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Recovered in 1755 during excavations in the Villa dei Papiri in Herculaneum, the prosciutto sundial is the earliest known portable Roman sundial. Palm-sized and in the shape of an Italian cured ham, its silver-plated cast bronze form cleverly combines an accurate...
Editeur : Oxford University Press
Parution : 2024-10-23
Format(s) : PDF, ePub
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Dieses Buch widmet sich der visuellen Kommunikation im deutsch-tschechischen Begegnungsraum in Vergangenheit und Gegenwart. Nicht nur die Medien Fotografie, Karikatur, Werbegrafik, Bildband und Dokumentarfilm werden in den Blick genommen, sondern auch die jeweiligen...
Editeur : Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution : 2024-10-23
Format(s) : PDF, ePub
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The ancient Greek world consisted of approximately 1,000 autonomous polities scattered across the Mediterranean basin and was remarkable for both its diversity and its uniformity. As Greeks dispersed throughout the Mediterranean, the different environmental and human...
Editeur : Oxford University Press
Parution : 2024-10-22
Format(s) : PDF, ePub
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This book aims to outline the detailed process of integrating nature and cities in a historical context through the lens of urban environmental history, capturing how the most ordinary yet enduring natural forces have shaped the form of cities and the thoughts of...
Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2024-10-21
Format(s) : PDF, ePub
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This volume comprises articles by scholars from three disciplines – literary studies, TEFL methodology, and history – from three universities – University College Cork (UCC), Katholieke Universiteit Leuven/Leuven Centre for Irish Studies (KU Leuven/LCIS), and...
Editeur : Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution : 2024-10-21
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Il 20 giugno 1953, sotto la presidenza del radicalsocialista francese Yvon Delbos, venne fondato il gruppo transnazionale dei Libéraux et apparentés (Lib) comprendente inizialmente 11 membri, per la maggioranza francesi.
Linea guida di questa ricerca, basata...
Editeur : P.I.E-Peter Lang S.A., Éditions Scientifiques Internationales
Parution : 2024-10-21
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The Reception of Darwinian Evolution in Britain, 1859-1909: Darwinism's Generations uses the impact of Charles Darwin's On the Origin of Species (1859) in the 50 years after its publication to demonstrate the effectiveness of a generational framework for understanding...
Editeur : OUP Oxford
Parution : 2024-10-20
Format(s) : ePub
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The Reception of Darwinian Evolution in Britain, 1859-1909: Darwinism's Generations uses the impact of Charles Darwin's On the Origin of Species (1859) in the 50 years after its publication to demonstrate the effectiveness of a generational framework for understanding...
Editeur : OUP Oxford
Parution : 2024-10-20
Format(s) : PDF
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Combining the social and cultural history of war, global and maritime history, this book examines the Argentine Navy during the First World War and in its immediate aftermath. Drawing from a wide range of primary sources, including naval publications,...
Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2024-10-18
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The Business of Bobbysoxers reconsiders the story of American popular music, celebrity following, and fan behavior during World War II through close examination of “bobbysoxers.” Preserved in popular memory as primarily white, hysterical, teen girl devotees of Frank...
Editeur : Oxford University Press
Parution : 2024-10-18
Format(s) : PDF, ePub
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The adventurous, the ambitious and the brave coveted its throne.One invader after another crossed the mighty Himalayas to seek a fortune here.A pivot of power down the ages, it fascinated both settlers and rulers, to become the capital of mighty empires.Across...
Editeur : Hachette India Children's Books
Parution : 2024-10-17
Format(s) : ePub
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The interconnectedness between sport and colonialism has long been a matter of interest to sport historians. Consequently, a large number of scholarly works exist on physical education and physical culture history, but there is no significant work on this within a South...
Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2024-10-17
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Why do some countries hold elections that meet global democratic standards, while other countries do not? Electoral Commissions and Democratization in Africa makes a novel contribution to this question. In a departure from the typical story about the “boring”...
Editeur : OUP Oxford
Parution : 2024-10-16
Format(s) : ePub
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It was a bold, ambitious and wildly arrogant idea: extending the reach of communism into space. Spurred on by the defeat of Hitler and the competitive rivalry with the United States, the Soviet space programme saw a frenetic surge of scientific activity focused on the...
Editeur : Polity
Parution : 2024-10-15
Format(s) : ePub
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Brexit, populism, and Euroscepticism seem to have challenged old assumptions about European integration and raised the prospect of disintegration. This book re-examines why the European Union and its forerunners were created and investigates how and why they have...
Editeur : OUP Oxford
Parution : 2024-10-14
Format(s) : ePub
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This volume provides a reconstruction of the history of Judea and its neighboring regions from 334 BCE, when Alexander's eastward conquests brought Judea into the Greek empire, through 135 CE, when Hadrian re-founded Jerusalem as Aelia Capitolina and banished Jews from...
Editeur : Oxford University Press
Parution : 2024-10-11
Format(s) : PDF, ePub
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Available in this new hardback edition for the first time in decades, Sweet Soul Music was hailed by Newsweek on publication as 'a stunning chronicle.... a panoramic survey of a lost world [and] one of the best books ever written on American popular music'.Since then it...
Editeur : White Rabbit
Parution : 2024-10-10
Collection :
Deep Cuts
Format(s) : ePub
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While the 1914 Christmas truces have a mythological status in British culture, intimate interactions with the enemy are, this interdisciplinary edited collection shows, a staple of modern warfare. Spanning multiple conflicts around the world, from the nineteenth century...
Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2024-10-09
Format(s) : PDF, ePub
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The Uley Tablets is the first full publication of the eighty Roman lead writing-tablets found in the excavation of a Romano-British temple in the Cotswolds, the temple of the god Mercury at Uley, Gloucestershire, together with two from the nearby site of Tarlton. Like...
Editeur : OUP Oxford
Parution : 2024-10-09
Format(s) : PDF
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A provocative, irreverent biography of Anton Szandor LaVey, founder of the Church of Satan, BORN WITHA TAIL chronicles a time when Americans welcomed a macabre showman into their living rooms via TheTonight Show, before a ginned-up hysteria known as the Satanic Panic...
Editeur : Grand Central Publishing
Parution : 2024-10-08
Format(s) : ePub
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