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This book examines the evangelical Christian worship focusing primarily in the island-state of Grenada. The study is based upon the author’s detailed study of Pentecostal communities in that island-state as well as her own background in Barbados. The study traces...
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2016-09-29
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This study provides a new interpretation of how political authority was conceived and transmitted in the Early Mongol Empire (1227-1259) and its successor state in the Middle East, the Ilkhanate (1258-1335). Authority within the Mongol Empire was intimately tied to the...
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OUP Oxford
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2016-09-29
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The Oxford Handbook of Roman Law and Society surveys the landscape of contemporary research and charts principal directions of future inquiry. More than a history of doctrine or an account of jurisprudence, the Handbook brings to bear upon Roman legal study the full...
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OUP Oxford
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2016-09-29
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André Tchernia is one of the leading experts on amphorae as a source of economic history, a pioneer of maritime archaeology, and author of a wealth of articles on Roman trade, notably the wine trade. This book brings together the author's previously published essays,...
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OUP Oxford
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2016-09-29
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Controversy over the role of human activity in causing climate change is pervasive in contemporary society. But, as Anya Zilberstein shows in this work, debates about the politics and science of climate are nothing new. Indeed, they began as early as the settlement of...
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Oxford University Press
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2016-09-29
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This book focuses on the Eastern Crisis of 1839-41, closely examining the first instance of coordinated Western intervention in the Middle East during the modern era. Readers can explore topics such as how culture, domestic politics, and ideology shaped diplomacy in...
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2016-09-29
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Albert Einstein, world-renowned as a physicist, was also publicly committed to radical political views. Despite the vast literature on Einstein, Einstein and Twentieth- Century Politics is the first comprehensive study of his politics, covering his opinions and...
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OUP Oxford
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2016-09-29
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Writing biographies (life stories) for a long time had been a male hegemonic project-writing the lives of great (white) men. Ever since Plutarch and Sueton composed their vitae of the greats of classical antiquity, to the medieval obsession with the hagiographies of...
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innsbruck university press
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2016-09-29
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Contemporary Austrian Studies
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After the dissolution of the Austro-Hungarian Monarchy, Austria transformed itself from an empire to a small Central European country. Formerly an important player in international affairs, the new republic was quickly sidelined by the European concert of powers. The...
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innsbruck university press
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2016-09-29
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Contemporary Austrian Studies
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In der vorliegenden Arbeit wird erstmals explizit die Österreichische Geschichte aus französischer Perspektive beleuchtet. Dabei skizziert der Autor zunächst die relevanten Richtungen der französischen Geschichtswissenschaften, um anschließend wichtige Personen (Maria...
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innsbruck university press
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2016-09-29
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Studien des Interdisziplinären Frankreich-Schwerpunkts
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Wolfgang Schüssel was a dominating actor in the Austrian political arena over a period of twenty years. He served as minister of economics (1989-1995), and vice chancellor and foreign minister (1995-2000) in ÖVP/SPÖ grand coalition governments. As chairman of the ÖVP...
Editeur :
innsbruck university press
Parution :
2016-09-29
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Contemporary Austrian Studies
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After the dissolution of the Austro-Hungarian Monarchy, Austria transformed itself from an empire to a small Central European country. Formerly an important player in international affairs, the new republic was quickly sidelined by the European concert of powers. The...
Editeur :
innsbruck university press
Parution :
2016-09-29
Collection :
Contemporary Austrian Studies
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In the past quarter century we have moved from the Cold War to the Post-Cold War era in Austria, Europe and the world at large. Yet relatively little assessment is available what the change from the Cold War to the Post-Cold War era signaled for Austria's position in...
Editeur :
innsbruck university press
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2016-09-29
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Contemporary Austrian Studies
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Voices of Conscience analyzes how the link between politics and conscience was articulated and shaped throughout the seventeenth century by confessors who acted as counsellors to monarchs. Against the backdrop of the momentous intellectual, theological, and political...
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OUP Oxford
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2016-09-29
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What was it like to live in Britain during the second half of the twentieth century? In a successor to his acclaimed Nine Wartime Lives: Mass Observation and the Making of the Modern Self, James Hinton uses autobiographical writing contributed to Mass Observation since...
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OUP Oxford
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2016-09-29
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What kind of allusion is possible in a poetry derived from a centuries-long oral tradition, and what kind of oral-derived poetry are the Homeric epics? Comparison of Homeric epic with South Slavic heroic song has suggested certain types of answers to these questions,...
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OUP Oxford
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2016-09-29
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Ausgehend davon, dass Fotografien die moderne Vorstellung von Südamerika prägen, untersucht Kathrin Reinert die epistemologische Funktion des Mediums in der Anthropologie und Archäologie. Neben der Foto- und Rezeptionsgeschichte zeichnet sie nach, wie ausgewählte...
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Springer VS
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2016-09-28
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The drama, expansion, mansions and wealth of New York City's transformative Gilded Age era, from 1870 to 1910, captured in a magnificently illustrated hardcover. In forty short years, New York City suddenly became a city of skyscrapers, subways, streetlights, and...
Editeur :
Black Dog & Leventhal
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2016-09-27
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This volume results from the international research project ‘The Migration of Faith: Clerical Exile in Late Antiquity (325?c.600)’. The project is a collaboration between the Department of History at the University of Sheffield, the Seminar für Kirchengeschichte at the...
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Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2016-09-26
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Create a stimulating, well-paced teaching route through the 2016 GCSE History specification using this tailor-made series that draws on a legacy of market-leading history textbooks and the individual subject specialisms of the author team to inspire student success.-...
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Hodder Education
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2016-09-26
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