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  • 1
    ISBN: 9781139024723
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (x, 591 Seiten)
    Edition: Cambridge histories online
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als The Cambridge world history of slavery ; Volume 2: AD 500-AD 1420
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als The Cambridge world history of slavery ; Volume 2: AD 500-AD 1420
    Angaben zur Quelle: Volume 2
    DDC: 306.3/62
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    Keywords: Slavery History ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Geschichte ; Sklaverei ; Antike
    Abstract: Medieval slavery has received little attention relative to slavery in ancient Greece and Rome and in the early modern Atlantic world. This imbalance in the scholarship has led many to assume that slavery was of minor importance in the Middle Ages. In fact, the practice of slavery continued unabated across the globe throughout the medieval millennium. This volume - the final volume in The Cambridge World History of Slavery - covers the period between the fall of Rome and the rise of the transatlantic plantation complexes by assembling twenty-three original essays, written by scholars acknowledged as leaders in their respective fields. The volume demonstrates the continual and central presence of slavery in societies worldwide between 500 CE and 1420 CE. The essays analyze key concepts in the history of slavery, including gender, trade, empire, state formation and diplomacy, labor, childhood, social status and mobility, cultural attitudes, spectrums of dependency and coercion, and life histories of enslaved people.
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    Cambridge : Cambridge University Press
    ISBN: 9781139005159
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (viii, 280 Seiten)
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    DDC: 305.892/4
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    Keywords: Bible / Leviticus / Criticism, interpretation, etc ; Bibel ; Geschichte ; Bibel ; Juden ; Jews / Identity ; Rabbinical literature / History and criticism ; Jews / Cultural assimilation ; Judentum ; Rezeption ; Religiöse Identität ; Ethnische Identität ; Judentum ; Religiöse Identität ; Ethnische Identität ; Geschichte ; Bibel 18,3 Levitikus ; Rezeption ; Judentum ; Geschichte
    Abstract: This book traces the interpretive career of Leviticus 18:3, a verse that forbids Israel from imitating its neighbors. Beth A. Berkowitz shows that ancient, medieval and modern exegesis of this verse provides an essential backdrop for today's conversations about Jewish assimilation and minority identity more generally. The story of Jewishness that this book tells may surprise many modern readers for whom religious identity revolves around ritual and worship. In Leviticus 18:3's story of Jewishness, sexual practice and cultural habits instead loom large. The readings in this book are on a micro-level, but their implications are far-ranging: Berkowitz transforms both our notion of Bible-reading and our sense of how Jews have defined Jewishness
    Description / Table of Contents: Introduction : law, identity, and Leviticus 18:3 -- The question of Israelite distinctiveness: paradigms of separatism in Leviticus 18:3 -- Allegory and ambiguity : Jewish identity in Philo's De congressu -- A narrative of neighbors : rethinking universalism and particularism in patristic and rabbinic writings -- The limits of "their laws" in Midrash halakhah -- A short history of the people Israel from the patriarchs to the Messiah: constructions of Jewish difference in Leviticus Rabbah -- Syncretism and anti-syncretism in the Babylonian Talmud -- The judaization of reason: the Tosafists, Nissim gerondi, and Joseph Colon -- Women's wear and men's suits: Ovadiah Yosef's and Moshe Feinstein's discourses of Jewishness -- Conclusion : an "upside-down people"?
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  • 3
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    ISBN: 9780511920011
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 online resource (xviii, 350 pages)
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    DDC: 306.709171/2
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    Keywords: Geschichte ; Geschichte ; Kolonie ; Sex / Colonies / History ; Interpersonal relations / Colonies / History ; Sexualität ; Kolonialismus ; Kulturkontakt ; Ethnische Beziehungen ; Zwischenmenschliche Beziehung ; Sexualverhalten ; Europa ; Europe / Colonies / Race relations / History ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Kolonialismus ; Sexualverhalten ; Zwischenmenschliche Beziehung ; Ethnische Beziehungen ; Geschichte ; Kolonialismus ; Kulturkontakt ; Sexualität
    Abstract: This volume examines human sexuality as an intrinsic element in the interpretation of complex colonial societies. While archaeological studies of the historic past have explored the dynamics of European colonialism, such work has largely ignored broader issues of sexuality, embodiment, commemoration, reproduction and sensuality. Recently, however, scholars have begun to recognize these issues as essential components of colonization and imperialism. This book explores a variety of case studies, revealing the multifaceted intersections of colonialism and sexuality. Incorporating work that ranges from Phoenician diasporic communities of the eighth century to Britain's nineteenth-century Australian penal colonies to the contemporary Maroon community of Brazil, this volume changes the way we understand the relationship between sexuality and colonial history
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  • 4
    ISBN: 9781139003834
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (xvi, 391 Seiten)
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    DDC: 304.60937/09014
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    Keywords: Geschichte 225 v. Chr.-100 ; Geschichte ; Demographie ; Italien ; Rom ; Italy / Population / History ; Rome / History / Republic, 265-30 B.C. ; Rome / History / Antonines, 96-192 ; Römisches Reich ; Römisches Reich ; Demographie ; Geschichte 225 v. Chr.-100
    Abstract: Recent years have witnessed an intense debate concerning the size of the population of Roman Italy. This book argues that the combined literary, epigraphic and archaeological evidence supports the theory that early-imperial Italy had about six million inhabitants. At the same time the traditional view that the last century of the Republic witnessed a decline in the free Italian population is shown to be untenable. The main foci of its six chapters are: military participation rates; demographic recovery after the Second Punic War; the spread of slavery and the background to the Gracchan land reforms; the fast expansion of Italian towns after the Social War; emigration from Italy; and the fate of the Italian population during the first 150 years of the Principate
    Description / Table of Contents: 1. Evidence, theories and models in Roman population history -- 2. The Polybian manpower figures and the size of the Italian population on the eve of the Hannibalic War -- 3. Census procedures and the meaning of the republican and early-imperial census figures -- 4. Peasants, citizens and soldiers, 201 BC-28 BC -- 5. The Augustan census figures and Italy's urban network -- 6. Survey archaeology and demographic developments in the Italian countryside
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  • 5
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    ISBN: 9781139135146
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (xv, 318 Seiten)
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    DDC: 306.3/6209687
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    Keywords: Geschichte 1830-1840 ; Geschichte ; Sklaverei ; Slavery / South Africa / Cape of Good Hope / History ; Slaves / Emancipation / South Africa / Cape of Good Hope / History ; Race discrimination / South Africa / Cape of Good Hope / History ; Ethnische Beziehungen ; Sklavenhandel ; Abolitionismus ; Sozialer Wandel ; Südafrika (Staat) ; Kapprovinz ; Kapprovinz ; Sklavenhandel ; Abolitionismus ; Ethnische Beziehungen ; Sozialer Wandel ; Geschichte 1830-1840
    Abstract: This book examines the social transformation wrought by the abolition of slavery in 1834 in South Africa's Cape Colony. It pays particular attention to the effects of socioeconomic and cultural changes in the way both freed slaves and dominant whites adjusted to the new world. It compares South Africa's relatively peaceful transition from a slave to a non-slave society to the bloody experience of the US South after abolition, analyzing rape hysteria in both places as well as the significance of changing concepts of honor in the Cape. Finally, the book examines the early development of South Africa's particular brand of racism, arguing that abolition, not slavery itself, was a causative factor; although racist attitudes were largely absent while slavery persisted, they grew incrementally but steadily after abolition, driven primarily by whites' need for secure, exploitable labor
    Description / Table of Contents: Part I. The Foundations of Racial Order: 1. The passing of the slave system; 2. Labor and the economy -- Part II. Cultural and Political Factors: 3. Missions; 4. Respectability; 5. The frontier; 6. The trek; 7. Plagues -- Part III. Rape, Race and Violence: 8. Violence; 9. Rape and other crimes; 10. Honor -- Part IV. A Racial Order: 11. Sediment at the bottom of the mind; 12. An aristocracy of skin -- Appendix: The newspapers
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    ISBN: 9781139087377
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 online resource (xi, 626 pages)
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    DDC: 305.5/5094
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    Keywords: Geschichte 1750-2011 ; Geschichte ; Politik ; Middle class / Europe, Western / History ; Social classes / Political aspects / Europe, Western / History ; Civilization, Modern ; Bürgertum ; Europa ; Electronic books ; Europa ; Bürgertum ; Geschichte 1750-2011
    Abstract: To be modern may mean many different things, but for nineteenth-century Europeans 'modernity' suggested a new form of life in which bourgeois activities, people, attitudes and values all played key roles. Jerrold Seigel's panoramic new history offers a magisterial and highly original account of the ties between modernity and bourgeois life, arguing that they can be best understood not in terms of the rise and fall of social classes, but as features of a common participation in expanding and thickening 'networks of means' that linked together distant energies and resources across economic, political and cultural life. Exploring the different configurations of these networks in England, France and Germany, he shows how their patterns gave rise to distinctive forms of modernity in each country and shaped the rhythm and nature of change across spheres as diverse as politics, money and finance, gender relations, morality, and literary, artistic and musical life
    Description / Table of Contents: Machine generated contents note: Preface; 1. Introduction: ends and means; Part I. Contours of Modernity: 2. Precocious integration: England; 3. Monarchical centralization, privilege, and conflict: France; 4. Localism, state-building, and bürgerliche gesellschaft: Germany; 5. Modern industry, class, and party politics in nineteenth-century England; 6. France and bourgeois France: from teleocracy to autonomy; 7. One special path: modern industry, politics, and bourgeois life in Germany; Part II. Calculations and Lifeworlds: 8. Time, money, capital; 9. Men and women; 10. Bourgeois morals: from Victorianism to modern sexuality; 11. Jews as bourgeois and network people; Part III. A Culture of Means: 12. Public places, private spaces; 13. Bourgeois and others; 14. Bourgeois life and the avant-garde; 15. Conclusion
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  • 7
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    ISBN: 9781139059954
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 online resource (xiii, 285 pages)
    Edition: Second edition
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    DDC: 304.60973
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    Keywords: Geschichte ; Geschichte ; Bevölkerung ; USA ; United States / Population / History ; USA ; USA ; Bevölkerung ; Geschichte
    Abstract: The first full-scale, one-volume survey of the demographic history of the United States has been fully updated here. From the arrival of humans in the Western Hemisphere to the current century, Klein analyses the basic demographic trends in the growth of the pre-conquest, colonial and national populations. From the origin and distribution of the Native Americans to late 20th century changes in family structure, fertility and mortality, this updated edition incorporates recent research, including data from the 2010 census. In this definitive study, Klein explores regional patterns of fertility and mortality, trends in births, deaths and international and internal migrations, comparing them with contemporary European developments. The profound impact of historic declines in disease and mortality rates on the population structure of the late-20th century is explained, while the more recent urbanisation and rise of suburbia are examined within the context of new massive international migrations on North American society
    Description / Table of Contents: Machine generated contents note: Introduction; 1. Paleo-Indians, Europeans, and the settlement of America; 2. Colonization and settlement of North America; 3. The Early Republic to 1860; 4. The creation of an industrial and urban society, 1860-1914; 5. The evolution of a modern population, 1914-1945; 6. Transitions: the baby boom and bust and the new new immigrants, 1945-1970; 7. A modern industrial society, 1970-2010
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  • 8
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    Cambridge : Cambridge University Press
    ISBN: 9780511843761
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 online resource (xi, 186 pages)
    Uniform Title: Umweltgeschichte der Antike
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    DDC: 304.20938
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    Keywords: Geschichte ; Geschichte 1500 v. Chr.-500 ; Geschichte ; Human ecology / Greece / History / To 1500 ; Human ecology / Rome / History ; Umweltveränderung ; Umwelt ; Griechenland ; Rom ; Greece / History / 146 B.C.-323 A.D. ; Rome / History / Republic, 265-30 B.C. ; Rome / History / Empire, 30 B.C.-284 A.D. ; Greece / Environmental conditions ; Rome / Environmental conditions ; Römisches Reich ; Griechenland ; Griechenland ; Römisches Reich ; Umwelt ; Geschichte 1500 v. Chr.-500 ; Griechenland ; Umwelt ; Geschichte ; Römisches Reich ; Umwelt ; Geschichte ; Römisches Reich ; Umweltveränderung ; Geschichte ; Griechenland ; Umweltveränderung ; Geschichte
    Abstract: In ancient Greece and Rome an ambiguous relationship developed between man and nature, and this decisively determined the manner in which they treated the environment. On the one hand, nature was conceived as a space characterized and inhabited by divine powers, which deserved appropriate respect. On the other, a rationalist view emerged, according to which humans were to subdue nature using their technologies and to dispose of its resources. This book systematically describes the ways in which the Greeks and Romans intervened in the environment and thus traces the history of the tension between the exploitation of resources and the protection of nature, from early Greece to the period of late antiquity. At the same time it analyses the comprehensive opening up of the Mediterranean and the northern frontier regions, both for settlement and for economic activity. The book's level and approach make it highly accessible to students and non-specialists
    Description / Table of Contents: pt. I. Greece. 1. The geographic space : The polis and the chora: the city and its countryside ; The era of colonisation ; The Hellenistic kingdoms ; Climate, coastlines and estuaries -- 2. People and nature -- 3. Agriculture -- 4. Forests and timber -- 5. Gardens -- 6. Animals -- 7. Food : Basic foods ; The symbolism of food: beans and fish -- 8. Fire and water : Mythology ; Science: the four elements ; Hydraulic engineering and water poisoning -- 9. Earthquakes and volcanoes -- 10. Mining -- pt. II. Rome. 11. The geographic space : Rome and Italy ; The Roman Empire ; The Roman roads -- 12. People and nature -- 13. Agriculture -- 14. Forests and timber -- 15. Gardens -- 16. Animals -- 17. Food -- 18. Fire and water : Fires in Rome ; The water supply and sewage system of Rome ; Hydraulic engineering, water poisoning and lead problems -- 19. Earthquakes and volcanoes : Earthquakes ; The eruption of Vesuvius -- 20. Mining -- 21. Urban problems and rural villa construction : Housing and urban sanitation in Rome ; Rural villa construction in Italy -- 22. The environment in Roman Britain : The geographic space ; Agriculture, forestry and industry ; Military camps, cities and villas -- Chronology
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  • 9
    ISBN: 9780511562242
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (xv, 363 Seiten)
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    DDC: 303.3/75/0941
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    Keywords: Geschichte 1900-2000 ; Geschichte 1919-1939 ; Geschichte 1919 ; Außenpolitik ; Geschichte ; Propaganda, British / History / 20th century ; Propaganda ; Großbritannien ; Great Britain / Foreign relations / 1910-1936 ; Großbritannien ; Großbritannien ; Propaganda ; Geschichte 1919-1939 ; Geschichte 1919
    Abstract: This book traces the origins and early development of what are today loosely termed Britain's Overseas Information Services. It examines how, at the end of the First World War, the British government came to forfeit the considerable lead it had established in propaganda since 1914, and the reasons why it had gradually to re-enter the field during the inter-war years as a direct response to totalitarianism. It surveys the pioneering work of the Foreign Office News Department and its important press office, the commercial propaganda conducted by the Empire Marketing Board and the Travel Association, the foundation and rapid peacetime growth of the British Council to conduct 'cultural diplomacy', and the beginning of the BBC's World Service with the inauguration of foreign-language broadcasts in 1938
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    ISBN: 9780511815249
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 online resource (xviii, 423 pages)
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    DDC: 306.7082/0955
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    Keywords: Geschichte ; Frau ; Women / Iran / Social conditions ; Women / Sexual behavior / Iran ; Feminism / Iran ; Women's rights / Iran ; Ehe ; Islamische Revolution ; Geschlechterrolle ; Sexualität ; Sexualethik ; Feminismus ; Sozialer Wandel ; Frau ; Iran ; Iran ; Ehe ; Geschlechterrolle ; Sexualität ; Geschichte ; Islamische Revolution ; Frau ; Sozialer Wandel ; Iran ; Frau ; Geschlechterrolle ; Iran ; Sexualethik ; Geschichte ; Iran ; Feminismus
    Abstract: Janet Afary is a native of Iran and a leading historian. Her work focuses on gender and sexuality and draws on her experience of growing up in Iran and her involvement with Iranian women of different ages and social strata. These observations, and a wealth of historical documents, form the kernel of this book, which charts the history of the nation's sexual revolution from the nineteenth century to today. What comes across is the extraordinary resilience of the Iranian people, who have drawn on a rich social and cultural heritage to defy the repression and hardship of the Islamist state and its predecessors. It is this resilience, the author concludes, which forms the basis of a sexual revolution taking place in Iran today, one that is promoting reforms in marriage and family laws, and demanding more egalitarian gender and sexual relations
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    ISBN: 9780511605390
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    Pages: 1 online resource (ix, 342 pages)
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    Keywords: Geschichte ; Wirtschaftsentwicklung ; Human capital ; Economic development ; Business and education ; Wirtschaftsentwicklung ; Humankapital ; Schule ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Humankapital ; Schule ; Wirtschaftsentwicklung ; Geschichte
    Abstract: Human Capital and Institutions is concerned with human capital in its many dimensions and brings to the fore the role of political, social, and economic institutions in human capital formation and economic growth. Written by leading economic historians, including pioneers in historical research on human capital, the chapters in this text offer a broad-based view of human capital in economic development. The issues they address range from nutrition in pre-modern societies to twentieth-century advances in medical care; from the social institutions that provided temporary relief to workers in the middle and lower ranges of the wage scale to the factors that affected the performance of those who reached the pinnacle in business and art; and from political systems that stifled the advance of literacy to those that promoted public and higher education. Just as human capital has been a key to economic growth, so has the emergence of appropriate institutions been a key to the growth of human capital
    Description / Table of Contents: Biotechnology and the burden of age-related diseases / Robert W. Fogel -- Extending the reach of anthropometric history to the distant past / Richard H. Steckel -- Insecurity, safety nets, and self-help in Victorian and Edwardian Britain / George R. Boyer -- The evolution of schooling in the Americas, 1800-1925 / Stanley L. Engerman, Elisa V. Mariscal, and Kenneth L. Sokoloff -- Why the United States led in education : lessons from secondary school expansion, 1910 to 1940 / Claudia Goldin and Lawrence F. Katz -- The production of engineers in New York colleges and universities, 1800-1950 : some new data / Michael Edelstein -- Young geniuses and old masters : the life cycles of great artists from Masaccio to Jasper Johns / David W. Galenson and Robert Jensen -- An elite minority : Jews among the richest 400 Americans / Peter Temin -- Suffrage and the terms of labor / Robert J. Steinfeld -- Prodigals and projectors : an economic history of usury laws in the United States from colonial times to 1900 / Hugh Rockoff
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    ISBN: 9780511521348
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (XII, 306 Seiten)
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    Keywords: Darwin, Charles / 1809-1882 / Influence ; Darwin, Charles ; Geschichte 1859-1918 ; Geschichte ; Psychologie ; Weltkrieg (1914-1918) ; Aggressiveness / History ; Social Darwinism / History ; Biopolitics / History ; World War, 1914-1918 / Causes ; War / Psychological aspects / History ; Peace / Psychological aspects / History ; Theorie ; Biologie ; Friede ; Krieg ; Darwinismus ; Soziobiologie ; Gesellschaft ; Sozialdarwinismus ; Darwinismus ; Gesellschaft ; Darwinismus ; Krieg ; Krieg ; Theorie ; Darwinismus ; Geschichte 1859-1918 ; Krieg ; Sozialdarwinismus ; Geschichte 1859-1918 ; Krieg ; Soziobiologie ; Geschichte 1859-1918 ; Darwin, Charles 1809-1882 On the origin of species by means of natural selection ; Krieg ; Friede ; Krieg ; Friede ; Biologie ; Geschichte 1859-1918
    Abstract: While much has been written upon Social Darwinism, the historical impact of Darwinism upon theories of war and human aggression has been sadly neglected. This book is the first to study this discourse in depth. It challenges the received view that Darwinism generated essentially aggressive and warlike social values and pugnacious images of humankind. Paul Crook reconstructs the influential discourse of 'peace biology', whose liberal vision was of a basically free humanity, not fettered by iron laws of biological necessity or governed by violent genes. By exploring a gamut of Darwinian readings of history and war, mainly in the English-speaking world to 1919, this study throws new light upon militarism, peace movements, the origins of World War I and British social thought
    Description / Table of Contents: 1. The Darwinian legacy.--2. The age of Spencer and Huxley.--3. Crisis in the west: the pre-war generation and the new biology.-- 4. 'The natural decline of warfare': anti-war evolutionism prior to 1914.--5. The first owrld war: man the fighting animal.--6. The survival of peace biology.--7. Naturalistic fallacies and noble ends.--8. Conclusion
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