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The 1921 Tulsa Race Riot was the country's bloodiest civil disturbance of the century. Thirty city blocks were burned to the ground, perhaps 150 died, and the prosperous black community of Greenwood, Oklahoma, was turned to rubble.
Alfred L. Brophy draws on his own...
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Oxford University Press
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2025-01-03
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Early in the modern period, prisoners of war with the rank of officer or equivalent had the right to petition for parole. By effectively pawning their personal honour, they were able to purchase freedom of movement and other privileges-in-captivity. Increasingly, other...
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OUP Oxford
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2025-01-03
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Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization, rooted in an unarticulated patriarchy in the Supreme Court’s historical narrative, represents an untimely expression of deeply religious and conservative hostility towards women. Anti-Dobbs: An Interdisciplinary Polemic...
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Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2025-01-02
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How did Gettysburg become the most famous battle of the American Civil War and one of the most consequential in world history? Why is the most visited battlefield, the place where veterans came in the greatest numbers, where Presidents pay homage, and millions of...
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OUP Oxford
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2025-01-02
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This is an open access title available under the terms of a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 International licence. It is free to read on the Oxford Academic platform and offered as a free PDF download from OUP and selected open access locations.
The end of Britain's empire in...
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OUP Oxford
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2025-01-02
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Ao. Univ. Prof. Heinz Noflatscher lehrte bis zu seiner Pensionierung 2019 Geschichte der Neuzeit und Österreichische Geschichte an der Universität Innsbruck. 2024 feiert er seinen 70. Geburtstag. Aus diesem Anlass haben seine langjährigen Wegbegleiter:innen und...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
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2025-01-02
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Approximately 11 million people were killed during the Holocaust. No one will ever know the exact figure. Of those, some six million were Jewish, including one million children. The remainder comprised numerous ethnic and social groups deemed the Untermenschen, the...
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Welbeck
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2025-01-02
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This collection addresses two interrelated questions: How are the lived experiences of contention remembered in the form of auto/biography? How is life writing, as an act of cultural remembrance, used in activism? Building on cutting-edge scholarship on the...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2025-01-01
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Palgrave Macmillan Memory Studies
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This book presents a factual analysis of the history of population policy, especially the fertility policy, mainly the reproduction of the policy since the founding of New China, especially the promotion of one child per couple, including the background of the policy's...
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Springer
Parution :
2024-12-31
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This open access book argues that Japan-ROK security relations were formed in the process of adjusting the threat perception gap and policy conflict between the two countries. Conventional analyses using a “cooperation or conflict” dichotomy are too limited to capture...
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Springer
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2024-12-31
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This book provides an overview of American aviation from 1903 to 1941, covering major developments in aviation technology. It focuses on the role of the military and selected firms. Under the fiscal constraints imposed by the post-war military drawdown and the Great...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2024-12-30
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This book reconstructs and discusses the research of Roger J. Williams, exploring the development of his concept of Biochemical Individuality. As a pioneer in the emerging field of biochemistry, Williams examined the biochemical differences among individuals and...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
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2024-12-30
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Seit 25 Jahren arbeiten 49 Staaten an der Realisierung der Bologna-Erklärung zur Schaffung eines Europäischen Hochschulraums. Die Bildungssysteme der teilnehmenden EU- und Nicht-EU-Staaten werden mittels dieser Reform besser koordinierbar.In diesem Band wird die...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2024-12-30
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This volume contains thirteen selected papers from the seventh international 'Beyond Camps and Forced Labour conference', held in London in January 2023. The geographical and methodological scope of the chapters, ranging from postwar trials to survivors’ memoirs and...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2024-12-28
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This edited collection aims to look beyond established narratives of feminist history, by focusing on non-English speaking European countries. Recent scholarship on the history of the women’s liberation movement in individual countries has enhanced our...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2024-12-27
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Historiography is one of the most systematic accounts of the fate of culture. It is also a record of human—reflexive and reflective metaphors of the world, simultaneously anthropomorphizing and humanizing it. Historical imagination captures the world in its classical...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
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2024-12-27
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Alors que, au lendemain de la Seconde guerre mondiale, en Italie et en France, les principals cultures politiques se sont consolidées, à partir de la fi n des années 1960, ells font face aux changements profonds qui affectent les sociétés ouest-européennes, jusqu’à la...
Editeur :
P.I.E-Peter Lang S.A., Éditions Scientifiques Internationales
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2024-12-27
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This open access book addresses a question fundamental to the histories of empire and Africa: at the point of the colonial encounter, how was knowledge made? How did different communities, with little or no prior contact, construct meaning about one another? Amidst huge...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2024-12-27
Collection :
Cambridge Imperial and Post-Colonial Studies
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The anthology presents a diverse array of essays delving into Gandhi's political activities, ethical beliefs, and philosophical stance. Distinguished Gandhian scholars contribute to this collection, setting it apart from similar compilations by focusing not just on...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2024-12-26
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The leading statesman of nineteenth-century Britain, a figure who bestrode the political world like a Colossus, is 'Gladstone' to modern biographers. In order to signal the difference between Wheeler's approach and those of earlier biographers, the subject of this book...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2024-12-25
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