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The book in your hands is a subtle attempt to research a piece of the vast lands of aesthetics, philosophy, art and literature at the turn of the 19th and 20th century. This period is remarkable for the evolution of the Symbolism which was able to stretch through all...
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Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2025-01-07
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Early in the modern period, prisoners of war with the rank of officer or equivalent had the right to petition for parole. By effectively pawning their personal honour, they were able to purchase freedom of movement and other privileges-in-captivity. Increasingly, other...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2025-01-03
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Ao. Univ. Prof. Heinz Noflatscher lehrte bis zu seiner Pensionierung 2019 Geschichte der Neuzeit und Österreichische Geschichte an der Universität Innsbruck. 2024 feiert er seinen 70. Geburtstag. Aus diesem Anlass haben seine langjährigen Wegbegleiter:innen und...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2025-01-02
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Seit 25 Jahren arbeiten 49 Staaten an der Realisierung der Bologna-Erklärung zur Schaffung eines Europäischen Hochschulraums. Die Bildungssysteme der teilnehmenden EU- und Nicht-EU-Staaten werden mittels dieser Reform besser koordinierbar.In diesem Band wird die...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2024-12-30
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Historiography is one of the most systematic accounts of the fate of culture. It is also a record of human—reflexive and reflective metaphors of the world, simultaneously anthropomorphizing and humanizing it. Historical imagination captures the world in its classical...
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Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2024-12-27
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Alors que, au lendemain de la Seconde guerre mondiale, en Italie et en France, les principals cultures politiques se sont consolidées, à partir de la fi n des années 1960, ells font face aux changements profonds qui affectent les sociétés ouest-européennes, jusqu’à la...
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P.I.E-Peter Lang S.A., Éditions Scientifiques Internationales
Parution :
2024-12-27
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This open access book addresses a question fundamental to the histories of empire and Africa: at the point of the colonial encounter, how was knowledge made? How did different communities, with little or no prior contact, construct meaning about one another? Amidst huge...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2024-12-27
Collection :
Cambridge Imperial and Post-Colonial Studies
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Drawing on a wide range of primary sources, this book explains what made skin newsworthy in Victorian Britain. It represents a unique contribution to the media history of the human body by delving into the cultural and historical underpinnings of wound representation in...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2024-12-05
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«How can we read twenty-first-century African literatures in Portuguese so that we can properly understand the voices telling us of their particular situation today? In The Late Postcolonial Condition Emanuelle Rodrigues dos Santos deftly shows us how to adjust our...
Editeur :
Peter Lang Ltd, International Academic Publishers
Parution :
2024-12-05
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The history of Union Ireland is typically told through its best-known historical events and leaders - from the 1798 Rising, the Great Famine, and the Irish Revolution, to Parnell and De Valera -- and as moments of sectarian division and high parliamentary politics....
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2024-12-04
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What did British citizens really feel about the political system, their role in it, and the people who represented them? Everyday Politics, Ordinary Lives examines British democracy from below, investigating how electors understood politics and how they viewed its...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2024-12-04
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The book is a unique proposal for an integral description of memory regimes in the South Caucasus region, covering both the independent states of Armenia and Georgia, but also the separatist entities created as a result of the turbulent changes of the early 1990s -...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2024-11-29
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This book explores representations of the extensive violence that characterised British exploratory and colonising forays into the Pacific Ocean in the long eighteenth century, both between Europeans and Indigenous peoples and amongst Europeans themselves. It explores...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2024-11-26
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Prompted by the need for accessible teaching materials on Central Asian literature and history, this anthology surveys the literature of modern Central Asia from the late 19th century to the present. Genres range from oral literature and folk tales to essays, prose,...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2024-11-25
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The history of Union Ireland is typically told through its best-known historical events and leaders - from the 1798 Rising, the Great Famine, and the Irish Revolution, to Parnell and De Valera -- and as moments of sectarian division and high parliamentary politics....
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2024-11-20
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This book compares the school image of the wartime past of the Falange and the Polish Workers’ Party (PPR), created during the turbulent first decade of Francoism in Spain and Communism in Poland. Demonstrating the political usefulness of the Party was crucial to the...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2024-11-19
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In August 1973, the large and growing television audience of the Soviet Union first laid eyes on what would become its quintessential if fictitious hero spy. He was nothing liketo global fame in the 1960s. By contrast, Shtirlits made his middle-aged man on a meditative...
Editeur :
Oxford University Press
Parution :
2024-11-18
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In the period from the close of the Napoleonic Wars up through the immediate post-World-War II era the image of Martin Luther was transposed in Germany from a religious reformer and advocate of freedom to a symbol of völkisch nationalist identity, such that with the...
Editeur :
OUP Oxford
Parution :
2024-11-13
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THE TIMES BOOK OFTHE WEEKNamed one of The Telegraph's 'Best Biographies of the Year 2024'Queen Victoria had forty-two grandchildren but the four Princesses of Hesse were held in her particular favour. After the sudden death of her daughter Alice, Queen Victoria took an...
Editeur :
Short Books
Parution :
2024-11-07
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This book explores the seemingly unstoppable turn away from Europe and towards Asian powers, notably China, on the part of the Russian state in the early 21st century. Ongoing global changes, the growing complexity of international interactions and internal political...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2024-11-01
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