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What is history and how should it be written? This important new anthology, translated and edited by Professor John Marincola, contains all the seminal texts that relate to the writing of history in the ancient world.The study of history was invented in the classical...
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Penguin
Parution :
2017-12-07
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This book is open access under a CC BY 4.0 license. Rethinking the ways global history is envisioned and conceptualized in diverse countries such as China, Japan, Mexico or Spain, this collections considers how global issues are connected with our local and...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2017-12-06
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Provides a new narrative history of the ancient world, from the beginnings of civilization in the ancient Near East and Egypt to the fall of Constantinople Written by an expert in the field, this book presents a narrative history of Babylon from the time of its First...
Editeur :
Wiley-Blackwell
Parution :
2017-12-06
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Blackwell History of the Ancient World
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This work examines the attempt by the governments of Portugal, Rhodesia and South Africa to defy the drive for African independence in the 1960s and 70s, and the international community’s response. From 1961 to 1974, Portugal, Rhodesia and South Africa collaborated in...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2017-12-05
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This edited collection attends to the locations of memory along and about the Indo-Pakistan and Indo-Bangladesh borders and the complex ways in which such memories are both allowed for and erased in the present. The collection is situated at the intersection of...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2017-12-05
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Considered by many film critics and scholars as a master of Japanese Cinema, director Ozu Yasujiro still inspires filmmakers both within and outside of Japan. With fifteen never before published chapters in English by contributors from North America, Europe, and Japan,...
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Oxford University Press
Parution :
2017-12-05
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This edited collection contributes to the current vivid multidisciplinary debate on East European memory politics and the post-communist instrumentalization and re-mythologization of World War II memories. The book focuses on the three Slavic countries of post-Soviet...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2017-12-05
Collection :
Palgrave Macmillan Memory Studies
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Diese Monographie bietet erstmalig eine zusammenfassende Darstellung der gesamten österreichisch-ungarisch-albanischen Beziehungen in Wissenschaft, Politik, Wirtschaft, Militär und Kultur und einen gemäß Pierre Bourdieus Feldtheorie erfolgten Versuch der Rekonstruktion...
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Springer VS
Parution :
2017-12-05
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This book provides a study of the manner in which the Roman Catholic Church in France responded to successive revolutions between 1789 and 1870 as well as to the cultural upheaval associated with accelerating socio-economic change. It focuses on the Church as...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2017-12-04
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This book explores the role played by families in the Russian revolutionary movement and the first decades of the Soviet regime. While revolutionaries were expected to sever all family ties or at the very least put political concerns before personal ones, in practice...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2017-12-04
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In this book, the ownership, distribution and sale of patent medicines across Georgian England are explored for the first time, transforming our understanding of healthcare provision and the use of the printed word in that era. Patent medicines constituted a national...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2017-12-04
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This book offers a new interpretation of William Morris’s utopianism as a strategic extension of his political writing. Morris’s utopian writing, alongside his journalism and public lectures, constituted part of a sustained counter-hegemonic project that intervened both...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2017-12-04
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This multi-disciplinary essay collection explores the controversial life and achievements of Sir John Hill (1714–1775), a prolific contributor to Georgian England’s literature, medicine and science. By the time he died, he had been knighted by the Swedish monarch and...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2017-12-01
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In The Long Hangover, Shaun Walker presents a deeply reported, bottom-up explanation of Russia's resurgence under Putin. By cleverly exploiting the memory of the Soviet victory over fascism in World War II, Putin's regime has made ordinary Russians feel that their...
Editeur :
Oxford University Press
Parution :
2017-12-01
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This book is an examination of why and how the elective principle, already established in Transylvanian and Polish political culture in the late medieval period, was transformed in the early elections of the 1570s. In this period, the two polities adopted constitutional...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2017-12-01
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This book is an examination of why and how the elective principle, already established in Transylvanian and Polish political culture in the late medieval period, was transformed in the early elections of the 1570s. In this period, the two polities adopted constitutional...
Editeur :
OUP Oxford
Parution :
2017-12-01
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Rome's Capitoline Hill was the smallest of the Seven Hills of Rome. Yet in the long history of the Roman state it was the empire's holy mountain. The hill was the setting of many ofRome's most beloved stories, involving Aeneas, Romulus, Tarpeia, and Manlius. It also...
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Oxford University Press
Parution :
2017-12-01
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Americans today choose from a dizzying array of schools, loosely lumped into categories of "public" and "private." How did these distinctions emerge in the first place, and what do they tell us about the more general relationship in the United States between public...
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Oxford University Press
Parution :
2017-12-01
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Education has long been a cornerstone of Chinese culture. Traditional Chinese norms have also held that the less education and exposure to influence from outside the home a girl had, the more likely she would be to remain true to conventional domestic values and to...
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Oxford University Press
Parution :
2017-12-01
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