27 Ergebnisse für: _acls
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The Genesis of The Brothers Karamazov: The Aesthetics, Ideology, and ... - Robert Belknap, Robert L. Belknap - Google Books
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Belknap (Slavic languages, Columbia U.) traces Dostoevsky's last, great novel to its sources, exploring how the author consciously transformed his experience and his readings to construct the work. It is both a lucid analysis of a complex and difficult…
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Paths in the Rainforests: Toward a History of Political Tradition in ... - Jan Vansina - Google Books
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Vansina’s scope is breathtaking: he reconstructs the history of the forest lands that cover all or part of southern Cameroon, Gabon, Equatorial Guinea, the Congo, Zaire, the Central African Republic, and Cabinda in Angola, discussing the original…
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Byzantium in the Seventh Century: The Transformation of a Culture - J. F. Haldon, Haldon J. F. - Google Books
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This book presents the first analytical account in English of major developments within Byzantine culture, society and the state in the crucial formative period from c.610-717. The seventh century saw the final collapse of ancient urban civilization and…
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Byzantium in the Seventh Century: The Transformation of a Culture - J. F. Haldon, Haldon J. F. - Google Books
https://books.google.de/books?id=pSHmT1G_5T0C&hl=de
This book presents the first analytical account in English of major developments within Byzantine culture, society and the state in the crucial formative period from c.610-717. The seventh century saw the final collapse of ancient urban civilization and…
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Jews, Germans, and Allies: Close Encounters in Occupied Germany - Atina Grossmann - Google Books
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In the immediate aftermath of World War II, more than a quarter million Jewish survivors of the Holocaust lived among their defeated persecutors in the chaotic society of Allied-occupied Germany. Jews, Germans, and Allies draws upon the wealth of diary and…
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Arabic Thought in the Liberal Age 1798-1939 - Albert Hourani - Google Books
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Arabic Thought in the Liberal Age 1798-1939 is the most comprehensive study of the modernizing trend of political and social thought in the Arab Middle East. Albert Hourani studies the way in which ideas about politics and society changed during the…
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Byzantium in the Seventh Century: The Transformation of a Culture - J. F. Haldon, Haldon J. F. - Google Books
https://books.google.de/books?id=pSHmT1G_5T0C&hl
This book presents the first analytical account in English of major developments within Byzantine culture, society and the state in the crucial formative period from c.610-717. The seventh century saw the final collapse of ancient urban civilization and…
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The Other Prussia: Royal Prussia, Poland and Liberty, 1569-1772 - Karin Friedrich - Google Books
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This book considers the phenomenon of nation-building before the age of modern nationalism. It focuses on royal (Polish) Prussia - the 'other' Prussia - a province of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth from 1466 to 1772/3, and its major cities Danzig,…
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Nuns as Artists: The Visual Culture of a Medieval Convent - Jeffrey F. Hamburger, Professor Jeffrey Hamburger - Google Books
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Jeffrey F. Hamburger's groundbreaking study of the art of female monasticism explores the place of images and image-making in the spirituality of medieval nuns during the later Middle Ages. Working from a previously unknown group of late-fifteenth-century…
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The Three Yugoslavias: State-building and Legitimation, 1918-2005 - Sabrina P. Ramet - Google Books
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Yugoslavia exploded onto the front pages of world newspapers in the early 1990s. The War of Yugoslav Succession of 1991–1995 convinced many that interethnic violence was endemic to politics in Yugoslavia and that the Yugoslav meltdown had occurred because…