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This book is the first in-depth study of the restoration and conservation field in the National Socialist era. It presents a completely new perspective on the physical manipulation of fine, applied arts and other cultural property, under the regime from 1933 to post war...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2026-02-06
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What does it mean to be human in an age of rapid technological advancement? Are we on the brink of transcending our biological limitations, or are we losing touch with the essence of what it means to be human? Emerging technologies challenge our understanding of...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2026-02-05
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Discover (or rediscover!) America’s history and how it’s shaped the United States today On July 4, 2026, the United States is going to celebrate its semi-quincentennial—the 250 years since the signing of the Declaration of Independence. There are going to be fireworks,...
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For Dummies
Parution :
2026-02-05
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The book thoroughly explores postmemory in the Polish historical and political contexts to reveal the multidimensional identity strategies of the second generation of Jews in Poland after the Holocaust, also called the "generation after". Kuchta provides a captivating...
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Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
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2026-02-05
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Since antiquity, governments have used torture to gather information and determine guilt. But its track record is shaky, to say the least: thinkers from Aristotle to the present have observed that torture does not work, and thinkers from Foucault to Orwell have doubted...
Editeur :
Polity
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2026-02-04
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History of Violence
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The groundbreaking guide to trans history in America, revised and updated for a new political era.Transgender History is the modern classic on transgender life in America since the nineteenth century, encompassing the major movements, writings, and events that shape...
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Seal Press
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2026-02-03
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It has been called the year that changed everything, the postwar watershed in which the forces that shaped public and private life erupted, everywhere and all at once--New York, Paris, Prague, Mexico City. Beginning with the Tet Offensive in Vietnam in January and...
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Oxford University Press
Parution :
2026-02-02
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This book examines the contents of libraries of Western individuals and trading companies in the Mediterranean and India between approximately 1600 and 1750. Relying on extensive archival research, it provides a rare contribution to global book history.The libraries...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2026-01-31
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How do different generations remember the democratic transitions in the post-authoritarian European South fifty years later, and why does that matter? A Collective Biography of Southern European Democratization shows how individual stories, family stories, and the...
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OUP Oxford
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2026-01-31
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The Pauper Body in England and Wales 1750 to 1914 is based on a unique collection of 8 million words of pauper letters. It features fascinating body biographies of ordinary people living in deepest poverty who used their voices to secure welfare support.The Old and New...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2026-01-31
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While the Armenian Genocide has received significant international recognition, the related experiences of Greeks and Assyrians are largely unknown and overlooked. In an original contribution to genocide studies, Themistocles Kritikakos examines the enduring legacies of...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2026-01-30
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All cultures change – but some aspects change more rapidly than others. Drawing on extensive experience of various cultures, in this book David Lewis develops a model that differentiates between the rates of change in different aspects of a culture.Culture...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2026-01-28
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Famine is humanity's oldest fear.Famine memorials and stories are literally carved into the stones that lie on the beds of Europe's rivers. Our science fiction and fantasy literature often begin by evoking a world of hunger and scarcity.Famine shapes our past, it...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2026-01-28
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Lawyer and royalist, political prisoner and polemicist, Pierre de Belloy (c. 1550–1611) had the misfortune to live through interesting times. During the 1580s, Belloy became a notorious opponent of the French Catholic League for his position as the leading Catholic...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2026-01-28
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The Pauper Body in England and Wales 1750 to 1914 is based on a unique collection of 8 million words of pauper letters. It features fascinating body biographies of ordinary people living in deepest poverty who used their voices to secure welfare support.The Old and New...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2026-01-28
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This book examines 'womanhood' and 'race' not only as disputed, converging, and constantly changing categories and lived experiences, but also as interrelated and unequal subjectivities and social realties that shaped all early-twentieth century Puerto Ricans. It...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2026-01-27
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This book examines patterns of national integration and the mobilisation of the peasantry across two historical regions, Central and Eastern Europe, over a long historical timeframe, spanning from the 1848 Revolution to the outbreak of the Second World War. It...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2026-01-27
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This book places print media at the centre of studying queer German history. In so doing, it explicitly interrogates the exclusions that certain media forms can engender as well as the possibilities that magazines, novels, poetry, and erotica, among others offered queer...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2026-01-25
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This book offers a comprehensive corpus and analysis of all the Formosan ‘Shooting the Sun’ myths. The 'Shooting the Sun' myths describe a series of historical events in mythology that is preceded by the origins of man myths and followed by the deluge myths....
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2026-01-23
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This book encounters the figure of the royal woman in the early modern period and explores how she enables and complicates the key moment at which England was emerging as an ideology, a nation, and an empire. Queens and queens consort, historical and fictional, played...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2026-01-22
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