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A FAMILY STORY AND THE TALE OFA NATION.Ai Weiwei - one of the world's most famous artists and activists - weaves a century-long epic tale of China through the story of his own life and that of his father, Ai Qing, the nation's most celebrated poet. 'Engrossing...a...
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Vintage Digital
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2021-11-02
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This book is intended for those in the humanities seeking a legal context for writing about rape in early modern England. It takes the premise that over the past four decades misunderstandings about rape law, and misreadings of rape statutes from medieval to...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2021-11-02
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Provides students with a balanced understanding of the key aspects of the culture and society of the Roman Republic A Social and Cultural History of Republican Rome is the first undergraduate textbook of its kind to concentrate on the ways Roman societal structures,...
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Wiley-Blackwell
Parution :
2021-11-02
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Wiley Blackwell Social and Cultural Histories of the Ancient World
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This book provides a technological history of modern India, in particular the Nehruvian development in the context of the Cold War. Through a series of case studies about military modernization, transportation infrastructure, and electric power, it examines how the...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2021-11-01
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The Kenney family grew up in Saddleworth, outside Oldham, in the last decades of the nineteenth century. In 1905, three of the sisters met Christabel Pankhurst, a turning point which changed the rest of their lives. Annie Kenney became one of the leaders of the Women's...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2021-11-01
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The Kenney family grew up in Saddleworth, outside Oldham, in the last decades of the nineteenth century. In 1905, three of the sisters met Christabel Pankhurst, a turning point which changed the rest of their lives. Annie Kenney became one of the leaders of the Women's...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2021-11-01
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Armies and Political Change in Britain, 1660 -1750 argues that armies had a profound impact on the major political events of late seventeenth- and early eighteenth-century Britain. Beginning with the controversial creation of a permanent army to protect the restored...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2021-11-01
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Armies and Political Change in Britain, 1660 -1750 argues that armies had a profound impact on the major political events of late seventeenth- and early eighteenth-century Britain. Beginning with the controversial creation of a permanent army to protect the restored...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2021-11-01
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Indagare ‘Ippocrate’, la sua gestazione, la sua vitalità, significa allargare lo sguardo su ciò che lo ha preceduto e accompagnato, in Grecia e nelle culture circonvicine, su un mondo mediterraneo che è luogo di scambio di idee in forma di opere letterarie o di...
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Publications de l'École française de Rome
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2021-11-01
Collection :
Collection de l'École française de Rome
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This book provides a comparative analysis of cosmopolitan (esoteric) religious movements, such as Theosophy, Groupe Independent des Études Ésotériques, Anthroposophy, and Monism, in England, France, Germany, and India during the late nineteenth-century to the...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2021-10-30
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This book focuses, from a legal perspective, on a series of events which make up some of the principal episodes in the legal history of religion in Ireland: the anti-Catholic penal laws of the late seventeenth and early eighteenth century; the shift towards the removal...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2021-10-29
Collection :
Palgrave Modern Legal History
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'An incredible story, and so well told' Bear Grylls'A must read. Honesty, integrity and real experience that puts you in the thick of the action.' Billy BillinghamThere were three patrols that fateful January 1991 morning: Bravo One Zero, Bravo Two Zero and Bravo Three...
Editeur :
Quercus
Parution :
2021-10-28
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'Brilliantly funny' SHAPARAK KHORSANDI'Immensely enjoyable' BBC HISTORY MAGAZINE'Every page contains delights' LINDSEY FITZHARRISWhy is Italy called Italy? How old is curry? How fast was the medieval Chinese post system? How do we know how people sounded in the past?...
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Weidenfeld & Nicolson
Parution :
2021-10-28
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A ground-breaking approach to history where YOU choose the fate of WWII - perfect for readers of Bletchley Park Brainteasers and The GCHQ Puzzle Book.''An original and exciting approach . . . Buckley is one of our very finest historians.' JAMES...
Editeur :
Cornerstone Digital
Parution :
2021-10-28
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This book examines the “satanic panic” of the 1980s as an essential part of the growing relationship between tabloid media and American conservative politics in the 1980s. It argues that widespread fears of Satanism in a range of cultural institutions was indispensable...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2021-10-27
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This book addresses emancipatory narratives from two main sites in the colonial world, the Indian and southern African subcontinents. Exploring how love and revolution interrelate, this volume is unique in drawing on theories of affect to interrogate histories of the...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2021-10-27
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This book unravels the paradoxical denigration of the first significant group of free (non-convict), working-class emigrants to the Australian colony of New South Wales in the 1830s. Though their labour was sorely needed, the colonial elite rejected the new arrivals on...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2021-10-26
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In a critical, comparative study of the sociological literature, this book explores the term “time,” and the various interconnections between time and a broad cluster of topics that create a conceptual labyrinth. Various understandings of time manifest themselves in the...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2021-10-26
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This book highlights the close interactions between plants, plant knowledge, politics, and social life in Padua during the age of revolution. It explores the lives and thoughts of two brothers, the lawyer Andrea Meneghini and the botanist GiuseppeMeneghini,...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2021-10-22
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A concise yet comprehensive account of the roles and influences of gender over the millennia, featuring new and updated content throughout Gender in History: Global Perspectives, Third Edition, explores the construction and evolution of gender in many of the world’s...
Editeur :
Wiley-Blackwell
Parution :
2021-10-22
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