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For many of us the history of Africa is, at best, vague. We might think of Egyptian pyramids, legendary queens (of Sheba or Cleopatra) and Zulu warriors. The truth, however, is one of remarkably diverse, creative, culturally rich civilisations. In this book, which...
Editeur :
Transworld Digital
Parution :
2012-02-16
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The definitve guide to the history of ancient Israel.The History of Ancient Israel covers the epic story of Jewish civilisation from its beginnings to the destruction of Jerusalem, and the Temple in AD 70. It deals with Israel's relations with the great empires which...
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Weidenfeld & Nicolson
Parution :
2012-02-16
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The second and final volume of the definitive account of the German submarine war.Acclaimed on its publication in 1997 ('should become the standard history of the Unterseeboote' - Washington Post) volume one of Clay Blair's magnum opus is here followed by volume two,...
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Weidenfeld & Nicolson
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2012-02-16
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The first book to explore the religious dimensions of the family and the household in ancient Mediterranean and West Asian antiquity. Advances our understanding of household and familial religion, as opposed to state-sponsored or civic temple cults Reconstructs...
Editeur :
Wiley-Blackwell
Parution :
2012-02-15
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Ancient World: Comparative Histories
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Argues for the necessity of a re-articulation of the differences that separated man from other forms of life. The essays in this collection argue for recognition of the persistently indistinct nature of humans, who cannot be finally divided ontologically or...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2012-02-14
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This book uses oral history methodology to record stories of people who experienced the brunt of racist forced removals in the city of Cape Town, South Africa. Through life stories and community case studies, it traces the human impact of this disruptive, often violent...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2012-02-14
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Carel de Haseth’s novella Slave and Master (Katibu di Shon), written in the Creole language Papiamentu, dramatizes the August 17, 1795 slave revolt on the Dutch Caribbean island of Curaçao. The story is told through an alternating series of dramatic monologues by two...
Editeur :
Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publishers
Parution :
2012-02-14
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Anglican Church Policy, Eighteenth Century Conflict, and the American Episcopate examines how leaders in the Church of England sought to reorganize the colonial church by installing one or two resident bishops at critical moments in the late 1740s, the early 1760s, and...
Editeur :
Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publishers
Parution :
2012-02-14
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Over the last half of the nineteenth and the first half of the twentieth centuries, rising secular liberalism led many Catholic Church leaders in Latin America and Rome to believe that the Church was in a state of crisis. As a solution, they focused on improving...
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Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publishers
Parution :
2012-02-14
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A religious reformation occurred in the Roman Empire of the fourth and fifth centuries which scholars often call Christianization. Examining evidence relevant to Roman Africa of this period, this book sharpens understanding of this religious revolution. Focusing on the...
Editeur :
Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publishers
Parution :
2012-02-14
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Overturning the 20th century's prevalent view of the Macedonians, Damianopoulos uses three domains of evidence - historical documentation, cognitive self-descriptor reports, and sociocultural features - to demonstrate that the Macedonians are a unique, non-Slav,...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2012-02-14
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This book uncovers practices surrounding acts of collecting, surveying, and antiquarianism during British colonial rule in India. By examining these practices, this book traces the colonial conditions of the production of 'sources,' the forging of a new historical...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2012-02-14
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The Dilemma of Modernity is a study of the evolution of Ramón Gómez de la Serna’s narrative fiction within the context of European Modernism. At a time when Joyce, Kafka, Proust, and Woolfe were experimenting with prose fiction, very little is known about Spain’s...
Editeur :
Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publishers
Parution :
2012-02-10
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Fairness and Freedom compares the history of two open societies--New Zealand and the United States--with much in common. Both have democratic polities, mixed-enterprise economies, individuated societies, pluralist cultures, and a deep concern for human rights and the...
Editeur :
Oxford University Press
Parution :
2012-02-10
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No detailed comparison of the city-state in medieval Europe has been undertaken over the last century. Research has concentrated on the role of city-states and their republican polities as harbingers of the modern state, or else on their artistic and cultural...
Editeur :
OUP Oxford
Parution :
2012-02-09
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The Story of Wales is a vibrant portrait of 30,000 years of power, identity and politics. Revisiting major turning points in Welsh history, from its earliest settlements to the present day, Jon Gower re-examines the myths and misconceptions about this glorious country,...
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Bbc Digital
Parution :
2012-02-09
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This is the first comprehensive study of the Bow Street Runners, a group of men established in the middle of the eighteenth century by Henry Fielding, with the financial support of the government, to confront violent offenders on the streets and highways around London....
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2012-02-09
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Trials of the Diaspora presents the long and troubling history of anti-Semitism in England, from the middle ages to the twenty-first century.
Anthony Julius identifies four distinct versions of English anti-Semitism, which he then investigates in detail. The first is...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2012-02-09
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Trials of the Diaspora presents the long and troubling history of anti-Semitism in England, from the middle ages to the twenty-first century.
Anthony Julius identifies four distinct versions of English anti-Semitism, which he then investigates in detail. The first is...
Editeur :
OUP Oxford
Parution :
2012-02-09
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James Mussell provides an accessible account of the digitization of nineteenth-century newspapers and periodicals. As studying this material is essential to understand the period, he argues that we have no choice but to engage with the new digital resources that have...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2012-02-07
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