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This book explores the widespread mass conversions to Christianity and Islam that took place in Europe and Asia in the ninth to eleventh centuries. Taking a comparative perspective, contributors explore the processes at work in these conversions. Focusing on...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2024-01-01
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This volume studies high and late medieval material culture in a Pan-European context. The idea of ‘unity of culture’ in Medieval Latin Europe is well known in historical texts, especially when it concerns the so-called ‘Europe North of the Alps’.This book investigates...
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Springer
Parution :
2024-01-01
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Instrumentalization of the wartime past for political gain is the subject of this study of eleven World War II commemorations. Using a comparative, conceptually original approach, Yoder identifies the actors who manipulate memory surrounding wartime anniversaries, such...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2024-01-01
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This book focuses on two commercial radio stations, Radio Luxembourg and Europe n°1, which were popular institutions in Western Europe throughout the Long Sixties, working across media and broadcasting transnationally. It argues that the existence of an overarching...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2023-12-30
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In this book, Maria Chehonadskih unsettles established narratives about the formation of a revolutionary canon after the October Revolution. Displacing the centre of gravity from dialectical materialism to the rapid dissemination, canonisation and decline of a striking...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2023-12-30
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Focusing on the attitudes and experiences of American female diplomats and spouses, this book examines the social, political, and cultural dimensions of American interactions with the Middle East and North Africa in the five decades after the Second World War. A...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2023-12-29
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This open access book explores knowledge practices by five women from different European contexts. Contributors document, analyze, and discuss how women employed practices of privacy to pursue knowledge that did not necessarily conform with the curriculum prescribed for...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2023-12-29
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Als zentrale Sicherheitsexpertin des Staates trägt die Polizei durch ihre spezifischen Sicherheitsheuristiken und Sicherheitsrepertoires in hohem Maße dazu bei, wie städtische Räume wahrgenommen werden: als Räume der Sicherheit oder der Unsicherheit. Der...
Editeur :
Springer VS
Parution :
2023-12-29
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Geschichte und Ethik der Polizei und öffentlichen Verwaltung
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This book explores the queer history of the easternmost provinces of the German Reich—regions that used to be German, but which now mostly belong to Poland—in the first third of the twentieth century, a period roughly corresponding to the duration of Germany's first...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2023-12-28
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This book explores the early evangelical quest for enlightenment by the Spirit and the Word. While the pursuit originated in the Protestant Reformation, it assumed new forms in the long eighteenth-century context of the early Enlightenment and transatlantic awakened...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2023-12-28
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Dieses Buch analysiert die Entwicklung der deutschen Territorialstaaten im neunzehnten Jahrhundert durch das Prisma von fünf Mittelstaaten: Bayern, Sachsen, Hannover, Württemberg und Baden. Sie stellt die Frage, wie ein Staat zu einem Ort wird, und argumentiert, dass es...
Editeur :
J.B. Metzler
Parution :
2023-12-28
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This open access book brings together contributions from an internationally diverse group of scholars to celebrate Taner Akçam’s role as the first Turkish intellectual to publicly recognize the Armenian Genocide. As a researcher, lecturer, and mentor to a new...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2023-12-28
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This book examines the efforts of the French-speaking minority in Flanders, Belgium, to maintain a legal and social presence of the French language in Flemish public life. Chronologically, the study is bookended by two developments, almost exactly a century apart. In...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2023-12-28
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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...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2023-12-27
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Voiceless, Invisible, and Countless in Ancient Greece explores the experiences of subordinates and the nature of their subordination in the Greek world 700—300 BCE. Throughout the course of the ten contributions it aims to bring forth the voices of the various groups...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2023-12-27
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Voiceless, Invisible, and Countless in Ancient Greece explores the experiences of subordinates and the nature of their subordination in the Greek world 700—300 BCE. Throughout the course of the ten contributions it aims to bring forth the voices of the various groups...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2023-12-27
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This open access book focuses on institutions that were produced and formed by the emerging welfare state. How were institutions experienced by the people who interacted with them? How did institutions as sites of experience shape and structure people’s everyday...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2023-12-26
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This book gathers essays on premodern plants, considering the position of critical plant studies in relation to medieval studies. Contributions cover topics including the significance of the daisy in the two Prologues to Chaucer's Legend of Good Women; naming in...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2023-12-26
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This book considers how to conceive of the group of islands known in our time as the British Isles in the Late Middle Ages. Was the archipelago considered one geographical unit? Was it an it, or were the islands a they? Singular or plural? Contributions consider...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2023-12-26
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This book brings together several strands of medieval and medievalist work in the history of emotions, with a focus on literary, historical and cinema studies. It asks how we may best ‘face up’ to work that has been done already in these fields, and speculates about...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2023-12-26
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