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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
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
Knowing Women :Same-Sex Intimacy, Gender, and Identity in Postcolonial Ghana
Knowing Women is a study of same-sex desire in West Africa, which explores the lives and friendships of working-class women in southern Ghana who are intimately involved with each other. Based on in-depth research of the life histories of women in the region, Serena O. Dankwa highlights the vibrancy of everyday same-sex intimacies that have not been captured in a globally pervasive language of …
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- 9781108863575
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- ix, 332 p ; ill
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- 306.766309667 KNO S
The Making of an Imperial Polity :Civility and America in the Jacobean Metrop…
Bringing to life the interaction between America, its peoples, and metropolitan gentlemen in early seventeenth-century England, this book argues that colonization did not just operate on the peripheries of the political realm, and confronts the entangled histories of colonialism and domestic status and governance. The Jacobean era is reframed as a definitive moment in which the civil self-prese…
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- 9781108625227
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- xiv, 270 p ; ill
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- 970.02 MAK L
Disorder Contained :Mental Breakdown and the Modern Prison in England and Ire…
Disorder Contained is the first historical account of the complex relationship between prison discipline and mental breakdown in England and Ireland. Between 1840 and 1900 the expansion of the modern prison system coincided with increased rates of mental disorder among prisoners, exacerbated by the introduction of regimes of isolation, deprivation and hard labour. Drawing on a range of archival…
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- 9781108993586
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- ix, 318 p ; ill
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- 365.608740941 DIS C
Polio Across the Iron Curtain :Hungary's Cold War with an Epidemic
By the end of the 1950s, Hungary became an unlikely leader in what we now call global health. Only three years after Soviet tanks crushed the revolution of 1956, Hungary became one of the first countries to introduce the Sabin vaccine into its national vaccination programme. This immunization campaign was built on years of scientific collaboration between East and West, in which scientists, spe…
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- 9781108355421
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- ix, 268 p ; ill
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- 616.835009439 POL D
Encounters and Practices of Petty Trade in Northern Europe, 1820–1960
This open access book uncovers one important, yet forgotten, form of itinerant livelihoods, namely petty trade, more specifically how it was practiced in Northern Europe during the period 1820–1960. It investigates how traders and customers interacted in different spaces and approaches ambulatory trade as an arena of encounters by looking at everyday social practices. Petty traders often belo…
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- 9783030980801
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- xiv; 353p; ill.
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- 381.094809034 ENC J
The Brothers Grimm and the Making of German Nationalism
In the first comprehensive English-language portrait of Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm as political thinkers and actors, Jakob Norberg reveals how history's two most famous folklorists envisioned the role of literary and linguistic scholars in defining national identity. Convinced of the political relevance of their folk tale collections and grammatical studies, the Brothers Grimm argued that they cou…
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- 9781009063890
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- viii, 268 p
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- 943.070922 BRO J
Outcasts of empire :japan's rule on taiwan's "savage border," 1874-1945
"Outcasts of Empire unveils the causes and consequences of capitalism’s failure to “batter down all Chinese walls” in modern Taiwan. Adopting micro- and macrohistorical perspectives, Paul D. Barclay argues that the interpreters, chiefs, and trading-post operators who mediated state-society relations on Taiwan’s “savage border” during successive Qing and Japanese regimes rose to prom…
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- 9780520968806
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- xvii. ;ill. :301. p
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- 951.24904. OUT p
A Civil Society; The Public Space Of Freemason Women in France, 1744-1944
"James Smith Allen explores the two-hundred-year struggle to initiate women as full participants in the masonic brotherhood that shared in the rise of France’s civil society and its “civic morality” on behalf of women’s rights. "
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- 9781496229687
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Games of history :games and gaming as historical sources
Games of History provides an understanding of how games as artefacts, textual and visual sources on games and gaming as a pastime or a “serious” activity can be used as sources for the study of history. From the vast world of games, the book’s focus is on board and card games, with reference to physical games, sports and digital games as well. Considering culture, society, politics and me…
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- 9780367358914
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- ix, 200p.; ill.
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- 371.397 GAM s
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