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This book examines the many, varied historical entanglements between pop cultures and ecstatic, euphoric, and intoxicated bodies, focusing on the period between the 1950s and the 1980s. Charting a new course by bringing together pop culture studies, the history of...
Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2025-06-13
Format(s) : PDF, ePub
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Byzantium is commonly taken to be a somewhat exotic entity on the margin of medieval Europe--bureaucratic, Greek- rather than Latin-speaking, Orthodox rather than Catholic, wealthy and effete, relying on cunning rather than martial exploits to foil its enemies. Since...
Editeur : OUP Oxford
Parution : 2025-06-13
Format(s) : ePub
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The distant past is commonly characterized in terms of dominant materials of the time – the Stone Age, the Bronze Age, the Iron Age, etc. Since the dawn of writing, however, characterizing eras in terms of materials has fallen by the wayside, and yet materials have...
Editeur : Polity
Parution : 2025-06-13
Format(s) : ePub
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This book examines Machiavelli in contemporary or past realities through the way in which he read, wrote, related to cultures distant in time and space—a first in the field of Machiavellian studies. It proposes and experiments with a change of perspective: in...
Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2025-06-12
Format(s) : PDF, ePub
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This study analyzes the Soviet Union’s strategic interests and policies toward Mongolia, emphasizing Joseph Stalin’s perception of its geopolitical importance. It examines why Mongolia’s independence was a key condition Stalin set at the Yalta Summit...
Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2025-06-12
Format(s) : PDF, ePub
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The 1950s are usually portrayed as conservative, conformist, and apathetic, but was there more to this much-maligned decade than that? In Britain, the convergence of conflicting political moments-the Cold War, the Bomb, the rise of America, the decline of the empire,...
Editeur : OUP Oxford
Parution : 2025-06-12
Format(s) : ePub
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Beginning in the late nineteenth century, British companies used the resources of empire to create an imperial oil industry that controlled 20% of global oil reserves by 1939 and allowed for the movement of capital and labor between regions and companies. The imperial...
Editeur : OUP Oxford
Parution : 2025-06-11
Format(s) : PDF
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This book examines militarisation in Scotland and North America from the Jacobite Uprising of 1745-1746 to the outbreak of the American Revolutionary War in 1775. Employing a transatlantic, case study approach, it investigates the overarching cultural frameworks,...
Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2025-06-09
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This book collects together all contemporary and near-contemporary accounts of the 1467 emprise, a particular performative feat of arms, between Anthony Woodville, Lord Scales—brother of Elizabeth Woodville, wife of King Edward IV of England—and Antoine,...
Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2025-06-09
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Like many famous figures from antiquity, we must work through layers of fantasy in order to uncover the life of Poppaea Sabina (c. 30-65 CE). As the ancient sources tell it, Poppaea pushed the young emperor Nero to murder his mother, execute his wife Octavia, marry her...
Editeur : Oxford University Press
Parution : 2025-06-06
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During the long nineteenth century, faced with an increasingly powerful and arrogant West, the Ottoman Empire modernised itself with the objective of dealing with an increasingly precarious situation. The history of this modernity, strongly marked by Westernisation,...
Editeur : Collège de France
Parution : 2025-06-06
Collection :
Leçons inaugurales
Format(s) : PDF sans DRM
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Robert Gildea presents an ambitious and wide-ranging but succinct history of France from 1945 to 2024, which seeks to provide a sympathetic understanding of the forces that have shaped a country that is so close to Britain and yet so different. This third edition,...
Editeur : OUP Oxford
Parution : 2025-06-06
Format(s) : ePub
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Before the First World War Germany was a global empire with colonies in Africa, Asia, and the Pacific. Annexed to this empire in 1900 was Samoa, a thriving Polynesian trading hub which had previously been the site of conflict between Britain, Germany, and the United...
Editeur : OUP Oxford
Parution : 2025-06-04
Format(s) : PDF
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NATIONAL BESTSELLER A Recommended Book in the Washington Post, the New York Times Style Magazine, Observer, W Magazine, NBC News, E! Online, Queerty, Literary Hub, Stylist, Dazed, & Publishers WeeklyFrom the National Book Critics Circle Award-winning...
Editeur : Little, Brown and Company
Parution : 2025-06-03
Format(s) : ePub
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From a brilliant cultural historian, “a secret history of the twentieth century” (Louis Menand) told through the story of design and its utopian promises Design has penetrated every dimension of contemporary society, from classrooms to statehouses to...
Editeur : Basic Books
Parution : 2025-06-03
Format(s) : ePub
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June 1940: France surrenders to Germany. The Gestapo is searching for Heinrich Mann and Franz Werfel, Hannah Arendt, Lion Feuchtwanger and many other writers and artists who had sought asylum in France since 1933. The young American journalist Varian Fry arrives in...
Editeur : Polity
Parution : 2025-06-03
Format(s) : ePub
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An immersive dive into the meaning and mystique of shipwrecks
The sea is the largest museum on earth, with more than a million lost ships resting in its depths. Those shipwrecks date back thousands of years, some from civilizations long vanished, others from more...
Editeur : Oxford University Press
Parution : 2025-06-03
Format(s) : PDF, ePub
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Robert Gildea presents an ambitious and wide-ranging but succinct history of France from 1945 to 2024, which seeks to provide a sympathetic understanding of the forces that have shaped a country that is so close to Britain and yet so different. This third edition,...
Editeur : OUP Oxford
Parution : 2025-06-02
Format(s) : PDF
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Money in Imperial Rome offers an in-depth examination of the institutional framework within which money operated as an economic agent in the Roman empire, emphasising its systemic complexity. Analyses focus on classical Roman law as reflected in the writings of Roman...
Editeur : OUP Oxford
Parution : 2025-05-31
Format(s) : ePub
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In Protestant Relics in Early America, Jamie L. Brummitt upends long-held assumptions about religion and material culture in the early United States. Brummitt chronicles how American Protestants cultivated a lively relic culture centered around collecting supernatural...
Editeur : Oxford University Press
Parution : 2025-05-30
Format(s) : PDF, ePub
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