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The Art of prehistoric textile making
Textiles, textile production and clothing were essentials of living in prehistory, locked into the system of society at every level – social, economic and even religious. Textile crafts not only produced essential goods for everyday use, most notably clothing, but also utilitarian objects as well as representative and luxury items. Prehistoric clothing and their role in identity creation for …
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- 9783902421944
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- x, 536p.: ill.
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- 677 GRO a
Women’s activism and "second wave" feminism transnational histories
Women’s Activism and "Second Wave" Feminism situates late 20th century feminisms within a global framework of women’s activism. Its chapters, written by leading international scholars, demonstrate how issues of heterogeneity, transnationalism, and intersectionality have transformed understandings of historical feminism. It is no longer possible to imagine that feminism has ever fostered an …
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- 9781474250511
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- 344 p.; 22 cm.
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- 305.42 WOM w
The internet myth: from the internet imaginary to network ideologies
‘The Internet is broken and Paolo Bory knows how we got here. In a powerful book based on original research, Bory carefully documents the myths, imaginaries, and ideologies that shaped the material and cultural history of the Internet. As important as this book is to understand our shattered digital world, it is essential for those who would fix it.’ — Vincent Mosco, author of The Smart C…
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- 9781912656752
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- xiii, 169p.: ill
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- 004.678 BOR i
Crime and Criminal Justice in Modern Germany
The history of criminal justice in modern Germany has become a vibrant field of research, as demonstrated in this volume. Following an introductory survey, the twelve chapters examine major topics in the history of crime and criminal justice from Imperial Germany, through the Weimar and Nazi eras, to the early postwar years. These topics include case studies of criminal trials, the development …
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- 9781782382478
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- 364.943 WET c
Written Culture in a Colonial Context: Africa and the Americas 1500-1900
There is very little in the modern literature on the history of written culture that describes the specific practices related to writing that were anchored in colonial contexts. It was not just ships, soldiers, missionaries and settlers that drove the process of European expansion from the 16th to the 19th centuries. The circulation of images, manuscripts and books between different continents …
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- 9781919895260
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- 302.224409 DEL w
Colonialism, institutional change, and shifts in global labour relations
This book offers a view of shifts in labour relations in various parts of the world over a breathtaking span, from 1500 to 2000, with a particular emphasis on colonial institutions.
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- 9789462984363
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- 373p. : ill.
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- 331.09 COL c
Connecting the nation: a short thematic history of Australian civil aviation
Aviation has played an important part in shaping Australia’s culture and history through the course of the twentieth century. Australia embraced aviation from its earliest days, eagerly responding to its potential to cover a challenging country, to bring far-flung communities closer and to provide services that could not be delivered any other way. Add the romance of pioneer heroes, the vital…
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- 9780994503954
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- 140p.:
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- 354.79 ASH c
Handwritten newspapers
"This book is the first edited volume focusing on handwritten newspapers as an alternative medium from a wide interdisciplinary and international perspective. Our primary focus is on handwritten newspapers as a social practice. The case studies contextualize the source materials in relation to political, cultural, literary, and economic history. The analysis reveals both continuity and change a…
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- 9789518581591
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- 229p.: ill.
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- 070.9 HAN h
Archaelogist in print: publishing for the people
Archaeologists in Print is a history of popular publishing in archaeology in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, a pivotal period of expansion and development in both archaeology and publishing. It examines how British archaeologists produced books and popular periodical articles for a non-scholarly audience, and explores the rise in archaeologists’ public visibility. Notably, it analyses…
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- 9781787352575
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- xii, 295p.: ill.
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- 930.109 THO a
Civil society and transitional justice in Asia and the Pacific
edited by Lia Kent, Joanne Wallis and Claire Cronin.
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- 9781760463281
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- x, 247 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
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- Pacific series
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- 320 LIA c
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