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During World War Two some 67,000 Indian personnel of the British Indian Army were captured by Imperial Japanese forces, including a large number at the surrender of Singapore in February 1942. This book, the first of its kind, critically examines why these colonial...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2025-07-23
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Die Aufklärung Mitte des 18. Jahrhunderts schuf eine Architektur auf der Grundlage der Rationalität - den Klassizismus.Die sich verändernde Gesellschaft stellte aber Anforderungen, die mit den traditionellen Methoden gar nicht lösbar waren - Industrialisierung und...
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Springer Vieweg
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2025-07-23
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At the Restoration of 1660, there was no distinctive banking sector, and banking services were provided by a variety of traders, most notably the London goldsmiths. In the later seventeenth century, the first specialists appeared against a background of rapid economic...
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OUP Oxford
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2025-07-22
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This book considers recent developments in Thai history and historiography, examining why Thai studies had suffered under a combination of protectionism, uncritical learning, and unwillingness to engage with scholarship from abroad. The essays collected here...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2025-07-22
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This open access book explores how China had already established political and economic dualisms—political by the Common Era and economic by the 10th century—long before the West developed its dualism of state and society in the 17th and 18th centuries. In...
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Springer
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2025-07-22
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America’s Founding Fathers feared that a standing army would be a permanent political danger, yet the U.S. military has in the 250 years since become a bulwark of democracy. Kori Schake explains why in this compelling history of civil-military relations from...
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Polity
Parution :
2025-07-21
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This book offers a comprehensive exploration of the intricate relationship between radicalism and sociability in late Georgian parliamentary and extra-parliamentary politics, focusing on the Foxite-Whig faction. Re-evaluating the significance and tactical use of...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2025-07-21
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This open access book provides the first scholarly account of the role of hope and hopefulness from the perspective of social and cultural life in ancient, medieval and early modern societies.This edited collection brings together fourteen chapters based on case-studies...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2025-07-18
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This book explores Peter I’s same-sex relations, men’s sociability and male favoritism at the royal court in the context of the Petrine myth, scenarios of power, propaganda and othering. The first part is devoted to sources, historiography, the theory of the...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2025-07-18
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This book examines one of the key issues shaping global considerations of human rights today: the idea of the family as a protected category. Bringing together historians, political scientists, legal scholars, and historical sociologists, the book investigates how ideas...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2025-07-17
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For two centuries, from the middle of the 6th century to the end of the 4th century BCE, hundreds of scenes of play were depicted on Attic and South Italian vases. They bring to life warriors, children, girls and boys enjoying a large variety of ludic...
Editeur :
Presses universitaires de Liège
Parution :
2025-07-17
Collection :
Jeu / Play / Spiel
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Where lie the origins of North Korean ideology? When, why, and to what extent did North Korean ideology begin to transform into the idiosyncratic ideology that it is today?
In this first comprehensive Cold War history of North Korean ideology, Thomas Stock traces...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2025-07-16
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Re-Membering Hospitality in the Mediterranean examines the embodied praxis of hospitality—whether through the ritual modes of religious history, the pages of literature, the visual arts, dystopian narratives of the future, or the realpolitik of shelter and...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2025-07-15
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Mountain of Paradise challenges conventional taxonomies of world civilizations by introducing a new and formidable candidate: the civilization of Greater California presently incubating as the evolution of California into a veritable «nation-state» or «world...
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Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2025-07-14
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This monograph examines religion in the first English Civil War as a tool for war both in instructing soldiers and portraying the enemy. It argues that thus far, the remarkable differences between the teaching of Parliamentarian and Royalist ministers to their...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2025-07-14
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This volume explores different aspects of Ireland, its history and cultural as well as artistic expressions, around the theme of the concert of nations, since independence and the partition of the country back in 1922. The angle chosen is at once historical, political...
Editeur :
Presses universitaires de Caen
Parution :
2025-07-11
Collection :
Symposia
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In Aboriginal-Colonial Exchanges in New South Wales, 1800-1835, Annemarie McLaren re-tells key elements of the foundational story of Australia: the meeting between Indigenous people and colonists and the entangled world that resulted. She does so through a nuanced and...
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OUP Oxford
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2025-07-11
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This book explores the transition from Soviet socialism to the present state of Central Asia's five countries. The role of the of state in regulating the market has been nowhere so topical, yet highly controversial, as in the case of five post-communist Central Asian...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2025-07-11
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This book focuses on tea-ware design exchanges between China and the UK since the middle of 17th Century, and explores how design encouraged trade and how the market demand influenced the development of design. The spirit of Chinese tea came to...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2025-07-10
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Eine Welt – viel Geschichte Weltgeschichte – das ist ein faszinierendes Geflecht aus Abertausenden von Ereignissen, die oft enger verwoben sind, als es auf den ersten Blick scheint. Christa Pöppelmann führt sowohl Laien wie Geschichtsfreaks durch alle Epochen und...
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Wiley-VCH
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2025-07-10
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