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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...
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Presses universitaires de Liège
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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...
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Presses universitaires de Liège
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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...
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Canelo
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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
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2023-08-16
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This book examines the forms of estate management in the countryside of Florence and Lucca between the eleventh and the middle of the thirteenth centuries. It argues that their change reflects wider transformations of medieval economic patterns, and specifically the...
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OUP Oxford
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2023-08-15
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A HISTORY OF MODERN GERMANYA History of Modern Germany provides a comprehensive account of the social, political, and economic history of Germany from 1800 to the present. Written in an engaging and accessible narrative style, this popular textbook offers an expansive...
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Wiley-Blackwell
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2023-08-15
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With an introduction from RuPaul's Drag Race winner Sasha VelourTheir greatest act of resistance was simply existing In 1950s New York, a group of drag pioneers found work in a small number of Lower East Side clubs. They occupied the margins of society, determined to...
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Sphere
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2023-08-15
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Dilly's Story
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This book provides readers with rich context and detailed description leading to new perspectives on major historical events in China. Positioned as a thought leader and highly acclaimed arts professional in China, the author is able to give a historical account of...
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2023-08-14
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**A Telegraph Best History Book 2023 and Spectator Book of the Year**The inspirational story of the ordinary people who forged the documents that saved thousands of Jewish lives in World War Two.'Powerful ... gripping ... inspiring' JONATHAN DIMBLEBYBetween 1940 and...
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Vintage Digital
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2023-08-10
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Histories you can trust.
The First World War, now a century ago, still shapes the world in which we live, and its legacy lives on, in poetry, in prose, in collective memory and political culture. By the time the war ended in 1918, millions lay dead. Three major empires...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2023-08-09
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Very Short Introductions: Brilliant, Sharp, Inspiring
The Victorian period may have come to an end over 120 years ago, but the Victorians continue to be a vital presence in the modern world. Contemporary Britain is still in large part Victorian in its transport...
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OUP Oxford
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2023-08-09
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What constitutes a historian?What skills and qualities should a historian cultivate? Who is entitled to define historians’ “physiognomy”? Victorians sought to answer these questions as history transformed from a Romantic literary pursuit into a modern discipline during...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2023-08-08
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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
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2023-08-08
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**WINNER OF THE 2024 ASSOCIATION FOR RECORDED SOUND COLLECTIONS (ARSC) AWARD FOR BEST HISTORICAL RESEARCH IN RECORDED COUNTRY, FOLK, WORLD, OR ROOTS MUSIC**In this enlightening and entertaining book, experience the evolution of country music, from the rural routes...
Editeur :
Da Capo
Parution :
2023-08-08
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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
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2023-08-08
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Research for and the writing of this book was funded by the award of a Leverhulme Trust MajorResearch Fellowship.
The period c. AD300--1050, spanning the collapse of Roman rule to the coming of the Normans, was formative in the development of Wales. Life in Early...
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OUP Oxford
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2023-08-07
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This Open Access book describes the history of the relationship between the Japan Maritime Self-Defense Force (JMSDF), the heir to the Imperial Japanese Navy (IJN), and the United States Navy (US Navy), with a focus on the individuals who helped build it. Former enemies...
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Springer
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2023-08-06
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A biography of the boldest and most unsettling of the early modern philosophers, Spinoza, which examines the man's life, relationships, writings, and career, while also forcing us to rethink how we previously understood Spinoza's reception in his own time and in the...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2023-08-04
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