This book examines the forms and practices of Irish confinement from the 19th century to present-day to explore the social and political failings of 20th and 21st century postcolonial Ireland. Building on an interdisciplinary conference held in the Crumlin Road Gaol,...

Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2020-06-26

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'Provides a wealth of juicy anecdotal material about five centuries of court life' New York Times'Naughty Knickers version of our island story' Daily Mail---------------------------------------------Ladies in Waiting chronicles the lives of famous and infamous ladies...

Editeur : Riverrun
Parution : 2020-06-25

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The German Revolution of November 1918 is nowadays largely forgotten outside Germany. It is generally regarded as a failure even by those who have heard of it, a missed opportunity which paved the way for the rise of the Nazis and the catastrophe to come. Robert...

Editeur : OUP Oxford
Parution : 2020-06-25

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The German Revolution of November 1918 is nowadays largely forgotten outside Germany. It is generally regarded as a failure even by those who have heard of it, a missed opportunity which paved the way for the rise of the Nazis and the catastrophe to come. Robert...

Editeur : OUP Oxford
Parution : 2020-06-25

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This book examines the local manifestation of the global temperance movement in the Balkans. It argues that regional histories of social movements in the modern period could not be sufficiently understood in isolation. Moreover, the book argues that broad...

Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2020-06-24

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This book tells the story of how women first fought for inclusion among scientific societies in Edwardian Britain. Though educational opportunities in schools and universities were improving, there were few fellowships or chances of paid employment in the...

Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2020-06-23

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Infolge der petrinischen Umwälzung zu Beginn des 18. Jahrhunderts beschritt Russland als erstes nichtabendländisches und souveränes Land den Weg der Westernisierung. Ein beispielloser Paradigmenwechsel fand statt. Der Versuch Peters des Großen, Russland an die...

Editeur : Springer VS
Parution : 2020-06-23

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The aim of this book is to explain economic dualism in the history of modern Europe.The emergence of the manorial-serf economy in the Bohemia, Poland, and Hungary in the 16th and the 17th centuries was the result of a cumulative impact of various circumstantial factors....

Editeur : Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution : 2020-06-22

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Exam board: OCRLevel: AS/A-levelSubject: HistoryFirst teaching: September 2015First exams: Summer 2016 (AS); Summer 2017 (A-level)Put your trust in the textbook series that has given thousands of A-level History students deeper knowledge and better grades for over 30...

Editeur : Hodder Education
Parution : 2020-06-22

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Exam board: AQA; Pearson Edexcel; OCRLevel: AS/A-levelSubject: HistoryFirst teaching: September 2015First exams: Summer 2016 (AS); Summer 2017 (A-level)Put your trust in the textbook series that has given thousands of A-level History students deeper knowledge and better...

Editeur : Hodder Education
Parution : 2020-06-22

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Exam board: AQA; Pearson Edexcel; OCRLevel: AS/A-levelSubject: HistoryFirst teaching: September 2015First exams: Summer 2016 (AS); Summer 2017 (A-level)Put your trust in the textbook series that has given thousands of A-level History students deeper knowledge and better...

Editeur : Hodder Education
Parution : 2020-06-22

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Dieses essential gibt einen Überblick über aktuelle Analysemethoden von Gesteinsartefakten von der Attributanalyse ganzer Inventare bis hin zu mikroskopischen Gebrauchsspurenanalysen einzelner Artefakte. Dabei zeigen die vorgestellten Ansätze die Bandbreite der Analyse...

Editeur : Springer Spektrum
Parution : 2020-06-19

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Es sind teilweise weit über Berlin hinaus bekannt gewordene Persönlichkeiten, die am Werderschen Markt in Berlin zu historisch unterschiedlichsten Zeitpunkten wohnten und wirkten und an die keine Gedenktafel erinnert: Der kurfürstliche Premierminister, der im Kerker...

Editeur : Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution : 2020-06-19

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From Victorian anxieties about syphilis to the current hysteria over herpes and AIDS, the history of venereal disease in America forces us to examine social attitudes as well as purely medical concerns. In No Magic Bullet, Allan M. Brandt recounts the various medical,...

Editeur : Oxford University Press
Parution : 2020-06-19

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'As skilful, stylish and pacy as one would expect from so adept a novelist' Sunday TelegraphEdna O'Brien depicts James Joyce as a man hammered by Church, State and family, yet from such adversities he wrote works 'to bestir the hearts of men and angels'. The journey...

Editeur : Weidenfeld & Nicolson
Parution : 2020-06-18

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This book examines the origins and early development of private mental health-care in England, showing that the current spectacle of commercially-based participation in key elements of service provision is no new phenomenon. In 1815, about seventy per cent of people...

Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2020-06-18

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Prior to the 1666 fire of London, St Paul's Cathedral was an important central site for religious, commercial, and social life in London. The literature of the period - both fictional and historical - reveals a great interest in the space, and show it to be complex and...

Editeur : OUP Oxford
Parution : 2020-06-16

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Prior to the 1666 fire of London, St Paul's Cathedral was an important central site for religious, commercial, and social life in London. The literature of the period - both fictional and historical - reveals a great interest in the space, and show it to be complex and...

Editeur : OUP Oxford
Parution : 2020-06-16

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The true story of the most notorious crime in American nautical history -- a uniquely grotesque triple murder -- and the long journey to truth.The Herbert Fuller, a three-masted sailing ship loaded with New England lumber, left Boston bound for Buenos Aires on July 8,...

Editeur : Grand Central Publishing
Parution : 2020-06-16

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The book investigates the intellectual and political trajectory of the Belgian theorist Hendrik de Man (1885-1953) by examining the impact that his works and activism had on Western European social democracy between the two world wars. Based on multinational archival...

Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2020-06-15

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