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This open access book focuses on institutions that were produced and formed by the emerging welfare state. How were institutions experienced by the people who interacted with them? How did institutions as sites of experience shape and structure people’s everyday...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2023-12-26
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This book gathers essays on premodern plants, considering the position of critical plant studies in relation to medieval studies. Contributions cover topics including the significance of the daisy in the two Prologues to Chaucer's Legend of Good Women; naming in...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2023-12-26
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This book considers how to conceive of the group of islands known in our time as the British Isles in the Late Middle Ages. Was the archipelago considered one geographical unit? Was it an it, or were the islands a they? Singular or plural? Contributions consider...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2023-12-26
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This book brings together several strands of medieval and medievalist work in the history of emotions, with a focus on literary, historical and cinema studies. It asks how we may best ‘face up’ to work that has been done already in these fields, and speculates about...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2023-12-26
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A landmark study of the history of male-male sex in early modern Europe, including the European colonies and the Ottoman world.
Until quite recently, the history of male-male sexual relations was a taboo topic. But when historians eventually explored the archives of...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2023-12-26
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This book explores how New Zealand, a small country almost as far from Western Europe as it is possible to be, assumed political importance in Britain’s accession to the European Community vastly out of proportion to its size, proximity and strategic position. At...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2023-12-26
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Thomas Hobbes and Political Thought in Ireland, c.1660-1730 is a history of political thought in Ireland, told from the perspective of the reception in that country ofThomas Hobbes, the English philosopher. Unlike Hobbes, political thought in Ireland has received little...
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OUP Oxford
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2023-12-26
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This book argues first, that the forces of industrialization that transformed ship technology simultaneously transformed the working-class lives of merchant seamen, intensifying class conflict and producing collective networks of subversion and resistance within the...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2023-12-21
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The book is devoted to Shostakovich's most controversial symphony, composed at the height of Stalin's Purges. It rescued Shostakovich from official disfavour and deeply moved audiences.The critics recognized it as a masterpiece, but they were perplexed by its...
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Oxford University Press
Parution :
2023-12-19
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This book gives a detailed information of various soft computing techniques across various fields for solving relevant, real-life problems. The authors, all female leaders in the field, show how soft computing uses approximate calculations to provide imprecise yet...
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Springer
Parution :
2023-12-18
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This book examines how migration and mobility were controlled, supported, and restricted in early modern Europe and European colonies. The aim of the book is to investigate how different actors, such as rulers, regional lords, local authorities, and corporations tried...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2023-12-16
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This book examines selected short stories and novels by Kate Chopin through the lens of the city of New Orleans. Chopin’s depictions of and references to New Orleans celebrate the vibrancy of this unique American city, but also illustrate the complex, interdependent...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2023-12-15
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It was 13 October 1972. Uruguayan Air Force Flight 571, carrying a team of young rugby players, their families and friends, took off for the very last time. A deadly miscalculation saw F571 crash directly into the Andean mountains to devastating consequences: the body...
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Constable
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2023-12-14
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The book is an in-depth study of the lesser-explored history of Sufi practices in South Asia. Covering the formative period of Sufism in this region, the work studies practices like 'sama' (listening to poetry and music) and 'zikr' (remembrance of God) through the...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2023-12-14
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Mittelhochdeutsche Heldenepik erzählt häufig und ausführlich von körperlicher Gewalt in Form von Schlachten und Zweikämpfen. Diese offensichtliche Faszination für das Erzählen von Gewalt, so schlägt dieses Buch vor, liegt in der Fähigkeit des Erzählgegenstandes...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2023-12-14
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This book explores a panorama of historical studies, focused on the historical tensions between genealogical knowledge and well-known Pacific Islander engagements with genomic research in a postwar era of simultaneous decolonization and Big Science. These include...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2023-12-13
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This is an open access title available under the terms of a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 International licence. It is free to read on Oxford Academic and offered as a free PDF download from OUP and selected open access locations.
Languages are central to the creation and expression...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2023-12-13
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This is an open access title available under the terms of a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 International licence. It is free to read on Oxford Academic and offered as a free PDF download from OUP and selected open access locations.
Languages are central to the creation and expression...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2023-12-13
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Between 1756 and 1840, philanthropy in the British world grew from the domain of small, associational committees to a vast enterprise of philanthropic and humanitarian societies with global reach. British Philanthropy in the Globalizing World tells the story of this...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2023-12-12
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