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This volume provides an overview of selected major areas of legal and institutional development in Lithuania since the Restoration of Independence in 1990. The respective chapters discuss changes in fields varying from the constitutional framework to criminal law and...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2020-10-17
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A journey along the seemingly endless Russian border - from North Korea in the Far East through Russia's bordering states in Asia and the Caucasus, crossing the Caspian Ocean and the Black Sea along the way."Erika Fatland [is] shaping up to be one of the Nordics' most...
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Maclehose Press
Parution :
2020-10-15
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This book analyzes the central vision of three student movements organized by different generations of Kosovo Albanian students in 1968, 1981 and 1997. By examining the dynamics of the demonstrations, the author explores the dimensions, forms and implications of student...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2020-10-06
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The Irish Times Top 10 Bestseller!From war to revolution, famine to emigration,The Darkness Echoing travels around Ireland bringing its dark past to lifeIt's no secret that the Irish are obsessed with misery, suffering and death. And no wonder, for there is darkness...
Editeur :
Transworld Digital
Parution :
2020-10-01
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Natural and Necessary Unions is a history for our time. It shows that the choice between 'union and independence' that shapes current debates about the future of the United Kingdom in the age of Brexit is a false one. Against the countervailing currents of hegemony and...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2020-09-11
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Natural and Necessary Unions is a history for our time. It shows that the choice between 'union and independence' that shapes current debates about the future of the United Kingdom in the age of Brexit is a false one. Against the countervailing currents of hegemony and...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2020-09-11
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This book explores mid-nineteenth-century French legitimism and the implications of popular support for a movement that has traditionally been portrayed as an aristocratic force intent on restoring the Old Regime.This type of monarchism has often been understood as a...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2020-09-10
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Conventional wisdom dictates that Ukraine's political crises can be traced to the linguistic differences and divided political loyalties that have long fractured the country. However, this theory obscures the true significance of Ukraine's recent civic revolution and...
Editeur :
Oxford University Press
Parution :
2020-09-03
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"You might think there is little new to say about Venice, but Cees Nooteboom strolls down many under-explored alleyways in the city, his insights coloured by his knowledge of art and literature as welll as his past experiences . . . Witty and meditative by turns, the...
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Maclehose Press
Parution :
2020-09-03
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This book explores students’ consumer practices and material desires in nineteenth-century Oxford. Consumerism surged among undergraduates in the 1830s and decreased by contrast from the 1860s as students learned to practice restraint and make wiser choices, putting a...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2020-09-01
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Care of the State blends archival, oral history, interview and ethnographic data to study the changing relationships and kinship ties of children who lived in state residential care in socialist Hungary. It advances anthropological understanding of kinship and the...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2020-08-28
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Why did killing a fox mean liberty? What did parish revels have to do with the Peterloo Massacre? What did animal cruelty have to do with the English constitution? What did the Factory Acts mean for modern football?
In This Sporting Life, Robert Colls explains sport...
Editeur :
OUP Oxford
Parution :
2020-08-28
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Why did killing a fox mean liberty? What did parish revels have to do with the Peterloo Massacre? What did animal cruelty have to do with the English constitution? What did the Factory Acts mean for modern football?
In This Sporting Life, Robert Colls explains sport...
Editeur :
OUP Oxford
Parution :
2020-08-28
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For three hundred years the ghetto defined Jewish culture in the late medieval and early modern period in Western Europe. In the nineteenth-century it was a free-floating concept which travelled to Eastern Europe and the United States. Eastern European “ghettos”, which...
Editeur :
OUP Oxford
Parution :
2020-08-27
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For three hundred years the ghetto defined Jewish culture in the late medieval and early modern period in Western Europe. In the nineteenth-century it was a free-floating concept which travelled to Eastern Europe and the United States. Eastern European “ghettos”, which...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2020-08-27
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This book explores the Paris Ecole Militaire as an institution, arguing for its importance as a school that presented itself as a model for reform during a key moment in the movement towards military professionalism as well as state-run secular education. The...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2020-08-24
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A compendium of original essays and contemporary viewpoints on the 1917 Revolution The Russian revolution of 1917 reverberated throughout an empire that covered one-sixth of the world. It altered the geo-political landscape of not only Eurasia, but of the entire globe....
Editeur :
Wiley-Blackwell
Parution :
2020-08-21
Collection :
Wiley Blackwell Companions to World History
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This book examines attitudes towards German held captive in Britain, drawing on original archival material including newspaper and newsreel content, diaries, sociological surveys and opinion polls, as well as official documentation and the archives of pressure groups...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2020-08-19
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This book explores the Romanian Orthodox Church’s arguments on national identity to legitimize its own place in a post-communist Romania. The work traces the clergy’s deployment of the concepts of Christian Orthodoxy and Latin legacy as part of an uncharted...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2020-08-17
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This edited collection offers the first systematic account in English of Italy’s international position from Caporetto – a major turning-point in Italy’s participation in the First World War – to the end of the liberal regime in Italy in 1922. It shows that after the...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2020-08-13
Collection :
Security, Conflict and Cooperation in the Contemporary World
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