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A Global History of Ideas in the Language of Law
This book argues that the narrowing focus of the global history of ideas on narratives in historical research, philosophy and political theory neglects the fact that the central concepts of the history of political ideas are articulated in the language of law. Key figures of the history of ideas, like Kant, Hegel and Weber, engaged deeply with the philosophy and sociology of law. This monograph…
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- 9783944773315
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A Genealogy of Bamboo Diplomacy : The Politics of Thai Détente with Russia a…
In 1975, M.R. Kurkrit Pramoj met Mao Zedong, marking the eventual establishment of diplomatic relations and a discursive rupture with the previous narrative of Communist powers as an existential threat. This book critically interrogates the birth of bamboo (bending with the wind) diplomacy and the politics of Thai de?tente with Russia and China in the long 1970s (1968-80). By 1968, Thailand was…
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- 9781760464998
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African Literature in African Languages
Interrogates and explores African literature in African languages today, and the continuing interfaces between works in indigenous languages and those written in European languages or languages of colonizers. Sixty years after the Conference of African Writers of English Expression at Makerere University, the dominance in the global canon of African literatures written in European languages ove…
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- 9781847013460
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“Proletarian Hegemony” in the Chinese Revolution and the Canton Commune o…
The Communist aim of proletarian hegemony in the Chinese revolution was given concrete expression through the Canton Commune—reflected in the policies and strategies that led to the uprising, in the makeup and program of the Soviet setup in Canton, and in the subsequent assessment of the revolt by the Comintern and the Chinese Communist Party. “Proletarian Hegemony” in the Chinese Revolut…
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The Years of Jesuit Suppression, 1773–1814: Survival, Setbacks, and Transfo…
The forty-one years between the Society of Jesus’s papal suppression in 1773 and its eventual restoration in 1814 remain controversial, with new research and interpretations continually appearing. Shore’s narrative approaches these years, and the period preceding the suppression, from a new perspective that covers individuals not usually discussed in works dealing with this topic. As well a…
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- 9789004423374
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- 124 hlm,: ill, lamp;
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- Brill Research Perspectives in Humanities and Social Sciences Brill Research Perspectives in Jesuit Studies
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Prosthetic Body Parts in Nineteenth-Century Literature and Culture
This open access book investigates imaginaries of artificial limbs, eyes, hair, and teeth in British and American literary and cultural sources from the nineteenth and early twentieth century. Prosthetic Body Parts in Nineteenth-Century Literature and Culture shows how depictions of prostheses complicated the contemporary bodily status quo, which increasingly demanded an appearance of physical …
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- 978-3-030-78589-5
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- oer.unej.ac.id
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- Palgrave Studies in Nineteenth-Century Writing and Culture
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Creating and Sharing Legal Knowledge in the Twelfth Century
The Decretum Gratiani is the cornerstone of medieval canon law, and the manuscript St Gallen, Stiftsbibliothek, 673 an essential witness to its evolution. The studies in this volume focus on that manuscript, providing critical insights into its genesis, linguistic features, and use of Roman Law, while evaluating its attraction to medieval readers and modern scholars.
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- 978-90-04-42829-4
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- Medieval Law and Its Practice, Volume: 35
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Neoromantik der Jahrhundertwende = Transformationen eines romantischen Erzäh…
Dieses Open-Access-Buch beschreibt die rege Wiederaufnahme des Romantischen in der literarischen Landschaft um 1900. Es zeichnet die vergessene Diskursgeschichte einer sogenannten ‚Neuromantik‘ nach, um anschließend zu analysieren, was genau sich in diesen Texten im Vergleich zur historischen Romantik verändert hat. Die Neoromantik der Jahrhundertwende lässt sich damit als eine folgenrei…
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- 9783662662892
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- XVII, 392 hlm; ill., lamp.,
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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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Samuel Johnson's Lives of the Poets
This open access book seeks to explain how the literary commentary of the Lives of the Poets speaks to us today because of its ethical goals. Edward Tomarken elucidates this element of Johnson’s literary criticism by using Ralph Cohen’s genre method, the topic of Chapter One, “Why Genre”. Chapters two to five address the most prevalent genres of the Lives: tragedy, metaphysical poetry, …
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- 978-3-031-61842-0
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- Palgrave Studies in the Enlightenment, Romanticism and Cultures of Print
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