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Nationalism as a Way of Life: The Rise and Transformation of Modern Subjectivities

by Siniša Malešević

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The Anti-Enlightenment Tradition by Zeev Sternhell (2009-12-22)

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The New American Farmer: Immigration, Race, and the Struggle for Sustainability (Food, Health, and the Environment)

by Laura-Anne Minkoff-Zern

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“History is important. If you don't know history it is as if you were born yesterday. And if you were born yesterday, anybody up there in a position of power can tell you anything, and you have no way of checking up on it.”
― Howard Zinn

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“Look closely at the present you are constructing:
it should look like the future you are dreaming.”
― Alice Walker

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“Books that have been owned by someone for many years for a specific purpose carry not just memories, (that is obvious), they also reveal their owner's true values; for the books we own may indicate something about us very different from what we think.”
― Robert D. Kaplan, In Europe's Shadow: Two Cold Wars and a Thirty-Year Journey Through Romania and Beyond

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