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📚️ Yiddish: Biography of a Language "He addresses key aspects of Yiddish as the language of a diasporic population, whose speakers have always used more than one language. As the vernacular of a marginalized minority, Yiddish has often been held in low regard compared to other languages, and its legitimacy as a language has been questioned." 🔗 https://global.oup.com/academic/product/yiddish-9780190651961 #Yiddish #Language #Biography #Linguistics #Reading #UniversityPress #Academia #Nonfiction #Book #Books #Bookstodon

📚️ 🇸🇾 A Primer on Ugaritic: Language, Culture and Literature "A Primer on Ugaritic is an introduction to the language of the ancient city of Ugarit, a city that flourished in the second millennium BCE on the Lebanese coast, placed in the context of the culture, literature, and religion of this ancient Semitic culture." 🔗 https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511996962 #AncientNearEast #Syria #Religion #Language #Linguistics #Literature #Culture #Reading #UniversityPress #Academia #Nonfiction #Book #Books #Bookstodon

📚️ 🇺🇸 The Rhetoric of White Slavery and the Making of National Identity "At the turn of the twentieth century, the white slavery panic pervaded American politics, influencing the creation of the FBI, the enactment of immigration law, and the content of international treaties. At the core of this controversy was the maintenance of white national space." 🔗 https://msupress.org/9781611864595/the-rhetoric-of-white-slavery-and-the-making-of-national-identity/ #Race #Rhetoric #Identity #Reading #UniversityPress #Academia #History #Histodons #C20th #20thCentury #USA #US #UnitedStates #America #Book #Books #Bookstodon

📚️ 🌊 Oceans Rise Empires Fall: Why Geopolitics Hastens Climate Catastrophe "Why do great powers favor competition and rivalry over transnational policies to address the greatest threat humanity has ever faced?" 🔗 https://global.oup.com/academic/product/oceans-rise-empires-fall-9780197693261 #Ocean #Geography #InternationalRelations #Geopolitics #Climate #ClimateChange #Reading #UniversityPress #Academia #Nonfiction #Book #Books #Bookstodon