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Stanford University Press
Pub. Date
[2020]
Description
The Enlightenment remains widely associated with the rise of scientific progress and the loss of religious faith, a dual tendency that is thought to have contributed to the disenchantment of the world. In her wide-ranging and richly illustrated book, Tili Boon Cuillé questions the accuracy of this narrative by investigating the fate of the marvelous in the age of reason. Exploring the affinities between the natural sciences and the fine arts, Cuillé...
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University of Washington Press
Pub. Date
[2018]
Description
When American forces arrived in Vietnam, they found themselves embedded in historical village and frontier spaces already shaped by past conflicts. American bases and bombing targets followed spatial and political logics influenced by the footprints of previous wars in central Vietnam, and these militarized landscapes continue to shape postwar land-use politics.Footprints of War traces the long history of conflict-produced spaces in Vietnam, beginning...
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Publisher
University of Delaware Press
Pub. Date
[2020]
Description
This book is also freely available online as an open access digital edition here: https://bibliopen.org/9781644531792. The open access edition is funded by the National Endowment for the Humanities. In sixteenth-century France, the level of jokes, irony, and ridicule found in pamphlets and plays became aggressively hostile. In Hostile Humor in Renaissance France, Bruce Hayes investigates this period leading up to the French Wars of Religion, when...