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"The best protection any woman can have... is courage."Elizabeth Cady Stanton, US suffragetteThroughout history, women have often been silenced, their contributions overlooked, their struggles ignored. Yet, despite these barriers, countless figures have challenged the...
Editeur : OH
Parution : 2025-02-06
Format(s) : ePub
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On many forms in the UK where ethnicity needs to be ticked, the space for East and South East Asia is 'Chinese or Any Other Asian'. This represents a shameful sweeping together of a vastly varied heritage and experience. East and South East Asian people have lived and...
Editeur : Weidenfeld & Nicolson
Parution : 2025-02-06
Format(s) : ePub
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The European left seemed to be in rude health during the 1970s. Never had so many political parties committed to representing the working class been in power simultaneously across the continent. New forms of mobilisation led by female, immigrant, and young wage-earners...
Editeur : OUP Oxford
Parution : 2025-02-06
Format(s) : ePub
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This book contains Charles Burney's letters from the age of 74 to 80, a period during which he retired from teaching but, far from slowing down despite frequent bouts of illness, continued to write, publishing his last book, Memoirs of the Life and Writings of the Abate...
Editeur : OUP Oxford
Parution : 2025-02-05
Format(s) : PDF
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Subaltern Geographies stands as the inaugural comprehensive
exploration into the intersection of subaltern studies’ historical
breakthroughs and the critical methodologies of cultural, urban,
historical, and political geography. Editors Tariq Jazeel and Stephen
Legg...
Editeur : OUP Oxford
Parution : 2025-02-05
Format(s) : PDF
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It is well-known that gender distinctions structure the modern labour market, but why is this so and how far back in time does the pattern extend? Gender, Work, and the Transition to Modernity in Northwestern Europe, 1720-1880 uses a unique method to map and explain how...
Editeur : OUP Oxford
Parution : 2025-02-05
Format(s) : PDF
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National service was a defining feature for a generation of young men in post-war Britain. Around 2.3 million of them were called up between the end of World War Two and 1963, when conscription ended. However, national service was forgotten almost before it had ended, a...
Editeur : OUP Oxford
Parution : 2025-02-05
Format(s) : PDF
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A COMPANION TO GLOBAL ENVIRONMENTAL HISTORY Equips both specialists and newcomers with the historical, intellectual, and political context for engagement with the environment Providing multiple points of entry into a dynamic, fast-growing field,A Companion to Global...
Editeur : Wiley-Blackwell
Parution : 2025-02-05
Collection :
Wiley Blackwell Companions to World History
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This open access book focuses on the potential for conflict between high and low culture during the transformations of the popular in the field of religion in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Specifically, the contributors to this edited...
Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2025-02-04
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This book is about four cornerstones of modern thought that were put in place by people living in the ancient Mediterranean world. It covers approximately 2,000 years in time (from ca. 1000 BCE to 1000 CE) and spatially moves from the Tigris and Euphrates rivers in...
Editeur : Oxford University Press
Parution : 2025-02-03
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This book offers an historical analysis of an area of young people's activity which remains significant in the present. It shows that many thousands of young people in England were involved in peace movement activity from 1919 to 1969, in connection with the League of...
Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2025-02-03
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After the First World War, the improvement of working and living conditions in agriculture became an international issue for the first time. Led by the International Labour Organization and related organizations, as well as overlapping expert networks, agrarian interest...
Editeur : OUP Oxford
Parution : 2025-02-03
Format(s) : ePub
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Vasileios Balaskas explores the revival of classical drama at ancient venues as a sociopolitical apparatus of the European nation-states in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. The modern use of Graeco-Roman theatres, odeons, amphitheatres, and stadiums depended on...
Editeur : OUP Oxford
Parution : 2025-02-03
Format(s) : ePub
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Step into the rich tapestry of Nandom, a resilient community in West Africa, as this meticulously researched work uncovers the origins, traditions, and evolution of its people. Addressing a historical gap, the author combines academic rigor with a compelling narrative...
Editeur : Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publishers
Parution : 2025-02-03
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A highly original reinterpretation of how race and class shaped the entirety of Southern history through the experience of four interconnected family lines.
The Southern Fault Line explores the under-appreciated division in the South between the oligarchic rule of...
Editeur : Oxford University Press
Parution : 2025-02-03
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In recent decades, scholars have uncovered the vital contributions made by non-elite figures, including women, artisans, and indigenous peoples, to the development of early modern natural philosophy. This Palgrave Pivot argues that children, too, quite...
Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2025-01-31
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"First we crushed our enemy, then saved him from starvation," Walter Cronkite intoned in a 1963 episode of the CBS television series The Twentieth Century. Designed to commemorate the upcoming fiftieth anniversary of US aid to Europe during World War I, the episode...
Editeur : Oxford University Press
Parution : 2025-01-31
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A thrilling and in-depth look at the battle for Manila, the third-bloodiest battle of World War II and the culmination point of the war in the Pacific theater.
In 1945 the United States and Japan fought the largest and most devastating land battle of their war in the...
Editeur : Oxford University Press
Parution : 2025-01-31
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In recent decades a significant 'transnational' turn has occurred in German Studies, with the role of India in German cultural history becoming a growing area of interest, yet there are serious challenges to the historian within this. Although teleological perspectives...
Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2025-01-31
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Although the printing giants of John Murray and Karl Baedeker dominated the nineteenth-century travel guidebook market, women were important producers and consumers of guides. This book argues that in the late nineteenth century, women were key cultural producers of...
Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2025-01-31
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