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Imperial expositions held in fin-de-siècle London, Paris and Berlin were knots in a world wide web. Conceptualizing expositions as meta-media, Fleeting Cities constitutes a transnational and transdisciplinary investigation into how modernity was created and displayed,...
Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2025-03-11
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This book presents the history of the British Empire as the “Bridge” for creating a Global History, especially emphasizing its connections with Asian regions. The United Kingdom ruled most of the world in the nineteenth century. Its influence spread around the globe in...
Editeur : Springer
Parution : 2025-03-07
Format(s) : PDF, ePub
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This book presents a comprehensive account of the history of the Grand Canal of China, which is over 6,000 miles long and more than 2,500 years old. The Grand Canal of China flows through Beijing, Tianjin, Hebei, Henan, Shandong, Jiangsu, and Zhejiang, connecting the...
Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2025-03-06
Format(s) : PDF, ePub
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«This unique volume takes the reader on an extraordinary journey through flights of the political and social imagination across Iberia and Latin America from the conquest of the Americas, via insurgent and reactionary modern movements, to the Cold War and on to...
Editeur : Peter Lang Ltd, International Academic Publishers
Parution : 2025-03-06
Format(s) : PDF, ePub
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Mehr als drei Jahrzehnte nach dem Fall der Berliner Mauer und der deutschen Einheit lebt die DDR weiter – nicht nur in der (lebendigen) Erinnerung von Zeitzeug:innen und Erb:innen, sondern auch in vielfältigen kulturhistorischen, künstlerischen, literarischen und...
Editeur : Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution : 2025-03-06
Format(s) : PDF, ePub
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Simultaneous to the rise of industrial capitalism, agriculture - still the mainstay of most human communities around the globe in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries - underwent dramatic changes. In many countries, including most settler economies, a...
Editeur : OUP Oxford
Parution : 2025-03-05
Format(s) : PDF
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During the long nineteenth century, British women reframed the masculine paradigm of the Grand Tour. They created a feminist travel gaze, intentionally or unintentionally, that differed from that of male peers. Unlike their brothers, who went for personal edification,...
Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2025-03-05
Format(s) : PDF, ePub
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From the authors of Cocktails in Color comes a revolutionary celebration of the women who have shaped the spirits industry from ancient times to today. Alcohol and spirits has long been thought of as a male-dominated field, but the truth is that women have been...
Editeur : Union Square & Co.
Parution : 2025-03-04
Format(s) : ePub
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An “essential” (James Oakes, author of The Crooked Path to Abolition) history of the study of slavery in America, from the Revolutionary era to the 1619 Project, showing how these intellectual debates have shaped American public life In recent years, from...
Editeur : Basic Books
Parution : 2025-03-04
Format(s) : ePub
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This book brings together its contributors to study the figure of Seignelay Colbert de Castlehill, born in Inverness on 13th August 1735 into a Presbyterian family and who died in London, an anti-Concordant bishop and leader of the ‘Little Church’ on 15th July 1811....
Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2025-03-01
Format(s) : PDF, ePub
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This book explores the origins of agriculture in China, and the transformation from hunter-gatherer to agriculture producer. Therefore, it reveals the ancient genes of China as an agricultural country and digs into questions like what turning events occurred during the...
Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2025-02-28
Format(s) : PDF, ePub
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The later Middle Ages and the early modern period were important and overlapping historical moments for both Venice and the Ottoman Empire, yet the two--both the periods themselves and the Republic and Empire more generally--have often been considered in isolation....
Editeur : OUP Oxford
Parution : 2025-02-28
Format(s) : ePub
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This is an open access title available under the terms of a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 International licence. It is free to read on the Oxford Academic platform and offered as a free PDF download from OUP and selected open access locations.
Across eighteenth- and early...
Editeur : OUP Oxford
Parution : 2025-02-28
Format(s) : ePub
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This book focuses on the relationships between underground urban music cultures in Los Angeles and specific urban imaginaries related to music practices, far away and sometimes in stark opposition to the commodified image of the city crafted by urban planners and...
Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2025-02-27
Collection :
Palgrave Studies in the History of Subcultures and Popular Music
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This book explores the construction of Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs) identity as a social group in Georgia, framed through Tajfel and Turner's Social Identity Theory. It examines the key factors shaping the identity of Georgian IDPs displaced by ethnic conflicts...
Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2025-02-27
Format(s) : PDF, ePub
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Drawing on a quantitative analysis of hundreds of printed and archival sources from 77 towns, The Making of Urban Customary Law in Medieval England is the first cross-regional investigation into the history of urban customs since Mary Bateson's seminal, two-volume work...
Editeur : OUP Oxford
Parution : 2025-02-27
Format(s) : ePub
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'I never realised that there could be such suffering in the world, and that anyone could live through it' - from Edith's diary, 1st July 1945In 1940, while the Germans occupied Holland, fourteen-year-old Edith van Hessen was filling her diary with the intimate, carefree...
Editeur : Virago
Parution : 2025-02-27
Collection :
Virago Modern Classics
Format(s) : ePub
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Accurate information is essential to successful business activity. The early modern period saw an increase in printed commercial information, including newspapers, printed exchange rates, and educational texts--part of the 'print revolution' that permeated all aspects...
Editeur : OUP Oxford
Parution : 2025-02-26
Format(s) : PDF
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The quarter century after the end of the Second World War and the transfer of power in India in 1947 marked the slow and turbulent dissolution of the British Empire in the Middle East.
Seeking to capture the period in its full complexity and contradictions, acclaimed...
Editeur : OUP Oxford
Parution : 2025-02-26
Format(s) : PDF
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Previous scholarship on fascism in Slovakia has focused on either state actors operating from urban centres or the mechanisms of violence on a grassroots level - with the result being that the Holocaust is seen as primarily a top-down and state-centred process.
In...
Editeur : OUP Oxford
Parution : 2025-02-26
Format(s) : PDF
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