Structures of Power

Structures of PowerThe proceedings of the eleventh annual University of Chicago Oriental Institute Seminar. Its central goal is to present a cross cultural study of the intersection between law and gender relations in the ancient world, with a focus on the ancient Near East.

to more private displays of empire in suburban gardens

80 km south of Petra

It serves as a critical discussion accounting for the experiences of civil society in the enforcement of global security measures by governments in the Americas

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The first book to examine the proposition that Irish public servants in India were moved by their ‘Irishness’ to subvert or eccentrically implement policies of the Raj

Indispensable immigrants recreates the world of peasants who streamed into the cities of late-medieval and early modern northern Italy to carry crushingly heavy containers of wine

Conrad’s Marlow offers a comprehensive account and critical analysis of one of Conrad’s most celebrated creations

This is a landmark publication in the history of Islamic studies

this is a splendidly readable history

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this book sheds new light on the politics and culture of the period

this book offers a comprehensive re-evaluation of this vast literature and concludes that western approaches to the Orient have been much more ambiguous and genuinely interactive than Said allowed