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Type: BOOK - Published: 2016-11-11 - Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press

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Twelve literary scholars and historians investigate the ways in which space and place are politically, religiously, and culturally inflected. Exploring medieval
Text and Territory
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Pages: 348
Authors: Sylvia Tomasch
Categories: Literary Criticism
Type: BOOK - Published: 1998 - Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press

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Exploring medieval texts as diverse as Icelandic sagas, Ptolemy's Geography, and Mandeville's Travels, the contributors illustrate the intimate connection betwe
Star Territory
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Pages: 231
Authors: Gordon Fraser
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 2021-06-04 - Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press

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The United States has been a space power since its founding, Gordon Fraser writes. The white stars on its flag reveal the dream of continental elites that the f
The Birth of Territory
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Pages: 506
Authors: Stuart Elden
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 2013-09-09 - Publisher: University of Chicago Press

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Political theory professor Stuart Elden explores the history of land ownership and control from the ancient to the modern world in The Birth of Territory. Terri
Territory, Authority, Rights
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Pages: 511
Authors: Saskia Sassen
Categories: Political Science
Type: BOOK - Published: 2008-07-01 - Publisher: Princeton University Press

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Where does the nation-state end and globalization begin? In Territory, Authority, Rights, one of the world's leading authorities on globalization shows how the