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This collection of essays examines the spheres of arts, culture, and digital communication to trace debates that revolve around the notions of decolonization and racial (in)justice in Central and Southeast Europe. It asks how the global narratives of racial and ethnic...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2026-01-10
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This book examines the social and cultural meanings of mental illness and psychiatric hospitalisation in early twentieth-century Greece. Although Greek psychiatrists were trained in countries such as France and Germany, and followed general European models of...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2026-01-09
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This book explores how humanitarianism—often perceived as a selfless moral act—is in fact deeply entangled with political interests and structures of power. Centering on the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC), it asks: where did modern...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2026-01-08
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This is the first academic research about the historiography of China film history. The author spent several years in depth reading of relevant documents, in order to reveal the reasons through the complicated phenomena. Readers in the field of film study, whether...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2026-01-08
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The 1960s in Europe saw the emergence of social protest, newly confident center-left parties, Cold War détente, and frustrations with the pace and direction of European integration.The Federal Republic of Germany experienced these upheavals from a special position: on...
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Oxford University Press
Parution :
2026-01-08
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In this updated edition of his concise biography, Werner Eck tells the extraordinary story of Augustus, Rome's first monarch. Incorporates literary, archaeological, and legal sources to provide a vivid narrative of Augustus' brutal rise to power Written by one of the...
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Wiley-Blackwell
Parution :
2026-01-07
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Blackwell Ancient Lives
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Over the course of the early Middle Ages, Christianity changed politics and politics changed Christianity. Christianity emerged in the pagan Roman Empire and early Christians, consequently, developed a 'secular' understanding of politics, where the religious identity of...
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OUP Oxford
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2026-01-06
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Discover the extraordinary legacy of Mary K. Simkhovitch, a trailblazing advocate for public housing and urban reform, in this first-ever compelling biography.
Betty Boyd Caroli's biography of Mary Kingsbury Simkhovitch is the first full-length work on a seminal figure...
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Oxford University Press
Parution :
2026-01-05
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The first ever comprehensive history in English of China's Warring States period, an era that saw epic battles, the birth of profound philosophies, groundbreaking innovations, and shaped much of East Asian culture as we know it today
In 481 BCE, ancient China was on...
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Oxford University Press
Parution :
2026-01-05
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Die Reaktion der europäischen NATO-Mitglieder auf den Druck der USA, substanziell aufzurüsten, wird systematischer Kritik unterzogen und die Bedrohung nüchtern analysiert. Umrissen werden die Konturen einer von militärischen Statusallüren...
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Springer VS
Parution :
2026-01-02
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The freestanding arch is one of Roman architecture's most innovative and distinctive structures. Despite its ubiquity throughout the Roman Empire, little attention has been paid to the first monuments constructed in the city of Rome.The Roman Arch addresses this gap by...
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Oxford University Press
Parution :
2026-01-02
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This book analyzes and compares the history of decolonization throughout Asian countries.
Is it really possible to paint a unified picture of Asia's diverse modern and contemporary history, from kingdoms to republics, from authoritarian regimes to liberal democracies?...
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Springer
Parution :
2026-01-01
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This book focuses on its developments and variations of performances of manaschï, the epic poet of Manas. The book mainly introduces the collective features of manaschï, their shaman characters, social positions and their influences upon the life and ideology...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2026-01-01
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This book traces the development of Chinese civilization, features ideological culture and spiritual civilization. In terms of political, spiritual, economic and technological civilizations, it shows the history of the exchanges and interactions between the Chinese...
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Springer
Parution :
2026-01-01
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This volume addresses the drivers and mechanisms of institutional change in Europe and East Asia during times of international crisis. Under what conditions and through what processes does a form of regionalism or regionalization change? Why is there a different pace of...
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Springer
Parution :
2026-01-01
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Gedenkstätten, -projekte und -artefakte sind anspruchsvolle Gestaltungsaufgaben. Durch die Analyse der gestalteten Oberflächen lassen sich neben reflektierten Gestaltungsentscheidungen auch Einflüsse sichtbar machen, die nicht oder kaum reflektiert...
Editeur :
Springer VS
Parution :
2026-01-01
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This book focuses on the American Revolution’s first Black soldiers. While Patriots in New England dumped tea in Boston Harbor and fought British Regulars at Lexington and Concord, something else was going on further south at the start of the Revolutionary War. In...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2026-01-01
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This book deploys the analytic model of centres and peripheries to study medieval southwestern Europe and, more specifically, the Iberian Peninsula. Here, the reader will find engaging, up-to-date scholarship on the monastic management of landscapes and hydric...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2026-01-01
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This book explores the political ideas, cultural practices and geostrategic actions that gave rise to transatlantic monarchism in Europe and the Americas. During the age of revolutions (1776-1830), a wave of republicanism swept the Atlantic world. Its most apparent...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2026-01-01
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Das Buch beschreibt den positiven Trend, dass westeuropäische Gesellschaften in den letzten Jahrzehnten deutlich liberaler und emanzipatorischer geworden sind. Nationalistisch-autoritäre Werte haben kontinuierlich an Rückhalt verloren. Dennoch richten...
Editeur :
Springer VS
Parution :
2026-01-01
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