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The Federated States of Micronesia’s Engagement with the Outside World Cont…
This study addresses the neglected history of the people of the Federated States of Micronesia’s (FSM) engagement with the outside world. Situated in the northwest Pacific, FSM’s strategic location has led to four colonial rulers. Histories of FSM to date have been largely written by sympathetic outsiders. Indigenous perspectives of FSM history have been largely absent from the main corpus …
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- 9781760464653
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- 996.5.PUA
Xinjiang Year Zero
Since 2017, the Chinese authorities have detained hundreds of thousands of Uyghurs, Kazakhs and other Muslim minorities in ‘reeducation camps’ in China’s northwestern Xinjiang autonomous region. While the official reason for this mass detention was to prevent terrorism, the campaign has since become a wholesale attempt to remould the ways of life of these peoples—an experiment in social…
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- 9781760464950
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- 338 p
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- 951.6 INI X
Wehali: The Female Land
Wehali defines itself as the ritual centre of the island of Timor. As a ritual centre, Wehali continues to be the residence of a figure of traditional authority on whom, in the 18th century, the Dutch conferred the title of Kaiser (Keizer) and to whom the Portuguese gave the title of Emperor (Imperador). At one time, Wehali was the centre of a network of tributary states, which both the Dutch a…
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- 9781760464851
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- 959.86
Finding the Limits of the Limes : Modelling Demography, Economy and Transport…
This open access book demonstrates the application of simulation modelling and network analysis techniques in the field of Roman studies. It summarizes and discusses the results of a 5-year research project carried out by the editors that aimed to apply spatial dynamical modelling to reconstruct and understand the socio-economic development of the Dutch part of the Roman frontier (limes) zone, …
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- 9783030045760
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- 936.4 ver
The Cold War in the classroom : international perspectives on textbooks and m…
This book explores how the socially disputed period of the Cold War is remembered in today’s history classroom. Applying a diverse set of methodological strategies, the authors map the dividing lines in and between memory cultures across the globe, paying special attention to the impact the crisis-driven age of our present has on images of the past. Authors analysing educational media point t…
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- 9783030119997
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- 909.825072 chi
Earth observation science and applications for risk reduction and enhanced re…
This open access book is a consolidation of lessons learnt and experiences gathered from our efforts to utilise Earth observation (EO) science and applications to address environmental challenges in the Hindu Kush Himalayan region. It includes a complete package of knowledge on service life cycles including multi-disciplinary topics and practically tested applications for the HKH. It comprises …
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- 978-3-030-73569-2
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- 910.285 baj
Negotiating the North : meeting-places in the Middle Ages in the North Sea zone
This book brings together the cumulative results of a three-year project focused on the assemblies and administrative systems of Scandinavia, Britain, and the North Atlantic islands in the 1st and 2nd millennia AD. In this volume we integrate a wide range of historical, cartographic, archaeological, field-based, and onomastic data pertaining to early medieval and medieval administrative practic…
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- 9781003045663
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- xx + 349 p
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- 948.02 SEM n
Resolusi konflik dalam perbandingan: narasi Afrika dan Indonesia
Sepanjang sejarah peradaban manusia, konflik etnis telah banyak terjadi di berbagai negara di seluruh dunia, termasuk di Indonesia. Dengan lebih dari 1.300 suku menghuni seluruh wilayah negara kita, potensi terjadinya konflik sangatlah besar. Tak hanya korban jiwa, konflik etnis yang terjadi juga meninggalkan banyak pertanyaan: apa pemicunya, mengapa bisa terjadi eskalasi, dan bagaimana metode …
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- 9786238052820
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- xv, 113 p. ; 21 cm.
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- Akuisisi Pengetahuan Lokal
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- 967.57 ARD r
In the lands of the Romanovs : an annotated bibliography of first-hand Englis…
Over the course of more than three centuries of Romanov rule in Russia, foreign visitors and residents produced a vast corpus of literature conveying their experiences and impressions of the country. The product of years of painstaking research by one of the world’s foremost authorities on Anglo-Russian relations, In the Lands of the Romanovs is the realization of a major bibliographical proj…
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- 9781783740598
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- xvi, 422 p. ; ill. ; 23 cm.
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- 947.04 LAN c
On history : introduction to world history (1831); opening address at the Fac…
Edited by Lionel Gossman, this volume contains three programmatic essays by Michelet. The first two are available here for the first time in English translation. The third, the Preface to the 1869 edition of the Histoire de France, originally published in its first English translation by Edward K. Kaplan in his Michelet’s Poetic Vision (1977), has been revised by the translator for this volum…
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- 9781909254725
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- vi, 168 p. ; ill. ; 23 cm.
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- Open Book Classics vol. 1
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- 907.2 MIC o
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