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In the decades following World War II, factories in many countries not only provided secure employment and a range of economic entitlements, but also recognized workers as legitimate stakeholders, enabling them to claim rights to participate in decision making and hold...
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Oxford University Press
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2019-08-01
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United States historians have long regarded the U.S. Civil War and its Reconstruction as a second American revolution. Literary scholars, however, have yet to show how fully these years revolutionized the American imagination. Emblematic of this moment was the post-war...
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Oxford University Press
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2019-08-01
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Many people today have never heard of the Comoros, but these islands were once part of a prosperous regional trading economy that stretched halfway around the world. A key node in the trading networks of the Indian Ocean, the Comoros prospered by exchanging slaves and...
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Oxford University Press
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2019-08-01
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Adopting a political and legal perspective, Redefining Citizenship in Australia, Canada, and Aotearoa New Zealand undertakes a transnational study that examines the demise of Britishness as a defining feature of the conceptualisation of citizenship in Australia, Canada,...
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Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publishers
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2019-07-31
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Translated from the original German Lenin Neuentdecken and available in English for the first time, this volume rediscovers Lenin as a strategic socialist thinker through close examination of his collected works and correspondence. Brie opens with an analysis of Lenin's...
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2019-07-31
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This book explores Korean literature from a broadly global perspective from the mid-9th century to the present, with special emphasis on how it has been influenced by, as well as it has influenced, literatures of other nations. Beginning with the Korean version...
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2019-07-31
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This open access book discusses a variety of important but unprecedented ways in which psychology can be useful to philosophy. The early chapters illustrate this theme via comparisons between Chinese and Western philosophy. It is argued that the Chinese notion of a...
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2019-07-30
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This book explores the political and ideological developments that resulted in the establishment of two separate states on the island of Ireland: the Irish Free State and Northern Ireland. It examines how this radical transformation took place, including how British...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2019-07-29
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The Phoenicians created the Mediterranean world as we know it--yet they remain a shadowy and poorly understood group.The academic study of the Phoenicians has come to an important crossroads; the field has grown in sheer content, sophistication of analysis, and...
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Oxford University Press
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2019-07-29
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Countries in the Middle East have very different economies, even if they are often grouped together. In The Economics of the Middle East, James Rauch focuses on the drivers of their distinctiveness, including the effects of their natural endowments, geographic...
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Oxford University Press
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2019-07-29
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Ist im Spannungsfeld zwischen Holocaustliteratur und Ghostwriting auch ein Ende von Authentizität zu erwarten? Der Ghostwriter ist ein gängiger Aktant im Genre Autobiografie. Die Anforderungen an den Ghostwriter eines historischen Zeugen scheinen besonders hoch zu sein,...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
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2019-07-29
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This book is the first English-language study of the social, intellectual and institutional history of sociology and the social sciences in Hungary.
Starting with the emergence of the discipline in the early 20th century, Karady and Nagy chart its development...
Editeur :
Palgrave Pivot
Parution :
2019-07-29
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This book adds a crucial focus on morality to the growing literature on the history of capitalism by exploring social and cultural perspectives on the economic order that has dominated the modern world. Taking the study beyond narrow economic confines, it traces the...
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2019-07-26
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The definitive history of the Middle East, now updated in its fifth edition'The best overall survey of the politics, regional rivalries and economics of the contemporary Arab world' Washington PostOver the centuries the Middle East has confounded the dreams of...
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Penguin
Parution :
2019-07-25
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This book explores China’s urban development, examining the history and culture of Chinese cities and providing a cultural background to the rapid urban development of contemporary China. It offers a new perspective on Chinese urban history, showcasing the traditional...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2019-07-25
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This book considers urban development in China, highlighting links between China’s history and civilization and the rapid evolution of its urban forms. It explores the early days of urban dwelling in China, progressing to an analysis of residential environments in the...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2019-07-25
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This book examines the Avar siege of Constantinople in 626, one of the most significant events of the seventh century, and the impact and repercussions this had on the political, military, economic and religious structures of the Byzantine Empire. The siege put an end...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2019-07-25
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Tobias Buck arrived in Madrid in December 2012, in time to celebrate the bleakest Christmas the city had seen in a generation. Capital and country were reeling from a series of economic shocks that had brought Spain to the brink of ruin. The housing boom had...
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Weidenfeld & Nicolson
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2019-07-25
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The unifying theme in the life of Guru Gobind Singh was confrontation with the Mughals, which culminated in a struggle for political power. This fact is brought into sharp focus when we consider the Guru’s life and legacy simultaneously in the contexts of the Mughal...
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OUP India
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2019-07-25
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A DAILY TELEGRAPH AND BBC HISTORY MAGAZINE BOOK OF THE YEAR 2019 'A remarkable book: the dramatic story of a truly extraordinary man ... brilliant' Helen Castor, author of She-Wolves A major new biography of one of the most extraordinary of all rulers, and the father of...
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Penguin
Parution :
2019-07-25
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