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Anxieties of Experience: The Literatures of the Americas from Whitman to Bolaño offers a new interpretation of US and Latin American literature from the nineteenth century to the present. Revisiting longstanding debates in the hemisphere about whether the source of...
Editeur :
Oxford University Press
Parution :
2017-12-01
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This book provides the first systematic and comprehensive discussion of the intra-urban distribution of high-status goods, and their production or role as a marker of the nature of the settlements known as royal cities of New Kingdom Egypt (c.1550-1069 BC).
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OUP Oxford
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2017-12-01
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This book provides the first systematic and comprehensive discussion of the intra-urban distribution of high-status goods, and their production or role as a marker of the nature of the settlements known as royal cities of New Kingdom Egypt (c.1550-1069 BC).
Using...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2017-12-01
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This book presents an original historical-legal analysis of the adoption of the Constitution and the Bill of Rights. Drawing upon James Madison’s own minutes of the 1787 Convention, it focuses on Madison’s crucial role in shaping a bill of rights that would both reserve...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2017-11-30
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Tells the story of how America’s biggest companies began, operated, and prospered post-World War I This book takes the vantage point of people working within companies as they responded to constant change created by consumers and technology. It focuses on the...
Editeur :
Wiley-Blackwell
Parution :
2017-11-30
Collection :
The American History Series
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This handbook brings together recent and emerging research in the broad areas of women and gender studies focusing on pre-revolutionary Russia, the Soviet Union and the post-Soviet Russian Federation. For the Soviet period in particular, individual chapters extend the...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2017-11-30
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This book draws on over twenty years’ investigation of scientific archives in Europe, Australia, and other former British settler colonies. It explains how and why skulls and other bodily structures of Indigenous Australians became the focus of scientific...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2017-11-29
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This book provides a selection of studies on witchcraft and demonology by those involved in an interdisciplinary research group begun in Hungary thirty years ago. They examine urban and rural witchcraft conflicts from early modern times to the present, from a region...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2017-11-29
Collection :
Palgrave Historical Studies in Witchcraft and Magic
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This book provides the first historical and comparative study of the ‘transnational activist’. A range of important recent scholarship has considered the rise of global social movements, the presence of transnational networks, and the transfer or diffusion of political...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2017-11-28
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Flash! presents a fascinating cultural history of flash photography, from its mid-nineteenth century beginnings to the present day. All photography requires light, but the light of flash photography is quite distinctive: artificial, sudden, shocking, intrusive, and...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2017-11-28
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Poland's relationship with its Jewish population has long been a subject of often agonizing debate. In September 1939, there were approximately 3.3 million Jews living in Poland, the largest population in Europe. In May 1945, between 40,000 and 60,000 remained. Most of...
Editeur :
Oxford University Press
Parution :
2017-11-28
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Die mailändische Zeitschrift «Biblioteca italiana» wurde 1816 auf Betreiben der österreichischen Regierung gegründet. Oft als reines Verlautbarungsblatt Österreichs von der Risorgimento-Forschung vernachlässigt, zeigt die vorliegende Studie, dass die in der Zeitschrift...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2017-11-27
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Diese Studie widmet sich der Entwicklung des modernen Sozial- und Interventionsstaates im Australien des 20. Jahrhunderts. Sie zeigt, dass der australische Sozialstaat unterschiedliche historische Einflüsse amalgamiert. Die Steuerfinanzierung von Sozialleistungen, das...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2017-11-27
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This book analyses the efforts of British civil society to help a Russia seen to be struggling between 1890 and the 1920s. Luke Kelly seeks to show why churches, pressure groups, charities, politicians and journalists came to promote religious and political liberty and...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2017-11-27
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Am 23. Januar 1930, drei Jahre vor der sogenannten Machtergreifung, trat in Thüringen die erste Landesregierung mit nationalsozialistischer Beteiligung zusammen. Die Autorin wirft erstmals einen Blick hinter die Kulissen der Baum-Frick-Regierung und offenbart ihre...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2017-11-27
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Universities have a crucial role in the modern world. In England entrance to universities is by nation-wide competition which means English universities have an exceptional influence on schools - a striking theme of the book. This important book first investigates the...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2017-11-24
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This book reinterprets the Leveller authorships of John Lilburne, Richard Overton and William Walwyn, and foregrounds the role of ordinary people in petitioning and protest during an era of civil war and revolution. The Levellers sought to restructure the state in...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2017-11-24
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This book examines the fairies, demons, and nature spirits haunting the margins of Christendom from late-antique Egypt to early modern Scotland to contemporary Amazonia. Contributions from anthropologists, folklorists, historians and religionists explore Christian...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2017-11-23
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Authenticity is everywhere: political leaders invoke the idea to gain our support, advertisers use it to sell their products. But is authenticity a dangerous hoax? What is, and is not, authentic has been hotly debated ever since the concept was invented. Many academics...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2017-11-23
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As the Holocaust recedes from us in time, the guardianship of its legacy is being passed on from its survivors and witnesses to the generation after. How should we, in turn, convey its knowledge to others? What are the effects of a traumatic past on its inheritors, and...
Editeur :
Vintage Digital
Parution :
2017-11-23
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