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This book covers various forms of the production of girmitiya culture and literature. One of the main objectives is to conceptualize the idea of girmitya, girmitology, and girmitiya literature, culture, history, and identity in both colonial and postcolonial contexts....
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2023-01-31
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This book gathers contributions negotiating feminism's place within medieval studies. It is about overlaps and twists, about the inseparability of multiple means of critique – ecocriticism and disability studies, art history and race studies, legal history and...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2023-01-27
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A richly illustrated book in which leading cultural critics, authors, and academics reflect on the radical achievement and innovation of Art Spiegelman's Pulitzer Prize-winning masterpiece Maus'The most affecting and successful narrative ever done about the Holocaust'...
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Penguin
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2023-01-26
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'A characteristically radical re-reading of history that places the social and political experiments of pirates at the heart of the European Enlightenment. A brilliant companion volume to the best-selling Dawn of Everything' Amitav GhoshThe Enlightenment did not begin...
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Penguin
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2023-01-26
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This book attempts to delve into the connection between imagination and politics, and examines the many expectations and fears engendered by the Irish home rule debate. More specifically, it assesses the ways politicians, artists and writers in Ireland,...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2023-01-25
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This book examines England's plural and protracted Reformations through the novel prism of the generations. Approaching generation as a biological unit and a social cohort, it demonstrates that the tumultuous religious developments that stretched across the sixteenth...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2023-01-25
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A new history of Black Liberation, told through the intertwined story of two grassroots organizers The Black Power movement, often associated with its iconic spokesmen, derived much of its energy from the work of people whose stories have never...
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Basic Books
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2023-01-24
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The crusade movement needed women: their money, their prayer support, their active participation, and their inspiration...
This book surveys women's involvement in medieval crusading between the second half of the eleventh century, when Pope Gregory VII first proposed...
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OUP Oxford
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2023-01-24
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A pioneering study of children's social care in the late-nineteenth and early-twentieth centuries,A Home From Home? presents new information and develops conceptual thinking about the history of children's care by investigating the centrality of key ideas about home,...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2023-01-24
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Histories you can trust.
This history provides a readable and fresh approach to the extensive and complex story of witchcraft and magic. Telling the story from the dawn of writing in the ancient world to the globally successful Harry Potter films, the authors explore a...
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OUP Oxford
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2023-01-24
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Thomas Kaufmann, the leading European scholar of the Reformation, argues that the main motivations behind the Reformation rest in religion itself.
The Reformation began far from Europe's traditional political, economic, and cultural power centres, and yet it threw the...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2023-01-18
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Getting to Good Friday intertwines literary analysis and narrative history in an accessible account of the shifts in thinking and talking about Northern Ireland's divided society that brought thirty years of political violence to a close with the 1998 Belfast/Good...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2023-01-18
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Between 1815 and 1870, when European industrialisation was in its infancy and Britain enjoyed a technological lead, thousands of British workers emigrated to the continent. They played a key role in several sectors, like textiles, iron, mechanics, and the railways....
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2023-01-17
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This book argues for the importance of adopting a postcolonial perspective in analysing contemporary Italian culture and literature. Originally published in Italian in 2018 as Riscrivere la nazione: La letteratura italiana postcoloniale, this new English translation...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2023-01-17
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Ostracism is by far the most emblematic institution of ancient Athenian democracy. This volume offers a reassessment of recently found ostraka (or potsherds, on which the names of the 'candidates' for exile were inscribed by citizens) from several Greek cities outside...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2023-01-16
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This essential gives an overview of current methods of analysis of stone artefacts ranging from attribute analysis of entire inventories to microscopic analyses of traces of use of individual artefacts. The presented approaches show the range of analysis of prehistoric...
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Springer
Parution :
2023-01-13
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This book explores the issue of salinization in the context of contemporary conflicts about irrigation, water, and the environment in Australia, considering the Murray-Darling Basin in particular. It provides an environmental and social history charting the...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2023-01-13
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Der nunmehr vierte Band des Lexikons „Kanzler und Minister“ stellt zunächst die Umstände der Regierungsbildungen 2013 und 2017 ausführlich dar, gefolgt von einer vergleichenden Darstellung der Sozialstruktur der Kabinette sowie der Karriereverläufe. In 31 ausführlichen...
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Springer VS
Parution :
2023-01-12
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This book provides a wealth of fascinating information about many significant and lesser-known nineteenth-century Christian authors, mostly women, who were motivated to write material specifically for children’s spiritual edification because of their personal faith. It...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2023-01-12
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A lost princess and a vanished world: a remarkable true story that moves from the Punjab of the Raj to 1930s Paris and the Second World War‘Remarkable and compelling’ Edmund de Waal‘Thoroughly engaging’ Kamila ShamsieIn a Mumbai museum in 2007, Livia Manera Sambuy...
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Vintage Digital
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2023-01-12
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