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The Invasion of The South: Army Air Force Operations, and the Invasion of Nor…
Between 1966 and 1980, the War History Office of the National Defense College of Japan (now the Center for Military History of the National Institute for Defense Studies) published the 102-volume Senshi Sōsho (War History Series). The present book completes the trilogy of English translations of the sections in the Senshi Sōsho series on the Japanese operations against the former Dutch East I…
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- 9789400604100
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- 519p
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- 940.544952
Japan at War and Peace : Shidehara Kijūrō and the Making of Modern Diplomacy
The question of how to maintain the continuity of diplomacy while developing democracy without military intervention is an old and new issue. The challenge can be described as a dilemma between democracy and diplomatic coherence. This dilemma is not unique to the twenty-first century; it has been a constant challenge to the development of democracy. In non-Western countries, democratisation ori…
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- 9781760464974
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- 952.044092
Psychiatry and decolonisation in Uganda
This open access book investigates psychiatry in Uganda during the years of decolonisation. It examines the challenges facing a new generation of psychiatrists as they took over responsibility for psychiatry at the end of empire, and explores the ways psychiatric practices were tied to shifting political and development priorities, periods of instability, and a broader context of transnational …
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- 9781137600950
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- XII, 259p, ; ill.
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- 616.890096761
Securing Village Life : Development in Late Colonial Papua New Guinea
Securing Village Life: Development in Late Colonial Papua New Guinea examines the significance for post-World War II Australian colonial policy of the modern idea of development. Australian officials emphasised the importance of bringing development for both the colony of Papua and the United Nations Trust Territory of New Guinea. The principal form that development took involved securing small…
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- 9781922144850
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- 318p
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- 338.9009953
The Contest for Aboriginal Souls : European missionary agendas in Australia
This book covers the missionary activity in Australia conducted by non-English speaking missionaries from Catholic and Protestant mission societies from its beginnings to the end of the mission era. It looks through the eyes of the missionaries and their helpers, as well as incorporating Indigenous perspectives and offering a balanced assessment of missionary endeavour in Australia, attuned to …
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- 9781760462055
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- 280p
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- 266.00899915
At home in Renaissance Bruges : connecting objects, people and domestic space…
How did citizens in Bruges create a home? What did an ordinary domestic interior look like in the sixteenth century? And more importantly: how does one study the domestic culture of bygone times by analysing documents such as probate inventories? These questions seem straightforward, yet few endeavours are more challenging than reconstructing a sixteenth-century domestic reality from written so…
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- 9789462703179
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- 320 p
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- 747.249332
Making Change Happen : Black and White Activists talk to Kevin Cook about Abo…
This book is a unique window into a dynamic time in the politics and history of Australia. The two decades from 1970 to the Bicentennial in 1988 saw the emergence of a new landscape in Australian Indigenous politics. There were struggles, triumphs and defeats around land rights, community control of organisations, national coalitions and the international movement for Indigenous rights. The cha…
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- 9781921666742
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- 448p
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- 303.484
Empire’s violent end : comparing Dutch, British, and French wars of decolon…
In Empire's Violent End, Thijs Brocades Zaalberg and Bart Luttikhuis, along with expert contributors, present comparative research focused specifically on excessive violence in Indonesia, Algeria, Vietnam, Malaysia, Kenya, and other areas during the wars of decolonization. In the last two decades, there have been heated public and scholarly debates in France, the United Kingdom, and the Netherl…
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- Bart Luttikhuis
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- 246p
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- 325.309405
Microhistories of technology : making the world
In this open access book, Mikael Hård tells a story of how people around the world challenged the production techniques and products brought by globalization. Retaining their autonomy and freedom, creative individuals selectively adopted or rejected modern gadgets, tools, and machines. In standard historical narratives, globalization is portrayed as an unstoppable force that flattens all obsta…
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- 9783031228131
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- xx, 290p
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- 907.2
Iberian world empires and the globalization of Europe 1415–1668
This open access book analyses Iberian expansion by using knowledge accumulated in recent years to test some of the most important theories regarding Europe’s economic development. Adopting a comparative perspective, it considers the impact of early globalization on Iberian and Western European institutions, social development and political economies. In spite of globalization’s minor impor…
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- 9789811308338
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- xxvi, 520p; ill
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- 900
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