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What is Agatha Christie's connection to the world's earliest known city?Did the first cotton farmers practice dentistry?Did the Balkans know writing before Mesopotamia?Embark on a journey through time, from the Ice Age to the Middle Ages, exploring lesser-known...
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Hachette India
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2025-11-25
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On 10 July 1943, British soldiers landed in south-eastern Sicily as part of a major Allied invasion. As they fought their way northwards through the Italian peninsula, they frequently encountered local populations, imposing a forced cohabitation that would have a...
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OUP Oxford
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2025-11-25
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Russia's attack on Ukraine marks an epochal break in European and global history. Undoubtedly, the decision to go to war is closely linked to one person, Vladimir Putin, butRussia's war is not driven solely by one man's power calculations. We can only make sense of...
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Polity
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2025-11-25
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This book is intended as an incentive for women to start, continue, or expand their STEM work in AI and sustainability, thus speeding up progress in a field critical to the wellbeing of humanity. The book features a rigorously curated collection of scientifically sound,...
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Springer
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2025-11-24
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This book provides the first history of the Silk Screen Shop (1943-45) at the Granada War Relocation Center (“Amache”) in Colorado, a World War II incarceration site for Japanese Americans. The Shop printed training posters for the Bureau of Naval...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2025-11-24
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The book introduces a multidisciplinary exploration of battlefield pilgrimages and situates these pilgrimages within the broader field of pilgrimage studies, examining their historical, cultural, and spiritual dimensions.The authors highlight how battlefield visits...
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Peter Lang Ltd, International Academic Publishers
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2025-11-24
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Though never more than a tiny percentage of the population, Jews have been persistent--if perplexing--participants in the American community at least since they first arrived in New Amsterdam in 1654. This volume creates a vibrant dialogue among the varied approaches to...
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Oxford University Press
Parution :
2025-11-24
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This book explores the collections, the networks, and the methods of the antiquarian and scholar of the everyday Francis Douce (1757-1834). Throughout his life, Douce acquired rare books, illuminated manuscripts, coins, paintings, miscellaneous antiquities, and about...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2025-11-23
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This book reconstructs the values, expectations and representations of priests and priesthoods in ancient Rome from the republic to the early empire. Challenging preconceived assumptions that Rome's priests were important primarily because of their political currency,...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2025-11-23
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Pregnant women in the past had sex, yet we know nearly nothing about their sexual desires, or what people thought about sex during pregnancy. While there is much research on the sexual maternal body, studies of pregnancy and sex are lacking. This Palgrave Pivot provides...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2025-11-23
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Tracing the evolution of social thought on leisure in Britain from the industrial revolution to the present day, this book documents an alternative and almost totally ignored discourse of leisure as a field of welfare. Investigating evolving understandings of leisure in...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2025-11-22
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This book explores Tamil Buddhism in modern India, focusing on its emergence as a response to caste-based oppression during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Central to this movement was Pandit Iyothee Thass (1845–1914), a pioneering intellectual who...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2025-11-22
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This book offers a critical historical analysis of the People’s Health Movement in West Bengal, India, situating it within the broader context of health policy and public health developments in the region. It examines the systemic decline of the public healthcare...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2025-11-20
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In recent years, supernatural beliefs systems in medieval and modern Islamicate cultures have been the subject of sustained scholarly attention. But we know very little about these concepts and practices in an Ottoman context.
Marinos Sariyannis proposes here to...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2025-11-19
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This book reconstructs the values, expectations and representations of priests and priesthoods in ancient Rome from the republic to the early empire. Challenging preconceived assumptions that Rome's priests were important primarily because of their political currency,...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2025-11-19
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As the First World War came to a chaotic end, Europeans feared that a wave of crime and anarchy would sweep across their continent. The upheavals of the war and of the subsequent violent breakup of the Habsburg, German, and Ottoman empires magnified longstanding fears...
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Oxford University Press
Parution :
2025-11-19
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Dank des Kuriensystems genossen polnische Großgrundbesitzer eine privilegierte Stellung in Galizien. Ihre politischen Vertreter, die Konservativen, galten als Bewahrer dieses Zustands. Besonders ihr Flügel aus der Osthälfte des Kronlands, der im Schatten der Krakauer...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2025-11-18
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This book addresses the ways in which science and technology were employed in South Africa during the Second World War. A key theme underlying the chapters is the human mind: in Chapter One, which addresses the submission of ideas to the Union Defence Force, this is the...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2025-11-17
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This open access book examines the first modern diplomatic contact between Europe and East Asia: the 1517 Portuguese embassy to China. The experience did not end well, for in 1521, the Ming Court decided to cut off relations, and a battle broke out between the Guangdong...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2025-11-17
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The book provides an account of German domestic broadcasting in the period from September 1939 to August 1944. It is the product of extensive research in German and British archives and constitutes a case-study into a broadcasting service in a dictatorship in wartime....
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2025-11-16
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