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This book offers a unique approach to memory studies by focusing on local memory work conducted across the divide of the fall of Communism, whereas other histories have consistently used 1989 as a watershed moment. By examining the ways in which the Holocaust has been...
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Palgrave Pivot
Parution :
2020-02-27
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Forging Germans explores the German nationalization and eventual National Socialist radicalization of ethnic Germans in the Batschka and the Western Banat, two multiethnic, post-Habsburg borderland territories currently in northern Serbia. Deploying a comparative...
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OUP Oxford
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2020-02-27
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Forging Germans explores the German nationalization and eventual National Socialist radicalization of ethnic Germans in the Batschka and the Western Banat, two multiethnic, post-Habsburg borderland territories currently in northern Serbia. Deploying a comparative...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2020-02-27
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This collection of essays offers a series of rigorously focused art-historical, historical, and philosophical studies that examine ways in which materiality has posed and still poses a religious and cultural problem. The volume examines the material agency of objects,...
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Springer
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2020-02-26
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**WINNER OF THE 2020 DANGER PRIZE**From the acclaimed author of THE SUITCASE BABY and THE SUICIDE BRIDE, the fascinating story of a series of horrific murders that began in 1930s Sydney - and a killer who remained at large for over two decades.In December 1932, as the...
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Hachette Australia
Parution :
2020-02-25
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The Australian Crime Vault
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Covers the major languages, language families, and writing systems attested in the Ancient Near East Filled with enlightening chapters by noted experts in the field, this book introduces Ancient Near Eastern (ANE) languages and language families used during the time...
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Wiley-Blackwell
Parution :
2020-02-25
Collection :
Blackwell Companions to the Ancient World
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Der Sammelband vereinigt Beiträge der gleichnamigen Tagung, die im Oktober 2018 unter Beteiligung von Historikern aus drei Kontinenten an der Freien Universität Berlin stattfand. Sie behandeln die Auswirkungen des Ersten Weltkriegs, der den Zusammenbruch der...
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Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2020-02-24
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The fascinating and chequered history of Delhi through the centuries has been a popular subject among authors. Yet, only a few other than K.A. Nizami record in rich detail the cultural, social, economic, and spiritual fabric of the city—the ‘gorgeous blaze of glory’...
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OUP India
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2020-02-22
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The marriage of Isabella d'Este, one of the most famous figures of the Italian Renaissance, and Francesco Gonzaga, ruler of the small northern Italian principality of Mantua (r.1484-1519) offers a fascinating portrait of political marriage in the early modern period. A...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2020-02-21
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Longlisted for the 2020 William Hill Sports Book of the Year'A gripping history' THE ECONOMIST 'The World Beneath Their Feet contains plenty of rollicking stories' THE TIMES'Gripping' THE SUNDAY TIMES'So far as adventure stories go, this book is tops.' Winston Groom,...
Editeur :
John Murray
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2020-02-20
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Kiril Georgiev setzt sich mit der Ästhetik und Stilistik des Komponistenkreises „Mächtiges Häuflein“ vor dem Hintergrund der soziokulturellen Situation Russlands während der „1860er“-Jahre auseinander. Er zieht dabei ergänzend aber auch vergleichend sowohl deutsch- als...
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J.B. Metzler
Parution :
2020-02-20
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At the close of the twentieth century, even as globalization spurred the growth of megacities worldwide, inhabiting the French countryside had become an internationally-shared fantasy and practice. Accounts of moving into old farmhouses were bestsellers, and houses and...
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Oxford University Press
Parution :
2020-02-19
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Demonic possession was a spiritual state that often had physical symptoms; however, inDemonic Possession and Lived Religion in Later Medieval Europe, Sari Katajala-Peltomaa argues that demonic possession was a social phenomenon which should be understood with regard to...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2020-02-19
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Demonic possession was a spiritual state that often had physical symptoms; however, inDemonic Possession and Lived Religion in Later Medieval Europe, Sari Katajala-Peltomaa argues that demonic possession was a social phenomenon which should be understood with regard to...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2020-02-19
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A powerful and inspiring memoir of a young Yazidi who served as a U.S. combat interpreter but was later forced to flee into the mountains of Iraq to avoid the ISIS slaughter of his peopleShaker Jeffrey's life has been an odyssey of courage, cunning, and desperation. His...
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Grand Central Publishing
Parution :
2020-02-18
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Investment in capital, both physical and financial, and innovation in its uses are often considered the linchpin of modern economic growth, while credit and credit markets now seem to determine the wealth - as well as the fate - of nations. Yet was it always thus? The...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2020-02-18
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Investment in capital, both physical and financial, and innovation in its uses are often considered the linchpin of modern economic growth, while credit and credit markets now seem to determine the wealth - as well as the fate - of nations. Yet was it always thus? The...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2020-02-18
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This book explores the form, function and meaning of crime and execution broadsides printed in nineteenth-century Britain. By presenting a detailed discourse analysis of 650 broadsides printed across Britain between the years 1800-1850, this book provides a unique and...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2020-02-18
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This pioneering study shows what brought Yiddish-speaking Jewish intelligentsia to the Communist movement in the interwar years. They believed that Communism is not only a way to solve the Jewish problem but also to save the Yiddish culture. Biography of the central...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2020-02-14
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Battle descriptions are usually seen as the raw material of the military historian, who uses them to explain why generals won or lost a given battle. This volume does not aim to contribute to this discussion; it rather approaches battle descriptions as...
Editeur :
Springer VS
Parution :
2020-02-14
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