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Dieses Buch konzentriert sich auf die politischen Entwicklungen der österreichischen Monarchie in den Jahren 1861-1867, in denen viele Weichen gestellt wurden. Nach dem Scheitern des „Neoabsolutismus“ verfügte das Kaisertum Österreich seit 1861 wieder über ein...
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Springer VS
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2025-09-30
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This edited collection examines the violence experienced by non-combatants during the civil wars which took place in Europe in the first half of the twentieth century. The determinants of violence in civil wars are highly complex and variable. By focusing on both the...
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2025-09-30
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Why were the United States and its Western Allies so lenient after the most atrocious war of all times? Out of Hitler's Shadow answers this question, and considers why the Allies concluded that imposing unrealistic financial conditions on a defeated country would do...
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OUP Oxford
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2025-09-30
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Why were the United States and its Western Allies so lenient after the most atrocious war of all times? Out of Hitler's Shadow answers this question, and considers why the Allies concluded that imposing unrealistic financial conditions on a defeated country would do...
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OUP Oxford
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2025-09-30
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“A devastating, passionate takedown of Chief Justice John Roberts's Supreme Court by a Washington insider.” —Jane Mayer, author of Dark Money In the last twenty years the US Supreme Court has radically curtailed voting rights, undermined...
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Bold Type Books
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2025-09-30
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This is an open access title available under the terms of a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 International license. It is free to read on Oxford Academic and offered as a free PDF download from OUP and selected open access locations.
Over the last 150 years, activists and policymakers...
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OUP Oxford
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2025-09-30
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This is an open access title available under the terms of a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 International license. It is free to read on Oxford Academic and offered as a free PDF download from OUP and selected open access locations.
Over the last 150 years, activists and policymakers...
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OUP Oxford
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2025-09-30
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This book, extensively revised and updated in its second edition, presents a comprehensive overview of housing policy in Australia over the last quarter century. At a time of widespread concern about declining housing system performance, it investigates the many...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2025-09-30
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Hong Kong is known as an entrepôt in its colonial history, but its place in early cinema has not received the same scholarly attention. The Colonial Screen: Early Cinema inHong Kong explores the exhibition, regulation, circulation, reception, and social place of motion...
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Oxford University Press
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2025-09-30
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This book undertakes an in-depth exploration of the pivotal role of rice, which is the world's most essential food crops, sustaining over half of the global populace. It meticulously analyzes how rice cultivation constitutes the material bedrock and defining...
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2025-09-30
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The idea of self-determination is one of the most significant in modern international politics. For more than a century diplomats, lawyers, scholars, activists, and ordinary people in every part of the globe have wrestled with its meaning and implications for...
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Oxford University Press
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2025-09-30
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This book explores how Kazakhstan has navigated its identity and geopolitical relationships since the January 2022 protests and the Russian-Ukrainian crisis. What began as a study of Soviet legacy in Kazakhstan shifted focus when major events in 2022 altered the...
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2025-09-30
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The book is devoted to the problem of the civilizational development of the Kazakhs, as descendants of nomads, at the present stage.The author pays special attention to how the eras of modernity and postmodernity influenced today's Kazakhstan. In this anti-colonial...
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2025-09-30
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This book presents a sustained and systematic analysis of the totalitarian topos across Vladimir Nabokov’s life and career. Contributing to the ongoing reappraisal of Nabokov’s writing in its engagement with politics and ideology, this study...
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2025-09-30
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This book examines the effect of the French Revolution and the ensuing war with Spain on northern Catalonia, annexed by France in the seventeenth century and constrained by the imposition of a political border along the Pyrenees. Assimilation of the northern Catalan...
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2025-09-30
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In this open access book, Larissa Hugentobler explores the world of public memorials: highly visible, and at times contentious, media, which communicate a nation’s values and ideals – its public memory.
By celebrating a selection of a nation’s history,...
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Springer VS
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2025-09-30
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North American edition with an exclusive afterword and photographs INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER | NATIONAL INDIE BESTSELLER | BOSTON GLOBE BESTSELLER | SAN FRANCISCO CHRONICLE BESTSELLER In early October 2023, Palestinian Plestia Alaqad was...
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Little, Brown and Company
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2025-09-30
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Following the death in 1789 of Abbé de l'Epée, the first teacher of deaf pupils renowned in France and beyond, revolutionaries committed to founding national institutes for the education of deaf pupils. There was little doubt about their ability to integrate as full...
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OUP Oxford
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2025-09-28
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Sir Syed Ahmad Khan, a 19th-century educationist and reformer, pioneered modern education among Indian Muslims. He founded the Mohammedan Anglo-Oriental (MAO) College in 1875, which became Aligarh Muslim University in 1920, revolutionizing Muslim thought and promoting...
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OUP Oxford
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2025-09-27
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This book tells the story of the people who shaped the modern art market and its institutions to maximize the financial potential of their product.This transformation resulted in a fundamental and lasting redefinition of art. It is based on contemporaneous sources —...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2025-09-26
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