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This book contributes to various political debates about Central Europe in terms of its literary-symbolic geography. The author contends that the research about Central Europe must, first of all, be exempted from its mythicisation. The idealisation of a past of...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2024-08-06
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This book explores how Australia managed the prisoner of war issue throughout the Second World War and the immediate post-war period. It examines how the Australian government responded to the captivity of thousands of Australians in Italy and the detention of an even...
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2024-08-02
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Dieses Buch versammelt neuere Forschungsbeiträge zur rechtlichen Diskussion um die Gleichstellung der Frau im 18. Jahrhundert.
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J.B. Metzler
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2024-08-02
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Gardens are not central in Latin literature, but usually somewhere off to the side, as was often the real garden. They appear, however, in some form in nearly all literary genres of Latin literature--history, satire, epigrams, epics, letters, lyric poetry, elegies, and...
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Oxford University Press
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2024-08-02
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'Clay contains infinite possibilities in its transmutations, evidenced on the shelves of our homes, our galleries and museums. Every time we make something with clay, we engage with the timelines that are in the material itself, whether it was dug from a clifftop,...
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White Rabbit
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2024-08-01
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Editeur :
Monoray
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2024-08-01
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Herbert Kenny, an army dispatch rider, was the first ally to push open the gates at Belsen Concentration Camp, in April 1945.He kept his story from the world until a chance correspondence with a trainee journalist brought it to light. Now, forty years on, that reporter...
Editeur :
Cassell
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2024-08-01
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This book brings together a group of British and Italian scholars who have made significant contributions to the historiography of modern Italy over the last three decades, dedicated to the influence of Paul Ginsborg. Reflecting Ginsborg's interest in the encounter of...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2024-07-27
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*SHORTLISTED FOR THE SUNDAY TIMES YOUNG WRITER OF THE YEAR AWARD 2025*'Remarkable... entertaining... deft... moving... refreshing'Daily Telegraph'A richly rewarding account of a resonant cultural moment'Guardian'Textured literary portraits of the masculine mind and...
Editeur :
Sceptre
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2024-07-25
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This book untangles the connections between British industrialization and colonial expansion in the late-eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. The addition of fossil fuels to the energy mix in this period drove overwhelming social and economic change in Britain, the...
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2024-07-24
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This book presents detailed research regarding the Xia, Shang, and Zhou dynasties, including studies of inscriptions on bones or tortoise shells, bronzeware, bamboo scripts, and silk manuscripts, in order to demonstrate the main features of various historical periods...
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Springer
Parution :
2024-07-24
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Bringing together contributions from social, political, and urban historians, this collection examines social movements in Western European cities from the 1950s to the 1980s. Since their post-war recovery and reconstruction, cities in this part of the world underwent...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2024-07-23
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This open access book provides fascinating insights into the incredible changes that Vietnam underwent in the long twentieth century as it transformed from an early modern kingdom to a European colony, to a divided land with opposing ideologies, and to a unified country...
Editeur :
Springer
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2024-07-22
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This book presents a comprehensive and inclusive exploration of the core essence of Chinese civilization and its deeply-rooted humanistic values. It goes beyond the surface and delves into the philosophical, ethical, and historical aspects, aiming to unravel the...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2024-07-20
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This open access Palgrave Pivot explores four major aspects of globalization: foreign trade, capital and information flows, and the movement of people. The book examines how the state socialist countries of East Central Europe fit into the general trend of...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2024-07-20
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This book explores the development of coffee substitutes in nineteenth-century Sweden. In doing so, it considers the the threshold between the preindustrial and industrial periods by analyzing trade, consumption, social, economic, and environmental changes, and the...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2024-07-19
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The first comprehensive study of Italian Christian Democracy in English, Italy's Christian Democracy unravels the encounter between Catholicism and democracy from pre-unification Italy in the eighteenth century to the near-present. Forlenza and Thomassen put the...
Editeur :
OUP Oxford
Parution :
2024-07-18
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This book aims to extend existing historical, literary and media knowledge of neglected written voices as a form of print participation in the Second World War. Uniquely, it is framed by an awareness of contemporary requirements for both secrecy and deception, which, it...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2024-07-17
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This harrowing tale of early twentieth century New York reveals the true stories of an immigrant underworld, a secret vice squad, and the rise of organized crime. In the early 1900s, prior to World War I, New York City was a vortex of vice and corruption. On the...
Editeur :
Little, Brown and Company
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2024-07-16
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