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History as Wonder : Beginning with Historiography
ABSTRACT History and Wonder is a refreshing new take on the idea of history that tracks the entanglement of history and philosophy over time through the key idea of wonder. From Ancient Greek histories and wonder works, to Islamic curiosities and Chinese strange histories, through to European historical cabinets of curiosity and on to histories that grapple with the horrors of the Holocaust…
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- 9780429427169
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- 234 p
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Margins for manoeuvre in Cold War Europe: the influence of smaller powers
ABSTRACT The Cold War is conventionally regarded as a superpower conflict that dominated the shape of international relations between World War II and the fall of the Berlin Wall. Smaller powers had to adapt to a role as pawns in a strategic game of the superpowers, its course beyond their control. This edited volume offers a fresh interpretation of twentieth-century smaller European powers â€â€¦
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- 9780429425592
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- 270 p
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The Gender Binary and the Invention of Race
ABSTRACT The Gender Binary and the Invention of Race explores a fundamental and often overlooked connection between modern European conceptions of gender and race. Starting in the eighteenth century, these conceptions have intermeshed through a racialized gender‑binary ideal for the male‑female couple that, supposedly, only Europeans embody. Through an exploration of various expressions…
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- 9780429351198
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- 200 p
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(Re)writing history in Byzantium: a critical study of collections of historic…
ABSTRACT Scholars have recently begun to study collections of Byzantine historical excerpts as autonomous pieces of literature. This book focuses on a series of minor collections that have received little or no scholarly attention, including the Epitome of the Seventh Century, the Excerpta Anonymi (tenth century), the Excerpta Salmasiana (eighth to eleventh centuries), and the Excerpta Planude…
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- 9780429351020
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- 372 p
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Married Women in Legal Practice: Agency and Norms in the Swedish Realm, 1350-…
ABSTRACT This book describes the ways in which married women appeared in legal practice in the medieval Swedish realm 1350-1450, through both the agency of women, and through the norms that surrounded their actions. Since there were no court protocols kept, legal practice must be studied through other sources. For this book, more than 6,000 original charters have been researched, and a databas…
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- 9780429345234
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- 198 p
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Forced Migration in the Feminist Imagination : Transcultural Movements
ABSTRACT Forced Migration in the Feminist Imagination explores how feminist acts of imaginative expression, community-building, scholarship, and activism create new possibilities for women experiencing forced migration in the twenty-first century. Drawing on literature, film, and art from a range of transnational contexts including Europe, the Middle East, Central America, Australia, and th…
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- 9780429325403
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- 222 p
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The materiality of the archive : creative practice in context
The Materiality of the Archive is the first volume to bring together a range of methodological approaches to the materiality of archives, as a framework for their engagement, analysis and interpretation. Focusing on the archives of creative practices, the book reaches between and across existing bodies of knowledge in this field, including material culture, art history and literary studies, …
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- 9780429262487
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- 336 p
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- 020 MAT
What is digital journalism studies?
What is Digital Journalism Studies? delves into the technologies, platforms, and audience relations that constitute digital journalism studies’ central objects of study, outlining its principal theories, the research methods being developed, its normative underpinnings, and possible futures for the academic field. The book argues that digital journalism studies is much more than the study …
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- 9780429259555
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- 136 p
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- 070 STE w
Culture, citizenship and human rights
In Cultures, Citizenship and Human Rights the combined analytical efforts of the fields of human rights law, conflict studies, anthropology, history, media studies, gender studies, and critical race and postcolonial studies raise a comprehensive understanding of the discursive and visual mediation of migration and manifestations of belonging and citizenship. More insight into the convergence…
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- 9780429198588
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- 268 p
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- 320 CUL
Freedom of speech in universities : Islam, Charities and Counter-terrorism
ABSTRACT Freedom of speech and extremism in university campuses are major sources of debate and moral panic in the United Kingdom today. In 2018, the Joint Committee on Human Rights in Parliament undertook an inquiry into freedom of speech on campus. It found that much of the public concern is exaggerated, but identified a number of factors that require attention, including the impact of gover…
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- 9780429289835
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- 150 p
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