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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 the Oxford Academic platform and offered as a free PDF download from OUP and selected open access locations.
Writing from Invention to Decipherment...
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OUP Oxford
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2024-09-23
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How is nostalgia expressed through space?
Studies of nostalgia have long illustrated the emotional dynamics which condition our desire to go back to a time and a space that belong to the past. This book addresses this condition from an innovative perspective, by...
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2024-09-21
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Heraldry is often seen as a traditional prerogative of the nobility. But it was not just knights, princes, kings, and emperors who bore coats of arms to show off their status in the Middle Ages. The merchants and craftsmen who lived in cities, too, adopted coats of arms...
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OUP Oxford
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2024-09-19
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Heraldry is often seen as a traditional prerogative of the nobility. But it was not just knights, princes, kings, and emperors who bore coats of arms to show off their status in the Middle Ages. The merchants and craftsmen who lived in cities, too, adopted coats of arms...
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OUP Oxford
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2024-09-19
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This book offers an in-depth study of German neoliberalism between 1924 and 1963, arguing that a neoliberal network was established in the interwar period, decades before elite networks in Great Britain and the United States fostered the ‘neoliberal revolution’ of the...
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2024-09-18
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"Talkin’ Greenwich Village is impeccably researched, elegantly written and consistently fascinating."--New York Times "Browne relates the extensive cast of characters and historical events with journalistic clarity and cinematic scope--so much so...
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Da Capo
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2024-09-17
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This book is strongly related to two essential features of human life: migratory movements and metaphors. Migratory movements can be undoubtedly defined as an enduring characteristic of our global history. As history and literature, from the Homeric poems to the Bible,...
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Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
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2024-09-16
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Why does antisemitic messaging strike a chord in certain communities without Jews but fall flat in neighboring communities equally without Jews? This book focuses on antipathy towards Jews - expressed through successful electoral campaigns where a candidate or...
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2024-09-14
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Taking as its starting point an investigation into the physical topography and symbolism of the two cities of Athens and Jerusalem, this book offers a cultural history of the rival superpowers—the Byzantine Empire and Fatimid Caliphate—that between them...
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2024-09-14
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Geleitet von einer verbreiteten Vermutung wird danach gefragt, ob die relative Schwäche eines Gegners oder die Wahrnehmung besonderer Verwundbarkeit des jeweiligen Kontrahenten, also von günstigen Gelegenheiten für einen Angriff, tatsächlich den Ausbruch von offenen...
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Springer VS
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2024-09-13
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This open access book sheds light on collective practices of remembering, imagining and anticipating in relation to recent acts of urban terrorism in Europe. Analysing a range of personal and collective responses to urban terrorism in contemporary Europe, this book...
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2024-09-13
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Celebrate the wit and wisdom of Winston Churchill with this collection of inspiring quotesSir Winston Churchill had a wonderful way with words, motivating the masses with his quips, statements and speeches, and he is regarded as a British hero. His inspirational...
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Summersdale
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2024-09-12
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Riverrun
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2024-09-12
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Historians have long used biography and life narratives as a means of understanding the French Revolution, as classic studies on major figures such as Robespierre and Napoleon attest. At the current moment, however, many of the most creative such studies are focusing on...
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2024-09-12
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'A crucial and compelling read' NATALIE COLLINS @GodLovesWomen'The story of Josephine Butler is astonishing, shocking, inspiring, recounted here by a narrator who understands the very core of her subject. A powerful read.' CLAIRE GILBERT, author of I, Julian'When...
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Hodder & Stoughton
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2024-09-12
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Discover the Sunday Times bestseller and incredible true story behind the most catastrophic 24-hours the British military faced in World War II from the bestselling author.‘Utterly brilliant... this book really is the last word on the Battle of Arnhem’ James...
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Transworld Digital
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2024-09-12
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This book weaves together theories of pre-Columbian trans-Pacific contact between Oceania and the Americas and analyses them from a history of ideas perspective. Despite limited factual evidence, trans-Pacific contact theories between the Americas and Oceania have been...
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2024-09-11
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Today, the majority of the peoples of the planet live in nation-states, based upon the idea, if never the reality, of a single people, a single culture, a single rule of law and a single source of sovereign authority. But will they continue to do so in the future? None...
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Polity
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2024-09-11
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This book is the first critical anthology in English on the history and legacy of race in the Caribbean. It brings together the major debates, lines of inquiry, and theories around race and racism that have emerged out of the Caribbean from the beginning of European...
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Polity
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2024-09-11
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Critical South
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