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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
Parution :
2025-10-29
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This group biography follows the four Ashurst sisters, contemporaries of Queen Victoria, who rebelled against the limitations of their era to become influential activists. Raised by progressive parents in a London household with few boundaries between private life and...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2025-10-29
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The book explores the symbolic emergence of the Second Spanish Republic in Madrid’s public space in the aftermath of Francisco Franco’s dictatorship. Despite the constraints of a transition to democracy premised on restoring the Bourbon monarchy and...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2025-10-28
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A moving multigenerational memoir of Indigenous resistance, environmental justice, and a Yurok family's fight to protect their legacy and the Klamath River. For the members of a Northern California tribe, salmon are the lifeblood of the people—a vital...
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Little, Brown and Company
Parution :
2025-10-28
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This book aims to examine the role and status of sacred cities in the context of the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals and associated cultural and sacred landscapes with an emphasis on awakening the deeper cultural sense in harmonising the world and enhancing...
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Springer
Parution :
2025-10-28
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Drawing upon a unique cliometric approach, this book offers a comprehensive examination of major conflicts and their consequences. War and imperialism have shaped the modern world in profound ways, leaving an indelible mark on nations and peoples. In this book,...
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Springer
Parution :
2025-10-27
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As one of the few monographs available on the history of Chinese tomb murals, this book offers a comprehensive study.
Theoretically, the authors put forward rebirth belief and state explicitly that Chinese tomb murals gain their theoretical support from rebirth...
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Springer
Parution :
2025-10-25
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Studying mine-drainage works of a medieval principality living through times of war, social turmoil, and land reclamation, this book examines the relation between political power and mineral wealth. It argues that mine-drainage works in Monte Calisio, Trento emerged...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2025-10-25
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The purpose of this book is to evaluate the current international order and its efficiency and ability to achieve and maintain peace and justice through the philosophical debate on the foundation theories of state and order. Adding non-western perspectives and theories...
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Springer
Parution :
2025-10-25
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This book is about the dramatic changes that the world is witnessing in its attitude toward the past. For the first time in many generations, ordinary citizens around the globe have burst into disputes about history that were previously the province of politicians and...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2025-10-25
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This is the first book-length study of the history of working-class courtship and marriage in Scotland, from the establishment of civil registration to the introduction in 1939 of legislation which abolished irregular marriage and introduced civil marriage. Adopting a...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2025-10-25
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Representatives of the Russian Orthodox Church today often frame queer genders and sexualities as perverse deviations from ‘tradition’. While historians often assume the Church has always condemned homosexuality, this book reassesses the supposed...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2025-10-24
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This book examines the cultural encounter and conflict that arose during the French occupation of Egypt (1798–1801) by analyzing mutual perceptions of the French and Egyptians. It investigates how the image of Egypt, originally shaped by the writings of late...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2025-10-22
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This book is about “zero generation” witness literature: texts written by those who died in the Holocaust and who knew, at the time of their writing, that they would not survive. As such, they offer a unique perspective that differs from the more widely read...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2025-10-19
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For much of the Crescent City's history, days began with the cries of roaming street vendors and the percussive thwack of butchers' meat cleavers echoing out from the municipal markets. Generations of New Orleanians--Black and white, enslaved and free, men and women,...
Editeur :
Oxford University Press
Parution :
2025-10-17
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This book utilizes postcards as a historical and visual lens to consider the built environment of the Philippines after the governmental regime change in 1898. By compiling and using visual references to show shifting patterns of urban environmental design during the...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2025-10-17
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Dieses Buch untersucht die politisch-historischen Hintergründe des russisch-ukrainischen Konflikts und ordnet insbesondere den seit 2014 eskalierenden Krieg bis hin zur großflächigen Invasion Russlands im Jahr 2022 in einen breiten historischen Kontext...
Editeur :
Springer VS
Parution :
2025-10-17
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The First World War hardly ended with the formal Armistice in Europe on November 11, 1918, amid the continuing violence of blockades and epidemics, amid numerous forms of reconstruction and revolution. Its legacies, in fact, resonate deeply in our present. Nor is it...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2025-10-16
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Rulers and Raptors argues that by studying animal biographies we gain a new perspective on early modern court society. Combining court studies and historical animal studies, it brings together two vibrant but rarely combined fields of research and shows how the presence...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2025-10-16
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Following the death in 1789 of Abbé de l'Epée, the first teacher of deaf pupils renowned in France and beyond, revolutionaries committed to founding national institutes for the education of deaf pupils. There was little doubt about their ability to integrate as full...
Editeur :
OUP Oxford
Parution :
2025-10-16
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