Coming Together

Coming TogetherArchaeologists, anthropologists, and classicists discuss how urbanization first emerged in strikingly different sociopolitical contexts in North America, Europe, and the Near East. The pursuit for universally applicable definitions of the terms "urban" and "city" has frequently distracted scholars from scrutinizing processes of how ancient nucleated settlements evolved and developed. Based on the premise that similar social dynamics to a great extent

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he challenges Eurocentric theories of social change that ignore the internal dynamics of native social history

” This edition of The Complete Frances Harper is a classic of African American literature reimagined for modern readers

What emerges from Datcher's innovative analysis is a frank assessment of the links between embodied experiences of racialization

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The contributors explore crucial issues pertinent not only to Cuban-American cultural production but also to other immigrant groups-hybrid identities

Andrew Furman explores the evolving relationship between the Israeli and American Jew

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