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Rulers and Raptors argues that by studying animal biographies we gain a new perspective on early modern court society. Combining court studies and historical animal studies, it brings together two vibrant but rarely combined fields of research and shows how the presence...
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OUP Oxford
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2025-10-01
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The history of the twentieth century in Italy is marked by industrial unrest. And yet, our knowledge of the cultures that informed those protests and, equally important, of the forms they took is still limited, leaving important questions unanswered on their meanings,...
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OUP Oxford
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2025-09-30
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The history of the twentieth century in Italy is marked by industrial unrest. And yet, our knowledge of the cultures that informed those protests and, equally important, of the forms they took is still limited, leaving important questions unanswered on their meanings,...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2025-09-30
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Modern Hertford is one of Oxford's least famous colleges. Its chief claims to attention are its pioneering egalitarian reforms of its admissions system in the 1960s and 70s, its early embrace of co-residence in 1974, and its deliberate transformation from a poor,...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2025-09-30
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Modern Hertford is one of Oxford's least famous colleges. Its chief claims to attention are its pioneering egalitarian reforms of its admissions system in the 1960s and 70s, its early embrace of co-residence in 1974, and its deliberate transformation from a poor,...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2025-09-30
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This book, for the first time, comprehensively examines the relationship between tea and various aspects of social life in the Song Dynasty, pioneering a new field in the study of Song history. In the field of tea culture research, it is the first to clearly point out...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2025-09-30
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Dieses Buch konzentriert sich auf die politischen Entwicklungen der österreichischen Monarchie in den Jahren 1861-1867, in denen viele Weichen gestellt wurden. Nach dem Scheitern des „Neoabsolutismus“ verfügte das Kaisertum Österreich seit 1861 wieder über ein...
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Springer VS
Parution :
2025-09-30
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This edited collection examines the violence experienced by non-combatants during the civil wars which took place in Europe in the first half of the twentieth century. The determinants of violence in civil wars are highly complex and variable. By focusing on both the...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2025-09-30
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“A devastating, passionate takedown of Chief Justice John Roberts's Supreme Court by a Washington insider.” —Jane Mayer, author of Dark Money In the last twenty years the US Supreme Court has radically curtailed voting rights, undermined...
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Bold Type Books
Parution :
2025-09-30
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This is an open access title available under the terms of a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 International license. It is free to read on Oxford Academic and offered as a free PDF download from OUP and selected open access locations.
Over the last 150 years, activists and policymakers...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2025-09-30
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This is an open access title available under the terms of a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 International license. It is free to read on Oxford Academic and offered as a free PDF download from OUP and selected open access locations.
Over the last 150 years, activists and policymakers...
Editeur :
OUP Oxford
Parution :
2025-09-30
ePub
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This book, extensively revised and updated in its second edition, presents a comprehensive overview of housing policy in Australia over the last quarter century. At a time of widespread concern about declining housing system performance, it investigates the many...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2025-09-30
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Hong Kong is known as an entrepôt in its colonial history, but its place in early cinema has not received the same scholarly attention. The Colonial Screen: Early Cinema inHong Kong explores the exhibition, regulation, circulation, reception, and social place of motion...
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Oxford University Press
Parution :
2025-09-30
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This book undertakes an in-depth exploration of the pivotal role of rice, which is the world's most essential food crops, sustaining over half of the global populace. It meticulously analyzes how rice cultivation constitutes the material bedrock and defining...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2025-09-30
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The idea of self-determination is one of the most significant in modern international politics. For more than a century diplomats, lawyers, scholars, activists, and ordinary people in every part of the globe have wrestled with its meaning and implications for...
Editeur :
Oxford University Press
Parution :
2025-09-30
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This book explores how Kazakhstan has navigated its identity and geopolitical relationships since the January 2022 protests and the Russian-Ukrainian crisis. What began as a study of Soviet legacy in Kazakhstan shifted focus when major events in 2022 altered the...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2025-09-30
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The book is devoted to the problem of the civilizational development of the Kazakhs, as descendants of nomads, at the present stage.The author pays special attention to how the eras of modernity and postmodernity influenced today's Kazakhstan. In this anti-colonial...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2025-09-30
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This book presents a sustained and systematic analysis of the totalitarian topos across Vladimir Nabokov’s life and career. Contributing to the ongoing reappraisal of Nabokov’s writing in its engagement with politics and ideology, this study...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2025-09-30
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This book examines the effect of the French Revolution and the ensuing war with Spain on northern Catalonia, annexed by France in the seventeenth century and constrained by the imposition of a political border along the Pyrenees. Assimilation of the northern Catalan...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2025-09-30
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In this open access book, Larissa Hugentobler explores the world of public memorials: highly visible, and at times contentious, media, which communicate a nation’s values and ideals – its public memory.
By celebrating a selection of a nation’s history,...
Editeur :
Springer VS
Parution :
2025-09-30
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