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Die Antike ist die Vorläuferin und die Grundlage des heutigen Europa und der Kultur, die von Europa ausging. Insoweit ist sie uns nah. In der Allgemeinbildung ist sie allerdings fast nur noch in Form von einzelnen Aussprüchen, Legenden und Mythen präsent, wie etwa: Der...
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Springer
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2025-02-19
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After the First World War, the improvement of working and living conditions in agriculture became an international issue for the first time. Led by the International Labour Organization and related organizations, as well as overlapping expert networks, agrarian interest...
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OUP Oxford
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2025-02-19
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This book focuses on a biographical and cultural rendering of Adlai E. Stevenson's alliance with a segment of the intellectual community, with primary attention to the years from 1940 to his death in 1965. At the core of the study is an evaluation of the nature of a...
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2025-02-18
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The term "fundamentalism" has its roots in specific forms of American Protestantism that arose around the turn of the twentieth century in reaction to liberalizing and modernizing trends within the church. In this book, Mark Massa argues that an analogously reactive,...
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Oxford University Press
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2025-02-17
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Simultaneous to the rise of industrial capitalism, agriculture - still the mainstay of most human communities around the globe in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries - underwent dramatic changes. In many countries, including most settler economies, a...
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OUP Oxford
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2025-02-17
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*Shortlisted for the Cundill History Prize*What would women do with their lives if they had more time?The riveting, untold story of a revolutionary campaign to change the way work is valued'The women of the world are serving notice. We want wages for every dirty toilet,...
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Penguin
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2025-02-13
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Dieses Buch untersucht den Wandel der sozialen Bewegungen und der Wirtschaftseliten in Europa nach dem Zweiten Weltkrieg. In den Jahren nach 1945 stand Europa vor vielfältigen Herausforderungen, die durch die übergeordnete Frage verbunden waren, wie der Wiederaufbau des...
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Springer VS
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2025-02-13
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This book arises out of a long series of conversations about one of the most intriguing, but still under-researched, aspects of testimony: how the remembering and telling of an individual Holocaust survivor changes through time, through shifting contexts and with...
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2025-02-13
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This is an open access title available under the terms of a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 International licence. It is free to read on Oxford Academic and offered as a free PDF download from OUP and selected open access locations.
The idea that a child is intellectually 'gifted' has...
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OUP Oxford
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2025-02-13
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Vasileios Balaskas explores the revival of classical drama at ancient venues as a sociopolitical apparatus of the European nation-states in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. The modern use of Graeco-Roman theatres, odeons, amphitheatres, and stadiums depended on...
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OUP Oxford
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2025-02-13
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'Never has so much been owed by so many, to so few.' This is the story of those few, in their own words.In the summer of 1940, the British frontlines were the skies above southern England. Spitfires and Hurricanes took on the might of the Luftwaffe, and its feared...
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August Books
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2025-02-13
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The Near East during the Hellenistic and Roman periods has been studied for centuries. This Handbook includes fifty chapters written by experts from a variety of disciplines: archaeology (including classical, near eastern, and Islamic), ancient history, anthropology,...
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Oxford University Press
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2025-02-13
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The death of a child is perhaps the most painful, heartbreaking, and seemingly-unnatural experience we have the displeasure of living with. Yet it is difficult to say with certainty whether or not this sentiment was shared by the inhabitants of ancient Israel. Many...
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Oxford University Press
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2025-02-11
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Mexican Canto Nuevo: Music, Politics, and Resistance explores the vibrant history of Canto Nuevo, a musical and cultural movement that influencedMexican music, politics, and culture from the 1960s to the late 1980s. Author Claudio Palomares-Salas delves into every...
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Oxford University Press
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2025-02-11
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Previous scholarship on fascism in Slovakia has focused on either state actors operating from urban centres or the mechanisms of violence on a grassroots level - with the result being that the Holocaust is seen as primarily a top-down and state-centred process.
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OUP Oxford
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2025-02-10
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Louis XIII's court has long been a fixture of popular culture, thanks in part to the many movie and TV adaptations of Alexandre Dumas's novel, The Three Musketeers. Yet it remains misunderstood, commonly mischaracterized as unimportant, or wholly subservient to the...
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OUP Oxford
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2025-02-10
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Accurate information is essential to successful business activity. The early modern period saw an increase in printed commercial information, including newspapers, printed exchange rates, and educational texts--part of the 'print revolution' that permeated all aspects...
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OUP Oxford
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2025-02-10
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Raparapa is a raw and gritty history that captures the harsh realities endured by Aboriginal drovers in the Kimberley. These storytellers capture a slice of history and showcase those who have persevered through impossible odds. Their strong work ethic is matched only...
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Magabala Books
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2025-02-08
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