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Interventions in other states on behalf of their subject populations is often portrayed as a novel phenomenon in state practice, one which breaches the old principle of sovereignty. But is this practice really so new? Patrick Milton argues that such interventions for...
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OUP Oxford
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2022-10-20
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This book provides a long history of France’s infamous indigénat regime, from its origins in Algeria to its contested practices and legacies in France’s South Pacific territory of New Caledonia. The term indigénat is synonymous throughout the francophone world with the...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2022-10-19
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This book offers a genealogical critique of how food scarcity was governed in colonial Kenya. With an approach informed by the ‘analysis of government’, the study accounts for the emergence and persistence of dominant approaches to promoting food security in Kenya and...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2022-10-19
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The epic story of the planet’s oldest trees and the making of the modern world “Rich...fascinating.”—The Wall Street Journal Humans have always revered long-lived trees. But as historian Jared Farmer reveals...
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Basic Books
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2022-10-18
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The Civil War may have ended on the battlefield, but the fight for equality never did In 1865, the Confederacy was comprehensively defeated, its economy shattered, its leaders in exile or in jail. Yet in the years that followed, Lincoln’s vision of a genuinely...
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PublicAffairs
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2022-10-18
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This book presents the history of the Council for the Encouragement of Music and the Arts (CEMA) in Northern Ireland from its conception in 1943, and its successor organisation, the Arts Council of Northern Ireland (ACNI). Exploring the political and social impact of...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2022-10-17
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This book offers the first English translation and comprehensive analysis (inclusive of introductory study and endnotes to the translation) of the longest and most complex Italian Renaissance utopia, Ludovico Agostini’s Imaginary Republic. It not only reveals the...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2022-10-17
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The process of modernization has brought discontinuities in collective memory. This volume and its sequel provide an act of collective remembrance, knitting together many voices and stories. It shows the readers a world of the past before modernization began in the...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2022-10-17
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The process of modernization has brought discontinuities in collective memory. This volume and its prequel provide an act of collective remembrance, knitting together many voices and stories. It shows the readers a world of the past before modernization began in the...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2022-10-17
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Warum glaubt eine ganze Gesellschaft, dass es Hexen gibt, die man verbrennen muss? Welche Rollen übernahmen dabei jeweils der sich herausbildende ‚Staat‘, die Professionen der Kleriker und Juristen und das daran beteiligte Publikum? Und wie konnte dieses Projekt beendet...
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Springer VS
Parution :
2022-10-17
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This open access edited volume shines new light on the history of propaganda and persuasion during the Nordic welfare epoch. A common analytical framework is developed that highlights transnational and transmedial perspectives rather than national or monomedial...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2022-10-14
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"Stress," "burn out," "mental overload": the twentieth and twenty-first centuries have witnessed an unrelenting expansion of the meaning of fatigue. The tentacles of exhaustion insinuated themselves into every aspect of our lives, from the workplace to the home, from...
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Polity
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2022-10-14
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Editeur :
Headline
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2022-10-13
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Includes interviews with Mary Kennedy, Sean O'Rourke, Mary Coughlan, Bertie Ahern and many othersWhat was life like for Ireland's grandparents when they were young?What has changed for the better? What values do they wish to hand down?In these pages, grandmother and...
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Hachette Books Ireland
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2022-10-13
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Dieses Buch enthält eine Sammlung deutscher diplomatischer Dokumente - darunter Telegramme, Depeschen und Berichte -, die von deutschen Diplomaten in Nanking an das Auswärtige Amt in Berlin und den deutschen Botschafter in Hankou, China, geschickt wurden und die...
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Springer VS
Parution :
2022-10-12
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This book investigates and assesses how and to what extent the French Catholic missionaries carried out their evangelical activity amid the natives of Acadia/Nova Scotia from the mid-seventeenth century until 1755, the year of the Great Deportation of the Acadians. It...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2022-10-11
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'Powerful, deftly researched. A necessary and urgent deep-dive' ELINOR CLEGHORN'Brilliantly researched and enlightening' STYLIST, Books You Need to Know This Autumn'Absolutely captivating' LESLIE...
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Weidenfeld & Nicolson
Parution :
2022-10-11
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They were a small group of conspirators who risked their lives by plotting relentlessly to obstruct and destroy the Third Reich from within. The Gestapo nicknamed this shadowy confederation of traitors the “Black Orchestra.” This is their tension-filled...
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Grand Central Publishing
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2022-10-11
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This book discusses the issues underlying contemporary Holocaust fiction. Using Gillian Rose’s theory of Holocaust piety, it argues that, rather than enhancing our understanding of the Holocaust, contemporary fiction has instead become overly focused on gratuitous...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2022-10-10
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This book explores the dilemmas of Georgian foreign policy since independence in 1991. Since the collapse of the Soviet Union, Georgia—a Caucasian republic with a fiercely independent national identity—has sought its own special path to European modernity, a promised...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2022-10-10
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