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Hong Kong is known as an entrepôt in its colonial history, but its place in early cinema has not received the same scholarly attention. The Colonial Screen: Early Cinema inHong Kong explores the exhibition, regulation, circulation, reception, and social place of...
Editeur : Oxford University Press
Parution : 2025-09-30
Format(s) : PDF, ePub
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This book undertakes an in-depth exploration of the pivotal role of rice, which is the world's most essential food crops, sustaining over half of the global populace. It meticulously analyzes how rice cultivation constitutes the material bedrock and defining...
Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2025-09-30
Format(s) : PDF, ePub
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The idea of self-determination is one of the most significant in modern international politics. For more than a century diplomats, lawyers, scholars, activists, and ordinary people in every part of the globe have wrestled with its meaning and implications for...
Editeur : Oxford University Press
Parution : 2025-09-30
Format(s) : ePub
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This book explores how Kazakhstan has navigated its identity and geopolitical relationships since the January 2022 protests and the Russian-Ukrainian crisis. What began as a study of Soviet legacy in Kazakhstan shifted focus when major events in 2022 altered the...
Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2025-09-30
Format(s) : PDF
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The book is devoted to the problem of the civilizational development of the Kazakhs, as descendants of nomads, at the present stage.The author pays special attention to how the eras of modernity and postmodernity influenced today's Kazakhstan. In this anti-colonial...
Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2025-09-30
Format(s) : PDF, ePub
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This book presents a sustained and systematic analysis of the totalitarian topos across Vladimir Nabokov’s life and career. Contributing to the ongoing reappraisal of Nabokov’s writing in its engagement with politics and ideology, this study...
Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2025-09-30
Format(s) : PDF, ePub
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This book examines the effect of the French Revolution and the ensuing war with Spain on northern Catalonia, annexed by France in the seventeenth century and constrained by the imposition of a political border along the Pyrenees. Assimilation of the northern Catalan...
Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2025-09-30
Format(s) : PDF, ePub
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In this open access book, Larissa Hugentobler explores the world of public memorials: highly visible, and at times contentious, media, which communicate a nation’s values and ideals – its public memory.
By celebrating a selection of a nation’s history,...
Editeur : Springer VS
Parution : 2025-09-30
Format(s) : PDF, ePub
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North American edition with an exclusive afterword and photographs In early October 2023, Palestinian Plestia Alaqad was a recent university graduate dreaming of a career as a journalist. But by the end of November, her homeland was unrecognizable—and she was...
Editeur : Little, Brown and Company
Parution : 2025-09-30
Format(s) : ePub
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10,99€ (-14%)
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Following the death in 1789 of Abbé de l'Epée, the first teacher of deaf pupils renowned in France and beyond, revolutionaries committed to founding national institutes for the education of deaf pupils. No one doubted their ability to become full-fledged citizens and...
Editeur : OUP Oxford
Parution : 2025-09-28
Format(s) : ePub
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This book tells the story of the people who shaped the modern art market and its institutions to maximize the financial potential of their product.This transformation resulted in a fundamental and lasting redefinition of art. It is based on contemporaneous sources —...
Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2025-09-26
Format(s) : PDF, ePub
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The Agricultural and Horticultural Society of India was founded in 1820 by an English Baptist missionary, William Carey. He was part of a network of missionaries centred at Srirampur (Serampore), the Danish settlement close to Calcutta. This book explores the ways that...
Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2025-09-26
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This book follows the thread of transportation development along a continuous timeline of historical dynasties, with a primary focus on presenting the factual accounts of transportation development, key events, and their evolving characteristics. It paints a fundamental...
Editeur : Springer
Parution : 2025-09-26
Format(s) : PDF, ePub
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This book examines whataboutism arguments within the United Nations Security Council, with a focus on the case of Russia’s rhetoric in the Council. In doing so, it highlights their dualistic effects of facilitating or undermining international diplomatic efforts,...
Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2025-09-26
Format(s) : PDF, ePub
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This book offers an introduction to the history and course of the Russian war against Ukraine. Through this book, readers will:
- gain data, facts, and a general understanding of Russia’s current war against Ukraine;- understand the connections between...
Editeur : Springer VS
Parution : 2025-09-26
Format(s) : PDF, ePub
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This book provides a comprehensive review of the relationship between utopia and democracy, challenging the tendency in Western scholarship to assume that an ideal society is inherently democratic. Taking an interdisciplinary approach, the book covers an extensive range...
Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2025-09-26
Format(s) : PDF, ePub
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The passion play at Oberammergau in Bavaria is one of the oldest theatrical spectacles in the world, with a history of regular performance that dates back to 1634. By the dawn of the twentieth century, each season drew hundreds of thousands of spectators from Europe,...
Editeur : OUP Oxford
Parution : 2025-09-26
Format(s) : ePub
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Old Songs fuses short stories, histories, lyrics and illustrations in an enthralling reimagining of traditional folk ballads. Sunday Times Bestselling historian Amy Jeffs and Illustrator Gwen Burns combine forces to create a rich compendium, singing of travel, mystery,...
Editeur : Riverrun
Parution : 2025-09-25
Format(s) : ePub
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A penetrating history of the year World War II became a global conflict and humankind confronted both destruction and deliverance on a planetary scale, “offering an intriguing perspective on a world at war” (Richard Overy, New York Times–bestselling...
Editeur : Basic Books
Parution : 2025-09-23
Format(s) : ePub
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16,99€ (-12%)
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Popular representations of history tend to meet the moral demands of the present. Before the social crises of the postwar era began to influence Jews' thinking and at a time when global antisemitism posed the most obvious threat to their continuity and survival, Jews in...
Editeur : Oxford University Press
Parution : 2025-09-23
Format(s) : ePub
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