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This edited collection represents the first comprehensive volume in English on the crucial, but under-explored, late period in the history of East European communism. Focusing on developments in Czechoslovakia from the crushing of the Prague Spring...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2022-10-31
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This book draws on social movement theories and rich empirical data to analyze LGBT protest activity in Russia. It offers a critical examination of the conditions under which LGBT protest activity arises and declines in authoritarian states - including state repression...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2022-10-27
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Interventions in other states on behalf of their subject populations is often portrayed as a novel phenomenon in state practice, one which breaches the old principle of sovereignty. But is this practice really so new? Patrick Milton argues that such interventions for...
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OUP Oxford
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2022-10-20
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Warum glaubt eine ganze Gesellschaft, dass es Hexen gibt, die man verbrennen muss? Welche Rollen übernahmen dabei jeweils der sich herausbildende ‚Staat‘, die Professionen der Kleriker und Juristen und das daran beteiligte Publikum? Und wie konnte dieses Projekt beendet...
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Springer VS
Parution :
2022-10-17
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Includes interviews with Mary Kennedy, Sean O'Rourke, Mary Coughlan, Bertie Ahern and many othersWhat was life like for Ireland's grandparents when they were young?What has changed for the better? What values do they wish to hand down?In these pages, grandmother and...
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Hachette Books Ireland
Parution :
2022-10-13
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This book explores the dilemmas of Georgian foreign policy since independence in 1991. Since the collapse of the Soviet Union, Georgia—a Caucasian republic with a fiercely independent national identity—has sought its own special path to European modernity, a promised...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2022-10-10
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This book provides an introduction to human rights controversies in twentieth-century France, from the Dreyfus Affair at the beginning of the century, to the arguments over women and immigrants’ rights at its end. Using the Ligue des Droits de L’Homme (LDH) - or the...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2022-10-07
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This book offers a collection of innovative methodological approaches to Memory Studies in Russia and Eastern Europe. Providing insights into the relationship between memory and identity, the twelve chapters provide multidisciplinary analysis of how history is used to...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2022-10-06
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Launched at the 1982 Notting Hill Carnival, The Voice newspaper captured and addressed a generation figuring out what it meant to be Black and British. Written for and by Black people, the newspaper shone a light on systematic injustices as well as celebrating Black...
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Ebury Digital
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2022-10-06
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Editeur :
Headline
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2022-10-06
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This book examines the interrelations between Russian and European economics from the early 19th century to the present. It analyzes how Western economic thinking, such as classical economics and the marginal revolution, influenced Russian economic thinking and how...
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Springer
Parution :
2022-10-03
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A Guardian Best Book of 2020A History Today Book of the Year, 2020Renowned historian Olivette Otele uncovers the untold history of Europeans of African descent, from Saint Maurice who became the leader of a Roman legion and Renaissance scholar Juan Latino, to...
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Basic Books
Parution :
2022-09-29
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'Uplifting and utterly defiant' Matt Nixson, Daily Express 'Immediate and important ... This is an insider's account of how an ordinary life became extraordinary' Helen Davies, The TimesThis journal of the invasion, a collection of Andrey Kurkov's writings and...
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Mountain Leopard Press
Parution :
2022-09-29
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This book traces the emergence of the European Free Trade Association (EFTA) from 1955 to 1963 amid the broader reshaping of the institutional architecture of post-war Europe. It considers the ill-fated Free Trade Area (FTA) proposal, the subsequent creation of EFTA,...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2022-09-28
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This book considers theoretical issues of the ethnocultural landscape concepts at large as well as examples of its practical application in ethnic communities of Siberia. It reveals the patterns of the processes of penetration, settlement, development and adaptation of...
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Springer
Parution :
2022-09-25
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This book presents the history of Chinese migrations to Europe within a “transcalar glocal” perspective. That is, it moves between international, national, and local levels of analysis to describe the different constraints Chinese migrants deal with in their lives....
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2022-09-24
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The story of us - without hesitation, repetition or deviation.Join national treasure and Just a Minute regular Gyles Brandreth on a hilariously addictive romp through British history. This isn't just another history book - there's a catch! From Stonehenge and Boudicca...
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Bbc Digital
Parution :
2022-09-22
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This book analyzes how Second World War heritage is being reframed in the memorial museums of the post-socialist, post-conflict states of Croatia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, and Serbia. It argues that in all three countries, a reluctance to confront undesirable parts of...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2022-09-20
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This book explores the role and place of feminist politics in the transformation of the former socialist world and points out the geopolitical mechanisms involved in the deployment of technocratic norms, expert discourses, activist repertoires and academic knowledge on...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2022-09-20
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This book explores the extent to which and the reasons why Russia’s citizens harbor feelings of nostalgia for the Soviet Union today. Based on the results of a nationwide survey and rigorous field research carried out within several of Russia’s regions, Dr. Sullivan...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2022-09-13
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