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This book engages the way Christian, Jewish, Muslim and secular-progressivist actors used Mosaic and Islamic law and ethics in relation to slavery in American, West African and transatlantic history from 1440 to 1830. It focuses on how various groups marshalled these...
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2026-02-23
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This book, a eight-year interdisciplinary collaboration involving experts in international politics, law, economics, and history from six countries, meticulously analyzes the San Francisco Peace Treaty System and its profound implications. It critically examines how...
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Springer
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2026-02-23
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We understand a religion best if we know its origin. Unfortunately, the traditional narrative about the emergence of Islam is based upon sources most of which were written some 150 to 250 years after the events they claim to describe. From a modern historical-critical...
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Springer
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2026-02-20
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The rise of German science and technology in the nineteenth century had a significant impact on food production on a global scale.The spread of scientific methods facilitated the emergence of those mass markets that determine consumption patterns up until today. This...
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OUP Oxford
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2026-02-20
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The rise of German science and technology in the nineteenth century had a significant impact on food production on a global scale.The spread of scientific methods facilitated the emergence of those mass markets that determine consumption patterns up until today. This...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2026-02-20
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Histories of International Law in China: All Under Heaven? offers a groundbreaking exploration of China's engagement with international law over the past two centuries. Written by an interdisciplinary group of international law scholars and legal historians, it provides...
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OUP Oxford
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2026-02-20
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Roman Architecture casts new light not only on many familiar monuments of the city of Rome, but also on less well-known examples from across theRoman empire.
Rome and its empire were fundamental to the development of western architecture, and its forms and motifs...
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OUP Oxford
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2026-02-18
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The Sports Palace speech was the climax of a campaign for 'total war'; the prime example of Nazi 'mass suggestion', a barrage of propaganda, seduction, and manipulation.
On the 18th of February 1943 Nazi Propaganda Minister Joseph Goebbels made a speech in the Berlin...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2026-02-18
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This book examines nationality as a historical process, addressing state policies to welcome or restrict naturalizations, and individual strategies to obtain this legal status. The focus is on Argentina, the primary recipient of Atlantic migrations in independent Latin...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2026-02-17
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Dieses Buch bietet eine knappe und konzentrierte Einführung in die Nationwerdung und in die moderne Geschichte Italiens.
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Springer VS
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2026-02-17
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Following Italy’s unification in 1861, the new state faced the complex task of achieving political, administrative and cultural cohesion, which also required a unified body of knowledge about the national territory and its natural environment. This book explores how...
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Mimesis International
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2026-02-16
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Dieses Essential bietet eine kurze, aber dennoch umfassende Geschichte des modernen Finnlands von der Unabhängigkeit bis in die Gegenwart.
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Springer VS
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2026-02-16
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This book examines the influence and strategic efforts of the Comintern, the agency created in 1919 by Lenin to promote world revolution, during the Spanish civil war. The author explores how Soviet actors took control of the War Commissariat and the Republican...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2026-02-16
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The story most often commonly told about the Maya involves their spectacular collapse at the height of their civilization in the early ninth century CE. Crops died, disease and malnutrition spread, and scorched earth warfare became common. People lost faith in their...
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Oxford University Press
Parution :
2026-02-13
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The Melancholy of Kinship in Post-reform China and Postcolonial Literature, brings post-reform Chinese cultural texts into conversation with postcolonial novels from Africa and Asia to examine the shared experiences of kinship loss as a response to historical trauma,...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2026-02-13
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Dieses Sachbuch klärt über die dunkle Seite der österreichischen Medizingeschichte während des Nationalsozialismus auf.
Es skizziert die Biografien von beteiligten Ärzten und Ärztinnen, deren Vergehen und Konsequenzen nach 1945. Es...
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Springer
Parution :
2026-02-12
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Beginning with the premise that religious and non-religious identities were fluid, overlapping phenomena rather than static, binary conditions, this timely edited collection challenges the traditional notion that atheism was an acute intellectual innovation of Western...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2026-02-12
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This book examines the previously hidden and unpublished submissions made to the Irish Boundary Commission in 1924-25, offering a rare glimpse into a pivotal moment in Irish and British history. Based on meticulous research conducted at the National Archives in London,...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2026-02-10
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Spanning a millennium from the 4th to the 14th century, this book explores the dynamic role of the Ramaya?a and the Mahabharata in shaping the political and socio-cultural landscape of the Deccan. Drawing on a wealth of epigraphic evidence, especially royal prasastis...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2026-02-10
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Das Buch von Wojciech Materski gibt einen Überblick über die Geschichtspolitik Russlands vom fünfzehnten bis zum einundzwanzigsten Jahrhundert. Er zeigt, wie die Jahrhunderte unter den Zaren, die Revolution und der Stalinismus, die Herrschaft der verschiedenen...
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Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
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2026-02-09
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