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Purses and bags have always been much more than a fashion accessory.
For generations of Americans, the purse has been an essential and highly adaptable object, used to achieve a host of social, cultural, and political objectives. In the early 1800s, when the slim fit...
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Oxford University Press
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2025-07-07
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In this groundbreaking reflection on America's relationship with war in the modern era, Gregory A. Daddis explores the deep-seated tension between faith in and fear of war that has shaped US grand strategy and helped militarize US foreign policy with great costs at home...
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Oxford University Press
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2025-07-07
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Even before we get to introduce ourselves by name, our hair has already started to tell stories about who we are, where we are from and where we are at. Our hair is tangled up in the interplay of race, gender, class, nationality, sexuality, power and beauty. It is an...
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Hodder & Stoughton
Parution :
2025-07-03
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The currents of History run deep and often unseen beneath the everyday ripple of events. But now and again the current rises to the surface, and the events of a single day shed an exceptional light on the meaning of the past.Such events are the subject of Days that...
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Greenfinch
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2025-07-03
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Die Entstehung der translatorischen Ausbildung in Deutschland fällt in den Zeitraum von den frühen 1880er Jahren bis in die späten 1940er Jahre. In diesen 70 Jahren wurde mit ersten Institutions- und Methodenbildungen die Grundlage für die heutige translatorische...
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Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
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2025-07-03
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The 1950s are usually portrayed as conservative, conformist, and apathetic, but was there more to this much-maligned decade than that? In Britain, the convergence of conflicting political moments-the Cold War, the Bomb, the rise of America, the decline of the empire,...
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OUP Oxford
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2025-07-02
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This book explores the automata of the Medici Villa Pratolino, focusing on the intersection of art, engineering, and philosophy in the late sixteenth century. The author examines how these ‘living sculptures’ went beyond traditional Renaissance static forms,...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2025-07-02
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Dieses Buch fügt der wachsenden Literatur über die Geschichte des Kapitalismus einen entscheidenden Schwerpunkt auf die Moral hinzu, indem es soziale und kulturelle Perspektiven auf die kapitalistische Wirtschaftsordnung in der Moderne untersucht. Die...
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Springer VS
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2025-07-01
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This book explores sheltered employment for disabled people in the British welfare state, focusing on Remploy as the flagship provider. It considers the fundamental areas of understanding Remploy, in terms of why it was created, how it functioned, who it employed, and...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2025-07-01
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Eighteenth-century accounts of Vienna portray the city as one of the most ethnically and culturally diverse in Europe, yet most scholarship about Viennese music at that time focuses on Haydn, Mozart, and Beethoven, painting a disproportionately Austro-German picture of...
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Oxford University Press
Parution :
2025-06-30
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Where lie the origins of North Korean ideology? When, why, and to what extent did North Korean ideology begin to transform into the idiosyncratic ideology that it is today?
In this first comprehensive Cold War history of North Korean ideology, Thomas Stock traces...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2025-06-30
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During World War Two some 67,000 Indian personnel of the British Indian Army were captured by Imperial Japanese forces, including a large number at the surrender of Singapore in February 1942. This book, the first of its kind, critically examines why these colonial...
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OUP Oxford
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2025-06-30
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Byzantium is commonly taken to be a somewhat exotic entity on the margin of medieval Europe--bureaucratic, Greek- rather than Latin-speaking, Orthodox rather than Catholic, wealthy and effete, relying on cunning rather than martial exploits to foil its enemies. Since...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2025-06-25
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This interdisciplinary volume provides the first comprehensive study of Rome's relationship with the kingdom and city of Pergamon. It surveys the rich and diverse interactions between these two cities from the late third century BCE to the fourth century CE, ranging...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2025-06-25
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This book offers a compelling exploration into the untold history and social dynamics of Indian engineers. Through a series of ten insightful essays, it brings together the perspectives of social scientists and historians from India, the United States, and France....
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2025-06-25
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This open access book examines the life and work of Koki Hirota, who served as Japan's foreign minister and prime minister from 1933 to 1938 - the period that saw the final Japanese diplomatic attempts at achieving a modus vivendi with China before the outbreak of the...
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Springer
Parution :
2025-06-25
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In the updated edition of this “tour de force” (National Review), the leader of the National Conservatism movement argues that nationalism is the only realistic safeguard of liberty in the world today Nationalism is the issue of our age. From Donald...
Editeur :
Basic Liberty
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2025-06-24
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The series of rebellions against royal authority and the violent clashes between aristocratic families that occurred in England between 1455 and 1487 have long been characterized as the 'Wars of the Roses'. Yet, far from being a continuous period of civil war, the Wars...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2025-06-23
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This book examines the relationship between Britain and Oman since the end of the Second World War up until the Iranian revolution. Particular focus is given to the political and economic development of the state, together with Britain’s various overt and covert...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2025-06-20
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The story of Sydney’s metropolitan food landscapes is one of dramatic transformations of First Nations land amidst jostles for power and wealth. This book unearths Sydney's lost commercial agriculture since colonisation in 1788 to assess its fragile food futures. Richly...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2025-06-20
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