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On March 2, 1945, five Mexican American families and their Jewish American lawyer filed a class-action lawsuit against four school districts in Orange County, California, to end the segregation of ethnic Mexican children. In a shocking decision, the court ruled in favor...
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Oxford University Press
Parution :
2025-12-10
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This open access book explores the background to the electoral reforms of 1907-1921 in Sweden, when the voting age was raised from 21 years to 23 for the second chamber and the municipalities, and to 27 for the county councils and the first chamber.This increase in...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2025-12-08
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This book is a historical and cultural study of the work of the Jewish women architects who flourished in Palestine under the British Mandate (1920-1948).This comprehensive study adds a new chapter to the story of women in architecture in the twentieth century,...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2025-12-05
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Esposte in numerose occasioni sin dalle prime scoperte del secolo scorso, le terrecotte architettoniche con fregio figurato a stampo della serie Acquarossa-Tuscania sono ora inserite in tutti gli studi relativi all’architettura palaziale e all’ideologia principesca...
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Publications de l'École française de Rome
Parution :
2025-12-03
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Collection de l'École française de Rome
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The Oxford Handbook of the Olmecs provides an up-to-date overview of research on this most elaborate of Mesoamerica's foundational cultures (ca. 1450-400 BCE). Few objects of study have sparked more debate in Mesoamerican studies than the role of Olmec culture in the...
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Oxford University Press
Parution :
2025-12-02
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This book aims to share with a wider audience a research approach that encompasses a global perspective, analyzes the dynamics and complexities of events, and transcends the barriers of disciplinary specialization through reflecting on and interpreting contemporary...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2025-11-30
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With their distinctive and other-worldly appearance, runes--an ancient alphabet used to write Germanic languages--provide our only first-hand record of the customs and beliefs of peoples living on the northern fringe of the Roman Empire during a period of mass migration...
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Oxford University Press
Parution :
2025-11-28
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When a process popularly known as the Industrial Revolution first took hold in Germany in the mid-nineteenth century, many contemporaries were stunned by the scale and ferocity of the transformation. While Germany had long been considered a promising place to...
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Oxford University Press
Parution :
2025-11-27
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The Order of the Hermits of St Augustine has long been sidelined as a pale imitator of the Franciscans. This book provides a fundamental cross-disciplinary re-evaluation of the lives, ideas, and impact of the Augustinian friars. By challenging the scholarly focus on the...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2025-11-26
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Women, Indenture, and Resistance explores the lived experiences of Indian indentured (girmitiya) women in the Fiji Islands between 1879 and 1920, during the height of British colonial rule. Set against the backdrop of sugar-cane plantations, the book delves into themes...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2025-11-26
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Today, many readers could easily list thirty classic authors, or thirty classic works of art, literature, music, philosophy, or science. But would they be able to name thirty classic works of history? In spite of history's outsized influence in the world of ideas, the...
Editeur :
Polity
Parution :
2025-11-26
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The wars between the Achaemenid Persian kings and the Greek city-states (c. 499-449 BCE)--especially Xerxes' invasion of Greece (480-479 BCE)--are often remembered as foundational events in Greek history, and therefore, we often hear about them through Greek accounts....
Editeur :
Oxford University Press
Parution :
2025-11-26
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What is Agatha Christie's connection to the world's earliest known city?Did the first cotton farmers practice dentistry?Did the Balkans know writing before Mesopotamia?Embark on a journey through time, from the Ice Age to the Middle Ages, exploring lesser-known...
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Hachette India
Parution :
2025-11-25
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On 10 July 1943, British soldiers landed in south-eastern Sicily as part of a major Allied invasion. As they fought their way northwards through the Italian peninsula, they frequently encountered local populations, imposing a forced cohabitation that would have a...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2025-11-25
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Russia's attack on Ukraine marks an epochal break in European and global history. Undoubtedly, the decision to go to war is closely linked to one person, Vladimir Putin, butRussia's war is not driven solely by one man's power calculations. We can only make sense of...
Editeur :
Polity
Parution :
2025-11-25
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This book is intended as an incentive for women to start, continue, or expand their STEM work in AI and sustainability, thus speeding up progress in a field critical to the wellbeing of humanity. The book features a rigorously curated collection of scientifically sound,...
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Springer
Parution :
2025-11-24
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This book provides the first history of the Silk Screen Shop (1943-45) at the Granada War Relocation Center (“Amache”) in Colorado, a World War II incarceration site for Japanese Americans. The Shop printed training posters for the Bureau of Naval...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2025-11-24
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Though never more than a tiny percentage of the population, Jews have been persistent--if perplexing--participants in the American community at least since they first arrived in New Amsterdam in 1654. This volume creates a vibrant dialogue among the varied approaches to...
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Oxford University Press
Parution :
2025-11-24
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This book explores the collections, the networks, and the methods of the antiquarian and scholar of the everyday Francis Douce (1757-1834). Throughout his life, Douce acquired rare books, illuminated manuscripts, coins, paintings, miscellaneous antiquities, and about...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2025-11-23
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