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The Russian Orthodox Church 1917-1948 From Decline to Resurrection

The Russian Orthodox Church 1917-1948 From Decline to Resurrection

This book tells the remarkable story of the decline and revival of the Russian Orthodox Church in the first half of the twentieth century and the astonishing U-turn in the attitude of the Soviet Union’s leaders towards the church. In the years after 1917 the Bolsheviks’ anti-religious policies the loss of the former western territories of the Russian Empire and the Soviet Union’s isolation from the rest of the world and the consequent separation of Russian emigrés from the church were disastrous for the church which declined very significantly in the 1920s and 1930s. However when Poland was partitioned in 1939 between Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union Stalin allowed the Patriarch of Moscow Sergei jurisdiction over orthodox congregations in the conquered territories and went on later to encourage the church to promote patriotic activities as part of the resistance to the Nazi invasion. He agreed a Concordat with the church in 1943 and continued to encourage the church especially its claims to jurisdiction over émigré Russian orthodox churches in the immediate postwar period. Based on extensive original research the book puts forward a great deal of new information and overturns established thinking on many key points. | The Russian Orthodox Church 1917-1948 From Decline to Resurrection

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The Bench Grafter's Handbook Principles & Practice

The Bench Grafter's Handbook Principles & Practice

Containing 500 full color photographs and illustrations The Bench Grafter’s Handbook: Principles and Practice presents exhaustive information on all aspects of bench grafting. It details requirements of more than 200 temperate woody plant genera covering over 2 000 species and cultivars including important ornamental temperate fruit and nut crops. The book explains the principles and practices of bench grafting new procedures to enhance grafting success and recommendations for further scientific investigation. Practical issues to aid professionals and the beginner include detailed accounts supported by pictures and diagrams of the main grafting methods knifesmanship techniques and methods of training. Provision and design now and for the future of suitable structures grafting facilities and equipment to provide ideal controlled environments for grafts are described. The book describes major grafting systems sub-cold cold warm supported warm hot-pipe and other grafting strategies. It provides details of health and safety issues; work stations seat design lighting levels; recorded output figures for various types of graft; grafting knives and tools; and methods of sharpening by hand and machine. Features: Comprehensive description pictures and diagrams of how to learn and utilize important grafting methods. Detailed information and scientific principles behind the selection specification and choice of the main graft components – the rootstock and scion. Scientific principles and practicalities of providing optimal plant material equipment facilities and environmental conditions for graft union development including addressing the problems of graft incompatibility. Discussion of the actual and potential role of bench grafting in woody plant conservation with suggestions for new initiatives. This book is intended for use by nurserymen; those involved in the upkeep of extensive plant collections; conservationists; plant scientists; lecturers in horticulture; horticultural students; and amateurs with an interest in grafting. | The Bench Grafter's Handbook Principles & Practice

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The Gut Microbiome Bench to Table

The Gut Microbiome Bench to Table

The influence of the gut microbiome on human health and disease has been established in recent years through advances in high-throughput DNA sequencing. The Gut Microbiome: Bench to Table presents a scientific introduction to this topic analyzes research on how the microbiome is affected by nutrients and how dietary modifications can alter the microbiome. Written by a multidisciplinary team of experts it is divided into three sections. The first section details the current state of laboratory-scale analysis of gut microbiome samples and how we can identify the communities and their functional repertoire. Section II explains the next phase of translational research models such as preclinical animal studies proof of concept safety and efficacy human trials. The third section demonstrates the effectiveness of therapeutic treatments in larger populations. It addresses how diet influences the gut microbiome and presents an array of approaches that have been reported including a discussion of issues of the safety of probiotics and selected supplements and micronutrients. This book is essential for clinicians dietitians and food and nutrition professionals who wish to have the most up-to-date knowledge on food sciences. | The Gut Microbiome Bench to Table

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Bench to Bedside Diagnostic Microbiology for the Clinicians

Bench to Bedside Diagnostic Microbiology for the Clinicians

This reference text is a must have for any current or future clinicians or students of microbiology. It is concisely organized to provide vital information on many of the microbes one will regularly encounter and the most efficacious ways of addressing associated infections. Discussion of antimicrobial resistance mechanisms and measures to combat them are also one of the key features of this text. Whether you desire to utilize this book at the bedside for prompt treatment decisions or as a reference manual to be used at your leisure you will find it to be a valuable addition to your library. | Bench to Bedside Diagnostic Microbiology for the Clinicians

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Living in an Age of Mistrust An Interdisciplinary Study of Declining Trust and How to Get it Back

Living in an Age of Mistrust An Interdisciplinary Study of Declining Trust and How to Get it Back

Trust is a concept familiar to most. Whether we are cognizant of it or not we experience it on a daily basis. Yet trust is quickly eroding in civic and political life. Americans’ trust in their government has reached all-time lows. The political and social consequences of this decline in trust are profound. What are the foundations of trust? What explains its apparent decline in society? Is there a way forward for rebuilding trust in our leaders and institutions? How should we study the role of trust across a diverse range of policy issues and problems? Given its complexity trust as an object of study cannot be claimed by any single discipline. Rather than vouch for an overarching theory of trust Living in an Age of Mistrust synthesizes existing perspectives across multiple disciplines to offer a truly comprehensive examination of this concept and a topic of research. Using an analytical framework that encompasses rational and cultural (or sociological) dimensions of trust the contributions found therein provide a wide range of policy issues both domestic and international to explore the apparent decline in trust its impact on social and political life and efforts to rebuild trust. | Living in an Age of Mistrust An Interdisciplinary Study of Declining Trust and How to Get it Back

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Latin American Politics and Development

Latin American Politics and Development

For over forty years Latin American Politics and Development has kept instructors and students abreast of current affairs and changes in Latin America. Now in its tenth edition this authoritative yet accessible introduction has been updated throughout. Organized on a country-by-country basis Latin American Politics and Development offers instructors maximum flexibility in organizing courses. Revisions to the Tenth Edition include: An updated theoretical framework to explain changes in the region including discussions of electoral systems and political actors. Discussions on presidential parliamentary and municipal election cycles throughout the region from 2017 through early 2022. Coverage of the COVID-19 pandemic. Examination on the regional decline in democratic norms and practices. A look at the impact of the Trump administration on regional relations including the decline in democracy. Updates on race Indigenous groups women Afro-Latin Americans contemporary social movements religious and other non-elite groups.

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Justice and the Slaughter Bench Essays on Law's Broken Dialectic

Justice and the Slaughter Bench Essays on Law's Broken Dialectic

In this follow-up to Law and the Beautiful Soul Alan Norrie addresses the split between legal and ethical judgment. Shaped by history law’s formalism both eschews and requires ethics. The first essays consider legal form in its practical aspect and the ethical problems encountered (‘law’s architectonic’). The later essays look at the complex underlying relation between law and ethics (‘law’s constellation’). In Hegel’s philosophy legal and ethical judgment are brought together in a rational totality. Here the synthesis remains unachieved the dialectic systematically ‘broken’. These essays cover such issues as criminal law’s ‘general part’ homicide reform self-defence euthanasia and war guilt. They interrogate legal problems consider law’s method and its place in the social whole. The analysis of law’s historicity its formalism and its relation to ethics contributes importantly to central questions in law legal theory and criminal justice. | Justice and the Slaughter Bench Essays on Law's Broken Dialectic

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Kingdoms of the Yoruba

Kingdoms of the Yoruba

Originally published in 1969 and as a second edition in 1976 this book gives a general account of the major Yoruba kingdoms and provides a synthesis of Yoruba and Igbomina history culture and archaeology. The reasons for and the chronology of the decline and fall of Old Oyo are also discussed. Much of the history reconstructed in this book was done so almost wholly from oral histories with all evidence being subjected to rigorous examination. | Kingdoms of the Yoruba

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Executive Function Development Across the Life Span

Executive Function Development Across the Life Span

Executive Function: Development Across the Life Span presents perspectives from leading researchers and theorists on the development of executive function from infancy to late adulthood and the factors that shape its growth and decline. Executive function is the set of higher-order cognitive processes involved in regulating attention thoughts and actions. Relative to other cognitive domains its development is slow and decline begins early in late adulthood. As such it is particularly sensitive to variations in environments and experiences and there is growing evidence that it is susceptible to intervention – important because of its link to a wide range of important life outcomes. The volume is made up of four sections. It begins with an overview of executive function’s typical development across the lifespan providing a foundation for the remainder of the volume. The second section presents insights into mechanisms of executive function as provided by a variety of methodological approaches. The third and fourth sections review the current research evidence on specific factors that shape executive function’s development focusing on normative (e. g. bilingualism physical activity cognitive training) and clinically relevant (e. g. substance use neurodegenerative disease) developmental pathways. | Executive Function Development Across the Life Span

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Every Fifth Child The Population of China

Every Fifth Child The Population of China

Originally published in 1972 this book illustrates why China’s population problems are complex. It discusses at an introductory level 20th Century phenomena such as the decline in China’s death rate as a result of improved public health and medicine and the possible effects of density pressure on migration on China’s ethnic minorities and on foreign policy. It examines these issues in areas where policy and daily life cross-over: education farming manufacturing output in a country that faces huge challenges of urbanization technological education and manpower. | Every Fifth Child The Population of China

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Deep Stall The Turbulent Story of Boeing Commercial Airplanes

Deep Stall The Turbulent Story of Boeing Commercial Airplanes

Deep Stall applies a framework of strategic analysis to the Boeing Company. Boeing is the world's largest aerospace / defence company with turnover in the region of US $60bn. The book examines the relative decline of Boeing in the civil aircraft market in relation to European manufacturer Airbus. The aim of the book is to utilize the concept of strategic value to explain Boeing's decline. The authors define this concept as investment in people and technology to leverage future market success by developing innovative new products arguing that Boeing has neglected strategic value in favour of shareholder value defined in terms of short-term cash benefits. The rationale for the book exists both in the fact that the story in itself is interesting and also in the wider framework of analysis concerning the correct strategic approach for running a high technology business. The argument illustrates what can happen when quarterly returns become the predominant strategic rationale for a company. In the U. S. the business media (Economist Forbes Fortune and Business Week etc) are now focusing on the question of Boeing's decline and the major implications for the U. S. national interest. Boeing is one of the jewels in the US technology crown but today U. S. jobs and capability are being exported abroad with most of its aircraft program work based in Asia. This is a hot topic in the US which explains why the business media are now so interested in this question. The book sits squarely in the centre of this debate. Deep Stall concludes with a brief analysis of the recent fight-back that has been evident in Boeing's fortunes and the successful campaign to sell the new 787. The authors probe the question of whether Airbus or Boeing is likely to dominate in the next ten or fifteen years. | Deep Stall The Turbulent Story of Boeing Commercial Airplanes

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Aging and Development Social and Emotional Perspectives

Aging and Development Social and Emotional Perspectives

The psychology of aging usually focuses upon cognitive changes with a particular focus on dementia and other forms of cognitive decline. But getting older is about more than simply changes to the brain and related health issues. Changes to our social and emotional lives are also hugely significant as we adapt across our lifespan. The second edition of Aging and Development is the only textbook available that responds to the growing interest in social personal and emotional development in older age. Ideally suited to complement texts on cognitive change the book provides a holistic developmental perspective on aging. It highlights a range of issues including the development of personal meaning and spirituality improvements in emotional control uses of reminiscence and life review the importance of healthy attitudes to aging as well as the maintenance of close personal relationships. It does not avoid the difficult issues of late life decline but illustrates how even in circumstances of physical and mental frailty a positive sense of self can be created and enhanced. Fully updated to provide the most cutting-edge overview on this burgeoning topic of interest Aging and Development includes a glossary and list of useful websites both on the study of gerontology and the psychology of aging. It will be essential reading for all students of developmental psychology as well as anyone either training to work or already working with older people. | Aging and Development Social and Emotional Perspectives

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West European Population Change

West European Population Change

The 1970s was a decade of significant population change in Western Europe. Originally published in 1986 this book reviews the major trends: fertility decline counter-urbanisation and the cessation of international labour migration from outside the former EEC. It was the first volume to compare the results of the 1980-82 European census round and emphasizes the spatial dimension of recent population trends. For countries such as the former West Germany where no census was taken the difficulties of using registration data are examined. One of the major strengths of the volume is the set of standardised topics which are reviewed by the authors in each country allowing international comparisons to be made from the country case studies. The book concludes with an overview of future trends in European population towards the year 2000. | West European Population Change

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Shakespeare Minus 'Theory'

Shakespeare Minus 'Theory'

Demonstrating and defending a method of close reading and historical contextualisation of Shakespeare and his contemporaries this collection of essays by Tom McAlindon combines a number of previously published pieces with original studies. The volume includes six interpretative studies all but one of which involve challenges to radical readings of the plays involved including Henry V Coriolanus The Tempest and Doctor Faustus. The other three essays are critiques of the claims and methods of radical postmodernist criticism (new historicism and cultural materialism especially); they illustrate the author's conviction that some leading scholars in the field of Renaissance literature and drama who deserve credit for shifting attention to new areas of interest must also be charged with responsibility for a marked decline in standards of analysis interpretation and argument. Likely to provoke considerable debate this stimulating collection is an important contribution to Shakespeare studies. | Shakespeare Minus 'Theory'

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Developmental Aspects of Health Compliance Behavior

Developmental Aspects of Health Compliance Behavior

While in the late 1970s and early 1980s health compliance research on adults represented a vigorous field of study a marked decline of interest on the topic set in during the last part of the 1980s. By contrast research on health compliance involving pediatric populations was less popular during the same period; however interest in this topic - as evidenced by the contributions to this volume - is on the increase. Four main themes - relating to theory measurement prevention and intervention - emerge and are interwoven among the chapters. These themes help to bind and unify the volume into a conceptual whole because although the sections are divided along thematic lines contributors often include elements of some or all of the themes in their chapters. This state of affairs reflects the interdependence of these thematic issues and suggests how important they are for the state of the art. | Developmental Aspects of Health Compliance Behavior

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Essential Principles of Image Sensors

Essential Principles of Image Sensors

Providing a succinct introduction to the systemization noise sources and signal processes of image sensor technology Essential Principles of Image Sensors discusses image information and its four factors: space light intensity wavelength and time. Featuring clarifying and insightful illustrations this must-have text: Explains how image sensors convert optical image information into image signals Treats space wavelength and time as digitized built-in coordinate points in image sensors and systems Details the operational principles pixel technology and evolution of CCD MOS and CMOS sensors with updated technology Describes sampling theory presenting unique figures demonstrating the importance of phase Explores causes for the decline of image information quality In a straightforward manner suitable for beginners and experts alike Essential Principles of Image Sensors covers key topics related to digital imaging including semiconductor physics component elements necessary for image sensors silicon as a sensitive material noises in sensors and more.

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Neuropsychology of Everyday Functioning

Neuropsychology of Everyday Functioning

The go-to resource for assessing and predicting functional abilities in persons with brain injury or cognitive decline has now been revised and expanded to reflect significant advances in the field. With a focus on key real-world capacities-independent living vocational functioning medication management and driving-leading experts explore how individuals go about their daily lives where and why disruptions occur and potential opportunities for improving function. Strategies for direct assessment are reviewed from standard neuropsychological tests to multimodal approaches and technology-based tools. Chapters also provide functional assessment guidance for specific neurological and psychiatric conditions: dementia traumatic brain injury depression schizophrenia and others. New to This Edition *Incorporates over a decade of technological and methodological innovations. *Chapter on theories and models of everyday functioning. *Chapters on naturalistic assessment wearable sensors ambulatory assessment and virtual-reality-based tools. *Practical clinical implications are highlighted throughout. | Neuropsychology of Everyday Functioning

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Still a Western World? Continuity and Change in Global Order

Still a Western World? Continuity and Change in Global Order

Today the debate on world order is intense. As is always the case in times of transition the global restructuring of international affairs is generating a deep reflection on how the world is and how it should be reorganized. After the long frozen period of the cold war and the subsequent years marked by US unipolarism the world has begun the new millennium with profound shifts. The relative decline of the USA the crisis in the European Union the consolidation of the BRIC emerging economies and the diffusion of the power to non-state actors all constitute significant elements that demand a new conceptualization of the rules of the global game. In this pluralist and changing context a number of different narratives are presented by the key actors in the international system. This book analyses these narratives in comparative terms by putting them in the wider framework of the transformation in global governance. | Still a Western World? Continuity and Change in Global Order

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The Uses of Obscurity The Fiction of Early Modernism

The Uses of Obscurity The Fiction of Early Modernism

Originally published in 1981 this book examines why and how textual difficulty became a norm of modernist literature and questions how we can begin to account for the forms of obscurity and difficulty which developed in the late 19th Century and which became so important to modernism. The author argues that the decline of realism entailed the growth of ‘symptomatic’ or ‘subtextual’ reading which tended to treat fiction as compromised autobiography. This kind of reading left the author dangerously isolated and exposed in the midst of a newly sophisticated public. Within this general cultural perspective the book traces the private anxieties that led George Meredith Joseph Conrad and Henry James to conceal themselves within their complex and resistant fictions. It discusses opacity in the texts themselves – embarrassment and shame in Meredith; ‘engimas’ in Conrad; and the fear of vulgarity and knowledge in Henry James. | The Uses of Obscurity The Fiction of Early Modernism

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Protocols for Multislice Helical Computed Tomography The Fundamentals

Protocols for Multislice Helical Computed Tomography The Fundamentals

Despite the expected decline in the mid-1970s in the use of computed tomography (CT) following the excitement of magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) CT has confounded its detractors and remains the imaging modality of choice particularly for the chest and abdomen. Spiral/helical CT with the development of 64-multislice variant has revolutionized diagnostic imaging: image acquistion of large body volumes are obtained in short times during a single-breath hold. Scanning protocols without contrast enhancement are not a challenge; however with intravenous contrast agents critical choices are made and bad choices inevitably produce bad scans. This handy guide provides the reader with a simple introduction to the essential ideas involved and a practical guide to the implementation of rational scanning protocols for multislice spiral instruments. Written by Peter Dawson a well-respected figure in computed tomography and radiology and a world expert on contrast agents Scanning Protocols for Multislice Helical Computed Tomography is an essential guide for all those working with CT as well as those in training. | Protocols for Multislice Helical Computed Tomography The Fundamentals

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The Bungalow in Twentieth-Century India The Cultural Expression of Changing Ways of Life and Aspirations in the Domestic Architecture of Col

The Bungalow in Twentieth-Century India The Cultural Expression of Changing Ways of Life and Aspirations in the Domestic Architecture of Col

The primary era of this study - the twentieth century - symbolizes the peak of the colonial rule and its total decline as well as the rise of the new nation state of India. The processes that have been labeled 'westernization' and 'modernization' radically changed middle-class Indian life during the century. This book describes and explains the various technological political and social developments that shaped one building type - the bungalow - contemporaneous to the development of modern Indian history during the period of British rule and its subsequent aftermath. Drawing on their own physical and photographic documentation and building on previous work by Anthony King and the Desais the authors show the evolution of the bungalow's architecture from a one storey building with a verandah to the assortment of house-forms and their regional variants that are derived from the bungalow. Moreover the study correlates changes in society with architectural consequences in the plans and aesthetics of the bungalow. It also examines more generally what it meant to be modern in Indian society as the twentieth century evolved. | The Bungalow in Twentieth-Century India The Cultural Expression of Changing Ways of Life and Aspirations in the Domestic Architecture of Col

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The Ashgate Research Companion to Byzantine Hagiography Volume II: Genres and Contexts

The Ashgate Research Companion to Byzantine Hagiography Volume II: Genres and Contexts

For an entire millennium Byzantine hagiography inspired by the veneration of many saints exhibited literary dynamism and a capacity to vary its basic forms. The subgenres into which it branched out after its remarkable start in the fourth century underwent alternating phases of development and decline that were intertwined with changes in the political social and literary spheres. The selection of saintly heroes an interest in depicting social landscapes and the modulation of linguistic and stylistic registers captured the voice of homo byzantinus down to the end of the empire in the fifteenth century. The seventeen chapters in this companion form the sequel to those in volume I which dealt with the periods and regions of Byzantine hagiography and complete the first comprehensive survey ever produced in this field. The book is the work of an international group of experts in the field and is addressed to both a broader public and the scholarly community of Byzantinists medievalists historians of religion and theorists of narrative. It highlights the literary dimension and the research potential of a representative number of texts not only those appreciated by the Byzantines themselves but those which modern readers rank high due to their literary quality or historical relevance. | The Ashgate Research Companion to Byzantine Hagiography Volume II: Genres and Contexts

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The Ashgate Research Companion to Byzantine Hagiography Volume I: Periods and Places

The Ashgate Research Companion to Byzantine Hagiography Volume I: Periods and Places

For an entire millennium Byzantine hagiography inspired by the veneration of many saints exhibited literary dynamism and a capacity to vary its basic forms. The subgenres into which it branched out after its remarkable start in the fourth century underwent alternating phases of development and decline that were intertwined with changes in the political social and literary spheres. The selection of saintly heroes an interest in depicting social landscapes and the modulation of linguistic and stylistic registers captured the voice of homo byzantinus down to the end of the empire in the fifteenth century. The seventeen chapters in this companion form the sequel to those in volume I which dealt with the periods and regions of Byzantine hagiography and complete the first comprehensive survey ever produced in this field. The book is the work of an international group of experts in the field and is addressed to both a broader public and the scholarly community of Byzantinists medievalists historians of religion and theorists of narrative. It highlights the literary dimension and the research potential of a representative number of texts not only those appreciated by the Byzantines themselves but those which modern readers rank high due to their literary quality or historical relevance. | The Ashgate Research Companion to Byzantine Hagiography Volume I: Periods and Places

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Governing the Rural in Interwar Europe

Governing the Rural in Interwar Europe

This book examines how rural Europe as a hybrid social and natural environment emerged as a key site of local national and international governance in the interwar years. The post-war need to secure and intensify food production to protect contested border areas to improve rural infrastructure and the economic viability of rural regions and to politically integrate rural populations gave rise to a variety of schemes aimed at modernizing agriculture and remaking rural society. The volume examines discourses institutions and practices of rural governance from a transnational perspective revealing striking commonalities across national and political boundaries. From the village town hall to the headquarters of international organizations local authorities government officials and politicians scientific experts and farmers engaged in debates about the social political and economic future of rural communities. They sought to respond to both real and imagined concerns over poverty and decline backwardness and insufficient control by conceptualizing planning and engineering models that would help foster an ideal rural community and develop an efficient agricultural sector. By examining some of these local national and international schemes and policies this volume highlights the hitherto under-researched interaction between policymakers experts and rural inhabitants in the European countryside of the 1920s and '30s. | Governing the Rural in Interwar Europe

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