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Capra and Graziosi intervene in current debates about classics and its relation to revolutionary ruptures, nationalist movements, and identity politics today. They begin with The Neoplatonists, an explicit love story posing as the work of an imaginary ancient Greek...
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OUP Oxford
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2024-07-12
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From being the last country in the world to open its doors to global trade in the 1850s to becoming the second industrialized nation in the 1960s, Japan has experienced impressive economic and social development over the last two centuries. In the last three decades,...
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OUP Oxford
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2024-07-12
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The book is a new, revisionist account of Sixties protest movements in West Germany. It challenges established narratives centring male intellectuals by foregrounding families, private lives, women, and old people. Worked from a wealth of new archival sources, the book...
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OUP Oxford
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2024-07-12
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In Europe, coal was by far the most important source of energy from the beginning of industrialisation until well after the Second World War. It was indispensable in shaping the modern world, and in altering our understanding of time and space. Used foundationally in...
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OUP Oxford
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2024-07-12
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In the aftermath of the First World War the Western great powers sought to redefine international norms according to their liberal vision. They introduced Western-led multilateral organizations to regulate cross-border flows which became pivotal in the making of an...
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OUP Oxford
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2024-07-12
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The Spiritual Lives and Manuscript Cultures of Eighteenth-Century English Women explores the vital and unexplored ways in which women's life writings acted to undergird, guide, and indeed shape religious communities. Through an exploration of various significant but...
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OUP Oxford
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2024-07-12
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The runaway #1 New York Times bestseller'Timely and fascinating... There are many astonishing vignettes... an important book' Max Hastings, Sunday Times'A ripping read. . . .The parallels to the present day are strong, even startling' New York TimesAs Hitler's...
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Transworld Digital
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2024-07-11
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Stanley Rice, born in London in 1905, began his autobiography by stating that his life was ‘an ordinary average life with all its ups and downs’.Stanley may have described his life as ordinary, and yet he lived through a period of rapid social change, including two...
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2024-07-11
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This book aims to present a theoretical study of the concept of collaboration during the Second World War, understood as social behaviour and actions within specific conditions of military occupation. It is based on the theories of social behaviour and action developed...
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Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
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2024-07-11
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?In the postwar years, Dutch survivors Eddy de Wind, Louis Micheels, and Elie A. Cohen, who went on to become practicing psychoanalysts, penned accounts of their survival of the Nazi camps. Their sober assessments contrast sharply with those by Bruno Bettelheim and...
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2024-07-10
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Im Deutschland des 20. Jahrhunderts wurde Karl-Friedrich Bonhoeffer als brillanter Chemiker bekannt, während mehrere seiner Verwandten – darunter Dietrich Bonhoeffer – in den Widerstand gegen Hitler verwickelt waren, was zu ihrer Hinrichtung führte. Dieses Buch...
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J.B. Metzler
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2024-07-10
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Enlightenment studies are currently in a state of flux, with unresolved arguments among its adherents about its dates, its locations, and the contents of the 'movement'. This book cuts the Gordian knot.
There are many books claiming to explain the Enlightenment, but...
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OUP Oxford
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2024-07-10
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What happens when death becomes the ultimate marker of one’s commitment to one’s freedom?What happens when the opposite of freedom is not unfreedom but death, not slavery but mortality? How are we to think of the right to life when a political demand for dignity and...
Editeur :
Polity
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2024-07-09
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After the Postcolonial
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In this third edition of his widely acclaimed survey, historian Randall D. Law makes sense of the history of terrorism by examining it within its broad political, religious and social contexts from the ancient world to the present day. In Terrorism: A History, Law...
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Polity
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2024-07-09
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In diesem Band werden die Erkenntnisse des 70. Baltischen Historikertreffens 2017 in Göttingen präsentiert. Er beleuchtet, wie sich die Staaten Nordosteuropas nach dem Ersten Weltkrieg entwickelten, wobei ein besonderer Fokus auf multiethnischen Gesellschaften und...
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Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
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2024-07-08
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This book reveals that the visual narrative of the events of the Russian campaign of 1812 was inextricably linked to Russia's search for national identity and helped to form competing definitions of 'Russianness'. No pre-revolutionary military event was more celebrated...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2024-07-08
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This book compares the systems of exploitative race relations associated with two racist regimes – slavery in the British colonial Caribbean and forced labour in the Holocaust in Germany and the Nazi-occupied lands in Europe. Although each system was introduced by...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2024-07-05
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From the acclaimed author of The Watchers, the untold story of Robert Cecil - the ultimate Tudor spy-master'Alford triumphs… in recreating the historical moment. By immersing himself in Cecil’s vast archive, he draws the reader deep into his working environment,...
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Penguin
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2024-07-04
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"A joy to read" Times Literary Supplement"[A] stirring and accessible history of the mighty Rhine" Irish Times"It's easy to be swept away by Deen's delightful prose" New Statesman"A beautiful book, by turns poetic, witty and full of learning " PATRICK McGUINNESSThe...
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Maclehose Press
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2024-07-04
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BY THE AUTHOR OF STANDING HEAVY - SHORTLISTED FOR THE INTERNATIONAL BOOKER PRIZE 2023Following the death of his parents, Dabilly, a young white man, seeks a life of colonial adventure in Cote d'Ivoire. It is 1880 and Dabilly joins a beleaguered French general trying to...
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Maclehose Press
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2024-07-04
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