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The Wilder House Series in Politics, History and Culture by Suzanne M. Desan

24 primary works • 24 total works
Reclaiming the Sacred: Lay Religion and Popular Politics in Revolutionary France
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3.25 · 4 Ratings · published 1991 · 3 editions
"This is a carefully crafted piece of social histo…

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    Language and Power: Exploring Political Cultures in Indonesia
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    4.22     · 117 Ratings · 15 Reviews · published 1990 · 11 editions
    In this lively book, Benedict R. O'G. Anderson exp…

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    Communities of Grain: Rural Rebellion in Comparative Perspective
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    4.00     · 2 Ratings · published 1991 · 1 edition
    "As an extended essay on an important theme of com…

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    The Presence of the Past: Chronicles, Politics, and Culture in Sinhala Life
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    4.25     · 4 Ratings · published 1991 · 2 editions
    Tracing the evolution of an ancient but ongoing Sr…

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    "We Ask for British Justice": Workers and Racial Difference in Late Imperial Britain
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    3.43     · 7 Ratings · published 1994 · 3 editions

    Laura Tabili is the first historian to examine the…

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    True France: The Wars over Cultural Identity, 1900–1945
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    3.31     · 13 Ratings · published 1992 · 3 editions
    Today as many as 30 percent of French voters would…

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    Unsettled States, Disputed Lands: Britain and Ireland, France and Algeria, Israel and the West Bank-Gaza
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    3.79     · 14 Ratings · published 1993 · 10 editions
    A pathbreaking study carried out over a decade and…

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    Manufacturing Inequality: Gender Division in the French and British Metalworking Industries, 1914-1939
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    4.00     · 9 Ratings · 1 Reviews · published 1995 · 3 editions
    Manufacturing Inequality compares the complex hist…

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    The Rise of Christian Democracy in Europe
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    3.74     · 19 Ratings · published 1996 · 4 editions
    Although dominant in West European politics for mo…

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    New Voices in the Nation: Women and the Greek Resistance, 1941–1964
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    3.86     · 7 Ratings · published 1996 · 6 editions
    During World War II, movements organized to resist…

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    Bandits and Bureaucrats: The Ottoman Route to State Centralization
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    3.79     · 48 Ratings · 6 Reviews · published 1994 · 8 editions
    Why did the main challenge to the Ottoman state co…

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    Making the Fascist Self: The Political Culture of Interwar Italy
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    3.71     · 14 Ratings · 3 Reviews · published 1996 · 4 editions
    In her examination of the culture of Italian fasci…

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    Moral Aspects of Economic Growth, and Other Essays: Euripides and the Traffic in Women
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    3.44     · 9 Ratings · published 1998 · 6 editions
    Barrington Moore, Jr., one of the most distinguish…

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    Democracy, Revolution, and History
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    3.33     · 3 Ratings · published 1998 · 4 editions
    The work of Barrington Moore, Jr., is one of the l…

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    State/Culture: State-Formation after the Cultural Turn
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    3.71     · 7 Ratings · published 1999 · 6 editions
    What impact does culture have on state-formation a…

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    Democracy in Translation: Understanding Politics in an Unfamiliar Culture
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    3.85     · 13 Ratings · 1 Reviews · published 1998 · 7 editions
    Frederic C. Schaffer challenges the assumption oft…

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    The Affirmative Action Empire: Nations and Nationalism in the Soviet Union, 1923–1939
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    4.09     · 141 Ratings · 11 Reviews · published 2001 · 7 editions
    "Terry Martin looks at the nationalities policy of…

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    Hausaland Divided: Colonialism and Independence in Nigeria and Niger
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    4.00     · 4 Ratings · published 1994 · 5 editions
    How have different forms of colonialism shaped soc…

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    Gifts, Favors and Banquets: Art of Social Relationships in China
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    4.10     · 30 Ratings · 3 Reviews · published 1994 · 9 editions
    An elaborate and pervasive set of practices, calle…

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    Identity in Formation: The Russian-Speaking Populations in the New Abroad
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    3.90     · 30 Ratings · 2 Reviews · published 1998 · 7 editions
    Since the collapse of the Soviet Union, nationalit…

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    The Familial State: Ruling Families and Merchant Capitalism in Early Modern Europe
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    3.90     · 20 Ratings · 1 Reviews · published 2005 · 6 editions
    The seventeenth century was called the Dutch Golde…

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    Window on the East: National and Imperial Identities in Late Tsarist Russia
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    3.40     · 5 Ratings · 1 Reviews · published 2001 · 2 editions
    Robert Geraci presents an exceptionally original a…

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    Divided Nations: Class, Politics, and Nationalism in the Basque Country and Catalonia
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    5.00     · 1 Ratings · published 1995 · 2 editions
    Nationalist movements in both the Basque Country a…

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    State and Society in Medieval Europe: Gwynedd and Languedoc Under Outside Rule
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    4.00     · 1 Ratings · published 1990 · 3 editions
    In the thirteenth century, Languedoc was brought u…

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