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History and religion: narrating a religious past
This volume is the first systematic scholarly study that analyses the complex relationship between history and religion. It considers religious groups as both producers of historical narratives and topics of historiography. From different disciplinary perspectives, the authors explore how religions are historicised. In so doing, they address the biases and elisions of current analytical and des…
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- 9783110445954
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- 471 p.; 22 cm.
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- 201.69 HIS h
Digital classics outside the echo-chamber : teaching, knowledge exchange and …
This volume, edited by the organizers of the “Digital Classicist” seminars series, presents research in classical studies, digital classics and digital humanities, bringing together scholarship that addresses the impact of the study of classical antiquity through computational methods on audiences such as scientists, heritage professionals, students and the general public. Within this conte…
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- 9781909188471
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- XII, 221 p.
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- 070.5 DIG d
Dutch ships in tropical waters: the development of the Dutch East India Compa…
The end of the 16th century saw Dutch expansion in Asia, as The Dutch East India Company (the VOC) was fast becoming an Asian power, both political and economic. By 1669, the VOC was the richest private company the world had ever seen. This landmark study looks at perhaps the most important tool in the Company' trading - its ships. In order to reconstruct the complete shipping activities of the…
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- 9789048501236
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- 217 p. : ill. (some col.), col. maps ; 30 cm.
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- Amsterdam studies in the Dutch golden age
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- 387.50959809032 PAR d
Protest movements in asylum and deportation
This open access book deals with contestations “from below” of legal policies and implementation practices in asylum and deportation. Consequently, it covers three types of mobilization: solidarity protests against the deportation of refused asylum seekers, refugee activism campaigning for residence rights and inclusion, and restrictive protests against the reception of asylum seekers. By a…
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- 9783319746968
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- 304.83 ROS p
Spanish economic growth, 1850-2015
This text offers a comprehensive and nuanced view of the economic development of Spain since 1850. It provides a new set of historical GDP estimates for Spain from the demand and supply sides, and presents a reconstruction of production and expenditure series for the century prior to the introduction of modern national accounts. The author splices available national accounts sets over the perio…
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- 9783319580425
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- xxiv, 383p. : ill.
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- 330.9 DE s
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
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
Theater as metaphor
The papers of the present volume investigate the potential of the metaphor of life as theater for literary, philosophical, juridical and epistemological discourses from the Middle Ages through modernity, and focusing on traditions as manifold as French, Spanish, Italian, German, Russian and Latin-American.
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- 9783110622034
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- 276 p.; 22 cm.
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- 792.01 THE t
A People's history of modern Europe
From the monarchical terror of the Middle Ages to the mangled Europe of the Twenty-first Century, A People's History of Modern Europe tracks the history of the continent through the deeds of those whom mainstream history tries to forget. Europe provided the perfect conditions for a great number of political revolutions from below. The German peasant wars of Thomas Müntzer, the bourgeoisie revo…
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- 9781783717675
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- 289 p.; 22 cm.
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- 909.08 APE p
Sergei M. Eisenstein: notes for a general history of cinema
One of the iconic figures of the twentieth-century cinema, Sergei Eisenstein is best known as the director of The Battleship Potemkin, Alexander Nevskii and Ivan the Terrible. His craft as director and film editor left a distinct mark on such key figures of the Western cinema as Nicolas Roeg, Francis Ford Coppola, Sam Peckinpah and Akiro Kurosawa.This comprehensive volume of Eisenstein’s writ…
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- 9789089648440
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- Film Theory in Media History
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- 791.430233092 SER s
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