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In medieval Italy the practice of revenge as criminal justice was still popular amongst members of all social classes, yet crime also was increasingly perceived as a public matter that needed to be dealt with by the government rather than private citizens. Confession...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2021-08-26
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This book reveals the nature and level of British engagement with controversial and lethal nerve agent weapons from the end of the Second World War to Britain’s submission of a draft Chemical Weapons Convention. At the very heart of this highly secretive aspect of...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2021-08-25
Collection :
Britain and the World
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A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERA #1 ABA INDEPENDENT BOOKSTORE BESTSELLERFrom the bestselling author of The Storm Before the Storm and host of the Revolutions podcast comes the "immensely compelling" (The New York Times) story of the Marquis de Lafayette’s...
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PublicAffairs
Parution :
2021-08-24
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THE BOOK
Dance of the Mask sets the history of the first flowering of Papua New Guinea contemporary literature and arts firmly in place so that it cannot be forgotten or brushed over or denied; the plant was always there in Papua New Guinea of course and still is. As a...
Editeur :
Galda Verlag
Parution :
2021-08-24
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This book is the first to systematically examine the connection between religion and transitional justice in post-communism. There are four main goals motivating this book: 1) to explain how civil society (groups such as religious denominations) contribute to...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2021-08-24
Collection :
Memory Politics and Transitional Justice
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This book aims to introduce all aspects of Chinese civilization in a way that is easiest for readers in the Western world to understand. The first chapter of this book introduces the emergence, historical evolution and characteristics of Chinese civilization. The second...
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Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publishers
Parution :
2021-08-23
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THE BOOK
Professor Colin De’Ath and Mary R. Mennis were both doing research in the Madang area in the 1970s. While Professor Colin was working on the Gogol area researching the effects of the Trans-Gogol Timber Project on the local villagers, Mary Mennis was doing...
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Galda Verlag
Parution :
2021-08-22
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1989 ushered in a new age of freedom and prosperity. Thirty years later, the golden era is over. What went wrong? How did the age of globalization – of growing connectivity, affluence, and growth – give way? Jonathan Holslag navigates through the calm seas and rip tides...
Editeur :
Polity
Parution :
2021-08-20
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This book examines the 1984 Sarajevo Winter Olympic Games. It tells the story of the extensive infrastructural transformation of the city and its changing global image in relation to hosting of the Games. Reviewing different cultural representations of Sarajevo in the...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2021-08-19
Collection :
Modernity, Memory and Identity in South-East Europe
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Every year more colleges and high schools are offering classes (and often making them required classes) in Black history. Joanne Turner-Sadler provides a concise and probing treatment of 400 years of Black history in America that can be used with age groups ranging from...
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Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publishers
Parution :
2021-08-18
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This major study explores the spatial history of the Dutch East Indies as an imperial formation between the early nineteenth century and the end of empire. It consists of six in-depth case-studies on pertinent themes such as rural capitalism, indirect colonial rule,...
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Galda Verlag
Parution :
2021-08-18
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“A maddening, essential study in misinformation, jingoism, bad intelligence, and other hallmarks of the recent American past.”—Kirkus (starred review) Anyone who experienced the attacks on September 11 cannot forget the imagery: the smoking,...
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PublicAffairs
Parution :
2021-08-17
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Although David Riesman wrote over half a century ago, his concept of autonomy as presented in The Lonely Crowd (1950) speaks directly to the intellectual and emotional disarrangements of the twenty-first century. The current malaise produced by the excesses of...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2021-08-17
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Amazonen der Feder, Bu¨rgerinnen in der Republik des Geistes, weibliche Intellektuelle: die Literatur des 17. und 18. Jahrhunderts war der Ort, an dem Schriftstellerinnen ihre Befa¨higung zur kulturellen Teilhabe beredt unter Beweis stellten und mal in...
Editeur :
J.B. Metzler
Parution :
2021-08-16
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In Pursuit of English traces how the English language became an object of heated pursuit amid South Korea's rapid neoliberalization, creating the so-called "English fever" of the 1990s and 2000s. Joseph Sung-Yul Park demonstrates that English gained prominence not...
Editeur :
Oxford University Press
Parution :
2021-08-13
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This bold and wide-ranging book views the history of humankind through the prism of natural resources – how we acquire them, use them, value them, trade them, exploit them. History needs a cast of characters and in this story the leading actors are peat and hemp, grain...
Editeur :
Polity
Parution :
2021-08-12
Collection :
New Russian Thought
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The book Researchers Remember: Research as an Arena of Memory Among Descendants of Holocaust Survivors, a Collected Volume of Academic Auto-biographies is composed of over 30 essays written by prominent researchers worldwide belonging to the “Second Generation” and “...
Editeur :
Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2021-08-12
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The day of 9 Thermidor (27 July 1794) is universally acknowledged as a major turning-point in the history of the French Revolution. At 12.00 midnight, Maximilien Robespierre, the most prominent member of the Committee of Public Safety which had for more than a year...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2021-08-12
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The day of 9 Thermidor (27 July 1794) is universally acknowledged as a major turning-point in the history of the French Revolution. At 12.00 midnight, Maximilien Robespierre, the most prominent member of the Committee of Public Safety which had for more than a year...
Editeur :
OUP Oxford
Parution :
2021-08-12
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Heritage became a target during the Yugoslav Wars as part of ethnic cleansing and urbicide. Out of the ashes of war, pasts were remodelled, places took on new layers of meaning, and a wave of new memorialization took hold. Three decades since the fall of Vukovar and the...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2021-08-11
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