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Dieses Handbuch zeigt erstmals einen systematischen Überblick über die Entwicklung einzelner Infrastrukturen, z. B. des Verkehrswesens (Bahn und Straße), der Versorgungsnetze und der städtischen Infrastrukturen. Es wird systematisch in die...
Editeur : Springer VS
Parution : 2025-05-29
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A revelatory investigation into the rise and fall of the 'woke' movement and how we can prevent it from happening again. It is no secret that we are in the midst of a cultural revolution. Activists in the 'woke' movement have claimed to be on the right side of history,...
Editeur : Constable
Parution : 2025-05-29
Format(s) : ePub
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This book examines the cultural legacies of the fifteen years that Mary Queen of Scots spent as a prisoner in the household of Bess of Hardwick and her fourth husband, the Earl of Shrewsbury. It proposes four main areas of influence: first, that although Mary never...
Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2025-05-29
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Up until recently, Europe’s three imperial monarchies – the German, Austrian, and Russian Empires – were seen as moribund political entities, unable to accommodate the forces of political, social, economic, and cultural modernization, and as a result collapsed...
Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2025-05-28
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Palgrave Studies in Modern Monarchy
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From an award-winning historian and New York Times bestselling author, a gripping, fly-on-the-wall account of the weeks leading up to Abraham Lincoln's decision to go to war against the Confederacy.1861: The Lost Peace is the story of President Lincoln’s...
Editeur : Grand Central Publishing
Parution : 2025-05-27
Format(s) : ePub
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From February 1998 until June 1999, a war between the forces of the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia and the separatist Kosovo Liberation Army ravaged Kosovo. The counterinsurgency quickly turned into a state-led campaign of ethnic cleansing that resulted in the killing,...
Editeur : Oxford University Press
Parution : 2025-05-27
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This book examines the past history, and contemporary status of subsistence whaling. The papers derive from a symposium ‘Aboriginal Whaling and Identity in the 21st Century’ held at the Eleventh Conference on Hunting and Gathering Societies in Vienna, Austria in...
Editeur : Springer
Parution : 2025-05-27
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While the Big Three and their continental Allies fought against Nazi Germany, another war was under way on the continent: the war to shape the political landscape of post-war Europe. In the Balkans, the war overlapped with political and ethnic conflicts, engulfing the...
Editeur : OUP Oxford
Parution : 2025-05-27
Format(s) : ePub
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A narrative blend of history, cultural criticism, and memoir in celebration of everyday queer women, based on a lesbian helpline that existed in North London in the nineties, and "a clear-eyed and moving addition to the still-expanding record of lesbian lives"...
Editeur : Legacy Lit
Parution : 2025-05-27
Format(s) : ePub
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Shakespeare stellt in seinen Dramen diverse politische Regime mit ihren jeweiligen Vorzügen und Defiziten dar. Er präsentiert dabei die Monarchie als eine der geeignetsten Staatsformen, sieht aber durchaus auch deren Schwierigkeiten. So entwickelt er die Idee, die...
Editeur : Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution : 2025-05-27
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The Lasting Legacy of Colonial Cemeteries in South Asia explores the interplay between architecture and historical memory, highlighting how colonial cemeteries serve as enduring reminders of the British Empire in the region. During British rule, nearly two million...
Editeur : OUP Oxford
Parution : 2025-05-26
Format(s) : ePub
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This Palgrave Pivot serves as a brief exploration of the evolution of sociological thinking in Japan from the Meiji era to the early 21st century. The authors unfold the narrative of societal changes, cultural shifts, and the interplay between tradition and modernity,...
Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2025-05-26
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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 : 2025-05-26
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This book analyzes and summarizes the narrative motifs of Chinese mythology, before tracing their material and cultural elements using the new classification of Big Tradition and Small Tradition theories of culture from the field of literary anthropology, as well as...
Editeur : Springer
Parution : 2025-05-24
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This book examines the history of a pioneering Thoroughbred horse breeding operation, the Irish National Stud. By incorporating and integrating a diverse array of primary sources from various repositories and supplementing them with contemporary and secondary materials,...
Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2025-05-24
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This handbook offers a comprehensive overview of the connections between memory and literature. Organized into six interrelated sections, the book explores both the value of approaches and concepts from literary studies for memory scholarship and the plurality of ways...
Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2025-05-23
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The Lasting Legacy of Colonial Cemeteries in South Asia explores the interplay between architecture and historical memory, highlighting how colonial cemeteries serve as enduring reminders of the British Empire in the region. During British rule, nearly two million...
Editeur : OUP Oxford
Parution : 2025-05-22
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During the 1950s and first half of the 1960s the Indonesian Communist Party grew from a few thousand members to become the third largest communist party in the world, before it was annihilated in a violent purge in 1965-6 that saw perhaps half a million alleged...
Editeur : OUP Oxford
Parution : 2025-05-22
Format(s) : ePub
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In June 1960, several British newspapers received a letter so shocking some thought it was a hoax. Beginning 'Sir, we are homosexuals . . ', it was signed by Roger Butler and two others. Publishing such a letter seven years prior to the decriminalisation of...
Editeur : Headline Press
Parution : 2025-05-22
Format(s) : ePub
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This book addresses Naples’ relationship with Italy, since the introduction of direct mayoral election in 1993 and as articulated in cultural production. It deploys theoretical frameworks pertaining to postcolonialism and cultural accentedness to challenge the...
Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2025-05-21
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