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Today technology has created a world of dazzling progress, growing disparities of wealth and poverty, and looming threats to the environment. Technology: A World History offers an illuminating backdrop to our present moment--a brilliant history of invention around the...
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Oxford University Press
Parution :
2009-04-01
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This book offers both an introduction to the vibrant field of literary tourism studies and a selection of cutting-edge cross-disciplinary research. Indispensable for students and scholars of nineteenth-century literature and culture, it provides fascinating insights...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2009-03-31
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Approaching the intersection of politics and science from the perspective of political history, this book looks at how nineteenth-century British Whigs used the themes of natural science to signal their identities, and how their devotion to a culture of liberality...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2009-03-31
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This collection seeks to move noncombatant perspectives to center stage, acknowledging their importance, destabilizing the primacy of the combatant, and explaining or undermining the staging of warfare as a singular and acontextual production.
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2009-03-30
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This book analyzes attempts by radical Spanish republicans to construct an anticlerical-nationalist vision of Spain, focusing in particular on the the mass production by the 'anticlertical industry' of newspapers, novels, poems, cartoons, posters, postcards and plays...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2009-03-30
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Comprises 34 essays from leading scholars in history, classics, philosophy, and political science to illuminate Greek and Roman political thought in all its diversity and depth. Offers a broad survey of ancient political thought from Archaic Greece through Late...
Editeur :
Wiley-Blackwell
Parution :
2009-03-30
Collection :
Blackwell Companions to the Ancient World
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Just who are ‘the Malays’? This provocative study poses the question and considers how and why the answers have changed over time, and from one region to another. Anthony Milner develops a sustained argument about ethnicity and identity in an historical, ‘Malay’...
Editeur :
Wiley-Blackwell
Parution :
2009-03-30
Collection :
The Peoples of South-East Asia and the Pacific
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What was imperial honor and how did it sustain the British Raj? If "No man may harm me with impunity" was an ancient theme of the European aristocracy, British imperialists of almost all classes in India possessed a similar vision of themselves as overlords belonging to...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2009-03-30
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This volume begins in the early centuries of the Common Era with the various groups of people who had settled in southern Africa. Stone Age foragers, farmers with iron technology, and pastoralists all interacted to create a complex society before Europeans arrived. In...
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Oxford University Press
Parution :
2009-03-27
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In this, the first of two self-standing volumes bringing The New Oxford History of England up to the present, Brian Harrison begins in 1951 with much of the empire intact and with Britain enjoying high prestige in Europe. The United Kingdom could still then claim to be...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2009-03-27
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Medical ethics in Imperial Germany were entangled with professional, legal and social issues. This book shows how doctors' ethical decision-making was led by their notions of male honour, professional politics and a paternalistic doctor-patient relationship rather than...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2009-03-26
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The Vietnam War tends to conjure up images of American soldiers battling an elusive enemy in thick jungle, the thudding of helicopters overhead.
But there were in fact many Vietnam wars - an anticolonial war with France, a cold war turned hot with the United States, a...
Editeur :
OUP Oxford
Parution :
2009-03-26
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The Vietnam War tends to conjure up images of American soldiers battling an elusive enemy in thick jungle, the thudding of helicopters overhead.
But there were in fact many Vietnam wars - an anticolonial war with France, a cold war turned hot with the United States, a...
Editeur :
OUP Oxford
Parution :
2009-03-26
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In this, the first of two self-standing volumes bringing The New Oxford History of England up to the present, Brian Harrison begins in 1951 with much of the empire intact and with Britain enjoying high prestige in Europe. The United Kingdom could still then claim to be...
Editeur :
OUP Oxford
Parution :
2009-03-26
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Anglo-Saxon Deviant Burial Customs is the first detailed consideration of the ways in whichAnglo-Saxon society dealt with social outcasts. Beginning with the period following Roman rule and ending in the century following the Norman Conquest, it surveys a period of...
Editeur :
OUP Oxford
Parution :
2009-03-26
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In this engagingly written history of electioneering in Britain from the eighteenth century to the present, Jon Lawrence explores the changing relationship between politicians and public. Throughout this period, he argues, British politics has been characterized by...
Editeur :
OUP Oxford
Parution :
2009-03-26
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This authoritative and accessible guide to the British monarchy spans the Romano-British rulers of 55 BC to the present day House of Windsor. Generously illustrated with maps, photos, paintings, and genealogies, it contains a wealth of information on the rulers of...
Editeur :
OUP Oxford
Parution :
2009-03-26
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The U.S. Mint's Fifty State Quarters Program-its most ambitious program to date-has been a huge popular success. When the final state quarters are released in 2008, many thousands of individuals will have collected one commemorative quarter for each state in the...
Editeur :
Grand Central Publishing
Parution :
2009-03-25
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This collection, by an international team of scholars, presents exciting research currently being undertaken on early modern Italy which questions the conventional boundaries of medical history. Brings together historians of medicine and scholars of different...
Editeur :
Wiley-Blackwell
Parution :
2009-03-25
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This beautifully illustrated new biography of Cleopatra draws on literary, archaeological, and art historical evidence to paint an intimate and compelling portrait of the most famous Queen of Egypt. Deconstructs the image of Cleopatra to uncover the complex...
Editeur :
Wiley-Blackwell
Parution :
2009-03-25
Collection :
Blackwell Ancient Lives
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