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Explorations and Encounters in French
With a title derived literally from the explorations of the French in the Pacific and metaphorically from classroom encounters with another culture—both of which form important subsections to the volume—Explorations and Encounters in French actively seeks to unite those fields of enquiry sometimes seen as separate, namely, culture and language. The essays selected for inclusion in Explorati…
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- 9780980672329
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- 322 pages
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- -
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- 940 FOR e
Civil War Congress and the Creation of Modern America : A Revolution on the H…
Most literature on the Civil War focuses on soldiers, battles, and politics. But for every soldier in the United States Army, there were nine civilians at home. The war affected those left on the home front in many ways. Westward expansion and land ownership increased. The draft disrupted families while a shortage of male workers created opportunities for women that were previously unknown. …
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- 9780821423387
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- -
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- Perspectives on the History of Congress, 1801–1877
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- 900 CIV
Capitalism and Cloves : An Archaeology of Plantation Life on Nineteenth-Centu…
This study of nineteenth-century clove plantations on Zanzibar provides an important contribution to debates in global historical archaeology. Broadening plantation archaeology beyond the Atlantic World, this work addresses plantations run by Omani Arab colonial rulers of Zanzibar. Drawing on archaeological and historical data, this book argues for the need to examine non-Western contexts of co…
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- 1
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- 978-1-4419-8471-5
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- XIII, 256
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- -
- Call Number
- 900
On the daimonion of Socrates : Plutarch
Plutarch's dialogue On the daimonion of Socrates is a unique combination of exciting historical romance and serious philosophical and religious discussion. The volume offers a range of essays on themes providing further insights into this masterly literary piece: on the historical, religious and philosophical background and on thematic connections with other works by Plutarch
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- 9783161501388
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- -
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- SAPERE
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- 900 DAI
State and Crafts in the Qing Dynasty (1644-1911)
This book, full of quantitative evidence and limited-circulation archives, details manufacturing and the beginnings of industrialisation in China from 1644 to 1911. It thoroughly examines the interior organisation of public craft production and the complementary activities of the private sector. It offers detailed knowledge of shipbuilding and printing. Moreover, it contributes to the research …
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- 9789048537938
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- 402 pages
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- Social Histories of Work in Asia
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- 900
Handbook Global History of Work
What is the day-to-day reality for workers in various parts of the world, and how was it in the past? How do they work today, and how did they work in the past? Did workers ever protest? If so, how? These and many other questions comprise the field of the global history of work – a young discipline that is introduced with this handbook.
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- 9783110424584,
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- 604 pages
- Series Title
- De Gruyter Reference
- Call Number
- 900
The Power of Systems How Policy Sciences Opened Up the Cold War World
The International Institute of Applied Systems Analysis (IIASA), an international think tank established jointly by the United States and Soviet Union in Austria in 1972, was intended to advance scientific collaboration. Until the late 1980s, the IIASA was one of the very few permanent sites where policy scientists from both sides of the Iron Curtain could work together to articulate and solve …
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- 9781501703188
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- Knowledge Unlatched (KU)
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- -
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- 900
New World Objects of Knowledge : A Cabinet of Curiosities
From the late fifteenth century to the present day, countless explorers, conquerors, and other agents of empire have laid siege to the New World, plundering and pilfering its most precious artefacts and treasures. Today, these natural and cultural products—which are key to conceptualizing a history of Latin America—are scattered in museums around the world. With contributions from a renowne…
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- 9781908857835
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- 301 pages
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- -
- Call Number
- 900
Crossing Central Europe : Continuities and Transformations, 1900 and 2000
This volume studies elements of Austro-Hungarian or Central European culture that were common across linguistic, national, and ethnic communities, and shows how some of these commonalities survived or were transformed by the turmoil of the 20th century: two world wars, a major depression between the wars, Stalinism and the Iron Curtain
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- -
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- 9781487514686
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- Knowledge Unlatched (KU)
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- German and European Studies
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- 900
Law and Time
Research on law's relationship with time has flourished over the past decade. This edited collection aims to put law and time scholarship into wider context, advancing conversations on time and temporalities between socio-legal scholars, anthropologists, sociologists, geographers and historians. Through a diverse range of contributions, the collection explores how legal modalities of time emerg…
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- 1351683756
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- 282 halaman
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- -
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- 340 LAW
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