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Poetry --- Modern --- 20th century
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Literature --- Modern --- 20th century --- 19th century
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This book examines the causes and consequences of ethnic cleansing in the twentieth century Balkans. The analysis offers a top-down interpretation of the expulsion of ethno-national minorities as a means of state-building and questions the argument for forced homogenization as a conflict resolution strategy. In providing a thorough and consistent analysis of large-scale episodes of ethinic cleansing, the book fills an important gap in existing conflict and peace studies literature.
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Although slavery was illegal at the beginning of the twentieth century, segregation was prevalent, especially in the South. Through many uprisings, protests, and demonstrations, segregation was finally abolished and civil rights were established for people of varying colors, races, and genders. Today, we celebrate diversity in our nation because of the Civil Rights Movement of the twentieth century.
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A passionate believer in the power of art-and especially poetry-to influence and critique contemporary culture, Louis Dudek devoted much of his life to shaping the Canadian literary scene through his meditative and experimental poems as well as his work in publishing and teaching. All These Roads: The Poetry of Louis Dudek brings together thirty-five of Dudek's poems written over the course of his sixty-year career. Much of Dudek's poetry is about the practice of art, with comment on the way the craft of poetry is mediated by such factors as university classes, public readi
Aesthetics --- Aesthetics --- Canadian poetry --- Canadian poetry --- Poetry. --- 20th century.
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Authors --- English --- 20th century --- Biography --- Reynolds --- Stephen Sydney --- 1881-1919
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A fascinating study of disease as a trope in German debates about the Nazi past
Germany -- Historiography -- 20th century. --- National socialism -- Moral and ethical aspects. --- Nationalism -- Germany -- History -- 20th century. --- Political culture -- Germany -- History -- 20th century. --- Political culture --- National socialism --- Nationalism --- History --- Moral and ethical aspects --- Moral and ethical aspects. --- Germany --- Historiography
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Inventor of cine-trance, unclassifiable French filmmaker, author of around 140 films including the unsurpassable Moi, un Noir et Cocorico! - Monsieur Poulet , Jean Rouch has established himself as one of the great contemporary creators. Rouch "has never really been identified as belonging to the community of professional filmmakers. He was a sniper. An ethnologist and filmmaker ... A pleasant prankster, ”writes Michel Marie in his Preface.What genre do his works belong to? Documentary or fiction? What is the share of improvisation? What technical choices are favored? What real relationship do these films have with the New Wave? What is his posterity: Pasolini, Depardon?Maxime Scheinleigel, familiar with the universe of this filmmaker, offers us here a nourished and sensitive monograph of Jean Rouch, a universal spirit at the crossroads of cultures.
Music, Dance, Drama & Film --- Film --- Rouch, Jean --- Criticism and interpretation. --- Cinema --- French Director --- 20th Century --- Criticism
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Examines the impact of the Czechoslovak and East German uranium industries on local politics and on societies, particularly in the decade or so after the end of the Second World War. The Erzgebirge – the Ore Mountains – on the border of Czechoslovakia and East Germany of the time, was the oldest uranium mine in the world, whose important resources were badly needed for Stalin's atomic bomb.
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The first and only other biography of Hamlin Garland was published more than forty years ago; since then, letters, manuscripts, and family memoirs have surfaced to provide, along with changing literary scholarship, a more evaluative and critical interpretation of Garland's life and times. Hamlin Garland: A Life is an exploration of Garland's contributions to American literary culture and places his work within the artistic context of its time.
Authors, American --- Garland, Hamlin, --- Garland, Hamlin --- Authors [American ] --- 19th century --- Biography --- 20th century --- Garland, Hannibal Hamlin,
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