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Discover a comprehensive and cross-disciplinary handbook exploring several sub-regions and key themes perfect for a new generation of students A Companion to the Hellenistic and Roman Near East delivers the first complete handbook in the area of Hellenistic and Roman...
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Wiley-Blackwell
Parution :
2021-12-17
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Blackwell Companions to the Ancient World
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A comparative history of the relocation and removal of indigenous societies in the Greater American Southwest during the mid-nineteenth century Lost Worlds of 1863: Relocation and Removal of American Indians in the Central Rockies and the Greater Southwest offers a...
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Wiley-Blackwell
Parution :
2021-12-16
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This book is a collaborative contribution that expands our understanding of how interfaith relations, both real and imagined, developed across medieval Iberia and the Mediterranean. The volume pays homage to the late Olivia Remie Constable’s scholarship and presents...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2021-12-16
Collection :
Mediterranean Perspectives
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This edited collection explores the histories of trade, a peculiar literary genre that emerged in the context of the historiographical and cultural changes promoted by the histoire philosophique movement. It marked a discontinuity with erudition and...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2021-12-16
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This book provides the first complete study of the documentation relevant to the gymnasium and gymnasial life in Egypt at the time of the Ptolemies, the longest reigning Hellenistic Royal House (323-30 BC). Paganini analyses the diffusion, characteristics,...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2021-12-16
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This book provides the first complete study of the documentation relevant to the gymnasium and gymnasial life in Egypt at the time of the Ptolemies, the longest reigning Hellenistic Royal House (323-30 BC). Paganini analyses the diffusion, characteristics,...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2021-12-16
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The Ethics of Survival in Contemporary Literature and Culture delves into the complex problems involved in all attempts to survive.The essays analyze survival in contemporary prose narratives, short stories, poems, dramas, and theoretical texts, but also in films and...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2021-12-14
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This edited volume systematically analyzes the connection between xenophobia, nativism, and Pan-Africanism. It situates attacks on black Africans by fellow black Africans within the context of ideals such as Pan-Africanism and Ubuntu, which emphasize unity. The book...
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Springer
Parution :
2021-12-14
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This book presents the proceedings of the international conference “The Middle Ages in the Modern World,” held in Rome November 21-24, 2018. Attended by more than a hundred participants of different ages, educational backgrounds, and places of origin, the conference...
Editeur :
Publications de l'École française de Rome
Parution :
2021-12-14
Collection :
Collection de l'École française de Rome
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Dedicato alla memoria di Mireille Cébeillac-Gervasoni, scomparsa il 29 marzo 2017, il volume raccoglie 22 contributi di amici e colleghi presentati al Quinto seminario Ostiense (Roma – Parco Archeologico di Ostia Antica, 21 e 22 marzo 2018). Dopo un’introduzione che...
Editeur :
Publications de l'École française de Rome
Parution :
2021-12-13
Collection :
Collection de l'École française de Rome
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Lord Herbert of Cherbury was a flamboyant Stuart courtier, soldier, and diplomat who acquired a reputation for duelling and extravagance but also numbered among the leading intellectuals of his generation. He travelled widely in Britain and Europe, enjoyed the patronage...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2021-12-13
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Lord Herbert of Cherbury was a flamboyant Stuart courtier, soldier, and diplomat who acquired a reputation for duelling and extravagance but also numbered among the leading intellectuals of his generation. He travelled widely in Britain and Europe, enjoyed the patronage...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2021-12-13
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This book explores modern representations of the Black Death, a medieval pandemic. The concept of cultural memory is used to examine the ways in which journalists, writers of fiction, scholars and others referred to, described and explained the Black Death from around...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2021-12-11
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Since Plato, no one had put our ancestor in such a situation. Our researchers have already had a hard time figuring it out in the face of competition from Neanderthals and other hominids. This is understandable in a prehistoric manhandled with a multitude of proposals....
Editeur :
JePublie
Parution :
2021-12-10
Collection :
JePublie présente
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Counting Religion in Britain, 1970-2020, the fourth volume in the author's chronological history of British secularization, sheds significant new light on the nature, scale, and timing of religious change in Britain during the past half-century, with particular...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2021-12-09
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Counting Religion in Britain, 1970-2020, the fourth volume in the author's chronological history of British secularization, sheds significant new light on the nature, scale, and timing of religious change in Britain during the past half-century, with particular...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2021-12-09
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Contemporary Muslims face a challenge: how should they define the relationship between normative Islamic jurisprudence--worked out by classical jurists over the course of centuries-and the reality that confronts them in their everyday lives. They have to reckon with how...
Editeur :
Oxford University Press
Parution :
2021-12-09
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Die Studie untersucht das Verständnis des Adels in der Spätphase der ständischen Gesellschaft. Dazu nutzt sie die Situation nach einem Herrschaftswechsel, in dem zwei ständische wie politische Traditionen miteinander konfrontiert wurden. Zugleich erfolgte eine...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2021-12-08
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This open access book analyses the practice of banishment and what it can tell us about the values of late medieval society concerning morally acceptable behaviour. It focuses on the Dutch town of Kampen and considers the exclusion of offenders through banishment and...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2021-12-07
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The gritty, true blue story of two remarkable cops and an equally extraordinary nurse who provided the spirit and smarts that transformed Fear City into the safest big city in America.NEW YORK'S FINEST is the story of a city's transformation through the tireless...
Editeur :
Twelve
Parution :
2021-12-07
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