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This edited collection aims to look beyond established narratives of feminist history, by focusing on non-English speaking European countries. Recent scholarship on the history of the women’s liberation movement in individual countries has enhanced our...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2024-12-27
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Historiography is one of the most systematic accounts of the fate of culture. It is also a record of human—reflexive and reflective metaphors of the world, simultaneously anthropomorphizing and humanizing it. Historical imagination captures the world in its classical...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2024-12-27
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Alors que, au lendemain de la Seconde guerre mondiale, en Italie et en France, les principals cultures politiques se sont consolidées, à partir de la fi n des années 1960, ells font face aux changements profonds qui affectent les sociétés ouest-européennes, jusqu’à la...
Editeur :
P.I.E-Peter Lang S.A., Éditions Scientifiques Internationales
Parution :
2024-12-27
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This open access book addresses a question fundamental to the histories of empire and Africa: at the point of the colonial encounter, how was knowledge made? How did different communities, with little or no prior contact, construct meaning about one another? Amidst huge...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2024-12-27
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Cambridge Imperial and Post-Colonial Studies
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The anthology presents a diverse array of essays delving into Gandhi's political activities, ethical beliefs, and philosophical stance. Distinguished Gandhian scholars contribute to this collection, setting it apart from similar compilations by focusing not just on...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2024-12-26
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This book focuses on the wars that are normally relegated to the periphery of geo-politics at the heart of Europe’s 'new' military history. The military history of the past two centuries of European history has tended to be viewed in the shadow of total war. The impact...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2024-12-25
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This book explores the interplay of Western European exploration and trade, with collecting, cabinets of curiosities and museums, and with the role of booty and plunder in the building of empires from ca.1600 until the end of the 19th century. The book focuses...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2024-12-25
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Arbitrating Empire offers a new history of the emergence of the United States as a global power-one shaped as much by attempts to insulate the US government from international legal scrutiny as it was by efforts to project influence across the globe. Drawing on...
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Oxford University Press
Parution :
2024-12-24
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This edited collection provides an in-depth analysis of the imperial, colonial, and postcolonial history of tobacco from 1780 to 1960, which was one of the major periods of change in the global tobacco economy. It brings together case-studies from known and lesser-known...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2024-12-24
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The first English language account of deserters from the German army during World War II
The German military executed between 18,000 and 22,000 of its personnel in World War II on the charges of desertion and "undermining the military spirt." This book examines who...
Editeur :
Oxford University Press
Parution :
2024-12-23
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This book explores the function and symbolism of monumental wooden crosses and crucifixes from medieval and early modern Norway. Multiple sources indicate that these objects were understood to provide healing and protection for the pious.This book considers how crosses...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2024-12-22
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This book explores the transformation of the state in Wallachia, an Ottoman tributary principality, between 1740 and 1800, by focusing on three administrative techniques: regulations, paperwork (registers, identification certificates), and weights and measures. The...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2024-12-21
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Although Lady Harris is acknowledged as the artist of Aleister Crowley's Book of Thoth, to date, most studies have focused predominantly on Harris's role as Crowley's 'artist executant', and almost exclusively from Crowley's perspective. Whitehouse argues that Harris's...
Editeur :
Oxford University Press
Parution :
2024-12-20
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The epic, tragic story of the Puritan conquest of New England through the eyes of those who lived it
Over several decades beginning in 1620, tens of thousands of devout English colonists known as Puritans came to America. They believed that bringing Christianity to...
Editeur :
Oxford University Press
Parution :
2024-12-20
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This book focuses on the discussion of the women’s liberation movement and feminism in Finnish print media between 1968 and 1985. By analysing this topic, the book demonstrates that a relatively well-developed state of gender equality in a society does not necessarily...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2024-12-20
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The anthology presents a diverse array of essays delving into Gandhi's political activities, ethical beliefs, and philosophical stance. Distinguished Gandhian scholars contribute to this collection, setting it apart from similar compilations by focusing not just on...
Editeur :
OUP Oxford
Parution :
2024-12-20
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It was perhaps fitting that in an age of industrialization, Americans began to think of the law as a tool, one that could be forged to fit their needs, without regard to the traditional ways of litigating cases in court. Law's Machinery explores how innovators like New...
Editeur :
Oxford University Press
Parution :
2024-12-20
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Early Greek hexameter poetry and its language is the focus of this book, and McConnell addresses the question of why the Greek in which this poetry is composed is so special and unique in ancient literature. It has long been maintained that various features of the...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2024-12-20
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Nearly thirty years ago, Monika Vrzgulová took part in the very first oral history research project aimed at Holocaust survivors in Slovakia. That project transformed her professional as well as her personal life. The Holocaust as a scholarly subject and the oral...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2024-12-18
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Jawhar Aftabachi was enslaved as a child by the Ottomans in the Black Sea region in the early sixteenth century. He was then sold to the Ottoman admiral Selman Reis, who took him with his fleet to Egypt and Yemen during his wars with the Portuguese; carried, after the...
Editeur :
OUP Oxford
Parution :
2024-12-18
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