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This volume represents one of the first extensive studies that investigates the persistence of questions of race and racism in Italy from the liberal age to the present, through colonialism, Fascism and post-war Italy. It adopts an interdisciplinary perspective to...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2022-06-06
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Between 1815 and the Duke of Wellington's death in 1852, the Battle of Waterloo became much more than simply a military victory. While other countries marked the battle and its anniversary, only Britain actively incorporated the victory into their national identity,...
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OUP Oxford
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2022-06-06
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This multiauthor volume presents thirteen case studies that showcase the scientific, analytical, and often archaeological study of historic buildings that is known in German as Bauforschung. Written by established and emerging experts in this field, the chapters focus...
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Oxford University Press
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2022-06-06
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Across Europe, from the dawn of print until the early twentieth century, the news of crime and criminals' public executions was printed in song form on cheap broadsides and pamphlets to be sold in streets and marketplaces by ballad-singers. Singing the News of Death:...
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Oxford University Press
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2022-06-03
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This book tells the story of the Rev. Benjamin Colman (1673-1747), one of eighteenth-century America’s most influential ministers, and his transatlantic social world of letters. Exploring his epistolary network reveals how imperial culture diffused through the British...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2022-06-02
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Christianities in the Trans-Atlantic World
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Experiencing God in Late Medieval and Early Modern England demonstrates that experiences of divine revelation, both biblical and contemporary, were central to late medieval and early modern English religion. The book sheds light on previously under-explored notions...
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OUP Oxford
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2022-06-02
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Experiencing God in Late Medieval and Early Modern England demonstrates that experiences of divine revelation, both biblical and contemporary, were central to late medieval and early modern English religion. The book sheds light on previously under-explored notions...
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OUP Oxford
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2022-06-02
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The Atlantic has borne witness to major historic events that have drastically shaped humanity with each crossing of its path. In this broad and readable book, Jeremy Black takes the reader through its evolution to becoming one of the most important oceans in the...
Editeur :
Robinson
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2022-06-02
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Brief Histories
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This collaborative volume examines revolts and resistance to the successor states, formed after Alexander the Great's conquest of the Persian empire, as a transregional phenomenon. The editors have assembled an array of specialists in the study of the various regions...
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OUP Oxford
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2022-06-02
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Different people feel different emotions when they are diagnosed with cancer. Both today and a century ago, fear and hope, shame and disgust, sadness and joy are and were the emotions experienced by many cancer patients and their loved ones. But these emotions do not...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2022-06-02
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Different people feel different emotions when they are diagnosed with cancer. Both today and a century ago, fear and hope, shame and disgust, sadness and joy are and were the emotions experienced by many cancer patients and their loved ones. But these emotions do not...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2022-06-02
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Peasants have been despised, underrated, or disregarded in the past. Historians and archaeologists are now giving them a more positive assessment, and inPeasants Making History, Christopher Dyer sets a new agenda for this kind of study. Using as his example the peasants...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2022-06-02
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Peasants have been despised, underrated, or disregarded in the past. Historians and archaeologists are now giving them a more positive assessment, and inPeasants Making History, Christopher Dyer sets a new agenda for this kind of study. Using as his example the peasants...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2022-06-02
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This book represents a new reading of a key moment in the history of East European Jewry, namely the period preceding the collapse of the Russian Empire. Offering a novel analysis of relations between the Russian army and Jews during the First World War, it points to...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2022-06-01
Collection :
Palgrave Critical Studies of Antisemitism and Racism
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The Global Sixties are well known as a period of non-conformist lifestyles, experimentation with consumer products and technology, counterculture, and leftist politics. While the period has been well studied in the West and increasingly researched for the Global South,...
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Oxford University Press
Parution :
2022-05-27
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Describing the Holy Roman Empire after 1250 as a hopeless dream or an empty formula only Roman in name, historians have long minimized the impact of the imperial presence in late-medieval Italy. The nationalist historiography, on which we still largely depend, presented...
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Publications de l'École française de Rome
Parution :
2022-05-27
Collection :
Collection de l'École française de Rome
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A new interpretation of the Sarajevo assassination and the origins of World War I that places focus on the Balkans and the prewar period.
The story has so often been told: Archduke Franz Ferdinand, heir to the throne of the Habsburg Empire, was shot dead on June 28,...
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Oxford University Press
Parution :
2022-05-27
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The Adriatic is ‘the small Mediterranean’ – a sea within a sea, part of the Mediterranean and at the same time detached from it, a largely enclosed sea with stunning coastlines and a long history of commercial, political and cultural exchange. Silent witness to the flow...
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Polity
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2022-05-27
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