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A vibrant city-state on the Adriatic sea, Dubrovnik, also known as Ragusa, was a hub for the international trade between Europe and the Ottoman Empire. As a result, the city suffered frequent outbreaks of plague. Through a comprehensive analysis of these epidemics in Dubrovnik, Expelling the Plague explores the increasingly sophisticated plague control regulations that were adopted by the city and implemented by its health officials. In 1377, Dubrovnik became the first city in the world to develop and implement quarantine legislation, and in 1390 it established the earliest recorded permanent Health Office. The city’s preoccupation with plague control and the powers granted to its Health O...
The first critical survey of the largely unknown avant-garde movements of the former Yugoslavia.
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The volume is characterized by often striking imagery and sexual turmoil.
Documents a series of lectures, discussions, performances, installations, video, files and historical documentation held 20 - 30th September 1979 and an exhibition of photoworks held 15 - 30 September 1979, De Appel, Amsterdam.
Following the convening of Hong Kong International Poetry Nights 2011, The World of Words is a collection of selected works by some of the most internationally acclaimed poets today. The poem of "To Read: To Love" by Tomaz Salamun (Slovenia) is finest contemporary poetry in trilingual or bilingual presentation.
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