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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...
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Maclehose Press
Parution :
2024-07-04
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This book offers fresh perspectives on the legacy of colonialism in the North-east frontiers of India, especially the Naga Hills. The book interrogates the presence of British administrators and anthropologists in the Naga Hills as part of a popular discourse on (post)...
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Springer
Parution :
2024-07-02
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This is the first book to investigate how constitutional monarchy could survive in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries, during which many monarchies were overthrown by revolutions or coups d’état in Asia, the Middle East, Africa and Europe. Today we have about 200...
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Springer
Parution :
2024-07-01
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Described by Thomas Jefferson as "the most sublime of nature’s works," the Natural Bridge is a 215-foot limestone arch in Rockbridge County, Virginia, carved out over millennia by Cedar Creek. Jefferson acquired the bridge in 1774 and, for the rest of his long life,...
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Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publishers
Parution :
2024-06-28
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Die kritische Auseinandersetzung mit dem Nationalsozialismus an deutschen Universitäten setzte nicht erst mit der Studentenbewegung von ’68 ein. Schon Mitte der 1960er Jahre forderten Tübinger Studierende, inspiriert durch Persönlichkeiten wie Hermann Gremliza, eine...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2024-06-28
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In 1940, Estonia was first occupied and then annexed by the Soviet Union. The process of Sovietization started immediately and was accompanied by a thorough reconstruction of the economy. This monograph looks in detail at the different stages of economic restructuring...
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Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
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2024-06-28
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This book highlights multiple perspectives related to the Cold War presented by scholars from almost all continents. They discuss a variety of consequences of the Cold War for various countries and regions focusing on politics, economy, culture, and memory – according...
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Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2024-06-25
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The book proposes a new category – heterotopia of affect – which builds upon Michel Foucault’s typology.The category refers to changes of the places that accumulate contents of ideological, historical, religious, and national character.The book tells the history of a...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2024-06-25
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Drawing on over a decade of meticulous research, this comprehensive book unveils the intricacies of traditional Persian ink making by examining the treatises of Persian master calligraphers. Explore the historical tapestry of calligraphy, get insight into the lives of...
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Springer
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2024-06-24
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This volume explores the political life of rage as it has been experienced and mobilized in the Francosphere since 1968. If mai is remembered as a failure to convert insurrectionary feeling into lasting political change, the vast number of activist groups who have...
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Peter Lang Ltd, International Academic Publishers
Parution :
2024-06-17
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Based on relevant research from domestic and foreign academic circles, this book focuses on the path choices and transitions of the main political forces of Germany (the emperors, the princes, the Imperial Cities and the peasants) in the early modern political and...
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Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publishers
Parution :
2024-06-17
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Rest occupies a space outside of sleep and alertness: it is a form of recuperation but also of preparation for what is to come, and is a need felt by human and animal alike. Through the centuries, different and conflicting definitions and forms of rest have blossomed,...
Editeur :
Polity
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2024-06-12
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The dramatic life of Vietnam War hero Roy Benavidez, revealing how Hispanic Americans have long shaped US history, from "a major new voice [with] lyrical powers as a biographer” (David W. Blight, Pulitzer Prize–winning author of Frederick Douglass) In...
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Basic Books
Parution :
2024-06-11
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The Mighty Moo is the tale of how a scrappy little World War II aircraft carrier and its untested crew earned a distinguished combat record and beat incredible odds to earn 12 battle stars in the Pacific. The USS Cowpens and her crew weren’t your typical...
Editeur :
Grand Central Publishing
Parution :
2024-06-11
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A highly readable cultural history of queer women's lives in the second half of the twentieth century'An inspiring celebration of lesbian camaraderie, activism and fun' SARAH WATERS'A cracking read, and a reminder of what shaped where we are now' VAL MCDERMID 'Riveting;...
Editeur :
Virago
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2024-06-06
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'Gripping history that also informs the present' Sunday Times'Fascinating . . . Wilford writes engagingly with a telling eye for colourful detail' The Spectator'A spectacular achievement . . . I loved it' Dominic Sandbrook How the CIA became an instrument of a new...
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Basic Books
Parution :
2024-06-06
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Canada is repeatedly ranked the world's most favourite tourist destination. And there's a lot of reasons why. It is a nation of vast, unspoiled wilderness, and yet you still get the feeling everyone still knows each other's name. It has a ton of bears. And maple syrup....
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OH
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2024-06-06
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"A fitting and frightening conclusion to a magnificent series" The TimesThe final instalment of the acclaimed Black Forest Investigations brings the series to a shattering close.Louise Bonì, Chief Inspector of the Freiburg criminal police, gets intelligence from an...
Editeur :
Maclehose Press
Parution :
2024-06-06
Collection :
The Black Forest Investigations
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Robert Vipper (1859–1954) war vor dem Ersten Weltkrieg Professor für Universalgeschichte an der Moskauer Universität und hatte sich ebenfalls als Geschichtstheoretiker und Geschichtsdidaktiker einen Namen gemacht. Die Revolution von 1917 änderte die Rahmenbedingungen...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2024-06-05
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A unique perspective on war and its impact.Poets have written about the experience of war since ancient times, but the young soldier poets of the First World War established war poetry as a literary genre. Leaving an indelible mark on literature, their poems offered a...
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OH
Parution :
2024-06-01
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