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This book explores the postcolonial discourse and decolonization processes in modern Kazakhstan and beyond. It pays particular attention to such areas as national and religious identity, language, literature, and historical narratives. Despite the fact that the...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2024-02-28
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Das Buch beschreibt die allgemeinen und spezifischen sprachlichen Grundlagen der Slawisierung (Böhmisierung) des ehemals überwiegend deutschsprachigen Gebietes in der Tschechischen Republik nach 1945. Am Beispiel von Braunau/Broumov und Umgebung wird untersucht, welche...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2024-02-28
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This book investigates the entanglement of memory and morality in an extended case study of the memory policy of the European Commission between 2014 and 2020. The main empirical aim is to provide an understanding of how the European Commission, various non-governmental...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2024-02-28
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In recent years, India has asserted its desire not simply to be a balancing power but to become a leading power on the world stage. As India's economic development has steadily progressed, so too have its foreign policy and security ambitions. However, India's ability...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2024-02-27
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The book is designed as a methodological exercise in cultural studies described as "engaging", which refers to a specific research approach requiring cooperation and the inclusion of individuals and communities in the research process, using a rich repertoire of...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2024-02-27
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Provides a balanced historical narrative of the contemporary causes of conflict in the Middle East, ideal for students and scholars The recent history of the Middle East has involved unprecedented violence and war. Contemporary Middle East: Foreign Intervention and...
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Wiley-Blackwell
Parution :
2024-02-26
Collection :
Blackwell History of the Contemporary World
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This open access book explores the transnational and transoceanic dimensions of the debate on gender and women's cultural agency and mediation in the long eighteenth century. It aims to decenter perspectives on traditional Enlightenment geographies, by...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2024-02-24
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The tenth and eleventh centuries in medieval Europe are commonly seen as a time of uncertainty and loss: an age of lawless aristocrats, of weak political authority, of cultural decline and dissolute monks, and of rampant superstition. It is a period often judged from...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2024-02-24
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This book explores pastoralist/ farmers' approaches to environmental disaster management in East Africa, charting their responses and adaptations to famine, pandemics, natural disasters, and historical events. Using a dynamic adaptive cycle theoretical framework, it...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2024-02-23
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The period immediately following World War II was an era of dramatic transformation for Jews in America. At the start of the 1940s, President Roosevelt had to all but promise that if Americans entered the war, it would not be to save the Jews. By the end of the decade,...
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Oxford University Press
Parution :
2024-02-23
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This updated, new edition of this book explores the emergence of what the author terms "late modernist freakish aesthetics"– a creative fusion of "high" and "low" themes and forms in relation to distorted bodies. Literary and cinematic texts about "freaks" by Nathanael...
Editeur :
Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publishers
Parution :
2024-02-22
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This book investigates the complex relationship between the development of modern empires, nation, and the history of tropical medicine. Broadening existing historiographical perspectives, it explores imperialism outside of the British Empire, drawing on case studies...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2024-02-20
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A panoramic, "persuasive and inspiring" (New Yorker) new history of the revolutionary decades between 1760 and 1825, from North America and Europe to Haiti and Spanish America, showing how progress and reaction went hand in hand The revolutions that raged...
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Basic Books
Parution :
2024-02-20
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Fashion is a research topic of increasing interest to economic and business historians as it points towards new understandings of economic growth and decline. This book explores the role of institutions and institutional change in the Italian fashion system from the...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2024-02-17
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Between 1756 and 1840, philanthropy in the British world grew from the domain of small, associational committees to a vast enterprise of philanthropic and humanitarian societies with global reach. British Philanthropy in the Globalizing World tells the story of this...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2024-02-16
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This work is a systematic study of Bal Gangadhar Tilak's thought, focusing on his views on 'communal' relations within the Indian polity, on caste and reform in Hindu society, and on political ethics regarding violence and non-cooperation. The Thought of Bal Gangadhar...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2024-02-16
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The Silver Empire is the first comprehensive account of how the Holy Roman Empire created a common currency in the sixteenth century.
The problems that gave rise to the widespread desire to introduce a common a currency were myriad. While trade was able to cope...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2024-02-16
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The Silver Empire is the first comprehensive account of how the Holy Roman Empire created a common currency in the sixteenth century.
The problems that gave rise to the widespread desire to introduce a common a currency were myriad. While trade was able to cope...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2024-02-16
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The lethality of conflicts between insurgent groups and counter-insurgent security forces has risen markedly since the Second World War just as those of conventional, or inter-state wars have declined. For several decades, conflicts within states rather than between...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2024-02-16
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Tudor Networks of Power is the product of a groundbreaking collaboration between an early modern book historian and a physicist specializing in complex networks. Together they have reconstructed and computationally analysed the networks of intelligence, diplomacy, and...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2024-02-16
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