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Elie Kedourie was one of the twentieth century's most important and controversial historians of Middle East. He redefined landscape of field by challenging notion that West's imperial domination of region spawned nationalis
Gender and sexuality have been neglected topics in the history of Chinese civilization, despite fact that there is a massive amount of historical evidence on subject. China's late imperial government was arguably more concerned about gende
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