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Defying the IRA?: intimidation, coercion, and communities during the Irish Re…
This book examines the grass-roots relationship between the Irish Republican Army (IRA) and the civilian population during the Irish Revolution. It is primarily concerned with the attempts of the militant revolutionaries to discourage, stifle, and punish dissent among the local populations in which they operated, and the actions or inactions by which dissent was expressed or implied. Focusing o…
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- 9781781383544
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- xi, 230p.: 24 cm.
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- Reappraisals in Irish history
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- 941.50821 HUG d
'Me write myself': the free aboriginal inhabitants of Van Diemen's Land at Wy…
Exiles, lost souls, remnants of a dying race ... The fate of the First Nations peoples of Van Diemens Land is one of the most infamous chapters in Australian history. The men, women and children exiled to Flinders Island in the 1830s and 40s have often been written about, but never allowed to speak for themselves. This book aims to change that. Documents penned by the exiles during their 15 yea…
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- 9781925523867
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- xliv, 356 pages : ill, maps ; 20 cm
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- 994.60049915 STE m
Excavations at Paithan, Maharashtra : transformations in early historic and e…
This book reports on excavations at Paithan in India revealed the development of two early Hindu temples from the 4th century to the 9th: the key formative phase of Hinduism. The temples started as small shrines but were elaborated into formal temples. In relation to these changes, the excavations revealed a sequence of palaeobotanical and palaeofaunal evidence that give insight into the econom…
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- 9783110653540
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- XX, 386 p.
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- Beyond Boundaries, 5
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- 956.94 KER e
invasion of the Dutch East Indies
compiled by the War History Office of the National Defense College of Japan ; edited and translated by Willem Remmelink.Between 1966 and 1980, the War History Office of the National Defense College of Japan published the 102-volume Senshi Sōsho (War History Series). These volumes give a detailed account of the operations of the Imperial Japanese Army and the Imperial Japanese Navy during the S…
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- 9789400602298
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- xxxii, 640 pages : illustrations, maps ; 27 cm
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- War history series ; v. 3
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- 959.80224 REM i
Stories from Quechan oral literature
"The Quechan are a Yuman people who have traditionally lived along the lower part of the Colorado River in California and Arizona. They are well known as warriors, artists, and traders, and they also have a rich oral tradition. The stories in this volume were told by tribal elders in the 1970s and early 1980s. The eleven narratives in this volume take place at the beginning of time and introduc…
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- 9781909254879
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- XII, 533 p.
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- World Oral Literature Series
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- 970.00497 HAL s
news at the ends of the earth: the print culture of polar exploration
From Sir John Franklin's doomed 1845 search for the Northwest Passage to early twentieth-century sprints to the South Pole, polar expeditions produced an extravagant archive of documents that are as varied as they are engaging. As the polar ice sheets melt, fragments of this archive are newly emergent. In The News at the Ends of the Earth Hester Blum examines the rich, offbeat collection of pri…
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- 9781478004486
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- 1 online resource.
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- 910.911 BLU n
Scholars in exile: the Ukranian intellectual world in interwar Czechoslovakia
Throughout the 1920s and 30s Prague was the intellectual center of Ukrainian émigrés in Europe, not least because of significant financial support from the Czechoslovak government and its first president, Tomáš Garrigue Masaryk, for émigré students and intellectuals. On the basis of extensive archival research in Ottawa, Prague, and Kyiv, Zavorotna outlines the continuation of Ukrainian s…
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- 9781487530204
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- xvi, 260p.: ill.
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- 943.700491791009042 ZAV s
Historical background of Wang Yang-ming’s philosophy of mind: from the pers…
This open access book offers comprehensive information on Wang Yang-ming’s life, helping readers identify and grasp the foundations on which his philosophy was established. Though a great man, Wang had an extremely difficult life, full of many hardships. Based on various official histories, Wang’s own writings, and his disciples’ records, the book explores the legendary life of this ancie…
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- 9789811530364
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- 199 p.; 22 cm.
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- 909 DON h
Multicultural dynamics and the ends of history
Multicultural Dynamics and the Ends of History provides a strikingly original reading of key texts in the philosophy of history by Kant, Hegel, and Marx, as well as strong arguments for why these texts are still relevant to understanding history today. Réal Fillion offers a critical exposition of the theses of these three authors on the dynamics and the ends of history, in order to provide an …
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- 9780776606705
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- Philosophica
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- 901 FIL m
Sherborne Old Castle, Dorset : archaeological investigations 1930-90
Sherborne Old Castle was built in Dorset in about 1122–35. The fortified palace was one of several major building projects undertaken by Roger, Bishop of Salisbury. Although Sherborne Old Castle was altered over the next four centuries, most of its original structural elements were retained until the buildings were slighted during the English Civil War. This report describes and analyses the …
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- 9780854312993
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- XVIII, 206 p.
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- 914.23 WHI s
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