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A signboard from the most advancedcivilization in the ancient world.The lost notebooks of a mathematical genius.A line on a map that divided a country into two.Read about these and 97 other amazing documents - from stone inscriptions, palm-leaf and papyrus manuscripts,...
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Hachette India
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2022-01-25
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This book aims to portray ancient civilizations and the development of early states in China and the rest of the world during the Liangzhu period. From a global perspective, it describes the ancient Egyptian, Sumerian and Harappan civilizations, as well as lesser-known...
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Springer
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2022-01-25
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Created by Harvard students for students everywhere, SparkNotes give you just what you need to succeed in school: Complete Plot Summary and AnalysisKey Facts About the WorkAnalysis of Major CharactersThemes, Motifs, and SymbolsExplanation of Important...
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Sparknotes
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2022-01-25
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SparkNotes Literature Guide Series
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This book investigates the place and meaning of consumption in Jewish lives and the roles Jews played in different consumer cultures in modern Europe and North America. Drawing on innovative, original research into this new and challenging field, the volume brings...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2022-01-22
Collection :
Worlds of Consumption
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'Taylor Downing vividly brings to life a terrible year' Max Hastings, Sunday Times'Taylor Downing is a wonderful historian and a wonderful history communicator.' Dan Snow, History HitEighty years ago, Britain stood at the brink of defeat. In 1942, a string of military...
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Little, Brown Book Group
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2022-01-20
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Raffalovich's 1896 magnum opus of sexology, Uranism and Unisexuality (never before translated into English until now), provides an ethical justification for same-sex desire. Drawing on cross-cultural and transhistorical narratives, the gentleman scholar argues for the...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2022-01-20
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Genders and Sexualities in History
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In the tradition of Why Nations Fail, this book solves one of the great puzzles of history: Why did the West become the most powerful civilization in the world?Western exceptionalism—the idea that European civilizations are freer, wealthier, and less...
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PublicAffairs
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2022-01-18
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Before the French Revolution, making music was an activity that required permission. After the Revolution, music was an object that could be possessed. Everyone seemingly hoped to gain something from owning music. Musicians claimed it as their unalienable personal...
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Oxford University Press
Parution :
2022-01-18
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Following diamonds from African mines to the necklines of high society women, this international history shows why Jews were central to the transatlantic gem trade and its growth into a global industry.
During the late nineteenth century, tens of thousands of diggers,...
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Oxford University Press
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2022-01-18
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The Forgotten Reign of the Emperor Jovian (363-364): History and Fiction offers a new assessment of the Roman emperor's brief rule. A former imperial bodyguard, Jovian reinvigorated the Roman Empire militarily, administratively, and religiously. More than an imperial...
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Oxford University Press
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2022-01-18
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This book explores the relationship between socialist psychiatry and political ideology during the Cold War, tracing Yugoslav ‘psy’ sciences as they experienced multiple internationalisations and globalisations in the post-WWII period. These unique transnational...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2022-01-18
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This book is a major new contribution to the study of cultural identities in Britain and Ireland from the Reformation to Romanticism. It provides a fresh perspective on the rise of interest in British vernacular (or “folk”) cultures, which has often been elided...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2022-01-17
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Histories of the Sacred and Secular, 1700–2000
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This book studies the judicial evolution of the Qing Dynasty. It sums up the changes from six major aspects: 1. Banfang(??)emerged in the late Qianlong period; 2. The opening of capital appeals(??)early in Jiaqing’s reign; 3. The consular jurisdiction was...
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Springer
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2022-01-17
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This book explores ideas of masculinity in the maritime world in the nineteenth and the first half of the twentieth century. During this time commerce, politics and technology supported male privilege, while simultaneously creating the polite, consumerist and...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2022-01-16
Collection :
Global Studies in Social and Cultural Maritime History
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This book assesses the emergence and transformation of global protest movements during the Vietnam War era. It explores the relationship between protest focused on the war and other emancipatory and revolutionary struggles, moving beyond existing scholarship to examine...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2022-01-15
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This handbook examines the personal relationships between American presidents and British prime ministers. It aims to determine how personal diplomacy shaped the Anglo-American relationship and whether individual leaders made the relationship “special.” From the great...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2022-01-13
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This book examines the history of translation under European communism, bringing together studies on the Soviet Union, including Russia and Ukraine, Yugoslavia, Hungary, East Germany, Czechoslovakia, Bulgaria, and Poland. In any totalitarian regime maintaining control...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2022-01-13
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This book explores the significance of alcohol in the Middle East and Maghreb as a powerful catalyst of social and political division. It shows that the solidarities and polarities created by disputes over alcohol are built on arguments far more complex than oppositions...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2022-01-12
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This volume historicizes the study of life-writing and egodocuments, focusing on early modern European reflections on the self, self-fashioning, and identity. Life-writing and the study of egodocuments currently tend to be viewed as separate fields, yet the individual...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2022-01-12
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This book focuses on the history of the provision of legal aid and legal assistance to the poor in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries in eight different countries. It is the first such book to bring together historical work on legal aid in a comparative perspective,...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2022-01-12
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