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This book traces the creation, implementation, and evolution of the police institutions within British colonial Natal during ‘the formative period’ of the colony between 1845 and 1899. It examines how white and Black members of Natal’s colonial...
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2026-01-01
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This book brings together an exceptional group of renowned scholars in philosophy and sociology, offering deep and insightful engagements with Jürgen Habermas’s thought. With contributions from some of the most prominent figures in contemporary social theory,...
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2026-01-01
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This book covers the period from the approach of Allied and Soviet armies to the Reich frontiers in late summer 1944 right up to the final collapse in May 1945. With Nazi Germany facing invasion and eventual defeat, Nazi broadcasters now had the insoluble task of having...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2026-01-01
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Between 1792 and 1815 Europe was plunged into a period of profound turmoil and transformation. The French Revolution unleashed a torrent of political, social, cultural, and military changes. Napoleon extended them beyond the country’s frontiers. The ensuing...
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2026-01-01
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This is the first book to map and celebrate the overlooked history of producers, promoters and DJs from Islington that contributed to the acid house and rave scene as it developed in derelict spaces in the borough in the late 1980s, and how this paved the way for the...
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2026-01-01
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This book analyzes the relation between the Churches’ official teachings regarding ‘desired’ and forbidden forms of sexual behaviour on the one hand, and mundane practice on the other hand, focusing on perspectives ‘from below’. Since the...
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2026-01-01
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This book summarizes three decades of research in Iberian and Latin American anthropometric history, employing the most up-to-date methodologies in the field. Through a comparative and interdisciplinary approach, it examines the evolution of biological living standards...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2026-01-01
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This book is dedicated to explaining changes in Taiwan’s policy toward the Chinese mainland over the past three decades, when the island underwent democratization. It traces the shifts from the anti-Beijing stance of the Chen Shui-bian era, to the...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2026-01-01
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The African Origins of Democracy challenges the myth that democracy was born in ancient Greece. Drawing on archaeology, anthropology, and political science, Bernd Reiter shows that egalitarian African societies practiced self-rule tens of thousands of years...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2026-01-01
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An excellent work that presents the research history of Mao Zedong! It is the first book to delve into the history of translating, publishing, and disseminating Mao Zedong's works in over 20 languages. Notably, the translation projects were not only led by the Chinese...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2026-01-01
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This book explores the changing relations between Chinese secret societies in British Malaya and the British colonial government, examining how and why British attitudes towards Chinese migrants changed over the nineteenth century, from welcoming them at the...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2026-01-01
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This book analyses how security concerns dominated international engagement in higher education reforms in post-Soviet Uzbekistan. Internationalisation of higher education – which entails recruitment of international students and staff, development of joint...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2026-01-01
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This edited volume introduces a fresh approach to higher education that redefines traditional paradigms. It explores pressing concerns about the future of universities and education, addressing key issues such as transformative shifts stemming from an increased emphasis...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2026-01-01
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This book explores witchcraft accusations as bizarre and violent reflections of the tensions, fears, and fantasies within one of Early Modern Europe’s most culturally diverse societies.
At the crossroads of Latin and post-Byzantine traditions, Western and Eastern...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2026-01-01
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This book examines the influence of authoritarian rule on the development of the welfare state. Building on theoretical approaches from research on autocratic regimes and comparative welfare state research, it develops a novel theoretical argument on authoritarian...
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Springer VS
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2026-01-01
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This book undertakes a critical examination of monuments, heritage, and memory, analysing their intersections with colonial histories, gender dynamics, and class structures. By challenging conventional conceptions of monuments, memory, and heritage, this work advocates...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2026-01-01
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This book reorients our understanding of the history of modern male homosexuality by focusing on Europe's 'internal Other': Italy. Spanning from the tail-end of the Grand Tour to the mid-fascist years, it argues that Italy was a time/space in which competing...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2026-01-01
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The Oxford Handbook of American Military History examines the chronological and thematic range of American military history, from the colonial era to the present, exploring a variety of connections between war, military institutions, and American society, politics,...
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Oxford University Press
Parution :
2025-12-31
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The work of J.-J.-E. Roy recounts the life of Marie Antoinette, from her arrival in France in 1770 until her death on October 16, 1793. It meticulously details the growing hostility she faced, first as Dauphine and later as Queen of France and Navarre. From the moment...
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Metvox Publications
Parution :
2025-12-27
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A rich history of cross-racial coalitions and alliances of the Sixties' freedom movement, acclaimed historian Alice Echols's Black Power, White Heat reshapes our understanding of the entire era.
One of the most divisive issues in recent progressive politics has been...
Editeur :
Oxford University Press
Parution :
2025-12-23
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