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 |  |  Fairy Tales: A New History (Excelsior Editions)Overturns traditional views of the origins of fairy tales and documents their actual origins and transmission.
Where did Cinderella come from? Puss in Boots? Rapunzel? The origins of fairy tales are looked at in a new way in these highly engaging pages. Conventional wisdom holds that fairy tales originated in the oral... |  |  |
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 New Homelands: Hindu Communities in Mauritius, Guyana, Trinidad, South Africa, Fiji, and East AfricaWhen the colonial slave trade, and then slavery itself, were abolished early in the 19th century, the British empire brazenly set up a new system of trade using Indian rather than African laborers. The new system of "indentured" labor was supposed to be different from slavery because the indenture, or contract, was written for an... |  |  |  |  Speaking Like a State: Language and Nationalism in PakistanAlyssa Ayres' fascinating study examines Pakistan's troubled history by exploring the importance of culture to political legitimacy. Early leaders selected Urdu as the natural symbol of the nation's great cultural past, but due to its limited base great efforts would be required to make it truly national. This paradox underscores the importance of... |
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 Everest : My Journey to the TopMy father's name is Kishan Singh Pal. He was born in '. ' 1901 in Bampa, a small mountain village which was .. ' . part of the border district of Chamoli, in the Garhwal Himalaya. The village spread over both sides of the river, the gurgling, playful Dhauli Ganga.
My father is short and stocky. Like his father before him and most others... |  |  Seeing the Elephant: Understanding Globalization from Trunk to TailIn the new millennium, it is nearly impossible for us to talk about basic concerns like food or gas prices, without examining global intersections in trade, energy, immigration, the environment, and defense. Many countries once described as "developing" nations now wield greater economic and political influence than some of the... |  |  The World Heroin Market: Can Supply Be Cut? (Studies in Crime and Public Policy)Heroin is universally considered the world's most harmful illegal drug. This is due not only to the damaging effects of the drug itself, but also to the spread of AIDS tied to its use. Burgeoning illegal mass consumption in the 1960s and 1970s has given rise to a global market for heroin and other opiates of nearly 16 million users. The production... |
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