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Stephen I, Hungary's first Christian king (reigned 997-1038) has been celebrated as the founder of the Hungarian state and church. Despite the scarcity of medieval sources, and consequent limitations on historical knowledge, he has had a central importance in narratives...
Editeur : OUP Oxford
Parution : 2024-07-12
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In the early Middle Ages, the conversion of the early English kingdoms acted as a catalyst for significant social and cultural change. One of the most visible of these changes was the introduction of a new type of household: the monastic household. These reproduced...
Editeur : OUP Oxford
Parution : 2024-07-12
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How did the premodern Ottomans understand public office corruption? To answer this question, Defining Corruption in the Ottoman Empire explores how Ottoman jurists, statesmen, political commentators, and others characterized this notion and what specific transgressions...
Editeur : OUP Oxford
Parution : 2024-07-12
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Fight, Flight, Mimic is the first systematic study of deceptive mimicry in the context of wars. Deceptive mimicry -- the manipulation of individual or group identity -- includes passing off as a different individual, as a member of a group to which one does not belong,...
Editeur : OUP Oxford
Parution : 2024-07-12
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Male Professionals in Nineteenth-Century Britain is the first statistically-based social, cultural and familial history of a fast-growing and socially prominent section of the Victorian propertied classes. It is built around a representative cohort of 750 men who were...
Editeur : OUP Oxford
Parution : 2024-07-12
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Emily Davies was a central figure in the mid-Victorian women's movement. Formidably intelligent, fiercely determined, and an indefatigable campaigner and organiser, the socially and politically conservative Davies directed the first campaign for female suffrage in...
Editeur : OUP Oxford
Parution : 2024-07-12
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Enlightenment studies are currently in a state of flux, with unresolved arguments among its adherents about its dates, its locations, and the contents of the 'movement'. This book cuts the Gordian knot.
There are many books claiming to explain the Enlightenment, but...
Editeur : OUP Oxford
Parution : 2024-07-12
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Robert Beale (15411601) was a diplomat and administrator who worked at the heart of Elizabethan governance and international policymaking. In spite or perhaps because of the voluminous record he left behind, he has never been the subject of a dedicated biography, and...
Editeur : OUP Oxford
Parution : 2024-07-12
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Stanley Rice, born in London in 1905, began his autobiography by stating that his life was ‘an ordinary average life with all its ups and downs’.Stanley may have described his life as ordinary, and yet he lived through a period of rapid social change, including two...
Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2024-07-11
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This book aims to present a theoretical study of the concept of collaboration during the Second World War, understood as social behaviour and actions within specific conditions of military occupation. It is based on the theories of social behaviour and action developed...
Editeur : Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution : 2024-07-11
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?In the postwar years, Dutch survivors Eddy de Wind, Louis Micheels, and Elie A. Cohen, who went on to become practicing psychoanalysts, penned accounts of their survival of the Nazi camps. Their sober assessments contrast sharply with those by Bruno Bettelheim and...
Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2024-07-10
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Im Deutschland des 20. Jahrhunderts wurde Karl-Friedrich Bonhoeffer als brillanter Chemiker bekannt, während mehrere seiner Verwandten – darunter Dietrich Bonhoeffer – in den Widerstand gegen Hitler verwickelt waren, was zu ihrer Hinrichtung führte. Dieses Buch...
Editeur : J.B. Metzler
Parution : 2024-07-10
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Enlightenment studies are currently in a state of flux, with unresolved arguments among its adherents about its dates, its locations, and the contents of the 'movement'. This book cuts the Gordian knot.
There are many books claiming to explain the Enlightenment, but...
Editeur : OUP Oxford
Parution : 2024-07-10
Format(s) : ePub
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What happens when death becomes the ultimate marker of one’s commitment to one’s freedom?What happens when the opposite of freedom is not unfreedom but death, not slavery but mortality? How are we to think of the right to life when a political demand for dignity and...
Editeur : Polity
Parution : 2024-07-09
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After the Postcolonial
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In this third edition of his widely acclaimed survey, historian Randall D. Law makes sense of the history of terrorism by examining it within its broad political, religious and social contexts from the ancient world to the present day. In Terrorism: A History, Law...
Editeur : Polity
Parution : 2024-07-09
Format(s) : ePub
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In diesem Band werden die Erkenntnisse des 70. Baltischen Historikertreffens 2017 in Göttingen präsentiert. Er beleuchtet, wie sich die Staaten Nordosteuropas nach dem Ersten Weltkrieg entwickelten, wobei ein besonderer Fokus auf multiethnischen Gesellschaften und...
Editeur : Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution : 2024-07-08
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This book reveals that the visual narrative of the events of the Russian campaign of 1812 was inextricably linked to Russia's search for national identity and helped to form competing definitions of 'Russianness'. No pre-revolutionary military event was more celebrated...
Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2024-07-08
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This book compares the systems of exploitative race relations associated with two racist regimes – slavery in the British colonial Caribbean and forced labour in the Holocaust in Germany and the Nazi-occupied lands in Europe. Although each system was introduced by...
Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2024-07-05
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"A joy to read" Times Literary Supplement"[A] stirring and accessible history of the mighty Rhine" Irish Times"It's easy to be swept away by Deen's delightful prose" New Statesman"A beautiful book, by turns poetic, witty and full of learning " PATRICK McGUINNESSThe...
Editeur : Maclehose Press
Parution : 2024-07-04
Format(s) : ePub
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BY THE AUTHOR OF STANDING HEAVY - SHORTLISTED FOR THE INTERNATIONAL BOOKER PRIZE 2023Following the death of his parents, Dabilly, a young white man, seeks a life of colonial adventure in Cote d'Ivoire. It is 1880 and Dabilly joins a beleaguered French general trying to...
Editeur : Maclehose Press
Parution : 2024-07-04
Format(s) : ePub
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