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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...
Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2024-11-26
Format(s) : PDF, ePub
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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,...
Editeur : OUP/British Academy
Parution : 2024-11-26
Format(s) : ePub
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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
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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...
Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
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
Format(s) : PDF, ePub
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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 : 2024-11-25
Format(s) : ePub
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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...
Editeur : OUP Oxford
Parution : 2024-11-25
Format(s) : ePub
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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 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...
Editeur : J.B. Metzler
Parution : 2024-11-22
Format(s) : PDF, ePub
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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...
Editeur : OUP Oxford
Parution : 2024-11-22
Format(s) : ePub
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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
Format(s) : PDF, ePub
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Letters from Old Babylonian Kish presents the primary publication of previously unstudied letters from the Old Babylonian Period. Drawing on internal and external evidence, the volume illuminates connections between these letters and other tablets housed in collections...
Editeur : OUP Oxford
Parution : 2024-11-21
Format(s) : PDF
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'A masterpiece' Peter Pomerantsev'Powerful' Serhii Plokhy'Fascinating' Daily TelegraphA history of Russian violence waged against Ukraine across the centuries.Russia's brutal invasion of Ukraine in February 2022 shocked the world. And yet this attack was in fact the...
Editeur : Basic Books
Parution : 2024-11-21
Format(s) : ePub
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The consecration of the city of Constantinople in 330 CE on the emplacement of the Greek city of Byzantium was one of the most important moments in the whole of Graeco-Roman history.The foundation of the city responded to important changes in the social, political, and...
Editeur : Oxford University Press
Parution : 2024-11-21
Format(s) : PDF, 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 Oxford Academic and offered as a free PDF download from OUP and selected open access locations.
The patchwork of local languages which existed...
Editeur : OUP Oxford
Parution : 2024-11-21
Format(s) : 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 : 2024-11-20
Format(s) : ePub
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The Roman Empire's approach to religion has traditionally been described in paradoxical terms. On the one hand, Rome has often been regarded as almost proverbially tolerant, as well as highly flexible in its dealings with the diverse range of religious cults and...
Editeur : OUP Oxford
Parution : 2024-11-20
Format(s) : ePub
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An “essential” (The New Republic) account of the history of old age in modern America, showing how we created unprecedented security for some and painful uncertainty for others On farms and in factories, Americans once had little choice but to work until...
Editeur : Basic Books
Parution : 2024-11-19
Format(s) : ePub
Offre spéciale
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The British Indian Civil Service was a small elite, which administered and governed a vast population. From their number were drawn the Governors of the various provinces. Relatively little work has been completed to explore the role these officials had in maintaining...
Editeur : Peter Lang Ltd, International Academic Publishers
Parution : 2024-11-19
Format(s) : PDF, ePub
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This book compares the school image of the wartime past of the Falange and the Polish Workers’ Party (PPR), created during the turbulent first decade of Francoism in Spain and Communism in Poland. Demonstrating the political usefulness of the Party was crucial to the...
Editeur : Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution : 2024-11-19
Format(s) : PDF, ePub
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