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A Song of the Corner
Xi Chuan
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• Author(s): Xi Chuan • Publisher: Chinese University of Hong Kong Press • Publisher Imprint: Chinese University of Hong Kong Press • BISAC: GeneralDrawn from Hong Kong International Poetry Nights 2011, A Song of the Corner is a chapbook of poetr...
View full detailsWords and the World: International Poetry Nights in Hong Kong
Gilbert C. F. Fong
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• Author(s): Gilbert C. F. Fong • Publisher: Chinese University of Hong Kong Press • Publisher Imprint: Chinese University of Hong Kong Press • BISAC: GeneralFollowing the convening of Hong Kong International Poetry Nights 2011, The World of Word...
View full detailsCritical Cinema: Beyond the Theory of Practice
Clive Myer
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• Author(s): Clive Myer • Publisher: Wallflower Press • Publisher Imprint: Wallflower Press • BISAC: Film - History & CriticismCritical Cinema: Beyond the Theory of Practice purges the obstructive line between the making of and the theorising...
View full detailsLoneliness - Autopsy
Ko Hua Chen
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• Author(s): Ko Hua Chen • Publisher: Chinese University of Hong Kong Press • Publisher Imprint: Chinese University of Hong Kong Press • BISAC: GeneralDrawn from Hong Kong International Poetry Nights 2011, Loneliness * Autopsy is a chapbook of po...
View full detailsFlame
C. D. Wright
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• Author(s): C. D. Wright • Publisher: Chinese University of Hong Kong Press • Publisher Imprint: Chinese University of Hong Kong Press • BISAC: American - GeneralDrawn from Hong Kong International Poetry Nights 2011, Flame is a chapbook of poetr...
View full detailsBookstore in a Dream
Chih Cheng Lo
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• Author(s): Chih Cheng Lo • Publisher: Chinese University of Hong Kong Press • Publisher Imprint: Chinese University of Hong Kong Press • BISAC: GeneralDrawn from Hong Kong International Poetry Nights 2011, Bookstore in a Dream is a chapbook of ...
View full detailsNathan Road
Fai Yip
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• Author(s): Fai Yip • Publisher: Chinese University of Hong Kong Press • Publisher Imprint: Chinese University of Hong Kong Press • BISAC: GeneralDrawn from Hong Kong International Poetry Nights 2011, Nathan Road is a chapbook of poetry by Yip F...
View full detailsThe Tattoo Artist
Silke Scheuermann
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• Author(s): Silke Scheuermann • Publisher: Chinese University of Hong Kong Press • Publisher Imprint: Chinese University of Hong Kong Press • BISAC: GeneralDrawn from Hong Kong International Poetry Nights 2011, The Tattoo Artist is a chapbook of...
View full detailsThe Naming of a Crow
Jian Yu
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• Author(s): Jian Yu • Publisher: Chinese University of Hong Kong Press • Publisher Imprint: Chinese University of Hong Kong Press • BISAC: GeneralDrawn from Hong Kong International Poetry Nights 2011, The Naming of a Crow is a chapbook of poetry...
View full detailsIn Brief
Feng Yao
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• Author(s): Feng Yao • Publisher: Chinese University of Hong Kong Press • Publisher Imprint: Chinese University of Hong Kong Press • BISAC: GeneralDrawn from Hong Kong International Poetry Nights 2011, In Brief is a chapbook of poetry by Yao Fen...
View full detailsLow Key
Xiang Yu
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• Author(s): Xiang Yu • Publisher: Chinese University of Hong Kong Press • Publisher Imprint: Chinese University of Hong Kong Press • BISAC: Asian - GeneralDrawn from Hong Kong International Poetry Nights 2011, Low Key is a chapbook of poetry by ...
View full detailsMyself, My Train, and You
Yu Ling
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• Author(s): Yu Ling • Publisher: Chinese University of Hong Kong Press • Publisher Imprint: Chinese University of Hong Kong Press • BISAC: GeneralDrawn from Hong Kong International Poetry Nights 2011, Myself, My Train and You is a chapbook of po...
View full detailsStairway
Tian Yuan
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• Author(s): Tian Yuan • Publisher: Chinese University of Hong Kong Press • Publisher Imprint: Chinese University of Hong Kong Press • BISAC: GeneralDrawn from Hong Kong International Poetry Nights 2011, Stairway is a chapbook of poetry by Tian Y...
View full detailsThe Platform Sutra of the Sixth Patriarch
Philip B. Yampolsky
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• Author(s): Philip B. Yampolsky • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: Buddhism - Sacred WritingsDating back to the eighth century C.E., the Platform Sutra of the Sixth Patriarch is a found...
View full detailsMaccormick's Scotland
Neil Walker
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• Author(s): Neil Walker • Publisher: Edinburgh University Press • Publisher Imprint: Edinburgh University Press • BISAC: JurisprudenceFrom the Back Cover*AUTHOR APPROVED A gedenkshrift to one of Scotland's most prominent jurists. This book analy...
View full detailsJapan and the Culture of the Four Seasons: Nature, Literature, and the Arts
Haruo Shirane
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• Author(s): Haruo Shirane • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: Asian - GeneralElegant representations of nature and the four seasons populate a wide range of Japanese genres and media―fro...
View full detailsImmanence - Deleuze and Philosophy
Miguel De Beistegui
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• Author(s): Miguel De Beistegui • Publisher: Edinburgh University Press • Publisher Imprint: Edinburgh University Press • BISAC: Criticism & TheoryFrom the Back CoverAs a kind of sequel to his monumental Truth and Genesis, Miguel de Beistegu...
View full detailsLiterature and Film in Cold War South Korea: Freedom's Frontier
Theodore Hughes
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• Author(s): Theodore Hughes • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: Asian - GeneralKorean writers and filmmakers crossed literary and visual cultures in multilayered ways under Japanese colo...
View full detailsThe Essential Huainanzi
An Li King Of Hua
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• Author(s): An Li King Of Hua • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: PoliticalCompiled in the second century B.C.E, the Huainanzi clarifies a crucial period in the development of Chinese co...
View full detailsPlaying to the Camera: Musicians and Musical Performance in Documentary Cinema
Thomas Cohen
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• Author(s): Thomas Cohen • Publisher: Wallflower Press • Publisher Imprint: Wallflower Press • BISAC: Asian - GeneralPlaying to the Camera is the first full-length study devoted to the musical performance documentary. Its scope ranges from rock ...
View full detailsPlaying to the Camera: Musicians and Musical Performance in Documentary Cinema
Thomas Cohen
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• Author(s): Thomas Cohen • Publisher: Wallflower Press • Publisher Imprint: Wallflower Press • BISAC: Asian - GeneralPlaying to the Camera is the first full-length study devoted to the musical performance documentary. Its scope ranges from rock ...
View full detailsCamera Historica: The Century in Cinema
Antoine De Baecque
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• Author(s): Antoine De Baecque • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: Film - History & CriticismAntoine de Baecque proposes a new historiography of cinema, exploring film as a visual ar...
View full detailsMultiple Modernities: A Tale of Scandinavian Experiences
Gunnar Skirbekk
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• Author(s): Gunnar Skirbekk • Publisher: Chinese University of Hong Kong Press • Publisher Imprint: Chinese University of Hong Kong Press • BISAC: GeneralMultiple Modernities approaches the concept of modernity through two historical phases of N...
View full detailsTransgender 101: A Simple Guide to a Complex Issue
Nicholas Teich
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• Author(s): Nicholas Teich • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: LGBTQ+Written by a social worker, popular educator, and member of the transgender community, this well-rounded resource com...
View full detailsBritish Government and Politics: A Comparative Guide
Duncan Watts
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• Author(s): Duncan Watts • Publisher: Edinburgh University Press • Publisher Imprint: Edinburgh University Press • BISAC: Europe - Great Britain - GeneralFrom the Back CoverYour handy guide to the British political system This introduction tells...
View full detailsCamera Historica: The Century in Cinema
Antoine De Baecque
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• Author(s): Antoine De Baecque • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: Film - History & CriticismAntoine de Baecque proposes a new historiography of cinema, exploring film as a visual ar...
View full detailsBorder Politics: The Limits of Sovereign Power
Nick Vaughan-Williams
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• Author(s): Nick Vaughan-Williams • Publisher: Edinburgh University Press • Publisher Imprint: Edinburgh University Press • BISAC: Asian - GeneralFrom the Back Cover[FRONT COVER, place in the white band along the bottom of the front cover] Gold ...
View full detailsHow to Read Chinese Poetry Workbook
Jie Cui
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• Author(s): Jie Cui • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: Asian - GeneralDesigned to work with the acclaimed course text How to Read Chinese Poetry: A Guided Anthology, the How to Read Chi...
View full detailsMahatma Gandhi: Nonviolent Power in Action
Dennis Dalton
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• Author(s): Dennis Dalton • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: Political Process - GeneralDennis Dalton's classic account of Gandhi's political and intellectual development focuses on the...
View full detailsDemocracy, Islam, and Secularism in Turkey
Ahmet Kuru
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• Author(s): Ahmet Kuru • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: Middle East - GeneralWhile Turkey has grown as a world power, promoting the image of a progressive and stable nation, several c...
View full detailsPsychosocial Capacity Building in Response to Disasters
Joshua Miller
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• Author(s): Joshua Miller • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: Disasters & Disaster ReliefDisaster responders treat more than just the immediate emotional and psychological trauma of ...
View full detailsStudying the Bourne Ultimatum
Neil Archer
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• Author(s): Neil Archer • Publisher: Liverpool University Press • Publisher Imprint: Liverpool University Press • BISAC: Film - History & CriticismAt the time of its release in 2007, The Bourne Ultimatum was described by one writer as the bl...
View full detailsThe Columbia Guide to Religion in American History
Paul Harvey
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• Author(s): Paul Harvey • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: HistoryThe first guide to American religious history from colonial times to the present, this anthology features twenty-two le...
View full detailsReadings of the Platform Sutra
Morten Schlütter
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• Author(s): Morten Schlütter • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: Buddhism - General (see also Philosophy - Buddhist)The Platform Sutra comprises a wide range of important Chan/Zen Buddhi...
View full detailsThe Immigration Crucible: Transforming Race, Nation, and the Limits of the Law
Philip Kretsedemas
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• Author(s): Philip Kretsedemas • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: Emigration & ImmigrationExplores recent trends in U.S. immigration policy, the rise in extralegal state power over ...
View full detailsThe Immigration Crucible: Transforming Race, Nation, and the Limits of the Law
Philip Kretsedenas
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• Author(s): Philip Kretsedenas • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: Emigration & ImmigrationIn the debate over U. S. immigration, all sides now support policy and practice that expand...
View full detailsThe Second Vienna Award and the Hungarian-Romanian Relations, 1940-1944
Béni L. Balogh
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• Author(s): Béni L. Balogh • Publisher: East European Monographs • Publisher Imprint: East European Monographs • BISAC: International Relations - GeneralThis study examines the direct political and diplomatic antecedents, circumstances and conse...
View full detailsJapanese Cinema Goes Global: Filmworkers' Journeys
Yoshiharu Tezuka
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• Author(s): Yoshiharu Tezuka • Publisher: Hong Kong University Press • Publisher Imprint: Hong Kong University Press • BISAC: Film - History & CriticismFrom the Back CoverAsian Film / Japanese Culture
Globalectics: Theory and the Politics of Knowing
Ngugi Wa Thiong'O
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• Author(s): Ngugi Wa Thiong'O • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: Semiotics & TheoryA masterful writer working in many genres, Ngugi wa Thiong'o entered the East African literary sce...
View full detailsHitchcock Annual: Volume 17
Richard Allen
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• Author(s): Richard Allen • Publisher: Hitchcock Annual • Publisher Imprint: Hitchcock Annual • BISAC: Asian - GeneralHitchcock Annual: Volume 17 contains essays on two of Hitchcock's most well-known films, Notorious and The Birds, and two of hi...
View full detailsHideous Progeny: Disability, Eugenics, and Classic Horror Cinema
Angela Smith
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• Author(s): Angela Smith • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: Film - History & CriticismTwisted bodies, deformed faces, aberrant behavior, and abnormal desires characterized the hideo...
View full detailsHideous Progeny: Disability, Eugenics, and Classic Horror Cinema
Angela Smith
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• Author(s): Angela Smith • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: Film - History & CriticismTwisted bodies, deformed faces, aberrant behavior, and abnormal desires characterized the hideo...
View full detailsThe Dissent Papers: The Voices of Diplomats in the Cold War and Beyond
Hannah Gurman
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• Author(s): Hannah Gurman • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: United States - 20th CenturyBeginning with the Cold War and concluding with the 2003 invasion of Iraq, Hannah Gurman explore...
View full detailsWomen in Iraq: Past Meets Present
Noga Efrati
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• Author(s): Noga Efrati • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: Middle East - GeneralNoga Efrati outlines the first social and political history of women in Iraq during the periods of Britis...
View full detailsModernist Commitments: Ethics, Politics, and Transnational Modernism
Jessica Berman
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• Author(s): Jessica Berman • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: American - GeneralJessica Berman demonstrates how modernist narrative connects ethical attitudes and responsibilities to th...
View full detailsModernist Commitments: Ethics, Politics, and Transnational Modernism
Jessica Berman
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• Author(s): Jessica Berman • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: American - GeneralJessica Berman demonstrates how modernist narrative connects ethical attitudes and responsibilities to th...
View full detailsThe Greatest Grid: The Master Plan of Manhattan, 1811-2011
Hilary Ballon
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• Author(s): Hilary Ballon • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: GeneralLaying out Manhattan's street grid and providing a rationale for the growth of New York was the city's first great ci...
View full detailsA Confiscated Memory: Wadi Salib and Haifa's Lost Heritage
Yfaat Weiss
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• Author(s): Yfaat Weiss • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: Anthropology - GeneralYfaat Weiss tells the story of an Arab neighborhood in Haifa that later acquired iconic status in Israel...
View full detailsActs of God and Man: Ruminations on Risk and Insurance
Michael Powers
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• Author(s): Michael Powers • Publisher: Columbia Business School Publishing • Publisher Imprint: Columbia Business School Publishing • BISAC: Insurance - Risk Assessment & ManagementMuch has been written about the ups and downs of financial ...
View full detailsHiroshima After Iraq: Three Studies in Art and War
Rosalyn Deutsche
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• Author(s): Rosalyn Deutsche • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: Criticism & TheoryMany on the left lament an apathy or amnesia toward recent acts of war. Particularly during the Geo...
View full detailsSpecies Matters: Humane Advocacy and Cultural Theory
Marianne Dekoven
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• Author(s): Marianne Dekoven • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: Animal RightsWhy has the academy struggled to link advocacy for animals to advocacy for various human groups? Within cult...
View full detailsSpecies Matters: Humane Advocacy and Cultural Theory
Marianne Dekoven
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• Author(s): Marianne Dekoven • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: Animal RightsWhy has the academy struggled to link advocacy for animals to advocacy for various human groups? Within cult...
View full detailsWitchfinder General
Ian Cooper
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• Author(s): Ian Cooper • Publisher: Liverpool University Press • Publisher Imprint: Liverpool University Press • BISAC: Film - History & CriticismWitchfinder General (1968), known as The Conqueror Worm in America, was directed by Michael Ree...
View full detailsWolfgang Von Kempelen: A Biography
Alice Reininger
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• Author(s): Alice Reininger • Publisher: East European Monographs • Publisher Imprint: East European Monographs • BISAC: MemoirsOver the centuries, much has been written about Wolfgang von Kempelen, the inventor of the "speaking machine," and au...
View full detailsEuropean Multiculturalisms: Cultural, Religious and Ethnic Challenges
Anna Triandafyllidou
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• Author(s): Anna Triandafyllidou • Publisher: Edinburgh University Press • Publisher Imprint: Edinburgh University Press • BISAC: Public Affairs & AdministrationFrom the Back CoverProposes a common European intellectual framework to evaluate...
View full detailsRites of Return: Diaspora Poetics and the Politics of Memory
Marianne Hirsch
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• Author(s): Marianne Hirsch • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: Anthropology - Cultural & SocialThe first decade of the twenty-first century witnessed a passionate engagement with th...
View full detailsLineages of Political Society: Studies in Postcolonial Democracy
Partha Chatterjee
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• Author(s): Partha Chatterjee • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: History & Theory - GeneralPartha Chatterjee, a pioneering theorist known for his disciplinary range, builds on his t...
View full detailsHistory and Repetition
Kojin Karatani
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• Author(s): Kojin Karatani • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: Asia - JapanKojin Karatani wrote the essays in History and Repetition during a time of radical historical change, triggered...
View full detailsSocial Construction and Social Work Practice: Interpretations and Innovations
Stanley Witkin
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• Author(s): Stanley Witkin • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: Public Policy - Social Services & WelfareSocial construction addresses the cultural factors and social dynamics that gi...
View full detailsHindu Widow Marriage
Ishvarchandra Vidyasagar
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• Author(s): Ishvarchandra Vidyasagar • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: Sociology - Marriage & FamilyBefore the passage of the Hindu Widow's Re-marriage Act of 1856, Hindu tradition...
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