from colonial bushranging to cybercrime, revealing the historical factors that shape punishment today.
Marrying criminology and history, this book offers a unique examination of crime over 200 years of Australian history. It explores how crime has evolved, from colonial bushranging to cybercrime, revealing the historical factors that shape punishment today.
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Critical Perspectives on Hollywood Science Fiction
A Neoliberal Crisis?
This book investigates how science fiction films like Avatar, District 9, and Elysium critically interrogate neoliberalism, connecting this ideology to the rise of populist politics, growing income inequality, and racist attitudes.
This book investigates how science fiction films like Avatar, District 9, and Elysium critically interrogate neoliberalism, connecting this ideology to the rise of populist politics, growing income inequality, and racist attitudes.
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Why wasn’t there a successful bourgeois revolution in Russia? This political history of the Russian capitalist class from 1850 to 1917 traces their opposition to the autocracy and their alliance for reform that led to the Soviet state and their own destruction.
Why wasn’t there a successful bourgeois revolution in Russia? This political history of the Russian capitalist class from 1850 to 1917 traces their opposition to the autocracy and their alliance for reform that led to the Soviet state and their own destruction.
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Crossed Correspondences
Writers as Readers and Critics of their Peers
This collection of essays analyses letters between literary peers in which writers comment not only on the production of their correspondent, but also on their own artistic approach and their own work while it is still in progress or not yet published.
This collection of essays analyses letters between literary peers in which writers comment not only on the production of their correspondent, but also on their own artistic approach and their own work while it is still in progress or not yet published.
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Crossing Colonial Historiographies
Histories of Colonial and Indigenous Medicines in Transnational Perspective
This book offers an innovative engagement with the diverse histories of colonial and indigenous medicines across Asia, Africa, and the Americas. It explores new conceptual perspectives and highlights thematic commonalities and divergences across regions.
This book offers an innovative engagement with the diverse histories of colonial and indigenous medicines across Asia, Africa, and the Americas. It explores new conceptual perspectives and highlights thematic commonalities and divergences across regions.
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Transcending Eurocentric models of understanding the female body, this volume addresses historical questions that explore the multiple aspects associated with the uterus through both learned and popular sources, material evidence, daily practices, iconography and representation.
Transcending Eurocentric models of understanding the female body, this volume addresses historical questions that explore the multiple aspects associated with the uterus through both learned and popular sources, material evidence, daily practices, iconography and representation.
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Cultural Exchanges in the Eastern Mediterranean
Asia Minor, Cyprus and Egypt
The history of the Mediterranean is rich with migration, colonisation, and trade. This collection highlights underrepresented cultural exchanges, with Cyprus as a central crossroads, linking the study of everyday life to macro-scale narratives based on trans-regional engagement.
The history of the Mediterranean is rich with migration, colonisation, and trade. This collection highlights underrepresented cultural exchanges, with Cyprus as a central crossroads, linking the study of everyday life to macro-scale narratives based on trans-regional engagement.
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