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  • When Champagne Became French

    Wine and the Making of a National Identity

    by Kolleen M. Guy ...
    Series Book 121 - The Johns Hopkins University Studies in Historical and Political Science
    Winner of the 2002 Manuscript Award from Phi Alpha ThetaWinner of the Gourmand World Cookbook Awards for English Wine, Best Wine History Book, and Best Book on French WineWinner of the Clicquot Wine Book of the Year CompetitionWinner of the Outstanding Manuscript Award from Phi Alpha Theta, this work explains how nationhood emerges by viewing countries as cultural artifacts, a product of "invented ... Read more

    $27.99 USD

  • Statelessness after Arendt

    European refugees in China and the Pacific during the Second World War

    Edited by Kolleen Guy, Jay Winter ...
    Series series Cultural History of Modern War
    This book is a study of statelessness in the period of the Second World War. It breaks new ground by focusing not on Europe, but on the Asian and Pacific theatres of the conflict. This perspective enables us to go beyond Hannah Arendt’s classic account of statelessness in her Origins of Totalitarianism.To her, statelessness was the product of a failed European nation-state system. We find a very ... Read more

    $102.99 USD

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