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Engels20189780199489404
13-12-2018
Biswamoy Pati's fascinating book examines dimensions of the social history of tribals and dalit outcastes in Orissa. It studies the impact of colonial agrarian settlements, adivasi strategies of resistance; indigenous systems of health, the colonial 'medical gaze'; fluidities of caste formations… Meer
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Engels20199780199492954
14-2-2019
This is a short introduction to the life and ideas of Jawaharlal Nehru, independent India's first prime minister, aimed at the general readers and the students. Meer
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Engels20209780199498611
20-2-2020
A corruption scandal in 19th century India led to efforts to intimidate Indian witnesses against the accused British official. Litigation in India fueled a political pressure campaign in London producing questions in the House of Commons… Meer
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Engels20099780199533541
9-7-2009
Biographies are one of the most popular and best-selling of the literary genres. Why do people like them? What does a biography do and how does it work? This Very Short Introduction examines different types of biographies, why certain people and historical events arouse so much interest, and how… Meer
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Engels20209780198809951
27-8-2020
'Ghetto' is an extraordinarily complex word that encompasses Jewish history, black experiences in northern America, and our contemporary sense of cities and countries segregated by race and class. Exploring the various identities and uses of ghettos, Bryan Cheyette shows how different instances of… Meer
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Engels20089780199537235
11-9-2008
The Ecclesiastical History of the English People (731 AD) is Bede's most famous work. A scholarly monk working in the north-east of England, Bede wrote the five books of the History in Latin. Starting with the invasion of Julius Caesar in the fifth century, he recorded the history of the English up… Meer
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Engels20089780199541249
5-6-2008
In 1870 the First Vatican Council vindicated the old Roman vision of an essentially unlimited monarchical authority residing in the pope, thus vanquishing an even older, conciliar, essentially constitutionalist ideal of church governance… Meer
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Engels20099780199546312
27-8-2009
An examination of the various different expressions of the distinctive German 'myth of the East' that has been such a marked feature of German culture over the last two centuries, influencing German attitudes both to Eastern Europe itself and also to Germans' own sense of identity. Meer
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Engels20089780199548187
23-10-2008
James D. Watson looks back on his extraordinary career - from its beginnings as a schoolboy in Chicago's South Side to the day he left Harvard 50 years later, world-renowned as the co-discoverer of DNA - and considers the lessons he has learnt along the way… Meer
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Engels20089780199552368
11-9-2008
As a journalist, historian and novelist born into a family that included two past presidents of the United States, Henry Adams was constantly focused on the American experiment. The Education of Henry Adams (1918) recounts his own and the country's education from 1838, the year of his birth, to… Meer
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Engels20119780199554317
23-6-2011
Less famous than the Nuremberg International Military Tribunal but no less important, the Nuremberg Military Tribunals tried lower-level functionaries and private citizens for their parts in WW II. This book gives a full overview of these trials and it traces the critical role they have played in… Meer
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Engels20099780199563715
30-7-2009
Charting Ireland's progression from a poor society on the periphery of Europe, dominated by the conflicts of competing warlords, to a centralized political unit with a rapidly developing market economy, Contested Island is the story of the people who became the modern Irish. Meer
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Engels20109780199564446
25-2-2010
This book charts the historical practice of recognizing states since the late 18th century and examines a central question raised by the new, lingering demands for statehood in different parts of the world: Who qualifies for international recognition as a sovereign, independent state? Meer
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Engels20129780199565191
5-4-2012
The first study of the world of parenting in late Georgian England. Based on extensive and wide-ranging sources from memoirs and correspondence, to fiction, advice guides, and engravings, Bailey uncovers how people, from the poor to the rich, thought about themselves as parents and remembered their… Meer
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Engels20189780199569373
18-10-2018
This unique volume summarizes and reflects the work of a leading voice in the history of Classics in Britain, bringing together both previously published articles, now newly revised, and never before published work in an unparalleled overview of the history and sociology of classical education and… Meer
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Engels20099780199569786
16-7-2009
Stephen Gundle explains what glamour is, where it came from, and how it has developed over the last two centuries - right up to the present day. Meer
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Engels20109780199577712
29-4-2010
This illustrated study of the complex social relationships in the Wessex region of southern England in the first millennium BC offers an exciting new interpretation of the data, and also supplies a model for archaeologists of how later prehistoric societies can be interpreted. Meer
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Engels20109780199577835
24-6-2010
A study of how Socrates, Plato, Aristotle, and other Greek philosophers described, interpreted, criticized, and utilized the components and concepts of the religion of the people of their time. These include practices such as sacrifice, prayer, dedications, and divination, and the governing concepts… Meer
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Engels20109780199580149
13-5-2010
This volume brings together key chapters from Darwin's most important books, including the Journal of Researches on the Beagle voyage (1845), the Origin of Species (1859), the Descent of Man (1871), and the full text of his delightful autobiography… Meer
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Engels20129780199583690
9-2-2012
This generous selection from Galileo's writings contains all the essential texts. Newly translated by Mark Davie and William R. Shea, the contents include full representation from his scientific masterpieces, his contributions to the debate on science and religion, and key documents from his trial… Meer
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