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Labyrinths of Deceit : Culture, Modernity and Identity in the Nineteenth Century
Prominent citizens in nineteenth-century England believed themselves to be living in a time of unstoppable progress. Yet running just beneath Victorian triumphalism were strong undercurrents of chaos and uncertainty. Richard Walker plumbs the depths of those currents in order to present an alternative history of nineteenth-century society. Mining literary and philosophical works of the period, …
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- 9780853238492
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- 320 halaman
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- Liverpool English Texts and Studies
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- 900 WAL l
The Thun-Hohenstein University Reforms 1849–1860 : Conception – Implement…
The book gathers 14 articles on the reforms of the Austrian University system from 1848 to 1860 named after Leo Thun Hohenstein. The reforms mark a turning point in the history of the Austrian educational landscape. The book provides new perspectives on the work of Leo Thun-Hohenstein, using to date unknown sources and new approaches.
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- 9783205205531
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- 370 AIC t
Music - Media - History. Re-Thinking Musicology in an Age of Digital Media
Music and sound shape the emotional content of audio-visual media and carry different meanings. This volume considers audio-visual material as a primary source for historiography. By analyzing how the same sounds are used in different media contexts at different times, the contributors intend to challenge the linear perspective of (music) history based on canonic authority. The book discusses A…
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- 780.7 MUS m
Paul Robeson
A world-famous singer and actor, a trained lawyer, an early star of American professional football and a polyglot who spoke over a dozen languages. These could be the crowning achievements of a life well-lived, yet for Paul Robeson the higher calling of social justice led him to abandon both the NFL and Hollywood and become one of the most important political activists of his generation - battl…
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- Ed. 1
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- 9781783717552
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- 970 HOM p
Dramatic Experience: The Poetics of Drama and the Early Modern Public Sphere(s)
The authors explore the convergence of dramatic theory, theatrical practice, and various modes of audience experience that contributed to the emergence of ‘public sphere(s)’ across early modern Europe — and in Asia.
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- Ed. 1
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- 9789004329751
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- 327
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- Drama and Theatre in Early Modern Europe, 6
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- 900 DRA d
The Political System of the Atoni of Timor
Indonesia
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- Ed. 1
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- 9789004286900
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- 526
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- Verhandelingen van het Koninklijk Instituut voor Taal-, Land- en Volkenkunde, 60
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- 950 SCH p
The Practice of Texts: Education and Healing in South India (Edition 1)
The Practice of Texts examines the uses of the Sanskrit medical classics in two educational institutions of India’s classical life science, Ayurveda: the college and the gurukula. In this interdisciplinary study, Anthony Cerulli probes late- and postcolonial reforms in ayurvedic education, the development of the ayurvedic college, and the impacts of the college curriculum on ways that ayurved…
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- Ed. 1
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- 9780520383555, 9780520383555
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- 294.5 CER p
The Khilafat Movement in India 1919-1924
Indonesia
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- Ed. 1
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- 9789004286924
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- 272
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- Verhandelingen van het Koninklijk Instituut voor Taal-, Land- en Volkenkunde, 62
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- 950 NIE k
From Isolation towards Integration
From Isolation towards Integration was originally published in Dutch as Volume 41 (1963) in the series Verhandelingen van het Koninklijk Instituut voor Taal-, Land- en Volkenkunde.
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- Ed. 1
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- 9789004287112
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- 126
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- 950 DEG f
Negotiating nursing
Negotiating nursing explores how the Queen Alexandra's Imperial Military Nursing Service (Q.A.s) salvaged men within the sensitive gender negotiations of what should and could constitute nursing work and where that work could occur. The book argues that the Q.A.s, an entirely female force during the Second World War, were essential to recovering men physically, emotionally and spiritually …
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- Ed. 1
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- 9781526147257
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- 248
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- 610 BRO n
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