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The Contest for Aboriginal Souls : European missionary agendas in Australia
This book covers the missionary activity in Australia conducted by non-English speaking missionaries from Catholic and Protestant mission societies from its beginnings to the end of the mission era. It looks through the eyes of the missionaries and their helpers, as well as incorporating Indigenous perspectives and offering a balanced assessment of missionary endeavour in Australia, attuned to …
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- 15
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- 9781760462055
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- 280
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- -
- Call Number
- 266.00899915.GAN
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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- -
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- 9783030119997
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- -
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- 909.825072 chi
Island fantasia : imagining subjects on the military frontline between China …
The Matsu archipelago between China and Taiwan, for long an isolated outpost off southeast China, was suddenly transformed into a military frontline in 1949 by the Cold War and the Communist-Nationalist conflict. The army occupied the islands, commencing more than 40 long years of military rule. With the lifting of martial law in 1992, the people were confronted with the question of how to move…
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- 4
- ISBN/ISSN
- 9781009023481
- Collation
- xviii; 310p; ill.
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- -
- Call Number
- 951.249 ISL W
Pandemic Kinship : Families, Intervention, and Social Change in Botswana's Ti…
Shaped around the stories of one extended family, their friends, neighbours, and community, Pandemic Kinship provides an intimate portrait of everyday life in Botswana's time of AIDS. It challenges assumptions about a 'crisis of care' unfolding in the wake of the pandemic, showing that care - like other aspects of Tswana kinship - is routinely in crisis, and that the creative ways families navi…
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- -
- ISBN/ISSN
- 9781009150200
- Collation
- xiii, 328p, : ill
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- -
- Call Number
- 306.85096883 KOR
Island Fantasia
The Matsu archipelago between China and Taiwan, for long an isolated outpost off southeast China, was suddenly transformed into a military frontline in 1949 by the Cold War and the Communist-Nationalist conflict. The army occupied the islands, commencing more than 40 long years of military rule. With the lifting of martial law in 1992, the people were confronted with the question of how to move…
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- -
- ISBN/ISSN
- 9781009023481
- Collation
- xvii, 330p, ill
- Series Title
- -
- Call Number
- 951.249 WEI
Mnemonic solidarity : global interventions
This open access book provides a concise introduction to a critical development in memory studies. A global memory formation has emerged since the 1990s, in which memories of traumatic histories in different parts of the world, often articulated in the terms established by Holocaust memory, have become entangled, reconciled, contested, conflicted and negotiated across borders. As historical act…
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- -
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- 9783030576691
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- xi, 135p, : ill
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- Entangled Memories in the Global South
- Call Number
- 306.09 JIE m
Pandemic disease in the medieval world: rethinking the Black Death
This ground-breaking book brings together scholars from the humanities and social and physical sciences to address the question of how recent work in the genetics, zoology, and epidemiology of plague's causative organism (Yersinia pestis) can allow a rethinking of the Black Death pandemic and its larger historical significance.
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- -
- ISBN/ISSN
- 9781942401018
- Collation
- xx, 339 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 25 cm.
- Series Title
- Medieval globe ; v. 1
- Call Number
- 614.4 PAN p
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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- -
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- 9781909188471
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- XII, 221 p.
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- -
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- 070.5 DIG d
Animals and the shaping of modern medicine : one health and its histories
This book breaks new ground by situating animals and their diseases at the very heart of modern medicine. In demonstrating their historical significance as subjects and shapers of medicine, it offers important insights into past animal lives, and reveals that what we think of as ‘human’ medicine was in fact deeply zoological. Each chapter analyses an important episode in which animals ch…
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- -
- ISBN/ISSN
- 9783319643373
- Collation
- xvii, 280p. : ill.
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- -
- Call Number
- 509 ANI a
Shipping and globalization in the post-war era : contexts, companies, connect…
This book belongs to the Maritime Business and Economic History strand of the Palgrave Studies in Maritime Economics book series. This volume highlights the contribution of the shipping industry to the transformations in business and society of the postwar era. Shipping was both an example and an engine of globalization and structural change. In turn, the industry experienced and pioneered, …
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- -
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- 9783030260026
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- xi, 290p. : ill.
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- -
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- 387.5 SHI s
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