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We are used to thinking that the sexual revolution of the 1960s and 1970s was an essentially Western phenomenon. The surge in pornographic production, effective oral contraception, and new developments in fashion and popular culture all seem to be inextricably linked...
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OUP Oxford
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2025-08-05
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Die Aufklärung Mitte des 18. Jahrhunderts schuf eine Architektur auf der Grundlage der Rationalität - den Klassizismus.Die sich verändernde Gesellschaft stellte aber Anforderungen, die mit den traditionellen Methoden gar nicht lösbar waren - Industrialisierung und...
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Springer Vieweg
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2025-07-23
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At the Restoration of 1660, there was no distinctive banking sector, and banking services were provided by a variety of traders, most notably the London goldsmiths. In the later seventeenth century, the first specialists appeared against a background of rapid economic...
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OUP Oxford
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2025-07-22
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Re-Membering Hospitality in the Mediterranean examines the embodied praxis of hospitality—whether through the ritual modes of religious history, the pages of literature, the visual arts, dystopian narratives of the future, or the realpolitik of shelter and...
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2025-07-15
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The last fifty years of French history have seen immense challenges for the French: constructing a new European order, building a modern economy, searching for a stable political system. It has also been a time of anxiety and doubt.The French have had to come to terms...
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OUP Oxford
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2025-06-06
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The last fifty years of French history have seen immense challenges for the French: constructing a new European order, building a modern economy, searching for a stable political system. It has also been a time of anxiety and doubt.The French have had to come to terms...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2025-06-02
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Hearing with the Mind synthesizes two exciting approaches to music--cognitive psychology and social history--by focusing on the remarkable work of musical theorist John Holden (1729--72) during the Scottish Enlightenment. One of the first musical thinkers to propose a...
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Oxford University Press
Parution :
2025-05-30
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A revelatory investigation into the rise and fall of the 'woke' movement and how we can prevent it from happening again. It is no secret that we are in the midst of a cultural revolution. Activists in the 'woke' movement have claimed to be on the right side of history,...
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Constable
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2025-05-29
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A history of the dandy from below, from Beau Brummell and Baudelaire to Bowie and Bolan... and beyond.
The historical figure of the dandy has commonly been described as an upper-class gentleman, often exemplified by well-known men such as Beau Brummell, Charles...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2025-05-28
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In June 1960, several British newspapers received a letter so shocking some thought it was a hoax. Beginning 'Sir, we are homosexuals . . ', it was signed by Roger Butler and two others. Publishing such a letter seven years prior to the decriminalisation of...
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Headline Press
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2025-05-22
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This book addresses Naples’ relationship with Italy, since the introduction of direct mayoral election in 1993 and as articulated in cultural production. It deploys theoretical frameworks pertaining to postcolonialism and cultural accentedness to challenge the...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2025-05-21
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Ethnographies fatefully rely on chance encounters and mysteriously so such encounters come true. "Dead in Banaras" is an instance of just such a fateful chance encounter. In its inception, it set out to follow the 'dead' across multiple social locations of crematoria,...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2025-05-14
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A history of the dandy from below, from Beau Brummell and Baudelaire to Bowie and Bolan... and beyond.
The historical figure of the dandy has commonly been described as an upper-class gentleman, often exemplified by well-known men such as Beau Brummell, Charles...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2025-04-22
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This is the story of a hidden Britain. A Black Britain. One that existed outside London and forces us to reappraise what it means to be British.'A vital corrective' STEVE MCQUEEN'A revelation' NESRINE MALIK'Necessary and urgent' GUARDIAN'Joyous' GQ**AN OBSERVER, GQ...
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Vintage Digital
Parution :
2025-04-17
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The Oxford Handbook of Tourism History provides an essential reference resource that consolidates innovative research into the history of tourism while mapping new trajectories that embrace scholars working in a variety of national contexts.The collection's original...
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Oxford University Press
Parution :
2025-03-21
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Sexism in the City is the first book to trace the history of women stockbrokers in the United Kingdom from the late nineteenth to the late twentieth centuries. Forgotten pioneers, these businesswomen fought against the odds to establish successful brokerages across the...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2025-03-12
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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 the Oxford Academic platform and offered as a free PDF download from OUP and selected open access locations.
Across eighteenth- and early...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2025-02-28
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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 the Oxford Academic platform and offered as a free PDF download from OUP and selected open access locations.
Across eighteenth- and early...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2025-02-25
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Welche Kontinuitätslinien lassen sich im Vereinssport vom 19. Jahrhundert bis in die Gegenwart ziehen? Welchen Stellenwert und welche Wirkmacht hatte der Sport als populärkulturelles Massenphänomen in den 1920er- und 1930er-Jahren?Welche Milieustrukturen wurden in den...
Editeur :
Springer VS
Parution :
2025-02-24
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Sexism in the City is the first book to trace the history of women stockbrokers in the United Kingdom from the late nineteenth to the late twentieth centuries. Forgotten pioneers, these businesswomen fought against the odds to establish successful brokerages across the...
Editeur :
OUP Oxford
Parution :
2025-02-20
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