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This book presents a study of the history of ancient Chinese books, not only highlighting specific aspects of the ontology of book history, such as printing and publishing, but also analyzing the internal and external causes of the development of book undertakings from...
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Springer
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2024-05-15
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This book contributes to a worldwide history of textual criticism and critical editions of ancient scientific texts. It first looks at ancient editorial practices, and at their impact on modern editions. Contributions analyze how, through time, the perception of what a...
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Springer
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2024-05-14
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In this book, Julia Bolton Holloway makes use of primary materials in documents, manuscripts and stone monuments in Florence, to place Dante's literary career in its rich context. Dante and His Circle discusses the encyclopaedic multicultural education in...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2024-05-14
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The pivotal true story of the first fifty-three days of the standoff between Imperial Japanese and a handful of Marine aviators defending the Americans dug in at Guadalcanal, from the New York Times bestselling author of Indestructible and Race...
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Grand Central Publishing
Parution :
2024-05-14
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'A rigorously researched and gripping account... a beautifully written book' Financial Times 'Deeply researched and fascinating' GuardianA gripping account of the past and future of Taiwan In the overwhelming chaos across Asia at the end of the Second World War, one...
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Penguin
Parution :
2024-05-14
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Der Rückblick auf die Jahre des Ersten Weltkrieges würde unvollständig bleiben, wenn man das Landvolk, das damals noch überall die Bevölkerungsmehrheit ausmachte, nicht berücksichtigen würde. Diesem Thema widmet sich der vorliegende Sammelband, der aufzeigt, wie sehr...
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Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2024-05-13
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This book accounts for Scandinavian unification efforts in a time of great upheaval. The ideological repercussions of the European revolutions of 1848-1849 and the Crimean War (1853-1856) transformed both the international political system and nationalism into more...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2024-05-13
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This book explores the intellectual grounds of Scandinavianist ideology and its political development into a national unification movement. Denmark, Norway and Sweden were nearly annihilated during the Napoleonic Wars. The lesson learned was that survival was a matter...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2024-05-13
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Germany, like many countries, has witnessed the rise of extremist far-right groups and parties in recent years, and no more so than in the eastern regions. Why have those parts of Germany that used to be part of the old GDR turned out to be so supportive of extremist...
Editeur :
Polity
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2024-05-13
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What did Mao Zedong bring to China? Mao Zedong, a rare leader who is still regarded as a great hero on the Chinese continent, despite the large number of victims caused by the Great Leap Forward and the Cultural Revolution. He called himself "Qin Shi Huang (First...
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Springer
Parution :
2024-05-11
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This book explores the writing of church history during the early Byzantine period, reconsidering the evidence for the nature and authorship of a hypothetical 'Arian' source for many surviving medieval histories of the fourth century. It considers surviving...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2024-05-10
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American Aurora explores the impact of climate change on early modern radical religious groups during the height of the Little Ice Age in the seventeenth century. Focusing on the life and legacy of Johannes Kelpius (1667-1707), an enormously influential but...
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Oxford University Press
Parution :
2024-05-10
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At the beginning of the twentieth century, for many English men and women of Welsh origin the idea of being in some part 'Welsh' reaffirmed their own understanding of what it meant to 'be British'. Wales in England, 1914-1945 is the first cultural history of this...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2024-05-10
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NOW WITH NEW MATERIAL - the first book to analyse government documents released in January 2025.'Sensational' Daily Express'A bombshell book' Daily Mail'A breath-taking review of WWII's greatest betrayal and the moment that changed history forever' Sunday Post'Mr....
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Headline Welbeck Non-Fiction
Parution :
2024-05-09
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* A Financial Times Book of the Year* A Sunday Times and Mail on Sunday Summer Read *HOLD THE POWER AND GLORY OF ANCIENT ROME IN THE PALM OF YOUR HAND.'Fantastic ... expert storytelling' CONN IGGULDEN'Excellent' SUNDAY TIMES'Riveting and utterly original' MAIL ON...
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Vintage Digital
Parution :
2024-05-09
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?This book provides a meta-reading of how ethnographic discourses on women and Islam in Turkey have changed since their emergence in 1983. It analyses the published ethnographic works in three discursive periods and shows that paradigm shifts in social sciences,...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2024-05-09
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Roman Architecture casts new light not only on many familiar monuments of the city of Rome, but also on less well-known examples from across theRoman empire.
Rome and its empire were fundamental to the development of western architecture, and its forms and motifs...
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OUP Oxford
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2024-05-09
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'Delivered with flamboyance, it features a sparkling cast of chancers' KATJA HOYER, Daily Telegraph 5* review'Page-turning . . . a sizzling high-stakes tale' JAMES HOLLAND'This book might read like the screenplay of a gripping movie, yet every word is accurate and...
Editeur :
John Murray
Parution :
2024-05-09
Collection :
The War and Peace Trilogy
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This book addresses the transformation of primary education in the former Czechoslovakia (now the Czech Republic) after the fall of the communist regime in 1989. It follows the overall transformation of education and school policy and offers original insights into the...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2024-05-09
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