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Transformation of british life 1950–2000
This study examines the radical changes in standards of living, affecting housing, food and transport, as well as the major shifts in social, cultural and moral values which so altered Britain and its people in the second half of the 20th century.
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Community and identity
This fluent, accessible and richly informed study, based on much previously unexplored archival material, concerns the history of Gibraltar following its military conquest in 1704, after which sovereignty of the territory was transferred from Spain to Britain and it became a British fortress and ...
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Leprosy and identity in the middle ages
This book presents new, cross-disciplinary research on leprosy in medieval Europe, focusing on questions of identity. It reveals complex responses to the disease, challenging earlier views that medieval sufferers were uniformly stigmatised. The social, religious and cultural impacts are explored,...
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Men on trial
Men on Trial provides the first history of masculinity and the law in early nineteenth-century Ireland. It combines cutting-edge theories from the history of emotion, performativity and gender studies to argue for gender as a creative and productive force in determining legal and social power rel...
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The global spread of football from the 1860s to the 1880s
This book offers a study of how football became in the 1870s a global sport that was played by high school students on several continents. It provides a horizontal perspective that focusses on the spread of football from its English cradle to Germany, the United States, and Argentina.
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The history of eugenics in global perspective
This book presents the very first global history of eugenics. Eugenics emerged at the end of the nineteenth century as a global phenomenon that transcended religions, political orientations, and ideologies. It deeply influenced concepts of health care and state policies in many countries.
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London: a pilgrimage
'London: A Pilgrimage' is a forgotten classic of social journalism, a frank and brutal look at the poverty striken, gin-swilling London of the nineteenth century, written in a perceptive, bold and gripping style.
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The mycenaean feast
This collection of essays investigates the rich evidence for the character of the Mycenaean feast. While much of the evidence discussed comes from the Palace of Nestor near Pylos, the authors also present new material from Tsoungiza near Nemea, and from other Bronze Age sites on mainland Greece a...
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Italian futurism and the machine
The machine was a primary concern for the Italian futurists. A tool in the factory, it was also a social and political agent, an aesthetic emblem and a symbol of past technologies. This groundbreaking book explores the culture of machines in Italian futurism after the First World War, taking in l...
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Horses and horsemanship in the athenian agora
This concise and beautifully illustrated book demonstrates the many roles played by the horse in the lives of the Greeks, from its place in myth and early history to its significance as a marker of social status and its use in warfare, transportation, games, and festivals.
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Passionate curiosities
The collection of the University of Michigan's Kelsey Museum of Archaeology explored through the people whose intellectual interests and financial backing brought artefacts to Ann Arbor from the 1880s to the 1990s. The Museum is internationally recognized for antiquities of the ancient civilizati...
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Inside the russian revolution
This is the first republication of Rheta Child Dorr’s book Inside the Russian Revolution (Macmillan, 1917) that depicts the overthrow of the tsar as a positive, democratic move with hope of a Russia following the American path to constitutional democracy.
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Petrified utopia
‘Petrified Utopia’ redresses the lack of scholarship on the issue of the pursuit of collective happiness in Soviet culture, and presents a collection of essays that discuss different manifestations of happiness in literature and visual culture.
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In the world of the outcasts
This is the first English-language translation of P. F. Iakubovich’s popular roman à clef about his exile and experiences as a Siberian penal laborer during the late nineteenth century.
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The non-geometric lenin
This book is a collection of eleven essays dealing with Lenin’s attempt to develop a Bolshevik Party between 1910 and 1914 as well as his curious relations with a tsarist police spy and a female Bolshevik during that period.
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Verordnete arbeit - gelenkte freizeit
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Russia's penal colony in the far east
‘Russia’s Penal Colony in the Far East: A Translation of Vlas Doroshevich’s “Sakhalin”’ is the first English language translation of the Russian journalist Vlas Doroshevich’s 1903 account of his visit to tsarist Russia’s largest penal colony, Sakhalin, in the north Pacific.
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A history of russia volume 1
A comprehensive and accessible history of the culture, people and politics of this vast and enigmatic nation.
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Eight years on sakhalin
This memoir by Ivan P. Iuvachëv, a cofounder of the People’s Will, details his time as a political exile in the Sakhalin penal colony from 1887 to 1895. Iuvachëv experienced one of the penal colony’s most tumultuous periods. His vivid descriptions make this both a work of literature and a valuabl...
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Grand duchess elena pavlovna, princess isabel and the ending of servile labour in russia and brazil
Grand Duchess Elena Pavlovna and Princess Isabel were key players in the political struggle ending servile labor in the empires of Russia and Brazil. This book chronicles the political activity of the two royal women to end servile labor in their respective countries
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Russia and the syrian conflict
This book is the first to offer a comprehensive survey of Moscow's foreign policy interests in Syria. The author considers the Kremlin's diplomacy on Syria within the broader system of Russian foreign policy in the Middle East; he analyses the influence of Russian domestic dimensions on Moscow's ...
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Holodomor and gorta mór
A comparative study of the famines of Ireland (1845–51) and Ukraine (1932–33), and how historical experiences of famine were translated into narratives that supported political claims for independent national statehood.
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Bulgaria in british foreign policy, 1943–1949
This book explores Britain’s involvement in Bulgaria between 1943 and 1949, and by integrating little-known Communist Party documents with British diplomatic records, offers a new understanding of the origins of the Cold War in Bulgaria and the Balkans.
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Goldenes zeitalter der stagnation?
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Iron lazar
The first English-language biography of Lazar Kaganovich, one of Stalin’s leading deputies, ‘Iron Lazar’ provides an insight into the political and personal relations of the Stalin group, and examines Kaganovich’s role in shaping policy during the Stalinist regime.
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Stiliagi and soviet masculinities, 1945–2010
This book explores the Stiliagi, the Soviet Union's first youth subculture from the late 1940s to the 1960s. It examines their Western-influenced fashion, love of jazz, and defiance of Soviet norms, revealing how they challenged traditional masculinity and reshaped Soviet cultural identity.
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Administering the empire, 1801-1968
A user-friendly archival guide, Administering the Empire explains the organisation and potential information of the records of the British Colonial Office, and those of other departments responsible for colonial administration, currently held at the National Archives. The book also outlines the e...
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Aboriginal paintings of the wolfe creek crater
Told in Aboriginal art and narrative, the Dreamtime story of the creation and meaning of the Wolfe Creek Meteorite Crater in Australia's Western Desert appears here for the first time. Deftly and sensitively Sanday introduces the meaning of the cosmology of the homeland of the Walmajarri and Djar...
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Revolution, krieg und die geburt von staat und nation
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Werkstatten des wissens zwischen renaissance und aufklarung
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Minutes to midnight
The book examines the evolution of the predicament symbolised by the setting of the Doomsday Clock at a few minutes to midnight in the context of the Anthropocene Era from 1763, making special reference to the study of history.
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Before grenfell
On 14 June 2017, flames engulfed Grenfell Tower, a residential block of flats in West London. Seventy-two people lost their lives and many hundreds more were traumatised as a national ‘cladding crisis’ unfolded. Before Grenfell traces the underlying causes of the fire through more than four decad...
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The politics of expansion
The book gives an original and accessible discussion of an era of educational expansion, exploring the transformation of Irish education in the 1960s and early 1970s. The work sheds new light on the crucial role of international organisations in stimulating change in Irish educational policy.
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A history of british sports medicine
A comprehensive history of the development of British sports medicine as a medical specialism, and of the changing biomedical understanding of the athlete - from normal healthy man, to supernormal hero or even physiological freak - from 1880 to the early twenty-first century.
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Photographic subjects
This is the first English-language monograph on monarchy in the Dutch colonial world. It reveals the role of mass and amateur photography in fostering modes of imperial citizenship at royal celebrations in the East Indies during the reigns of Queens Wilhelmina (1898–1948) and Juliana (1948–80).
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Men, ideas and tanks
Men, ideas and tanks reviews the development of British military ideas on armoured forces from 1903 to 1939.
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Individuals and small groups in jewish resistance to the holocaust
This book aims to increase our knowledge and deepen the understanding of Jewish resistance to the Holocaust by examining personal circumstances and characteristics of Jewish resistance members and the formation of small Jewish resistance groups.
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Self-portrait of a holocaust survivor
Both Werner Weinberg and Lisl, his wife, survived internment at the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp. This collection of essays conveys Weinberg's ongoing struggle to put into words something that might offer understanding to post-Holocaust generations.
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Drawing the holocaust
Twelve-year-old Michael Kraus began keeping a diary while he was still living at home in the Czech city of Nachod. He continued writing while a prisoner at Theresienstadt/Terezin until he was shipped to Auschwitz-Birkenau, when his diaries were confiscated and destroyed. After his liberation he b...
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He diasose
A new study of the persecution and rescue of Greek Jews in the Third Reich, this book overturns stereotypes and myths. Reveals the attitude and actions of the local Jewish leaders raising questions about what was done and by whom. Cites Greek and international sources, incl. documents, testimonie...
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Agony in the pulpit
Sermons delivered by rabbis describing and protesting against the ever-growing oppression of European Jews. No other book has presented such abundant evidence of rabbis in all streams of Jewish religious life seeking to rouse their congregants to full awareness of the catastrophic realities taki...
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Genocide: a thematic approach
The purpose of this volume is not simply to compile yet another wearying chronicle of the horrors that have been committed by our fellow human beings. It is intended to give the needed context to understand why such violence has been perpetrated in the past and why it continues to occur so freque...
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America through the spectacles of an oriental diplomat
A beguiling account of twentieth-century America through the eyes of an outsider, a remarkable inversion of the standard 'Westerner observing the exotic' travel writing formula.
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How to enjoy paris in 1842
This delightful text combines the practicalities of a travel guide with the revealing observations of social journalism.
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Moments in hell
A war correspondent's breathtaking account of early twentieth-century wars, including the Greek-Turkish War (1897) and the Spanish-American War (1898).
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Die neue kolner rechtswissenschaftliche fakultat von 1919 bis 1950
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A brief history of the greek-american community of st george, memphis, tennessee 1962-1982
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Sixties radicalism and social movement activism
'Sixties Radicalism and Social Movement Activism' explores and re-analyses major events, debates and themes from the radical developments of the nineteen sixties and relates them to contemporary social movements and issues.
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1968 - verdichtung des wandels und globaler moment
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Herminie and fanny pereire
This book, a companion to the author's acclaimed Emile and Isaac Pereire (2015), sheds new light on elite Jewish families in nineteenth-century France.
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The lost companions and john ruskin’s guild of st george
This major new work, based on significant new material on Ruskin’s Guild of St George, offers the first authoritative work on this important venture in Ruskin’s late career in social, cultural, and environmental action.
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Approaches to the study of intercultural transfer
“Approaches to the Study of Intercultural Transfer” explores the intricacies and mechanisms of intercultural transfers.
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Der orient - fiktion oder realität? / the orient - fiction or reality?
From the end of the 18th century onwards, the Orient and, above all, Egypt became the goal of the movement embracing travel and exoticism. This work centres on the question of the received patterns of thought and argumentation that were applied consciously or unconsciously by these travellers.
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A dictionary of victorian london
A wonderful A–Z of the fascinating world of Victorian London, full of amazing facts and curious humour.
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Persian pictures
'Persian Pictures' is both travelogue and meditation, an elegiac and beautifully observed account of a spellbinding land.
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The free and the brave
This bilingual catalog (in English and Greek) accompanied an exhibition organized by the Gennadius Library on the occasion of the bicentenary of the Greek Revolution of 1821 to explore the relations and connections between Greece and the United States from the American Revolution of 1776 to the C...
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Colonial urbanism in the age of the enlightenment
This book tells the story of how the monarchy aimed at creating a new capital city in a remote and forgotten area of the empire. It also shows how the local Creole bourgeoisie rapidly assumed the role of urban developers, and enhanced their economic status by investing in and controlling the Buen...
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The economic turn
‘The Economic Turn’ brings together many of the world’s leading historians of early political economy to recast the very origins of the discipline in light of the Europe-wide critical reaction to the school of Enlightenment economic thought known as Physiocracy.
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Amsterdam's people of the book
The Spanish and Portuguese Jews of seventeenth-century Amsterdam cultivated a remarkable culture centred on the Bible. Amsterdam's People of the Book shows that this unique, Bible-centred culture resulted from the confluence of the Jewish community's Catholic and converso past with the Protestant...
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Briefe aus der frankfurter zeit 1666-1686
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Briefwechsel mit adam rechenberg
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Quellen zur brandenburgischen reformationsgeschichte (1517-1615)
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Martyrerbucher und ihre bedeutung fur konfessionelle identitat und spiritualitat in der fruhen neuzeit
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Die evangelischen kirchenordnungen des xvi. jahrhunderts
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Seafaring & maritime interconnections
This special issue of Journal of Ancient Egyptian Interconnections, 5.1 (2013) contains a series of articles, extended reports, and book reviews with a uniting theme of critical importance to life in ancient Egypt: seafaring and maritime interconnections.
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Friends and enemies
This history examines the fraternal friendships and embittered masculine conflicts among British, American, and Irish national leaders and their Dublin-based advisers during the Second World War, as those leaders sought to secure – or reject – Ireland’s alliance with the Western Allied powers in ...
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Shaping the royal navy
Provides a new understanding of the Victorian engineering professions, and their rise within the British government and Royal Navy
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Early medieval militarisation
This volume is the first to study the phenomenon of early medieval militarisation from a wide geographic and disciplinary perspective. It explores the impact of an enhanced role attributed to warfare and the military as characteristic features of a European world in the process of becoming medieval.
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The cistercian monastery of zaraka, greece
During the Frankish Crusader period, Cistercian monks built and developed the monastery of Zaraka in Greece for approximately forty years and were followed first by squatters, then by a seventeenth-century cemetery. The goal of this study has been to identify where the monks came from, how they l...
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Spies in the empire
Stephen Wade’s enthralling book reveals the unsteady foundations of one of the country’s most prominent and renowned organizations, tracing the various elements that gradually composed the intelligence and political branches of Britain’s Secret Service.
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The art of defence on foot with the broad sword and sabre
First published in 1804, intended for civilians wanting to learn to fence with the sabre, broadsword or spadroon. Illustrated - 21 digitally enhanced originals. Original text is reproduced in a modern typesetting, aimed at current students and enthusiasts of Historical Martial Arts.
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'can these bones come to life?'
This volume examines the study and reconstruction of medieval and early modern fight-books and related subjects. The subjects covered range from manuscript studies to philology, from Aristotelian physics to martial musicality, from medieval textuality to women and warfare.
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Documenting the roman army: essays in honour of margaret roxan (bics supplement 81)
This volume places on record the proceedings of the colloquium held in honour of Dr. Margaret Roxan at the Institute of Classical Studies in May 2002. The theme of the colloquium was the written record of the Roman army, though the scope of the contributions embraced both historical and archaeolo...
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Old school
This new, expanded edition brings readers inside the dojos of the ancient schools of Japanese martial arts, analysing the evolution of Japanese weaponry, addressing the myth and reality of Japan's naginata-wielding warrior women, and discussing the modern relevance of the blood oaths, magical rit...
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Gender and the race for space
This book argues that the American astronaut image was informed by early Cold War ideals of masculinity that helped mold a distinctly American (anti-communist) masculinity, which appeared—on the surface anyway—to resolve not only an American “crisis of masculinity” but helped win the Cold War on ...
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Turkish-saudi relations
Are Turkey and Saudi Arabia friends or foes? What are the main drivers behind their rivalry or cooperation? The nature of their relationship has region-wide repercussions. This book is the first to offer a comprehensive examination of this complex relationship, focusing on the role of domestic, r...
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Origins of the ottoman dynasty
Origins of the Ottoman Dynasty: A Philological Exploration of Its Earliest Account is a groundbreaking book. It is about the oldest annalistic account of Ottoman history that has come down to us. It is simply crucial for researching and teaching Ottoman history at every major university in the wo...
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Studies on istanbul and beyond
Written by recipients of the John Freely Fellowship awarded annually through the American Research Institute in Turkey from a major gift from the Joukowsky Family Foundation of New York to honor a celebrated author of travel and history books, this volume focuses particular attention on the city ...
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Jerusalem without god
Jerusalem without God leads the reader through the streets, malls, suburbs, traffic jams, and squares of Jerusalem’s present moment, into the daily lives of the men and women who inhabit it. Caridi brings contemporary Jerusalem alive by describing it as a place of sights and senses, sounds and sm...
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