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Can a bad mayor make a city better

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Focusing on the genre of travel writing, this book examines over 400 British and American literary texts in order to outline and account for the multiple ways in which the Balkans have been represented from the mid-nineteenth century. It makes use of post-structuralist and post-colonialist studies of cross-cultural discourse.

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Through incisive readings of a broad range of medieval texts and informed by poststructuralist, queer, and feminist theories, this book traces the Jewish presence in Western Europe to show how the body, gender, and sexuality were at the root of the construction of medieval religious anxieties, inconsistencies, and instabilities.

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Through incisive readings of a broad range of medieval texts and informed by poststructuralist, queer, and feminist theories, this book traces the Jewish presence in Western Europe to show how the body, gender, and sexuality were at the root of the construction of medieval religious anxieties, inconsistencies, and instabilities.

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A reference work about Wales, it contains entries on various kinds of people and places which have made it so culturally, historically and geographically rich. It also covers topics ranging from: Snowdonia to the pampas of Patagonia, folk heroes to Welsh Olympians, and the men and women of Wales who have excelled in art, culture and politics.

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Provides an introduction to the politics, culture, society and economy of modern Wales. This book examines the differences that are found in Wales. It focuses on the connections that have been forged across these differences and that structure Welsh society. It explores key concepts and debates in the social sciences.

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Combining comment with research abounding in historical and cultural detail, this book tells how from the 16th to the 20th century "The Balkans" have been perceived by west European travellers, many of whom have seen it as part of Asia and sought accordingly to inform their contemporaries of its "exotic", "outlandish" and "primitive" ways.

A contemporary analysis of the people, cultures, and society within the regions that make up Eastern Europe.

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This collection provides a broad analysis of social, political, economic, and security issues in contemporary Central Asia. In particular, the contributors highlight the differences and similarities among the regions states in how they have consolidated statehood since the collapse of the Soviet Union.

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An in-depth, historical encyclopedia of Southeast Asia, with coverage from prehistoric times to the end of the 20th century for each country in the region.

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This book examines a diverse and eclectic array of Australian locales (including Maralinga, cubby huts, video games and art galleries), and the often deliberately erased or marginalised connections contemporary Australia has with Indigenous antiquity.