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Calvinist Conformity in Post-Reformation England is the first modern full-scale examination of the theology and life of the distinguished EnglishCalvinist clergyman Daniel Featley (1582-1645). It explores Featley's career and thought through a comprehensive treatment of...
Editeur :
Oxford University Press
Parution :
2022-04-29
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News from Moscow is a social and cultural history of Soviet journalism after World War II. Focusing on the youth newspaper Komsomol'skaia Pravda, the study draws on transcripts of behind-the-scenes editorial meetings to chart the changing professional ethos of the...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2022-04-28
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Anti-democracy in England 1570-1642 is a detailed study of anti-democratic ideas in early modern England. By examining the rich variety of debates about democracy that took place between 1570 and 1642, it shows the key importance anti-democratic language held in the...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2022-04-28
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Anti-democracy in England 1570-1642 is a detailed study of anti-democratic ideas in early modern England. By examining the rich variety of debates about democracy that took place between 1570 and 1642, it shows the key importance anti-democratic language held in the...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2022-04-28
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This book addresses the interplay between collaboration and resistance during the Revolutionary/Napoleonic era in the Duchies of Parma, Piacenza and Guastalla, renamed States of Parma in 1802 and Department of Taro in 1808. Considered no more than a docile backwater in...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2022-04-28
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This book examines the American Sixties, and how that period’s socio-political essence was reflected and refracted in certain forms of the period’s music. Its five main chapters bear the names of familiar musical categories: ’Folk,’ ‘Rock,’ ‘Jazz,’...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2022-04-27
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This volume provides an analysis of the history, origins, and development of football in Africa. It brings together an edited assemblage of essays that describe and analyse football in nine African countries, including Cameroon, DRC, Egypt, Ghana, Kenya, Nigeria,...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2022-04-26
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This book analyzes Ohira's ideology, philosophy, and actions as a politician and a minister, based on primary sources from Japan and the USA, and makes a significant contribution to the field of Japanese political and diplomatic history.This book is the first critical...
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Springer
Parution :
2022-04-26
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This book, the result of a landmark colloquium held in Korea to reflect on the role of education in Korean society, provides fascinating insights into the interplay of political evolution and pedagogy. Korea has gone from one of the world's poorest societies after the...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2022-04-26
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This book—along with its companion volume Writing Mary I: History, Historiography, and Fiction—centers on representations of Queen Mary I in writing, broadly construed, and the process of writing that queen into literature and other textual sources. It spans an equally...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2022-04-25
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Queenship and Power
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New Perspectives on Contemporary German Science Fiction demonstrates the variety and scope of German science fiction (SF) production in literature, television, and cinema. The volume argues that speculative fictions and explorations of the fantastic provide a critical...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2022-04-22
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The French in Macao in the Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Centuries: Literary, Cultural, and Historical Perspectives investigates the role that Macao played as a meeting place of the East and the West during this period of time and its decline as a Portuguese...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2022-04-22
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This book explores how steam engine technology was transferred into nineteenth-century China in the second half of the nineteenth century by focusing on the transmission of knowledge and skills. It takes on the long-term problem in historiography that puts too much...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2022-04-22
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This book defines Russophobia as the irrational fear of Russia, a key theme in the study of propaganda in the West as Russia has throughout history been assigned a diametrically opposite identity as the “Other.” Propaganda is the science of convincing an audience...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2022-04-22
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The book examines prominent literary works from the past two decades by Russian women writers dealing with the Soviet past. It explores works such as Daniel Stein, Interpreter by Ludmilla Ulitskaya, The Time of Women by Elena...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2022-04-22
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Africa has experienced direct and indirect foreign interventions since the continent’s colonization by Europeans in the nineteenth century. These interventions have had political, economic and social consequences for the continent and its people. This book explores the...
Editeur :
Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publishers
Parution :
2022-04-21
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Neighbours, Distrust, and the State overturns many of our ideas about how the poorer working class lived together, and thought about each other, from the mid-nineteenth to the mid-twentieth century. The reality was quite different to what has been the accepted...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2022-04-21
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Spectralities in the Renaissance explores the history of the idea of ghosts in early modern Europe, moving away from thinking of them as a purely religious phenomenon, but as something rooted in cultural traditions, particularly in times of violence, where the living...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2022-04-21
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Physico-theology celebrated the observation of nature as a way toward the recognition of God as Creator and to demonstrate the compatibility of the biblical record with the new science. It was a crucial, albeit often underestimated element in the intellectual as well as...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2022-04-21
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Spectralities in the Renaissance explores the history of the idea of ghosts in early modern Europe, moving away from thinking of them as a purely religious phenomenon, but as something rooted in cultural traditions, particularly in times of violence, where the living...
Editeur :
OUP Oxford
Parution :
2022-04-21
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