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A study of empire, occupation and decolonization, which uncovers Nazi-occupied Netherlands. Focusing on the work of leading anti-Nazi resisters, Jennifer L. Foray explores whether the experiences of domination and oppression led the Dutch to reconsider their historical position as imperial rulers.

This book explores the lure of market capitalism and the beginnings of industrialization in the United States. Lawson's research combines an appreciation for enterprise and innovation with recognition of negative and unanticipated consequences of the transition to capitalism and relates economic change to American freedom and self-determination, links that remain relevant today.

Maren Linett analyzes the meanings and motifs that Virginia Woolf, Jean Rhys, Sylvia Townsend Warner, Dorothy Richardson, and Djuna Barnes associate with Jewishness. By examining the political and literary power of Semitic discourse, Linett fills a significant gap in the account of the cultural and literary forces that shaped modernism.

An examination of how complex organizational structures and actions create and perpetuate class, gender and racial inequalities. This second edition retains its argument for an emerging "double-diamond" social structure and is revised to include new sections, concepts, figures and tables.

A manual dealing with the molecular aspects of plant molecular biology. Subjects covered include the introduction of genes into plants; assays of gene activity; plant nucleic acid extraction and characterization procedures; and the use of selectable and screenable markers in transgenic plants.