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THE BOOK
The 18,000-odd Kamoro ethno-linguistic group occupy some 300 km of land along the north shore of the Arafura Sea. Their homeland lies to the west of their better-known language relatives, the more numerous Asmat.
For better or worse, a section of the Kamoro...
Editeur :
Galda Verlag
Parution :
2022-11-28
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The Damanhur Federation, situated in Valchiusella, North-West Italy, is one of Europe’s longest-lasting spiritual-esoteric communities. Nevertheless, there has hitherto been nearly no scientific study of this group, with the exception of a handful of specialised-journal...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2022-11-26
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Editeur :
Robinson
Parution :
2022-11-24
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This open access book is about Mozambicans and Angolans who migrated in state-sponsored schemes to East Germany in the late 1970s and throughout the 1980s. They went to work and to be trained as a vanguard labor force for the intended African industrial revolutions....
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2022-11-24
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This book explores an anonymous sixteenth-century portrait of Muley al-Hassan, the Hafsid king of Tunis (ca. 1528–1550), that bears witness to relations between North Africa, the Habsburgs, and the Ottomans. While Muley al-Hassan appears frequently in the vast...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2022-11-24
Collection :
New Transculturalisms, 1400–1800
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Perhaps no category of people on earth has been perceived as more endangered, nor subjected to more conservation efforts, than indigenous peoples. And in India, calls for the conservation of Adivasi culture have often reached a fever pitch, especially amongst urban...
Editeur :
OUP Oxford
Parution :
2022-11-24
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This is the first book to tell the story of the bebop subculture in London’s Soho, a subculture that emerged in 1945 and reached its pinnacle in 1950. In an exploration via the intersections of race, class and gender, it shows how bebop identities were...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2022-11-23
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This book marks the 200-year anniversary of uprisings in the Ottoman Balkans between February and March 1821, which became known in the West as the beginnings of the Greek War of Independence (1821–1832), and led to the formation of the modern Greek state. It...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2022-11-23
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This book provides an entry point to the most cutting-edge lines of research on popular political mobilisation in Europe. It brings together leading scholars from Germany, France, Britain, the Netherlands and Spain. The chapters explore the connected dimensions of...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2022-11-22
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This volume addresses the ways the ‘native labour’ question in the Portuguese late colonial empire in Africa became a recurrent topic of international and transnational debate and regulation after the Second World War. As other European colonial empires were tentatively...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2022-11-22
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This book examines discourses around infertility and views of childlessness in medieval and early modern Europe. ?Whereas in our own time reproductive behaviour is regulated by demographic policy in the interest of upholding the intergenerational contract, premodern...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2022-11-22
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A bestselling historian uncovers the surprising roots of America’s long alliance with Israel and its troubling consequences Fights about the fate of the state of Israel, and the Zionist movement that gave birth to it, have long been a staple of both Jewish...
Editeur :
Basic Books
Parution :
2022-11-22
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WINNER OF THE PULITZER PRIZE IN HISTORYAn "important, deeply affecting—and regrettably relevant" (New York Times) chronicle of a sinister idea of freedom: white Americans’ freedom to oppress others and their fight against the...
Editeur :
Basic Books
Parution :
2022-11-22
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Constitutions of Self in Contemporary Irish Poetry explores the figure of the lyrical self in the work of six contemporary Irish poets: Paul Muldoon, Vona Groarke, Sinéad Morrissey, Caitríona O’Reilly, Alan Gillis and Nick Laird. By focusing on the self, this study...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2022-11-22
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The articles of this comprehensive edited volume offer a multidisciplinary, global and comparative approach to the history of empires. They analyze their ends over a long spectrum of humankind’s history, ranging from Ancient History through Modern Times....
Editeur :
Springer VS
Parution :
2022-11-21
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This book explores the concept of ‘resilience’ in the context of militaries and militarization. Focusing on the U.S., Britain, Canada, Australia, and continental Europe, it argues that, post-9/11, there has been a shift away from ‘trauma’ and towards ‘resilience’ in...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2022-11-21
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This Palgrave Pivot provides a concise history of the development of sociology in Greece. It provides a compelling narrative of the discipline’s embryonic state, its promising beginnings that aligned with its contact with the then robust French and German...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2022-11-21
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This book shows how the police functioned in the cities of the Napoleonic Empire. Shifting attention away from political repression, it focuses on the men who embodied this institution and made it work day-to-day. Based on extensive archival research, the book shows how...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2022-11-21
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Bazaar Literature reorients our understanding of Victorian social reform fiction by reading it in light of the copious amount of literature generated for charity bazaars. Bazaars were ubiquitous during the nineteenth century, part of the vibrant and massive private...
Editeur :
OUP Oxford
Parution :
2022-11-21
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This book focuses on those features of the Roman economy that are less traceable in text and archaeology, and as a consequence remain largely underexplored in contemporary scholarship. By reincorporating, for the first time, these long-obscured practices in mainstream...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2022-11-17
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