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This book invites senior experts and scholars from the fields of Chinese archaeology and history to describe ten influential “national treasure-level” cultural antiquities. Spanning from the Neolithic Age to modernity and with content ranging from the origin of...
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Springer
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2023-08-28
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This book views the history of African American slavery and its legacy. The author examines the misuse and abuse of white power in America and focuses on the treatment of African Americans within the last three centuries. Since the author sees slavery as some wider...
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Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2023-08-28
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Die Materialität des Todes ist ein besonders lohnendes Studienobjekt und verbindet Forschungsdiskurse, deren Austausch neue Perspektiven auf Tod und Sterben in der lateineuropäischen Vormoderne eröffnet. Dieser interdisziplinäre Sammelband geht den Möglichkeiten nach,...
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Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
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2023-08-28
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Defining class broadly as an identity categorization based on status, wealth, family, bloodlines, and occupation, Intersectionalities of Class in Early Modern English Drama e xplores class as a complicated, contingent phenomenon modified by a wider range of social...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2023-08-26
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Imperial Island shows how empire and its ever-present aftermath have divided and defined Britain over the last seventy years.'An eye-opening study of the empire within' SHASHI THAROOR'Clear, bold, refreshing' LUCY WORSLEYAfter the Second World War, Britain's overseas...
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Vintage Digital
Parution :
2023-08-24
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This book addresses a little-considered aspect of the study of the history of emotions in medieval literature: the depiction of perplexing emotional reactions. Medieval literature often confronts audiences with displays of emotion that are improbable, physiologically...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2023-08-24
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'The extraordinary writers in this volume articulate the taste, the terror, and the dialect of war; they command their powers of description to face a shameless empire intent on annihilating them' Ellena SavageA selection of Ukraine's leading writers convey the reality...
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Penguin
Parution :
2023-08-24
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Often cited but rarely studied in their own right, family directories allow a reconsideration of how ancestry and genealogy became an object of widespread commercialization across the eighteenth century. These directories replaced the expensive, locally-produced, early...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2023-08-23
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Time and Ancient Medicine is the first monograph to explore, on the one hand, how the introduction of new timekeeping technologies (namely, sundials and water clocks) affected the practice, rhetoric, and philosophy of ancient medicine and, on the other hand, how medical...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2023-08-23
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The untold story of generations of Middle Eastern freedom fighters—horsewomen who safeguarded an ancient breed of Caspian horse—and their efforts to defend their homelands from the Taliban and others seeking to destroy them."A breathtaking book that...
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Grand Central Publishing
Parution :
2023-08-22
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From an award-winning former law enforcement park ranger and investigator, this female-driven true crime adventure follows the author’s quest to find missing hikers along the Pacific Crest Trail by pairing up with an eclectic group of unlikely allies....
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Grand Central Publishing
Parution :
2023-08-22
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This book argues that abbatial authority was fundamental to monastic historical writing in the period c.500-1500. Writing history was a collaborative enterprise integral to the life and identity of medieval monastic communities, but it was not an activity for which time...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2023-08-22
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This study documents and analyses the structure and function of Greek incubation rituals in Classical and Hellenistic times addressing all relevant and extant literary and epigraphical testimonial concerning the rites and rules surrounding incubation. It shows that...
Editeur :
Presses universitaires de Liège
Parution :
2023-08-21
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Kernos suppléments
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Purity, and its converse, impurity, formed a versatile metaphor in the ancient Greek world. Constructing a multifaceted investigation, with both complementary and contrastive approaches, the thirteen papers collected in this volume explore the range of these ideas, from...
Editeur :
Presses universitaires de Liège
Parution :
2023-08-21
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Kernos suppléments
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Studies in the cultic honours for Hellenistic leaders and benefactors mainly focus on the ideological and diplomatic features of the phenomenon. Conversely, the papers collected in this volume aim to shift the focus to its material and practical aspects: media, ritual...
Editeur :
Presses universitaires de Liège
Parution :
2023-08-21
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Kernos suppléments
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Ritual permeates Greek comedies of the fifth and fourth centuries BC. In Birds and Peace, the performance of sacrifice is central to the plot and its dramatic action; Women at the Thesmophoria is set during the celebration of a religious festival; while the story of...
Editeur :
Presses universitaires de Liège
Parution :
2023-08-21
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Kernos suppléments
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Prickings (Einstiche) haben die Textspiegel mittelalterlicher Manuskripte vorbereitet. Das weiß man seit knapp 100 Jahren. Mit Hilfe vonPrickings wurden aber auch Bilder konzipiert. Das weiß man, seit der Autor seine Dissertation veröffentlicht hat (2017). Im...
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Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
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2023-08-21
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A revisionist, completely accessible and radically inclusive history of maths'Lively, satisfying, good at explaining difficult concepts' The Sunday TimesMathematics shapes almost everything we do. But despite its reputation as the study of fundamental truths, the...
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Penguin
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2023-08-17
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"Who Dares Wins". The world's most legendary special forces unit - and a history of action you will barely believe.This is the extraordinary, secretive story of how the SAS evolved from an unconventional handful of soldiers, operating behind enemy lines in North Africa...
Editeur :
Canelo
Parution :
2023-08-17
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Concerned with the fate of the minority in the age of the nation-state, Muslim political thought in modern South Asia has often been associated with religious nationalism and the creation of Pakistan. The Muslim Secular complicates that story by reconstructing the ideas...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2023-08-16
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