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A Companion to Science, Technology, and Medicine in Ancient Greece and Rome brings a fresh perspective to the study of these disciplines in the ancient world, with 60 chapters examining these topics from a variety of critical and technical perspectives. Brings a fresh...
Editeur :
Wiley-Blackwell
Parution :
2016-01-19
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Blackwell Companions to the Ancient World
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This collection brings together international scholars pursuing cutting-edge research on spatial identities under National Socialism. They demonstrate that the spatial identities of the Third Reich can be approached as a history of interrelated dimensions; Heimat,...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2016-01-18
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This groundbreaking book combines literary interpretation, gender analysis, and cultural, political, and diplomatic history to examine how Elizabeth I used the discourse of love to establish her political power, assert her right to marry or not, and rule the country...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2016-01-18
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This volume offers a comprehensive and original analysis and reconceptualisation of the compendium of struggles that wracked the collapsing Tsarist empire and the emergent USSR, profoundly affecting the history of the twentieth century. Indeed, the reverberations of...
Editeur :
Oxford University Press
Parution :
2016-01-15
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This volume offers a comprehensive and original analysis and reconceptualisation of the compendium of struggles that wracked the collapsing Tsarist empire and the emergent USSR, profoundly affecting the history of the twentieth century. Indeed, the reverberations of...
Editeur :
Oxford University Press
Parution :
2016-01-15
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The Shias of Pakistan are the world's second largest Shia community after that of Iran, but comprise only 10-15 per cent of Pakistan's population. In recent decades Sunni extremists have increasingly targeted them with hate propaganda and terrorism, yet paradoxically...
Editeur :
Oxford University Press
Parution :
2016-01-15
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During the height of the Black Power movement of the late 1960s and 1970s, dozens of Pan African nationalist private schools, from preschools to post-secondary ventures, appeared in urban settings across the United States. The small, independent enterprises were often...
Editeur :
Oxford University Press
Parution :
2016-01-14
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This volume provides the first comprehensive history of the arms racing phenomenon in modern international politics, drawing both on theoretical approaches and on the latest historical research. Written by an international team of specialists, it is divided into four...
Editeur :
OUP Oxford
Parution :
2016-01-14
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This volume provides the first comprehensive history of the arms racing phenomenon in modern international politics, drawing both on theoretical approaches and on the latest historical research. Written by an international team of specialists, it is divided into four...
Editeur :
OUP Oxford
Parution :
2016-01-14
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Witchcraft, Witch-hunting, and Politics in Early Modern England constitutes a wide-ranging and original overview of the place of witchcraft and witch-hunting in the broader culture of early modern England. Based on a mass of new evidence extracted from a range of...
Editeur :
OUP Oxford
Parution :
2016-01-14
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Alexander * Demosthenes * Phocion * Eumenes * Demetrius * Pyrrhus * Agis and Cleomenes * Aratus * Philopoemen * Flamininus
This selection of ten Lives traces the history of Hellenistic Greece from the rise of Macedon and Alexander's conquest of the Persian empire to...
Editeur :
OUP Oxford
Parution :
2016-01-14
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Alexander * Demosthenes * Phocion * Eumenes * Demetrius * Pyrrhus * Agis and Cleomenes * Aratus * Philopoemen * Flamininus
This selection of ten Lives traces the history of Hellenistic Greece from the rise of Macedon and Alexander's conquest of the Persian empire to...
Editeur :
OUP Oxford
Parution :
2016-01-14
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Hailed as early Christian texts as important as the Dead Sea Scrolls, yet condemned by the Vatican as Islamic heresies, the Lead books of Granada, written on discs of lead and unearthed on a Granadan hillside, weave a mysterious tale of duplicity and daring set in the...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2016-01-13
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Victoria's Madmen is the story of those who were outcasts by temperament and choice; the non-conformists of the Victorian Age. Clive Bloom's readable account of the dark underbelly ofVictoria's Britain captures the unrest bubbling under the surface of strait-laced...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2016-01-13
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This book examines the Soviet agricultural crisis of 1931-1933 which culminated in the major famine of 1933. It is the first volume in English to make extensive use of Russian and Ukrainian central and local archives to assess the extent and causes of the famine. It...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2016-01-13
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In 1922 the Fascist 'March on Rome' brought Benito Mussolini to power. He promised Italians that his fascist revolution would unite them as never before and make Italy a strong and respected nation internationally.In the next two decades, Mussolini set about rebuilding...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2016-01-13
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Jean Gerson and Gender examines the deployment of gendered rhetoric by the influential late medieval politically active theologian,Jean Gerson (1363-1429), as a means of understanding his reputation for political neutrality, the role played by royal women in the French...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2016-01-12
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A study of the rise and decline of puritanism in England and New England that focuses on the role of godly men and women. It explores the role of family devotions, lay conferences, prophesying and other means by which the laity influenced puritan belief and practice,...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2016-01-12
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Through a variety of case studies, Transnational Histories of Youth in the Twentieth Century examines the emergence of youth and young people as a central historical force in the global history of the twentieth century.
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2016-01-12
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This volume examines British and US attitudes towards the means and mechanisms for the facilitation of an Arab-Israeli reconciliation, focusing specifically on the refugee factor in diplomatic initiatives. It explains why Britain and the US were unable to reconcile the...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2016-01-12
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