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Electing the Pope in Early Modern Italy, 1450-1700 offers a radical reassessment of the history of early modern papacy, constructed through the first major analytical treatment of papal elections in English. Papal elections, with their ceremonial pomp and high drama,...
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OUP Oxford
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2017-07-21
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The Intellectual Struggle for Florence is an analysis of the ideology that developed in Florence with the rise of the Medici, during the early fifteenth century, the period long recognized as the most formative of the early Renaissance. Instead of simply describing...
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OUP Oxford
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2017-07-21
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This book argues that hesitation as an artistic and spectatorial strategy connects various screen media texts produced in post-war Romania. The chapters draw a historical connection between films made during the state socialist decades, televised broadcasts of the 1989...
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2017-07-20
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This book is open access under a CC BY 4.0 licenseThis book explores the magical and medical history of executions from the eighteenth to the early twentieth century by looking at the afterlife potency of criminal corpses, the healing activities of the executioner, and...
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2017-07-19
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Die Studie untersucht, wie Reiseberichte und verwandte Publikationen diskursiv einen Sog nach Afrika erzeugten. Zentrale Verfahren sind die Inszenierung der eigenen Pionierleistung, der Rivalität mit Konkurrenten um Zugriff auf Afrika und der gegenseitigen Überbietung...
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Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
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2017-07-19
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Business has received little attention in American religious history, although it has profound implications for understanding the sustained popularity and ongoing transformation of religion in the United States. This volume offers a wide ranging exploration of the...
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Oxford University Press
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2017-07-19
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This book provides an up-to-date analysis of the governance of biotechnology in post-Soviet Russia. The rapid advancement of the life sciences over the past few decades promises to bring tremendous benefits, but also raises significant social, ethical, legal, and...
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2017-07-19
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This book provides a novel analysis of the military campaign of Rafael Carrera during the popular insurrection of 1837-1840 in Guatemala. Over the course of three years Carrera, a semi-literate farmer, and his army of peasants established Conservative control over...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2017-07-18
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The Birth of an Indian Profession is the first comprehensive history of engineers in modern India. Charting the development of the engineering profession in the country from 1900 to 1947, it explores how engineers, their roles, and their organization were transformed...
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OUP India
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2017-07-15
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Working with partners is the future of business. In this timely and original work, Vitasek and Mandrodt show companies, through a series of high-profile global examples, how to create a vested agreement that brings success and create a better future for everyone...
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2017-07-15
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Electing the Pope in Early Modern Italy, 1450-1700 offers a radical reassessment of the history of early modern papacy, constructed through the first major analytical treatment of papal elections in English. Papal elections, with their ceremonial pomp and high drama,...
Editeur :
OUP Oxford
Parution :
2017-07-14
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The Intellectual Struggle for Florence is an analysis of the ideology that developed in Florence with the rise of the Medici, during the early fifteenth century, the period long recognized as the most formative of the early Renaissance. Instead of simply describing...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2017-07-14
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Who Should Rule? traces the ambitious imperial reform that empowered new and competing political actors in an era of intense imperial competition, war, and the breakdown of the Spanish empire.
Mónica Ricketts examines the rise of men of letters and military officers...
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Oxford University Press
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2017-07-14
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An 'entertaining, informative and utterly depressing global history of an important commodity . . . By alerting readers to the ways that modernity's very origins are entangled with a seemingly benign and delicious substance, How Sugar Corrupted the World raises...
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Robinson
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2017-07-13
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For France the First World War, or Great War, was a war of national self-defence, but for Britain it was not. Does that mean that French literary treatments of this unimaginably destructive war were very different from British ones? Not necessarily – but much can be...
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Peter Lang Ltd, International Academic Publishers
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2017-07-13
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The character of the last Tsar, Nicholas II (1868-1918) is crucial to understanding the overthrow of tsarist Russia, the most significant event in Russian history. Nicholas became Tsar at the age of 26. Though a conscientious man who was passionate in his devotion to...
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Robinson
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2017-07-13
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Perhaps in defiance of expectations, Roman peace (pax) was a difficult concept that resisted any straightforward definition: not merely denoting the absence or aftermath of war, it consisted of many layers and associations and formed part of a much greater discourse on...
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OUP Oxford
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2017-07-13
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The book presents a thorough study of the changing landscape of state-diaspora relations in Africa, as well as a robust analysis of diaspora engagement policies being pursued across the continent. As the Africa diaspora strengthens its socio-economic and political...
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2017-07-12
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This edited volume explores the cultural life of capitalism during socialist and post-socialist times within the geopolitical context of the former Yugoslavia. Through a variety of cutting edge essays at the intersections of critical cultural studies, material culture,...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2017-07-11
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This book focuses on the departure of Britain’s 'surplus' women to Australia and New Zealand organised by Victorian British female emigration societies. Starting with an analysis of the surplus of women question, it then explores the philanthropic nature of the...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2017-07-11
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