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?This book examines the history of a military expedition the Japanese government sent to southern Taiwan in 1874, in the context of Japan’s subordination to Western powers in the unequal treaty system in East Asia. It argues that events on the ground in Taiwan show the...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2019-01-02
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The nature of the US political system, with its overlapping powers, intense partisanship, and continuous scrutiny from the media and public, complicates the conduct of foreign policy. While numerous presidents have struggled under the weight of these conditions,...
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Oxford University Press
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2019-01-02
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The story of the creation of the Book of Mormon has been told many times, and often ridiculed. A Documentary History of the Book of Mormon presents and examines the primary sources surrounding the origin of the foundational text of the Church of Jesus Christ of...
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Oxford University Press
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2019-01-02
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This book highlights the quantitative methods of data mining and information visualization and explores their use in relation to the films and writings of the Russian director, Dziga Vertov. The theoretical basis of the work harkens back to the time when a group of...
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Springer
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2019-01-02
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Quantitative Methods in the Humanities and Social Sciences
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This book is a synthesis of the first thirteen digital editions, which were often hard to be born. 50 000 years of prehistory of humanity, that is what this volume tries to summarize; it is a little short for a single work, and it relies on the ...
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JePublie
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2019-01-01
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JePublie présente
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In early summer 1982--winter in the South Atlantic--Argentina's military junta invades the Falklands. Within days, a British Royal Navy Task Force is assembled and dispatched. This is the story of D Squadron, 22 SAS, commanded by Cedric Delves.
The relentless tempo...
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Hurst
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2019-01-01
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This book analyses the perceived legitimacy of health and safety in post-1960 British public life. Since 2010 health and safety has appeared to be in crisis, being attacked by press, politicians and public alike, but are these claims of crisis accurate? How have...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2018-12-30
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This collection provides new insights into the ’Age of Revolutions’, focussing on state trials for treason and sedition, and expands the sophisticated discussion that has marked the historiography of that period by examining political trials in Britain and the...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2018-12-30
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Palgrave Histories of Policing, Punishment and Justice
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In this book historians and social scientists examine boycotts from the eighteenth century to the present day. Employed in struggles against British rule in the American colonies, against racial discrimination in the United States during the Civil Rights...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2018-12-29
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Palgrave Critical Studies of Antisemitism and Racism
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Die Rehabilitation des in Verruf geratenen Subjekts als einzig bestimmender historischer Akteur ist der zentrale Anspruch dieses Buches. Wesentliche geschichtswissenschaftliche Kategorien wie historische Wirklichkeit, Geschichte als Wissenschaft, Quellen und Medien...
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Springer VS
Parution :
2018-12-28
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This study offers the first extensive analysis of the function and significance of urban panegyric in the Central Middle Ages, a flexible literary genre which enjoyed a marked and renewed popularity in the period 1100 to 1300. In doing so, it connects the production of...
Editeur :
OUP Oxford
Parution :
2018-12-27
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In The Politics of Southern Pastoral Literature, 1785–1885: Jeffersonian Afterlives, Peter Templeton presents a wide-ranging and systematic evaluation of pastoral in the nineteenth-century Southern novel, offering an explicit appraisal of the philosophical and political...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2018-12-26
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The Christian community in India emerged from an Indian rather than a foreign or an imperial context. Its internal dynamics were shaped far more by Indian social realities than by missionary designs. This book presents a comprehensive social history of Christianity in...
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OUP India
Parution :
2018-12-22
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Courtship in Georgian England was a decisive moment in the life cycle, imagined as a tactical game, an invigorating sport, and a perilous journey across a turbulent sea. This volume brings to life the emotional experience of courtship using the words and objects...
Editeur :
OUP Oxford
Parution :
2018-12-20
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Beyond the Barricades is an original study of government after the 1848 revolutions. It focuses on the state of Prussia, where a number of conservative ministers sought to learn lessons from their experiences of upheaval and introduce a wave of reform in the 1850s....
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2018-12-20
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This book investigates how rapid socio-political-economic change in China since 1949 has affected intergenerational relationships and practices in rural areas, specifically the care provided to elderly parents by their adult children. It focuses on the lived experiences...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2018-12-20
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Dynastic Politics and the British Reformations, 1558-1630 revisits what used to be regarded as an entirely 'mainstream' topic in the historiography of the later sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries - namely, the link between royal dynastic politics and the outcome...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2018-12-20
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This intellectually discomfiting, disturbingly provocative, yet still thoroughly scholarly Handbook reproduces the intellectual ferment that accompanied the Russian Revolution including the wholly polarising effect at that time of Vladimir Ilyich Lenin. The Palgrave...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2018-12-19
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One of the most dramatic images of the French Revolution is of Parisian market women sloshing through mud and dragging cannons as they marched on Versailles and returned with bread and the king. These market women, the Dames des Halles, sold essential foodstuffs to the...
Editeur :
Oxford University Press
Parution :
2018-12-18
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This volume presents the results of a multidisciplinary research program (“Balkans 4000”) financed by the French National Research Agency (ANR) and coordinated by the editor between 2007 and 2011, when she was a member of the Maison de l’Orient et de la Méditerranée...
Editeur :
MOM Éditions
Parution :
2018-12-18
Collection :
Travaux de la Maison de l’Orient et de la Méditerranée
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