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Mapping Landscapes in Transformation Multidisciplinary Methods for Historical…
The relational complexity of urban and rural landscapes in space and in time. The development of historical geographical information systems (HGIS) and other methods from the digital humanities have revolutionised historical research on cultural landscapes. Additionally, the opening up of increasingly diverse collections of source material, often incomplete and difficult to interpret, has led t…
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- 9789461662835
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- 376 halaman
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- 720 COO m
Regional Connection under the Belt and Road Initiative: The Prospects for Eco…
China’s Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) is intended to radically increase investment and integration along a series of land and maritime routes. As the initiative involves more than 100 countries or international organizations and huge amounts of infrastructure construction, cooperation between many different markets is essential to its success. Cheung and Hong have edited a collection of essa…
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- Ed. 1
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- 9780429467172
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- 280
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- Routledge Studies on Asia in the World
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- 300 REG r
Narratives Crossing Borders: The Dynamics of Cultural Interaction
Which is the identity of a traveler who is constantly on the move between cultures and languages? What happens with stories when they are transmitted from one place to another, when they are retold, remade, translated and re-translated? What happens with the scholars themselves, when they try to grapple with the kaleidoscopic diversity of human expression in a constantly changing world? These a…
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- 9789176351406, 9789176351413
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- 471
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- Stockholm Studies in Culture and Aesthetics, 8
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- 370 NAR n
Making Sense of World History
"Making Sense of World History is a comprehensive and accessible textbook that helps students understand the key themes of world history within a chronological framework stretching from ancient times to the present day. To lend coherence to its narrative, the book employs a set of organizing devices that connect times, places, and/or themes. This narrative is supported by: Flowcharts that show …
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- 9780367820886
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Czech Broadside Ballads as Text, Art, Song in Popular Culture, c.1600–1900
This landmark collection makes a major contribution to the burgeoning field of broadside ballad study by investigating the hitherto unexplored treasure-trove of over 100,000 Central/Eastern European broadside ballads of the Czech Republic, from the 16th to the 19th century. Viewing Czech broadside ballads from an interdisciplinary perspective, we see them as unique and regional cultural phenome…
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- 9789463721554, 9789048553341
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- 500
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- 940 CZE c
Linguistic Construction of Ethnic Borders
This volume focuses on the linguistic constructs involved in ethnic borders. Ethnic borders have proven themselves to be surprisingly long-lived: in nearly all European countries and beyond, border demarcation, exclusion of foreigners, and minority conflicts are some of the most persistent challenges for nations and societies. Which linguistic factors play a role in the formation of these borde…
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- 9783653982565; 9783631653777
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- 264
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- 306.44 LIN l
Terrorism, Criminal Law and Politics: The Decline of the Political Offence Ex…
Recent atrocities have insured that terrorism and how to deal with terrorists legally and politically has been the subject of much discussion and debate on the international stage. This book presents a study of changes in the legal treatment of those perpetrating crimes of a political character over several decades. It most centrally deals with the political offence exception and how it has com…
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- 9780429583414, 9780367189044
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- 341 JAN t
Film Architecture and the Transnational Imagination: Set Design in 1930s Euro…
Film Architecture and the Transnational Imagination presents for the first time a comparative study of European film set design in the late 1920s and 1930s; based on a wealth of designers' drawings, film stills and archival documents, the book offers a new insight into the development and significance of trans-national artistic collaboration during this period. European cinema from the late 192…
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- 9789053569801
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Dictators and Autocrats: Securing Power across Global Politics
In order to truly understand the emergence, endurance, and legacy of autocracy, this volume of engaging essays explores how autocratic power is acquired, exercised, and transferred or abruptly ended through the careers and politics of influential figures in more than 20 countries and six regions. The book looks at both traditional "hard" dictators, such as Hitler, Stalin, and Mao, and more mode…
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- 9780367607869, 9780367607876
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- 464
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- 909.022 DIC d
mHealth in Practice: Mobile Technology for Health Promotion in the Developing…
This book is available as open access through the Bloomsbury Open Access programme and is available on www.bloomsburycollections.com. There has recently been an explosion of interest around the application of mobile communication technologies to support health initiatives in developing countries (mHealth). As a result, there is a need to promote and share rigorous research for better informed p…
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- 9781780932811, 9781780932804
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- 256
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- 616.075 MHE m
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