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Starting after the Great War, this book charts the rise of the ritualistic engagement, the modern white wedding and the more widely available honeymoon holiday, to show changes and continuities in English masculinity by considering power relations between men and...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2023-03-31
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What has by convention been called 'John Lightfoot's journal' is in fact a four-volume series of journals, the first of which has never been published. The journals are presented here in their entirety for the first time.
John Lightfoot's journals cover a period in...
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OUP Oxford
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2023-03-31
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This research delivers a conceptual reconstruction of the trajectory of concepts used to mark qualitative differences among identities from the 16th to the 21st century in central Europe and the Americas. The surplus lies in the inclusion of colonial history in the...
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Springer VS
Parution :
2023-03-30
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In his timely new book, Mikhail Shishkin, argues that Russia is not a 'riddle wrapped in a mystery inside an enigma': we just don't know enough about it. So what is the real story behind Putin's autocratic regime and its invasion of Ukraine?In My Russia: War or Peace?...
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Riverrun
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2023-03-30
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This book explores the various ramifications and consequences of the violent civil protests that affected Kazakhstan in January 2022. In this compelling study, the authors examine the underlying social and political tensions that have affected this biggest country of...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2023-03-30
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'In the wake of the strongest earthquake in Italy for nearly forty years and the many aftershocks that followed, Italians began speaking of the earth beneath our feet as la terra ballerina, the dancing earth. The dance they spoke of was unrelenting.'Foreign...
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Weidenfeld & Nicolson
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2023-03-30
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This book provides a reappraisal of Germany’s military between the mid-nineteenth century and the end of the First World War. At its core is the following question: how 'German' was the imperial German army?This army, which emerged from the Wars of Unification in 1871,...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2023-03-28
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This book explores imperial entanglements to reassess the Napoleonic Empire as a missing link—or at least an important chain—in the global and longue durée history of Empires. In recent years Napoleonic studies have, belatedly but resolutely, embraced the...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2023-03-28
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In this book, rock-cut and underground structures of Koramaz Valley on the Anatolian Plateau in Turkey are described in detail. The valley; located in eastern Turkey near the town of Kayseri, has hundreds of rock-cut structures, in addition to several underground...
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Springer
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2023-03-28
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Thomas Carlyle's Past and Present (1843) was a prophetic warning of impending disaster for mid-Victorian Britain that was delivered in what the author described as a 'miraculous thunder-voice, from out of the centre of the world.' The impact of Carlyle's social...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2023-03-28
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A fascinating account of how Shakespeare's works were understood and valued by readers and writers from the seventeenth to the nineteenth century, before Shakespeare's biography came to dominate readings of his plays and poetry.
For almost two centuries after his...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2023-03-28
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Histories you can trust.
In 14 original essays, The Oxford History of the Book reveals the history of books in all their various forms, from the ancient world to the digital present. Leading international scholars offer an original and richly illustrated narrative that...
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OUP Oxford
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2023-03-28
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There can be few historical figures who have made such a powerful impact on the popular imagination as the Roman emperor Caligula (died AD 41). Yet an accurate reconstruction of his life and reign largely eludes us. This is paradoxical. The source material is plentiful,...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2023-03-28
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Histories you can trust.
The Oxford History of the Holy Land covers the 3,000 years which saw the rise of Judaism, Christianity, and Islam - and relates the familiar stories of the sacred texts with the fruits of modern scholarship. Beginning with the origins of the...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2023-03-28
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This book is a comprehensive academic introduction of the natural conditions and cultural characteristics of the ChangJiang River Basin. Describing in detail the geographical location and natural conditions of the main stream and the tributaries as the starting point,...
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Springer
Parution :
2023-03-23
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This open access book includes forty-one chapters about foreign observers’ discourses on Japan. These include a wide range of perspectives from the travelogues of curious visitors to academic theses by scholars, which offer us a broad spectrum of contents, reflecting a...
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Springer
Parution :
2023-03-23
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Editeur :
Constable
Parution :
2023-03-23
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The new edition of the most up-to-date, interdisciplinary history of Ohio currently available Now in its second edition, Ohio: A History of the Buckeye State surveys the long and rich history of Ohio from its earliest geological periods to the present day. Designed for...
Editeur :
Wiley-Blackwell
Parution :
2023-03-23
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Dieses Buch bietet eine umfassende Darstellung der Entwicklung der Soziologie in Argentinien von Mitte der 1950er Jahre bis zur Gegenwart und zeichnet den bewegten Werdegang der Disziplin und ihre enge Beziehung zum breiteren (und turbulenten) argentinischen politischen...
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Springer VS
Parution :
2023-03-22
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Dieses Buch bietet eine historisch-soziologische Analyse der Geschichte der Soziologie in Belgien vom späten neunzehnten bis zum frühen einundzwanzigsten Jahrhundert. Es wirft ein neues Licht auf die sozialen Strukturen, die die Orientierungen und die Arbeit der...
Editeur :
Springer VS
Parution :
2023-03-22
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