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This open access edited volume shines new light on the history of propaganda and persuasion during the Nordic welfare epoch. A common analytical framework is developed that highlights transnational and transmedial perspectives rather than national or monomedial...
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2022-10-14
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"Stress," "burn out," "mental overload": the twentieth and twenty-first centuries have witnessed an unrelenting expansion of the meaning of fatigue. The tentacles of exhaustion insinuated themselves into every aspect of our lives, from the workplace to the home, from...
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Polity
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2022-10-14
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Headline
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2022-10-13
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Includes interviews with Mary Kennedy, Sean O'Rourke, Mary Coughlan, Bertie Ahern and many othersWhat was life like for Ireland's grandparents when they were young?What has changed for the better? What values do they wish to hand down?In these pages, grandmother and...
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Hachette Books Ireland
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2022-10-13
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Dieses Buch enthält eine Sammlung deutscher diplomatischer Dokumente - darunter Telegramme, Depeschen und Berichte -, die von deutschen Diplomaten in Nanking an das Auswärtige Amt in Berlin und den deutschen Botschafter in Hankou, China, geschickt wurden und die...
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Springer VS
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2022-10-12
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This book investigates and assesses how and to what extent the French Catholic missionaries carried out their evangelical activity amid the natives of Acadia/Nova Scotia from the mid-seventeenth century until 1755, the year of the Great Deportation of the Acadians. It...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2022-10-11
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'Powerful, deftly researched. A necessary and urgent deep-dive' ELINOR CLEGHORN'Brilliantly researched and enlightening' STYLIST, Books You Need to Know This Autumn'Absolutely captivating' LESLIE...
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Weidenfeld & Nicolson
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2022-10-11
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They were a small group of conspirators who risked their lives by plotting relentlessly to obstruct and destroy the Third Reich from within. The Gestapo nicknamed this shadowy confederation of traitors the “Black Orchestra.” This is their tension-filled...
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Grand Central Publishing
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2022-10-11
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This book discusses the issues underlying contemporary Holocaust fiction. Using Gillian Rose’s theory of Holocaust piety, it argues that, rather than enhancing our understanding of the Holocaust, contemporary fiction has instead become overly focused on gratuitous...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2022-10-10
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This book explores the dilemmas of Georgian foreign policy since independence in 1991. Since the collapse of the Soviet Union, Georgia—a Caucasian republic with a fiercely independent national identity—has sought its own special path to European modernity, a promised...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2022-10-10
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Winner, The Lionel Gelber Prize
Silver Medal, Arthur Ross Book Award
For decades, China's rise to power was characterized by its reassurance that this rise would be peaceful. Then, as Susan L. Shirk, shows in this sobering, clear-eyed account of China today, something...
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Oxford University Press
Parution :
2022-10-07
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This book provides an introduction to human rights controversies in twentieth-century France, from the Dreyfus Affair at the beginning of the century, to the arguments over women and immigrants’ rights at its end. Using the Ligue des Droits de L’Homme (LDH) - or the...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2022-10-07
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As uncontrolled development forces crises in the natural world, deeply ingrained human connections with the earth are changing. Oral history's proven ability to explore issues of race, ethnicity, class, gender, and sexuality make it a uniquely effective methodology for...
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Oxford University Press
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2022-10-07
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This book describes the way in which landscape and landscape heritage have been – and still are – used to define national identities. It shows how national narratives use different types of landscapes. Some nations use nature as their main point of reference, partly to...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2022-10-06
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The process of modernization has brought discontinuities in collective memory. This volume and its sequel provide an act of collective remembrance, knitting together many voices and stories. It shows the readers a world of the past before modernization began in the...
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OUP Oxford
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2022-10-06
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Doctors writing about menopause in France vastly outnumbered those in other cultures throughout the entire nineteenth century. The concept of menopause was invented by French male medical students in the aftermath of the French Revolution, becoming an important...
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OUP Oxford
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2022-10-06
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This book offers a collection of innovative methodological approaches to Memory Studies in Russia and Eastern Europe. Providing insights into the relationship between memory and identity, the twelve chapters provide multidisciplinary analysis of how history is used to...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2022-10-06
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The process of modernization has brought discontinuities in collective memory. This volume and its prequel provide an act of collective remembrance, knitting together many voices and stories. It shows the readers a world of the past before modernization began in the...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2022-10-06
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Headline
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2022-10-06
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