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This book reconstructs the values, expectations and representations of priests and priesthoods in ancient Rome from the republic to the early empire. Challenging preconceived assumptions that Rome's priests were important primarily because of their political currency,...
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OUP Oxford
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2025-11-23
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Pregnant women in the past had sex, yet we know nearly nothing about their sexual desires, or what people thought about sex during pregnancy. While there is much research on the sexual maternal body, studies of pregnancy and sex are lacking. This Palgrave Pivot provides...
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2025-11-23
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Tracing the evolution of social thought on leisure in Britain from the industrial revolution to the present day, this book documents an alternative and almost totally ignored discourse of leisure as a field of welfare. Investigating evolving understandings of leisure in...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2025-11-22
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This book explores Tamil Buddhism in modern India, focusing on its emergence as a response to caste-based oppression during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Central to this movement was Pandit Iyothee Thass (1845–1914), a pioneering intellectual who...
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OUP Oxford
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2025-11-22
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This book offers a critical historical analysis of the People’s Health Movement in West Bengal, India, situating it within the broader context of health policy and public health developments in the region. It examines the systemic decline of the public healthcare...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2025-11-20
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In recent years, supernatural beliefs systems in medieval and modern Islamicate cultures have been the subject of sustained scholarly attention. But we know very little about these concepts and practices in an Ottoman context.
Marinos Sariyannis proposes here to...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2025-11-19
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This book reconstructs the values, expectations and representations of priests and priesthoods in ancient Rome from the republic to the early empire. Challenging preconceived assumptions that Rome's priests were important primarily because of their political currency,...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2025-11-19
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As the First World War came to a chaotic end, Europeans feared that a wave of crime and anarchy would sweep across their continent. The upheavals of the war and of the subsequent violent breakup of the Habsburg, German, and Ottoman empires magnified longstanding fears...
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Oxford University Press
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2025-11-19
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Dank des Kuriensystems genossen polnische Großgrundbesitzer eine privilegierte Stellung in Galizien. Ihre politischen Vertreter, die Konservativen, galten als Bewahrer dieses Zustands. Besonders ihr Flügel aus der Osthälfte des Kronlands, der im Schatten der Krakauer...
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Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
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2025-11-18
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This book addresses the ways in which science and technology were employed in South Africa during the Second World War. A key theme underlying the chapters is the human mind: in Chapter One, which addresses the submission of ideas to the Union Defence Force, this is the...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2025-11-17
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This open access book examines the first modern diplomatic contact between Europe and East Asia: the 1517 Portuguese embassy to China. The experience did not end well, for in 1521, the Ming Court decided to cut off relations, and a battle broke out between the Guangdong...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2025-11-17
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The book provides an account of German domestic broadcasting in the period from September 1939 to August 1944. It is the product of extensive research in German and British archives and constitutes a case-study into a broadcasting service in a dictatorship in wartime....
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2025-11-16
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This socio-historical monograph compares the two theologians Walter Rauschenbusch (1861–1918) and Martin Rade (1857–1940) in a transatlantic juxtaposition, with a particular focus on the political and social dimensions of their thought and work. Both theologians...
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Springer
Parution :
2025-11-15
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This book is a study in cultural collegiality and interchange. Over the course of a long life, Thomas Mann established working relationships with some of Hungary's cultural luminaries. On the six occasions that he visited Budapest to give public readings of his work, he...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2025-11-15
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This book explores Tamil Buddhism in modern India, focusing on its emergence as a response to caste-based oppression during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Central to this movement was Pandit Iyothee Thass (1845–1914), a pioneering intellectual who...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2025-11-15
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The “Silk Road” is also known as the “Road of Lacquerware”. This book starts with the liquid called "big lacquer" that flows out of the oriental lacquer tree. Focusing on the splendid Chinese lacquerware culture, this book explores cultural...
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2025-11-14
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Encounters with the Plague in Homer, Sophocles, and Thucydides explores three of the earliest, and most influential, accounts of plague visitations in Western literature: Homer's Iliad book 1 (1-487), Sophocles' Oedipus the King (esp. 1-215), and Thucydides' History of...
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OUP Oxford
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2025-11-13
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The book presents the activity of the Jewish Labour Bund in the territory of post-Yalta Poland in the years 1944-1949.The work focuses on the “last chapter” of the party’s activity in Poland. It touches upon issues concerning the attempts to modify/re-evaluate the...
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Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2025-11-13
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Ziel dieses Bandes ist es, Entstehung, Entwicklung und wechselseitige Wahrnehmung nationaler Identitäten in Italien und Finnland im neuzeitlichen Europa darzustellen, zu analysieren und vergleichend...
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Springer VS
Parution :
2025-11-13
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This is the second of three volumes of a Corpus publication of the Greek, bilingual and trilingual inscriptions from Ptolemaic Egypt covering the period from Alexander's conquest in 332 BC to the fall of Alexandria to the Romans in 30 BC.This volume contains 221...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2025-11-12
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