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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...
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Presses universitaires de Liège
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2025-07-17
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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
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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...
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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...
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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
Parution :
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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Have you ever wondered... Who fired the first British shot of the First World War? Who claimed the glory of downing the Red Baron? Who was the first WW1 soldier to receive the Victoria Cross?Telling the stories of the battles, the aircraft, the weapons, the soldiers,...
Editeur :
Summersdale
Parution :
2025-07-10
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Have you ever wondered... Who was the deadliest sniper of the war? How low did the Dambusters fly? How many ships were sunk at Pearl Harbor?Telling the stories of the Battle of Britain, the Siege of Leningrad, the horrors of the Holocaust, the D-Day landings and the...
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Summersdale
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2025-07-10
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Brazen
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2025-07-10
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Victory and Celebration traces how athletic success was transformed into broader social and political capital in ancient Greece in the sixth and fifth centuries BCE--how being a good boxer or wrestler, or having a fast son or superior horses was made into something of...
Editeur :
Oxford University Press
Parution :
2025-07-09
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The series of rebellions against royal authority and the violent clashes between aristocratic families that occurred in England between 1455 and 1487 have long been characterized as the 'Wars of the Roses'. Yet, far from being a continuous period of civil war, the Wars...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2025-07-09
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The introduction of the principle of women's reproductive liberty in France, tentatively by the family planning movement after 1960 and explicitly by the women's liberation movement after 1970, marked a deep shift, transforming public discourses. Yet this principle...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2025-07-09
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The overseas enterprises of Spain expanded dramatically following the first voyage of Christopher Columbus in 1492.The Spanish had already conquered the Canary Islands, which served as a base for the later conquest of lands in the Americas (known as the Indies) that...
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Oxford University Press
Parution :
2025-07-09
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So many of the world's sports have their origins in Britain. Why is this? How did sports innovate and evolve in step with social upheaval, and political and cultural change? Why did British forms of play become so influential around the world?
Richard Holt explores...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2025-07-09
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Das Buch untersucht die Anwerbung und den Einsatz italienischer Arbeitskräfte in der deutschen Kriegswirtschaft. In einer ersten Phase (1938-1942) waren Einberufung und Beschäftigung Teil des deutsch-italienischen Bündnisses, der...
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Springer VS
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2025-07-09
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Finalist for the 2026 PEN/E.O. Wilson Literary Science Writing Award | Winner of the Non-Obvious Book Award's Most Original Book of the YearLOS ANGELES TIMES BESTSELLER | INDIE BESTSELLER | The New Yorker's Best Books of 2025 | Smithsonian's Top 10...
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Little, Brown and Company
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2025-07-08
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