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An original exploration of the relationship between the Mughal emperor and his subjects in the space of the Mughal empire's capital, The King and the People overturns an axiomatic assumption in the history of premodern South Asia: that the urban masses were merely...
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Oxford University Press
Parution :
2020-02-03
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Der Titel des Buches ist in mehrfacher Hinsicht doppeldeutig.Der Sammelband vereint somatische, kulturhistorische und methodologische Themen. Aus der Perspektive der Sportgeschichtsschreibung als Kulturgeschichte von Körper, Bewegung und Sport werden Sinnkonstruktionen...
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Springer VS
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2020-02-01
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This book provides the first detailed analysis of how interactions between government policy and Fleet Street affected the political coverage of the Greek civil war, one of the first major confrontations of the Cold War. During this period the exponential growth of...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2020-02-01
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The Death of the French Atlantic examines the sudden and irreversible decline of France's Atlantic empire in the Age of Revolution, and shows how three major forces undermined the country's competitive position as an Atlantic commercial power.
The first was war,...
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OUP Oxford
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2020-01-31
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The Death of the French Atlantic examines the sudden and irreversible decline of France's Atlantic empire in the Age of Revolution, and shows how three major forces undermined the country's competitive position as an Atlantic commercial power.
The first was war,...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2020-01-31
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The Revolution in Time explores the idea that people in Western Europe changed the way they thought about the concept of time over the early modern period, by examining reactions to the 1688-1689 revolution in England.
The study examines how those who lived through...
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OUP Oxford
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2020-01-30
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The Revolution in Time explores the idea that people in Western Europe changed the way they thought about the concept of time over the early modern period, by examining reactions to the 1688-1689 revolution in England.
The study examines how those who lived through...
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OUP Oxford
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2020-01-30
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This book offers a fresh insight into the conquests of Alexander the Great by attempting to view the events of 336-323 BCE from the vantage point of the defeated. The extent and form of the resistance of the populations he confronted varied according to their previous...
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Oxford University Press
Parution :
2020-01-29
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'Books such as this are essential: they remind modern readers of events that should never be forgotten' - Caroline MooreheadOn March 25, 1942, nearly a thousand young, unmarried Jewish women boarded a train in Poprad, Slovakia. Filled with a sense of adventure and...
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Hodder & Stoughton
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2020-01-23
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In October 1726, newspapers began reporting a remarkable event.In the town of Godalming in Surrey, a woman called Mary Toft had started to give birth to rabbits. Several leading doctors - some sent directly by King George I - travelled to examine the woman and she was...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2020-01-23
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Sophocles' Electra is a riveting play with a long and varied reception. Its nuanced treatment of matricidal revenge with all the questions it raises; its compelling depictions of the idealistic, long -grieving, rebellious Electra; her compliant sister; her brother; and...
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Oxford University Press
Parution :
2020-01-23
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Having spent centuries in the shadows of its neighbours China and Japan, Korea is now the object of considerable interest for radically different reasons-- the South as an economic success story and for its vibrant popular culture; the North as the home to one of the...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2020-01-23
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Having spent centuries in the shadows of its neighbours China and Japan, Korea is now the object of considerable interest for radically different reasons-- the South as an economic success story and for its vibrant popular culture; the North as the home to one of the...
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OUP Oxford
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2020-01-23
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The contemporary status of the eight South Asian nations was determined by the creation of the British Indian empire and the process of decolonization. This book by the late Ainslie T. Embree is an insightful exploration of how the boundaries of these states were...
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OUP India
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2020-01-17
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In the Holy Roman Empire 'no prince... can forbid men passage in the common road', wrote the English jurist John Selden.In practice, moving through one the most fractured landscapes in human history was rarely as straightforward as suggested by Selden's account of the...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2020-01-16
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In the Holy Roman Empire 'no prince... can forbid men passage in the common road', wrote the English jurist John Selden.In practice, moving through one the most fractured landscapes in human history was rarely as straightforward as suggested by Selden's account of the...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2020-01-16
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Artemidorus' Oneirocritica ('The Interpretation of Dreams') is the only dream-book which has been preserved from Graeco-Roman antiquity. Composed around AD 200, it comprises a treatise and manual on dreams, their classification, and the various analytical tools which...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2020-01-16
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Artemidorus' Oneirocritica ('The Interpretation of Dreams') is the only dream-book which has been preserved from Graeco-Roman antiquity. Composed around AD 200, it comprises a treatise and manual on dreams, their classification, and the various analytical tools which...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2020-01-16
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'The next Bill Bryson' New York TimesTwo tigers cannot share the same mountain - Chinese proverbDespite geographical proximity, cultural similarities, and shared status as highly powerful nations, China, Korea and Japan love to hate each other. Why?In search of an...
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Vintage Digital
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2020-01-16
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This book presents the syllabus of Hu Shih’s course on the History of Chinese Thought, which he taught at Harvard University from 1944 to 1945, and has been transcribed from his (more than 1500) hand-written notes.This book focuses on Hu Shih’s in-depth study and...
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Springer
Parution :
2020-01-14
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