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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...
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OUP Oxford
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2023-12-26
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The book is devoted to Shostakovich's most controversial symphony, composed at the height of Stalin's Purges. It rescued Shostakovich from official disfavour and deeply moved audiences.The critics recognized it as a masterpiece, but they were perplexed by its...
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Oxford University Press
Parution :
2023-12-19
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Mittelhochdeutsche Heldenepik erzählt häufig und ausführlich von körperlicher Gewalt in Form von Schlachten und Zweikämpfen. Diese offensichtliche Faszination für das Erzählen von Gewalt, so schlägt dieses Buch vor, liegt in der Fähigkeit des Erzählgegenstandes...
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Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2023-12-14
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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...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2023-12-12
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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
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2023-12-12
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This book summarises the evolution of the higher education system in post-Soviet Georgia, amidst democratisation, economic liberalisation and European integration. The author gives an overview of the recent political history in Georgia, paying particular attention to...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2023-12-10
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Soon after Russia invaded Ukraine in February 2022, Vladimir Putin expressed Russia's commitment for the reconstruction of the war-devasted Eastern regions of Ukraine. It is surprising how little analytical and comparative literature exists about Russia’s experience in...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2023-12-08
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This book examines how Lampedusa, Italy’s southernmost island, has become a transnational symbol representing migration to Europe from the Global South. It analyses how three very different associations have used the name “Lampedusa” as a means of restoring a sense...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2023-12-07
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This book explores the emerging politics of Eurasia from the vantage point of Kazakhstan. Vladimir Putin’s decision to invade Ukraine in February 2022 has led to the end of the post-Cold War paradigm of liberal convergence and has triggered a geopolitical shift that...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2023-12-02
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One of the Second World Wars most brutal and dramatic campaigns brought to life in this vivid and epic historyIt could have all been over much quicker. In this gripping account, bestseller John Strawson analyses how the slow, bloody and fiercely fought Italian campaign...
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Canelo
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2023-11-30
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This treatise on religious studies traces the European tradition of astrology from its oriental beginnings to the present day. The aim is to get a view of the different mythological, philosophical and theological ideas of the cosmos (especially with Platonic and...
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Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2023-11-29
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This book examines how proverbs can carry ethnonyms and contradictory oppositions in everyday speech, and interrogates the belief that such nuances are national in nature by comparing across languages and cultures. The authors bring together linguistic terms and...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2023-11-27
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This book explores the role of the Cyprus regiment, a military unit of the British Army, in the Second World War. Highlighting the contribution of Cyprus to the war effort, the book contributes to the limited historiography on the military engagement of Cyprus in the...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2023-11-27
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This book examines the autobiographies and diaries of Soviet homosexual men who underwent psychotherapy during the period from 1970 to 1980 under the guidance of Yan Goland, a psychiatrist-sexopathologist from Gorky. The examination of these unique and little known...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2023-11-24
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This Open access book provides a survey of the economic, health, and somatic progress of Baltic countries during the period 1918–2018, framed by the outline of the historical-sociological theory of modern social restorations, as originally conceived by the...
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Springer
Parution :
2023-11-21
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During the 1840s and 1850s, the British government financed a world-wide investigation into how the Earth's magnetic phenomena operated, consisting of a network of naval expeditions and colonial observatories. Questions surrounding terrestrial magnetism were not just...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2023-11-21
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The book explores the key concerns in the United States of America, as well as around the world today, related to the significance of ecology, eco-consciousness and climate change.
The chapters by individual authors reflect the topics both from a theoretical and from an...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2023-11-20
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This edited book fills a void in the existing research concerning anti-communist movements in Central and Eastern Europe, outlining the linguistic implications of the cultural, social and political metamorphoses brought about by the (change of) regime....
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2023-11-17
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Here is the current, captivating and uncompromising portrait of a great country and its people. Top of the European class, polite, hardworking and rarely at fault, Germany, 20 years after Reunification, has enjoyed at leisure its hitherto well-mastered growth: culture,...
Editeur :
Max Milo Éditions
Parution :
2023-11-15
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L’inconnu
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Tudor Networks of Power is the product of a groundbreaking collaboration between an early modern book historian and a physicist specializing in complex networks. Together they have reconstructed and computationally analysed the networks of intelligence, diplomacy, and...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2023-11-09
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