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As a continuation of our award-winning book ‘China's City Cluster Development in the Race to Carbon Neutrality’, this book covers China's major urban changes over the last 30 years. Unlike the previous book, where we highlighted regional development issues, this...
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Springer
Parution :
2024-12-02
Collection :
Urban Sustainability
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“Francie Cate’s Popular Memory and Franco’s ‘Disappeared’ is an obra magistral, an opus magnum, a masterwork. It is an in-depth and broad study in which further research on memory, imposed forgetting, counter-memory, and the dynamics of cultural memory will be...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2024-12-01
Collection :
Palgrave Macmillan Memory Studies
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This book provides a cultural history of cultivation theory, a North American mass communication paradigm best known for arguing that television violence was a potent agent of political socialisation. Decades after its inception, cultivation theory remains an evocative...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2024-12-01
Collection :
Palgrave Studies in the History of the Media
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This book addresses the varied performances of magic in medieval and early modern Scandinavia. It provides a comprehensive review of the rapidly expanding field of European magic and specifically discusses performances of magic in the pre-modern north. By...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2024-11-30
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In the heyday of empire, most of the world was ruled, directly or indirectly, by the European powers. Unconquered States explores the struggles for sovereignty of the few nominally independent non-Western states in the imperial age. It examines the ways in which...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2024-11-30
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This collection of papers is intended to provide a survey of the history of political ideas in the Ottoman world from its dawn around 1300 to its downfall in the early 20th century. It features fourteen original papers by some of the most prominent and innovative...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2024-11-29
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The book is a unique proposal for an integral description of memory regimes in the South Caucasus region, covering both the independent states of Armenia and Georgia, but also the separatist entities created as a result of the turbulent changes of the early 1990s -...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2024-11-29
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For many years, historians have not given due attention to the relations between the Nordic countries and Israel. As a consequence, the existing body of research on this topic is almost entirely conducted by scholars from the social sciences, especially international...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2024-11-28
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Arbitrating Empire offers a new history of the emergence of the United States as a global power-one shaped as much by attempts to insulate the US government from international legal scrutiny as it was by efforts to project influence across the globe. Drawing on...
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Oxford University Press
Parution :
2024-11-26
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This book looks at the relationship of the cock and cockfighting in Britain from the Enlightenment through the modern era, showing the societal and culture changes that affected that relationship. It examines the evolution of the cock in religion and sport, the...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2024-11-26
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Questa ricerca affronta lo studio della ceramica figurata realizzata da alcuni pittori greci che, nel VII secolo a.C., attraversarono il Mediterraneo per venire a installarsi sulla costa ionica dell’Italia meridionale. Attraverso un esame filologico della documentazione...
Editeur :
Publications du Centre Jean Bérard
Parution :
2024-11-26
Collection :
Collection du Centre Jean Bérard
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This book explores representations of the extensive violence that characterised British exploratory and colonising forays into the Pacific Ocean in the long eighteenth century, both between Europeans and Indigenous peoples and amongst Europeans themselves. It explores...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2024-11-26
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What was it like to be a woman in service in early modern England? Drawing on evidence recorded in church court testimony, Mansell excavates experiences of over a thousand female servants between 1532 and 1649. Intervening in histories of labour, gender, freedom, law,...
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OUP/British Academy
Parution :
2024-11-26
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The contributions to this volume represent a range of case studies that provide perspectives on the question of how deeply Hellenic influence penetrated into the lives of the subjects of the Hellenistic monarchies. Greek became the language of international discourse of...
Editeur :
Springer VS
Parution :
2024-11-25
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The transnational anti-apartheid sport boycott of South Africa represented the most prominent, extended, and controversial anti-racism campaign in the history of sport. Spearheaded by prominent British religious and anti-colonial figures and exiled South Africans,...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2024-11-25
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Prompted by the need for accessible teaching materials on Central Asian literature and history, this anthology surveys the literature of modern Central Asia from the late 19th century to the present. Genres range from oral literature and folk tales to essays, prose,...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2024-11-25
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In the heyday of empire, most of the world was ruled, directly or indirectly, by the European powers. Unconquered States explores the struggles for sovereignty of the few nominally independent non-Western states in the imperial age. It examines the ways in which...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2024-11-25
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In diesem Buch wird die Beziehung zwischen verschiedenen sozialen Bewegungen und marxistischen Geschichtskulturen in der zweiten Hälfte des 20. Jahrhunderts in Westeuropa untersucht, wobei der Schwerpunkt auf der Bundesrepublik Deutschland und Italien liegt. Während des...
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J.B. Metzler
Parution :
2024-11-22
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This handbook provides the first comprehensive treatment of the Greek cities in the Roman Empire. The poleis are studied here both as urban forms, with a specific organization of space and specific public buildings, and as socio-political entities, with specific...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2024-11-22
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This book comprehensively examines the extensive history of India by focusing on the unifying themes of history. The profound analysis of special events and impactful personalities of Indian history form the core of the book. Handbook of Indian History...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2024-11-21
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