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Please God Send Me a Wreck; Responses to Shipwreck in a 19th Century Australi…
This book explores the historical and archaeological evidence of the relationships between a coastal community and the shipwrecks that have occurred along the southern Australian shoreline over the last 160 years. It moves beyond a focus on shipwrecks as events and shows the short and long term economic, social and symbolic significance of wrecks and strandings to the people on the shoreline. T…
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- 1
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- 978-1-4939-2642-8
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- XV, 243
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- When the Land Meets the Sea
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- 994 DUN p
Planning London for the Post-War Era 1945-1960
This book deals with the formation of the post-Second World War reconstruction and planning machinery in Great Britain, the re-planning efforts undertaken in post-war London, and in particular the redevelopment programme regarding its central area in the form of the comprehensive development projects. Originating from a PhD Thesis, the book recreates the atmosphere following step by step argume…
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- 1
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- 978-3-319-07647-8
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- XXI, 215
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- Springer Geography
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- 941 MAR p
Place Names in Africa; Colonial Urban Legacies, Entangled Histories
This volume examines the discursive relations between indigenous, colonial and post-colonial legacies of place-naming in Africa in terms of the production of urban space and place. It is conducted by tracing and analysing place-naming processes, particularly in sub-Saharan Africa during colonial times (British, French, Belgian, Portuguese), with a considerable attention to both the pre-colonial…
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- 1
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- 978-3-319-32485-2
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- XVII, 229
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- -
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- 939.7 BIG p
Living for the City: Social Change and Knowledge Production in the Central Af…
Living for the City is a social history of the Central African Copperbelt, considered as a single region encompassing the neighbouring mining regions of Zambia and the Democratic Republic of Congo. The Haut-Katanga and Zambian Copperbelt mine towns have been understood as the vanguard of urban ‘modernity’ in Africa.
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- 9781108973120
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- 967 LAR l
Island Fantasia: Imagining Subjects on the Military Frontline between China a…
The Matsu archipelago between China and Taiwan, for long an isolated outpost off southeast China, was suddenly transformed into a military frontline in 1949 by the Cold War and the Communist–Nationalist conflict. The army occupied the islands, commencing more than 40 long years of military rule.
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- 9781009023481
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- 951.249 LIN i
Bruce M. Russett: Pioneer in the Scientific and Normative Study of War, Peace…
This book provides a comprehensive treatment of Russett’s scientific contributions, with key examples of his major studies. It will greatly benefit today’s International Relations students, deepening their understanding of the field’s theory and methods. Bruce M. Russett was a founder of, and continues to be a pioneer in, the empirical analytical study of international relations and fo…
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- 978-3-319-13850-3
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- 900
Wonder and the Marvellous from Homer to the Hellenistic World
Keajaiban dan keajaiban merupakan tema sentral dalam budaya Yunani kuno. Dalam buku ini, Jessica Lightfoot memberikan pemeriksaan lengkap pertama tentang signifikansinya dari Homer hingga periode Helenistik. Dia menunjukkan bahwa keajaiban adalah istilah penting dari respons estetika dan menempati posisi sentral dalam konsep tentang apa itu filsafat dan sastra. Dia juga berpendapat bahwa itu me…
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- 9781009003551
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- -
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- T 880.938 LIG w c
The Whipple Museum of the History of Science: Objects and Investigations, to …
Beragam objek koleksi Whipple Museum of the History of Science yang terkenal secara internasional dibuat lega oleh sejumlah sejarawan sains yang sangat dihormati dalam empat belas esai. Setiap bab berfokus pada instrumen atau kelompok objek tertentu, mulai dari astrolabe abad pertengahan Inggris hingga 'indikator sumber benih' pertanian modern hingga koleksi kepala ayam plester yang aneh. Para …
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- 9781108633628
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- T 502.84 NAL w c
The Politics of Comprehensive School Reforms: Cleavages and Coalitions
Mengapa sistem sekolah terstruktur secara berbeda di berbagai negara?. Politik Reformasi Sekolah Komprehensif mengkaji pertanyaan ini melalui analisis mendalam tentang politik pendidikan di Jerman dan Norwegia selama periode ekspansi pendidikan pascaperang. Dengan menggunakan kerangka teori Rokkanian, buku tersebut berpendapat bahwa politik pendidikan hanya dapat dipahami berdasarkan perpecahan…
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- 9781009235211
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- -
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- T 370.9481 SAS p c
The Making of Japanese Settler Colonialism: Malthusianism and Trans-Pacific M…
Studi inovatif ini menunjukkan bagaimana pembangun kekaisaran Jepang menemukan dan menyesuaikan wacana kelebihan populasi untuk membenarkan kolonialisme pemukim Jepang di seluruh Pasifik. Lu mendefinisikan wacana kelebihan populasi ini sebagai "ekspansionisme Malthus.” Ini adalah seperangkat gagasan yang menuntut tambahan lahan di luar negeri untuk mengakomodasi kelebihan penduduk dalam masya…
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- 9781108687584
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- T 304.80952 XUL m
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