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"A joy to read" Times Literary Supplement"[A] stirring and accessible history of the mighty Rhine" Irish Times"It's easy to be swept away by Deen's delightful prose" New Statesman"A beautiful book, by turns poetic, witty and full of learning " PATRICK McGUINNESSThe...
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Maclehose Press
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2024-07-04
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BY THE AUTHOR OF STANDING HEAVY - SHORTLISTED FOR THE INTERNATIONAL BOOKER PRIZE 2023Following the death of his parents, Dabilly, a young white man, seeks a life of colonial adventure in Cote d'Ivoire. It is 1880 and Dabilly joins a beleaguered French general trying to...
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Maclehose Press
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2024-07-04
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At the beginning of the twentieth century, for many English men and women of Welsh origin the idea of being in some part 'Welsh' reaffirmed their own understanding of what it meant to 'be British'. Wales in England, 1914-1945 is the first cultural history of this...
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OUP Oxford
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2024-07-04
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This book offers fresh perspectives on the legacy of colonialism in the North-east frontiers of India, especially the Naga Hills. The book interrogates the presence of British administrators and anthropologists in the Naga Hills as part of a popular discourse on (post)...
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Springer
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2024-07-02
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This is the first book to investigate how constitutional monarchy could survive in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries, during which many monarchies were overthrown by revolutions or coups d’état in Asia, the Middle East, Africa and Europe. Today we have about 200...
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Springer
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2024-07-01
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This book offers a new analysis of the Nordic Peace after its onset in 1814, the year that marks the end to centuries of warfare between the Nordic countries, and the applicability of the Nordic solutions and principles for North East Asian conflicts. Through an...
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2024-06-29
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Described by Thomas Jefferson as "the most sublime of nature’s works," the Natural Bridge is a 215-foot limestone arch in Rockbridge County, Virginia, carved out over millennia by Cedar Creek. Jefferson acquired the bridge in 1774 and, for the rest of his long life,...
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Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publishers
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2024-06-28
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Die kritische Auseinandersetzung mit dem Nationalsozialismus an deutschen Universitäten setzte nicht erst mit der Studentenbewegung von ’68 ein. Schon Mitte der 1960er Jahre forderten Tübinger Studierende, inspiriert durch Persönlichkeiten wie Hermann Gremliza, eine...
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Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
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2024-06-28
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In 1940, Estonia was first occupied and then annexed by the Soviet Union. The process of Sovietization started immediately and was accompanied by a thorough reconstruction of the economy. This monograph looks in detail at the different stages of economic restructuring...
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Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
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2024-06-28
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In the early Middle Ages, the conversion of the early English kingdoms acted as a catalyst for significant social and cultural change. One of the most visible of these changes was the introduction of a new type of household: the monastic household. These reproduced...
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OUP Oxford
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2024-06-27
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In late nineteenth-century Russia, a series of organizations emerged from the nascent radical liberationist movement for the purposes of providing aid to political prisoners and exiles. Those leading these endeavors framed them as a philanthropic exercise that was...
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OUP Oxford
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2024-06-27
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In the aftermath of the First World War the Western great powers sought to redefine international norms according to their liberal vision. They introduced Western-led multilateral organizations to regulate cross-border flows which became pivotal in the making of an...
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OUP Oxford
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2024-06-26
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This book explores the role of the British Police in home food production during the First World War, a critical time when decreasing food imports threatened population starvation around the country. Drawing from the police’s most popular weekly journal, the book...
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2024-06-25
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This book highlights multiple perspectives related to the Cold War presented by scholars from almost all continents. They discuss a variety of consequences of the Cold War for various countries and regions focusing on politics, economy, culture, and memory – according...
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Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2024-06-25
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Stephen I, Hungary's first Christian king (reigned 997-1038) has been celebrated as the founder of the Hungarian state and church. Despite the scarcity of medieval sources, and consequent limitations on historical knowledge, he has had a central importance in narratives...
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OUP Oxford
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2024-06-25
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Male Professionals in Nineteenth-Century Britain is the first statistically-based social, cultural and familial history of a fast-growing and socially prominent section of the Victorian propertied classes. It is built around a representative cohort of 750 men who were...
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OUP Oxford
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2024-06-25
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The book proposes a new category – heterotopia of affect – which builds upon Michel Foucault’s typology.The category refers to changes of the places that accumulate contents of ideological, historical, religious, and national character.The book tells the history of a...
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Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
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2024-06-25
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Drawing on over a decade of meticulous research, this comprehensive book unveils the intricacies of traditional Persian ink making by examining the treatises of Persian master calligraphers. Explore the historical tapestry of calligraphy, get insight into the lives of...
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Springer
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2024-06-24
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Robert Beale (15411601) was a diplomat and administrator who worked at the heart of Elizabethan governance and international policymaking. In spite or perhaps because of the voluminous record he left behind, he has never been the subject of a dedicated biography, and...
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OUP Oxford
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2024-06-24
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Der Band befasst sich mit den Grundlagen der gegenwärtigen Beziehungen zwischen zivilen Akteuren und staatlichen Machtstrukturen.Der Schwerpunkt liegt auf dem Themenfeld der öffentlichen Kontrolle von Streitkräften und der Frage, warum zivile Akteure ein wachsames Auge...
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Springer VS
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2024-06-23
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