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This open access book explores the role of religion in England's overseas companies and the formation of English governmental identity abroad in the seventeenth century. Drawing on research into the Virginia, East India, Massachusetts Bay, Plymouth, New England and...
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2022-01-07
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This microhistory reconstructs and analyses a protracted legal dispute over a small parcel of land called Warrens Court in Nibley, Gloucestershire, which was contested between successive generations of two families from the mid-sixteenth century to the early eighteenth...
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OUP Oxford
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2022-01-06
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Discover how the modern world came to be with this easy-to-follow and up-to-date history companion Want to get a taste of the entirety of human history in a single book? With World History For Dummies, you'll get an overview of the history of, well, everything, from the...
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For Dummies
Parution :
2022-01-06
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This book is the first of its kind to investigate the ongoing significance of industrial craft in deindustrialising places such as Australia. Providing an alternative to the nostalgic trope of the redundant factory ‘craftsman’, this book introduces the...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2022-01-04
Collection :
Palgrave Studies in Oral History
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THE BOOK
A long broad stretch of real estate covers the central highlands spine of West New Guinea. This wide mountain range runs from the Paniai Lakes region and continues across the international border into the neighboring country of Papua New Guinea.
This book...
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Galda Verlag
Parution :
2022-01-04
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This book joins the discussion on foreign aid triggered by the rise of multiplicity of emerging donors in international development and explores the transformation of Kazakhstan from a recipient country to a development aid provider.
Drawing on fieldwork in...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2022-01-04
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This book examines the role of foreign languages and cultures in the Algerian educational system, highlighting how cultural imperialism and supremacy persist through damaging language ideologies and the privileging of colonial languages such as French and English. The...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2022-01-03
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Offering a global history of India's refugee regime, Making Refugees in India explores how one of the first postcolonial states during the mid-twentieth century wave of decolonisation rewrote global practices surrounding refugees - signified by India's refusal to sign...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2022-01-03
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Stalin's reign of terror was not all doom and gloom, much of it was (meant to be) funny! From comedy films to satirical theatre, from caricature to court speeches, and fromStalin's own writings to bawdy folk songs, humour pervaded the popular culture of the USSR. Until...
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OUP Oxford
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2022-01-03
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This collectively written monograph is the first work to provide a broad history of the relationship between Eastern Europe and the decolonising world. It ranges from the late nineteenth to the late twentieth century, but at its core is the dynamic of the post-1945...
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OUP Oxford
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2022-01-03
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This book discusses the merits of the theory of agonistic memory in relation to the memory of war. After explaining the theory in detail it provides two case studies, one on war museums in contemporary Europe and one on mass graves exhumations, which both focus on...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2022-01-02
Collection :
Palgrave Macmillan Memory Studies
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Examining transnational ties between the USA and Australia, this book explores the rise of the Aboriginal Black Power Movement in the 1960s and early 1970s. Aboriginal adaptation of the American Black Power movement paved the way for future forms of radical Aboriginal...
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2022-01-01
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This book makes the case for a unique coastal-urban experience of war on the home front during the First World War, focusing on case studies from the north-east of England. The use of case studies from this region problematises an often assumed national or generalised...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2022-01-01
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Shipwreck Narratives: Out of Our Depth studies both the representation of shipwreck and the ways in which shipwrecks are used in creative, philosophical, and political works. The first part of the book examines historical shipwreck narratives published over a period of...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2022-01-01
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Providing a historical overview of healthcare in Italy from its unification in 1861 to the present COVID-19 pandemic, this book analyses the political, social and cultural impact of Italian healthcare policy and medicine. The author examines the development of public...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2022-01-01
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This book explores a significant lacuna in British history. Between the 1790s and the 1840s, the concept of psychological androgyny or the unsexed mind emerged as a notion of psychosexual equality, promoted by a small though influential network of heterodox radicals on...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2022-01-01
Collection :
Genders and Sexualities in History
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Breaking new ground in the study of European colonialism, this book focuses on a nation historically positioned between the Western and Eastern Empires of Europe – Finland. Although Finland never had overseas colonies, the authors argue that the country was undeniably...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2022-01-01
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Presenting the history of an unexplored yet significant institution in East Germany, this book analyses the development of the Parteihochschule Karl Marx (PHS), a training institute for Communist party officials and members of the functional elite. By chronicling the...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2022-01-01
Collection :
Palgrave Studies in Political History
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An insightful and original exploration of Roman Republic politics In A Companion to the Political Culture of the Roman Republic, editors Valentina Arena and Jonathan Prag deliver an incisive and original collection of forty contributions from leading academics...
Editeur :
Wiley-Blackwell
Parution :
2021-12-31
Collection :
Blackwell Companions to the Ancient World
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This is a book about an online community of the Second Generation (2g), childrenof Holocaust survivors. Created in 1995, “ e List” was the brainchild of Paul Foldes,a 2g electrical engineer and consumer attorney turned businessman. Knowing thatonline communities were an...
Editeur :
Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2021-12-30
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