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The cultures of Nubia built the earliest cities, states, and empires of inner Africa, but they remain relatively poorly known outside their modern descendants and the community of archaeologists, historians, and art historians researching them.The earliest...
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Oxford University Press
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2021-01-15
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Prostitution played an important part in structuring gender relations in medieval Germany. Prostitutes were often viewed as an example of the extreme female sinfulness which all women risked falling into, yet their social role was also seen as vital to the unmarried men...
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OUP Oxford
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2021-01-15
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Prostitution played an important part in structuring gender relations in medieval Germany. Prostitutes were often viewed as an example of the extreme female sinfulness which all women risked falling into, yet their social role was also seen as vital to the unmarried men...
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OUP Oxford
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2021-01-15
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Throughout their shared history, Orthodox and Eastern Catholic Churches have lived through a very complex and sometimes tense relationship –-not only theologically, but also politically. In most cases such relationships remain to this day; indeed, in some cases the...
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2021-01-15
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Pathways for Ecumenical and Interreligious Dialogue
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Winner of the Gilder Lehrman Military History Prize,Winner of the Fraunces Tavern Museum Book Award &Winner of The Society of the Cincinnati Prize.
In the late summer and fall of 1777, after two years of indecisive fighting on both sides, the outcome of the...
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Oxford University Press
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2021-01-15
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This book explores the concept of deference as used by historians and political scientists. Often confused and judged to be outdated, it shows how deference remains central to understanding British politics to the present day.This study aims to make sense of how...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2021-01-13
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This handbook addresses the methodological problems and theoretical challenges that arise in attempting to understand and represent humour in specific historical contexts across cultural history. It explores problems involved in applying modern theories of humour to...
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2021-01-12
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This book offers the first in-depth enquiry into the origins of 135 Indigenous Australian objects acquired by the Royal Navy between 1795 and 1855 and held now by the British Museum. In response to increasing calls for the ‘decolonisation’ of museums and the...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2021-01-12
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Palgrave Studies in Pacific History
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This book is aimed both at researchers and advanced students of Central Asia, the space of the former USSR, and the foreign policy of Russia and China. The authors adopt a sociological approach in understanding how power structures emerged in the wake of the Soviet...
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2021-01-12
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This Palgrave Pivot offers a comprehensive portrayal of the development of sociology in Argentina from the mid-1950s to the present day.This first long-term account in English maps the discipline’s troubled trajectory and its close relation to the broader (and...
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Palgrave Pivot
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2021-01-11
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This book vividly portrays the past, current, and future development of Yokohama Chinatown through the context of its Cantonese residents, grounded through a family history. It is useful for both academic and non- academic readers who are interested in migration...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2021-01-11
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Nell'attuale paesaggio storiografico italiano è ben presente la volontà di lavorare sulle differenti tipologie documentarie prodotte nell’Italia dei Comuni. Così è per gli studi sugli statuti comunali, studi iniziati nel XIX secolo che proseguono tutt’oggi con atti di...
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Publications de l'École française de Rome
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2021-01-11
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Collection de l'École française de Rome
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This book presents six major texts and selected shorter writings by the social-democratic thinker and politician Eduard Bernstein, translated into English for the first time: Socialism Past and Present; The Social Doctrine of Anarchism; Social Liberalism...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2021-01-08
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A beautiful and sweeping historical novel that takes the reader from the west coast of New Zealand, to Scotland and Melbourne in the 1870s'Its portrayal of life in a gold-rush town is vivid, and Rose's story is absorbing' The Times'Worth reading for its occasional...
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Hodder & Stoughton
Parution :
2021-01-07
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Der Begriff des Sinns steht überall im Hintergrund des geschichtswissenschaftlichen Forschens, der Geschichtstheorie und -didaktik. In diesem Band wird dieser Begriff umfassend und in allen seinen Dimensionen entfaltet und dargestellt und zu einer Theorie der...
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Springer
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2021-01-05
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This book examines the work of prominent South African geologist Alex Du Toit as a means of understanding the debate around continental drift both in segregation-era South Africa and internationally. It contextualises Du Toit’s work within a particularly formative...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2021-01-04
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This book investigates the agency and influence of medieval queens in late fourteenth-century England, focusing on the patronage and intercessory activities of the queens Philippa of Hainault and Anne of Bohemia, as well as the princess Joan of Kent. It examines the...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2021-01-04
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The civil rights movement was among the most important historical developments of the twentieth century and one of the most remarkable mass movements in American history. Not only did it decisively change the legal and political status of African Americans, but it...
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Oxford University Press
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2021-01-04
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In post-World War II America and especially during the turbulent 1960s and 1970s, the psychologist Rollo May contributed profoundly to the popular and professional response to a widely felt sense of personal emptiness amid a culture in crisis. May addressed the sources...
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Oxford University Press
Parution :
2021-01-04
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This volume investigates alternative epistemological pathways by which knowledge production in Africa can proceed. The contributors, using different intellectual dynamics, explore the existing epistemological dominance of the West—from architecture to gender discourse,...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2021-01-04
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