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The identity of the Scottish nation : an historic quest
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ISBN: 0748610715 Year: 1998 Publisher: Edinburgh Edinburgh University Press

The Politics of Latin Literature
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ISBN: 0691089841 0691068275 1400822513 128275338X 9786612753381 1400811929 9781400811922 9781400822515 9780691068275 6612753382 9781282753389 9780691089843 Year: 2001 Publisher: Princeton, NJ

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This is the first book to describe the intimate relationship between Latin literature and the politics of ancient Rome. Until now, most scholars have viewed classical Latin literature as a product of aesthetic concerns. Thomas Habinek shows, however, that literature was also a cultural practice that emerged from and intervened in the political and social struggles at the heart of the Roman world. Habinek considers major works by such authors as Cato, Cicero, Horace, Ovid, and Seneca. He shows that, from its beginnings in the late third century B.C. to its eclipse by Christian literature six hundred years later, classical literature served the evolving interests of Roman and, more particularly, aristocratic power. It fostered a prestige dialect, for example; it appropriated the cultural resources of dominated and colonized communities; and it helped to defuse potentially explosive challenges to prevailing values and authority. Literature also drew upon and enhanced other forms of social authority, such as patriarchy, religious ritual, cultural identity, and the aristocratic procedure of self-scrutiny, or existimatio. Habinek's analysis of the relationship between language and power in classical Rome breaks from the long Romantic tradition of viewing Roman authors as world-weary figures, aloof from mundane political concerns--a view, he shows, that usually reflects how scholars have seen themselves. The Politics of Latin Literature will stimulate new interest in the historical context of Latin literature and help to integrate classical studies into ongoing debates about the sociology of writing.

Ideology and Jewish identity in Israeli and American literature
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ISBN: 0791450686 0791450678 0791490149 9780791490143 9780791450680 9780791450673 Year: 2001 Volume: *5 Publisher: Albany State University of New York Press

L'identité sociale : la construction de l'individu dans les relations entre groupe
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ISBN: 2706108258 9782706108259 Year: 1999 Volume: 15 Publisher: Saint-Martin-d'Hères (Isère) : PUG,

Social identity processes
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ISBN: 0761960864 0761960856 1446218619 1446236641 1282623249 9786612623240 0857026399 9780857026392 9781446218617 9781446236642 9781282623248 6612623241 9780761960850 9780761960867 Year: 2000 Publisher: London Thousand Oaks, Calif. SAGE

Friendly fire : American images of the Vietnam War
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ISBN: 0195141962 0195116038 0198027583 1280655224 142374571X 0195349628 1602567506 0199881650 9781423745716 9780195116038 9786610655229 6610655227 9780195349627 9781280655227 9780198027584 9781602567504 9780195141962 0197724175 9780199881659 Year: 2023 Publisher: New York ; Oxford University Press,

The social economics of poverty : on identities, communities, groups and networks
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ISBN: 0415700892 0415700884 9780415700894 9780415700887 Year: 2005 Publisher: London ; New York, NY : Routledge,

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This book presents a unique analysis of the moral and social dimensions of microeconomic behavior in developing countries and calls into question standard notions of rationality and many of the assumptions of neo-classical economics, showing how these are inappropriate in communities with widespread disparity in incomes. This book will prove to be essential for students studying development economics.

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