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Tolerance : the beacon of the enlightenment
This is a century of political and cultural imperialism, of wars about borders and control of resources, of world-wide trade and profit based on worldwide exploitation. It is also a century of revolution, and of fierce debate about rights and laws, about the right to follow a religion or to reject it, about policing and its limits. It is a century of violence, and it provokes violent reactions.…
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- 9781783742073
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- 130 p.
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- 944.034.
Sweden, Japan, and the long Second World War : 1931-1945
We thank Ekman & Co AB and Gadelius Holding Ltd for their kind and generous support, making this research available online for free. Lottaz and Ottosson explore the intricate relationship between neutral Sweden and Imperial Japan during the latter’s 15 years of warfare in Asia and in the Pacific. While Sweden’s relationship with European Axis powers took place under the premise of existenti…
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- 9781003182061
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- xiv, 235 p. : ill
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- 940.53254850952 LOT s
Holocaust Education : Contemporary challenges and controversies
Teaching and learning about the Holocaust is central to school curriculums in many parts of the world. As a field for discourse and a body of practice, it is rich, multidimensional and innovative. But the history of the Holocaust is complex and challenging, and can render teaching it a complex and daunting area of work. Drawing on landmark research into teaching practices and students’ knowle…
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- 9781787355699
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- 234p. ; ill.
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- 940.5318071 STU h
Spain, China and Japan in Manila, 1571-1644 : local comparisons and global co…
This book offers a new perspective on the connected histories of Spain, China, and Japan as they emerged and developed following Manila’s foundation as the capital of the Spanish Philippines in 1571. Examining a wealth of multilingual primary sources, Birgit Tremml-Werner shows that crosscultural encounters not only shaped Manila’s development as a “Eurasian” port city, but also had pro…
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- 9789048526819
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- viii, 365 p.
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- 959.91602 TRE s
A people passing rude: British responses to Russian culture
Described by the sixteenth-century English poet George Turbervile as "a people passing rude, to vices vile inclin’d", the Russians waited some three centuries before their subsequent cultural achievements—in music, art and particularly literature—achieved widespread recognition in Britain. The essays in this stimulating collection attest to the scope and variety of Russia’s influence…
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- 9781909254121
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- xvi, 331 p.: illustrations
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- 947.084 CRO a
Imperial genus : the formation and limits of the human in modern Korea and Japan
"Imperial Genus begins with the turn to world culture and ideas of the generally human in Japan’s cultural policy in Korea in 1919. How were concepts of the human’s genus‑being operative in the discourses of the Japanese empire? How did they inform the imagination and representation of modernity in colonial Korea? Travis Workman delves into these questions through texts in philosophy, lit…
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- 9780520964198
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- vii, 307 p. : ill,
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- 951.903 WOR i
Mary Warnock : ethics, education and public policy in post-war Britain
This biography illuminates the life and thought of Baroness Mary Warnock, whose active years spanned the second half of the twentieth century, a period during which opportunities for middle-class women rapidly and vastly improved. Warnock was described as ‘probably the most celebrated philosopher in Britain.’ She began her career as an Oxford University philosophy don and went on to beco…
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- 9781800643406
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- viii, 350 p
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- 941.082092 GRA m
Civilian specialists at war : Britain's transport experts and the First World…
The war of 1914–18 was the first great conflict to be fought between highly industrial societies able to manufacture and transport immense quantities of goods to the field of battle. In Civilian Specialists at War, Christopher Phillips examines the manner in which Britain’s industrial society influenced the character and conduct of industrial warfare. This book analyses the multiple connect…
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- 9781909646926
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- xviii, 424p. : ill.
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- 940.421 PHI c
Postcolonial Netherlands : sixty-five years of forgetting, commemorating, sil…
The Netherlands is home to one million citizens with roots in the former colonies Indonesia, Suriname and the Antilles. Entitlement to Dutch citizenship, pre-migration acculturation in Dutch language and culture as well as a strong rhetorical argument (‘We are here because you were there’) were strong assets of the first generation. This ‘postcolonial bonus’ indeed facilitated their int…
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- 9789048514021
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- 290p.: ill.
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- 940.5 OOS p
Kearifan lokal epigrafi islam masa majapahit pada makam nisan Troloyo
atu kearifan lokal yang saat ini mulai meredup di kalangan bangsa kita adalah kemampuan untuk menyeleksi, memfilter, dan menerima segala macam bentuk perbedaan. Di tengah gempuran arus globalisasi yang menghantam kita dari segala sisi kehidupan membuat kita tak berkutik dan cenderung menerima begitu saja budaya asing yang datang. Kondisi ini seakan menyiratkan kealpaan bahwa kita sejatinya a…
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- 9786024962036
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- xviii, 121 hlm.; 121 cm
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- 929.5 MAS k
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