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This book employs a biographical approach to comprehensively study a set of Tang era-tomb guardian figurines, known as the Four Gods (Sishen), comprising a pair of warriors (Dangkuang and Dangye) and a pair of hybrid beasts (Zuming and Dizhou). These objects were...
Editeur :
J.B. Metzler
Parution :
2023-11-27
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This book examines how proverbs can carry ethnonyms and contradictory oppositions in everyday speech, and interrogates the belief that such nuances are national in nature by comparing across languages and cultures. The authors bring together linguistic terms and...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2023-11-27
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This book explores the role of the Cyprus regiment, a military unit of the British Army, in the Second World War. Highlighting the contribution of Cyprus to the war effort, the book contributes to the limited historiography on the military engagement of Cyprus in the...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2023-11-27
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This book examines the autobiographies and diaries of Soviet homosexual men who underwent psychotherapy during the period from 1970 to 1980 under the guidance of Yan Goland, a psychiatrist-sexopathologist from Gorky. The examination of these unique and little known...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2023-11-24
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Die «Söl'ring Foriining», 1905 gegründet und mit über 2.300 Mitgliedern Schleswig-Holsteins größter lokaler Heimatverein, hat ihr Tätigkeitsfeld im Lauf von über 100 Jahren mehrfach erweitert. Dieses Buch untersucht den Wandel im Vereinsleben und bietet einen Einblick...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2023-11-23
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Aristotle's Eudemian Ethics was until recently treated as a poor cousin of the better-known Nicomachean Ethics - poor enough even to have to borrow its three central books (IV-VI) from the latter. The work has now emerged from its relative obscurity; many scholars,...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2023-11-23
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This book examines patterns of behavior during an era of mass brutality by analyzing, in a transnational context, mechanisms of violence and ethnic cleansing in the Balkan Wars of 1912–13. The main goal is to incorporate these conflicts into the broader discussion of...
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Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publishers
Parution :
2023-11-23
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This is the first fully researched biography of Martin Niemöller (1892-1984). It charts his life from his service in the Imperial German Navy, his work for the Inner Mission and as a Protestant pastor in the Berlin suburb of Dahlem from 1931. Niemöller's work as a...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2023-11-22
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This is an open access title available under the terms of a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 International licence. It is free to read on Oxford Academic and offered as a free PDF download from OUP and selected open access locations.
Latinization is a strangely overlooked topic....
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2023-11-22
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How did beer become one of the central commodities associated with the German nation?How did a little-known provincial production standard – the Reinheitsgebot, or Beer Purity Law – become a pillar of national consumer sentiments?How did the jovial, beer-drinking German...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2023-11-21
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This book presents a holistic perspective across various facets of culture, history, politics, economics and strategy in India’s relations with neighbouring South and Southeast Asian countries.This book not only analyses various issues of India’s foreign policy...
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Springer
Parution :
2023-11-21
Collection :
Dynamics of Asian Development
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Als einer der frühen Abenteurer und Afrika-Pioniere des vergangenen Jahrhunderts schildert Hermann Goetz sein ereignisreiches Leben in sieben wechselvollen Jahrzehnten abessinisch-äthiopischer Geschichte. Bald nach seiner Ankunft im Jahr 1902 gewinnt er das Vertrauen...
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Springer VS
Parution :
2023-11-21
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This Open access book provides a survey of the economic, health, and somatic progress of Baltic countries during the period 1918–2018, framed by the outline of the historical-sociological theory of modern social restorations, as originally conceived by the...
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Springer
Parution :
2023-11-21
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The book explores the key concerns in the United States of America, as well as around the world today, related to the significance of ecology, eco-consciousness and climate change.
The chapters by individual authors reflect the topics both from a theoretical and from an...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2023-11-20
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This book focuses on the rise of Kurdish nationalism in northwestern Iran in the context of the emergence of the Kurdish leader, Ismail Agha Simko, who organized a movement to establish a Kurdish state between 1918 and 1922 The rise of Simko is analyzed in the...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2023-11-19
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This edited book fills a void in the existing research concerning anti-communist movements in Central and Eastern Europe, outlining the linguistic implications of the cultural, social and political metamorphoses brought about by the (change of) regime....
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2023-11-17
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In early 1618, Anne Cecil (nee Lake), Lady Roos, accused Frances Cecil, countess of Exeter, of having committed adultery and incest with her husband, the countess's step grandson, William Cecil, Lord Roos. The countess had attempted to poison her twice, first with a...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2023-11-16
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Saul Bellow emphasized to a remarkable degree that the protagonists in his later novels were intellectuals trained in the humanistic traditions of European liberal education. He supposed that these protagonists would lead modern American society and predict its future....
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Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publishers
Parution :
2023-11-16
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Few themes in history have had as strong a hold on people's imagination. Fewer still have managed to alter the course of civilization.This is Charles Allen's definitive account of the Aryans, offering a grand sweep of language, mythology, contested histories and...
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Hachette India
Parution :
2023-11-15
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This book encourages a critical dialogue between interdisciplinary fields that border heritage boundaries and seeks to contribute a wide range of scholarly perspectives and case studies (both national and international). The widespread use of the concept of soft power...
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Springer
Parution :
2023-11-15
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