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Anhand des Beispiels der byzantinischen Feld- und Ackermaße und des ihnen übergeordneten Systems der Landvergabe und -besteuerung verfolgt das Buch das Fortleben byzantinischer administrativer Elemente und Praktiken im Osmanischen Reich. Verlauf, Charakter und...
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Dieses Buch bietet einen umfassenden Einblick in die Politik des jugoslawischen Staates gegenüber seinen 15 wichtigsten, offiziell anerkannten, ethnischen Minderheiten. Das bunte ethnische Mosaik, welches Jugoslawien im 20. Jahrhundert gekennzeichnet hat, weckte seit...
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Are human beings less violent than before? Why do we adopt certain moral and political judgements? Why is the gap between rich and poor getting bigger? How do we decide which criminal policies are effective? What is the Population Challenge for the 21st Century? What is...
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Recent decades have seen an upsurge of research with and about young children, their families and communities. The Handbook of Early Childhood Research will provide a landmark overview of the field of early childhood research and will set an agenda for early childhood...
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"This is a book about who we are today, and how we have become who we are. It is about the engineers of the modern soul, the entrepreneurial self. It is essential reading for all those who care about the incessant demands placed on us to become more than we are, to...
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Dieses Buch beschäftigt sich mit der Tanzimât-Periode, welche den Zeitraum von 1839 bis 1876 umfasst und den Beginn der Neuordnung von Recht und Gesellschaft in der osmanischen Geschichte darstellt. Tanzimât bedeutet übersetzt «heilsame Neuordnung». Die Neugestaltung...
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L’autore si occupa del senso di oggetti in scrittrici migranti postcoloniali sulla base di un close reading di opere di scrittrici di espressione italiana. La parte introduttiva dà ragione del possibile significato degli oggetti in opere letterarie di carattere...
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This book examines the construction of Euroscepticism in civil society discourse, focusing on Turkey’s possible EU-membership, the ongoing political struggles between different political camps in Turkey and general Western discourse. Applying semi-structured qualitative...
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The book demonstrates how illustrated printed books played an active role in identity-building processes in the Hungarian Kingdom. It shows the influence of Latin-language histories of Hungary in the areas of imagery of the Hungarian political community, visual...
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Created by Abraham Cahan in 1906, the advice column A Bintel Brief ran as the most enduring feature of the New York Yiddish newspaper Forverts for over seven decades. This study takes a closer look at the letters and responses to A Bintel Brief thereby revealing the...
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Published in 1972, New Portuguese Letters addressed censored issues – such as the colonial war, immigration, the Catholic Church, violence, and the legal and social status of women – becoming a symbol of resistance against the Fascist Portuguese regime. Privileging...
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This book explores the environment and cultural context of Colombian political novels published between 1951 and 1987. Challenging the label of «novelas de la violencia», the author analyses them as products of their own historical time and takes into account their...
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Können Kriege aus humanitären Gründen gerecht sein? Der Autor verfolgt die lateinamerikanischen Antworten auf diese Frage von der Eroberung des Kontinents bis in die Gegenwart. Er zeigt, wie sich Philosophen, Völkerrechtler und Diplomaten angesichts des iberischen...
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Based on intensive fieldwork among the Finnish Roma, the Kaale, between 1995 and 2015, this book explores their traditional songs. It presents an introduction to the subject of traditional Romani music and offers different interpretations of how the Roma themselves...
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Over the last decades Clifford Geertz’ interpretive anthropology has played an important role in the field of socio-cultural anthropology. The study presents the critical reception of his thoughts in Western countries and Polish anthropology. Interpretive anthropology...
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In diesem Buch geht es um demokratische Mehrheitsabstimmungen, von denen der Marquis de Condorcet im 18. Jahrhundert bemerkte, dass sie zu nicht umsetzbaren («paradoxen») Beschlüssen führen können, auch wenn die einzelnen Entscheidungsträger «vernünftig» (rational)...
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How do social work students learn to use research to underpin their practice decisions?How do they learn that research is not an activity unconnected to their professional role and responsibilities, but rather acts as a foundation for their knowledge?
By using the...
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Media pilgrimage has become a booming business in the 21st century. Fans of television shows, rock groups and books flock to places associated with their favorite series, artist or writer, trying to embody and perhaps understand what inspired the beloved piece of work,...
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Social work with vulnerable adults is becoming increasingly centred on a key piece of legislation: the Mental Capacity Act. The Act provides a framework for protecting the vulnerable while allowing those who may lack capacity to have certain safeguards enshrined in law....
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This sharp, innovative book champions the rising significance of ethnographic research on the use of digital resources around the world. It contextualises digital and pre-digital ethnographic research and demonstrates how the methodological, practical and theoretical...
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