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The English Table: Our Food through the Ages (Reaktion, 2024) by Jill Norman is a delectable journey
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Indian Philosophy and Yoga in Germany by Owen Ware (Routledge, 2024) takes the reader on a tour thro
Brassroots Democracy: Maroon Ecologies and the Jazz Commons (Wesleyan UP, 2024) recasts the birth of
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Millions of GIs returned from overseas in 1945. A generation of men who had left their families and
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