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This volume focuses on gynaecological cancer to explore the ways in which gender has shaped medical and public health responses to cancer in England. Rooted in gendered perceptions of cancer risk, medical and public health efforts to reduce cancer mortality since 1900...
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2017-01-24
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This book investigates the conflict over control over the Western Mediterranean in the late eighteenth-century. The Western Mediterranean during the 1790s featured a constant struggle for control over the region. While most histories point to military events such as the...
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2017-01-23
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This volume covers the global history of the Lysenko controversy, while exploring in greater depth the background of D. Lysenko’s career and influence in the USSR. By presenting the rise and fall of T.D. Lysenko in a variety of aspects—his influence upon art,...
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2017-01-21
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This book offers the first in-depth study of the masculine self-fashioning of scientific practitioners in nineteenth and early twentieth-century Britain. Focusing on the British Association for the Advancement of Science, founded in 1831, it explores the complex and...
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2017-01-20
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The Russian Revolution of 1917 transformed the face of the Russian empire, politically, economically, socially, and culturally, and also profoundly affected the course of world history for the rest of the twentieth century. Historian S. A. Smith presents a panoramic...
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OUP Oxford
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2017-01-19
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This book aims to reinterpret current perceptions of the Dutch Forty Years War (1672-1713), usually regarded as a struggle against the expansionism of Louis XIV, birthing the European balance of power. Particular attention is given to recent international relations...
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Palgrave Pivot
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2017-01-18
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Der zweite Band einer ‚Geschichte professioneller Kontrolle’ untersucht das frühneuzeitliche (16./17. Jahrhundert) Hexen-Problem als klerikal-juristische Konstruktion. In einer noch immer mental religiös geprägten Übergangszeit entsprach diese Hexen-Problematik den...
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Springer VS
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2017-01-17
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This book explores the historial role of the Balkan Wars. In Eastern Europe, the two Balkan Wars of 1912/13 had greater importance than the First World War for the construction of nations and states.This volume shows how these “short” wars profoundly changed the...
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2017-01-10
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This book is the first comparative study of early modern English and Dutch women writers. It explores women’s rich and complex responses to the birth of the public sphere, new concepts of privacy, and the ideology of domesticity in the seventeenth century. Women in both...
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2017-01-09
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This book presents a historically and critically nuanced study of George Herbert's biblical poetics. Situating Herbert's work in the context of shifting ideas of biblical mystery, Gary Kuchar shows how Herbert negotiated two competing impulses within post-reformation...
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2017-01-09
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Raum- und Landesplaner haben auf räumliche Entwicklungen bis in die 1970er Jahre hinein einen größeren Einfluss ausüben können. Um Raumordnung, Bevölkerung (vor 1945: um „Volk“ und „Rasse“) und Aspekte sozialer Ordnung kreiste ihr ganzes Denken und Planen. Ihre...
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Springer VS
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2017-01-04
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In the heart of Europe's current crisis, one of the continent's foremost statesmen issues a clarion call to radically remake the European Union in the mold of the United States' own federal government Europe is caught in its greatest crisis since the Second World War....
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Basic Books
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2017-01-03
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This book discusses the reunification of Germany and the negative impacts that this had on East German intellectuals. The book is an ethnographic account of how the intellectuals of East Germany reacted to the demise of their nation, their “dream” of a socialist...
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2016-12-31
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This innovative collection draws on original research to explore the dynamic interactions between parents, governments and their representatives across a range of European contexts; from democratic Britain and Finland, to Stalinist Russia and Fascist Italy. The authors...
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2016-12-29
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This book explores how the communist cult of the individual was not just a Soviet phenomenon but an international one. When Stalin died in 1953, the communists of all countries united in mourning the figure that was the incarnation of their cause. Though its...
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2016-12-28
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This book is open access under a CC BY license.In this book, Nika Gilauri reveals his formulas for government reform and economic recovery, including how to fight against corruption, reform fiscal policy and tax systems, privatize state-owned enterprises, build a...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2016-12-26
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Modern Russian identity and historical experience has been largely shaped by Russia's imperial past: an empire that was founded in the early modern era and endures in large part today. The Russian Empire 1450-1801 surveys how the areas that made up the empire were...
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OUP Oxford
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2016-12-22
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The effects of the French Revolution reached far beyond the confines of France itself.The Ottoman Empire, ancient ally and major trading partner of France, was not immune from the repercussions of the 'Age of Revolutions', especially since it was home to permanent...
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OUP Oxford
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2016-12-22
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The effects of the French Revolution reached far beyond the confines of France itself.The Ottoman Empire, ancient ally and major trading partner of France, was not immune from the repercussions of the 'Age of Revolutions', especially since it was home to permanent...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2016-12-22
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On the accession of Louis XIII in 1610 following the assassination of his father, the Bourbon dynasty stood on unstable foundations. For all of Henri IV's undoubted achievements, he had left his son a realm that was still prey to the ambitions of an aristocracy that...
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OUP Oxford
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2016-12-22
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