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**WINNER OF THE 2024 ASSOCIATION FOR RECORDED SOUND COLLECTIONS (ARSC) AWARD FOR BEST HISTORICAL RESEARCH IN RECORDED COUNTRY, FOLK, WORLD, OR ROOTS MUSIC**In this enlightening and entertaining book, experience the evolution of country music, from the rural routes...
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Da Capo
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2023-08-08
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Time and Ancient Medicine is the first monograph to explore, on the one hand, how the introduction of new timekeeping technologies (namely, sundials and water clocks) affected the practice, rhetoric, and philosophy of ancient medicine and, on the other hand, how medical...
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OUP Oxford
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2023-08-08
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Research for and the writing of this book was funded by the award of a Leverhulme Trust MajorResearch Fellowship.
The period c. AD300--1050, spanning the collapse of Roman rule to the coming of the Normans, was formative in the development of Wales. Life in Early...
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OUP Oxford
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2023-08-07
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This Open Access book describes the history of the relationship between the Japan Maritime Self-Defense Force (JMSDF), the heir to the Imperial Japanese Navy (IJN), and the United States Navy (US Navy), with a focus on the individuals who helped build it. Former enemies...
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Springer
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2023-08-06
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A biography of the boldest and most unsettling of the early modern philosophers, Spinoza, which examines the man's life, relationships, writings, and career, while also forcing us to rethink how we previously understood Spinoza's reception in his own time and in the...
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OUP Oxford
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2023-08-04
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The nineteenth century was a time of extraordinary scientific innovation, but with the rise of psychiatry, faiths and popular beliefs were often seen as signs of a diseased mind. By exploring the beliefs of asylum patients, we see the nineteenth century in a new light,...
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OUP Oxford
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2023-08-04
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Dürer's Lost Masterpiece tracks the history of a turning point in the career of the celebrated German artist Albrecht Dürer (1471-1528), when he stopped painting altarpieces after arguing with a merchant patron over payment. As an eloquent homage to Dürer´s life, it...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2023-08-04
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This innovative volume provides insight into the vast changes in societies now and in the near future, and highlights the need for a new sociological approach to analyse these changes. It particularly reviews and critiques existing theories of globalization and analyses...
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Springer
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2023-08-04
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Napoleon warned 'Let China sleep; when she wakes, she will shake the world'. Lawrence James's magisterial history analyses the relationship between Britain and China between the beginning of the Opium Wars in 1839 and the transfer of power in Hong Kong in 1997. THE LION...
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Weidenfeld & Nicolson
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2023-08-03
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Representing the Dynasty in Flavian Rome investigates the problem of contemporary historiography and regime representation in Flavian Rome through a close study of a text not usually read for such purposes but which has obvious promise for a study of this theme, the...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2023-08-03
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The gripping, forgotten tale of Ira Hayes—a Native American icon and World War II legend who famously helped raise the flag at Iwo Jima but spent the latter half of his life haunted by being a war hero. IRA HAYES tells the story of Ira...
Editeur :
Twelve
Parution :
2023-08-01
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Concerned with the fate of the minority in the age of the nation-state, Muslim political thought in modern South Asia has often been associated with religious nationalism and the creation of Pakistan. The Muslim Secular complicates that story by reconstructing the ideas...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2023-08-01
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This book provides an analysis of the latest research findings in the field of world history, and includes terse articulations of modernity vis-à-vis empire. In doing so, the author brings together insights from both the disciplines of history and international...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2023-07-31
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England and the Papacy in the Early Middle Ages: Papal Privileges in European Perspective, c. 680-1073 provides the first dedicated, book-length study of interactions betweenEngland and the papacy throughout the early middle ages. It takes as its lens the extant English...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2023-07-26
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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.
Across Europe, people are deeply concerned about...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2023-07-26
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Histories you can trust.
The First World War, now a century ago, still shapes the world in which we live, and its legacy lives on, in poetry, in prose, in collective memory and political culture. By the time the war ended in 1918, millions lay dead. Three major empires...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2023-07-25
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This book presents a theoretical and empirical investigation of sustainable economic growth in Russia. The ill-planned transition in the 1990s from planned economy to market economy resulted in a sharp decline in national production; however, Russian economic growth was...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2023-07-25
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The story of the British army, from its inception in the late seventeenth century to the present.
This new concise history by one of Britain's leading military historians explores the British army from the creation of a permanent standing army in the seventeenth...
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OUP Oxford
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2023-07-25
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Very Short Introductions: Brilliant, Sharp, Inspiring
The Victorian period may have come to an end over 120 years ago, but the Victorians continue to be a vital presence in the modern world. Contemporary Britain is still in large part Victorian in its transport...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2023-07-25
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Research for and the writing of this book was funded by the award of a Leverhulme Trust MajorResearch Fellowship.
The period c. AD300--1050, spanning the collapse of Roman rule to the coming of the Normans, was formative in the development of Wales. Life in Early...
Editeur :
OUP Oxford
Parution :
2023-07-23
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