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Adopting a transnational lens, Immigrants’ Citizenship Perceptions: Sri Lankans in Australia and Aotearoa New Zealand investigates Sri Lankan immigrants’ complex views towards their home (Sri Lankan) and host (Australian or Aotearoa New Zealand) citizenship and the...
Editeur :
Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publishers
Parution :
2022-12-08
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Decades after Francis Fukuyama's 'end of history' thesis became famous, the conflicts and turmoil of history have returned; Dr. Kicmari, having seen his own native land erupt in a European civil war in the 1990s, has been thinking about these issues for many years. This...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2022-12-07
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This open access collection of essays explores the emotional agency of images in the construction of ‘humanitarian crises’ from the nineteenth century to the present. Using the prism of the histories of emotions and the senses, the chapters examine the pivotal role...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2022-12-06
Collection :
Palgrave Studies in the History of Emotions
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Namibia spielt eine zentrale Rolle in der kolonialen Vergangenheit Deutschlands. Während der deutschen Fremdherrschaft in den Jahren 1884 bis 1915, in der das Land „Deutsch-Südwestafrika" genannt wurde, kam der Bekämpfung und Prävention der Malaria, einer der weltweit...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2022-12-06
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This biography examines the life and career of scholar-journalist Elizabeth Wiskemann (1899-1971) from her youth and student years at Cambridge to her death by suicide. Disappointed in her hopes for an academic career, she reinvented herself as a journalist in Berlin,...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2022-12-06
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This book analyses how the three books of visions by Hildegard of Bingen use the allegorical vision as a form of knowledge. It describes how the visionary’s use of allegory and allegorical exegesis is linked to theories of cognition, interpretation, and prophecy. It...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2022-12-05
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Perhaps no category of people on earth has been perceived as more endangered, nor subjected to more conservation efforts, than indigenous peoples. And in India, calls for the conservation of Adivasi culture have often reached a fever pitch, especially amongst urban...
Editeur :
OUP Oxford
Parution :
2022-12-05
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This open access book explores the role of continuity in political processes and practices during the Age of Revolutions. It argues that the changes that took place in the years around 1800 were enabled by different types of continuities across Europe and in the...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2022-12-04
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This book explores and analyzes developments in the military institution, military engagements as well as the larger security environment of (including non-war violence and maritime regions linking to) the Portuguese Empire in India. These developments occurred under...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2022-12-02
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This book explores the intersection between medicine and literature in medieval Iberian literature and culture. Its overarching argument is that thirteenth- and fourteenth-century Iberian authors revalorized the interconnection between the body, the mind, and the soul...
Editeur :
OUP Oxford
Parution :
2022-12-02
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Religion is closely linked to social development as it often serves as the ideological fundament of a society and one of the foremost expressions of its culture. The articles in this volume are devoted to the study of religious crisis in Anqituity and deal with these...
Editeur :
Springer VS
Parution :
2022-12-02
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This book is the first study in English of the multi-volume set of texts and engravings of the Description of Egypt, a work produced following the three-year-long Egyptian campaign led by Napoleon Bonaparte in 1798. The book challenges the conventional and rather...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2022-12-01
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Bazaar Literature reorients our understanding of Victorian social reform fiction by reading it in light of the copious amount of literature generated for charity bazaars. Bazaars were ubiquitous during the nineteenth century, part of the vibrant and massive private...
Editeur :
OUP Oxford
Parution :
2022-12-01
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This book traces changing attitudes towards secrecy in eighteenth-century France, and explores the cultural origins of ideas surrounding government transparency. The idea of keeping secrets, both on the part of individuals and on the part of governments, came to be...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2022-11-30
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This book provides an annotated source edition of the only two extant documents related to the sorcery trial brought against Pes de Guoythie and Condesse de Beheythie in Lower Navarre, in 1370. It provides full transcriptions of both documents, and English translations...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2022-11-30
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This book provides a history of witchcraft in the territories that compose contemporary Romania, with a focus on the sixteenth to nineteenth centuries. The first part presents aspects of earthly justice, religious and secular, analysing the codes of law, trials and...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2022-11-30
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This book examines the archival aesthetic of mourning and memory developed by Latin American artists and photographers between 1997-2016. Particular attention is paid to how photographs of the assassinated or disappeared political dissident of the 1970s and 1980s,...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2022-11-30
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This book analyses the evolution of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) and its policies from the Cold War until today. NATO’s future cannot be fully understood without analysing its past: the origins of its structure and goals, and their transformation over...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2022-11-29
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This book examines the global circulation of Marxism seen from one of its most highly charged sites: Calcutta in India. Building on but also revising existing approaches to global intellectual history, the book presents the circulation of Marxism through...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2022-11-29
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The gold standard in college-level American naval history texts, edited by the foremost scholar in the field In the newly revised second edition of America, Sea Power and the World, a team of distinguished researchers delivers an extensive and authoritative survey of...
Editeur :
Wiley-Blackwell
Parution :
2022-11-29
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