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The Diplomacy of Edvard Benes in the 1930sThis is a diplomatic history of events leading up to the Munich crisis of 1938 in        which Great Britain and France decided to appease Hitler's demands to annex the        Sudentenland. While much has been written on this period, this book will be the most        comprehensive to date and also the first...

The Power of Place in the Early Islamic WorldRoutes and Realms explores the ways in which Muslims expressed attachment to land in formal texts from the ninth through the eleventh centuries. These texts reveal that territories were imagined specifically as homes, cities, and regions and acted as powerful categories of belonging in the early Islamic...

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This book consists of individual studies of the poet Pindar's eleven odes for the victors of the athletic contests on the island of Aigina. Anne Pippin Burnett addresses questions of mythic self-presentation, as well as Pindar's techniques for unifying his audience and leading it into a shared experience of inspired success....

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Soils, invaluable indicators of the nature and history of the physical and human landscape, have strongly influenced the cultural record left to archaeologists. Not only are they primary reservoirs for artifacts, they often encase entire sites. And soil-forming processes in themselves are an important component of site formation, influencing which...