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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
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2023-11-21
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Als einer der frühen Abenteurer und Afrika-Pioniere des vergangenen Jahrhunderts schildert Hermann Goetz sein ereignisreiches Leben in sieben wechselvollen Jahrzehnten abessinisch-äthiopischer Geschichte. Bald nach seiner Ankunft im Jahr 1902 gewinnt er das Vertrauen...
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Springer VS
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2023-11-21
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This book presents a holistic perspective across various facets of culture, history, politics, economics and strategy in India’s relations with neighbouring South and Southeast Asian countries.This book not only analyses various issues of India’s foreign policy...
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Springer
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2023-11-21
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Dynamics of Asian Development
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This Open access book provides a survey of the economic, health, and somatic progress of Baltic countries during the period 1918–2018, framed by the outline of the historical-sociological theory of modern social restorations, as originally conceived by the...
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Springer
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2023-11-21
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During the 1840s and 1850s, the British government financed a world-wide investigation into how the Earth's magnetic phenomena operated, consisting of a network of naval expeditions and colonial observatories. Questions surrounding terrestrial magnetism were not just...
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OUP Oxford
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2023-11-21
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The book explores the key concerns in the United States of America, as well as around the world today, related to the significance of ecology, eco-consciousness and climate change.
The chapters by individual authors reflect the topics both from a theoretical and from an...
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Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
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2023-11-20
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This book focuses on the rise of Kurdish nationalism in northwestern Iran in the context of the emergence of the Kurdish leader, Ismail Agha Simko, who organized a movement to establish a Kurdish state between 1918 and 1922 The rise of Simko is analyzed in the...
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2023-11-19
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This edited book fills a void in the existing research concerning anti-communist movements in Central and Eastern Europe, outlining the linguistic implications of the cultural, social and political metamorphoses brought about by the (change of) regime....
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2023-11-17
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A dazzling exploration of the global intersections of beauty and power'Fascinating' NIGELLA LAWSON'Awe-inspiring' FUNMI FETTO'A treat to read' KASSIA ST CLAIRA Sunday Times Style Barometer and New York Times Book Review Editors’ ChoiceFor centuries, humans have been...
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Vintage Digital
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2023-11-16
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In early 1618, Anne Cecil (nee Lake), Lady Roos, accused Frances Cecil, countess of Exeter, of having committed adultery and incest with her husband, the countess's step grandson, William Cecil, Lord Roos. The countess had attempted to poison her twice, first with a...
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OUP Oxford
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2023-11-16
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Saul Bellow emphasized to a remarkable degree that the protagonists in his later novels were intellectuals trained in the humanistic traditions of European liberal education. He supposed that these protagonists would lead modern American society and predict its future....
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Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publishers
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2023-11-16
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Few themes in history have had as strong a hold on people's imagination. Fewer still have managed to alter the course of civilization.This is Charles Allen's definitive account of the Aryans, offering a grand sweep of language, mythology, contested histories and...
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Hachette India
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2023-11-15
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This book encourages a critical dialogue between interdisciplinary fields that border heritage boundaries and seeks to contribute a wide range of scholarly perspectives and case studies (both national and international). The widespread use of the concept of soft power...
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Springer
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2023-11-15
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Here is the current, captivating and uncompromising portrait of a great country and its people. Top of the European class, polite, hardworking and rarely at fault, Germany, 20 years after Reunification, has enjoyed at leisure its hitherto well-mastered growth: culture,...
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Max Milo Éditions
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2023-11-15
Collection :
L’inconnu
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This book investigates how work ethics in Europe were conceptualised from the Middle Ages to the nineteenth century. Through analysis of a range of discourses, it focuses on the roles played by intellectuals in formulating, communicating, and contesting ideas about work...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2023-11-14
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The definitive history of the idea of equality—and why we’re so ambivalent about it Equality is in crisis. Our world is filled with soaring inequalities, spanning wealth, race, identity, and nationality. Yet how can we strive for equality if we...
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Basic Books
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2023-11-14
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The remarkable story of how African Americans transformed Atlanta, the former heart of the Confederacy, into today’s Black mecca Atlanta is home to some of America’s most prominent Black politicians, artists, businesses, and HBCUs. Yet,...
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Basic Books
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2023-11-14
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The American mafia has long held powerful sway over our collective cultural imagination. But how many of us truly understand how a clandestine Sicilian criminal organisation came to exert its influence over nearly every level of American society?In BORGATA: RISE OF...
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Weidenfeld & Nicolson
Parution :
2023-11-09
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Gambling captures as nothing else the drama of the “long eighteenth century” between the age of religious wars and the age of revolutions. The society that was confronted with games of chance pursued as commercial ventures also came to grips with unprecedented social...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2023-11-09
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