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Popular Protest and Ideals of Democracy in Late Renaissance Italy is the first study to analyse popular protest across the Italian peninsula and the Venetian colonies during the early modern period, 1494 to 1559. Drawing on over 100 contemporary chronicles and diaries,...
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OUP Oxford
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2021-12-30
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Popular Protest and Ideals of Democracy in Late Renaissance Italy is the first study to analyse popular protest across the Italian peninsula and the Venetian colonies during the early modern period, 1494 to 1559. Drawing on over 100 contemporary chronicles and diaries,...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2021-12-30
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«Eine der interessantesten und schillerndsten Figuren des Mittelalters» – so urteilt Hans-Werner Goetz über den wichtigsten Geschichtsschreiber der späten Ottonenzeit. Der vorliegende Band präsentiert die Beiträge einer zum Anlass des 1000. Todestages Thietmars...
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Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2021-12-27
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Building in Words explores the relationship between text and architecture in the Roman world from the perspective of architectural process. Ancient Romans frequently encountered buildings under construction - they experienced noisy building work, disruptive...
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Oxford University Press
Parution :
2021-12-24
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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 :
2021-12-23
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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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2021-12-23
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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
Parution :
2021-12-23
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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
Parution :
2021-12-23
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This volume, a contribution to the emergent interdisciplinary field of Kurdish Studies, is an engagement with the politics, culture and history of the Kurds. Sections of the book treat the Kurds in medieval and modern history, including the contemporary ‘Arab Spring’,...
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Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publishers
Parution :
2021-12-21
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An innovative recasting of US legal and economic history through the power of clothing for those who lacked power and status in American society.
What can dresses, bedlinens, waistcoats, pantaloons, shoes, and kerchiefs tell us about the legal status of the least...
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Oxford University Press
Parution :
2021-12-20
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The Oxford Handbook of the Weimar Republic is a multi-author survey of German history from 1918 to 1933. Covering a broad range of topics in social, political, economic, and cultural history, it presents an overview of current scholarship, and will help students and...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2021-12-20
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The Oxford Handbook of the Weimar Republic is a multi-author survey of German history from 1918 to 1933. Covering a broad range of topics in social, political, economic, and cultural history, it presents an overview of current scholarship, and will help students and...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2021-12-20
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Discover a comprehensive and cross-disciplinary handbook exploring several sub-regions and key themes perfect for a new generation of students A Companion to the Hellenistic and Roman Near East delivers the first complete handbook in the area of Hellenistic and Roman...
Editeur :
Wiley-Blackwell
Parution :
2021-12-17
Collection :
Blackwell Companions to the Ancient World
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A comparative history of the relocation and removal of indigenous societies in the Greater American Southwest during the mid-nineteenth century Lost Worlds of 1863: Relocation and Removal of American Indians in the Central Rockies and the Greater Southwest offers a...
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Wiley-Blackwell
Parution :
2021-12-16
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This book is a collaborative contribution that expands our understanding of how interfaith relations, both real and imagined, developed across medieval Iberia and the Mediterranean. The volume pays homage to the late Olivia Remie Constable’s scholarship and presents...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2021-12-16
Collection :
Mediterranean Perspectives
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This edited collection explores the histories of trade, a peculiar literary genre that emerged in the context of the historiographical and cultural changes promoted by the histoire philosophique movement. It marked a discontinuity with erudition and...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2021-12-16
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This book provides the first complete study of the documentation relevant to the gymnasium and gymnasial life in Egypt at the time of the Ptolemies, the longest reigning Hellenistic Royal House (323-30 BC). Paganini analyses the diffusion, characteristics,...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2021-12-16
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This book provides the first complete study of the documentation relevant to the gymnasium and gymnasial life in Egypt at the time of the Ptolemies, the longest reigning Hellenistic Royal House (323-30 BC). Paganini analyses the diffusion, characteristics,...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2021-12-16
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The Ethics of Survival in Contemporary Literature and Culture delves into the complex problems involved in all attempts to survive.The essays analyze survival in contemporary prose narratives, short stories, poems, dramas, and theoretical texts, but also in films and...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2021-12-14
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This edited volume systematically analyzes the connection between xenophobia, nativism, and Pan-Africanism. It situates attacks on black Africans by fellow black Africans within the context of ideals such as Pan-Africanism and Ubuntu, which emphasize unity. The book...
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Springer
Parution :
2021-12-14
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