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This collection of eleven essays explores how states around the world in the 20th century pursued social policies that promoted economic security for families and mothers in particular. "Maternalism"
When Shelley Wachsmann began his analysis of the small ship model excavated by assistants of famed Egyptologist W. M. F. Petrie in Gurob, Egypt, in 1920, he expected to produce a brief monograph that
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