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Egypt in the early Byzantine period was a bilingual country where Greek and Egyptian (Coptic) were used alongside each other. Historical studies along with linguistic studies of the phonology and lexicon of early Byzantine Greek inEgypt testify to this situation. In...
Editeur :
OUP Oxford
Parution :
2022-08-18
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A vivid, first-hand account of the tension and excitement of flying missions over Nazi GermanyThe British and American bomber crews of the Second World War often had to endure the most terrifying conditions. Not for them the glorious, all-or-nothing exhilaration of the...
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Weidenfeld & Nicolson
Parution :
2022-08-18
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This book evaluates Central Asian regionalism by analyzing the impact of Russia and China on physical infrastructure in the region. The narrative builds a picture of the nature of the two powers’ influence on the development of regional connectivity in Central Asia. The...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2022-08-17
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Inaugural lectures often comprise stimulating discussions by top-level academics; indeed, inaugural lectures are often given by the top five percent of scholars in the discipline concerned, yet there are hardly any series dedicated solely to these high quality lectures....
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Galda Verlag
Parution :
2022-08-17
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“Regions of memory” are a scale of social and cultural memory that reaches above the national, yet remains narrower than the global or universal. The chapters of this volume analyze transnational constellations of memory across and between several geographical areas,...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2022-08-17
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Reflecting debate around hospitality and the Baltic Sea region, this open access book taps into wider discussions about reception, securitization and xenophobic attitudes towards migrants and strangers. Focusing on coastal and urban areas, the collection presents an...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2022-08-15
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Two Brothers tells the story of a great sporting family, uncovering new details, exposing myths and placing Jack and Bobby Charlton in their historical context. It's a book about two English footballers but also about English football and England itself.In later life...
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Little, Brown Book Group
Parution :
2022-08-11
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This book uncovers the history of a group of Jewish workers and merchants in the Amsterdam diamond industry during the Holocaust. They and their families were exempt from deportation for a long time, but were eventually deported to Bergen-Belsen. In the end, almost all...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2022-08-11
Collection :
The Holocaust and its Contexts
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Bis zur Mitte des vorigen Jahrhunderts galt das menschliche Herz als der Mittelpunkt der religiösen Vorstellungen der Azteken. Dieses Gedankengut war allgemein wissenschaftlich anerkannt. Seit etwa einem halben Jahrhundert wird die Bedeutung des Herzens zu Gunsten der...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2022-08-11
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Archaeologies of Cultural Contact undertakes an exploration of cultural transfer, with a particular focus on the combination and modification of both material and behavioural attributes under conditions of contact. From globalization and displacement to cultural...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2022-08-11
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Archaeologies of Cultural Contact undertakes an exploration of cultural transfer, with a particular focus on the combination and modification of both material and behavioural attributes under conditions of contact. From globalization and displacement to cultural...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2022-08-11
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Shipwrecks and the Bounty of the Sea is a work of social history examining community relationships, law, and seafaring over the long early modern period. It explores the politics of the coastline, the economy of scavenging, and the law of 'wreck of the sea' from the...
Editeur :
OUP Oxford
Parution :
2022-08-11
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Shipwrecks and the Bounty of the Sea is a work of social history examining community relationships, law, and seafaring over the long early modern period. It explores the politics of the coastline, the economy of scavenging, and the law of 'wreck of the sea' from the...
Editeur :
OUP Oxford
Parution :
2022-08-11
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Sick Note shows how the question of 'who is really sick?' has never been straightforward and will continue to perplex the British state.
Sick Note is a history of how the British state asked, 'who is really sick?' Tracing medical certification for absence from work...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2022-08-11
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Sick Note shows how the question of 'who is really sick?' has never been straightforward and will continue to perplex the British state.
Sick Note is a history of how the British state asked, 'who is really sick?' Tracing medical certification for absence from work...
Editeur :
OUP Oxford
Parution :
2022-08-11
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This book examines instances of transformative dissent, turning points or shifts in popular mobilisation patterns in contemporary India, while adopting a historical approach and analysing past events. Exploring the different continuities and discontinuities in...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2022-08-09
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This book examines why, on the eve of the pamphlet’s 175th anniversary, the Communist Manifesto left so faint an imprint on Europe’s most revolutionary year of 1848, when it has had such a huge impact on posterity. The Manifesto that year misread bourgeois intentions,...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2022-08-08
Collection :
Marx, Engels, and Marxisms
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The Hebrew Bible formulates two sets of law: one for the Israelites and one for the gentile “residents” living in the Holy Land. Law Beyond Israel: From the Bible to the Qur'an argues that these biblical laws for non-Israelites form the historical basis of qur'anic law....
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2022-08-08
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The Hebrew Bible formulates two sets of law: one for the Israelites and one for the gentile “residents” living in the Holy Land. Law Beyond Israel: From the Bible to the Qur'an argues that these biblical laws for non-Israelites form the historical basis of qur'anic law....
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2022-08-08
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An account of the emergence and development of white consciousness throughout American history.
In The Making of White American Identity, Ron Eyerman provides an explanation for how whiteness has become a basis for collective identification and collective action in the...
Editeur :
Oxford University Press
Parution :
2022-08-06
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