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Sweet and Clean? challenges the widely held beliefs on bathing and cleanliness in the past. For over thirty years, the work of the French historian, George Vigarello, has been hugely influential on early modern European social history, describing an aversion to water...
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OUP Oxford
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2020-03-26
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Sweet and Clean? challenges the widely held beliefs on bathing and cleanliness in the past. For over thirty years, the work of the French historian, George Vigarello, has been hugely influential on early modern European social history, describing an aversion to water...
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OUP Oxford
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2020-03-26
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From the Plantation of Ulster in the seventeenth century to the entry into peace talks in the late twentieth century the Northern Irish people have been engaged in conflict - Catholic against Protestant, Republican against Unionist. The traumas of violence in the...
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OUP Oxford
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2020-03-26
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From the Plantation of Ulster in the seventeenth century to the entry into peace talks in the late twentieth century the Northern Irish people have been engaged in conflict - Catholic against Protestant, Republican against Unionist. The traumas of violence in the...
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OUP Oxford
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2020-03-26
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A superb study of one of the most important, romantic and dynamic figures of European history.'A fine book ... the web of political intrigue unfolds like an appetising detective novel' ScotsmanThe last king of Poland owed his throne largely to his youthful romance with...
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Weidenfeld & Nicolson
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2020-03-19
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This book examines the topic of excess in modern Irish writing in terms of mysticism, materialism, myth and language. The study engages ideas of excess as they appear in works by major thinkers from Hegel, Kierkegaard and Marx through to Nietzsche, Bataille, Derrida...
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2020-03-14
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The key battle of the First World War from the German point of viewThe Battle of the Somme has an enduring legacy, the image established by Alan Clark of 'lions led by donkeys': brave British soldiers sent to their deaths by incompetent generals. However, from the...
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Weidenfeld & Nicolson
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2020-03-05
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A stonemason's story of the building of Britain: part archaeological history, part deeply personal insight into an ancient craft. In his thirty-year career, stonemason Andrew Ziminski has worked on many of our greatest monuments. From Neolithic monoliths to Roman baths...
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John Murray
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2020-03-05
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This book offers a unique approach to memory studies by focusing on local memory work conducted across the divide of the fall of Communism, whereas other histories have consistently used 1989 as a watershed moment. By examining the ways in which the Holocaust has been...
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Palgrave Pivot
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2020-02-27
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Forging Germans explores the German nationalization and eventual National Socialist radicalization of ethnic Germans in the Batschka and the Western Banat, two multiethnic, post-Habsburg borderland territories currently in northern Serbia. Deploying a comparative...
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OUP Oxford
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2020-02-27
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Forging Germans explores the German nationalization and eventual National Socialist radicalization of ethnic Germans in the Batschka and the Western Banat, two multiethnic, post-Habsburg borderland territories currently in northern Serbia. Deploying a comparative...
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OUP Oxford
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2020-02-27
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The marriage of Isabella d'Este, one of the most famous figures of the Italian Renaissance, and Francesco Gonzaga, ruler of the small northern Italian principality of Mantua (r.1484-1519) offers a fascinating portrait of political marriage in the early modern period. A...
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OUP Oxford
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2020-02-21
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Kiril Georgiev setzt sich mit der Ästhetik und Stilistik des Komponistenkreises „Mächtiges Häuflein“ vor dem Hintergrund der soziokulturellen Situation Russlands während der „1860er“-Jahre auseinander. Er zieht dabei ergänzend aber auch vergleichend sowohl deutsch- als...
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J.B. Metzler
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2020-02-20
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Demonic possession was a spiritual state that often had physical symptoms; however, inDemonic Possession and Lived Religion in Later Medieval Europe, Sari Katajala-Peltomaa argues that demonic possession was a social phenomenon which should be understood with regard to...
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OUP Oxford
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2020-02-19
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Demonic possession was a spiritual state that often had physical symptoms; however, inDemonic Possession and Lived Religion in Later Medieval Europe, Sari Katajala-Peltomaa argues that demonic possession was a social phenomenon which should be understood with regard to...
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OUP Oxford
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2020-02-19
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This book explores the form, function and meaning of crime and execution broadsides printed in nineteenth-century Britain. By presenting a detailed discourse analysis of 650 broadsides printed across Britain between the years 1800-1850, this book provides a unique and...
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2020-02-18
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1959 to 1999 was a pivotal time in the Republic of Ireland’s short history. This book’s journey commences in1959 when the country had just taken its first steps on the road to internationalization. It concludes 40 years later in 1999, by which time Ireland had...
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Peter Lang Ltd, International Academic Publishers
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2020-02-10
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Utilizing recent developments in book history and digital humanities, this book offers a cultural, economic, and literary history of the Victorian three-volume novel, the prestige format for the British novel during much of the nineteenth century. With the publication...
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2020-02-07
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Seit über hundert Jahren fehlt eine größere Darstellung der Geschichte der Forstverwaltung von ihren Anfängen bis zur Gegenwart. Das Buch stellt die Grundlinien und Besonderheiten ihrer tausendjährigen bunten und wechselvollen Geschichte dar. Diese Geschichte...
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Springer VS
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2020-02-05
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This book provides the first detailed analysis of how interactions between government policy and Fleet Street affected the political coverage of the Greek civil war, one of the first major confrontations of the Cold War. During this period the exponential growth of...
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2020-02-01
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