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The original manuscript for Mark Twain's Hucklebury Finn has been published in the US, and there is a dispute as to its significance. Some unpublished episodes may have been omitted from the final edition for quality reasons. The episodes also show a dark side of life, but so does the original. There is also a debate as to how original the manuscript is, and scholars are working on another edition through the Mark Twain Project, which could see its funds affected.
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Ernest Gellner's interest in nationalism was rooted in his cosmopolitan background and his reading of Elie Kedourie's Nationalism. He approached the original of nationalism from the perspective of an anthropologist. Gellner prefered to used the term shared culture, rather than ethnicity, and this drew him into dispute with Anthony Smith, a professor of sociology at the London School of Economics, and former PhD student of Gellner.
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An analysis of the reasons behind economic collapses and a potted history of the various historians who have attempted to come up with theories for economic failure. The growing burden of an expanding empire is identified as the most popular reason put forward for economies failing.
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