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• The Testimony of Lives: Narrative and Memory in Post-Soviet Latvia

  In 1944, Vieda Skultans left Latvia as a six month-old refugee. In 1990, she returned for the first time. This remarkable book is both a personal account of a homecoming, and an anthropology of a …

• Acting ‘Otherwise’: The Institutionalization of Women’s/Gender Studies in Taiwan’s Universities

  Concerns the strategies of action that have been used by feminist scholars to attain the institutionalization of women's/gender studies in universities.

• Utopia Antiqua: Readings of the Golden Age and decline at Rome

  Utopia Antiqua is a fresh look at narratives of the Golden Age and decline in ancient Roman literature of the late Republic and imperial period. Through the lens of utopian theory, Rhiannon Evans …

• Taming Democracy: "The People," the Founders, and the Troubled Ending of the American Revolution

  Americans are fond of reflecting upon the Founding Fathers, the noble group of men who came together to force out the tyranny of the British and bring democracy to the land. Unfortunately, as Terry …