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An excellent work that presents the research history of Mao Zedong! It is the first book to delve into the history of translating, publishing, and disseminating Mao Zedong's works in over 20 languages. Notably, the translation projects were not only led by the Chinese...
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2026-01-01
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This book explores the changing relations between Chinese secret societies in British Malaya and the British colonial government, examining how and why British attitudes towards Chinese migrants changed over the nineteenth century, from welcoming them at the...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2026-01-01
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This edited collection is composed of four uniquely authored chapters, each of which examines collective identity in early modern East Asia through biography and historical accounts. In addition, an introductory chapter lays out the overall principles and concerns of...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2026-01-01
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This book analyses how security concerns dominated international engagement in higher education reforms in post-Soviet Uzbekistan. Internationalisation of higher education – which entails recruitment of international students and staff, development of joint...
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2026-01-01
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This edited volume introduces a fresh approach to higher education that redefines traditional paradigms. It explores pressing concerns about the future of universities and education, addressing key issues such as transformative shifts stemming from an increased emphasis...
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2026-01-01
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This book explores witchcraft accusations as bizarre and violent reflections of the tensions, fears, and fantasies within one of Early Modern Europe’s most culturally diverse societies.
At the crossroads of Latin and post-Byzantine traditions, Western and Eastern...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2026-01-01
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This book examines the influence of authoritarian rule on the development of the welfare state. Building on theoretical approaches from research on autocratic regimes and comparative welfare state research, it develops a novel theoretical argument on authoritarian...
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Springer VS
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2026-01-01
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This book undertakes a critical examination of monuments, heritage, and memory, analysing their intersections with colonial histories, gender dynamics, and class structures. By challenging conventional conceptions of monuments, memory, and heritage, this work advocates...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2026-01-01
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The African Origins of Democracy challenges the myth that democracy was born in ancient Greece. Drawing on archaeology, anthropology, and political science, Bernd Reiter shows that egalitarian African societies practiced self-rule tens of thousands of years...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2026-01-01
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This book reorients our understanding of the history of modern male homosexuality by focusing on Europe's 'internal Other': Italy. Spanning from the tail-end of the Grand Tour to the mid-fascist years, it argues that Italy was a time/space in which competing...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2026-01-01
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The Oxford Handbook of American Military History examines the chronological and thematic range of American military history, from the colonial era to the present, exploring a variety of connections between war, military institutions, and American society, politics,...
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Oxford University Press
Parution :
2025-12-31
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The work of J.-J.-E. Roy recounts the life of Marie Antoinette, from her arrival in France in 1770 until her death on October 16, 1793. It meticulously details the growing hostility she faced, first as Dauphine and later as Queen of France and Navarre. From the moment...
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Metvox Publications
Parution :
2025-12-27
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A rich history of cross-racial coalitions and alliances of the Sixties' freedom movement, acclaimed historian Alice Echols's Black Power, White Heat reshapes our understanding of the entire era.
One of the most divisive issues in recent progressive politics has been...
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Oxford University Press
Parution :
2025-12-23
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Gewaltige Mengen an Alkohol gelangten in der zweiten Hälfte des 18. Jahrhunderts auf dänischen Schiffen nach Indien. Wein, Madeira, Bier und Branntwein halfen, einen steten Silberstrom nach Asien zu reduzieren. Ebenso prägten sie weit über die dänischen Handelsplätze am...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2025-12-18
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From Aristotle to John Adams, great minds of government have revered Carthaginian democracy as the purest expression of a people's will. Yet today, while Phoenician influence on the Graeco-Roman worlds has been revisited and corrected from the perspectives of art,...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2025-12-15
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Following Hernando Cortés's conquest of Tenochtitlan in 1521, the Aztec empire became the center of the largest European colony in the Americas. It has long been assumed that Indigenous people's personal experiences of this cataclysmic era are inaccessible. Spanish...
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Oxford University Press
Parution :
2025-12-15
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From Aristotle to John Adams, great minds of government have revered Carthaginian democracy as the purest expression of a people's will. Yet today, while Phoenician influence on the Graeco-Roman worlds has been revisited and corrected from the perspectives of art,...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2025-12-11
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On March 2, 1945, five Mexican American families and their Jewish American lawyer filed a class-action lawsuit against four school districts in Orange County, California, to end the segregation of ethnic Mexican children. In a shocking decision, the court ruled in favor...
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Oxford University Press
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2025-12-10
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This open access book explores the background to the electoral reforms of 1907-1921 in Sweden, when the voting age was raised from 21 years to 23 for the second chamber and the municipalities, and to 27 for the county councils and the first chamber.This increase in...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2025-12-08
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This book is a historical and cultural study of the work of the Jewish women architects who flourished in Palestine under the British Mandate (1920-1948).This comprehensive study adds a new chapter to the story of women in architecture in the twentieth century,...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2025-12-05
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