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This edited book includes chapters that explore the impact of war and its aftermath in language and official discourse. It covers a broad chronological range from the First World War to very recent experiences of war, with a focus on Australia and the Pacific region. It...
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2019-10-04
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Palgrave Studies in Languages at War
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In November 1519, Hernando Cortés walked along a causeway leading to the capital of the Aztec kingdom and came face to face with Moctezuma. That story--and the story of what happened afterwards--has been told many times, but always following the narrative offered by the...
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Oxford University Press
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2019-10-04
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This book examines the policy and practice of the insanity clauses within the immigration controls of New Zealand and the Commonwealth of Australia. It reveals those charged with operating the legislation to be non-psychiatric gatekeepers who struggled to match its...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2019-10-03
Collection :
Mental Health in Historical Perspective
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In the eighteenth century, as wars between Britain, France, and their allies raged across the world, hundreds of thousands of people were captured, detained, or exchanged. They were shipped across oceans, marched across continents, or held in an indeterminate limbo. The...
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OUP Oxford
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2019-10-03
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The incredible true story of one of the most extraordinary and inspirational prison breaks in Australian history.New York, 1874. Members of the Clan-na-Gael - agitators for Irish freedom from the English yoke - hatch a daring plan to free six Irish political prisoners...
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Constable
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2019-10-03
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Spain has never worked as a democracy. Throughout the country's history only one system of government has ever enjoyed any real success: dictatorship and the use of violence.Violence, in fact, is whatSpain is made of, lying at the heart of its culture and identity, far...
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Constable
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2019-10-03
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Europe and the British Geographical Imagination, 1760-1830 explores what literate British people understood by the word 'Europe' in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. WasEurope unified by shared religious heritage? Where were the edges of Europe? Was...
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OUP Oxford
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2019-10-03
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Europe and the British Geographical Imagination, 1760-1830 explores what literate British people understood by the word 'Europe' in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. WasEurope unified by shared religious heritage? Where were the edges of Europe? Was...
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OUP Oxford
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2019-10-03
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Despite not being an active participant in the English Civil War, seventeenth-century political thinker James Harrington exercised an important influence on the ideas and politics of that crucial period of history. In The Commonwealth of Oceana he sought to explain why...
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OUP Oxford
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2019-10-03
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Despite not being an active participant in the English Civil War, seventeenth-century political thinker James Harrington exercised an important influence on the ideas and politics of that crucial period of history. In The Commonwealth of Oceana he sought to explain why...
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OUP Oxford
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2019-10-03
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Why do we send children to school? Who should take responsibility for children's health and education? Should girls and boys be educated separately or together? These questions provoke much contemporary debate, but also have a longer, often-overlooked history. Mary...
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OUP Oxford
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2019-10-03
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Why do we send children to school? Who should take responsibility for children's health and education? Should girls and boys be educated separately or together? These questions provoke much contemporary debate, but also have a longer, often-overlooked history. Mary...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2019-10-03
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This volume sets out to re-examine what ancient people - primarily those in ancient Greek and Roman communities, but also Mesopotamian and Chinese cultures - thought they were doing through divination, and what this can tell us about the religions and cultures in which...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2019-10-02
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This volume sets out to re-examine what ancient people - primarily those in ancient Greek and Roman communities, but also Mesopotamian and Chinese cultures - thought they were doing through divination, and what this can tell us about the religions and cultures in which...
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OUP Oxford
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2019-10-02
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The New Politics of Olympos explores the dynamics of praise, power, and persuasion in Kallimachos' hymns, detailing how they simultaneously substantiate and interrogate the radically new phenomenon of Hellenistic kingship taking shape during Kallimachos' lifetime. Long...
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Oxford University Press
Parution :
2019-10-02
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Italian intellectuals played an important role in the shaping of international politics during the Cold War. The visions of the world that they promulgated, their influence on public opinion and their ability to shape collective speech, whether in agreement with or in...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2019-10-01
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Die Unterlegenen des Spanischen Bürgerkriegs erlitten unter dem Diktator Franco starke Repressionen. Im öffentlichen Diskurs gab es nur das Narrativ der Sieger. Im Dokumentarfilm «La vieja memoria» (1977) sah man erstmals ein Gespräch zwischen Menschen unterschiedlicher...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
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2019-10-01
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Through vivid stories studded with insights, award-winning author Tamim Ansary tells the story of how humans invented history, from the Stone Age to the Virtual Age. Fifty thousand years ago, we roamed the world as countless autonomous bands of hunter-gatherers, each...
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PublicAffairs
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2019-10-01
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This book discusses the quality of life of early modern Britons emigrating to the New World, which became possible with advances in shipbuilding and long-distance sailing. It examines the status and quality of life of those crossing the Atlantic Ocean under legal...
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Springer
Parution :
2019-10-01
Collection :
SpringerBriefs in Well-Being and Quality of Life Research
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A new, updated edition including new speeches from Queen Elizabeth II and John Boyega in the year 2020.This collection of extraordinary speeches ranges from ancient times to the twenty-first century. Some are heroic and inspiring; some diabolical and atrocious; some are...
Editeur :
Weidenfeld & Nicolson
Parution :
2019-10-01
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