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Parricide on the Pampa: A New Study and Translation of Los Gauchos Judíos
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Gerchunoff, Alberto (edited by Edna Aizenberg)
Subject: Religion, South America
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This book presents a radical rereading of Alberto Gerchunoff’s classic Argentinian immigrant saga, Los gauchos judíos (The Jewish Gauchos; 1910). This collection of stories about early 20th-century agricultural colonies founded by persecuted Eastern Europeans Jews on the pampa has been …
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Political Cartoons in the Middle East
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Göçek, Fatma Müge
Subject: Middle East
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The imagery of political cartoons provides a unique yet under-studied insight into how Middle Eastern societies think. By combining the indigenous comic tradition of shadow plays with the imported Western print form, and by drawing on both visual and verbal …
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Once Jews: Stories of Caribbean Sephardim
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Goldish, Josette Capriles
Subject: Caribbean, Religion,Jeiwsh Studies
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Honorable Mention, Latin American Jewish Studies Association (LAJSA) Book Award Committee
The phrase “I am Catholic, but I am Jewish” may seem contradictory to some, but in the Caribbean islands and the countries of the Caribbean periphery, there …
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Fundaciones: Canon, Historia y Cultura Nacional
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González-Stephan, Beatriz
Subject: Latin America
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The first edition received the prestigious Primo Casa de las Americas Prize in 1987 and has become a classic of literary historiography. This is a corrected and updated edition.
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Puerto Rico: The Four-Storied Country
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González, José Luis
Subject: Caribbean
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In this work, González dismantles the myth of a dominant Spanish and racially white national culture in Puerto Rican history. He claims that the national identity is primarily Mestizo (mixed race) with a significant contribution from Africa. González calls the …
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Islamic Art and Literature
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Grabar, Oleg and Cynthia Robinson, editors
Subject: Middle East, Religion
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Edited by Oleg Grabar, one of the leading experts in Islamic art history, along with Cynthia Robinson, this book breaks new ground in the field of Middle Eastern art history.
While illuminated manuscripts from Persia and the Arab world are …
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Accounting for the Environment
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Gray, Rob, Jan Bebbington, and Diane Walters (edited by Martin Houldin)
Subject: Accounting
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In the last five years, accounting for the environment has taken an increasingly central role in shaping discussion within the international accounting profession. Environmental accounting is now seen as an essential element in any organization’s environmental response. This book …
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Minorities in the Ottoman Empire
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Greene, Molly, editor
Subject: Middle East
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The Ottoman Empire was a multi-ethnic, multi-religious state encompassing most of the modern Middle East, and for much of its 600-year existence it managed to rule effectively its diverse peoples. The essays of this work move beyond the traditional state- …
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Iran: A Short History
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Gronke, Monika (translated by Steven Rendall)
Subject: Middle East, Religion
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No country in the Islamic Middle East presents as unique and distinguished a history and culture as Iran, which has managed to maintain its inherent characteristics — some of them from pre-Islamic times — over the course of centuries of …
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