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A Biography of No Place: From Ethnic Borderland to Soviet Heartland
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Kate Brown. A Biography of No Place: From Ethnic Borderland to Soviet Heartland. Cambridge and London: Harvard University Press, 2004.
Kate Brown's study, A Biography of No Place: From Ethnic Borderland to Soviet Heartland, is a book about the fate of the inhabitants of a small region in today's Zhytomyr oblast' (a part of Volhynia) from about the mid 1920s to just after the end of World War II. More precisely, the author writes about its Polish and mixed Polish-Ukrainian populace, wit...
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; It's a game of exhilarating highs and terrifying lows, and nobody has been doing it longer than the people who run Twentieth Century Investors. ON A WEDNESDAY MORNING the team that runs Twentieth Century Vista and Giftrust--two of the raciest funds in a family known for hypersonic stock
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The "star" system comes to Twentieth Century - sort of. (mutual fund performance)
Kiplinger's Personal Finance Magazine
; Twentieth Century Investors, sponsor of some of the most successful growth-stock funds, has always maintained that its investment decisions are made in collegial fashion by a seven-member committee, aided by a proprietary data base. At the heart of Twentieth Century's stock-picking philosophy is
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Modern Life and Modern Subjects: British Art in the Early Twentieth Century
The Virginia Quarterly Review
; Modern Life and Modern Subjects: British Art in the Early Twentieth Century, by Lisa Tickner. As the author concludes, when we contemplate a work of art, we are continually asking, "why?" That is, how did works of art come to be the way they are? In this book, the author writes not a history of
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Nigeria in the Twentieth Century
The International Journal of African Historical Studies
; Nigeria in the Twentieth Century. Edited by Toyin Falola. Durham, N.C.: Carolina Academic Press, 2002. Pp. xx, 947; 78 illustrations. $90.00. With characteristic wit and insight, Toyin Falola kicks off this mammoth tome (it is bigger than most world history textbooks) with the following statement:
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Erasmus in the Twentieth Century: Interpretations c 1920-2000
Anglican Theological Review
; Erasmus in the Twentieth Century: Interpretations c 1920-2000. By Bruce Mansfield. Erasmus Studies. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2003. xiv + 324 pp. CDN$70.00 (cloth); US$70.00 (cloth). The National Library of Canada describes this book, not inappropriately, as the final volume in the
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Brose, Eric Dorn: A History of Europe in the Twentieth Century.(Book Review)
History: Review of New Books
; ... the entire text. In addition, A History of Europe in the Twentieth Century contains some fifty-seven illustrations and twenty maps that lend the book a considerable degree of immediacy and accessibility. Images of the changing geopolitics and national boundaries ...
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Something New Under the Sun: An Environmental History of the Twentieth-Century World.(Review)
Journal of World History
; Something New Under the Sun: An Environmental History of the Twentieth-Century World. By J. R. MCNEILL. New York: W. W. Norton & Co., 2000. Pp. xxvi + 421. $29.95 (cloth). This is a superb book. John McNeill's title corrects Ecclesiastics' claim that there is nothing new under the sun. On the
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Monetary Regimes of the Twentieth Century
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; Monetary Regimes of the Twentieth Century. By Andrew Britton. Cambridge, U.K.: Cambridge University Press, 2001. xii + 244 pp. Index, references, figures, tables. Cloth, $70.00. ISBN 0-521-80169-9. Andrew Britton is a British economist of considerable standing, with expertise honed over his years
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