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'A galloping journey through thousands of years of Chinese culinary history . . . a timely reminder that the country's modern cuisine is the delicious fruit of a rich, ancient and perhaps surprisingly multicultural tradition' FUCHSIA DUNLOP, SPECTATOR'A tasty portrait...
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Hodder & Stoughton
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2021-02-11
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Sarah Pomeroy's groundbreaking Goddesses, Whores, Wives, and Slaves introduced scholars, students, and general readers to an exciting new area of inquiry: women in classical antiquity. Almost fifty years later, New Directions in the Study of Women in the Greco-Roman...
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Oxford University Press
Parution :
2021-02-11
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By tracing the evolution of South Korean state-led capitalism and comparing it with other economies, this book critiques prevalent theories including neoliberalism, the developmental state, and institutionalism, and proposes a theoretical alternative focusing on...
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OUP Oxford
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2021-02-11
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By tracing the evolution of South Korean state-led capitalism and comparing it with other economies, this book critiques prevalent theories including neoliberalism, the developmental state, and institutionalism, and proposes a theoretical alternative focusing on...
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OUP Oxford
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2021-02-11
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This open access book provides a concise introduction to a critical development in memory studies. A global memory formation has emerged since the 1990s, in which memories of traumatic histories in different parts of the world, often articulated in the terms established...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2021-02-10
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Entangled Memories in the Global South
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This collection of essays analyzes different iterations of African unity, exploring the political and cultural visions that informed projects aimed at African unification. It explores the cultural, economic and non-state aspects of the Organisation of African Unity...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2021-02-09
Collection :
African Histories and Modernities
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National Book Critics Circle Award WinnerNAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY: The New York Times * NPR * Vogue * Gay Times * Artforum * “Gay Bar is an absolute tour de force.” –Maggie Nelson "Atherton Lin has a five-octave, Mariah...
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Little, Brown and Company
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2021-02-09
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This book is a comprehensive work on the covert operations of the Spanish secret services throughout the 18th century. It is the fruit of a thorough study of what is known today as the intelligence cycle. The Spain of the 18th century, despite its decline on the...
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Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2021-02-09
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This book examines the role of imperial narratives of multinationalism as alternative ideologies to nationalism in Central and Eastern Europe, the Balkans, and the Middle East from the revolutions of 1848 up to the defeat and subsequent downfall of the Habsburg and...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2021-02-05
Collection :
Modernity, Memory and Identity in South-East Europe
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An eye-opening interpretation of the infamous Gallipoli campaign that sets it in the context of global trade.
In early 1915, the British government ordered the Royal Navy to force a passage of the Dardanelles Straits-the most heavily defended waterway in the world....
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Oxford University Press
Parution :
2021-02-05
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The most dramatic, revealing and little-known story in Turkey's history - which illuminates the nation'Through the spellbinding career of a single, ill-fated leader, Jeremy Seal illuminates a bitterly divided country' Colin Thubron'Read this book if you're interested in...
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Vintage Digital
Parution :
2021-02-04
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Agathokles of Syracuse ruled large areas of Sicily and southern Italy between 317 and 289 BC. In this book, Christopher de Lisle argues thatAgathokles was an important player in the Mediterranean world at a key moment in its history. Agathokles' career has important...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2021-02-04
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Agathokles of Syracuse ruled large areas of Sicily and southern Italy between 317 and 289 BC. In this book, Christopher de Lisle argues thatAgathokles was an important player in the Mediterranean world at a key moment in its history. Agathokles' career has important...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2021-02-04
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Melania the Younger: From Rome to Jerusalem explores the richly detailed story of Melania, an early fifth-century Roman Christian aristocrat who renounced her staggering wealth to lead a life of ascetic renunciation. Hers is a tale of "riches to rags." Born to high...
Editeur :
Oxford University Press
Parution :
2021-02-03
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This volume explores the multiple meanings and implications of lobola in Southern Africa. The payment of lobola (often controversially translated as ‘bridewealth’) is an entrenched practice in most societies in Southern Africa. Although having a long tradition, of...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2021-02-03
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“This book provides a deep reading of Nikolai Karazin’s works and his relationship with Central Asia. Elena Andreeva shows how Karazin’s prolific creations have much to tell us about Russian imperialism, colonial and local society as well as Russians’ self-identity as...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2021-02-03
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PUBLIC HISTORY PROVIDES A BACKGROUND IN THE HISTORY, PRINCIPLES, AND PRACTICES OF THE FIELD OFPUBLIC HISTORY Public History: An Introduction from Theory to Application is the first text of its kind to offer both historical background on the ways in which historians...
Editeur :
Wiley-Blackwell
Parution :
2021-02-02
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The untold history of the multiracial making of the border between Canada and the United States.
Often described as the longest undefended border in the world, the Canada-United States border was born in blood, conflict, and uncertainty. At the end of the American...
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Oxford University Press
Parution :
2021-02-02
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The story of Iraq is one of resistance. In this groundbreaking study, Johan Franzen offers a contextual modern history of the country, its creation and its struggle for sovereignty.
Iraq's contemporary history is a tale of a diverse people thrown together into a...
Editeur :
Hurst
Parution :
2021-02-01
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In alignment with Indigenous Politics, an emerging sub-field of Politics and IR, this book considers West Papuan Indigenous nationhood. Combining Settler Colonial Studies and Critical Indigenous Theory, the research opens up sovereignty as a political...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2021-02-01
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