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  • The Origins of Anti-Authoritarianism

    by Nina Witoszek ...
    Series series Routledge Studies in Modern History
    This book discusses the ongoing revolution of dignity in human history as the work of ‘humanist outliers’: small groups and individuals dedicated to compassionate social emancipation. It argues that anti-authoritarian revolutions like 1989’s ‘Autumn of the Nations’ succeeded in large part due to cultural and political innovations springing from such small groups.The author explores the often ... Read more

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  • Histories of Knowledge in Postwar Scandinavia

    Actors, Arenas, and Aspirations

    Series series Knowledge Societies in History
    Histories of Knowledge in Postwar Scandinavia uses case studies to explore how knowledge circulated in the different public arenas that shaped politics, economics and cultural life in and across postwar Scandinavia, particularly in the 1960s and 1970s.This book focuses on a period when the term "knowledge society" was coined and rapidly found traction. In Scandinavia, society’s relationship to ... Read more

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  • The History of Kappa Psi Pharmaceutical Fraternity

    Our Modern History and Beginnings Revisited

    The history of Kappa Psi from 1993 to 2011 was collected and carefully edited in this latest edition of our history. The material for this latest edition was first collected and edited by then Grand Historian, Dr. Kali Weaver, and presented to the brothers on a CD at the 54th Grand Council Convention in Clearwater Beach, Florida. In 2009, the editing was taken over by Grand Historian, Mr. Michael ... Read more

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  • Imigração vêneta, cultura e língua de herança

    O talian em Colombo-Paraná

    Este livro é fruto de uma abordagem multidisciplinar que perpassa a História, a Educação, a Antropologia e a Linguística voltada à cidade de Colombo, Região Metropolitana de Curitiba, no Paraná. Trata-se de uma soma de esforços entre a academia e a comunidade, cuja participação efetiva permitiu lançar um olhar de dentro para fora. O dar voz à comunidade pôde trazer elementos linguísticos que até ... Read more

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  • A percepção da sociedade carioca sobre a Revolta dos Marinheiros em 1910.

    A Revolta da Chibata em 1910 foi um movimento pela busca de melhorias trabalhistas. Todavia, seu desfecho trilhou um caminho sequelado. Assim, a presente obra vem demonstrar os pontos de vista vivenciados. ... Read more

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  • Contested Governance in Japan

    Sites and Issues

    Edited by Glenn D. Hook ...
    Series series The University of Sheffield/Routledge Japanese Studies Series
    Contested Governance in Japan extends the analysis of governance in contemporary Japan by exploring both the sites and issues of governance above and below the state as well as within it. This volume discusses the contested nature of governance in Japan and the ways in which a range of actors are involved in different sites and issues of governance at home, in the region and the globe. It includes ... Read more

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  • History as Wonder

    Beginning with Historiography

    History and Wonder is a refreshing new take on the idea of history that tracks the entanglement of history and philosophy over time through the key idea of wonder.From Ancient Greek histories and wonder works, to Islamic curiosities and Chinese strange histories, through to European historical cabinets of curiosity and on to histories that grapple with the horrors of the Holocaust, Marnie Hughes ... Read more

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  • History, Space and Place

    by Susanne Rau ...
    Spaces, too, have a history. And history always takes place in spaces. But what do historians mean when they use the word "spaces"? And how can spaces be historically investigated?Susanne Rau provides a survey of the history of Western concepts of space, opens up interdisciplinary approaches to the phenomenon of space in fields ranging from physics and geography to philosophy and sociology, and ... Read more

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  • The King and the Crown of Thorns

    Kingship and the Cult of Relics in Capetian France

    Translated by Sylwia Twardo ...
    In 1239, king Louis IX of France performed the translation of the Crown of Thorns from Constantinople to Paris. The translation celebrations became a splendid religious festivity showing sacral foundations of Saint Louis’s authority and the Capetian kingship. However, the translation of the Crown of Thorns to France had already a history under Louis’s reign: French hagiographers and chroniclers ... Read more

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  • European Regions and Boundaries

    A Conceptual History

    Series Book 3 - European Conceptual History
    It is difficult to speak about Europe today without reference to its constitutive regions—supra-national geographical designations such as “Scandinavia,” “Eastern Europe,” and “the Balkans.” Such formulations are so ubiquitous that they are frequently treated as empirical realities rather than a series of shifting, overlapping, and historically constructed concepts. This volume is the first to ... Read more

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  • Nobres soldados D'el Rei

    Governadores e capitães-generais do estado do Maranhão e Grão-Pará (1702-1751)

    Nobres soldados d'El Rei consolida resultados de uma investigação sobre o perfil social e as trajetórias administrativas de governadores e capitães-generais do Estado do Maranhão e Grão-Pará, tema ao qual o autor se dedica há anos. Como sugere o título, o livro privilegia os agentes e não os seus feitos durante a governação daquela circunscrição separada do Estado do Brasil e diretamente ... Read more

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  • Tempos Remotos

    Ensino de História e a Pandemia de Covid-19

    Tempos remotos: ensino de história e a pandemia do Covid-19, traz a partir da reunião de diferentes textos, uma importante reflexão a respeito das experiências com o ensino de história no período da pandemia da Covid-19. Os organizadores buscam a partir dos textos dispostos na obra, contribuições e reflexões de professores que dividiram suas trajetórias e vivências com o ensino remoto em tempos de ... Read more

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  • #AquiNoBrasil

    Você está disposto a pensar?

    Uma estrutura política desastrosa corrompeu a autonomia de reflexão dos brasileiros, criando uma geração de analfabetos funcionais acomodados. Esta obra vem. de forma simples, provocar sua capacidade de dúvida e dedução, além de apresentar informações não muito conhecidas. ... Read more

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  • Ukraine's Search for Justice in the Shadow of the Donbas Conflict

    Strategic Reforms or Crisis Management?

    Series Book 15 - Studies in Political Transition
    Should we punish wrongdoers? Should we take care of the ones who suffered from wrongdoings? Although we may believe answers to these questions are obvious, they become less so when similar questions are asked under exceptional circumstances, such as armed conflicts. These answers may decide about the continuation of hostilities or their end. The stakes are high, while we can hardly ignore the need ... Read more

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  • Trajectories of Memory

    Excavating the Past in Indonesia

    Edited by Melani Budianta, Sylvia Tiwon ...
    This book is a collection of essays in Indonesian history and archaeology dealing with different and multiple trajectories, along four broad themes. The first part of the book covers competing or evolving representations of events, customs or traditions, and historical personae in Indonesian official and popular expression, as they are shaped by economic, political, and cultural forces. The second ... Read more

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  • Global History and New Polycentric Approaches

    Europe, Asia and the Americas in a World Network System

    Series series Palgrave Studies in Comparative Global History
    This book is open access under a CC BY 4.0 license.Rethinking the ways global history is envisioned and conceptualized in diverse countries such as China, Japan, Mexico or Spain, this collections considers how global issues are connected with our local and national communities. It examines how the discipline had evolved in various historiographies, from Anglo Saxon to southern European, and its ... Read more

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  • The Cold War in the Classroom

    International Perspectives on Textbooks and Memory Practices

    Series series Palgrave Studies in Educational Media
    This book is open access under a CC BY 4.0 license.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 ... Read more

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  • Speciesism in Biology and Culture

    How Human Exceptionalism is Pushing Planetary Boundaries

    This open access book explores a wide-ranging discussion about the sociopolitical, cultural, and scientific ramifications of speciesism and world views that derive from it. In this light, it integrates subjects across the natural sciences, social sciences, and humanities.The 21st-century western world is anthropocentric to an extreme; we adopt unreasonably self-centered and self-serving ideas and ... Read more

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  • Documenting the Armenian Genocide

    Essays in Honor of Taner Akçam

    Series series Palgrave Studies in the History of Genocide
    This open access book brings together contributions from an internationally diverse group of scholars to celebrate Taner Akçam’s role as the first Turkish intellectual to publicly recognize the Armenian Genocide. As a researcher, lecturer, and mentor to a new generation of scholars, Akçam has led the effort to utilize previously unknown, ignored, or under-studied sources, whether in Turkish, ... Read more

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  • Mnemonic Solidarity

    Global Interventions

    Edited by Jie-Hyun Lim, Eve Rosenhaft ...
    Series series Entangled Memories in the Global South
    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 actors ... Read more

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  • Socialism and Legal History

    The Histories and Historians of Law in Socialist East Central Europe

    Series series Routledge Research in Legal History
    This book focuses on the way in which legal historians and legal scientists used the past to legitimize, challenge, explain and familiarize the socialist legal orders, which were backed by dictatorial governments.The volume studies legal historians and legal histories written in Eastern European countries during the socialist era after the Second World War. The book investigates whether there was ... Read more

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  • Venire contra factum proprium

    Herkunft und Grundlagen eines sprichwoertlichen Rechtsprinzips

    Series Book 6 - Wiener Studien zu Geschichte, Recht und Gesellschaft. Viennese Studies in History, Law and Society
    Dieses Buch untersucht die Herkunft des Verbots von «venire contra factum proprium». Ausgehend von den mittelalterlichen «Brocardica» wird die Quellenbasis analysiert, auf welche der berühmte Satz vom verbotenen Selbstwiderspruch gestützt wurde. Die herangezogenen Quellen entstammen zum Großteil dem «Corpus Iuris Civilis»und enthalten in erster Linie «Fallrecht». Der Beitrag der Juristen des ... Read more

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  • Identitaetsbildung und Partizipation im 19. und 20. Jahrhundert

    Luxemburg im europaeischen Kontext

    Series Book 12 - Études luxembourgeoises / Luxemburg-Studien
    Gesellschaften mit starker Einwanderung kennzeichnen vielfältige Formen von Identitätsbildung und das Ringen um politische und zivilgesellschaftliche Partizipation. Dies gilt in besonderer Weise für Luxemburg im 19. und 20. Jahrhundert. Hier entstand in einem Kleinstaat eine der jüngeren Nationen Europas und zugleich eine besonders offene, plurikulturelle Einwanderungsgesellschaft. Ziel dieses ... Read more

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  • Values, Objectivity, and Explanation in Historiography

    Series Book 21 - Routledge Approaches to History
    Bringing sophisticated philosophy to bear on real-life historiography, Values, Objectivity, and Explanation in Historiography rekindles and invigorates the debate on two perennials in the theory and methodology of history. One is the tension between historians' values and the ideal—or illusion—of objective historiography. The other is historical explanation.The point of departure for the treatment ... Read more

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