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This book challenges existing accounts of the role of religion in early-nineteenth-century British socialism. Against scholarly interpretations which have identified Owenite socialists as anti-religious or as imitating Christianity, this book argues that Owenites offer...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2023-04-26
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Greek tragedy parades, tests, stimulates, and upends human cognition. Characters plot deception, try to fathom elusive gods, and fail to recognise loved ones. Spectators observe the characters' cognitive limitations and contemplate their own, grapple with moral...
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OUP Oxford
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2023-04-26
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Dieses Buch bietet den ersten umfassenden Überblick über die Geschichte der Soziologie in der heutigen Tschechischen Republik. In sechs Kapiteln wird die institutionelle Entwicklung der Disziplin vom späten 19. Jahrhundert bis in die Gegenwart nachgezeichnet, wobei der...
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Springer VS
Parution :
2023-04-26
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The Emergence of a Hero is dedicated to the history of Russian emotional culture of the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries - the epoch when the court Masonic lodges and literature were competing for the monopoly on the 'symbolic images of feeling' that an...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2023-04-26
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"The calculated location of the ancient solar eclipses could have an error of up to about 10 kilometers."
This statement by the U.S. Space Administration NASA is a scientific outstretching of how ancient eclipses can be found. When numerous eclipses observed in ancient...
Editeur :
Pekka Mansikka
Parution :
2023-04-25
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Northern Africa is dominated by the Sahara Desert, stretching across the continent from the Atlantic Ocean to the Red Sea. This book is about the people who lived around the edges of the Desert and the different ways in which they responded to its challenges,...
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OUP Oxford
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2023-04-25
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Very Short Introductions: Brilliant, Sharp, Inspiring
Emotions are complex mental states that resist reduction. They are visceral reactions but also beliefs about the world. They are spontaneous outbursts but also culturally learned performances. They are intimate and...
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OUP Oxford
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2023-04-25
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When the Berlin Wall was stormed and the Soviet Union fell apart, the West and above all the United States looked like the sole victors of history. Three decades later, the spirit of triumph rings hollow. What went wrong? In this sequel to his award-winning history of...
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Polity
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2023-04-25
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The political system of Athens experienced a rebalancing in the period between 404 and 307, which cannot be adequately captured with the keywords “decline” or “crisis”.The comprehensive analysis of Athens' public finances opens up a new approach to this hinge period...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2023-04-24
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The history of the Roman Republic was a military success story. Texts, monuments and rituals commemorated Rome's victories, and this emphasis on its own triumphs formed a basis for the Roman nobility's claim to leadership. However, the Romans also suffered numerous...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2023-04-24
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Gaetano Salvemini (1873 – 1957), one of the most influential Italian intellectuals of his generation, was an historian, a professor, and a tireless anti-fascist who mentored a new generation of young intellectuals and political activists, such as Piero...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2023-04-24
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Histories you can trust.
This history provides a readable and fresh approach to the extensive and complex story of witchcraft and magic. Telling the story from the dawn of writing in the ancient world to the globally successful Harry Potter films, the authors explore a...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2023-04-23
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Adopting the perspective of anthropology of art and combining it with global academic insights, this book helps the readers to recognize that “history is, in great measure, the record of human activity which spreads from the local to the regional, from the regional to...
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Springer
Parution :
2023-04-21
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The moment Britain fought back.It was in North Africa that the tide turned; that Britain began its long fightback against Nazi dominance.The distinguished military historian Major General John Strawson's vivid, unputdownable book describes how the balance of power in...
Editeur :
Canelo
Parution :
2023-04-20
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This Palgrave Handbook examines the ways in which researchers and practitioners theorise, analyse, produce and make use of testimony. It explores the full range of testimony in the public sphere, including perpetrator testimony, testimony presented through social media...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2023-04-19
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Gaelic literati were an elite and influential group in the social hierarchy of Irish lordships between c. 1300 and 1600. From their estates, they servedGaelic and Old English ruling families in the arts of history, law, medicine, and poetry. They farmed, kept...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2023-04-19
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The Emergence of a Hero is dedicated to the history of Russian emotional culture of the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries - the epoch when the court Masonic lodges and literature were competing for the monopoly on the 'symbolic images of feeling' that an...
Editeur :
OUP Oxford
Parution :
2023-04-19
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A historian explores the complicated relationship between womanhood and motherhood in this “timely, refreshingly open-hearted study of the choices women make and the cards they’re dealt” (Ada Calhoun, author of Why We Can’t Sleep). In...
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Seal Press
Parution :
2023-04-18
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Wigging Out is a comprehensive visual history of wigs and hairpieces, covering thousands of years of hair worn by everyone from Cleopatra and Louis XIV to Naomi Campbell and Lady Gaga. Starting in ancient Egypt and ending on the red carpet of the Met Gala,Wigging...
Editeur :
Black Dog & Leventhal
Parution :
2023-04-18
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It all happened in a flash. February 1933 was the month in which the fate of German writers, as for so many others, was decided. In a tensely spun narrative, Uwe Wittstock tells the story of a demise which was predicted by some but also scarcely thought possible. He...
Editeur :
Polity
Parution :
2023-04-18
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