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This book offers an original and comprehensive study of the memory of the Rogo di Primavalle, a fatal arson attack on the home of a far-right family on 16 April 1973. Perpetrated by members of the militant left group Potere Operaio, this was the first...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2024-02-13
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In the second half of the 19th and the first half of the 20th century, nearly one-third of the population of today’s Slovenia permanently settled in countries around the world. Many more were traveling back and forth, searching for work to ensure the survival of the...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2024-02-09
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This book looks at literary historiography in Russia, Latvia, the Czech Republic and Finland, focusing on how seismic shifts in state politics and ideology after 1990 changed the writing of national literary histories in these countries. While Russia saw a return to a...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2024-02-07
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Child abuse casts a long shadow over the history of childhood. Across the centuries there are numerous accounts of children being beaten, neglected, sexually assaulted, or even killed by those closest to them. This book explores this darker side of childhood history,...
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Polity
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2024-02-07
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In Europe, coal was by far the most important source of energy from the beginning of industrialisation until well after the Second World War. It was indispensable in shaping the modern world, and in altering our understanding of time and space. Used foundationally in...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2024-02-06
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This book examines how enlightened Scottish social theorists c.1740 to c.1800 understood the origin and development of religion. Challenging scholarly disregard for the topic, it shows how most prominent thinkers of the Scottish Enlightenment thought deeply about the...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2024-02-05
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This distinctive book deconstructs the foundational elements of Russian foreign policy from a Russian perspective and with references to Russian sources, rather than the typical Western perspective. The author Olga Raluca Chiriac situates her work at the intersection of...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2024-02-01
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Lenin lived a controversial life and has had a deeply controversial reputation in the centenary since his death (21 January 1924) His rise from a conventional, educated, provincial, and middle-class background to become not only the leader, even dictator, over the...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2024-02-01
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Shortlisted for the John Pollard Foundation International Poetry Prize 2025'Gub is unlike anything I have ever read. In a playful demotic that is exhilarating, hilarious and never forced, Scott McKendry makes magic of a Belfast that in other hands would make grim...
Editeur :
Corsair
Parution :
2024-02-01
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This book provides the first history of the British and American Intelligence Divisions (IDs) in occupied Germany and the liaison between them. It reveals that after the fall of Adolf Hitler’s Third Reich, much of Germany was controlled by an Anglo-American secret...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2024-01-24
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Der Neuanfang war mühsam. Zunächst einmal beherrschte eine kleine Gruppe prominenter Pazifisten aus der Weimarer Republik das deutsche Bewerberfeld für den Friedensnobelpreis nach 1945. Erst im Laufe der 1950er Jahre traten Kandidaten auf, deren Wirken sich mit dem...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2024-01-23
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In London in 1984 two very different cities came into conflict, one rooted in radical politics and the other shaped by Margaret Thatcher and the Conservative government. This was a city poised between two eras and identities, remoulded in conflicting ways by social...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2024-01-22
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Thomas Hobbes and Political Thought in Ireland, c.1660-1730 is a history of political thought in Ireland, told from the perspective of the reception in that country ofThomas Hobbes, the English philosopher. Unlike Hobbes, political thought in Ireland has received little...
Editeur :
OUP Oxford
Parution :
2024-01-10
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This book gathers contributions on the later Stuart queens and queen consorts. It seeks to re-insert Henrietta Maria, Catherine of Braganza, Mary of Modena, Mary II, Anne, and Maria Clementina Sobieska into the mainstream of Stuart and early Georgian studies,...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2024-01-04
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In this book, Maria Chehonadskih unsettles established narratives about the formation of a revolutionary canon after the October Revolution. Displacing the centre of gravity from dialectical materialism to the rapid dissemination, canonisation and decline of a striking...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2023-12-30
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Als zentrale Sicherheitsexpertin des Staates trägt die Polizei durch ihre spezifischen Sicherheitsheuristiken und Sicherheitsrepertoires in hohem Maße dazu bei, wie städtische Räume wahrgenommen werden: als Räume der Sicherheit oder der Unsicherheit. Der...
Editeur :
Springer VS
Parution :
2023-12-29
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This book examines the efforts of the French-speaking minority in Flanders, Belgium, to maintain a legal and social presence of the French language in Flemish public life. Chronologically, the study is bookended by two developments, almost exactly a century apart. In...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2023-12-28
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A landmark study of the history of male-male sex in early modern Europe, including the European colonies and the Ottoman world.
Until quite recently, the history of male-male sexual relations was a taboo topic. But when historians eventually explored the archives of...
Editeur :
OUP Oxford
Parution :
2023-12-26
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This book explores how New Zealand, a small country almost as far from Western Europe as it is possible to be, assumed political importance in Britain’s accession to the European Community vastly out of proportion to its size, proximity and strategic position. At...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2023-12-26
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