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History and Decolonization: Essays from Southern Europe takes a fresh approach to world history by integrating the historical experience of Southern Europe into debates on colonialism, racism and patriarchy. To approach Europe from its southern fringes can open new...
Editeur : Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publishers
Parution : 2025-08-04
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In a time of global backlash against women's rights and gender issues, this book echoes the importance of protecting the sexual and reproductive health and rights of women by conceptualising and analysing relevant sexual and reproductive health rights issues (SRHR) in...
Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2025-07-31
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A New Etruscan Archaeology provides a comprehensive overview of the latest advancements in archaeological methods and technologies applied to the study of Etruscan civilization. Through vivid illustrations, detailed case studies, and research from twenty-five experts,...
Editeur : Oxford University Press
Parution : 2025-07-30
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This groundbreaking study examines Peking Opera legend Mei Lanfang’s 1930 U.S. visit through extensive primary sources and a cross-cultural lens. It meticulously chronicles his 76 performances over 182 days, reconstructing his daily itinerary, highlighting key...
Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2025-07-30
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During discussions for the Government of Ireland Act 1920, Northern Ireland as we know it was created. However, there were discussions of the Irish boundary line, including partitioning the full province of Ulster. This raises a fundamental 'what if' within Irish...
Editeur : Peter Lang Ltd, International Academic Publishers
Parution : 2025-07-30
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Decades after his death, Stephen C. Foster's (1826--64) family and fans seized upon his birth on the fiftieth anniversary of the Declaration of Independence and his role in the burgeoning US music industry to mythologize him as a founding father in American cultural...
Editeur : Oxford University Press
Parution : 2025-07-29
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Das Buch bietet einen erzählerischen Zugang zu Platon: Wie fühlt es sich an, die abendländische Philosophie ohne Vorbild zu begründen und innerlich zerrissen zu sein? Platon erscheint nicht als abgehobener Denker im Elfenbeinturm, sondern als Mensch,...
Editeur : Springer
Parution : 2025-07-28
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This is the first comprehensive biography of Cecil Rhodes in a generation.This critical work elaborates the life and times of Rhodes, showing how his racist politics impacted mining, industry, transportation, warfare, and society, while discussing how his controversial...
Editeur : Oxford University Press
Parution : 2025-07-24
Format(s) : ePub
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Editeur : Monoray
Parution : 2025-07-24
Format(s) : ePub
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This book is the first sustained analysis of popular politics in Scotland during the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries. Despite the long-running historiography on popular protests in both England and continental Europe, there has been little discussion of this...
Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2025-07-23
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This book examines the impact of martial law on transgenerational memory in post-World War II Taiwan. Through an intense focus on the symptoms of memories, Yu argues that collective remembrances in post-war Taiwan must be studied alongside the islanders' collective...
Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2025-07-23
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Die Aufklärung Mitte des 18. Jahrhunderts schuf eine Architektur auf der Grundlage der Rationalität - den Klassizismus.Die sich verändernde Gesellschaft stellte aber Anforderungen, die mit den traditionellen Methoden gar nicht lösbar waren - Industrialisierung und...
Editeur : Springer Vieweg
Parution : 2025-07-23
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At the Restoration of 1660, there was no distinctive banking sector, and banking services were provided by a variety of traders, most notably the London goldsmiths. In the later seventeenth century, the first specialists appeared against a background of rapid economic...
Editeur : OUP Oxford
Parution : 2025-07-22
Format(s) : ePub
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This book considers recent developments in Thai history and historiography, examining why Thai studies had suffered under a combination of protectionism, uncritical learning, and unwillingness to engage with scholarship from abroad. The essays collected here...
Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2025-07-22
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This open access book explores how China had already established political and economic dualisms—political by the Common Era and economic by the 10th century—long before the West developed its dualism of state and society in the 17th and 18th centuries. In...
Editeur : Springer
Parution : 2025-07-22
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America’s Founding Fathers feared that a standing army would be a permanent political danger, yet the U.S. military has in the 250 years since become a bulwark of democracy. Kori Schake explains why in this compelling history of civil-military relations from...
Editeur : Polity
Parution : 2025-07-21
Format(s) : ePub
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This book offers a comprehensive exploration of the intricate relationship between radicalism and sociability in late Georgian parliamentary and extra-parliamentary politics, focusing on the Foxite-Whig faction. Re-evaluating the significance and tactical use of...
Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2025-07-21
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This open access book provides the first scholarly account of the role of hope and hopefulness from the perspective of social and cultural life in ancient, medieval and early modern societies.This edited collection brings together fourteen chapters based on case-studies...
Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2025-07-18
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This book explores Peter I’s same-sex relations, men’s sociability and male favoritism at the royal court in the context of the Petrine myth, scenarios of power, propaganda and othering. The first part is devoted to sources, historiography, the theory of the...
Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2025-07-18
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This book examines one of the key issues shaping global considerations of human rights today: the idea of the family as a protected category. Bringing together historians, political scientists, legal scholars, and historical sociologists, the book investigates how ideas...
Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2025-07-17
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