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  • 1
    ISBN: 9781009217897 , 9781009217880
    Language: English
    Pages: xviii, 412 Seiten , Illustrationen
    Series Statement: Studies in legal history
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als Kuskowski, Ada, 1978 - Vernacular law
    DDC: 340.5/0944
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    Keywords: Customary law History To 1500 ; Frankreich ; Gewohnheitsrecht ; Rechtsanthropologie ; Geschichte 500-1500
    Abstract: "Custom was fundamental to medieval legal practice. Whether in a property dispute or a trial for murder, the aggrieved and accused would go to lay court where cases were resolved according to custom. What custom meant, however, went through a radical shift in the medieval period. Between the twelfth and thirteenth centuries, custom went from being a largely oral and performed practice to one that was also conceptualized in writing. Based on French lawbooks known as coutumiers, Ada Maria Kuskowski traces the repercussions this transformation - in the form of custom from unwritten to written and in the language of law from elite Latin to common vernacular - had on the cultural world of law. Vernacular Law offers a new understanding of the formation of a new field of knowledge: authors combined ideas, experience and critical thought to write lawbooks that made disparate customs into the field known as customary law"--
    Description / Table of Contents: Introduction : vernacular writing and the transformation of customary law in Medieval France -- What is custom? Concept and literary practice -- Composing customary law as a vernacular law -- Writing a 'iusiusiusius non scriptum' : writtenness, memory and change' -- Uneasy jurisdictions : lay and ecclesiastical law -- Roman law, authority and creative citation -- Custom in lawbooks and records of legal practice -- Dynamic text : dialectic, manuscript culture and customary law -- Implications of circulating text : crafting a French Common Law -- Conclusion : lasting model and professional community.
    Note: Based on author's thesis (doctoral - Cornell University, 2013) issued under title: Writing custom : juristic imagination and the composition of customary law in thirteenth-century France , Includes bibliographical references and index
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    Cambridge : Cambridge University Press | Cambridge, UK : Cambridge University Press
    ISBN: 9781009047449
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (xiv, 312 pages)
    Series Statement: New studies in European history
    DDC: 304.809498
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    Keywords: Geschichte ; Deutsche ; Rumäniendeutsche ; Germans History 20th century ; Romanians History 20th century ; Germans History 20th century ; Rumänien
    Abstract: Romanian Germans, mainly from the Banat and Transylvania, have occupied a place at the very heart of major events in Europe in the twentieth century yet their history is largely unknown. This east-central European minority negotiated their standing in a difficult new European order after 1918, changing from uneasy supporters of Romania, to zealous Nazis, tepid Communists, and conciliatory Europeans. Migrating Memories is the first comprehensive study in English of Romanian Germans and follows their stories as they move across borders and between regimes, revealing a very European experience of migration, minorities, and memories in modern Europe. After 1945, Romanian Germans struggled to make sense of their lives during the Cold War at a time when the community began to fracture and fragment. The Revolutions of 1989 seemed to mark the end of the German community in Romania, but instead Romanian Germans repositioned themselves as transnational European bridge-builders, staking out new claims in a fast-changing world.
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    Cambridge : Cambridge University Press | Cambridge, UK : Cambridge University Press
    ISBN: 9781009039130
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (xiv, 292 pages)
    DDC: 980
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    Keywords: Vor- und Frühgeschichte ; Mochė ; Inka ; Military art and science History To 500 ; Südamerika ; Andenstaaten ; Chimú ; Andes Region Antiquities ; Andes Region Politics and government ; Andes Region Civilization
    Abstract: Warfare in the pre-Columbian Andes took on many forms, from inter-village raids to campaigns of conquest. Andean societies also created spectacular performances and artwork alluding to war - acts of symbolism that worked as political rhetoric while drawing on ancient beliefs about supernatural beings, warriors, and the dead. In this book, Elizabeth Arkush disentangles Andean warfare from Andean war-related spectacle and offers insights into how both evolved over time. Synthesizing the rich archaeological record of fortifications, skeletal injury, and material evidence, she presents fresh visions of war and politics among the Moche, Chimú, Inca, and pre-Inca societies of the conflict-ridden Andean highlands. The changing configurations of Andean power and violence serve as case studies to illustrate a sophisticated general model of the different forms of warfare in pre-modern societies. Arkush's book makes the complex pre-history of Andean warfare accessible by providing a birds-eye view of its major patterns and contrasts.
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    Cambridge : Cambridge University Press | Cambridge, UK : Cambridge University Press
    ISBN: 9781108985093
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (xi, 262 pages)
    DDC: 306.2
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    Keywords: Collective memory ; Memory Social aspects ; Ethnopsychology ; Political culture
    Abstract: Collective memory can make and break political culture around the world. Representations and reinterpretations of the past intersect with actions that shape the future. A nation's political culture emerges from complex layers of institutional and individual responses to historical events. Society changes and is changed by these layers of memory over time. Understanding them gives us insight into where we are today. Encompassing examples from colonization and decolonization, revolving around the critical junctures of the world wars, this book illustrates how collective memory is produced and organized, through commemoration, through monuments, and through individuals sharing stories. Using concrete examples from around the world, James H. Liu shows how different disciplines can come together through shared concepts like narratives and generational memories to provide mutually enriching perspectives on how political culture is made, and how it changes.
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    Cambridge : Cambridge University Press | Cambridge, UK : Cambridge University Press
    ISBN: 9781316556177
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (xi, 342 pages)
    Series Statement: New approaches to European history
    DDC: 020.94
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    Keywords: Information science History ; Printing History ; Written communication History ; Information resources management History ; Information organization History ; Papermaking History ; Europe Intellectual life
    Abstract: This provocative new history of early modern Europe argues that changes in the generation, preservation and circulation of information, chiefly on newly available and affordable paper, constituted an 'information revolution'. In commerce, finance, statecraft, scholarly life, science, and communication, early modern Europeans were compelled to place a new premium on information management. These developments had a profound and transformative impact on European life. The huge expansion in paper records and the accompanying efforts to store, share, organize and taxonomize them are intertwined with many of the essential developments in the early modern period, including the rise of the state, the Print Revolution, the Scientific Revolution, and the Republic of Letters. Engaging with historical questions across many fields of human activity, Paul M. Dover interprets the historical significance of this 'information revolution' for the present day, and suggests thought-provoking parallels with the informational challenges of the digital age.
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    ISBN: 9781108746168 , 9781107011182
    Language: English
    Pages: xvii, 410 Seiten, 16 ungezählte Seiten Bildtafeln , Illustrationen, Diagramme
    DDC: 303.4
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    Keywords: Social evolution ; Evolution ; Sozialverhalten ; Soziales System ; Sozialverhalten ; Vielfalt ; Evolution
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    Cambridge : Cambridge University Press | Cambridge, UK : Cambridge University Press
    ISBN: 9781108623711
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (xxvii, 936 Seiten) , Diagramme, Karten
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als
    DDC: 956.6/7
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    Keywords: Geschichte ; Kurden ; Kurds History ; Kurds Politics and government ; Kurdistan History ; Middle East Ethnic relations ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Aufsatzsammlung
    Abstract: The Cambridge History of the Kurds is an authoritative and comprehensive volume exploring the social, political and economic features, forces and evolution amongst the Kurds, and in the region known as Kurdistan, from the fifteenth to the twenty-first century. Written in a clear and accessible style by leading scholars in the field, the chapters survey key issues and themes vital to any understanding of the Kurds and Kurdistan including Kurdish language; Kurdish art, culture and literature; Kurdistan in the age of empires; political, social and religious movements in Kurdistan; and domestic political developments in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. Other chapters on gender, diaspora, political economy, tribes, cinema and folklore offer fresh perspectives on the Kurds and Kurdistan as well as neatly meeting an exigent need in Middle Eastern studies. Situating contemporary developments taking place in Kurdish-majority regions within broader histories of the region, it forms a definitive survey of the history of the Kurds and Kurdistan.
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    Cambridge : Cambridge University Press | Cambridge, UK : Cambridge University Press
    ISBN: 9781108863230
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (xii, 215 pages)
    Series Statement: Cambridge Middle East studies 59
    DDC: 303.60835
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    Keywords: Geschichte 1920-1958 ; Gewalt ; Politik ; Jugend ; Politischer Protest ; Libanon
    Abstract: By the mid-twentieth century, youth movements around the globe ruled the streets. In Lebanon, young people in these groups attended lectures, sang songs, and participated in sporting events; their music tastes, clothing choices and routine activities shaped their identities. Yet scholars of modern Lebanon often focus exclusively on the sectarian makeup and violent behaviors of these socio-political groupings, obscuring the youth cultures that they forged. Using unique sources to highlight the daily lives of the young men and women of Lebanon's youth politics, Dylan Baun traces the political and cultural history of a diverse set of youth-centric organizations from the 1920s to 1950s to reveal how these youth movements played significant roles in the making of the modern Middle East. Outlining how youth movements established a distinct type of politics and populism, Winning Lebanon reveals that these groups both encouraged the political socialization of different types of youth, and, through their attempts to 'win' Lebanon - physically and metaphorically - around the 1958 War, helped produce sectarian violence.
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    Cambridge : Cambridge University Press | Cambridge, UK : Cambridge University Press
    ISBN: 9781108765961
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 online resource (xiii, 403 pages) , digital, PDF file(s)
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als
    DDC: 306.0973
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    Keywords: Nachkriegszeit ; Soziale Schichtung ; Soziale Probleme ; USA
    Abstract: The social sciences underwent rapid development in postwar America. Problems once framed in social terms gradually became redefined as individual with regards to scope and remedy, with economics and psychology winning influence over the other social sciences. By the 1970s, both economics and psychology had spread their intellectual remits wide: psychology's concepts suffused everyday language, while economists entered a myriad of policy debates. Psychology and economics contributed to, and benefited from, a conception of society that was increasingly skeptical of social explanations and interventions. Sociology, in particular, lost intellectual and policy ground to its peers, even regarding 'social problems' that the discipline long considered its settled domain. The book's ten chapters explore this shift, each refracted through a single 'problem': the family, crime, urban concerns, education, discrimination, poverty, addiction, war, and mental health, examining the effects an increasingly individualized lens has had on the way we see these problems.
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    Amsterdam : Amsterdam University Press | Cambridge, UK : Cambridge University Press
    ISBN: 9789048541942
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 online resource (236 pages) , digital, PDF file(s)
    Series Statement: Premodern health, disease and disability
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    DDC: 641.3/094
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    Abstract: What can anthropological and folkloristic approaches to food, gender, and medicine tell us about these topics in the Middle Ages beyond the textual evidence itself? Women, Food, and Diet in the Middle Ages: Balancing the Humours uses these approaches to look at the textual traditions of dietary recommendations for women's health, placed within the context of the larger cultural concerns of gender roles and Church teachings about women. Women are expected to be nurturers, healers, and the primary locus of food provisioning for families, especially when considering the lower social classes which are typically overlooked in the written record. What can we know about women, food, medicine, and diet in the Middle Ages and how does the written medical tradition interact with folk medicine and other cultural factors in both understanding women's bodies and their roles as healers and food providers.
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    Cambridge : Cambridge University Press | Cambridge, UK : Cambridge University Press
    ISBN: 9781108860161
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource
    DDC: 302.22440956
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    Keywords: Geschichte 1650 v. Chr.-1200 v. Chr. ; Hethiter ; Schriftlichkeit ; Schreib- und Lesefähigkeit
    Abstract: Why did the Anatolians remain illiterate for so long, although surrounded by people using script? Why and how did they eventually adopt the cuneiform writing system and why did they still invent a second, hieroglyphic script of their own? What did and didn't they write down and what role did Hittite literature, the oldest known literature in any Indo-European language, play? These and many other questions on scribal culture are addressed in this first, comprehensive book on writing, reading, script usage, and literacy in the Hittite kingdom (c.1650-1200 BC). It describes the rise and fall of literacy and literature in Hittite Anatolia in the wider context of its political, economic, and intellectual history.
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  • 12
    ISBN: 9781108835985
    Language: English
    Pages: xiv, 294 Seiten , Illustrationen
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als Sarkar, Suvobrata Let there be light
    DDC: 338.0954/1409041
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    Keywords: 1880-1945 ; Elektrizitätspolitik ; Unternehmer ; Wirtschaftsgeschichte ; West Bengal ; Electrification Economic aspects ; History ; Electrical engineering History ; Industrialization History ; Technology and state History ; Bengal (India) History ; Bengalen ; Ingenieurwissenschaften ; Elektrizität ; Entrepreneurship ; Geschichte 1880-1945
    Abstract: "Social and economic history of science and technology has emerged as a major theme of interdisciplinary research in South Asian history since the late 1990s. This book contributes to the field by exploring the correlation between technological knowledge and industrial performance with a focus on electricity, an emerging technology during 1880 and 1945. The arrival of electricity necessitated the introduction of new institutional facilities and with the growth of technological systems, the culture of entrepreneurship grew - there was demand for trained manpower to handle machines and need for better educational facilities. Taking a broad view of the subject, the narrative is built around the historical experiences of the local Bengali-speaking population in colonial Bengal. While recent research on science and technology under the colonial rule tends to focus on elite actors-both European and Indian - it is important to identify people, mostly Indians, who excelled in the field of technology, without prior academic training in engineering or science. This monograph brings back focus on the hitherto unexplored vernacular sources and emphasizes that the history of technology in India is basically a history of India, the history of its people, and not simply a history of the Indian techno-scientific tradition as proposed by the literature emerging from the West. Adopting the social constructionist model, it presents an amalgamation of archival and Indian language source materials to delineate the diverse nature of the appropriation of technological ideas into Indian culture."
    Note: Includes bibliographical references and index
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    Woodbridge : The Boydell Press | Cambridge, UK : Cambridge University Press
    ISBN: 9781787449411
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 online resource (xiv, 298 pages) , digital, PDF file(s)
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als
    DDC: 820.9/351
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    Abstract: Detailed research into documentary sources offers an exciting new identification of the real "Robin Hood."
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    Woodbridge : The Boydell Press | Cambridge, UK : Cambridge University Press
    ISBN: 9781787449237
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 online resource (xii, 249 pages) , digital, PDF file(s)
    Series Statement: Royal Armouries research series volume I
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als
    DDC: 940.1
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    Keywords: Geschichte 1100-1600 ; Turnier ; Kultur ; Europa
    Abstract: Fresh insights into the development of the tournament as an opportunity for social display.
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    Cambridge, United Kingdom : Cambridge University Press | Cambridge, UK : Cambridge University Press
    ISBN: 9781108765404
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (viii, 261 pages)
    Series Statement: Ideas in context
    DDC: 305.3094
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    Keywords: Frau ; Mann ; Geschlechterrolle ; Renaissance ; Europa
    Abstract: This pioneering and innovative study challenges modern assumptions of what constitutes the political and the public in Renaissance thought. Offering gendered readings of a wide array of fifteenth- and sixteenth-century political thinkers, with a particular focus on the two prime thinkers of the early modern state, Niccolò Machiavelli and Jean Bodin, Anna Becker reconstructs a neglected but important classical tradition in political thought. Exploring how 'the political' was incorporated into a wide array of 'private' or 'apolitical' topics by early modern thinkers, Becker demonstrates how both republican and absolutist thinkers - the two poles which organise early modern political thought - relied on gendered justifications. In doing so, she reveals how the foundations of the modern state were significantly shaped by gendered concerns.
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    Cambridge : Cambridge University Press | Cambridge, UK : Cambridge University Press
    ISBN: 9781316841211
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (xi, 266 pages)
    Series Statement: New approaches to Asian history
    DDC: 909/.04951
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    Abstract: Chinese Diasporas provides a concise and compelling new history of internal and external Chinese migration from the sixteenth century to the present day. Steven B. Miles places Chinese migrants and their families at the center of his narrative through a series of engaging case studies taking readers from the heart of Ming China to the global property markets of the twenty-first century. The focus on individual migrants and their descendants reveals the ways in which the 'Chinese diaspora' has consisted of distinct paths of migration from specific emigrant communities to targeted destinations both within China and abroad. This is essential reading for those interested in the history of the Chinese diaspora and the overseas Chinese, and for those interested in the role of migration in the making of the modern world.
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    Cambridge : Cambridge University Press | Cambridge, UK : Cambridge University Press
    ISBN: 9781316536087
    Language: English , Latin
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (xxi, 345 Seiten) , Illustrationen
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    DDC: 305.40937
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    Keywords: Sozialgeschichte 100 v. Chr.-300 ; Frau ; Römisches Reich ; Quelle
    Note: Kommentare zu Inschriften veröffentlicht im CIL , Literaturverzeichnis Seite 331-341
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    Cambridge : Cambridge University Press | Cambridge, UK : Cambridge University Press
    ISBN: 9781108672214
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (xix, 319 pages)
    Edition: Second edition.
    Series Statement: New approaches to African history 13
    DDC: 960.32
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    Keywords: Geschichte 1940-2018 ; Kolonialismus ; Entkolonialisierung ; Postkolonialismus ; Decolonization History 20th century ; Decolonization History 21st century ; Afrika ; Africa Politics and government 1945-1960 ; Africa Politics and government 1960- ; Africa Colonial influence ; Africa History 20th century ; Africa History 21st century
    Abstract: Africa since 1940 is the flagship textbook in Cambridge University Press' New Approaches to African History series. Now revised to include the history and scholarship of Africa since the turn of the millennium, this important book continues to help students understand the process out of which Africa's position in the world has emerged. A history of decolonisation and independence, it allows readers to see just what political independence did and did not signify, and how men and women, peasants and workers, religious and local leaders sought to refashion the way they lived, worked and interacted with each other. Covering the transformation of Africa from a continent marked by colonisation to one of independent states, Frederick Cooper follows the 'development question' across time, seeing how first colonial regimes and then African elites sought to transform African society in their own ways. He shows how people in cities and villages tried to make their way in an unequal world, through times of hope, despair, renewed possibilities, and continued uncertainties. Looking beyond the debate over what or who may be to blame, Cooper explores alternatives for the future.
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    Cambridge : Cambridge University Press | Cambridge, UK : Cambridge University Press
    ISBN: 9781316941256
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (395 Seiten)
    Series Statement: Cambridge studies in biological and evolutionary anthropology 81
    DDC: 306.3/64
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    Keywords: Vor- und Frühgeschichte ; Archäobiologie ; Paläanthropologie ; Wildbeuter ; Anpassung ; Resilienz
    Abstract: Hunter-gatherer lifestyles defined the origins of modern humans and for tens of thousands of years were the only form of subsistence our species knew. This changed with the advent of food production, which occurred at different times throughout the world. The chapters in this volume explore the different way that hunter-gatherer societies around the world adapted to changing social and ecological circumstances while still maintaining a predominantly hunter-gatherer lifestyle. Couched specifically with the framework of resilience theory, the authors use contextualized bioarchaeological analyses of health, diet, mobility, and funerary practices to explore how hunter-gatherers responded to challenges and actively resisted change that diminished the core of their social identity and worldview.
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    Woodbridge, Suffolk : James Currey | Cambridge, UK : Cambridge University Press
    ISBN: 9781787444300
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource
    Series Statement: Western Africa series
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als African women in the Atlantic world
    DDC: 305.42096
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    Keywords: Geschichte 1660-1880 ; Schwarze Frau ; Sklavenhandel ; Atlantischer Raum ; Afrika ; Aufsatzsammlung
    Abstract: An innovative and valuable resource for understanding women's roles in changing societies, this book brings together the history of Africa, the Atlantic and gender before the 20th century. It explores trade, slavery and migration in the context of the Euro-African encounter.
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    Cambridge : Cambridge University Press | Cambridge, UK : Cambridge University Press
    ISBN: 9781139225250
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (xi, 272 Seiten)
    Series Statement: Cambridge classical studies
    DDC: 304.60938/5
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    Keywords: Demographie ; Wirtschaftliche Lage ; Athen ; Griechenland
    Abstract: This is the first comprehensive account of the population of classical Athens for almost a century. The methodology of earlier scholars has been criticised in general terms but their conclusions have not been seriously challenged. Ben Akrigg reviews and assesses those methodologies and conclusions for the first time and thereby sets the historical demography of Athens on a firm footing. The main focus is on the economic impact of that demography, but new conclusions are presented which have profound implications for our understanding of Athenian society and culture. The book establishes that the Athenian population grew very large in the fifth century BC, before falling dramatically in the final three decades of that century. These changes had important immediate consequences but the city of the fourth century was shaped in fundamental ways by the demographic upheavals of its past.
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    Cambridge : Cambridge University Press | Cambridge, UK : Cambridge University Press
    ISBN: 9781108683524
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (390 pages)
    Edition: 4th ed.
    Series Statement: New approaches to European history 41
    DDC: 305.4094
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    Keywords: Geschichte 1500-1800 ; Frau ; Geschlechterrolle ; Europa
    Abstract: This fourth edition of Merry E. Wiesner-Hanks's prize-winning survey features significant changes to every chapter, designed to reflect the newest scholarship. Global issues have been threaded throughout the book, while still preserving the clear thematic structure of previous editions. Thus readers will find expanded discussions of gendered racial hierarchies, migration, missionaries, and consumer goods. In addition, there is enhanced coverage of recent theoretical directions; the ideas, beliefs, and practices of ordinary people; early industrialization; women's learning, letter writing, and artistic activities; emotions and sentiments; single women and same-sex relations; masculinities; mixed-race and enslaved women; and the life course from birth to death. With geographically broad coverage, including Russia, Scandinavia, the Ottoman Empire, and the Iberian Peninsula, this remains the leading text on women and gender in Europe in this period. Accompanying this essential reading is a completely revised website featuring extensive updated bibliographies, web links, and primary source material.
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    Suffolk : Boydell & Brewer | Cambridge, UK : Cambridge University Press
    ISBN: 9781787444911
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (vi, 316 pages)
    DDC: 355.10941
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    Keywords: Geschichte 1560-1639 ; Militär ; Identität ; Selbstbild ; Fremdbild ; Literatur ; England ; Irland ; Konferenzschrift 2015
    Abstract: An investigation into how soldiers of this period considered and presented themselves.
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    ISBN: 9781316941072
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource
    DDC: 303.48/244049509021
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    Keywords: Geschichte 400-750 ; Außenpolitik ; Kulturaustausch ; Fränkisches Reich ; Mittelmeerraum ; Konferenzschrift 17.12.2014-20.12.2014
    Abstract: From their crystallisation in the late fifth century to their ultimate decline in the eighth, the Merovingian kingdoms were a product of a vibrant Mediterranean society with both a cultural past and a dynamic and ongoing dialogue between the member communities. By bringing together the scholarship of historians, archaeologists, art historians, and manuscript researchers, this volume examines the Merovingian world's Mediterranean connections. The Franks' cultural horizons spanned not only the Latin-speaking world, but also the Byzantine Empire, northern Europe, Sassanid Persia, and, after the seventh century, a quickly ascendant Islamic culture. Traces of a constant movement of people and cultural artefacts through this world are ubiquitous. As simultaneous consumers, adapters, and disseminators of culture, the degree to which the Merovingian kingdoms were thought to engage with their neighbours is re-evaluated as this volume analyses written accounts, archaeological findings and artefacts to provide new perspectives on Merovingian wide-ranging relations.
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    Cambridge : Cambridge University Press | Cambridge, UK : Cambridge University Press
    ISBN: 9781108656757
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (xxv, 353 pages)
    DDC: 933
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    Keywords: Soziale Situation ; Römisches Reich ; Palästina
    Abstract: Anthony Keddie investigates the changing dynamics of class and power at a critical place and time in the history of Judaism and Christianity - Palestine during its earliest phases of incorporation into the Roman Empire (63 BCE-70 CE). He identifies institutions pertaining to civic administration, taxation, agricultural tenancy, and the Jerusalem Temple as sources of an unequal distribution of economic, political, and ideological power. Through careful analysis of a wide range of literary, documentary, epigraphic, and archaeological evidence, including the most recent discoveries, Keddie complicates conventional understandings of class relations as either antagonistic or harmonious. He demonstrates how elites facilitated institutional changes that repositioned non-elites within new, and sometimes more precarious, relations with privileged classes, but did not typically worsen their economic conditions. These socioeconomic shifts did, however, instigate changing class dispositions. Judaean elites and non-elites increasingly distinguished themselves from the other, through material culture such as tableware, clothing, and tombs.
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    Rochester, New York : Camden House | Cambridge, UK : Cambridge University Press
    ISBN: 9781787445628
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (vi, 392 pages)
    Series Statement: Women and gender in German studies
    DDC: 305.420943
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    Keywords: Geschichte ; Geschichte 1700-2019 ; Frau ; Macht ; Geschlechterverhältnis ; Aktivismus ; Politikerin ; Politische Führung ; Deutsch ; Literatur ; Weibliche Führungskraft ; Widerstand ; Deutschland ; Deutsches Sprachgebiet
    Abstract: A collection of essays achieving a deeper understanding of the historical roots and theoretical assumptions that inform the realities and fantasies of German female leadership.
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    Amsterdam : Amsterdam University Press | Cambridge, UK : Cambridge University Press
    ISBN: 9789048544677
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (304 Seite)
    Series Statement: Heritage and memory studies
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als
    DDC: 943.0879
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    Keywords: Ostdeutsches Kuratorium von Verbänden ; Geschichte 1990-2019 ; Kollektives Gedächtnis ; Nostalgie ; Deutschland
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    ISBN: 1108427308 , 9781108427302 , 1108446051 , 9781108446051
    Language: English
    Pages: XII, 269 Seiten , Illustrationen, Diagramme, Karten , 24 cm
    Edition: First published
    Series Statement: Publications of the German Historical Institute
    DDC: 305.8943504309045
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    Keywords: Geschichte 1961-1990 ; Türkischer Einwanderer ; Soziale Integration ; Zugehörigkeit ; Deutschland
    Abstract: Zusammenfassung: "As the largest national group of guest workers in Germany, the Turks became a visible presence in local neighbourhoods and schools and had diverse social, cultural, and religious needs. Focussing on West Berlin, Sarah Thomsen Vierra explores the history of Turkish immigrants and their children from the early days of their participation in the post-war guest worker program to the formation of multi-generational communities"--(Provided by publisher.)
    Note: Includes bibliographical references and index , Settling in at work -- At home in Almanya -- Around the neighborhood -- Learning to belong -- Making space for religion -- Belonging in reunified Germany -- Conclusion : integration as history, reciprocity, and space.
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    Amsterdam : Amsterdam University Press | Cambridge, UK : Cambridge University Press
    ISBN: 9789048542109
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (331 pages)
    Edition: Third updated printing.
    DDC: 305.800944
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    Keywords: Geschichte ; Nationalbewusstsein ; Nationalismus ; Europa
    Abstract: A topical history of nationalism provides also a surprising perspective on Europe's contemporary identity politics...
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    ISBN: 9781107094345
    Language: English
    Pages: xxxvii, 504 Seiten , Illustrationen, Karten , 26 cm
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als Empires and exchanges in Eurasian late antiquity
    DDC: 930/.5
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    Keywords: Intercultural communication ; Intercultural communication ; Intercultural communication ; China ; Middle East ; Rome ; Middle East History To 622 ; Rome History Empire, 30 B.C.-476 A.D ; China History 221 B.C.-960 A.D ; Middle East History ; To 622 ; Rome History ; Empire, 30 B.C.-476 A.D ; China History ; 221 B.C.-960 A.D ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Eurasien ; Kulturkontakt ; Geschichte 250-1000
    Abstract: "The second phase of Roman-steppe relations began during the latter part of the fourth century, when Hunnic groups entered the western steppes, and lasted through the early sixth century. This "Age of Attila" saw major shifts throughout Western Eurasia. Several decades after the battle of Adrianople, Huns moved into Europe and became unified early in the fifth century with a center of power in the Hungarian plain"--
    Abstract: Introduction / Nicola Di Cosmo and Michael Maas -- How the Steppes Became Byzantine: Rome and the Eurasian Nomads in Historical Perspective / Michael Maas -- The Relations between China and the Steppe from the Xiongnu to the Turk Empire / Nicola Di Cosmo -- Sasanian Iran and the Projection of Power in Late Antique Eurasia: Competing Cosmologies and Topographies of Power / Matthew P. Canepa -- Trade and Exchanges along the Silk and Steppe Routes in Late Antique Eurasia / Richard Lim -- Sogdian Merchants and Sogdian Culture on the Silk Road / Rong Xinjiang -- "Charismatic" Goods: Commerce, Diplomacy, and Cultural Contacts along the Silk Road in Late Antiquity / Peter Brown -- The Synthesis of the Tang Dynasty: The Culmination of China's Contacts and Communication with Eurasia, 310-755 CE -- Giusto traina central asia in the late roman mental map, second to sixth centuries / Valerie Hansen -- Genetic History and Migrations in Western Eurasia, 500-1000 / Patrick J. Geary -- Northern Invaders: Migration and Conquest as Scholarly Topos in Eurasian History / Michael KulikowsKi -- Chinese and Inner Asian Perspectives on the History of the Northern Dynasties (386-589 CE) in Chinese Historiography / Luo Xin -- Xiongnu and Huns: Archaeological Perspectives on a Centuries-Old Debate about Identity and Migration / Ursula Brosseder -- Ethnicity and Empire in the Western Eurasian Steppes / Walter Pohl -- The Languages of Christianity on the Silk Roads and the Transmission of Mediterranean Culture into Central Asia / Scott Fitzgerald Johnson -- The Spread of Buddhist Culture to China between the Third and Seventh Century / Max Deeg -- The Circulation of Astrological Lore and Its Political Use between the Roman East, Sasanian Iran, Central Asia, and the Turks / Frantz Grenet -- Luminous Markers: Pearls and Royal Authority in Late Antique Iran and Eurasia / Joel Walker -- Byzantium's Eurasian Policy in the Age of the Turk Empire / Mark Whittow -- Sasanian Iran and Its Northeastern Frontier: Offense, Defense, and Diplomatic Entente / Daniel T. Potts -- Infrastructures of Legitimacy in Inner Asia: The Early Turk Empires / Michael R. Drompp -- The Stateless Nomads of Central Eurasia / Peter B. Golden -- Aspects of Elite Representation among the Sixth- to Seventh-Century Turks / Soren Stark -- Patterns of Roman Diplomacy with Iran and the Steppe Peoples / Ekaterina Nechaeva -- Collapse of a Eurasian Hybrid: The Case of the Northern Wei / Andrew Eisenberg -- Ideological Interweaving in Eastern Eurasia: Simultaneous Kingship and Dynastic Competition, 580-755 / Jonathan Karam Skaff -- Followers and Leaders in Northeastern Eurasia, ca. Seventh to Tenth Centuries / Naomi Standen -- Epilogue / Averil Cameron
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    Cambridge : Cambridge University Press | Cambridge, UK : Cambridge University Press
    ISBN: 9781108551410
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    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource
    Series Statement: New approaches to economic and social history
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als Zwart, Pim The origins of globalization
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    Keywords: Geschichte 1500-1800 ; Globalisierung ; Welthandel ; Weltwirtschaft
    Abstract: For better or for worse, in recent times the rapid growth of international economic exchange has changed our lives. But when did this process of globalization begin, and what effects did it have on economies and societies? Pim de Zwart and Jan Luiten van Zanden argue that the networks of trade established after the voyages of Columbus and Da Gama of the late fifteenth century had transformative effects inaugurating the first era of globalization. The global flows of ships, people, money and commodities between 1500 and 1800 were substantial, and the re-alignment of production and distribution resulting from these connections had important consequences for demography, well-being, state formation and the long-term economic growth prospects of the societies involved in the newly created global economy. Whether early globalization had benign or malignant effects differed by region, but the world economy as we now know it originated in these changes in the early modern period.
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    Suffolk : Boydell & Brewer | Cambridge, UK : Cambridge University Press
    ISBN: 9781787441798
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (xi, 212 pages)
    DDC: 940.1
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    Keywords: Geschichte 1270-1400 ; Geschichte 1300-1600 ; Kulturaustausch ; Fernhandel ; England ; Italien
    Abstract: Essays demonstrating the importance and inflence of Italian culture on medieval Britain.
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    New York : Cambridge University Press | Cambridge, UK : Cambridge University Press
    ISBN: 9781108140393
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (x, 197 pages)
    DDC: 306.3/6209758
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    Keywords: Geschichte 1859 ; Sklaverei ; Sklavenhandel ; Schwarze ; Kollektives Gedächtnis ; Georgia ; USA
    Abstract: In 1859, at the largest recorded slave auction in American history, over 400 men, women, and children were sold by the Butler Plantation estates. This book is one of the first to analyze the operation of this auction and trace the lives of slaves before, during, and after their sale. Immersing herself in the personal papers of the Butlers, accounts from journalists that witnessed the auction, genealogical records, and oral histories, Anne C. Bailey weaves together a narrative that brings the auction to life. Demonstrating the resilience of African American families, she includes interviews from the living descendants of slaves sold on the auction block, showing how the memories of slavery have shaped people's lives today. Using the auction as the focal point, The Weeping Time is a compelling and nuanced narrative of one of the most pivotal eras in American history, and how its legacy persists today.
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    Cambridge : D. S. Brewer | Cambridge, UK : Cambridge University Press
    ISBN: 9781787440142
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (viii, 217 pages)
    Series Statement: Nature and environment in the Middle Ages
    DDC: 829/.1009
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    Abstract: Humanity is a dominant presence in the Exeter Book riddle collection. It is frequently shown using, shaping and binding the physical world in which it lives. The riddles depict master and craftsman and use the familiar human world as a point of orientation within a vast, overwhelming cosmos. But the riddles also offer an eco-centric perspective, one that considers the natural origins of man-made products and the personal plight of useful human resources. This study offers fresh insights into the collection, investigating humanity's interaction with, and attitudes towards, the rest of the created world. Drawing on the principles of eco-criticism and eco-theology, the study considers the cultural and biblical influences on the depiction of nature in the collection, arguing that the texts engage with post-lapsarian issues of exploitation, suffering and mastery. Depictions of marginalised perspectives of sentient and non-sentient beings, such as trees, ore and oxen, are not just characteristic of the riddle genre, but are actively used to explore the point of view of the natural world and the impact humanity has on its non-human inhabitants. The author not only explores the riddles' resistance to anthropocentrism, but challenges our own tendency to read these enigmas from a human-centred perspective. Corinne Dale gained her PhD from Royal Holloway, University of London.
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    Cambridge : Cambridge University Press | Cambridge, UK : Cambridge University Press
    ISBN: 9781316946367
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (xviii, 286 pages)
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    Keywords: Geschichte 1400-1870 ; Frau ; Frankreich
    Abstract: This is a revolutionary reinterpretation of the French past from the early fifteenth century to the establishment of the Third Republic, focused on public challenges and defenses of masculine hierarchy in relations between women and men. Karen Offen surveys heated exchanges around women's 'influence'; their exclusion from 'authority'; the increasing prominence of biomedical thinking and population issues; concerns about education, intellect, and the sexual politics of knowledge; and the politics of women's work. Initially, the majority of commentators were literate and influential men. However, as more and more women attained literacy, they too began to analyze their situation in print and to contest men's claims about who women were and should be, and what they should be restrained from doing, and why. As urban print culture exploded and revolutionary ideas of 'equality' fuelled women's claims for emancipation, this question resonated throughout francophone Europe and, ultimately, across the seas.
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    Amsterdam : Amsterdam University Press | Cambridge, UK : Cambridge University Press
    ISBN: 9789048536504
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (212 pages)
    DDC: 303.48/3
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    Keywords: Sozialgeschichte 1815-2015 ; Technologie ; Technology Social aspects ; History ; Engineering Social aspects ; History
    Abstract: Technology today is often presented as our best hope of solving the world's social and sustainability problems. And that's nothing new: engineers have always sought to meet the big challenges of their times-even as those challenges have shaped their technology. This book offers a historical look at those interactions between engineering and social challenges, showing how engineers developed solutions to past problems, and looking at the ways that those solutions often bring with them unintended consequences that themselves require solving.
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    Amsterdam : Amsterdam University Press | Cambridge, UK : Cambridge University Press
    ISBN: 9789048527441
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (218 pages)
    Series Statement: Late antique and early Medieval Iberia 4
    DDC: 305.80093763
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    Keywords: Geschichte 500-700 ; Ethnische Identität ; Goten ; Ethnology ; Ethnology ; Ethnology ; Romans ; Gauls ; Franks ; Spanien ; Franken ; Hochschulschrift
    Abstract: Traditional scholarship on post-Roman western culture has tended to examine the ethnic identities of Goths, Franks, and similar groups while neglecting the Romans themselves, in part because modern scholars have viewed the concept of being Roman as one denoting primarily a cultural or legal affiliation. As this book demonstrates, however, early medieval 'Romanness' also encompassed a sense of belonging to an ethnic group, which allowed Romans in Iberia and Gaul to adopt Gothic or Frankish identities in a more nuanced manner than has been previously acknowledged in the literature.
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    Cambridge, UK : Cambridge University Press
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (344 p.)
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    Keywords: History of ideas
    Abstract: A study of the genesis of ‘European civilisation’ as a concept of 20th-C EU political practice & as a specific project of a transnational network of EU elites, examining how they sought to rehabilitate EU identity as a response to a crisis of belonging following the 1917-1920 revolutions & the collapse of the Hohenzollern, Habsburg & RU Empires
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    New York : Cambridge University Press | Cambridge, UK : Cambridge University Press
    ISBN: 9781316591284
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (xvi, 253 pages)
    DDC: 305.892/4040902
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    Keywords: Geschichte 600-1500 ; Christentum ; Antijudaismus ; Antisemitismus ; Europa
    Abstract: From its earliest days, Christianity has viewed Judaism and Jews ambiguously. Given its roots within the Jewish community of first-century Palestine, there was much in Judaism that demanded Church admiration and praise; however, as Jews continued to resist Christian truth, there was also much that had to be condemned. Major Christian thinkers of antiquity - while disparaging their Jewish contemporaries for rejecting Christian truth - depicted the Jewish past and future in balanced terms, identifying both positives and negatives. Beginning at the end of the first millennium, an increasingly large Jewish community started to coalesce across rapidly developing northern Europe, becoming the object of intense popular animosity and radically negative popular imagery. The portrayals of the broad trajectory of Jewish history offered by major medieval European intellectual leaders became increasingly negative as well. The popular animosity and the negative intellectual formulations were bequeathed to the modern West, which had tragic consequences in the twentieth century. In this book, Robert Chazan traces the path that began as anti-Judaism, evolved into heightened medieval hatred and fear of Jews, and culminated in modern anti-Semitism.
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    Cambridge : Cambridge University Press | Cambridge, UK : Cambridge University Press
    ISBN: 9781316711040
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (xiii, 416 pages)
    DDC: 382.091822
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    Keywords: Geschichte ; Mittelmeerraum
    Abstract: In this major new study, the history of the French and British trading empires in the early modern Mediterranean is used as a setting to test a new approach to the history of ignorance: how can we understand the very act of ignoring - in political, economic, religious, cultural and scientific communication - as a fundamental trigger that sets knowledge in motion? Zwierlein explores whether the Scientific Revolution between 1650 and 1750 can be understood as just one of what were in fact many simultaneous epistemic movements and considers the role of the European empires in this phenomenon. Deconstructing central categories like the mercantilist 'national', the exchange of 'confessions' between Western and Eastern Christians and the bridging of cultural gaps between European and Ottoman subjects, Zwierlein argues that understanding what was not known by historical agents can be just as important as the history of knowledge itself.
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    ISBN: 9781139924641
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (xviii, 324 pages)
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    Keywords: Geschichte 1790-2012 ; Andamanen und Nikobaren
    Abstract: This innovative, multidisciplinary exploration of the unique history of the Andaman Islands as a hunter-gatherer society, colonial penal colony, and state-engineered space of settlement and development ranges across the theoretical, conceptual and thematic concerns of history, anthropology and historical geography. Covering the entire period of post-settlement Andamans history, from the first (failed) British occupation of the Islands in the 1790s up to the year 2012, the authors examine imperial histories of expansion and colonization, decolonization, anti-colonialism and nationalism, Japanese occupation, independence and partition, migration, commemoration and contemporary issues of Indigenous welfare. New Histories of the Andaman Islands offers a new way of thinking about the history of South Asia, and will be thought-provoking reading for scholars of settler colonial societies in other contexts, as well as those engaged in studies of nationalism and postcolonial state formation, ecology, visual cultures and the politics of representation.
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    Cambridge : Cambridge University Press | Cambridge, UK : Cambridge University Press
    ISBN: 9781107709386
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    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (xiv, 363 pages)
    Series Statement: Studies in North American Indian history
    DDC: 970.004/97
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    Keywords: Geschichte 1880-1930 ; Indianer ; Intellektueller ; Ethnische Identität ; Weiße ; Kultur ; USA
    Abstract: In the United States of America today, debates among, between, and within Indian nations continue to focus on how to determine and define the boundaries of Indian ethnic identity and tribal citizenship. From the 1880s and into the 1930s, many Native people participated in similar debates as they confronted white cultural expectations regarding what it meant to be an Indian in modern American society. Using close readings of texts, images, and public performances, this book examines the literary output of four influential American Indian intellectuals who challenged long-held conceptions of Indian identity at the turn of the twentieth century. Kiara M. Vigil traces how the narrative discourses created by these figures spurred wider discussions about citizenship, race, and modernity in the United States. Vigil demonstrates how these figures deployed aspects of Native American cultural practice to authenticate their status both as indigenous peoples and as citizens of the United States.
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    Rochester, NY : University of Rochester Press | Cambridge, UK : Cambridge University Press
    ISBN: 9781580468879
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (xii, 219 pages)
    Series Statement: Rochester studies in african history and the diaspora
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    Keywords: Geschichtsschreibung ; Historiography ; Äthiopien ; Eritrea ; Ethiopia Historiography ; Eritrea Historiography ; Ethiopia Intellectual life ; Eritrea Intellectual life
    Abstract: Comprehensively surveys Ethiopia and Eritrea's rich and dynamic tradition of historical writing, from the ancient Aksumite era to the present day.
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    Krakow : Jagiellonian University Press | Cambridge, UK : Cambridge University Press
    ISBN: 9788323389811
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    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (308 pages)
    Edition: First edition.
    Series Statement: Byzantina et Slavica Cracoviensia 8
    DDC: 940.1
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    Keywords: Geschichte 400-1700 ; Kulturaustausch ; Byzantinisches Reich ; Ostmitteleuropa ; Aufsatzsammlung
    Abstract: This volume offers a collection of thirteen studies on the subject of intercultural contact and exchange in the medieval and early modern periods. The aim of the authors was to approach this phenomenon as broadly as possible, and the resulting volume is, therefore, a fusion of different approaches to a variety of historical sources and texts. Geographical areas that are often studied separately - including the Middle East, the Caucasus, the Latin West and Central Europe (especially Poland, Germany and Hungary) - are here presented together in order to allow for cross-period and cross-regional comparisons. The chronological scope is also unusually broad, beginning with Late Antiquity and encompassing both the Renaissance and its immediate aftermath.
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    Cambridge : Cambridge University Press | Cambridge, UK : Cambridge University Press
    ISBN: 9781139941617
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    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (ix, 262 pages)
    Series Statement: Cambridge studies in Romanticism 108
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    Abstract: Geography played a key role in Britain's long national debate over slavery. Writers on both sides of the question represented the sites of slavery - Africa, the Caribbean, and the British Isles - as fully imagined places and the basis for a pro- or anti-slavery political agenda. With the help of twenty-first-century theories of space and place, Elizabeth A. Bohls examines the writings of planters, slaves, soldiers, sailors, and travellers whose diverse geographical and social locations inflect their representations of slavery. She shows how these writers use discourses of aesthetics, natural history, cultural geography, and gendered domesticity to engage with the slavery debate. Six interlinked case studies, including Scottish mercenary John Stedman and domestic slave Mary Prince, examine the power of these discourses to represent the places of slavery, setting slaves' narratives in dialogue with pro-slavery texts, and highlighting in the latter previously unnoticed traces of the enslaved.
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    Cambridge : Cambridge University Press | Cambridge, UK : Cambridge University Press
    ISBN: 9781139629270
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    Keywords: Geschichte 1880-1914 ; Sexualverhalten ; Sexualethik ; Sozialer Wandel ; Politik ; Deutschland
    Abstract: This is a study of the intense, complex, and escalating debate over sexuality and sexual morality that roiled politics in Germany between 1880 and 1914. That debate was grounded in the rapid evolution and growing complexity of German society - the multiplication of cultural groupings, professional associations, and social movements; the emergence of new social groups, social milieus, and professions; the rapid development of the media and commercial entertainments; and so on. All parties involved understood it to be a debate over the most fundamental question of modern political life: how to secure both national power and individual freedom in the context of rapid social and cultural change.
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    Cambridge : Cambridge University Press | Cambridge, UK : Cambridge University Press
    ISBN: 9781139034999
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    Series Statement: New approaches to African history 8
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als Stilwell, Sean Slavery and slaving in African history
    DDC: 306.3/62096
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    Keywords: Geschichte ; Sklaverei ; Sklavenhandel ; Afrika
    Abstract: This book is a comprehensive history of slavery in Africa from the earliest times to the end of the twentieth century, when slavery in most parts of the continent ceased to exist. It connects the emergence and consolidation of slavery to specific historical forces both internal and external to the African continent. Sean Stilwell pays special attention to the development of settled agriculture, the invention of kinship, 'big men' and centralized states, the role of African economic production and exchange, the interaction of local structures of dependence with the external slave trades (transatlantic, trans-Saharan, Indian Ocean), and the impact of colonialism on slavery in the twentieth century. He also provides an introduction to the central debates that have shaped current understanding of slavery in Africa. The book examines different forms of slavery that developed over time in Africa and introduces readers to the lives, work, and struggles of slaves themselves.
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    Cambridge : Cambridge University Press | Cambridge, UK : Cambridge University Press
    ISBN: 9781107270121
    Language: English , English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (xxii, 256 pages)
    Uniform Title: Jeugd in het Romeinse Rijk.
    DDC: 937/.06083
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    Abstract: Modern society has a negative view of youth as a period of storm and stress, but at the same time cherishes the idea of eternal youth. How does this compare with ancient Roman society? Did a phase of youth exist there with its own characteristics? How was youth appreciated? This book studies the lives and the image of youngsters (around 15–25 years of age) in the Latin West and the Greek East in the Roman period. Boys and girls of all social classes come to the fore; their lives, public and private, are sketched with the help of a range of textual and documentary sources, while the authors also employ the results of recent neuropsychological research. The result is a highly readable and wide-ranging account of how the crucial transition between childhood and adulthood operated in the Roman world.
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    Cambridge : Cambridge University Press | Cambridge, UK : Cambridge University Press
    ISBN: 9781139061148
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (x, 266 pages)
    DDC: 973.7/415
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    Keywords: Geschichte 1861-1865 ; Sklaverei ; Befreiung ; Schwarze ; Emanzipation ; USA
    Abstract: For a century and a half, Abraham Lincoln's signing of the Emancipation Proclamation has been the dominant narrative of African American freedom in the Civil War era. However, David Williams suggests that this portrayal marginalizes the role that African American slaves played in freeing themselves. At the Civil War's outset, Lincoln made clear his intent was to save the Union rather than free slaves - despite his personal distaste for slavery, he claimed no authority to interfere with the institution. By the second year of the war, though, when the Union army was in desperate need of black support, former slaves who escaped to Union lines struck a bargain: they would fight for the Union only if they were granted their freedom. Williams importantly demonstrates that freedom was not simply the absence of slavery but rather a dynamic process enacted by self-emancipated African American refugees, which compelled Lincoln to modify his war aims and place black freedom at the center of his wartime policies.
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    ISBN: 9781139208444
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    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (xiii, 299 pages)
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    Keywords: Symposion
    Abstract: The symposion was a key cultural phenomenon in ancient Greece. This book investigates its place in ancient Greek society and thought by exploring the rhetorical dynamics of its representations in literature and art. Across genres, individual Greeks constructed visions of the party and its performances that offered persuasive understandings of the event and its participants. Sympotic representations thus communicated ideas which, set within broader cultural conversations, could possess a discursive edge. Hence, at the symposion, sympotic styles and identities might be promoted, critiqued and challenged. In the public imagination, the ethics of Greeks and foreigners might be interrogated and political attitudes intimated. Symposia might be suborned into historical narratives about struggles for power. And for philosophers, writing a Symposium was itself a rhetorical act. Investigating the symposion's discursive potential enhances understanding of how the Greeks experienced and conceptualized the symposion and demonstrates its contribution to the Greek thought world.
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    Cambridge : Cambridge University Press | Cambridge, UK : Cambridge University Press
    ISBN: 9781139567190
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (xvii, 249 pages)
    Series Statement: Cambridge studies in contentious politics
    DDC: 303.601/4
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    Abstract: This book examines the relations between the material and political bases of contentious politics and the construction, diffusion and endurance of contentious language. Beginning with the language of revolution developed from the seventeenth to the nineteenth centuries, it examines contentious language at work, in gender and race relations and in nationalist and ethnic movements. It closes with an examination of emotions in contentious politics, reflecting on the changes in political language since 9/11 and assessing the impact of religion and recent innovations in electronic communication on the language of politics.
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    ISBN: 9781280485367 , 1280485361 , 9781139222990
    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource (1 online resource (xii, 352 p.))
    Edition: Online-Ausg.
    Parallel Title: Druckausg. Griffin, Ben, 1976 - The politics of gender in Victorian Britain
    DDC: 305.420941
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    Keywords: Women's rights History ; Great Britain ; Masculinity History ; Great Britain ; Feminism History ; Great Britain ; Great Britain Politics and government ; 1837-1901 ; Electronic books ; Women's rights History ; Masculinity History ; Feminism History ; Großbritannien ; Geschichte ; Frauenemanzipierung ; Politik ; Great Britain Politics and government 1837-1901 ; Women's rights ; Great Britain ; History ; Masculinity ; Great Britain ; History ; Feminism ; Great Britain ; History ; Great Britain ; Politics and government ; 1837-1901 ; Großbritannien ; Politik ; Frauenemanzipation ; Geschichte 1837-1901
    Note: Includes bibliographical references (p.323-329) and index. - Description based on print version record
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    ISBN: 1139224719 , 1139057537 , 9781139224710 , 9781139057530
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (xii, 352 pages)
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als Griffin, Ben Politics of gender in Victorian Britain
    DDC: 305.420941
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    Keywords: Masculinity History ; Feminism History ; Women's rights History ; HISTORY ; Europe ; Great Britain ; SOCIAL SCIENCE ; Feminism & Feminist Theory ; Feminism ; Masculinity ; Politics and government ; Women's rights ; Frauenbewegung ; Politische Kultur ; Männlichkeit ; Politik ; historia ; Storbritannien ; 1800-talet ; viktorianska tiden ; Medborgarskap ; politisk aktivitet ; reformer ; Kvinnorörelsen ; feminism ; Manlighet ; Samhällsutveckling ; Manlighet ; historia ; Storbritannien ; Feminism ; historia ; Storbritannien ; History ; Great Britain Politics and government 1837-1901 ; Great Britain ; Storbritannien ; politik och förvaltning ; historia ; 1800-talet ; Großbritannien
    Abstract: "This groundbreaking history of Victorian politics, feminism and parliamentary reform challenges traditional assumptions about the development of British democracy and the struggle for women's rights and demonstrates how political activity has been shaped by changes in the history of masculinity. From the second half of the nineteenth century Britain's all-male parliament began to transform the legal position of women as it reformed laws that had upheld male authority for centuries. To explain these revolutionary changes, Ben Griffin looks beyond the actions of the women's movement alone and shows how the behaviour and ideologies of male politicians were fundamentally shaped by their gender. He argues that changes to women's rights were not simply the result of changing ideas about women but also changing beliefs about masculinity, religion and the nature of the constitution and, in doing so, demonstrates how gender inequality can be created and reproduced by the state"--
    Abstract: 'Feminism' and the history of women's rights -- The domestic ideology of Victorian patriarchy -- Class, liberalism and the erosion of Victorian domestic ideology -- Religious change and the transformation of domestic ideology -- The politics of paternity -- Performing masculinities in the House of Commons -- Classes, interests and parliamentary reform -- The instability of the 1867 settlement, the secret ballot and women's suffrage -- Redefining 'fitness': from the educated voter to household suffrage -- The road to democracy, 1885-1906 -- Conclusion.
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    Cambridge : Cambridge University Press | Cambridge, UK : Cambridge University Press
    ISBN: 9781139016872
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (xi, 392 pages)
    Series Statement: New approaches to European history 46
    DDC: 909/.09821082
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    Keywords: Geschichte 1890-2010 ; Europa ; USA
    Abstract: This is a fascinating new overview of European-American relations during the long twentieth century. Ranging from economics, culture and consumption to war, politics and diplomacy, Mary Nolan charts the rise of American influence in Eastern and Western Europe, its mid-twentieth century triumph and its gradual erosion since the 1970s. She reconstructs the circuits of exchange along which ideas, commodities, economic models, cultural products and people moved across the Atlantic, capturing the differing versions of modernity that emerged on both sides of the Atlantic and examining how these alternately produced co-operation, conflict and ambivalence toward the other. Attributing the rise and demise of American influence in Europe not only to economics but equally to wars, the book locates the roots of many transatlantic disagreements in very different experiences and memories of war. This is an unprecedented account of the American Century in Europe that recovers its full richness and complexity.
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    Cambridge : Cambridge University Press | Cambridge, UK : Cambridge University Press
    ISBN: 9781139135146
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (xv, 318 pages)
    DDC: 306.3/6209687
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    Keywords: Geschichte 1834 ; Sklavenhandel ; Abolitionismus ; Sozialer Wandel ; Kapprovinz
    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.
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    Cambridge : Cambridge University Press | Cambridge, UK : Cambridge University Press
    ISBN: 9781139104180
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (xvi, 541 pages)
    DDC: 909/.09821
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    Keywords: Völkischer Beobachter ; Geschichte ; Berichterstattung ; Kultur ; Propaganda ; Nationalsozialismus ; Deutschland ; Westliche Welt
    Abstract: Inhumanities is an unprecedented account of the ways Nazi Germany manipulated and mobilized European literature, philosophy, painting, sculpture and music in support of its ideological ends. David B. Dennis shows how, based on belief that the Third Reich represented the culmination of Western civilization, culture became a key propaganda tool in the regime's program of national renewal and its campaign against political, national and racial enemies. Focusing on the daily output of the Völkischer Beobachter, the party's official organ and the most widely circulating German newspaper of the day, he reveals how activists twisted history, biography and aesthetics to fit Nazism's authoritarian, militaristic and anti-Semitic world views. Ranging from National Socialist coverage of Germans such as Luther, Dürer, Goethe, Beethoven, Wagner and Nietzsche to 'great men of the Nordic West' such as Socrates, Leonardo and Michelangelo, Dennis reveals the true extent of the regime's ambitious attempt to reshape the 'German mind'.
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    Cambridge, UK : Cambridge University Press
    ISBN: 9780521691437 , 1283298287 , 9780521870962
    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource (viii, 230 p.) , ill
    Edition: Online-Ausg. 2011 Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
    Series Statement: New approaches to European history
    Parallel Title: Druckausg. Herzog, Dagmar, 1961 - Sexuality in Europe
    DDC: 306.7094/0904
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    Keywords: Sex History 20th century ; Sexualität ; Europa ; Geschichte, 20. Jh. ; Sexualgeschichte ; Sex ; Europe ; History ; 20th century ; Europa ; Sexualität ; Geschichte 1900-2000 ; Europa ; Sexualität ; Sexualverhalten ; Geschlechterverhältnis
    Abstract: Compelling new account of the tumultuous history of Europe's 'century of sex'
    Description / Table of Contents: Machine generated contents note: Introduction; 1. Reconceiving sexuality, 1900-1914; 2. State interventions, 1914-1945; 3. Cold War cultures, 1945-1965; 4. Pleasure and rebellion, 1965-1980; 5. Partnerships and practices, 1980-2010; Epilogue.
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    Cambridge : Cambridge University Press | Cambridge, UK : Cambridge University Press
    ISBN: 9780511976131
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (xii, 357 pages)
    Series Statement: Cambridge concise histories
    DDC: 972.9
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    Keywords: Geschichte ; Kolonialismus ; Karibik ; Kuba ; Haiti
    Abstract: A Concise History of the Caribbean presents a general history of the Caribbean islands from the beginning of human settlement about seven thousand years ago to the present. It narrates processes of early human migration, the disastrous consequences of European colonization, the development of slavery and the slave trade, the extraordinary profits earned by the plantation economy, the great revolution in Haiti, movements toward political independence, the Cuban Revolution, and the diaspora of Caribbean people. Written in a lively and accessible style yet current with the most recent research, the book provides a compelling narrative of Caribbean history essential for students and visitors.
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    Cambridge : Cambridge University Press | Cambridge, UK : Cambridge University Press
    ISBN: 9780511781841
    Language: English , English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource
    Edition: First English edition
    Uniform Title: Enzyklopädie Migration in Europa: vom 17. Jahrhundert bis zur Gegenwart
    DDC: 304.8094/03
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    Keywords: Geschichte ; Migration ; Einwanderung ; Auswanderung ; Nationale Minderheit ; Europa ; Wörterbuch ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Wörterbuch
    Abstract: Although migration and integration have become important concepts today as a result of globalization, migration movements, integration, and multiculturalism have always been part of the history of Europe. Few people realize how many ethnic groups participated in migration within Europe or into Europe and this ignorance has grave consequences for the social and political status of immigrants. Newly available to an English-speaking audience, this encyclopaedia presents a systematic overview of the existing scholarship regarding migration within and into Europe. The first section contains survey studies of the various regions and countries in Europe covering the last centuries. The second section presents information on about 220 individual groups of migrants from the Sephardic Jews emigration from Spain and Portugal in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries to the present-day migration of old-age pensioners to the holiday villages in the sun. The first resource of its kind, The Encyclopaedia of Migration and Minorities in Europe is a comprehensive and authoritative research tool.
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    Cambridge : Cambridge University Press | Cambridge, UK : Cambridge University Press
    ISBN: 9780511974168
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (vi, 248 pages)
    DDC: 322.4
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    Abstract: The non-violent protests of civil rights activists and anti-nuclear campaigners during the 1960s helped to redefine Western politics. But where did they come from? Sean Scalmer uncovers their history in an earlier generation's intense struggles to understand and emulate the activities of Mahatma Gandhi. He shows how Gandhi's non-violent protests were the subject of widespread discussion and debate in the USA and UK for several decades. Though at first misrepresented by Western newspapers, they were patiently described and clarified by a devoted group of cosmopolitan advocates. Small groups of Westerners experimented with Gandhian techniques in virtual anonymity and then, on the cusp of the 1960s, brought these methods to a wider audience. The swelling protests of later years increasingly abandoned the spirit of non-violence, and the central significance of Gandhi and his supporters has therefore been forgotten. This book recovers this tradition, charts its transformation, and ponders its abiding significance.
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    Cambridge : Cambridge University Press | Cambridge, UK : Cambridge University Press
    ISBN: 9780511840357
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (xv, 530 pages)
    DDC: 599.93/8
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    Keywords: Humanökologie ; Hominisation
    Abstract: We are destroying our natural environment at a constantly increasing pace, and in so doing undermining the preconditions of our own existence. Why is this so? This book reveals that our ecologically disruptive behaviour is in fact rooted in our very nature as a species. Drawing on evolution theory, biology, anthropology, archaeology, economics, environmental science and history, this book explains the ecological predicament of humankind by placing it in the context of the first scientific theory of our species' development, taking over where Darwin left off. The theory presented is applied in detail to the whole of our seven-million-year history. Due to its comprehensiveness, and in part thanks to its extensive glossary and index, this book can function as a compact encyclopædia covering the whole development of Homo sapiens. It would also suit a variety of courses in the life and social sciences. Most importantly, Too Smart for our Own Good makes evident the very core of the paradigm to which our species must shift if it is to survive. Anyone concerned about the future of humankind should read this groundbreaking work.
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    Cambridge : Cambridge University Press | Cambridge, UK : Cambridge University Press
    ISBN: 9780511781360
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (xii, 562 pages)
    DDC: 304.5
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    Keywords: Soziobiologie ; Sozialverhalten ; Evolution ; Ökologie ; Genetik
    Abstract: Humans live in large and extensive societies and spend much of their time interacting socially. Likewise, most other animals also interact socially. Social behaviour is of constant fascination to biologists and psychologists of many disciplines, from behavioural ecology to comparative biology and sociobiology. The two major approaches used to study social behaviour involve either the mechanism of behaviour - where it has come from and how it has evolved, or the function of the behaviour studied. With guest articles from leaders in the field, theoretical foundations along with recent advances are presented to give a truly multidisciplinary overview of social behaviour, for advanced undergraduate and graduate students. Topics include aggression, communication, group living, sexual behaviour and co-operative breeding. With examples ranging from bacteria to social mammals and humans, a variety of research tools are used, including candidate gene approaches, quantitative genetics, neuro-endocrine studies, cost-benefit and phylogenetic analyses and evolutionary game theory.
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    Cambridge : Cambridge University Press | Cambridge, UK : Cambridge University Press
    ISBN: 9780511778902
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (xx, 270 pages)
    DDC: 305.892/4040902
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    Keywords: Geschichte 1000-1500 ; Judentum ; Juden ; Europa
    Abstract: This book re-evaluates the prevailing notion that Jews in medieval Christian Europe lived under an appalling regime of ecclesiastical limitation, governmental exploitation and expropriation, and unceasing popular violence. Robert Chazan argues that, while Jewish life in medieval Western Christendom was indeed beset with grave difficulties, it was nevertheless an environment rich in opportunities; the Jews of medieval Europe overcame obstacles, grew in number, explored innovative economic options, and fashioned enduring new forms of Jewish living. His research also provides a reconsideration of the legacy of medieval Jewish life, which is often depicted as equally destructive and projected as the underpinning of the twentieth-century catastrophes of antisemitism and the Holocaust. Dr Chazan's research proves that, although Jewish life in the medieval West laid the foundation for much Jewish suffering in the post-medieval world, it also stimulated considerable Jewish ingenuity, which lies at the root of impressive Jewish successes in the modern West.
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    Cambridge, UK : Cambridge University Press
    ISBN: 0521875811 , 9780521875813
    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource (xxx, 481 p) , ill , 24 cm
    Edition: Online-Ausg. 2010 Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
    Parallel Title: Print version From Hellenism to Islam : Cultural and Linguistic Change in the Roman Near East
    DDC: 939/.405
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    Keywords: Writing History ; Inscriptions ; Middle East Religion ; Middle East Languages ; Middle East Civilization To 622 ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Konferenzschrift 29.06.2003-02.07.2003 ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Konferenzschrift 29.06.2003-02.07.2003 ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Konferenzschrift 29.06.2003-02.07.2003 ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Aufsatzsammlung
    Abstract: Considers how languages, peoples and cultures in the Near East interacted over the millennium between Alexander and Muhammad
    Description / Table of Contents: Cover; Half-title; Title; Copyright; Contents; Figures; Tables; Contributors; Preface; Abbreviations; Introduction: documentary evidence, social realities and the history of language; I The language of power: Latin in the Roman Near East; II Social and legal institutions as reflected in the documentary evidence; III The epigraphic language of religion; IV Linguistic metamorphoses and continuity of cultures; V Greek into Arabic; Index
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    Cambridge, UK : Cambridge University Press
    ISBN: 9780521844338 (hbk.) , 0521844339 (hbk.)
    Language: English
    Pages: XVI, 269 S. , Ill.
    Edition: 1. publ.
    Series Statement: New studies in European history
    DDC: 306.7420945632
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    Keywords: Geschichte 1600-1700 ; Geschichte 1500-1600 ; Geschichte 1565-1660 ; Geschichte 1500-1700 ; Prostitution / Italy / Rome / History / 16th century ; Prostitution / Italy / Rome / History / 17th century ; Prostitutes / Italy / Rome / Social conditions / 16th century ; Prostitutes / Italy / Rome / Social conditions / 17th century ; Geschichte ; Prostitutes Social conditions 16th century ; Prostitutes Social conditions 17th century ; Prostitution History 16th century ; Prostitution History 17th century ; Prostitution ; Italien ; Rom ; Rom ; Rom ; Prostitution ; Geschichte 1500-1700 ; Rom ; Prostitution ; Geschichte 1565-1660
    Note: Includes bibliographical references (p. 257-289) and index
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    Cambridge, UK : Cambridge University Press
    ISBN: 0521885396 , 9780521885393
    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource (x, 242 p)
    Edition: Online-Ausg. 2009 Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
    Additional Information: Rezensiert in McCarthy, Jeanne H. [Rezension von: Hunt, Alice, The Drama of Coronation: Medieval Ceremony in Early Modern England] 2010
    Parallel Title: Print version The Drama of Coronation : Medieval Ceremony in Early Modern England
    DDC: 394/.4
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    Keywords: Monarchy History 16th century ; Coronations History 16th century ; Great Britain Politics and government 1485-1603 ; Great Britain Kings and rulers ; Great Britain History Tudors, 1485-1603 ; Electronic books
    Abstract: Assesses the impact of the Reformation on the period's coronation ceremonies, and examines how they were described by contemporary observers
    Description / Table of Contents: Cover; Half-title; Title; Copyright; Contents; Preface; Note on style and dates; Abbreviations; Introduction: The 'idol' ceremony of coronation; Chapter 1 Why crown a king? Henry VIII and the medieval coronation; Chapter 2 'Come my love thou shalbe crowned': the drama of Anne Boleyn's coronation; Chapter 3 'But a ceremony': Edward VI's reformed coronation and John Bale's King Johan; Chapter 4 'He hath sent Marye our soveraigne and Quene': England's first queen and Respublica; Chapter 5 'A stage wherin was shewed the wonderfull spectacle': representing Elizabeth I's coronation
    Description / Table of Contents: 'Presume not that I am the thing I was'Notes; Bibliography; Index
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    Cambridge, UK : Cambridge University Press
    ISBN: 0511355637 , 9780511355639
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (xiii, 358 pages) , illustrations
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als Court and court society in ancient monarchies
    DDC: 395.5
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    Keywords: Courts and courtiers ; Kings and rulers, Ancient ; Monarchy ; REFERENCE ; Etiquette ; Courts and courtiers ; Kings and rulers, Ancient ; Monarchy ; Höfische Kultur ; Monarchie ; Hofcultuur ; Oudheid ; Kongress ; Newcastle-upon-Tyne (2004) ; Alte Welt ; Konferenzschrift 2004 ; Konferenzschrift 2004 ; Konferenzschrift 2004 ; Konferenzschrift ; Konferenzschrift
    Abstract: Monarchy was widespread as a political system in the ancient world. This volume offers a substantial discussion of ancient monarchies from the viewpoint of the ruler's court. The monarchies treated are Achaemenid and Sassanian Persia, the empire of Alexander, Rome under both the early and later Caesars, the Han rulers of China and Egypt's Eighteenth Dynasty. A comparative approach is adopted to major aspects of ancient courts, including their organisation and physical setting, their role as a vehicle for display, and their place in monarchial structures of power and control. This approach is broadly inspired by work on courts in later periods of history, especially early-modern France. The case studies confirm that ancient monarchies created the conditions for the emergence of a court and court society. The culturally specific conditions in which these monarchies functioned meant variety in the character of the ruler's court from one society to another
    Abstract: New out of old? Court and court ceremonies in Achaemenid Persia / Maria Brosius -- King, court and royal representation in the Sasanian empire / Josef Wiesehöfer -- The court of Alexander the Great between Europe and Asia / Tony Spawforth -- Friends in high places : the creation of the court of the Roman emperor / Jeremy Paterson -- The imperial court of the late Roman empire, c. AD 300-c. AD 450 / Rowland Smith -- The imperial court in Han China / Hans van Ess -- Court and palace in ancient Egypt : the Armana period and later eighteenth dynasty / Kate Spence.
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    Cambridge : Cambridge University Press | Cambridge, UK : Cambridge University Press
    ISBN: 9780511816505
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (xiv, 209 pages)
    Series Statement: Cambridge world archaeology
    DDC: 972.9/01
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    Keywords: Vor- und Frühgeschichte ; Geschichte Anfänge-1700 ; Geschichte 1400-1600 ; Karibik
    Abstract: A comprehensive synthesis of Caribbean prehistory from the earliest settlement by humans more than 4000 years BC, to the time of European conquest of the islands. The Caribbean was the last large area in the Americas to be populated, and its relative isolation allowed unique cultures to develop. Samuel Wilson reviews the evidence for migration and cultural change throughout the archipelago, dealing in particular with periods of cultural interaction when groups with different cultures and histories were in contact. He also examines the evolving relationship of the Caribbean people with their environment, as they developed increasingly productive economic systems over time, as well as the emergence of increasingly complex social and political systems, particularly in the Greater Antilles in the centuries before the European conquest. Wilson also provides a review of the history of Caribbean archaeology and the individual scholars and ideas that have shaped the field.
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    Cambridge : Cambridge University Press | Cambridge, UK : Cambridge University Press
    ISBN: 9780511489570
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (xvi, 282 pages)
    DDC: 641.5941
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    Keywords: Geschichte ; Ess- und Trinksitte ; Britannien
    Abstract: What were the eating and drinking habits of the inhabitants of Britain during the Roman period? Drawing on evidence from a large number of archaeological excavations, this fascinating study shows how varied these habits were in different regions and amongst different communities and challenges the idea that there was any one single way of being Roman or native. Integrating a range of archaeological sources, including pottery, metalwork and environmental evidence such as animal bone and seeds, this book illuminates eating and drinking choices, providing invaluable insights into how those communities regarded their world. The book contains sections on the nature of the different types of evidence used and how this can be analysed. It will be a useful guide to all archaeologists and those who wish to learn about the strength and weaknesses of this material and how best to use it.
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    ISBN: 9780511511769
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    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (xv, 519 pages)
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    Keywords: Katholische Kirche ; Geschichte 400-1600 ; Eheschließung ; Ehe ; Europa ; Aufsatzsammlung
    Abstract: This 2007 book analyzes how, why, and when pre-modern Europeans documented their marriages - through property deeds, marital settlements, dotal charters, church court depositions, wedding liturgies, and other indicia of marital consent. The authors consider both the function of documentation in the process of marrying and what the surviving documents say about pre-modern marriage and how people in the day understood it. Drawing on archival evidence from classical Rome, medieval France, England, Iceland, and Ireland, and Renaissance Florence, Douai, and Geneva, the volume provides a rich interdisciplinary analysis of the range of marital customs, laws, and practices in Western Christendom. The chapters include freshly translated specimen documents that bring the reader closer to the actual practice of marrying than the normative literature of pre-modern theology and canon law.
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    ISBN: 9780521842808 , 0521842808
    Language: English
    Pages: XXIV, 303 S. , Ill., Kt.
    Edition: 1. publ.
    Series Statement: Studies in North American Indian history
    DDC: 305.897348074494
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    Keywords: Sozialgeschichte 1600-1871 ; Wampanoag Indians Religion ; Wampanoag Indians Government relations ; Wampanoag Indians History ; Christianity and culture ; Wampanoag ; Martha's Vineyard (Mass.) History ; Martha's Vineyard (Mass.) Social life and customs ; Martha's Vineyard ; Martha's Vineyard ; Wampanoag ; Sozialgeschichte 1600-1871
    Description / Table of Contents: Preface: do good walls make good neighbors? -- Introduction: Epenow's lessons -- "Here comes the Englishman" -- To become all things to all men -- The Lord tests the righteous -- Deposing the sachem to defend the sachemship -- Leading values -- The costs of debt -- "Newcomers and strangers" -- Conclusion: fencing in, fencing out -- Appendix A, the population of Martha's Vineyard -- Appendix B, a cross-comparison of Indian race descriptions.
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    ISBN: 9781139055574
    Language: English
    Pages: xvi, 518 Seiten , Illustrationen
    Edition: First paperback edition
    Edition: Online-Ausgabe Cambridge Cambridge University Press March 2008 1 Online-Ressource
    Parallel Title: Elektronische Reproduktion von The Cambridge history of the Pacific Islanders
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    Keywords: Geschichte ; Ozeanier ; Ozeanien
    Abstract: This history presents an authoritative and comprehensive introduction to the experiences of Pacific islanders from their first settlement of the islands to the present day. It addresses the question of insularity and explores islanders' experiences thematically, covering such topics as early settlement, contact with Europeans, colonialism, politics, commerce, nuclear testing, tradition, ideology, and the role of women. It incorporates material on the Maori, the Irianese in western New Guinea, the settled immigrant communities in Fiji, New Caledonia and the Hawaiian monarchy and follows migrants to New Zealand, Australia and North America.
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    ISBN: 0511184980 , 0511185812 , 9780511184987 , 9780511185816
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    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (xiv, 322 pages) , illustrations
    Series Statement: Cambridge studies in population, economy, and society in past time 39
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als Ottaway, Susannah R., 1967- Decline of life
    DDC: 305.26/0944
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    Keywords: Alter ; Großbritannien ; Old age History 18th century ; Aging History 18th century ; Older people Social conditions 18th century ; Family Relations ; History, 18th Century ; SOCIAL SCIENCE ; Gerontology ; FAMILY & RELATIONSHIPS ; Aging ; Aging ; Old age ; Older people ; Social conditions ; Bejaarden ; Ouderdom ; Alter ; History ; Electronic books ; England ; Electronic book
    Abstract: This is an important new study of the history of ageing. Ottaway combines a comprehensive survey of existing literature with original interpretation and analysis of available data, using a wide variety of sources. Her lively and sophisticated analysis will be of great interest to scholars in British and social history
    Abstract: Who was "old" in eighteenth-century England? -- The activities of the "helmsman" : self-reliance, work, and community expectations of the elderly -- "The comforts of a private fire-side" -- Independent but not alone : family ties for the elderly -- Community assistance to the aged under the Old Poor Law -- Continuity and change in community assistance to the elderly over the eighteenth century -- Within workhouse walls : indoor relief for the elderly -- Conclusion : old age as a useful category of historical analysis.
    Note: Includes bibliographical references (pages 284-314) and index
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    ISBN: 0511214154 , 0511215940 , 0511817649 , 9780511214158 , 9780511215940 , 9780511817649
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (xx, 191 pages) , illustrations
    Series Statement: Cambridge studies in population, economy, and society in past time 38
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als Fogel, Robert William Escape from hunger and premature death, 1700-2100
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    Keywords: Food supply History ; Malnutrition History ; Medical care History ; Mortality History ; Life Expectancy trends ; Diet trends ; Mortality trends ; Socioeconomic Factors ; SOCIAL SCIENCE ; Demography ; Food supply ; Malnutrition ; Medical care ; Mortality ; Technischer Fortschritt ; Unterernährung ; Bevölkerungsentwicklung ; Ernährungspolitik ; Voeding ; Gezondheid ; Levensverwachting ; History ; Electronic books ; Electronic book
    Abstract: 1. The persistence of misery in Europe before 1900 -- 2. Why the twentieth century was so remarkable -- 3. Tragedies and miracles in the Third World -- 4. Prospects for the twenty-first century -- 5. Problems of equity in health care -- Postscript : how long can we live?
    Abstract: A compelling new study from Nobel laureate Robert Fogel, examining health, nutrition and technology over the last three centuries and beyond. It will be essential reading for all those interested in economics, demography, history and health care policy
    Note: Includes bibliographical references (pages 155-181) and index
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    ISBN: 0511039344 , 0511052359 , 0511490542 , 052133053X , 9780511039348 , 9780511052354 , 9780511490545 , 9780521330534
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (xv, 430 pages)
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    Keywords: National Association for the Promotion of Social Science / History ; National Association for the Promotion of Social Science (Great Britain) ; National Association for the Promotion of Social Science (Great Britain) History ; National Association for the Promotion of Social Science ; 1800 - 1901 ; Geschichte 1800-1900 ; Geschichte 1857-1886 ; SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural ; POLITICAL SCIENCE / Public Policy / Cultural Policy ; SOCIAL SCIENCE / Popular Culture ; Political science ; Social change ; Social change / Societies, etc ; Social history ; Social values ; Sociale politiek ; Sociale hervormingen ; Social Science Association ; Geschichte ; Politische Wissenschaft ; Sozialgeschichte ; Social change Societies, etc ; Social change History 19th century ; Social values History 19th century ; Großbritannien ; National Association for the Promotion of Social Science ; Geschichte 1857-1886
    Note: Includes bibliographical references (pages 389-419) and index , Goldman examines the origins of social policies in the mid-Victorian period. He focuses on the Social Science Association, famous for its influence over a wide range of social policies. Goldman sets the SSA in the context of its age, and explains its relevance to politics, social life and intellectual development
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    ISBN: 051105940X , 051106571X , 0511067844 , 0511116519 , 0521572169 , 0521572169 , 0521576563 , 9780511059407 , 9780511065712 , 9780511067846 , 9780511116513 , 9780521572163 , 9780521576567
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (vi, 110 pages)
    Series Statement: New studies in economic and social history
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    DDC: 306/.0942/09033
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    Keywords: 1700 - 1899 ; Geschichte 1780-1840 ; SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural ; POLITICAL SCIENCE / Public Policy / Cultural Policy ; SOCIAL SCIENCE / Popular Culture ; Demonstrations ; Economic history ; Social conflict ; Social history ; Protestacties ; Opstanden ; Oproeren ; Geschichte ; Sozialgeschichte ; Wirtschaft. Geschichte ; Demonstrations History ; Social conflict History ; Unruhen ; Politischer Protest ; Sozialer Konflikt ; Großbritannien ; Großbritannien ; Sozialer Konflikt ; Politischer Protest ; Geschichte 1780-1840 ; Großbritannien ; Unruhen ; Geschichte 1780-1840
    Note: Includes bibliographical references (pages 97-108) and index , Introduction: historiography, sources and methods -- Agricultural protest -- Food riots -- Industrial protest -- Political protest -- Policing protest -- A revolutionary challenge? , This textbook covers all forms of protest, including the Gordon Riots of 1780, food riots, Luddism, the radical political reform movement, anti-enclosure, anti-New Poor Law riots, and arson, up to the advent of Chartism in the 1830s. John E. Archer provides a concise and up-to-date introduction to this crucial topic
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    ISBN: 0521643228
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    Pages: Online-Ressource (viii, 336 p) , 24 cm
    Edition: Online-Ausg. 2009 Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
    Parallel Title: Print version Deception and Democracy in Classical Athens
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    Keywords: Deception ; Democracy ; Democracy ; Greece ; Athens ; Electronic books ; Hochschulschrift ; Hochschulschrift ; Electronic books. ; Electronic books. ; Electronic books ; Hochschulschrift ; Electronic books. ; Hochschulschrift ; Electronic books. ; Electronic books. ; Electronic books ; Hochschulschrift ; Hochschulschrift ; Hochschulschrift
    Abstract: A study of the ways in which classical Athenian texts represent and evaluate the morality of deception. It is particularly concerned with the way in which the telling of lies was a problem for the world's first democracy and compares this problem with the modern Western situation
    Description / Table of Contents: Cover; Half-title; Title; Copyright; Contents; Preface; Prologue; 1 Deception and the rhetoric of Athenian identity; 2 Deceiving the enemy: negotiation and anxiety; 3 Athens and the 'noble lie'; 4 The rhetoric of anti-rhetoric: Athenian oratory; 5 Thinking with the rhetoric of anti-rhetoric; Epilogue; Bibliography; Index locorum; Index
    Note: Includes bibliographical references (p. 299-320) and indexes , Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
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    ISBN: 9781139171120
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    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (xii, 117 pages)
    Series Statement: New studies in economic and social history 36
    DDC: 306.3/62/0975
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    Keywords: Geschichte 1790-1860 ; Gesellschaft ; Wirtschaft ; Sklaverei ; USA Südstaaten
    Abstract: Even while slavery existed, Americans debated slavery. Was it a profitable and healthy institution? If so, for whom? The abolition of slavery in 1865 did not end this debate. Similar questions concerning the profitability of slavery, its impact on masters, slaves, and nonslaveowners still inform modern historical debates. Is the slave South best characterized as a capitalist society? Or did its dogged adherence to non-wage labor render it precapitalist? Today, southern slavery is among the most hotly disputed topics in writing on American history. With the use of illustrative material and a critical bibliography, Dr Smith outlines the main contours of this complex debate, summarizes the contending viewpoints, and at the same time weighs up the relative importance, strengths and weaknesses of the various competing interpretations. This book introduces an important topic in American history in a manner which is accessible to students and undergraduates taking courses in American history.
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    Cambridge, UK : Cambridge University Press
    ISBN: 0521645514 , 9780521645515
    Language: English
    Pages: 176 p , ill. (some col.), maps , 24 cm
    DDC: 709.8
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    Keywords: Indian art ; Indians Antiquities ; Kunst ; Latin America Antiquities
    Description / Table of Contents: Mesoamerica: man in time -- An alternative path in Mesoamerican art -- Eclectic synthesis -- The Andes: cosmic order in space -- An alternative path in Andean art -- The disappearance of the image.
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    ISBN: 9780511660344
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    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (xxii, 657 pages)
    Series Statement: Cambridge studies in population, economy, and society in past time 32
    DDC: 304.6/0942
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    Keywords: Geschichte 1580-1837 ; Bevölkerung ; England
    Abstract: English Population History from Family Reconstitution 1580–1837 is the most important single contribution to English historical demography since Wrigley and Schofield's Population History of England. It represents the culmination of work carried out at the Cambridge Group for the History of Population and Social Structure over the past quarter-century. This work demonstrates the value of the technique of family reconstitution as a means of obtaining accurate and detailed information about fertility, morality, and nuptiality in the past. Indeed, more is now known about many aspects of English demography in the parish register period than about the post-1837 period when the Registrar-General collected and published information. Using data from 26 parishes, the authors show clearly that their results are representative not only of the demographic situation of the parishes from which the data were drawn, but also of the country as a whole. Some very surprising features of the behaviour of past populations are brought to light for the first time.
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    ISBN: 9780511600456
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (xiv, 241 pages)
    Series Statement: Cambridge studies in biological and evolutionary anthropology 15
    DDC: 573
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    Keywords: Genetische Variabilität ; Mensch ; Plastizität ; Humanbiologie ; Aufsatzsammlung
    Abstract: Plasticity refers to the ability of many organisms to change their biology or behaviour to respond to changes in the environment, particularly when these are stressful. Humans are, perhaps, the most plastic of all species, and hence the most variable. This book reflects on the history of research in this area, state-of-the-art research methods and discoveries and needs for future research in human plasticity and variability. Topics discussed include child growth, starvation, disease of both young and old and the effects of migration, modernisation and other life-style changes. The book will be especially useful to biological anthropologists, human biologists and medical scientists interested in knowing more about how and why humans vary.
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    ISBN: 9780511584756
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    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (xvi, 278 pages)
    Series Statement: African studies 87
    DDC: 790/.01/35/096724
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    Abstract: In this book, Phyllis Martin, a well-known Africanist scholar, opens up a whole new field of African research: the leisure activities of urban Africans. Her comprehensive study, set in colonial Brazzaville and based on a wide variety of written sources and interviews, investigates recreational activities from football and fashion to music, dance and night life. In it, she brings out the ways in which these activities built social networks, humanised daily life and forged new identities, and explains how they ultimately helped to remake older traditions and values with new cultural forms.
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    ISBN: 9780511562761
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    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (xiii, 314 pages)
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    Keywords: Geschichte 1770-1968 ; Jugendbewegung ; Jugendprotest ; Generationskonflikt ; Deutschland
    Abstract: This is an English-language collection of essays on modern German history with a generational theme, first published in 1995. It addresses, first, the extraordinary power and persistence of a German tradition of youthful rebellion extending from the Sturm und Drang in the eighteenth century to the student revolts of 1968 and, second, the impact of the dramatic ruptures and discontinuities in modern German history on the formation and interaction of successive historical cohorts. Using a variety of different approaches, including literacy and oral history, the collection pays particular attention to the way generational identities interacted with those of class and gender. The book adds to our understanding of generations, of the balance between continuity and discontinuity in modern German history, of the generational roots of National Socialism and the Hitler Youth generation's impact on East and West German society.
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    ISBN: 9780511521348
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    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (xii, 306 pages)
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    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.
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    ISBN: 9780511600500
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    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (xiii, 213 pages)
    Series Statement: Cambridge studies in biological and evolutionary anthropology 14
    DDC: 573/.6
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    Keywords: Methode ; Anthropometrie ; Wachstum ; Mensch
    Abstract: Anthropometry is the measurement of human morphology, and is used in a wide range of applied and research contexts. In this volume, distinguished contributors including anthropologists, human biologists, physiologists, nutritionists and clinical scientists describe many of the ways in which anthropometry is used, and discuss problems associated with different methods of assessment. Topics include the measurement of growth asymmetry and variability in adult body size, measurement error and statistical issues in anthropometry and the construction and use of growth charts in growth monitoring. The use of anthropometry in assessments of body composition, physical performance and fitness is also discussed. The book will be of interest to graduates and researchers in human biology, anthropology and nutrition. It will also be useful to workers in sports medicine, ergonomics, orthopaedics and paediatrics.
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    ISBN: 9780511529177
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    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (xv, 213 pages)
    Series Statement: African studies 74
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    Keywords: Geschichte Anfänge-1895 ; Soziales System ; Kanyoka
    Abstract: In this study John Yoder chronicles the history of the Kanyok, a people from the southern savanna of Zaire, from before 1500 until their incorporation into the Congo Free State in the 1890s. By analysing their oral histories, myths, and legends, he describes the political and cultural development of a people who, before 1891, had no written records. Yoder sets his work firmly within the larger context of the southern savanna by extending his investigations to the traditions of neighbouring peoples, in particular to the Luba and the Lunda, whose empires once dominated the region. In this way he demonstrates how the same stories and ideas circulated over a vast area but were continually adapted to local circumstances. Yoder's history of the Kanyok of Zaire thereby forms the nucleus for a broader and more composite understanding of the entire region.
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    ISBN: 9780511753343
    Language: English , English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (xi, 352 pages)
    Series Statement: Past and present publications
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    Keywords: Geschichte 500-1500 ; Sklaverei ; Iberische Halbinsel
    Abstract: This book is first and foremost an extended examination and discussion of the enslavement of men and women by others of their society and in particular of the means and causes of the gradual end of slavery in early medieval Europe between 500 and 1200. Drawing upon a very wide range of primary and archival sources, Professor Bonnassie places fresh findings about subjection, servitude and lordship in relation to the prevailing understanding of social history which has developed since the work of Marc Bloch. The author explains how slavery long persisted in southern France and Spain, as part of a public order that also sheltered free peasants, giving way in the tenth and eleventh centuries to a new regime of harsh lordships that mark the beginnings of feudalism. He shows that feudalism in south-western Europe was no less significant than in northern European lands.
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    ISBN: 9780511629105
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    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (xii, 397 pages)
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    Keywords: Anthropometrie ; Wachstum ; Mensch
    Abstract: The health of a population is most accurately reflected in the rate of growth of its children. It is this theme which underlies the analysis and presentation of what is by far the largest compilation of growth data ever assembled. The first edition, published in 1976, included all known reliable recent results on height, weight, skinfolds and other body measurements from all parts of the globe. In this edition, the very numerous measurements taken between 1976 and 1988 have been included as well as the results of the large number of new studies made on rate of maturation as evinced by bone age and pubertal development stages. Many sections of the book dwell on disentangling the effects of the environment and heredity on growth, and thus answer the question of whether one universal standard suffices for all peoples of the world, or whether different populations (such as races or nations) should each have their own optimal growth standards. Written by practical people with experience of the problems in developing countries, this book explains in simple terms the different sorts of growth surveys, how to set about making them, and which sort to choose. All who are professionally concerned with child health should read it.
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    ISBN: 9780511523564
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    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (viii, 207 pages)
    Series Statement: Studies in modern capitalism
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    Keywords: Geschichte 1600-1800 ; Arbeit ; Familie ; Frankreich ; Italien
    Abstract: Research on historical processes such as commercialisation traditionally concentrated on the motors of change and measurement of their impact, and considered the labouring classes as the passive objects of such changes. Developments in the social sciences in recent years have stimulated a new reading of the historical sources in terms of the social relations and strategies of families in interpreting and adapting to their own use institutional settings and economic resources. The essays presented in this 1991 book explore the relationship between the historical experiences of social relations and the demands and opportunities offered by the economy in early modern Europe through a focus on the strategies of labouring families. Critical discussion of the historian's use of sources characterises the essays, which provide case-studies of social groups in north-central Italy and the French Alps. They relate to three specific themes: the exploitation of non-agricultural resources in the countryside, urban guilds and charitable provision.
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    ISBN: 9780511598692
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (xii, 240 pages)
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    Keywords: Geschichte ; Außenpolitik ; Großbritannien ; Lateinamerika
    Abstract: British relations with Latin America have declined dramatically. The strength of British influence in Latin America in the nineteenth century could not be sustained as a consequence of the two world wars, the intervening depression and the emergence of the United States of America as the major power in the region. Since 1945, despite opportunities to re-establish its presence, Britain has seen a further decline in its relations with Latin America, and the consequences of neglect were brought home in spectacular fashion by the war between Britain and Argentina in 1982. Britain and Latin America: A Changing Relationship studies the reasons for this decline, examines the sources of friction and explores the prospect of strengthening relations in the 1990s.
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    Cambridge : Cambridge University Press | Cambridge, UK : Cambridge University Press
    ISBN: 9780511897801
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (viii, 263 pages)
    Series Statement: Cambridge studies in biological and evolutionary anthropology 2
    DDC: 304.8
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    Keywords: Migration ; Humanbiologie ; Migrationssoziologie
    Abstract: In past years considerable interest has been focused on migration as an important cause of change in the genetic and demographic structure of human populations. This book synthesises the biological consequences of changes environments on the migrants and the genetic impact of immigration on the host populations. Patterns of migration, past and present and genetic, epidemological and demographic consequences are considered, forming a unique synthesis for human biologists in general. Individual chapters deal with the peopling of the continents, migration in the recent past, the effects of gene flow and rural to urban migration. In addition, a detailed analysis of the relationship between migration, adaptation and disease is presented. Advanced students and research workers in a wide variety of disciplines, including population genetics, demography, anthropology and social geography will find this book particularly valuable in relating their own special interests to other biological aspects of human migration.
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    Cambridge : Cambridge University Press | Cambridge, UK : Cambridge University Press
    ISBN: 9780511523403
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (xxv, 587 pages)
    Series Statement: Cambridge studies in population, economy, and society in past time 6
    DDC: 304.6/0943
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    Keywords: Bevölkerungsstruktur ; Waldeck-Höringhausen ; Bad Arolsen- Massenhausen ; Diemelsee-Vasbeck
    Abstract: This book provides a detailed examination of the demographic behavior of families during the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries in a sample of fourteen villages in five different regions of Germany. It is based on the reconstituted family histories of vital events (births, deaths and marriages) compiled by genealogies for the entire populations of these villages. The book applies the type of micro-level analysis possible with family reconstitution data for the crucial period leading to and encompassing the early stages of the demographic transition, including the initial onset of the decline of fertility to low modern levels. The analysis explores many aspects of demographic behavior which have been largely ignored by previous macro-level investigations of the demographic transition. These include infant and child mortality, maternal mortality, marriage, marital dissolution, bridal pregnancy and illegitimacy. The core of the study, however, deals with marital reproduction, examining the modernization of reproductive behavior in terms of the transition from a situation of natural fertility to one characterized by pervasive family limitation.
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    Cambridge : Cambridge University Press | Cambridge, UK : Cambridge University Press
    ISBN: 9780511752407
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (xiv, 376 pages)
    DDC: 304.2/7
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    Keywords: Humanethologie
    Abstract: Biology and Freedom, first published in 1989, is an essay on human nature: an attempt to make a just assessment of a species often presented as predominantly and unavoidably violent, grasping, selfish and stupid. Likening human beings to animals is a traditional method of influencing attitudes on morals and politics. But in this book Professor Barnett shows that modern ethology, experimental psychology, genetics and evolutionary theory give the now fashionable misanthropy no authentic support. In doing so he asks whether the theory of evolution has any bearing on Machiavellianism in politics or the concept of original sin; and whether laboratory experiments on the effects of reward and punishment tell us anything about the enigma of free will. Combining the findings of biology with logic and humour, Professor Barnett gives a lucid alternative portrait of humanity in which he stresses the questions that the complexities of human existence will raise long after current myths have faded. This book is for all interested in human nature and the future of human society.
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    Cambridge : Cambridge University Press | Cambridge, UK : Cambridge University Press
    ISBN: 9780511528859
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (x, 256 pages)
    DDC: 331.4/877/02822094425
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    Keywords: Geschichte 1750-1850 ; Sozialgeschichte 1750-1850 ; Frau ; Textilindustrie ; Weberei ; Arbeiter ; Ländlicher Raum ; Auffay ; Frankreich
    Abstract: The cottage industry of France enjoyed enormous growth from the mid-eighteenth to the mid-nineteenth century. Through an intensive analysis of the social and economic impact of the expansion of this female-dominated industry, Gay Gullickson broadens our understanding of the variety and complexity of proto-industrial regions and of the proto-industrial processes. Focusing on the village of Auffay, located in the pays de Caux, a thriving agricultural region, Gullickson recreates the experiences of the women and men who spun and wove for the urban putting-out merchants. Social analysis of local memoirs, government reports, notarial and judicial records, and village cahiers de doléances, enables Gullickson to offer a more nuanced and accurate view of the causes and consequences of the expansion of the cottage textile industry in the pre-factory era. Her 1987 study is further enhanced by a quantitative analysis based primarily on the reconstitution of the families of the 727 couples who married in Auffay between 1750 and 1850.
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    Cambridge : Cambridge University Press | Cambridge, UK : Cambridge University Press
    ISBN: 9780511896774
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (ix, 229 pages)
    DDC: 338.0941
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    Keywords: Geschichte 1750-1830 ; Sozialgeschichte 1700-1800 ; Industrielle Revolution ; Unternehmer ; Großbritannien
    Abstract: The 'first industrialists' were the pioneers and leaders of the British Industrial Revolution, the men who founded factories and other large establishments, which were typical of the new economic system. They had a number of precursors since the sixteenth century, but, on the whole, they were a new breed, which emerged in the late eighteenth century. They were markedly different from the leaders of traditional industry. This book is focused on the social and occupational origins of those founders of modem British industry: what kind of families did they come from? What was their occupation before they set up as industrialists? In discussing these and other issues, this study (based on Professor Crouzet's 1983 Ellen McArthur Lectures) makes an important contribution to the problem of social mobility during the Industrial Revolution.
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    Cambridge : Cambridge University Press | Cambridge, UK : Cambridge University Press
    ISBN: 9780511529672
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (ix, 415 pages)
    DDC: 509/.44
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    Keywords: Geschichte 1860-1939 ; Naturwissenschaften ; Frankreich
    Abstract: France has played a pivotal role in the development of modern science. Especially striking and controversial has been the way in which the state has organized scientific endeavor. After the 1880s reinvigorated university faculties played a key role in the growth of science in France, and many faculty scientists enjoyed close relations with industry, agriculture, the military, and politics. During the Third Republic the idea of governmental responsibility to support research became a dogma, due to the stimulus that science was perceived to give to the French economy. By 1939 a working mechanism of state funding for science, buttressed by a complex scientific ideology, had come into existence and provided the foundations for the development of a new structure of scientific research and education in the postwar era. From Knowledge to Power is the first full-scale treatment of this dramatic expansion of French science between 1860 and 1939.
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    Cambridge : Cambridge University Press | Cambridge, UK : Cambridge University Press
    ISBN: 9780511607998
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (x, 193 pages)
    DDC: 305.5/223/0941
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    Abstract: Since the work of Butterfield and Namier in the 1930s, it has commonly been said that eighteenth-century England appears atomised, left with no overall interpretation. Subsequent work on religious differences and on party strife served to reinforce the image of a divided society, and in the last ten years historians of the poor and unprivileged have suggested that beneath the surface lurked substantial popular discontent. Professor Cannon uses his 1982 Wiles Lecture to offer a different interpretation - that the widespread acceptance of aristocratic values and aristocratic leadership gave a remarkable intellectual, political and social coherence to the century. He traces the recovery made by the aristocracy from its decade in 1649 when the House of Lords was abolished as useless and dangerous. After the Glorious Revolution of 1688, the peerage re-established its hold on government and society. Professor Cannon is forced to challenge some of the most cherished beliefs of English historiography - that Hanoverian society, at its top level, was an open elite, continually replenished by vigorous recruits from other groups and classes. He suggests that, on the contrary, in some respects the English peerage was more exclusive than many of its continental counterparts and that the openness was a myth which itself served a potent political purpose. Of the prospering burgeoisie, he argues that the remarkable thing was not their assertiveness but their long acquiescence in patrician rule, and he poses the paradox of a country increasingly dominated by a landed aristocracy giving birth to the first industrial revolution. His final chapter discusses the ideological under-pinning which made aristocratic supremacy acceptable for so long, and the emergence of those forces and ideals which were ultimately to replace it.
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    Cambridge : Cambridge University Press | Cambridge, UK : Cambridge University Press
    ISBN: 9780511562822
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (ix, 344 pages)
    Series Statement: Past and present publications
    DDC: 610/.9/034
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    Keywords: Geschichte 1840-1940 ; Medizin ; Biologie
    Abstract: During the period 1840–1940 biology and medicine were transformed, and took on major implications for social amelioration and population growth. New biological disciplines such as genetics and psychology consciously used scientific explanation to redefine the life of the individual. This volume originates from a Past and Present conference on 'The Roots of Sociobiology' held in 1978 and incorporates the results of recent research on problems in the social relations of the biological sciences. The authors describe different historical aspects of the interrelationship of technical experience and social policy in the fields of health, education and social welfare. Insight is provided into contemporary debates on physical and racial deterioration, the sources and distribution of intelligence, the application of evolutionary biology to social and political theory, and the analysis of human societies. The authors raise issues of topical interest, such as the emergence and influence of eugenics, the origin and impact of intelligence testing, the relationship between eugenics, genetics and evolutionary theory, and the causes of the twentieth-century reduction in infant and maternal mortality. The area of coverage is Britain, America and Germany. The introduction provides a review of recent research on the social relations of biology and medicine.
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    Cambridge : Cambridge University Press | Cambridge, UK : Cambridge University Press
    ISBN: 9780511702617
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource
    Edition: Online-Ausgabe 2011
    Series Statement: Cambridge library collection. History
    DDC: 305.896333
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    Keywords: Geschichte ; Yoruba ; Yoruba (African people) History ; Yoruba (African people) Civilization ; Yoruba (African people) Social life and customs ; Yoruba language
    Abstract: Samuel Johnson was an Anglican minister & historian renowned for his magisterial history of the Yoruba people. Born in Freetown in Sierra Leone & educated by the Church Missionary Society, Johnson was sent with his family to Idaban in Nigeria in 1857. He was ordained in 1880 & by 1897 had finished the manuscript for The History of the Yorubas. However the original publisher mysteriously misplaced the manuscript. After Johnson's death his brother, Dr Obadiah Johnson, recompiled the text from Samuel's notes. This volume, first published in 1921, contains that reconstructed edition. This pioneering volume brought together various oral & recorded accounts of Yoruba history, describing not only political history but also social customs, language & laws. Although recent analysis of the text has revealed some inaccuracies, this volume remains the standard reference for the history of the Yoruba people.
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