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Petitioning was the main route by which the agency of subjects engaged the authority of rulers. Most studies explore it as a practice for sending requests to central and local representatives of state power in empires, kingdoms, and city-states. Yet the practice occurs...
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OUP Oxford
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2025-08-05
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We are used to thinking that the sexual revolution of the 1960s and 1970s was an essentially Western phenomenon. The surge in pornographic production, effective oral contraception, and new developments in fashion and popular culture all seem to be inextricably linked...
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OUP Oxford
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2025-08-05
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This book offers a comprehensive history of the Ethiopian labour movement, exploring the impact of trade unions and workers’ militancy from the 1960s onwards. The author analyses the sharp variation in the orientation and vicissitudes of the labour movement over...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2025-08-04
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History and Decolonization: Essays from Southern Europe takes a fresh approach to world history by integrating the historical experience of Southern Europe into debates on colonialism, racism and patriarchy. To approach Europe from its southern fringes can open new...
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Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publishers
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2025-08-04
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‘A book that everyone should read’ The TimesA harrowing, heart-rending first-hand account of the bombing of Nagasaki – and the acts of human kindness left in its wake.On 9th August 1945, the Japanese city of Nagasaki is hit by an atomic bomb. Forty thousand people are...
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Vintage Digital
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2025-07-31
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Go behind the headlines with the gripping new true crime book from a bestselling author and an award-winning journalist, offering unprecedented insight into the 2022 Idaho murders and the subsequent arrest of Bryan Kohberger.THE INSTANT SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER"A...
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Penguin
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2025-07-31
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In a time of global backlash against women's rights and gender issues, this book echoes the importance of protecting the sexual and reproductive health and rights of women by conceptualising and analysing relevant sexual and reproductive health rights issues (SRHR) in...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2025-07-31
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This groundbreaking study examines Peking Opera legend Mei Lanfang’s 1930 U.S. visit through extensive primary sources and a cross-cultural lens. It meticulously chronicles his 76 performances over 182 days, reconstructing his daily itinerary, highlighting key...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2025-07-30
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During discussions for the Government of Ireland Act 1920, Northern Ireland as we know it was created. However, there were discussions of the Irish boundary line, including partitioning the full province of Ulster. This raises a fundamental 'what if' within Irish...
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Peter Lang Ltd, International Academic Publishers
Parution :
2025-07-30
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A New Etruscan Archaeology provides a comprehensive overview of the latest advancements in archaeological methods and technologies applied to the study of Etruscan civilization. Through vivid illustrations, detailed case studies, and research from twenty-five experts,...
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Oxford University Press
Parution :
2025-07-30
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Das Buch bietet einen erzählerischen Zugang zu Platon: Wie fühlt es sich an, die abendländische Philosophie ohne Vorbild zu begründen und innerlich zerrissen zu sein? Platon erscheint nicht als abgehobener Denker im Elfenbeinturm, sondern als Mensch,...
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Springer
Parution :
2025-07-28
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This is the first comprehensive biography of Cecil Rhodes in a generation.This critical work elaborates the life and times of Rhodes, showing how his racist politics impacted mining, industry, transportation, warfare, and society, while discussing how his controversial...
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Oxford University Press
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2025-07-24
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Editeur :
Monoray
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2025-07-24
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This book is the first sustained analysis of popular politics in Scotland during the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries. Despite the long-running historiography on popular protests in both England and continental Europe, there has been little discussion of this...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2025-07-23
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This book examines the impact of martial law on transgenerational memory in post-World War II Taiwan. Through an intense focus on the symptoms of memories, Yu argues that collective remembrances in post-war Taiwan must be studied alongside the islanders' collective...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2025-07-23
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During World War Two some 67,000 Indian personnel of the British Indian Army were captured by Imperial Japanese forces, including a large number at the surrender of Singapore in February 1942. This book, the first of its kind, critically examines why these colonial...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2025-07-23
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Die Aufklärung Mitte des 18. Jahrhunderts schuf eine Architektur auf der Grundlage der Rationalität - den Klassizismus.Die sich verändernde Gesellschaft stellte aber Anforderungen, die mit den traditionellen Methoden gar nicht lösbar waren - Industrialisierung und...
Editeur :
Springer Vieweg
Parution :
2025-07-23
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This open access book explores how China had already established political and economic dualisms—political by the Common Era and economic by the 10th century—long before the West developed its dualism of state and society in the 17th and 18th centuries. In...
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Springer
Parution :
2025-07-22
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At the Restoration of 1660, there was no distinctive banking sector, and banking services were provided by a variety of traders, most notably the London goldsmiths. In the later seventeenth century, the first specialists appeared against a background of rapid economic...
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OUP Oxford
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2025-07-22
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This book considers recent developments in Thai history and historiography, examining why Thai studies had suffered under a combination of protectionism, uncritical learning, and unwillingness to engage with scholarship from abroad. The essays collected here...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2025-07-22
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