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Agathokles of Syracuse ruled large areas of Sicily and southern Italy between 317 and 289 BC. In this book, Christopher de Lisle argues thatAgathokles was an important player in the Mediterranean world at a key moment in its history. Agathokles' career has important...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2021-02-04
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Agathokles of Syracuse ruled large areas of Sicily and southern Italy between 317 and 289 BC. In this book, Christopher de Lisle argues thatAgathokles was an important player in the Mediterranean world at a key moment in its history. Agathokles' career has important...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2021-02-04
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This volume explores the multiple meanings and implications of lobola in Southern Africa. The payment of lobola (often controversially translated as ‘bridewealth’) is an entrenched practice in most societies in Southern Africa. Although having a long tradition, of...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2021-02-03
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Melania the Younger: From Rome to Jerusalem explores the richly detailed story of Melania, an early fifth-century Roman Christian aristocrat who renounced her staggering wealth to lead a life of ascetic renunciation. Hers is a tale of "riches to rags." Born to high...
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Oxford University Press
Parution :
2021-02-03
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“This book provides a deep reading of Nikolai Karazin’s works and his relationship with Central Asia. Elena Andreeva shows how Karazin’s prolific creations have much to tell us about Russian imperialism, colonial and local society as well as Russians’ self-identity as...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2021-02-03
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PUBLIC HISTORY PROVIDES A BACKGROUND IN THE HISTORY, PRINCIPLES, AND PRACTICES OF THE FIELD OFPUBLIC HISTORY Public History: An Introduction from Theory to Application is the first text of its kind to offer both historical background on the ways in which historians...
Editeur :
Wiley-Blackwell
Parution :
2021-02-02
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The untold history of the multiracial making of the border between Canada and the United States.
Often described as the longest undefended border in the world, the Canada-United States border was born in blood, conflict, and uncertainty. At the end of the American...
Editeur :
Oxford University Press
Parution :
2021-02-02
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The story of Iraq is one of resistance. In this groundbreaking study, Johan Franzen offers a contextual modern history of the country, its creation and its struggle for sovereignty.
Iraq's contemporary history is a tale of a diverse people thrown together into a...
Editeur :
Hurst
Parution :
2021-02-01
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In alignment with Indigenous Politics, an emerging sub-field of Politics and IR, this book considers West Papuan Indigenous nationhood. Combining Settler Colonial Studies and Critical Indigenous Theory, the research opens up sovereignty as a political...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2021-02-01
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The idea of the sword-wielding samurai, beholden to a strict ethical code and trained in deadly martial arts, dominates popular conceptions of the samurai. As early as the late seventeenth century, they were heavily featured in literature, art, theater, and even comedy,...
Editeur :
Oxford University Press
Parution :
2021-02-01
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The history of the Second World War in Yugoslavia was for a long time the preserve of the Communist regime led by Marshal Tito. It was written by those who had battled hard to come out on top of the many-sided war fought across the territory of that Balkan state after...
Editeur :
Oxford University Press
Parution :
2021-02-01
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This book elaborates on the distinctive characteristics as well as the archaeological, historical and artistic value of Liangzhu pottery, welcoming readers to the wonderful world of Liangzhu by introducing them to its origin, type, design, decoration, evolution and...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2021-01-30
Collection :
Liangzhu Civilization
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'Barack Obama had a special talent for making different kinds of people feel comfortable around him because of his biracial life experience, says Adekoya. By the same token, Adekoya himself seems poised to become one of the most important and subtle new voices in...
Editeur :
Constable
Parution :
2021-01-28
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This book contributes to global history by examining the connected histories of German and United States colonial empires from the early nineteenth century to the Nazi era. It looks at multiple and multidirectional flows, transfers, and circulations of ideas, people,...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2021-01-28
Collection :
Cambridge Imperial and Post-Colonial Studies
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Caritas, a form of grace that turned our love for our neighbour into a spiritual practice, was expected of all early modern Christians, and corresponded with a set of ethical rules for living that displayed one's love in the everyday. Caritas was not just a willingness...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2021-01-28
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Caritas, a form of grace that turned our love for our neighbour into a spiritual practice, was expected of all early modern Christians, and corresponded with a set of ethical rules for living that displayed one's love in the everyday. Caritas was not just a willingness...
Editeur :
OUP Oxford
Parution :
2021-01-28
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Very Short Introductions: Brilliant, Sharp, Inspiring
The ancient Egyptians are an enduring source of fascination -- mummies and pyramids, curses and rituals have captured the imagination of generations. We all have a mental picture of ancient Egypt, but is it the...
Editeur :
OUP Oxford
Parution :
2021-01-28
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Very Short Introductions: Brilliant, Sharp, Inspiring
The ancient Egyptians are an enduring source of fascination -- mummies and pyramids, curses and rituals have captured the imagination of generations. We all have a mental picture of ancient Egypt, but is it the...
Editeur :
OUP Oxford
Parution :
2021-01-28
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In light of the discrepancy between Britain's and France's postcolonial security roles in Africa, which seemed already determined half a decade after independence, this book studies the making of the postcolonial security relationship during the transfer of power and...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2021-01-26
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In light of the discrepancy between Britain's and France's postcolonial security roles in Africa, which seemed already determined half a decade after independence, this book studies the making of the postcolonial security relationship during the transfer of power and...
Editeur :
OUP Oxford
Parution :
2021-01-26
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