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This book provides a unique account of the financial and political history of the South African War by analysing the organisation and operations of the Johannesburg Stock Exchange (JSE), the oldest existing stock exchange in the African continent. Identifying...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2024-03-19
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The histories of Europe and Africa are closely intertwined. At times, this closeness has been emphasized, at other times, suppressed and denied. Since the nineteenth century, European imperial powers have carved up the continent of Africa among themselves, drawing...
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OUP Oxford
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2024-03-19
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Maria W. Stewart was a trailblazing political philosopher and social reformer, who migrated from the Connecticut of her birth, south to Baltimore and then Washington, D.C. on the eve of the Civil War. Stewart was a free-born African American who became a teacher,...
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Oxford University Press
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2024-03-19
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How rhetoric—the art of persuasion—can help us navigate an age of misinformation, conspiracy theories, and political acrimony The discipline of rhetoric was the keystone of Western education for over two thousand years. Only recently has its perceived...
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Basic Books
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2024-03-19
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This book explores the Australian press reporting of the persecution and genocide of European Jews, and the extent to which the news of the Holocaust was known and believed, revealed and hidden, and acknowledged and minimised. Spanning the coverage of Hitler’s political...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2024-03-18
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This book gathers the proceedings of the international round-table Saint-Pierre d'Osor et le monachisme bénédictin dans l'espace adriatique held in 2018 at Osor on the island of Cres (Croatia), which marked the culmination of twelve archaeological campaigns (2006-2017)....
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Publications de l'École française de Rome
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2024-03-17
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Collection de l'École française de Rome
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This book explores Britain’s involvement in the Dhofar War of 1963-1976, focusing on the military aspects of this conflict in Southern Oman. It reveals how both the Conservative and Labour governments in office during this time provided military and security assistance...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2024-03-16
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"The era that taste forgot..."Famous for glam rock, flares and platform shoes, the 1970s also saw the emergence of new ideas, movements and trends that continue to influence our world today. From the Watergate Scandal to the growing feminist and LGBTQ+ movements, the...
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OH
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2024-03-14
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How do we understand differences and disputes among various branches of Islam? This book places intimacies, rather than radical incompatibilities, at the centre of its in-depth ethnographic account of mass-publicized theological polemics among Sunni Muslims in the south...
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OUP Oxford
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2024-03-14
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This book examines the memories of the Partition of India in 1947 with a focus on the generation of postmemory (those who came after it) and how partition experiences have been shared (or not) and understood. It explores the formal and narrative properties of different...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2024-03-13
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The histories of Europe and Africa are closely intertwined. At times, this closeness has been emphasized, at other times, suppressed and denied. Since the nineteenth century, European imperial powers have carved up the continent of Africa among themselves, drawing...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2024-03-13
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The Indian Diary of Vera Luboshinsky narrates life at the Indian princely court of Bhopal, during the 1940s. Vera was the daughter of Professor M. J. Herzenstein, a member of the State Duma in pre-revolutionary Russia, and married to Count Mark Luboshinsky. After the...
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OUP Oxford
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2024-03-13
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The book tells about people who lived in an era of historical cataclysms, wars and revolutions, changes in political formations.The generation of the Kazakh intelligentsia responded to the historical challenge facing the Kazakhs at a turning point in history. These are...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2024-03-13
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A one-of-a-kind exploration of archaeological evidence from the Roman Empire between 44 BCE and 337 CE InA Companion to the Archaeology of the Roman Empire, distinguished scholar and archaeologist Professor Barbara Burrell delivers an illuminating and wide-ranging...
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Wiley-Blackwell
Parution :
2024-03-13
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Blackwell Companions to the Ancient World
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This book explores the historical relationship between ‘technonatures’ and urban transformations in the Global North. In recent years, various interdisciplinary movements such as Urban Political Ecology, STS and New Materialism have affected urban history and generated...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2024-03-12
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From the award-winning author of Five Points and City of Dreams, “a superb revisionist history” of the Irish immigrants who arrived in the United States during the Great Potato Famine, using their “riveting and deeply...
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Little, Brown and Company
Parution :
2024-03-12
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In diesem Buch werden die historischen Ereignisse entlang der Seidenstraße von den Anfängen der vier Zivilisationen bis zum Beginn des 16. Jahrhunderts in Hinblick auf die religiöse Verbreitung, die materielle Verbreitung und die Völkerwanderung dargestellt.
Es zeigt...
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Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publishers
Parution :
2024-03-12
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This book deals with the role, development, and legacy of the first Constitution of independent Ireland within the wider context of the establishment of the State. After decades of relative neglect, the 1920s have been receiving increased attention from historians...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2024-03-12
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