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This groundbreaking, five-volume series offers a comprehensive, fully illustrated history of Egypt and Western Asia (the Levant, Anatolia, Mesopotamia, and Iran), from the emergence of complex states to the conquest of Alexander the Great. Written by a diverse,...
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Oxford University Press
Parution :
2023-12-15
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This book examines selected short stories and novels by Kate Chopin through the lens of the city of New Orleans. Chopin’s depictions of and references to New Orleans celebrate the vibrancy of this unique American city, but also illustrate the complex, interdependent...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2023-12-15
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It was 13 October 1972. Uruguayan Air Force Flight 571, carrying a team of young rugby players, their families and friends, took off for the very last time. A deadly miscalculation saw F571 crash directly into the Andean mountains to devastating consequences: the body...
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Constable
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2023-12-14
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The book is an in-depth study of the lesser-explored history of Sufi practices in South Asia. Covering the formative period of Sufism in this region, the work studies practices like 'sama' (listening to poetry and music) and 'zikr' (remembrance of God) through the...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2023-12-14
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Mittelhochdeutsche Heldenepik erzählt häufig und ausführlich von körperlicher Gewalt in Form von Schlachten und Zweikämpfen. Diese offensichtliche Faszination für das Erzählen von Gewalt, so schlägt dieses Buch vor, liegt in der Fähigkeit des Erzählgegenstandes...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2023-12-14
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This book explores a panorama of historical studies, focused on the historical tensions between genealogical knowledge and well-known Pacific Islander engagements with genomic research in a postwar era of simultaneous decolonization and Big Science. These include...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2023-12-13
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This is an open access title available under the terms of a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 International licence. It is free to read on Oxford Academic and offered as a free PDF download from OUP and selected open access locations.
Languages are central to the creation and expression...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2023-12-13
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This is an open access title available under the terms of a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 International licence. It is free to read on Oxford Academic and offered as a free PDF download from OUP and selected open access locations.
Languages are central to the creation and expression...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2023-12-13
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Between 1756 and 1840, philanthropy in the British world grew from the domain of small, associational committees to a vast enterprise of philanthropic and humanitarian societies with global reach. British Philanthropy in the Globalizing World tells the story of this...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2023-12-12
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Lenin lived a controversial life and has had a deeply controversial reputation in the centenary since his death (21 January 1924) His rise from a conventional, educated, provincial, and middle-class background to become not only the leader, even dictator, over the...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2023-12-12
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A landmark study of the history of male-male sex in early modern Europe, including the European colonies and the Ottoman world.
Until quite recently, the history of male-male sexual relations was a taboo topic. But when historians eventually explored the archives of...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2023-12-12
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This book summarises the evolution of the higher education system in post-Soviet Georgia, amidst democratisation, economic liberalisation and European integration. The author gives an overview of the recent political history in Georgia, paying particular attention to...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2023-12-10
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Soon after Russia invaded Ukraine in February 2022, Vladimir Putin expressed Russia's commitment for the reconstruction of the war-devasted Eastern regions of Ukraine. It is surprising how little analytical and comparative literature exists about Russia’s experience in...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2023-12-08
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This book examines how Lampedusa, Italy’s southernmost island, has become a transnational symbol representing migration to Europe from the Global South. It analyses how three very different associations have used the name “Lampedusa” as a means of restoring a sense...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2023-12-07
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How did beer become one of the central commodities associated with the German nation?How did a little-known provincial production standard – the Reinheitsgebot, or Beer Purity Law – become a pillar of national consumer sentiments?How did the jovial, beer-drinking German...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2023-12-06
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Provides an engaging narrative account of modern European history, featuring new chapters on modern Europe and the post-Cold War world Twentieth-Century Europe: 1900 to the Present provides a concise and accessible review of the significant themes and major events that...
Editeur :
Wiley-Blackwell
Parution :
2023-12-06
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How was human (in)equality built across the table? Why were the first great banquets at the origin of the communal goods of humanity? Who, after forcing men from eating bread, wanted to forbid them chestnuts and popularized the potato? The Egyptian food table invented...
Editeur :
Max Milo Audio
Parution :
2023-12-05
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This companion to the massively popular history podcast tackles everything from Alexander the Great to Watergate—with a unique blend of wit, wisdom, and good old-fashioned banter “These two bespectacled, middle-aged bookworms have somehow made history...
Editeur :
PublicAffairs
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2023-12-05
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Editeur :
Headline
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2023-12-05
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This volume is centred on the voices of women belonging to different generations, religious faiths and social classes, and presents a range of possible life courses in the Alps and the pre-Alps during the Ancien Régime and the early 19th century. Focusing on life...
Editeur :
Alphil-Presses universitaires suisses
Parution :
2023-12-04
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Histoire
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