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Time, the City, and the Literary Imagination explores the relationship between the constructions and representations of the relationship between time and the city in literature published between the late eighteenth century and the present. This collection offers a new...
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2020-11-18
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'Excellent... Mortimer's erudition is formidable' The TimesA time of exuberance, thrills, frills and unchecked bad behaviour...Ian Mortimer turns to what is arguably the most-loved period in British history - the Regency, or Georgian England.This is the age of Jane...
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Vintage Digital
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2020-11-12
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'Fierce, funny and long overdue - I read this book out loud to anyone who'd listen.' Adam Kay'Toksvig's Almanac is intended merely as a starting point for your own discoveries. Find a fabulous (or infamous) woman mentioned and, please, go looking for more of her story....
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Trapeze
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2020-11-12
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Diese geoarchäologische Untersuchung zu den vor- und frühgeschichtlichen Siedlungen im Großraum Susiana (SW Iran) und ihrer Flusslandschaft stellt die traditionelle kulturhistorische Sicht der „Uruk-Expansion“ in Frage und präsentiert eine neue Erklärung für die...
Editeur :
J.B. Metzler
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2020-11-06
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Almost sixty years after the signature of the Treaty of Rome in 1957 creating the European Community), a Member-State, the United Kingdom, has for the first time in history decided to leave the European Union. The "yes" to leave vote during the British referendum on 26...
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P.I.E-Peter Lang S.A., Éditions Scientifiques Internationales
Parution :
2020-11-04
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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 the Oxford Academic platform and offered as a free PDF download from OUP and selected open access locations.
This book provides a historiographic...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2020-11-01
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This book is the history of the Eastern Vikings, the Rus and the Varangians, from their earliest mentions in the narrative sources to the late medieval period, when the Eastern Vikings had become stock figures in Old Norse Romances. A comparison is made...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2020-10-14
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'An utterly fascinating book - conversations and human behaviours recorded in real time' Tom Hanks'Fascinating ' Elizabeth Day'A hugely affecting and absorbing read.' The Bookseller'Finally, a book that is proving very therapeutic in these difficult times... Full of...
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Hodder & Stoughton
Parution :
2020-10-08
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How did the West End of London become the world's leading pleasure district? What is the source of its magnetic appeal?How did the centre of London become Theatreland? London's West End, 1800-1914 is the first ever history of the area which has enthralled millions. The...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2020-09-25
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How did the West End of London become the world's leading pleasure district? What is the source of its magnetic appeal?How did the centre of London become Theatreland? London's West End, 1800-1914 is the first ever history of the area which has enthralled millions. The...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2020-09-25
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The troubled reign of a fourteenth-century sultan of Delhi helps dramatize the crisis of secular nationhood in post-Independence India. A twelfth century folktale about ‘transposed heads’ offers a path-breaking model for a quintessentially ‘Indian’ theatre in...
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OUP India
Parution :
2020-09-10
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What remains of the colours of our childhood?What are our memories of a blue rabbit, a red dress, a yellow bike – and were they really those colours?What colours do we associate with our student years, our first loves, our adult lives? How does colour leave its mark on...
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Polity
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2020-09-08
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This volume is a resource for bioarchaeologists interested in using a structural violence framework to better understand and contextualize the lived experiences of past populations. One of the most important elements of bioarchaeological research is the study of health...
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Springer
Parution :
2020-08-27
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This is not a book about Winston Churchill. It is not principally about his politics, nor his rhetorical imagination, nor even about the man himself. Instead, it addresses the varied afterlives of the man and the persistent, deeply located compulsion to bring him back...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2020-08-14
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This is not a book about Winston Churchill. It is not principally about his politics, nor his rhetorical imagination, nor even about the man himself. Instead, it addresses the varied afterlives of the man and the persistent, deeply located compulsion to bring him back...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2020-08-14
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This book represents the first attempt to identify and describe a workhouse reform ‘movement’ in mid- to late-nineteenth-century England, beyond the obvious candidates of the Workhouse Visiting Society and the voices of popular critics such as Charles Dickens and...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2020-08-08
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This innovative collection of essays is the first to situate comedy and laughter as central rather than peripheral to nineteenth century life. Victorian Comedy and Laughter: Conviviality,Jokes and Dissent offers new readings of the works of Charles Dickens, Edward...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2020-08-06
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Why are a United States of Europe, in theory and abstract the most rational option, practically impossible today? This book analyses the contradiction implied in having enormous world-level potential whilst lacking the force to execute this due to the current structural...
Editeur :
P.I.E-Peter Lang S.A., Éditions Scientifiques Internationales
Parution :
2020-08-06
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This ground-breaking study explores welfare institutions in western law in the middle ages and establishes, for the first time, a legal model for the hospital. On Hospitals takes us beyond canon law, Carolingian capitularies, and Justinian's Code and Novels, to late...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2020-07-24
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This ground-breaking study explores welfare institutions in western law in the middle ages and establishes, for the first time, a legal model for the hospital. On Hospitals takes us beyond canon law, Carolingian capitularies, and Justinian's Code and Novels, to late...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2020-07-24
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