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Colonial Survey and Native Landscapes in Rural South Africa, 1850 - 1913
In Colonial Survey and Native Landscapes in Rural South Africa, 1850 - 1913, Lindsay Frederick Braun explores the technical processes and struggles surrounding the creation and maintenance of boundaries and spaces in South Africa in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. The precision of surveyors and other colonial technicians lent these enterprises an illusion of irreproachable objecti…
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- 978-90-04-27233-0
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- African Social Studies Series, Volume: 33
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Collective Violence and Memory in the Ancient Mediterranean
This book reveals how violent pasts were constructed by ancient Mediterranean societies, the ideologies they served, and the socio-political processes and institutions they facilitated. Combining case studies from Anatolia, Egypt, Greece, Israel/Judah, and Rome, it moves beyond essentialist dichotomies such as “victors” and “vanquished” to offer a new paradigm for studying representatio…
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- 978-90-04-68317-4
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- Culture and History of the Ancient Near East, Volume: 135
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Collective Violence and Memory in the Ancient Mediterranean
This book reveals how violent pasts were constructed by ancient Mediterranean societies, the ideologies they served, and the socio-political processes and institutions they facilitated. Combining case studies from Anatolia, Egypt, Greece, Israel/Judah, and Rome, it moves beyond essentialist dichotomies such as “victors” and “vanquished” to offer a new paradigm for studying representatio…
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- 978-90-04-68317-4
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- Culture and History of the Ancient Near East, Volume: 135
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Vietnam Over the Long Twentieth Century
Over the past century, Vietnam has undergone a remarkable series of transformations. If we could go back in time to the mid-nineteenth century, we would find an early modern kingdom deeply influenced by Sinitic culture. By the end of the nineteenth century, some members of that elite, now under French colonial rule but still connected to a broader East Asian intellectual network, began t…
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- 9789819736119
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- XI, 204
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Vietnamese Language, Education and Change In and Outside Vietnam
Vietnam at its initial announcement of independence, in 1945, had a remarkably high rate of illiteracy. The many wars that followed have contributed to slow down the government effort in delivering literacy education to its citizens. Yet, from the 1980s, Doi Moi marked the big shift in politics, economic policies, as well as educational practices. The privatization of economic factors i…
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- 9789819990931
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- IX, 303
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English Language Education for Graduate Employability in Vietnam
his chapter provides an introduction into the book. It briefly summarizes issues related to graduate employability and points out that English language competency is an essential employability capital itself, and English language education can help develop other types of employability capital. Based on evidence from the literature, it points out that there is a mismatch between the curren…
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- 9789819943388
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- XVIII, 380
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Heritage Conservation and Tourism Development at Cham Sacred Sites in Vietnam
still recall my first visit to the Po Rome temple during the Katé festival 32 years ago. As a child, my grandfather, who was well-versed in history, folk stories, and oral traditions, often regaled me and my friends with tales of the Cham people, their kings, and temples. I remember seeing the temple on top of the hill from our village and feeling its sacredness, a sentiment shared by …
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- XIX, 234
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Evidence Based Global Health Manual for Preterm Birth Risk Assessment
ommon global risk factors for neonatal deaths include preterm births, birth complications, and infections such as tetanus, sepsis, and pneumonia, all of which disproportionately affect low- and middle-income countries (LMICs). These risk factors can be minimised or prevented through the delivery of high-quality antenatal care (ANC) [1]. ANC encompasses health promotion, education, disease…
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- 9783031044625
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- XI, 62
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Popularität und Relevanz in der Suche
n order to judge the relevance of search results in web search engines or library catalogues, users apply various criteria to judge the relevance of their search results. Modern academic search systems integrate additional information about the document into the search result presentation, in addition to the traditional metadata, which can be used for relevance judgments, such as the citati…
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- 9783658375126
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- XX, 254
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Choral Societies and Nationalism in Europe
This wide-ranging contribution to the study of nationalism and the social history of music examines the relationship between choral societies and national mobilization in the nineteenth century. From Norway to the Basque country and from Wales to Bulgaria, this pioneering study explores and compares the ways choral societies influenced and reflected the development of national awareness under d…
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- Volume: 9
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