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  • London's Underworld
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    London's Underworld

    A thrilling exposé and a considered anthropological review of London's seedy underbelly.

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  • Witchcraft, magic and culture 1736–1951
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    Witchcraft, magic and culture 1736–1951

    The only serious study of witchcraft and magic from 1736 to 1951Brings together matters ranging from upper class spiritualism to rural witchcraft in an exciting and intellecually stimulating wayEssential reading for all social historians and all h. . . .

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  • Max Nettlau’s Utopian Vision
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    Max Nettlau’s Utopian Vision

    Max Nettlau’s Utopian Vision provides a historically grounded presentation of the entire literature of utopianism. Nettlau shows an encyclopaedic knowledge of the subject.

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  • Memory, Place and Aboriginal-Settler History
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    Memory, Place and Aboriginal-Settler History

    Taking the absence of Aboriginal people in South Australian settler descendants’ historical consciousness as a starting point, ‘Memory, Place and Settler‒Aboriginal History’ combines the methodologies and theories of historical enquiry, anthropology and memory studies to investigate the multitudi...

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  • Life is War
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    Life is War

    A collection of oral histories that guides readers through through the decades (1944–92) in which the Communist Party controlled everything in Albania; what work one could do, what food was available, and even who one could marry.  Based on personal interviews with six men and women who survived ...

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  • Consonantia Theologiae et Iurisprudentiae

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  • Understanding Immigration in Ireland
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    Understanding Immigration in Ireland

    A sociological analysis of immigration in Ireland. It is the first major comprehensive study of labour and asylum immigration into Irish society

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  • Community and identity
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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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  • London: A Pilgrimage
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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
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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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  • Passionate Curiosities
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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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  • Petrified Utopia
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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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  • The Non-Geometric Lenin
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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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  • Russia's Penal Colony in the Far East
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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
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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
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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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  • Russia and the Syrian Conflict
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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
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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
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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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  • Stiliagi and Soviet masculinities, 1945–2010

    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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  • Zugriffe auf das Ich

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  • Minutes to Midnight
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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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  • The politics of expansion
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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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  • Photographic subjects

    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
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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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  • Genocide: A Thematic Approach
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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
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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
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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
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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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  • 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
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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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  • The Lost Companions and John Ruskin’s Guild of St George
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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
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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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  • A Dictionary of Victorian London
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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
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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 Economic Turn
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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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  • 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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  • Shaping the Royal Navy
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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
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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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  • Spies in the Empire
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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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  • 'Can These Bones Come to Life?'
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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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  • Turkish-Saudi Relations
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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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  • Islamic Revolution and Historical Memory

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  • Tribalism and Society in Islamic Iran, 1500-1629

    Iranian society came under the domination of tribal elites during the first part of the Safavid era.  This book seeks to show how Iranian elites differed from other contemporary elites and to assess the place of the Iranian system in the world pattern of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries.

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  • A Chronicle of the Early Safavids and the Reign of Shah Isma'il (907-930/1501-1524)
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    A Chronicle of the Early Safavids and the Reign of Shah Isma'il (907-930/1501-1524)

    Kioumars Ghereghlou presents an edition, with preface and indexes, of a previously unpublished sixteenth-century Persian chronicle. Written by Qāsim Beg Ḥayātī, a court scribe to Shah Ṭahmāsp (r. 1524–76), it covers Safavid history beginning with the early part of the fourteenth century. Main te...

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  • Occidentalism, Conspiracy and Taboo
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    Occidentalism, Conspiracy and Taboo

    Sadik Al-Azm (1934-2016) was one of the foremost Arab public intellectuals, who offered innovative, controversial challenges to conventional narratives on Islam and the West. This fourth and final volume of his works in English includes his essays Faith and Reason in Islam, Sharia from a Secular ...

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  • Crucifixion and Death as Spectacle
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    Crucifixion and Death as Spectacle

    Crucifixion and Death as Spectacle explores how the first caliphal dynasty of early Islam, the Umayyads, employed crucifixion to punish brigands and heretics and to humiliate rebels and enemies, and how they drew upon a late antique legacy of punitive practices associated with crucifixion in the ...

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  • Britain's Departure from Aden and South Arabia
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    Britain's Departure from Aden and South Arabia

    Five decades after the final British troops left Aden, academic experts and former British officials directly involved in the events reflect on British withdrawal from South Arabia, and how the United Kingdom learnt from its experience in stabilising Oman while overseeing the formation of the Uni...

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  • State-Society Relations in the Arab Gulf States
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    State-Society Relations in the Arab Gulf States

    This book examines the strategies and dynamics through which state-society relations in the Arab Gulf region have been cultivated, and explores the alternative political, social, economic and popular changes that threaten these relations.

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  • Persian Medical Manuscripts at the University of California, Los Angeles

    This catalogue contains descriptions of Persian medical manuscripts in the collection at UCLA; Persian texts in predominantly Arabic MSS are also listed, without descriptions.

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  • Handlist of Arabic Medical Manuscripts in the Research Library, UCLA

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  • A Computerized Listing of Biographical Data from the yatimat al-dahr by al-Tha alibi

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  • Palestine in the Evolution of Syrian Nationalism (1918-1920)
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    Palestine in the Evolution of Syrian Nationalism (1918-1920)

    Palestine in the Evolution of Syrian Nationalism analyzes the place of Palestine in the development of Syrian nationalism from the inception of Syria as a modern nation-state following the dissolution of the Ottoman Empire at the end of the First World War.

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  • Jordan in the Late Middle Ages
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    Jordan in the Late Middle Ages

    This book explores the transformation of the Mamluk state from the perspective of the Jordanian frontier, considering the actions of local people in molding both the state and their own societies in the post-plague era.

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  • Adoration of the Ram
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    Adoration of the Ram

    This new study, the first extensive commentary on the five liturgically connected hymns, features new translations with detailed notes. The book also considers dominant theological themes present in the texts, including the concept of "Amun within the Iris." 

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  • The Trucial Coast Political Reports 1963-1966
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    The Trucial Coast Political Reports 1963-1966

    The Trucial Coast Political Reports are a unique record of events, commented on by a small group of British men living in Sharjah and Dubai. This was in the years leading up to the commencement of oil exports from the desert of Abu Dhabi.

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  • Commemorating the Nation
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    Commemorating the Nation

    This is a study of the relationship between public commemoration and national identity in Egypt over the course of the twentieth century. By analyzing nationalism through the prism of public commemoration, the work extends our understanding of the shaping of national identity and the evolution of...

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  • A Muslim Philosopher on the Soul and Its Fate

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  • The Mortuary Papyrus of Padikakem
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    The Mortuary Papyrus of Padikakem

    This new study is the first translation of the papyrus of Padikakem, with an extensive commentary. The complete early Ptolemaic manuscript from the Walters Art Museum contains two uncommon texts in hieratic. The study also thoroughly examines the development of grammar and paleography among the p...

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  • People on the Move
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    People on the Move

    Journal of Ancient Egyptian Interconnections, Volume 12  contains papers given at University of Basel in Switzerland in August 2015 looking at the mobility of people and commodities in the Eastern Mediterranean Region in the 8th to 6th centuries BC.  10 col and 20 b&w illus. and tables.

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  • The Christian Liturgical Papyri: An Introduction

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  • Christliches Agypten in der spatantiken Zeit

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  • The Temple of Ramesses II in Abydos Volume 3
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    The Temple of Ramesses II in Abydos Volume 3

    Building on the comprehensive photographic and epigraphic documentation of the temple presented in volumes 1 and 2 of The Temple of Ramesses II at Abydos, Volume 3 (Architectural and Inscriptional Features) offers analysis of the architectural layout and decorative programme of the temple and its...

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  • The Sheikh's House at Quseir al-Qadim
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    The Sheikh's House at Quseir al-Qadim

    This study of a 13th-century dwelling on Egypt's Red Sea Coast reconstructs a history of the building and the people who lived there. The evidence from this small portion of Quseir al-Qadim yields a rich local story that is a microcosm of Nile Valley-Red Sea-Indian Ocean trade under the last Ayyu...

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  • Peruvian Foreign Policy in the Modern Era
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    Peruvian Foreign Policy in the Modern Era

    Peruvian Foreign Policy in the Modern Era is a chronological treatment of Peruvian foreign policy from 1990 to the present. It focuses on the impact of domestic politics, economic interests, security concerns, and alliance diplomacy on contemporary Peruvian foreign policy.

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  • Juden im offentlichen Leben Deutschlands

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  • Die Judische Bevolkerung Hessens

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  • Die Juden der Freien Stadt Danzig unter der Herrschaft des Nationalsozialismus

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  • Die verheimlichte Wahrheit

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  • Juden und deutsche Arbeiterbewegung bis 1933

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  • Jacob Bernays

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  • Judentum, Staat und Heer in Preussen im fruhen 19. Jahrhundert

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  • Von Frankfurt nach Jerusalem

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  • Deutsches Judentum unter dem Nationalsozialismus

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  • Judische Selbsthilfe unter dem Naziregime 1933-1939 im Spiegel der Berichte der Reichsvertretung der Juden in Deutschland

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  • Das Judentum in der deutschen Umwelt 1800-1850

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  • Ubersetzung der Hekhalot-Literatur

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  • Judische Selbstverwaltung unter dem NS-Regime

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  • Moritz Lazarus und Heymann Steinthal

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  • Leo Baeck Institute New York Bibliothek und Archiv. Katalog

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  • Sechzig Jahre gegen den Strom

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  • Revolution and Evolution 1848 in German-Jewish History

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  • Judisches Leben auf dem Lande

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  • Tagebuch und Briefe

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  • Judische Textilunternehmer in Baden-Wurttemberg 1683-1938

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  • Ubersetzung der Hekhalot-Literatur

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  • Second Chance

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  • Deutsches Judentum in Krieg und Revolution 1916-1923

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  • Judisches Recht im kulturellen Prozess

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