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A Cultural History of Insects in the Renaissance

A Cultural History of Insects in the Renaissance covers the period from 1300 to 1600, examining the profound impact of insects on the flowering of culture. In the early part of this period, the unpreceden…

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A Cultural History of Insects in the Age of Industry

A Cultural History of Insects in the Age of Industry covers the period from 1820 to 1920, a time of great technological innovation and intensified trade. As urban populations spread so did pollution, squa…

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A Cultural History of Insects in the Age of Enlightenment

A Cultural History of Insects in the Age of Enlightenment covers the period from 1600 to 1820, a time of global exploration, the discovery of species, and advances in scientific technologies and methods. …

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Fintan Lane
William Thompson

This book is the first comprehensively researched study of the life and thought of Irish-born William Thompson (1778-1833), who is regarded by historians of socialist thought as the most influential theor…

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Jason König
The Folds of Olympus

A cultural and literary history of mountains in classical antiquityThe mountainous character of the Mediterranean was a crucial factor in the history of the ancient Greek and Roman world. The Folds of Oly…

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Jonas Albrecht,
The Moral and Market Economies of Bread

From the 1770s the Vienna bread market was rocked by a series of politico-economic and technological changes that questioned the way this everyday foodstuff was sold and produced. In this book, Jonas Albr…

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Erich B. Ries
Terrorism, Guerilla, Small-Scale Warfare, People´s War. Theory and Practice

The work is not only a comprehensive source of information for interested laymen, but is also suitable as training material for security authorities and institutions involved in these issues in research a…

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Joseph Sassoon
The Sassoons

A spectacular generational saga of the making (and undoing) of a family dynasty: the riveting untold story of the gilded Jewish Bagdadi Sassoons, who built a vast empire through global finance and trade--…

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Mark J Crowley
Post Office Women at War, 1939-45

The Post Office was central to Britain's effort to win the Second World War. From sending mail to connecting telephone calls and processing war savings certificates, its functions united a nation in a sen…

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Matthew P Fitzpatrick
A Pacific Power

A Pacific Power brings to light an often-overlooked history of German imperialism in the Pacific. Focusing on Samoa, it shows the tension between German rulers and Samoan subjects, as well as the variety …

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Handbuch Queere Zeitgeschichten II

Historische Geschlechterforschung - Band 16

Dieses Handbuch macht queere Zeitgeschichte im deutschsprachigen Raum zum ersten Mal einem breiten Publikum zugänglich. Die Beiträge und Quellen erschließen Dynamiken, die das Leben von Lesben, Schwulen, …

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Kulturgeschichten der Aufklärung

Mainzer Historische Kulturwissenschaften - Band 43

The anthology offers a carefully edited and commented selection of largely unknown cultural-historical texts from the 18th and early 19th centuries.

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Neil W Bernstein
Poppaea Sabina

Like many famous figures from antiquity, we must work through layers of fantasy in order to uncover the life of Poppaea Sabina (c. 30-65 CE). In this book, Neil Bernstein critically examines these sources…

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Amin Samman
Currency of Nihilism

What happens to economic life when meaning and value come apart? Drawing on Friedrich Nietzsche, E.M. Cioran, and Jean Baudrillard, this book shows how the latest trends in digital finance restage the dil…

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Peter Laufer
We Are All Americans

In the days after September 11, 2001, photojournalist Peter Laufer set out on a cross-country journey to capture America at its most vulnerable and united. Traveling from Washington, DC, to California, he…

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Michael Kremer, Cheryl Misak
Margaret MacDonald and Analytic Philosophy in the 1930s

This volume examines the important but, until recently, largely forgotten work of the British analytic philosopher Margaret Macdonald. Cheryl Misak and Michael Kremer provide essays on Macdonald's life an…

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Amin Samman
Currency of Nihilism

What happens to economic life when meaning and value come apart? Drawing on Friedrich Nietzsche, E.M. Cioran, and Jean Baudrillard, this book shows how the latest trends in digital finance restage the dil…

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Nigel Nicholson
Victory and Celebration

Victory and Celebration traces how athletic success was transformed into broader social and political capital in ancient Greece in the sixth and fifth centuries BCE--how being a good boxer or wrestler, or…

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Camilla Annerfeldt
Clothing and Identity in Early Modern Rome

This is the first book-length exploration of the clothes worn in early modern Rome and provides novel insights into the city of Rome during one of its most fascinating periods. It also challenges the noti…

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Nadine Attewell
Archives of Intimacy

This book offers a rich and innovative study of multiracial social worlds in early-twentieth-century London, Liverpool, and Hong Kong -- three port cities linked by their importance to global British ship…

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