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Arsenal is special. Its multicultural fandom reflects a changing city and a unique relationship with Black British popular culture. Thanks to its decades of fielding iconic Black players on the pitch and the storied and diverse histories of its terraces,Arsenal has...
Editeur : Weidenfeld & Nicolson
Parution : 2024-08-29
Format(s) : ePub
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This book provides a sweeping overview of East Asian international relations in history from the nineteenth century onwards, with a focus on Korea and its relationship with East Asia and the USA. In contrast with many books which concentrate exclusively on the twentieth...
Editeur : Springer
Parution : 2024-08-28
Format(s) : PDF, ePub
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This book makes an insightful investigation of historical agrotechnical geography in West China in the Qing Dynasty from the perspective of historical geography and the history of agricultural technology.This study first divides West China into four regions, i.e., the...
Editeur : Springer
Parution : 2024-08-28
Format(s) : PDF, ePub
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The untold story of how Winston Churchill and the Conservative Party envisioned Britain's post-war future
We think we know all there is to know about Britain's Second World War. We don't.
This radical re-interpretation of British history and British Conservatism...
Editeur : OUP Oxford
Parution : 2024-08-28
Format(s) : ePub
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The armouries were among the most significant visual and symbolic manifestations of the nobility’s elevated social position, alongside palaces, chapels, cabinet rooms, and libraries.The study of Aristocratic Culture necessitates a focus on arms, reflecting the...
Editeur : Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution : 2024-08-27
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 the Oxford Academic platform and offered as a free PDF download from OUP and selected open access locations.
Writing from Invention to Decipherment...
Editeur : OUP Oxford
Parution : 2024-08-27
Format(s) : ePub
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What was the interrelation between language, power, and socio-economic inequality in England, c. 1550-1750? Early modern England was a hierarchical society that placed considerable emphasis on order; language was bound up with the various structures of authority that...
Editeur : OUP Oxford
Parution : 2024-08-26
Format(s) : PDF
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What was the interrelation between language, power, and socio-economic inequality in England, c. 1550-1750? Early modern England was a hierarchical society that placed considerable emphasis on order; language was bound up with the various structures of authority that...
Editeur : OUP Oxford
Parution : 2024-08-26
Format(s) : ePub
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Corruption on an immense scale and the unscrupulous use of law enforcement have left indelible marks on post-Soviet Russia. Federico Varese reveals the scars of these grim decades through an unusual lens: its criminal history. Varese weaves together the tales of four...
Editeur : Polity
Parution : 2024-08-26
Format(s) : ePub
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This book sheds light on the untold stories of individual student activists at Queens College, New York City, during the 1960s. Against the backdrop of the ongoing Vietnam War and the assassination of President John F. Kennedy, some Americans began to lose faith in...
Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2024-08-23
Format(s) : PDF, ePub
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A COMPANION TO CITIES IN THE GRECO-ROMAN WORLDA Companion to Cities in the Greco-Roman World offers in-depth coverage of the most important topics in the study of Greek and Roman urbanism. Bringing together contributions by an international panel of experts, this...
Editeur : Wiley-Blackwell
Parution : 2024-08-22
Collection :
Blackwell Companions to the Ancient World
Format(s) : PDF, ePub
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This biographical account situates the unfolding of the life of an educator in varied socio-economic contexts. It is not just a narrative of how an individual evolves but also analyses how a particular mindset develops by being dialectically entwined with the milieu in...
Editeur : Peter Lang Ltd, International Academic Publishers
Parution : 2024-08-21
Format(s) : PDF, ePub
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Only two months to freedom. A jigsaw of around 565* princely states.At the stroke of midnight on 15 August 1947, India could emerge as a united nation. Or disintegrate into several pieces.On 3 June 1947, Lord Mountbatten, the last viceroy of India, makes a historic...
Editeur : Hachette India
Parution : 2024-08-20
Format(s) : ePub
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This book examines the Indo-Surinamese Girmitiya peasants and their contributions to developing the ethnic community within their newly adopted home. It demonstrates the transformation of the Girmitiyas from agriculturalists in British India to plantation labourers to...
Editeur : Springer
Parution : 2024-08-20
Format(s) : PDF, ePub
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Since the brutal massacre perpetrated by Hamas on 7 October and the subsequent bombing and invasion of Gaza, the Israeli-Palestinian conflict has been thrust back to the centre of the world’s attention. How can this deep-rooted conflict, stretching back for more than...
Editeur : Polity
Parution : 2024-08-20
Format(s) : ePub
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The "deep and impactful" story of the American stadium (Howard Bryant, author of Full Dissidence)—from the first wooden ballparks to today’s glass and steel mega-arenas—revealing how it has made, and remade, American life. Stadiums are...
Editeur : Basic Books
Parution : 2024-08-20
Format(s) : ePub
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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 : 2024-08-20
Format(s) : ePub
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A war is being waged against the Past. Whether it’s toppling statues, decolonising the curriculum or erasing terms from our vocabulary, a cultural crusade is underway designed to render the past toxic. It is condemned as enemy territory and has become the target of...
Editeur : Polity
Parution : 2024-08-20
Format(s) : ePub
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Editeur : Radar
Parution : 2024-08-15
Format(s) : ePub
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We live in a world of seemingly limitless consumer choice. Yet, as every shopper knows without thinking about it, many everyday goods – from beds to batteries to printer paper – are available in a finite number of “standard sizes.” What makes these sizes “standard” is...
Editeur : Polity
Parution : 2024-08-15
Format(s) : ePub
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