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This book explores the rise of the aesthetic category of addiction in the nineteenth century, a century that saw the development of an established medical sense of drug addiction. Drugs and the Addiction Aesthetic in Nineteenth-Century Literature focuses especially on...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2019-01-08
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This book investigates the wide-ranging connections between sculpture, sexuality, and history in Western culture from the eighteenth century to the present. Sculpture has offered a privileged site for the articulation of sexual experience and the formation of sexual...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2019-01-04
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This book is a comparative study of the development of sociology in Britain and France between 1920 and 1940, taking a broad definition of the discipline to examine divergence across the channel in the interwar years. Rocquin charts the tension between differing schools...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2019-01-04
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This volume recounts the battles of Isandlwana and Rorke's Drift, exploring how they were fought, how they have been remembered, and what they mean for us today.
The battle of Isandlwana on 22 January 1879, the first major battle in the Anglo-Zulu war, witnessed the...
Editeur :
OUP Oxford
Parution :
2019-01-03
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This volume recounts the battles of Isandlwana and Rorke's Drift, exploring how they were fought, how they have been remembered, and what they mean for us today.
The battle of Isandlwana on 22 January 1879, the first major battle in the Anglo-Zulu war, witnessed the...
Editeur :
OUP Oxford
Parution :
2019-01-03
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Servilia is often cited as one of the most influential women of the late Roman Republic. Though she was a high-born patrician, her grandfather died disgraced and her controversial father was killed before he could stand for the consulship; she herself married twice, but...
Editeur :
OUP Oxford
Parution :
2019-01-03
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Servilia is often cited as one of the most influential women of the late Roman Republic. Though she was a high-born patrician, her grandfather died disgraced and her controversial father was killed before he could stand for the consulship; she herself married twice, but...
Editeur :
OUP Oxford
Parution :
2019-01-03
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Long before the United States was a nation, it was a set of ideas, projected onto the New World by European explorers with centuries of belief and thought in tow. From this foundation of expectation and experience, America and American thought grew in turn, enriched by...
Editeur :
Oxford University Press
Parution :
2019-01-03
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This unusual book explores the historical assumptions at work in the style of literary criticism that came to dominate English studies in the twentieth century. Stefan Collini shows how the work of critics renowned for their close attention to 'the words on the page'...
Editeur :
OUP Oxford
Parution :
2019-01-03
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This unusual book explores the historical assumptions at work in the style of literary criticism that came to dominate English studies in the twentieth century. Stefan Collini shows how the work of critics renowned for their close attention to 'the words on the page'...
Editeur :
OUP Oxford
Parution :
2019-01-03
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Imagine the planet, as if from an immense distance of time and space, as a galactic observer might see it--with the kind of objectivity that we, who are enmeshed in our history, can´t attain.
The Oxford Illustrated History of the World encompasses the whole span of...
Editeur :
OUP Oxford
Parution :
2019-01-03
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Imagine the planet, as if from an immense distance of time and space, as a galactic observer might see it--with the kind of objectivity that we, who are enmeshed in our history, can´t attain.
The Oxford Illustrated History of the World encompasses the whole span of...
Editeur :
OUP Oxford
Parution :
2019-01-03
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?This book examines the history of a military expedition the Japanese government sent to southern Taiwan in 1874, in the context of Japan’s subordination to Western powers in the unequal treaty system in East Asia. It argues that events on the ground in Taiwan show the...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2019-01-02
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The nature of the US political system, with its overlapping powers, intense partisanship, and continuous scrutiny from the media and public, complicates the conduct of foreign policy. While numerous presidents have struggled under the weight of these conditions,...
Editeur :
Oxford University Press
Parution :
2019-01-02
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The story of the creation of the Book of Mormon has been told many times, and often ridiculed. A Documentary History of the Book of Mormon presents and examines the primary sources surrounding the origin of the foundational text of the Church of Jesus Christ of...
Editeur :
Oxford University Press
Parution :
2019-01-02
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This book highlights the quantitative methods of data mining and information visualization and explores their use in relation to the films and writings of the Russian director, Dziga Vertov. The theoretical basis of the work harkens back to the time when a group of...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2019-01-02
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This book is a synthesis of the first thirteen digital editions, which were often hard to be born. 50 000 years of prehistory of humanity, that is what this volume tries to summarize; it is a little short for a single work, and it relies on the ...
Editeur :
JePublie
Parution :
2019-01-01
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JePublie présente
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In early summer 1982--winter in the South Atlantic--Argentina's military junta invades the Falklands. Within days, a British Royal Navy Task Force is assembled and dispatched. This is the story of D Squadron, 22 SAS, commanded by Cedric Delves.
The relentless tempo...
Editeur :
Hurst
Parution :
2019-01-01
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This book analyses the perceived legitimacy of health and safety in post-1960 British public life. Since 2010 health and safety has appeared to be in crisis, being attacked by press, politicians and public alike, but are these claims of crisis accurate? How have...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2018-12-30
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This collection provides new insights into the ’Age of Revolutions’, focussing on state trials for treason and sedition, and expands the sophisticated discussion that has marked the historiography of that period by examining political trials in Britain and the...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2018-12-30
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