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Early Greek hexameter poetry and its language is the focus of this book, and McConnell addresses the question of why the Greek in which this poetry is composed is so special and unique in ancient literature. It has long been maintained that various features of the...
Editeur : OUP Oxford
Parution : 2024-12-16
Format(s) : PDF
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This book constitutes the first book-length study of journalistic responses to poverty and protest during the Lancashire cotton crisis. The cotton crisis of 1861-1865 is a popular subject in history, culture and education. Workers’ voices are comprehensively studied in...
Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2024-12-16
Collection :
Neglected Voices from the Past
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Through a meticulous analysis of various historical sources, the authors of this book have uncovered a wealth of information on the trade of salt and tobacco in Guizhou province, southwest of China, in the 1930s and 1940s. Their findings not only shed light on how...
Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2024-12-16
Format(s) : PDF, ePub
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Public school education in the second half of the nineteenth century was completely dominated by classics and sport. Rejecting the view that these were competing strands resulting in friction between aesthetic scholars and athletic philistines, this book shows how...
Editeur : Peter Lang Ltd, International Academic Publishers
Parution : 2024-12-15
Format(s) : PDF, ePub
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This book offers a multidisciplinary perspective on the relationship between spirituality and the contemporary city, starting from a thought of Pope Francis claiming the need for a renewed look at the periphery among the current challenges for urban cultures. It...
Editeur : Springer
Parution : 2024-12-14
Collection :
The City Project
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Historians argue that the years following the Emancipation Proclamation and those immediately after the Civil War were formative years in the trajectory of the United States as a country. So, why then, does this era of history not get the proper attention it deserves in...
Editeur : Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution : 2024-12-13
Format(s) : PDF, ePub
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Explore the detailed and personal stories of real people living throughout the Hellenistic world In A Social and Cultural History of the Hellenistic World, author Gillian Ramsey Neugebauer paints a vivid picture of the men and women of the Hellenistic period, their...
Editeur : Wiley-Blackwell
Parution : 2024-12-12
Collection :
Wiley Blackwell Social and Cultural Histories of the Ancient World
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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...
Editeur : OUP Oxford
Parution : 2024-12-11
Format(s) : PDF
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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,...
Editeur : OUP Oxford
Parution : 2024-12-11
Format(s) : PDF
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This book takes as its point of departure the strong Swedish economic-historical scholarly tradition that has combined rigorous macroeconomic analysis with a classical institutional approach when investigating Swedish economic development. One important...
Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2024-12-11
Format(s) : PDF, ePub
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This book provides insight into the relationship between embodied processes and products of remembering and belonging among British Bangladeshi women in Tower Hamlets, London. Based on an analysis of memories performed in both professional and social dancing among...
Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2024-12-11
Collection :
Palgrave Macmillan Memory Studies
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Fix Bayonets! offers a vivid, firsthand account of World War I through the eyes of Captain John W. Thomason, an American Marine who witnessed some of the conflict’s most intense and harrowing moments. With striking illustrations and a soldier’s authentic voice, Thomason...
Editeur : Andrii Ponomarenko
Parution : 2024-12-11
Format(s) : epub sans DRM
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A fast-paced, gripping history of meddling, manipulation, and skulduggery among great power rivals
In 2016, the United States was stunned by evidence of Russian meddling in the US presidential elections. But it shouldn't have been. Subversion--domestic interference to...
Editeur : Oxford University Press
Parution : 2024-12-10
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As the COVID-19 pandemic struck peoples throughout the world, it disproportionately devastated Native American communities. The inequalities, disparities, and injustices they had long experienced as historically marginalized peoples magnified the effects of this crisis...
Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2024-12-09
Format(s) : PDF, ePub
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This book details the perspectives of women of African ancestry who witnessed a twentieth-century uprising in St. Kitts. They chronicle the story of how they and other women of African descent navigated the slavery afterlife on an island dominated by sugar plantations,...
Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2024-12-07
Format(s) : PDF, ePub
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Why did early modern Europeans hunt for witches? Were these persecutions a shrewd tool to oppress women or the poor, or were they just a way of making money? Or were witch-hunters primarily driven by a genuine belief in witchcraft? The witches’ sabbath, the diabolical...
Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2024-12-06
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Editeur : Basic Books
Parution : 2024-12-05
Format(s) : ePub
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Drawing on a wide range of primary sources, this book explains what made skin newsworthy in Victorian Britain. It represents a unique contribution to the media history of the human body by delving into the cultural and historical underpinnings of wound representation in...
Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2024-12-05
Format(s) : PDF, ePub
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«How can we read twenty-first-century African literatures in Portuguese so that we can properly understand the voices telling us of their particular situation today? In The Late Postcolonial Condition Emanuelle Rodrigues dos Santos deftly shows us how to adjust our...
Editeur : Peter Lang Ltd, International Academic Publishers
Parution : 2024-12-05
Format(s) : PDF, ePub
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The history of Union Ireland is typically told through its best-known historical events and leaders - from the 1798 Rising, the Great Famine, and the Irish Revolution, to Parnell and De Valera -- and as moments of sectarian division and high parliamentary politics....
Editeur : OUP Oxford
Parution : 2024-12-04
Format(s) : PDF
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