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The Makassar Annals
The Makassar annals Translated and edited by William Cummings Beginning in the 1630s, a series of annalists at the main courts of Makassar began keeping records with dated entries that recorded a wide variety of specific historical information about a wide variety of topics, including the births and deaths of notable individuals, the actions of rulers, the spread of Islam, trade and diplomacy, …
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- Ed. 1
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- 9789004253629
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- 368
- Series Title
- Biblioteca Indonesica, 35
- Call Number
- 900 MAK m
Electric Worlds / Mondes électriques: Creations, Circulations, Tensions, Tra…
What interpretation(s) do today’s historians make of electrification? Electrification is a process which began almost a hundred and fifty years ago but which more than one billion men and women still do not have access to. This book displays the social diversity of the electric worlds and of the approaches to their history. It updates the historical knowledge and shows the renewal of the hist…
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- Ed. 1
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- 9782807600294;9782875743305
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- 606
- Series Title
- Histoire de l’énergie/History of Energy, 8
- Call Number
- 909.0223 ELE e
Star Carr Volume 2: Studies in Technology, Subsistence and Environment
"Star Carr is one of the most important Mesolithic sites in Europe. It was discovered in the late 1940s by John Moore and then excavated by Grahame Clark from 1949-1951, becoming famous in the archaeological world for the wealth of rare organic remains uncovered including barbed antler points and antler headdresses. However, since the original excavations there has been much debate about how th…
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- Ed. 1
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- 9781912482016
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- 600
- Series Title
- -
- Call Number
- 930.1 STA s
Theories of History: History Read across the Humanities
This book considers ‘history’ through its supplementary function to the field rather than the ground of a study, bringing new insights into historical thinking and historiography across the humanities. It fosters engagement from around the disciplines in historical thinking and invites historians and philosophers of history to see the impact of their work outside of their own specific field…
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- Ed. 1
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- 9781474271301, 9781474271301
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- -
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- -
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- 907 THE t
Cultures In Collision And Conversation : Essays In The Intellectual History O…
In Cultures in Collision and Conversation, David Berger addresses three broad themes in Jewish intellectual history: Jewish approaches to cultures external to Judaism and the controversies triggered by this issue in medieval and modern times; the impact of Christian challenges and differing philosophical orientations on Jewish interpretation of the Bible; and Messianic visions, movements, and d…
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- -
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- 9781936235247
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- 384 halaman
- Series Title
- Judaism and Jewish Life
- Call Number
- 900 BER c
Chinese Historical Thinking : An Intercultural Discussion
The book presents Chinese historical thinking by four articles. It is covered the ancient origin and the development to modernity and is commented by seven international experts. Presentation and comments find ›second thought‹ by three other international scholars, and at the end the whole discussion find an answer by the authors of the first presentations. The complex structure of …
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- -
- ISBN/ISSN
- 9789863501145
- Collation
- 254 halaman
- Series Title
- Research in East Asian Civilizations－Global East Asia 4
- Call Number
- 900 HUA c
The Cold War in the classroom : international perspectives on textbooks and m…
This book explores how the socially disputed period of the Cold War is remembered in today’s history classroom. Applying a diverse set of methodological strategies, the authors map the dividing lines in and between memory cultures across the globe, paying special attention to the impact the crisis-driven age of our present has on images of the past. Authors analysing educational media point t…
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- -
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- 9783030119997
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- -
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- -
- Call Number
- 909.825072
The Federated States of Micronesia’s Engagement with the Outside World Cont…
This study addresses the neglected history of the people of the Federated States of Micronesia’s (FSM) engagement with the outside world. Situated in the northwest Pacific, FSM’s strategic location has led to four colonial rulers. Histories of FSM to date have been largely written by sympathetic outsiders. Indigenous perspectives of FSM history have been largely absent from the main corpus …
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- -
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- 9781760464653
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- -
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- -
- Call Number
- 996.5
Honiara : Village-City of Solomon Islands
Nahona`ara—means ‘facing the `ara’, the place where the southeast winds meet the land just west of Point Cruz. Nahona`ara became Honiara, the capital city of Solomon Islands with a population of 160,000, the only significant urban centre in a nation of 721,000 people. Honiara: Village-City of Solomon Islands views Honiara in several ways: first as Tandai traditional land; then as cocon…
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- -
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- 9781760465070
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- -
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- -
- Call Number
- 995.93
The Tibetan Nun Mingyur Peldrön: A Woman of Power and Privilege
Born to a powerful family and educated at the prominent Mindröling Monastery, the Tibetan Buddhist nun and teacher Mingyur Peldrön (1699–1769) leveraged her privileged status and overcame significant adversity, including exile during a civil war, to play a central role in the reconstruction of her religious community. Alison Melnick Dyer employs literary and historical analysis, centered on…
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- Ed. 1
- ISBN/ISSN
- 9780295750378, 9780295750354
- Collation
- 242
- Series Title
- -
- Call Number
- 959 MEL t
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