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Schooling the nation:education and everyday politics in Egypt
Telling the story of the Egyptian uprising through the lens of education, Hania Sobhy explores the everyday realities of citizens in the years before and after the so-called 'Arab Spring'. With vivid narratives from students and staff from Egyptian schools, Sobhy offers novel insights on the years that led to and followed the unrest of 2011. Drawing a holistic portrait of education in Egypt, sh…
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- 9781108956031
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- xii, 270 pages; illustration
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- 370.962 RAM s
Gods of the sea:whales and coastal communities in northeast Japan, c.1600-2019
Challenging common portrayals of Japan as a centuries-old whaling nation, Fynn Holm shows that many coastal communities in early modern Northeast Japan believed whales to be the incarnation of the god of the sea that brought fish to the shore, leading to violent anti-whaling protests that shocked the country
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- 9781009305532
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- ix, 224 pages; illustration
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- 639.2 HOL g
The Politics of Comprehensive School Reforms :Cleavages and Coalitions
Why are school systems structured differently across countries? The Politics of Comprehensive School Reform examines this question through an in-depth analysis of school politics in Germany and Norway during the post-war period of educational expansion. Using a Rokkanian theoretical framework, the book argues that school politics can only be understood in light of the cleavages, or political di…
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- 9781009235211
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- xi, 332 p ; ill
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- 370.9481 POL
Beyond The State; The Colonial Medical Service In British Africa
The Colonial Medical Service was the personnel section of the Colonial Service, employing the doctors who tended to the health of both the colonial staff and the local populations of the British Empire. Although the Service represented the pinnacle of an elite government agency, its reach in practice stretched far beyond the state, with the members of the African service collaborating, formally…
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The Politics of Comprehensive School Reforms :Cleavages and Coalitions
Why are school systems structured differently across countries? The Politics of Comprehensive School Reform examines this question through an in-depth analysis of school politics in Germany and Norway during the post-war period of educational expansion. Using a Rokkanian theoretical framework, the book argues that school politics can only be understood in light of the cleavages, or political di…
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- 9781009235211
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- xi, 332 p ; ill
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- 370.9481 POL
States and statistics in the nineteenth century :Europe by numbers
This book is a history of an illusion. It is also a history of the dream that preceded the illusion. The book discusses statistics as the field of tension between the scientific claims of neutrality and universality on the one hand and the political and economic reality of the conflicting interests of nation-states on the other. The various paths of state- and nation-building that European coun…
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- 9781526147530
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- 208p.
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- 314.09034 STA r
Disordering the establishment :participatory art and institutional critique i…
In the decades following World War II, France experienced both a period of affluence and a wave of political, artistic, and philosophical discontent that culminated in the countrywide protests of 1968. In Disordering the Establishment Lily Woodruff examines the development of artistic strategies of political resistance in France in this era. Drawing on interviews with artists, curators, and cul…
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- 9781478012085
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- xi, 336p.; ill.
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- 709.05015 DIS w
States and statistics in the nineteenth century :Europe by numbers
This book is a history of an illusion. It is also a history of the dream that preceded the illusion. The book discusses statistics as the field of tension between the scientific claims of neutrality and universality on the one hand and the political and economic reality of the conflicting interests of nation-states on the other. The various paths of state- and nation-building that European coun…
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- 9781526147530
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- 208p.
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- 314.09034 STA r
Disordering the establishment :participatory art and institutional critique i…
In the decades following World War II, France experienced both a period of affluence and a wave of political, artistic, and philosophical discontent that culminated in the countrywide protests of 1968. In Disordering the Establishment Lily Woodruff examines the development of artistic strategies of political resistance in France in this era. Drawing on interviews with artists, curators, and cul…
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- 9781478012085
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- xi, 336p.; ill.
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Medieval Hackers
Medieval Hackers calls attention to the use of certain vocabulary terms in the Middle Ages and today: commonness, openness, and freedom. Today we associate this language with computer hackers, some of whom believe that information, from literature to the code that makes up computer programs, should be much more accessible to the general public than it is. In the medieval past these same terms w…
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- 9780692352465
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- ScholarLed
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CREATING THE CAPE COLONY :the political economy of settler colonisation
This open access book offers a detailed study of the foundation and expansion of the Dutch Cape Colony to ask why certain regions in the global south became European settler societies from the 16th century onwards. Examining the different factors that led to the creation of the Cape Colony, Erik Green reveals it was a gradual process, made up of ad hoc decisions, in which the agency of indigeno…
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- 9781350258259
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- viii, 192p.
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- 916.8044 CRE g
Histories of experience in the world of lived religion
'At a historic moment, when religion shows all its social and political strength in various post-modern societies around our globe, this fascinating collection of studies from the Middle Ages to twentieth-century Europe demonstrates all the richness and innovative force of investigating individual and shared experiences when questioning the cultural, political and social place of religion in so…
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- 9783030921408
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- viii; 305p;
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- 204.2 HIS S
Spatial histories of occupation :colonialism, conquest and foreign control in…
This open access book explores how different spatial geographies emerged, adapted or were transformed in various occupied and colonial settings around Asia, showing how the experiences of those living under occupation shaped and was shaped by new interpretations and typologies of ‘space’. With case studies across South, Southeast and East Asia and through a variety of disciplinary perspecti…
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- 9781350252622
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- xii, 264p.
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- 950.4 SPA b
Central Asian Ismailis :an annotated bibliography of Russian, Tajik and other…
The Shi’i Ismaili Muslims of Central Asia have a complex political history. This open access book is the first English-language study of the Ismaili Muslims in this region, based on analysis of the Russian, Soviet and post-Soviet scholarship about them. It sheds new light on their history and heritage, and also shows how the Ismailis of Central Asia have been understood and presented in the a…
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- 9780755644988
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- xxvi, 304p.; ill.
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- 297.822 CEN d
The Roman Empire; Roots Of Imperialism
A millennium and a half after the end of the period of its unquestioned dominance, Rome remains a significant presence in western culture. This book explores what the empire meant to its subjects. The idea of Rome has long outlived the physical empire that gave it form, and now holds sway over vastly more people and a far greater geographical area than the Romans ever ruled. It continues to sha…
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- 9781849645478
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- Knowledge Unlatched (KU)
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No Truth Without Beauty :God, the Qur’an, and Women's Rights
In this comprehensive open access book, written for readers from any or no religious background, Leena El-Ali does something remarkable. Never before has anyone taken on every last claim relating to Islam and women and countered it not just with Qur’anic evidence to the contrary, but with easy-to-use tools available to all. How can a woman’s testimony be worth half of a man’s? How can men…
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- 9783030835828
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- xxxiii, 306 p.
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- 297.082 NOT L
War And Peace in The Western Political Imagination
The study of war in all periods of prehistory and recorded history has always commanded the attention of historians, dramatists, poets and artists. The study of peace has, however, not yet gained a comparable readership, and the subject is attracting an increasing amount of scholarly research. This volume presents the first work of academic research to tackle this imbalance head on. It looks at…
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- 9781474258722
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Religion and Governance in England’s Emerging Colonial Empire, 1601–1698
This open access book explores the role of religion in England's overseas companies and the formation of English governmental identity abroad in the seventeenth century. Drawing on research into the Virginia, East India, Massachusetts Bay, Plymouth, New England and Levant Companies, it offers a comparative global assessment of the inextricable links between the formation of English overseas gov…
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- 9783030701314
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- xi, 292 p.
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- 909.097124106 REL H
Bioethics And The Holocaust
This open access book offers a framework for understanding how the Holocaust has shaped and continues to shape medical ethics, health policy, and questions related to human rights around the world. The field of bioethics continues to face questions of social and medical controversy that have their roots in the lessons of the Holocaust, such as debates over beginning-of-life and medical genetics…
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- 9783031019876
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- Public health & preventive medicine
Writing The Digital History Of Nazi Germany
This book will consider how the outcomes of “doing history digitally” include different kind of sources and data, as well as new ways of researching historical questions, and innovative forms of presenting history. All contributions focus on aspects related to the history of National Socialism, World War II and the Holocaust.
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- 9783110714692
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- Berlin/Boston
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