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This book makes the case for a unique coastal-urban experience of war on the home front during the First World War, focusing on case studies from the north-east of England. The use of case studies from this region problematises an often assumed national or generalised...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2022-01-01
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Shipwreck Narratives: Out of Our Depth studies both the representation of shipwreck and the ways in which shipwrecks are used in creative, philosophical, and political works. The first part of the book examines historical shipwreck narratives published over a period of...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2022-01-01
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Providing a historical overview of healthcare in Italy from its unification in 1861 to the present COVID-19 pandemic, this book analyses the political, social and cultural impact of Italian healthcare policy and medicine. The author examines the development of public...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2022-01-01
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This book explores a significant lacuna in British history. Between the 1790s and the 1840s, the concept of psychological androgyny or the unsexed mind emerged as a notion of psychosexual equality, promoted by a small though influential network of heterodox radicals on...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2022-01-01
Collection :
Genders and Sexualities in History
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Breaking new ground in the study of European colonialism, this book focuses on a nation historically positioned between the Western and Eastern Empires of Europe – Finland. Although Finland never had overseas colonies, the authors argue that the country was undeniably...
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2022-01-01
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Presenting the history of an unexplored yet significant institution in East Germany, this book analyses the development of the Parteihochschule Karl Marx (PHS), a training institute for Communist party officials and members of the functional elite. By chronicling the...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2022-01-01
Collection :
Palgrave Studies in Political History
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An insightful and original exploration of Roman Republic politics In A Companion to the Political Culture of the Roman Republic, editors Valentina Arena and Jonathan Prag deliver an incisive and original collection of forty contributions from leading academics...
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Wiley-Blackwell
Parution :
2021-12-31
Collection :
Blackwell Companions to the Ancient World
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This is a book about an online community of the Second Generation (2g), childrenof Holocaust survivors. Created in 1995, “ e List” was the brainchild of Paul Foldes,a 2g electrical engineer and consumer attorney turned businessman. Knowing thatonline communities were an...
Editeur :
Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2021-12-30
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Popular Protest and Ideals of Democracy in Late Renaissance Italy is the first study to analyse popular protest across the Italian peninsula and the Venetian colonies during the early modern period, 1494 to 1559. Drawing on over 100 contemporary chronicles and diaries,...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2021-12-30
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Popular Protest and Ideals of Democracy in Late Renaissance Italy is the first study to analyse popular protest across the Italian peninsula and the Venetian colonies during the early modern period, 1494 to 1559. Drawing on over 100 contemporary chronicles and diaries,...
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OUP Oxford
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2021-12-30
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«Eine der interessantesten und schillerndsten Figuren des Mittelalters» – so urteilt Hans-Werner Goetz über den wichtigsten Geschichtsschreiber der späten Ottonenzeit. Der vorliegende Band präsentiert die Beiträge einer zum Anlass des 1000. Todestages Thietmars...
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Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2021-12-27
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Building in Words explores the relationship between text and architecture in the Roman world from the perspective of architectural process. Ancient Romans frequently encountered buildings under construction - they experienced noisy building work, disruptive...
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Oxford University Press
Parution :
2021-12-24
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Stalin's reign of terror was not all doom and gloom, much of it was (meant to be) funny! From comedy films to satirical theatre, from caricature to court speeches, and fromStalin's own writings to bawdy folk songs, humour pervaded the popular culture of the USSR. Until...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2021-12-23
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Offering a global history of India's refugee regime, Making Refugees in India explores how one of the first postcolonial states during the mid-twentieth century wave of decolonisation rewrote global practices surrounding refugees - signified by India's refusal to sign...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2021-12-23
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This microhistory reconstructs and analyses a protracted legal dispute over a small parcel of land called Warrens Court in Nibley, Gloucestershire, which was contested between successive generations of two families from the mid-sixteenth century to the early eighteenth...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2021-12-23
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This collectively written monograph is the first work to provide a broad history of the relationship between Eastern Europe and the decolonising world. It ranges from the late nineteenth to the late twentieth century, but at its core is the dynamic of the post-1945...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2021-12-23
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This volume, a contribution to the emergent interdisciplinary field of Kurdish Studies, is an engagement with the politics, culture and history of the Kurds. Sections of the book treat the Kurds in medieval and modern history, including the contemporary ‘Arab Spring’,...
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Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publishers
Parution :
2021-12-21
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An innovative recasting of US legal and economic history through the power of clothing for those who lacked power and status in American society.
What can dresses, bedlinens, waistcoats, pantaloons, shoes, and kerchiefs tell us about the legal status of the least...
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Oxford University Press
Parution :
2021-12-20
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The Oxford Handbook of the Weimar Republic is a multi-author survey of German history from 1918 to 1933. Covering a broad range of topics in social, political, economic, and cultural history, it presents an overview of current scholarship, and will help students and...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2021-12-20
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The Oxford Handbook of the Weimar Republic is a multi-author survey of German history from 1918 to 1933. Covering a broad range of topics in social, political, economic, and cultural history, it presents an overview of current scholarship, and will help students and...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2021-12-20
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