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Homer in Wittenberg draws on manuscript and printed materials to demonstrate Homer's foundational significance for educational and theological reform during the Reformation in Wittenberg. In the first study of Melanchthon'sHomer annotations from three different periods...
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OUP Oxford
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2022-12-14
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Interventions in other states on behalf of their subject populations is often portrayed as a novel phenomenon in state practice, one which breaches the old principle of sovereignty. But is this practice really so new? Patrick Milton argues that such interventions for...
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OUP Oxford
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2022-12-14
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This biography examines the life and career of scholar-journalist Elizabeth Wiskemann (1899-1971) from her youth and student years at Cambridge to her death by suicide. Disappointed in her hopes for an academic career, she reinvented herself as a journalist in Berlin,...
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OUP Oxford
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2022-12-14
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Many women wrote philosophy in nineteenth-century Britain, and they wrote across the full range of philosophical topics. Yet these important women thinkers have been left out of the philosophical canon and many of them are barely known today. The aim of this book is to...
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OUP Oxford
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2022-12-14
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This book presents gendered readings of cultural manifestations that relate to the Ottoman era as a preferred past and a model for the future. By means of claims of authenticity and the distribution of imaginaries of a homogenous desirable alternative to...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2022-12-13
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This edited collection offers a timely and original perspective on the many upheavals and revolutions that broke out across the world during the earlytwentieth century. With previous research tending to confine revolutions within national borders, this book sets out to...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2022-12-13
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This is the story of the women, men, boys, and girls who hawked oysters, cherries, cabbages, and pies on London's streets, feeding the capital throughout its transformation from medieval city to global metropolis.
Street Food reconstructs the working lives of these...
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OUP Oxford
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2022-12-13
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Offering a fresh take on a crucial phase of European history, this book explores the years between the 1980s and 1990s when the European Union took shape. Whilst contributing to existing literature on the Maastricht Treaty and European integration at the end of the...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2022-12-12
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This book explores reactions to and representations of natural disasters in early modern Europe. The contributors illustrate how the cultural production of the period - in manuals, treatises, sermons, travelogues and fiction - grappled with environmental catastrophe....
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2022-12-12
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Tell the story of Wales over the last 1000 years, as you discover how Welsh history, cynefin, culture and language are connected, from the past to the present.Underpinned by the four purposes of the new Curriculum for Wales, this book empowers pupils with the knowledge...
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Hodder Education
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2022-12-12
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This book explores Russia's role in world politics. In recent years, Moscow has played an increasingly active and assertive role in geopolitics. Examples include Russia’s takeover of Crimea and meddling in eastern Ukraine; Russia’s military intervention in Syria...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2022-12-09
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Part of the SECOND WORLD WAR VOICES series in partnership with the podcast We Have Ways of Making You Talk, presented by comedian Al Murray and bestselling historian James Holland.With a new introduction by James HollandEclipse was the code name given by the Allies to...
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Transworld Digital
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2022-12-08
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Adopting a transnational lens, Immigrants’ Citizenship Perceptions: Sri Lankans in Australia and Aotearoa New Zealand investigates Sri Lankan immigrants’ complex views towards their home (Sri Lankan) and host (Australian or Aotearoa New Zealand) citizenship and the...
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Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publishers
Parution :
2022-12-08
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Decades after Francis Fukuyama's 'end of history' thesis became famous, the conflicts and turmoil of history have returned; Dr. Kicmari, having seen his own native land erupt in a European civil war in the 1990s, has been thinking about these issues for many years. This...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2022-12-07
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This open access collection of essays explores the emotional agency of images in the construction of ‘humanitarian crises’ from the nineteenth century to the present. Using the prism of the histories of emotions and the senses, the chapters examine the pivotal role...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2022-12-06
Collection :
Palgrave Studies in the History of Emotions
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Namibia spielt eine zentrale Rolle in der kolonialen Vergangenheit Deutschlands. Während der deutschen Fremdherrschaft in den Jahren 1884 bis 1915, in der das Land „Deutsch-Südwestafrika" genannt wurde, kam der Bekämpfung und Prävention der Malaria, einer der weltweit...
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Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2022-12-06
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This biography examines the life and career of scholar-journalist Elizabeth Wiskemann (1899-1971) from her youth and student years at Cambridge to her death by suicide. Disappointed in her hopes for an academic career, she reinvented herself as a journalist in Berlin,...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2022-12-06
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This book analyses how the three books of visions by Hildegard of Bingen use the allegorical vision as a form of knowledge. It describes how the visionary’s use of allegory and allegorical exegesis is linked to theories of cognition, interpretation, and prophecy. It...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2022-12-05
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Perhaps no category of people on earth has been perceived as more endangered, nor subjected to more conservation efforts, than indigenous peoples. And in India, calls for the conservation of Adivasi culture have often reached a fever pitch, especially amongst urban...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2022-12-05
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This open access book explores the role of continuity in political processes and practices during the Age of Revolutions. It argues that the changes that took place in the years around 1800 were enabled by different types of continuities across Europe and in the...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2022-12-04
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