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This book analyzes and summarizes the narrative motifs of Chinese mythology, before tracing their material and cultural elements using the new classification of Big Tradition and Small Tradition theories of culture from the field of literary anthropology, as well as...
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Springer
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2025-05-24
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This book examines the history of a pioneering Thoroughbred horse breeding operation, the Irish National Stud. By incorporating and integrating a diverse array of primary sources from various repositories and supplementing them with contemporary and secondary materials,...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2025-05-24
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This handbook offers a comprehensive overview of the connections between memory and literature. Organized into six interrelated sections, the book explores both the value of approaches and concepts from literary studies for memory scholarship and the plurality of ways...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2025-05-23
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The Lasting Legacy of Colonial Cemeteries in South Asia explores the interplay between architecture and historical memory, highlighting how colonial cemeteries serve as enduring reminders of the British Empire in the region. During British rule, nearly two million...
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OUP Oxford
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2025-05-22
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In June 1960, several British newspapers received a letter so shocking some thought it was a hoax. Beginning 'Sir, we are homosexuals . . ', it was signed by Roger Butler and two others. Publishing such a letter seven years prior to the decriminalisation of...
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Headline Press
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2025-05-22
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During the 1950s and first half of the 1960s the Indonesian Communist Party grew from a few thousand members to become the third largest communist party in the world, before it was annihilated in a violent purge in 1965-6 that saw perhaps half a million alleged...
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OUP Oxford
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2025-05-22
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This book addresses Naples’ relationship with Italy, since the introduction of direct mayoral election in 1993 and as articulated in cultural production. It deploys theoretical frameworks pertaining to postcolonialism and cultural accentedness to challenge the...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2025-05-21
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Im Fokus der Arbeit steht eine von der Bundesstiftung zur Aufarbeitung der SED-Diktatur federführend organisierte Jubiläumsausstellung. An dieser besonderen und gleichermaßen signifikanten Form staatlicher Geschichtspolitik interessiert vor allem das Wie...
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Springer VS
Parution :
2025-05-20
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This book is a biographical study of unprecedented scope and detail of the celebrated Anna Gordon, Mrs. Brown of Falkland, whose magnificent repertory of old Scottish ballads attracted the fascinated attention of intellectuals and song collectors during the later years...
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OUP Oxford
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2025-05-20
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From the New York Times bestselling author of Washington's Spies, "a page-turning thriller" (James M. Scott) about one of the greatest heists in history: the U.S. Navy’s clandestine capture of a Nazi U-boat at the climax of World War II....
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Little, Brown and Company
Parution :
2025-05-20
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The book is the first historical reconstruction of Italian political events over the last thirty years, that is, the period from the Tangentopoli crisis of the early 1990s to the present day. In particular, the book examines, for the first time in a systematic and...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2025-05-20
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This book explores the blues tradition through a collective dialogue with significant musicians and producers of the Austin blues scene. Based on an ethnography in the singular capital of Texas, the self-proclaimed live music capital of the world, it explores the local...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2025-05-19
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When Europeans and North Americans listen to music by Latin American composers, what do they hear? What, for that matter, do these composers' compatriots hear? The answer, historically, has been the sound of the nation. Scholars, critics, patrons, and audiences have...
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Oxford University Press
Parution :
2025-05-19
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This book adopts a multidisciplinary approach, incorporating knowledge and techniques from disciplines such as astronomy and history. The purpose of astrological divination is to discern the will of the heavens, and its subjects are the ruling class or the entire social...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2025-05-19
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Before the First World War Germany was a global empire with colonies in Africa, Asia, and the Pacific. Annexed to this empire in 1900 was Samoa, a thriving Polynesian trading hub which had previously been the site of conflict between Britain, Germany, and the United...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2025-05-19
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The ancient Greek world consisted of approximately 1,000 autonomous polities scattered across the Mediterranean basin and was remarkable for both its diversity and its uniformity. As Greeks dispersed throughout the Mediterranean, the different environmental and human...
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Oxford University Press
Parution :
2025-05-16
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Ethnographies fatefully rely on chance encounters and mysteriously so such encounters come true. "Dead in Banaras" is an instance of just such a fateful chance encounter. In its inception, it set out to follow the 'dead' across multiple social locations of crematoria,...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2025-05-14
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Following the defeat of the Paris Commune in May 1871, thousands of Commune militants fled France to avoid imprisonment, deportation, or death. As a result, and due in large part to Britain's liberal asylum policy, around 3500 refugees arrived in Britain in the early...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2025-05-14
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The late-eighteenth-century 'age of revolutions' has long been identified as a key moment in the gendering of modern democratic politics, one which opened up new debates on the 'rights of women' while often re-affirming the masculinity of the political citizen. In...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2025-05-14
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This book volume presents a nuanced perspective on comprehending power and authority in Indian history by offering a collection of case studies from different regions of India from different periods. The chapters in the book shed light on the sociological, cultural,...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2025-05-13
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