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The history manifesto
How should historians speak truth to power – and why does it matter? Why is five hundred years better than five months or five years as a planning horizon? And why is history – especially long-term history – so essential to understanding the multiple pasts which gave rise to our conflicted present? The History Manifesto is a call to arms to historians and everyone interested in the role o…
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- 9781139923880
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- ix, 165 p. : ill
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- 901 GUL t
Living for the city : social change and knowledge production in the Central A…
Living for the City is a social history of the Central African Copperbelt, considered as a single region encompassing the neighbouring mining regions of Zambia and the Democratic Republic of Congo. The Haut Katanga and Zambian Copperbelt mine towns have been understood as the vanguard of urban 'modernity' in Africa. Observers found in these towns new African communities that were experiencing w…
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- 9781108973120
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- xiii, 380 p. : ill
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- 967 LAR l
Re-imagining Japan after Fukushima
"The 2011 Tōhoku earthquake, tsunami and Fukushima nuclear disaster (collectively referred to as ‘3.11’, the date of the earthquake), had a lasting impact on Japan’s identity and global image. In its immediate aftermath, mainstream media presented the country as a disciplined, resilient and composed nation, united in the face of a natural disaster. However, 3.11 also drew worldwide atten…
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- 9781760463540
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- ix, 163 p.
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- 952.04 MIH r
Discourses, dialogue and diversity in biographical research : an ecology of l…
This book explores how narratives are deeply embodied, engaging heart, soul, as well as mind, through varying adult learner perspectives. Biographical research is not an isolated, individual, solipsistic endeavor but shaped by larger ecological interactions – in families, schools, universities, communities, societies, and networks – that can create or destroy hope. Telling or listening to l…
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- 9789004465916
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- x, 226 p
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- 920.0072 BAI d
Cultural perspectives on aging : a different approach to old age and aging
The societal significance of old age and ageing are increasing due to demographic developments. Age(ing) is not only a biological and social fact, but also a cultural one. This book reveals the importance of cultural factors in order to build a framework for analyzing and understanding cultural constructions of ageing, bringing together scholarly discourses from the arts and humanities as well …
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- 3
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- 9783110683042
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- 172 p. : ill.
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- 900 HUL c
The idea of Europe: enlightenment perspectives
In view of the challenges—many of which are political—that different European countries are currently facing, scholars who work on the eighteenth century have compiled this anthology which includes earlier recognitions of common values and past considerations of questions which often remain pertinent nowadays. During the Enlightenment, many men and women of letters envisaged the continent…
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- 9781783743803
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- 163 p. : ill. : ind. ; 24 cm
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- 940.2 IDE i
Archaeological 3d GIS
Archaeological 3D GIS provides archaeologists with a guide to explore and understand the unprecedented opportunities for collecting, visualising, and analysing archaeological datasets in three dimensions. With platforms allowing archaeologists to link, query, and analyse in a virtual, georeferenced space information collected by different specialists, the book highlights how it is possible to r…
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- 9781003034131
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- XXI, 154 p.
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- 930.1028 DEL a
The Mongols and the Armenians (1220-1335)
In the thirteenth century, the Armenians of Greater Armenia and of the Armenian Kingdom in Cilicia were invaded by Mongol nomads of the Inner Asian steppe. The ensuing Mongol-Armenian relations were varied. The Greater Armenians became subjects of the Mongol Empire, whereas the Cilician Armenians, by entering into vassalage, became allies and furthered the Mongol conquests. In order to enhance …
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- 9789004186354
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- xiii, 267 p. : ill
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- 956.62014 DAS t
Tyneside neighbourhoods : deprivation, social life and social behaviour in on…
Nettle’s book presents the results of five years of comparative ethnographic fieldwork in two different neighbourhoods of the same British city, Newcastle upon Tyne. The neighbourhoods are only a few kilometres apart, yet whilst one is relatively affluent, the other is amongst the most economically deprived in the UK. Tyneside Neighbourhoods uses multiple research methods to explore social re…
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- 9781783741908
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- 148 p. ; ill
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- 942.876 NET t
A fleet street in every town: the provincial press in England, 1855-1900
At the heart of Victorian culture was the local weekly newspaper. More popular than books, more widely read than the London papers, the local press was a national phenomenon. This book redraws the Victorian cultural map, shifting our focus away from one centre, London, and towards the many centres of the provinces. It offers a new paradigm in which place, and a sense of place, are vital to the …
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- 9781783745616
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- 455 p. : ill. : ind. ; 24 cm
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- 941.081 HOB a
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