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This book examines the rising global prominence of China’s art market throughout the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. To understand the far-reaching impact of Chinese art on global consumption, this book traces the shift from regional markets to global markets. It...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2023-09-30
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This book is the first complete biography of George Minchin Minchin (1845–1914), professor of applied mathematics at the Royal Indian Engineering College. Minchin’s extraordinary range of accomplishments offers a unique inside view of the major technological and...
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Springer
Parution :
2023-09-29
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Dieses Buch befasst sich mit der Wirkung Richard Wagners und Friedrich Nietzsches auf die Ideologien der radikalen Rechten, die in der einen oder anderen Form Eingang in die Sammlungsbewegung des Nationalsozialismus gefunden haben. Es konzentriert sich also auf die...
Editeur :
J.B. Metzler
Parution :
2023-09-29
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English Renaissance Manuscript Culture: The Paper Revolution traces the development of a new type of scribal culture in England that emerged early in the fourteenth century. The main medieval writing surfaces of parchment and wax tablets were augmented by a writing...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2023-09-29
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Muslims formed a disparate and unwieldy community in Bombay in the nineteenth century. The Islam that was professedly held in common by various groups could barely provide a sense of unity or cohesion to people so widely diverse in terms of language, customs, and also...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2023-09-29
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Ireland was England's oldest colony. Making Empire revisits the history of empire in Ireland—in a time of Brexit, 'the culture wars', and the campaigns around 'Black Lives Matter' and 'Statues must fall'—to better understand how it has formed the present, and how it...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2023-09-29
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'Colonization through a process of affection', wrote the London-based Barbadian novelist George Lamming in 1960, was 'the worst form of colonization'. Lamming's London was marked by the violent currents of racism—some seen, many disavowed. But the operations of race,...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2023-09-29
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'Breathtaking... vital and important. A wonderful read' PETER FRANKOPAN'Marvellous... escapes the inane, balance-sheet view of Empire and sees its full complexity' SATHNAM SANGHERA'Excellent... his mastery of detail is impeccable' DOMINIC SANDBROOK, Sunday...
Editeur :
Abacus
Parution :
2023-09-28
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Dilly's Story
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This book offers theoretical and practical insights into land use, transport, and national policies in one of world’s well-known urban concrete jungle, none other than the Singapore city. The emphasis is situated on Singapore’s attempt to promote walking and cycling....
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2023-09-28
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This book presents a panoramic history of the Chinese nation spanning the twentieth century, with the great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation as its central theme. In their unwavering pursuit of national independence, universal...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2023-09-27
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Livy's 142-volume history of Rome is one of the high points of ancient historical writing; but three-quarters of that history is lost, known only from indirect sources such as epitomes and quotations. D. S. Levene's Livy: The Fragments and Periochae provides a text,...
Editeur :
OUP Oxford
Parution :
2023-09-27
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Livy's 142-volume history of Rome is one of the high points of ancient historical writing; but three-quarters of that history is lost, known only from indirect sources such as epitomes and quotations. D. S. Levene's Livy: The Fragments and Periochae provides a text,...
Editeur :
OUP Oxford
Parution :
2023-09-27
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In dieser überarbeiteten Fassung zur Erstveröffentlichung von 1991 über die zwölf Eklogen des italienischen Dichters Francesco Petrarca (1304-1374) werden die gewonnenen Erkenntnisse durch aktuelle wissenschaftliche Untersuchungen ergänzt und die noch fehlenden Eklogen...
Editeur :
Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2023-09-26
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Gambling captures as nothing else the drama of the “long eighteenth century” between the age of religious wars and the age of revolutions. The society that was confronted with games of chance pursued as commercial ventures also came to grips with unprecedented social...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2023-09-26
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In diesem Buch wird versucht, die scheinbar direkte Verbindung zwischen Utopismus und den USA zu verstehen, indem Romane besprochen werden, die in dieser Kombination noch nie zusammengebracht wurden, obwohl sie sich alle um intentionale Gemeinschaften drehen: Imlays The...
Editeur :
J.B. Metzler
Parution :
2023-09-25
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Tracing the history of four English case studies, this book explores how, from outward appearance to interior furnishings, the material worlds of reform institutions for ‘fallen’ women reflected their moral purpose and shaped the lived experience of their inmates....
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2023-09-25
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«This is a splendidly lucid and readable book, a distinctive and a distinguished contribution to Nordic Studies.» (Colin Roth, Centre for Nordic Studies, University of Sheffield)
«Eloquently narrates with precision and wit the fascinating story of how the objects and...
Editeur :
Peter Lang Ltd, International Academic Publishers
Parution :
2023-09-25
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Very Short Introductions: Brilliant, Sharp, Inspiring
A pathbreaking analysis of the relationship between Mandela the myth, and Mandela the historical figure, looking at the way images, stories, and politics have been combined to create the iconic image of Mandela...
Editeur :
OUP Oxford
Parution :
2023-09-25
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What ambitions lay behind Roman provincial governance? How did these change over time and in response to local conditions? To what extent did local agents facilitate and contribute to the creation of imperial administrative institutions? The answers to these questions...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2023-09-24
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Franz Beckenbauer once observed that, in England, «war correspondents get their say whenever their team plays us.» In Crossing the Line?, Christoph Wagner surveys German football rivalry in the second half of the twentieth century as it was played out on the pitch and...
Editeur :
Peter Lang Ltd, International Academic Publishers
Parution :
2023-09-23
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