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Histories of Experience in the World of Lived Religion
'At a historic moment, when religion shows all its social and political strength in various post-modern societies around our globe, this fascinating collection of studies from the Middle Ages to twentieth-century Europe demonstrates all the richness and innovative force of investigating individual and shared experiences when questioning the cultural, political and social place of religion in so…
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- 9783030921408
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- XIII, 305 hlm,: ill, lamp;
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Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Mortality and its Timings
This book is open access under a CC BY 4.0 license. This volume provides a series of illuminating perspectives on the timings of death, through in-depth studies of Shakespearean tragedy, criminal execution, embalming practices, fears of premature burial, rumours of Adolf Hitler’s survival, and the legal concept of brain death. In doing so, it explores a number of questions, including: how …
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- 978-1-137-58328-4
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- Palgrave Historical Studies in the Criminal Corpse and its Afterlife
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Remembering and Disremembering the Dead
This book is open access under a CC BY 4.0 licence. This book is a multidisciplinary work that investigates the notion of posthumous harm over time. The question what is and when is death, affects how we understand the possibility of posthumous harm and redemption. Whilst it is impossible to hurt the dead, it is possible to harm the wishes, beliefs and memories of persons that once li…
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- 978-1-137-53828-4
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- Palgrave Historical Studies in the Criminal Corpse and its Afterlife
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- VII, 103
E-Cigarettes and the Comparative Politics of Harm Reduction
This open access book offers the first in-depth study of the history and current debates surrounding electronic cigarettes comparing the UK, US and Australia. Since their introduction, e-cigarettes have been the subject of much public, media and regulatory attention, with discussion centring on whether these devices encourage or discourage smoking. This study delves into the history of policyma…
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- 978-3-031-23658-7
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- XIV, 144
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Paths to the Emerging State in Asia and Africa
This book addresses the issue of how a country, which was incorporated into the world economy as a periphery, could make a transition to the emerging state, capable of undertaking the task of economic development and industrialization. It offers historical and contemporary case studies of transition, as well as the international background under which such a transition was successfully made (or…
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- 9789811331312
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- XXI, 292 hlm,: ill, lamp;
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Developmental State Building
This open access book modifies and revitalizes the concept of the ‘developmental state’ to understand the politics of emerging economy through nuanced analysis on the roles of human agency in the context of structural transformation. In other words, there is a revived interest in the ‘developmental state’ concept. The nature of the ‘emerging state’ is characterized by its attitude t…
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- 9789811329043
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Remembering African Labor Migration to the Second World
This open access book is about Mozambicans and Angolans who migrated in state-sponsored schemes to East Germany in the late 1970s and throughout the 1980s. They went to work and to be trained as a vanguard labor force for the intended African industrial revolutions. While they were there, they contributed their labor power to the East German economy.
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- 978-3-031-06776-1
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- Palgrave Macmillan Transnational History Series
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- XXVII, 377
Microhistories of Technology
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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- 978-3-031-22813-1
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- Palgrave Studies in the History of Science and Technology
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- XX, 290
Feeling Political
Historicizing both emotions and politics, this open access book argues that the historical work of emotion is most clearly understood in terms of the dynamics of institutionalization. This is shown in twelve case studies that focus on decisive moments in European and US history from 1800 until today. Each case study clarifies how emotions were central to people’s political engagement and its …
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- 978-3-030-89858-8
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- Palgrave Studies in the History of Emotions
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- XIX, 390
The Dutch Paper Industry from 1580 to the Present
This open access book is the first to provide an analysis of the Dutch paper industry over a period encompassing six centuries. Responding to a trend of renewed scholarly interest in paper industries and production, the book seeks to illuminate the factors behind this relatively small national industry’s centuries-long survival.
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- 978-3-031-54324-1
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- XIII, 149
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