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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...
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Palgrave Macmillan
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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...
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2026-01-01
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This book focuses on the global goal of inclusivity and sustainability in heritage as defined by the United Nations and UNESCO. A detailed Introduction forms a commentary on the state of the field of heritage studies. The book is written by a cross-disciplinary team...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2026-01-01
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This book documents, via oral history, experiences of the emotions of parenthood during the Covid-19 pandemic, focusing on testimonies collected during a time of crisis and exploring how parents' feelings and reflections shifted and changed with the passage of time at...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2026-01-01
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This book explores how humanitarianism—often perceived as a selfless moral act—is in fact deeply entangled with political interests and structures of power. Centering on the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC), it asks: where did modern...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2026-01-01
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This book explores the impact of the bombing of civilians during the Spanish Civil War. The Civil War has long been recognized as bringing together the political, social and other elements key to understanding the 1930s in Europe and later, the Second World War. It was...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2026-01-01
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The African Origins of Democracy challenges the myth that democracy was born in ancient Greece. Drawing on archaeology, anthropology, and political science, Bernd Reiter shows that egalitarian African societies practiced self-rule tens of thousands of years...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2026-01-01
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This book summarizes three decades of research in Iberian and Latin American anthropometric history, employing the most up-to-date methodologies in the field. Through a comparative and interdisciplinary approach, it examines the evolution of biological living standards...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2026-01-01
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This book is dedicated to explaining changes in Taiwan’s policy toward the Chinese mainland over the past three decades, when the island underwent democratization. It traces the shifts from the anti-Beijing stance of the Chen Shui-bian era, to the...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2026-01-01
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An excellent work that presents the research history of Mao Zedong! It is the first book to delve into the history of translating, publishing, and disseminating Mao Zedong's works in over 20 languages. Notably, the translation projects were not only led by the Chinese...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2026-01-01
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This book explores the changing relations between Chinese secret societies in British Malaya and the British colonial government, examining how and why British attitudes towards Chinese migrants changed over the nineteenth century, from welcoming them at the...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2026-01-01
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This edited collection is composed of four uniquely authored chapters, each of which examines collective identity in early modern East Asia through biography and historical accounts. In addition, an introductory chapter lays out the overall principles and concerns of...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2026-01-01
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This book analyses how security concerns dominated international engagement in higher education reforms in post-Soviet Uzbekistan. Internationalisation of higher education – which entails recruitment of international students and staff, development of joint...
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2026-01-01
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This edited volume introduces a fresh approach to higher education that redefines traditional paradigms. It explores pressing concerns about the future of universities and education, addressing key issues such as transformative shifts stemming from an increased emphasis...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2026-01-01
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This book explores witchcraft accusations as bizarre and violent reflections of the tensions, fears, and fantasies within one of Early Modern Europe’s most culturally diverse societies.
At the crossroads of Latin and post-Byzantine traditions, Western and Eastern...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2026-01-01
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This book examines the influence of authoritarian rule on the development of the welfare state. Building on theoretical approaches from research on autocratic regimes and comparative welfare state research, it develops a novel theoretical argument on authoritarian...
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Springer VS
Parution :
2026-01-01
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This book provides a comprehensive account of the achievements of the economic regions set up in France after the First World War. It identifies exactly how they operated, as well as critical success factors such as effective leadership. Some recent historians have...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2026-01-01
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This book undertakes a critical examination of monuments, heritage, and memory, analysing their intersections with colonial histories, gender dynamics, and class structures. By challenging conventional conceptions of monuments, memory, and heritage, this work advocates...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2026-01-01
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This book reorients our understanding of the history of modern male homosexuality by focusing on Europe's 'internal Other': Italy. Spanning from the tail-end of the Grand Tour to the mid-fascist years, it argues that Italy was a time/space in which competing...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2026-01-01
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The Oxford Handbook of American Military History examines the chronological and thematic range of American military history, from the colonial era to the present, exploring a variety of connections between war, military institutions, and American society, politics,...
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Oxford University Press
Parution :
2025-12-31
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