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Das Buch hat Brief einer Unbekannten, Stefan Zweigs Novelle aus dem Jahr 1922, und die hierauf basierenden internationalen Verfilmungen der Jahre 1929–2017 zum Gegenstand. Es sind Adaptionen u. a. aus der VR China, aus Deutschland, Finnland, Frankreich, Griechenland,...
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Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2024-10-07
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Das Buch hat zum Ziel, das Vorkommen der Burgherrschaft (châtellenie französischen Typs) in Deutschland aufzuzeigen und dabei die innere Struktur der Burgherrschaft zu untersuchen. Konkret greift der Autor vier Burgen, nämlich Neuburg, Falkenstein, Hartmannsberg und...
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Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
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2024-10-07
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For most of its existence, the US Supreme Court has sustained slavery, racial discrimination, segregation, racial inequality, and white preference through constitutional interpretation and legal doctrine. During America's first two centuries, slavery was the law of the...
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Oxford University Press
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2024-10-04
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On July 22, 1847, a group of about forty refugees entered the Salt Lake Valley. Among them were three enslaved men, two of whom shared the religion, Mormonism, that had caused them to flee. The valley was also home to members of the Ute tribe, who would sometimes barter...
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Oxford University Press
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2024-10-04
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This book is the first major study exploring archival and memorial practices of the Soviet unofficial culture. The creation of counter-archives was one of the most important forms of cultural resistance in the Soviet Union. Unofficial artists and poets had to reinvent...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2024-10-04
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This book provides the first comprehensive study of the technical corps during the Napoleonic Era, both in France and in Italy. These corps, which possessed advanced schooling and nurtured meritocratic practices even in the Ancien Regime, came to the forefront with the...
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2024-10-04
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This volume is a comprehensive historical exploration of the Red Sea, a vital maritime route that connects the Mediterranean and the Indian Ocean. It highlights various pivotal moments and struggles from Aden to Suez, including the conflicts between Islamic powers and...
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Springer
Parution :
2024-10-03
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This book highlights the broad scope and span of resistance as a contentious practice in the early modern Iberian world. In this context, from the late Middle Ages onwards, resistance, rooted in the political and legal language of the ‘old regime’ that...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2024-10-01
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An award-winning journalist presents an even-handed, thoroughly researched examination of the Arab-Israeli conflict, and illustrates how a shocking yet little-known massacre one century ago in what was then Palestine became ground zero of a war that continues to...
Editeur :
Union Square & Co.
Parution :
2024-10-01
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"America is the world's biggest haunted house and American Scary is the only travel guide you need. I loved this book." —Grady Hendrix, New York Times bestselling author of How to Sell a Haunted House and The Final Girl Support GroupFrom the...
Editeur :
Algonquin Books
Parution :
2024-10-01
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“Remarkable… the best overview of America’s misadventure in Southeast Asia, and it is sure to become the standard one-volume book on the war.” – Thomas E. Ricks, New York Times The Vietnam War cast a shadow over the American psyche from...
Editeur :
Basic Books
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2024-10-01
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This book documents and analyses Chilean university and school students’ opposition to the Pinochet regime during the latter years of the 1970s and the 1980s. The book focuses on key episodes such as the establishment of cultural groups within the militarily controlled...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2024-09-30
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The nature and purpose of elementary education featured prominently in English periodicals throughout the nineteenth century. This book’s central argument is that the periodical press provided a unique cultural space for literary and intellectual contributions to...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2024-09-30
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Trust the power of cognitive science to help students to understand more, remember more and feel more confident about their exams.This textbook is guaranteed to make learning more effective. The approach was created by author and teacher Dale Banham, who has amazing...
Editeur :
Hodder Education
Parution :
2024-09-27
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Während des Zweiten Weltkrieges wurden in den Vereinigten Staaten von Amerika bereits verschiedene Visionen zur Zukunft und Nachkriegsordnung Europas ausgearbeitet, die als solche den ideellen Grundstein für spätere außenpolitische Vorhaben legten und folglich einen...
Editeur :
Springer VS
Parution :
2024-09-26
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Ein Tötungsverbot gehört zu den Grundregeln aller zivilisierten Gesellschaften - im Krieg ist dieses Verbot aber plötzlich außer Kraft gesetzt. Dies führt zu sozialen, religiösen und ideologischen Problemen, die häufig durch die Dehumanisierung der Gegner gelöst werden....
Editeur :
J.B. Metzler
Parution :
2024-09-26
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This is an open access book.This OA book contains extensive research on social justice during China’s transition period. Rather than taking a macro-historical approach, or looking at social justice from a philosophical perspective, the book focuses on relevant theories...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2024-09-25
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This book examines the impact of shipbuilding on the society of the Song Dynasty from multiple perspectives and points out the positive contribution of ancient manufacture industry to social development at that time.
It explores some virgin territories and...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2024-09-25
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