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This book reveals that the visual narrative of the events of the Russian campaign of 1812 was inextricably linked to Russia's search for national identity and helped to form competing definitions of 'Russianness'. No pre-revolutionary military event was more celebrated...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2024-07-08
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In 1940, Estonia was first occupied and then annexed by the Soviet Union. The process of Sovietization started immediately and was accompanied by a thorough reconstruction of the economy. This monograph looks in detail at the different stages of economic restructuring...
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Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2024-06-28
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The book proposes a new category – heterotopia of affect – which builds upon Michel Foucault’s typology.The category refers to changes of the places that accumulate contents of ideological, historical, religious, and national character.The book tells the history of a...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2024-06-25
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Der Band befasst sich mit den Grundlagen der gegenwärtigen Beziehungen zwischen zivilen Akteuren und staatlichen Machtstrukturen.Der Schwerpunkt liegt auf dem Themenfeld der öffentlichen Kontrolle von Streitkräften und der Frage, warum zivile Akteure ein wachsames Auge...
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Springer VS
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2024-06-23
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This edited collection explores the problem of space under socialist regimes in the twentieth century. Bringing together contributions from international scholars with expertise in the architectural, urban, social, and cultural history of twentieth-century socialism,...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2024-06-10
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Robert Vipper (1859–1954) war vor dem Ersten Weltkrieg Professor für Universalgeschichte an der Moskauer Universität und hatte sich ebenfalls als Geschichtstheoretiker und Geschichtsdidaktiker einen Namen gemacht. Die Revolution von 1917 änderte die Rahmenbedingungen...
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Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2024-06-05
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'Delivered with flamboyance, it features a sparkling cast of chancers' KATJA HOYER, Daily Telegraph 5* review'Page-turning . . . a sizzling high-stakes tale' JAMES HOLLAND'This book might read like the screenplay of a gripping movie, yet every word is accurate and...
Editeur :
John Murray
Parution :
2024-05-09
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The War and Peace Trilogy
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This book addresses the transformation of primary education in the former Czechoslovakia (now the Czech Republic) after the fall of the communist regime in 1989. It follows the overall transformation of education and school policy and offers original insights into the...
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Springer
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2024-05-09
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Die Beiträge des Sammelbands behandeln innovativ und vergleichend Fragen zu zeitgebundenen Phänomenen der periodischen Presse. Der zeitliche und mediale Rahmen spannt sich von Andreas Gryphius’ Perikopendichtung über Zeitschriften und Kalender sowie das im Mittelpunkt...
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Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2024-04-29
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It was where World War II began on September 1, 1939. Its wartime experience was immortalized in Günter Grass`s The Tin Drum. Later it attracted worldwide attention as the site where workers` strikes led by Lech Walesa and the ensuing Solidarity movement led to the fall...
Editeur :
Oxford University Press
Parution :
2024-04-23
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Who were Romania’s diplomatic representatives in the Balkans during the Second World War? How did they select and forward information? What personal mark did they add to negotiations and diplomatic notes? What was the relationship between the career diplomats and the...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2024-04-16
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These reminiscences of a friendship between Graham Greene and the author over two decades offer several original and significant additions to the knowledge of Greene's beliefs, experiences and involvements throughout his long and turbulent life. It is a brilliant...
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Peter Lang Ltd, International Academic Publishers
Parution :
2024-04-16
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This book provides multifaceted analyses of everyday interpersonal violence in the Kingdom of Valencia and Catalonia between the 14th and 17th centuries. Employing qualitative and microhistorical approaches, its contributors weave a narrative tapestry where revenge...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2024-04-10
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The monograph is the result of research conducted between 2014 and 2018 in historical museums in Central and Eastern Europe. The main goal of the book is to verify the thesis about the existence of supranational collective memory in societies affected by the shared...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2024-04-08
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Medizinische Inhalte waren in der periodischen Presse stets vielfältig vertreten. Aus sozial- und wissenschaftshistorischer Perspektive nimmt das Buch Tages- und Wochenzeitungen ebenso in den Blick wie «klassische» Rezensionsorgane, populäre Gesundheitszeitungen sowie...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2024-04-04
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The book presents the life of Louis Wolowski (1810–1876). Born into a family of Frankist Jews in Warsaw, Wolowski participated in the Polish insurrection of 1830–1831 and later settled in France. Specializing in political economy, Wolowski became a professor at the...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2024-03-27
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„Eine Frau muß Geld und ein eigenes Zimmer haben, um schreiben zu können“, lautete die Forderung Virginia Woolfs aus dem Jahr 1929. Der Band setzt sich mit den verschiedenen Formen auseinander, die dieses Thema in den fiktionalen und nichtfiktionalen Texten von...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2024-03-25
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The book tells about people who lived in an era of historical cataclysms, wars and revolutions, changes in political formations.The generation of the Kazakh intelligentsia responded to the historical challenge facing the Kazakhs at a turning point in history. These are...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2024-03-13
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This edited volume offers the first overview on human-animal history in the Baltics. Investigating historical entanglements between human and non-human animals from the pre-Christian times to the Soviet period and discussing a wide range of species, the volume...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2024-03-08
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Dr. Benken’s book is a case study of the life and death of Jan Rodowicz, nom-de-guerre Anoda, who served as a combatant in the Polish pro-independence underground resistance movement during the Second World War. The operations in which Anoda was involved, his conduct...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2024-03-06
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