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Brownshirt princess: a study of the 'nazi conscience'
Princess Marie Adelheid of Lippe-Biesterfeld was a rebellious young writer who became a fervent Nazi. Heinrich Vogeler was a well-regarded artist who was to join the German Communist Party. Ludwig Roselius was a successful businessman who had made a fortune from his invention of decaffeinated coffee. What was it about the revolutionary climate following World War I that induced three such diffe…
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- 9781906924089
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- 202 p. : ill. : ind. ; 24 cm
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- 831.912 GOS b
Politics and the environment in Eastern Europe
Europe remains divided between east and west, with differences caused and worsened by uneven economic and political development. Amid these divisions, the environment has become a key battleground. The condition and sustainability of environmental resources are interlinked with systems of governance and power, from local to EU levels. Key challenges in the eastern European region today include …
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- 9781800641341
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- 342 p. : ill.
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- 363.700947 KRA p
The Scientific Revolution Revisited
The Scientific Revolution Revisited brings Mikuláš Teich back to the great movement of thought and action that transformed European science and society in the seventeenth century. Drawing on a lifetime of scholarly experience in six penetrating chapters, Teich examines the ways of investigating and understanding nature that matured during the late Middle Ages and the Renaissance, charting the…
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- 9781783741243
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- ix, 146 p. : ill.
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- 509.409031 TEI t
Social and economic vulnerability of Roma people : key factors for the succes…
This open access volume provides an understanding of the different aspects of success, school continuity and social mobility among European Roma, including the motives justifying the high rates of school dropout and failure among this group. It offers a critical and reflexive perspective about social reality from a multidisciplinary and transversal point of view, sharing knowledge and practices…
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- 9783030525880
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- xxi, 253p. : ill.
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- 371.82991497 SOC s
Cultural sovereignty beyond the modern state : space, objects, and media
In the past 25 years or more, political observers have diagnosed a crisis of the sovereign nation state and the erosion of state sovereignty through supranational institutions and the global mobility of capital, goods, information and labour. This edition of the European History Yearbook seeks to use "cultural sovereignty" as a heuristic concept to provide new views on these developments since …
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- 9783110679151
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- II, 181 p.
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- Jahrbuch für Europäische Geschichte / European History Yearbook, Band 21
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- 320.15 CUL c
Materialized identities in early modern culture, 1450-1750 : objects, affects…
"This collection embraces the increasing interest in the material world of the Renaissance and the early modern period, which has both fascinated contemporaries and initiated in recent years a distinguished historiography. The scholarship within is distinctive for engaging with the agentive qualities of matter, showing how affective dimensions in history connect with material history, and explo…
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- 9789048554058
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- -, 417 p.; ill
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- 700 MAT m
Regional and Local Development in Times of Polarisation: Re-thinking Spatial …
Despite the emphasis of the European Regional Policy on territorial cohesion, regional disparities have been increasing within Europe in the past years. The metropolitan areas in almost all countries are considerably growing while regions outside of agglomerations are stagnating or even declining. Against this background this book aims to provide an understanding of the underlying processes of …
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- 1st ed. 2019.
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- 9789811311901
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- XXIV, 382 p
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- 304.2 REG r
Insurance distribution directive : a legal analysis
This open access volume of the AIDA Europe Research Series on Insurance Law and Regulation offers the first comprehensive legal and regulatory analysis of the Insurance Distribution Directive (IDD). The IDD came into force on 1 October 2018 and regulates the distribution of insurance products in the EU. The book examines the main changes accompanying the IDD and analyses its impact on insurance…
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- 9783030527389
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- xi, 439p. : ill.
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- 346.4086 INS i
Mapping urban spaces : designing the european city
"Mapping Urban Spaces focuses on medium-sized European cities and more specifically on their open spaces from psychological, sociological, and aesthetic points of view. The chapters illustrate how the characteristics that make life in medium-sized European cities pleasant and sustainable – accessibility, ease of travel, urban sustainability, social inclusiveness – can be traced back to the …
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- 9781032041247
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- xi ,308 p.; ill
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- 307.1216094 MAP p
Migrants, refugees and asylum seekers' integration in European labour markets…
This open access book discusses how, and to what extent, the legal and institutional regimes and the socio-cultural environments of a range of European countries (the Czech Republic, Denmark, Finland Greece, Italy, Switzerland and the UK), in the framework of EU laws and policies, have a beneficial or negative impact on the effective capacity of these countries to integrate migrants, refugees a…
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- 9783030672843
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- xi, 258p. : ill.
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- 331.62094 MIG m
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