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This book explores Tamil Buddhism in modern India, focusing on its emergence as a response to caste-based oppression during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Central to this movement was Pandit Iyothee Thass (1845–1914), a pioneering intellectual who...
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OUP Oxford
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2025-11-15
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The “Silk Road” is also known as the “Road of Lacquerware”. This book starts with the liquid called "big lacquer" that flows out of the oriental lacquer tree. Focusing on the splendid Chinese lacquerware culture, this book explores cultural...
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2025-11-14
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This sweeping new history of Mexico spans 500 dramatic years of conquest, innovation and revolution'Magisterial...This fine account does well to remind that the best history is about fact, not fiction' - Peter Frankopan, The TelegraphIt begins in 1511 with the shipwreck...
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Penguin
Parution :
2025-11-13
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The book presents the activity of the Jewish Labour Bund in the territory of post-Yalta Poland in the years 1944-1949.The work focuses on the “last chapter” of the party’s activity in Poland. It touches upon issues concerning the attempts to modify/re-evaluate the...
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Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
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2025-11-13
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Ziel dieses Bandes ist es, Entstehung, Entwicklung und wechselseitige Wahrnehmung nationaler Identitäten in Italien und Finnland im neuzeitlichen Europa darzustellen, zu analysieren und vergleichend...
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Springer VS
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2025-11-13
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This is the second of three volumes of a Corpus publication of the Greek, bilingual and trilingual inscriptions from Ptolemaic Egypt covering the period from Alexander's conquest in 332 BC to the fall of Alexandria to the Romans in 30 BC.This volume contains 221...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2025-11-12
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By the early 1850s, the former slave James W.C. Pennington had become an internationally prominent African American minister, abolitionist and reformer. With its scathing analysis of the chattel system, gripping account of his escape, and inspirational story of...
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Oxford University Press
Parution :
2025-11-11
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What is the academic specialty that deals with team building? This book represents the quintessence of an interdisciplinary project, in which specialists from economics, sports, psychology and acting decipher teambuilding, creating a flexible product adapted to the...
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Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2025-11-11
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This book examines how Gabriele D’Annunzio (1863–1938) reimagined the Renaissance as a metaphor for Italy’s national rebirth. Rather than a nostalgic revival, the Renaissance became, in his hands, a future-oriented ideological project that served as...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2025-11-10
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This book examines the use of diagrams throughout history, from their Paleolithic antecedents to the present day. Drawing on theories and concepts from the cognitive sciences, the author explores the evolution of diagrammatic forms and their impact on the accumulation...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2025-11-09
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This book traces the establishment of the Arab League’s little-known first peacekeeping operation (the first non-United Nations, regionally mandated peacekeeping operation after 1945), deployed to Kuwait in 1961-1963. It follows how the Arab League, a loose...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2025-11-07
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‘Jenkins sets about his task with infectious enthusiasm and draws out all the most important themes in America’s 250-year history' The TimesIn the two hundred and fifty years since its foundation, the United States of America has grown to become the world’s richest and...
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Penguin
Parution :
2025-11-06
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From the bestselling author of FEMINA, a brilliant reappraisal of the medieval women whose lives have been exploited over centuries for political, nation-building ends.In LEGENDA, bestselling historian Professor Janina Ramirez peels back the layers of time to reveal how...
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Ebury Digital
Parution :
2025-11-06
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LONGLISTED FOR THE FINANCIAL TIMES AND SCHRODERS BUSINESS BOOK OF THE YEAR AWARD"One of those books that changes the way you see the world. Gripping, urgent, important." ED CONWAY "This wonderful book is as welcome as it is overdue ... shines a much-needed light on...
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Hodder & Stoughton
Parution :
2025-11-06
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In recent years, supernatural beliefs systems in medieval and modern Islamicate cultures have been the subject of sustained scholarly attention. But we know very little about these concepts and practices in an Ottoman context.
Marinos Sariyannis proposes here to...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2025-11-05
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This is the first book-length study of the history of working-class courtship and marriage in Scotland, from the establishment of civil registration to the introduction in 1939 of legislation which abolished irregular marriage and introduced civil marriage. Adopting a...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2025-11-05
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Der Band beschäftigt sich mit der Frage, wie die Erinnerung von Zeitzeugen in der Grundschule vermittelt werden kann. Mit einer umfassenden Dokumentation des Projektes „Inge-Auerbacher-Tag“ zielt dieses Buch auf die nachhaltige Gestaltung der...
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Springer
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2025-11-05
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The forgotten life and complex legacies of Wakara, the mighty, once-notorious Native leader whose battles and conquests shaped the American West “A sobering reassessment of the history of the Great Basin and locates the disruptive and violent influences of...
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Basic Books
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2025-11-04
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In a humane world, cruelty should not exist, and yet it has been a feature of our societies since time immemorial. From individual acts of cruelty to systematic torture and mass murder, cruelty has been humanity’s constant companion, attesting to a darker side of human...
Editeur :
Polity
Parution :
2025-11-03
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