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In 1972, Italo Calvino published Invisible Cities, a literary book that masterfully combines philosophy and poetry, rigid structure and free play, theoretical insight and glittering prose. The text is an extended meditation on urban life, and it continues to resonate...
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2022-11-08
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?This book explores the role of caravan transport and human porterage in the colony of German East Africa (present-day mainland Tanzania, Rwanda, and Burundi). With caravan mobility being of pivotal importance to colonial rule during the late nineteenth and early...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2022-11-07
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This book aims at exploring in a long historical perspective and in a wide historical context the reactions of political institutions and players towards new media and new forms of communication, as well as their strategies in order to combat and/or exploit their...
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P.I.E-Peter Lang S.A., Éditions Scientifiques Internationales
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2022-11-07
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This title is endorsed by Cambridge Assessment International Education to support Option B for examination from 2024.New edition to match the revised Cambridge IGCSETM, IGCSE (9-1) and O Level syllabuses (0470/0977/2147)Rely on author Ben Walsh's bestselling approach to...
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Hodder Education
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2022-11-07
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This book traces the social backgrounds, educational experiences and subsequent lives of women who attended the university colleges in Wales from their inception to the outbreak of the Second World War. Using a sample of 2,000 graduates, the book foregrounds the...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2022-11-07
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This book tackles the question of border control in and around imperial Japan in the first half of the twentieth century, with a specific focus on its documentation regime. It explores the institutional development, media and literary discourses, and on[1]the-ground...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2022-11-07
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This is a significant book that investigates how the French internal resistance and external Free French movement were financed during the Second World War. It brings together the secretive financial aspects of resistance inside France with those under the control of...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2022-11-04
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If only these walls and this land could talk . . . The Sydney Opera House is a breathtaking building, recognised around the world as a symbol of modern Australia. Along with the Taj Mahal and other World Heritage sites, it is celebrated for its architectural grandeur...
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Constable
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2022-11-03
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This book investigates emotion in early modern Scotland, and provides the first exploration of a Scottish individual’s life and writing in light of the recent major advances in the study of emotion. It does this through the example of James Melville, a minister in the...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2022-11-03
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Explorers and travellers have always been attracted by the lure of the unknown. By traversing and mapping our planet, they have played a vital role in mankind's development. For almost two hundred years, the Royal Geographical Society has recognised their achievements...
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Weidenfeld & Nicolson
Parution :
2022-11-03
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Winner of the Norbert Elias Book Prize 2023
This book charts the process of civilisation in Japan. Using the theory of civilising processes developed by Norbert Elias, the author examines the complex underlying structural and psychological processes from the...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2022-11-03
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This book explores the experiences of ‘Indo-Mozambicans,’ citizens and residents of Mozambique who can trace their origins to the Indian subcontinent, a region affected by competing colonialisms during the twentieth century. Drawing from ethnographic interviews, the...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2022-11-01
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This intellectual biography provides an organic framework for understanding Antonio Gramsci’s process of intellectual development, paying close attention to the historical and intellectual contexts out of which his views emerged. The Gramsci in Notebooks cannot fully...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2022-10-31
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This book examines how Jewish intellectuals during and after the Second World War reinterpreted Homer’s epics, the Iliad and the Odyssey, in light of their own wartime experiences, drawing a parallel between the ancient Greek genocide of the Trojans and...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2022-10-31
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This book examines the lasting impact of war on individuals and their communities in pre-modern Europe. Research on combat stress in the modern era regularly draws upon the past for inspiration and validation, but to date no single volume has effectively scrutinised the...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2022-10-31
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This book tells the story of Germany between the years 1914–1945 through the history of its sounds and noises. From the killing grounds of the Great War, passing through the roaring optimism of the 1920s, and up to the horrifying spectacle of the Nazis and the dreadful...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2022-10-31
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This book explores dancing from the 1960s to the 1980s; though this period covers only twenty years, the changes during it were seismic. Nevertheless continuities can be found, and those are what this book examines. In dancing, it answers how we moved from the...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2022-10-31
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This book analyses the gender roles and political contexts of spy fiction narratives published during the years of the Cold War. It offers an introduction to the development of spy fiction both in England and in the United States and explores the ways in which issues...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2022-10-31
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Nach den jüngsten Desastern bewaffneter Machtprojektion wird in diesem Buch unternommen, einen rationalen Diskurs über militärische Krisenintervention wiederzubeleben: im Sinne einer stabilitätsorientierten Sicherheitspolitik. Dabei werden Elemente der Landstreitkräfte...
Editeur :
Springer VS
Parution :
2022-10-31
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