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It has long been assumed that England lay outside the Western European tradition of castle-building until after the Norman Conquest of 1066.It is now becoming apparent that Anglo-Saxon lords had been constructing free-standing towers at their residences all across...
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OUP Oxford
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2019-01-10
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Homicide has a history. In early modern England, that history saw two especially notable developments: one, the emergence in the sixteenth century of a formal distinction between murder and manslaughter, made meaningful through a lighter punishment than death for the...
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OUP Oxford
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2019-01-10
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For decades, medieval scholarship has been dominated by the paradigm that women who wielded power after c. 1100 were exceptions to the “rule” of female exclusion from governance and the public sphere. This collection makes a powerful case for a new paradigm. Building on...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2019-01-09
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This book tracks the changes in government involvement in Indigneous children’s education over the nineteenth century, drawing on case studies from the Caribbean, Australia and South Africa. Schools were pivotal in the production and reproduction of racial difference in...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2019-01-09
Collection :
Cambridge Imperial and Post-Colonial Studies
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This volume explores how scholars wrote, preserved, circulated, and read knowledge in ancient Mesopotamia. It offers an exercise in micro-history that provides a case study for attempting to understand the relationship between scholars and scholarship during this time...
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Springer
Parution :
2019-01-08
Collection :
Why the Sciences of the Ancient World Matter
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Germany's financial collapse in the summer of 1931 was one of the biggest economic catastrophes of modern history. It led to a global panic, brought down the international monetary system, and turned a worldwide recession into a prolonged depression. The crisis also...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2019-01-08
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Germany's financial collapse in the summer of 1931 was one of the biggest economic catastrophes of modern history. It led to a global panic, brought down the international monetary system, and turned a worldwide recession into a prolonged depression. The crisis also...
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OUP Oxford
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2019-01-08
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This volume explores how Catholicism began and continues to open its doors to the wider world and to other confessions in embracing ecumenism, thanks to the vision and legacy of the Second Vatican Council. It explores such themes as the twentieth century context...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2019-01-08
Collection :
Pathways for Ecumenical and Interreligious Dialogue
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This book explores the rise of the aesthetic category of addiction in the nineteenth century, a century that saw the development of an established medical sense of drug addiction. Drugs and the Addiction Aesthetic in Nineteenth-Century Literature focuses especially on...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2019-01-08
Collection :
Palgrave Studies in Literature, Science and Medicine
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This book investigates the wide-ranging connections between sculpture, sexuality, and history in Western culture from the eighteenth century to the present. Sculpture has offered a privileged site for the articulation of sexual experience and the formation of sexual...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2019-01-04
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This book is a comparative study of the development of sociology in Britain and France between 1920 and 1940, taking a broad definition of the discipline to examine divergence across the channel in the interwar years. Rocquin charts the tension between differing schools...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2019-01-04
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This volume recounts the battles of Isandlwana and Rorke's Drift, exploring how they were fought, how they have been remembered, and what they mean for us today.
The battle of Isandlwana on 22 January 1879, the first major battle in the Anglo-Zulu war, witnessed the...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2019-01-03
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This volume recounts the battles of Isandlwana and Rorke's Drift, exploring how they were fought, how they have been remembered, and what they mean for us today.
The battle of Isandlwana on 22 January 1879, the first major battle in the Anglo-Zulu war, witnessed the...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2019-01-03
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Servilia is often cited as one of the most influential women of the late Roman Republic. Though she was a high-born patrician, her grandfather died disgraced and her controversial father was killed before he could stand for the consulship; she herself married twice, but...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2019-01-03
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Servilia is often cited as one of the most influential women of the late Roman Republic. Though she was a high-born patrician, her grandfather died disgraced and her controversial father was killed before he could stand for the consulship; she herself married twice, but...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2019-01-03
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Long before the United States was a nation, it was a set of ideas, projected onto the New World by European explorers with centuries of belief and thought in tow. From this foundation of expectation and experience, America and American thought grew in turn, enriched by...
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Oxford University Press
Parution :
2019-01-03
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This unusual book explores the historical assumptions at work in the style of literary criticism that came to dominate English studies in the twentieth century. Stefan Collini shows how the work of critics renowned for their close attention to 'the words on the page'...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2019-01-03
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This unusual book explores the historical assumptions at work in the style of literary criticism that came to dominate English studies in the twentieth century. Stefan Collini shows how the work of critics renowned for their close attention to 'the words on the page'...
Editeur :
OUP Oxford
Parution :
2019-01-03
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Imagine the planet, as if from an immense distance of time and space, as a galactic observer might see it--with the kind of objectivity that we, who are enmeshed in our history, can´t attain.
The Oxford Illustrated History of the World encompasses the whole span of...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2019-01-03
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Imagine the planet, as if from an immense distance of time and space, as a galactic observer might see it--with the kind of objectivity that we, who are enmeshed in our history, can´t attain.
The Oxford Illustrated History of the World encompasses the whole span of...
Editeur :
OUP Oxford
Parution :
2019-01-03
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