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The freestanding arch is one of Roman architecture's most innovative and distinctive structures. Despite its ubiquity throughout the Roman Empire, little attention has been paid to the first monuments constructed in the city of Rome.The Roman Arch addresses this gap by...
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Oxford University Press
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2026-01-02
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This book analyzes and compares the history of decolonization throughout Asian countries.
Is it really possible to paint a unified picture of Asia's diverse modern and contemporary history, from kingdoms to republics, from authoritarian regimes to liberal democracies?...
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Springer
Parution :
2026-01-01
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This book focuses on its developments and variations of performances of manaschï, the epic poet of Manas. The book mainly introduces the collective features of manaschï, their shaman characters, social positions and their influences upon the life and ideology...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2026-01-01
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This book traces the development of Chinese civilization, features ideological culture and spiritual civilization. In terms of political, spiritual, economic and technological civilizations, it shows the history of the exchanges and interactions between the Chinese...
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Springer
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2026-01-01
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This volume addresses the drivers and mechanisms of institutional change in Europe and East Asia during times of international crisis. Under what conditions and through what processes does a form of regionalism or regionalization change? Why is there a different pace of...
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Springer
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2026-01-01
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Gedenkstätten, -projekte und -artefakte sind anspruchsvolle Gestaltungsaufgaben. Durch die Analyse der gestalteten Oberflächen lassen sich neben reflektierten Gestaltungsentscheidungen auch Einflüsse sichtbar machen, die nicht oder kaum reflektiert...
Editeur :
Springer VS
Parution :
2026-01-01
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This book focuses on the American Revolution’s first Black soldiers. While Patriots in New England dumped tea in Boston Harbor and fought British Regulars at Lexington and Concord, something else was going on further south at the start of the Revolutionary War. In...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2026-01-01
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This book examines the relationship between the emergence of Byzantine archaeology and British colonialism during the period of the British Mandate in Palestine. Taking a single case study, the Negev Desert (now in southern Israel), this study explores how the...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2026-01-01
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This book deploys the analytic model of centres and peripheries to study medieval southwestern Europe and, more specifically, the Iberian Peninsula. Here, the reader will find engaging, up-to-date scholarship on the monastic management of landscapes and hydric...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2026-01-01
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This book explores the political ideas, cultural practices and geostrategic actions that gave rise to transatlantic monarchism in Europe and the Americas. During the age of revolutions (1776-1830), a wave of republicanism swept the Atlantic world. Its most apparent...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2026-01-01
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Das Buch beschreibt den positiven Trend, dass westeuropäische Gesellschaften in den letzten Jahrzehnten deutlich liberaler und emanzipatorischer geworden sind. Nationalistisch-autoritäre Werte haben kontinuierlich an Rückhalt verloren. Dennoch richten...
Editeur :
Springer VS
Parution :
2026-01-01
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This book traces the creation, implementation, and evolution of the police institutions within British colonial Natal during ‘the formative period’ of the colony between 1845 and 1899. It examines how white and Black members of Natal’s colonial...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2026-01-01
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This book brings together an exceptional group of renowned scholars in philosophy and sociology, offering deep and insightful engagements with Jürgen Habermas’s thought. With contributions from some of the most prominent figures in contemporary social theory,...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2026-01-01
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This book covers the period from the approach of Allied and Soviet armies to the Reich frontiers in late summer 1944 right up to the final collapse in May 1945. With Nazi Germany facing invasion and eventual defeat, Nazi broadcasters now had the insoluble task of having...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2026-01-01
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Between 1792 and 1815 Europe was plunged into a period of profound turmoil and transformation. The French Revolution unleashed a torrent of political, social, cultural, and military changes. Napoleon extended them beyond the country’s frontiers. The ensuing...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2026-01-01
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This is the first book to map and celebrate the overlooked history of producers, promoters and DJs from Islington that contributed to the acid house and rave scene as it developed in derelict spaces in the borough in the late 1980s, and how this paved the way for the...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2026-01-01
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This book analyzes the relation between the Churches’ official teachings regarding ‘desired’ and forbidden forms of sexual behaviour on the one hand, and mundane practice on the other hand, focusing on perspectives ‘from below’. Since the...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2026-01-01
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This book places print media at the centre of studying queer German history. In so doing, it explicitly interrogates the exclusions that certain media forms can engender as well as the possibilities that magazines, novels, poetry, and erotica, among others offered queer...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2026-01-01
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This book investigates the history of the Protestant voting blocs and associations in the Irish border counties of Cavan, Donegal and Monaghan, from 1920 to 2016. While there are many studies on the history of Irish Unionism and Protestantism, there has been a lack of...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2026-01-01
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This book examines the social and cultural meanings of mental illness and psychiatric hospitalisation in early twentieth-century Greece. Although Greek psychiatrists were trained in countries such as France and Germany, and followed general European models of...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2026-01-01
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