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Universities in Imperial Austria 1848–1918: A Social History of a Multiling…
"Combining history of science and a history of universities with the new imperial history, Universities in Imperial Austria 1848–1918: A Social History of a Multilingual Space by Jan Surman analyzes the practice of scholarly migration and its lasting influence on the intellectual output in the Austrian part of the Habsburg Empire. The Habsburg Empire and its successor states were home to deve…
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Chapter Unsheathing the Katana. The Long Fortune of the First Two Japanese Em…
At the end of the nineteenth century, Italy welcomed an official embassy sent by the government in Tokyo to make Japan more integrated into the new world scene it was entering. The cultural and political elites of the peninsula had the chance to discover, or rather rediscover, the charm of a world that had been lost over the centuries. This essay aims to reflect on the means and meanings of thi…
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- 9788855185790
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- Pages 19
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- 900 TRI c
Chapter 35 Migration and Narrative Dynamics
How can narrative theory account for the changing roles of storytelling and storysharing in the public sphere? This essay proposes a new concept of narrative dynamics, one that generates well-constrained descriptions of specific elements, features, or qualities of narratives, as well as programmatic claims concerning their potential uses and effects. Narrative dynamics research is equally inter…
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- 9780367569730
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- Pages 15
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- 900 ROY c
The Latin New Testament : a Guide To Its Early History, Texts, and Manuscripts
This book provides a comprehensive introduction to the history and development of the Latin New Testament and a user’s guide to the resources available for research and further study. The first five chapters offer a new historical synthesis, bringing together evidence from Christian authors and biblical manuscripts from earliest times to the late Middle Ages. Each witness is considered in its…
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- 9780198744733
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- 400 halaman
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- 900 HOU l
The Legacy of Christopher Columbus in the Americas : New Nations and a Transa…
Why is the capital of the United States named in part after Christopher Columbus, a Genoese explorer commissioned by Spain who never set foot on what would become the nation's mainland? Why did Spanish American nationalists in 1819 name a new independent republic "Colombia," after Columbus, the first representative of the empire from which they had recently broken free? These are only two of th…
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- 9780826519535
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- 216 halaman
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- 900 BAR l
Domestic Devotions in the Early Modern World
This volume sets out to explore the world of domestic devotions and is premised on the assumption that the home was a central space of religious practice and experience throughout the early modern world. The contributions to this book, which deal with themes dating from the fifteenth to the eighteenth century, tell of the intimate relationship between humans and the sacred within the walls of t…
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- 9789004375888
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- 378
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- Intersections, 59/2
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- 200 DOM d
Africa and the North
An important new discussion of Africa's place in the international system. This volume discusses Africa's place in the international system, examining the way in which the Westphalian system, in light of the impact of globalization and transnational networks, continues to play a major role in the structuring of Africa's international relations. The book provides a solid empirical analysis of ke…
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- 9780415333917; 9780415498869
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- New International Relations
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- 327 AFR a
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
Time and the Ancestors: Aztec and Mixtec Ritual Art
Time and the Ancestors: Aztec and Mixtec Ritual Art combines iconographical analysis with archaeological, historical and ethnographic studies and offers new interpretations of enigmatic masterpieces from ancient Mexico, focusing specifically on the symbols and values of the religious heritage of indigenous peoples.; Readership: Scholars and students working on the archaeology, art, history and …
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- 9789004340510, 9789004340527
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- 648
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- The Early Americas: History and Culture, 5
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- 973.82 JAN t
Living Martyrs in Late Antiquity and Beyond: Surviving Martyrdom
Antiquity; Living; Martyrdom; Martyrs; Surviving
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