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The Critical Response to John Irving (Critical Responses in Arts & Letters)
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The Critique of the State
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The Cult of Imperial Honor in British India
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The Cultivation of Conformity: Towards a General Theory of Internal Secularisation
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The Cults of Raphael and Michelangelo: Artistic Sainthood and Memorials as a Second Life (Visual Culture in Early Modernity)
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The Cultural Geography Reader
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The Cultural Politics of Nationalism and Nation-Building: Ritual and Performance in the Forging of Nations
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The Cultural Role of Architecture: Contemporary and Historical Perspectives
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The Culturalization of Caste in India: Identity and Inequality in a Multicultural Age
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The Culture of AI: Everyday Life and the Digital Revolution
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The Culture of Citizenship: Inventing Postmodern Civic Culture (SUNY series in Social and Political Thought)
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