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In the 1790s an extraordinary group of friends changed the world. Disappointed by the French Revolution's rapid collapse into tyranny, what they wanted was nothing less than a revolution of the mind. The rulers of Europe had ordered their peoples how to think and act...
Editeur :
John Murray
Parution :
2022-09-01
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This book analyzes the evolution of Italian viticulture and winemaking from the 1860s to the new Millennium. During this period the Italian wine sector experienced a profound modernization, renovating itself and adapting its products to international trends,...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2022-08-31
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Gaetano Salvemini (1873 – 1957), one of the most influential Italian intellectuals of his generation, was an historian, a professor, and a tireless anti-fascist who mentored a new generation of young intellectuals and political activists, such as Piero...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2022-08-26
Collection :
Italian and Italian American Studies
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Mussolini in myth and memory. Paul Corner looks at the brutal reality of the Italian dictator's fascist regime and confronts the nostalgia for dictatorial rule evident today in many European countries.
Mussolini has rarely been taken seriously as a totalitarian...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2022-08-25
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Sick Note shows how the question of 'who is really sick?' has never been straightforward and will continue to perplex the British state.
Sick Note is a history of how the British state asked, 'who is really sick?' Tracing medical certification for absence from work...
Editeur :
OUP Oxford
Parution :
2022-08-11
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Sick Note shows how the question of 'who is really sick?' has never been straightforward and will continue to perplex the British state.
Sick Note is a history of how the British state asked, 'who is really sick?' Tracing medical certification for absence from work...
Editeur :
OUP Oxford
Parution :
2022-08-11
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Transnational Catholicism in Tudor England details the relationship between transnational mobility and the development of Tudor Catholicism. Almost two hundred Catholics felt compelled to exile themselves from England rather than conform with the religious reformations...
Editeur :
OUP Oxford
Parution :
2022-08-04
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Transnational Catholicism in Tudor England details the relationship between transnational mobility and the development of Tudor Catholicism. Almost two hundred Catholics felt compelled to exile themselves from England rather than conform with the religious reformations...
Editeur :
OUP Oxford
Parution :
2022-08-04
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This book provides a sociological understanding of transformations within Eastern Orthodoxy and the settlement of Orthodox diasporas in Western Europe. Building a fresh framework on religion and migration through the lenses of religious glocalization, it explores the...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2022-08-02
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A crucial period for the birth of the modern subject, France's 'long eighteenth century' (approximately 1650-1820) was an era marked by the formulation of a new aesthetic and ethical code revolving around the intensification of emotions and the hyperbolic use of...
Editeur :
OUP Oxford
Parution :
2022-07-28
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A crucial period for the birth of the modern subject, France's 'long eighteenth century' (approximately 1650-1820) was an era marked by the formulation of a new aesthetic and ethical code revolving around the intensification of emotions and the hyperbolic use of...
Editeur :
OUP Oxford
Parution :
2022-07-28
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'Stunning. History at its very best: a blend of impeccably researched scholarship, genuinely revelatory primary sources, and a beautifully written narrative.' - James Holland'The sheer brutal intimacy of his descriptions of the fighting are extraordinary.' - Frederick...
Editeur :
Constable
Parution :
2022-07-28
Collection :
Karen Pirie
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This volume is an energy-tailored sequel to the research on the Arctic carried out at MGIMO University. Specifically, the proposed book is grounded in the profound academic and practical expertise of the specialized body of MGIMO University – International Institute of...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2022-07-21
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Modernity and the Victorians diagnoses a disorder in the scholarship on Victorian Britain, and proposes an interpretative remedy. It argues that the 'modernization theory' beloved of twentieth-century social scientists cannot be made to fit the facts of...
Editeur :
OUP Oxford
Parution :
2022-07-21
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Modernity and the Victorians diagnoses a disorder in the scholarship on Victorian Britain, and proposes an interpretative remedy. It argues that the 'modernization theory' beloved of twentieth-century social scientists cannot be made to fit the facts of...
Editeur :
OUP Oxford
Parution :
2022-07-21
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This book examines the lives and tenures of all the consorts of the Tudor and Stuart monarchs of England between 1485 and 1714, as well as the wives of the two Lords Protector during the Commonwealth. The figures in Tudor and Stuart Consorts are both incredibly...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2022-07-20
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The book is the first attempt to investigate how and to what extent authoritarian (personalistic) regimes fail to provide fundamental goods and services. For two decades, Russian authorities spent much effort and money to improve health administration, but most success...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2022-07-14
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Dickens and Victorian Psychology: Introspection, First-Person Narration, and the Mind positions Charles Dickens's fiction in the midst of Victorian psychological debate, tracking Dickens's increasing reliance over the course of his career on the introspective mode,...
Editeur :
OUP Oxford
Parution :
2022-07-14
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Dickens and Victorian Psychology: Introspection, First-Person Narration, and the Mind positions Charles Dickens's fiction in the midst of Victorian psychological debate, tracking Dickens's increasing reliance over the course of his career on the introspective mode,...
Editeur :
OUP Oxford
Parution :
2022-07-14
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Since the publication of Phillip Buckner and R. Douglas Francis’ ground-breaking Rediscovering the British World, there has not been a collection of essays that looks at the history of the British World from an all-round thematic perspective. This edited collection...
Editeur :
Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publishers
Parution :
2022-07-08
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