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Disordering the establishment : participatory art and institutional critique …
In the decades following World War II, France experienced both a period of affluence and a wave of political, artistic, and philosophical discontent that culminated in the countrywide protests of 1968. In Disordering the Establishment Lily Woodruff examines the development of artistic strategies of political resistance in France in this era. Drawing on interviews with artists, curators, and cul…
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- 9781478012085
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- xi, 336p.; ill.
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- 709.05015 DIS w
The Politics of Comprehensive School Reforms : Cleavages and Coalitions
Why are school systems structured differently across countries? The Politics of Comprehensive School Reform examines this question through an in-depth analysis of school politics in Germany and Norway during the post-war period of educational expansion. Using a Rokkanian theoretical framework, the book argues that school politics can only be understood in light of the cleavages, or political di…
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- 9781009235211
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- xi, 332 p ; ill
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- 370.9481 POL
Four Histories About Early Dutch Football 1910-1920
What is the purpose of history today, and how can sporting research help us understand the world around us? In this stimulating book, Nicholas Piercey constructs four new histories of early Dutch football, exploring urban change, club members, the media, and the diaries of Cornelis Johannes Karel van Aalst, a stadium director, to propose practical examples of how history can become an important…
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- 9781910634790
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Napoleonic Governance In The Netherlands And Northwest Germany
“Van der Burg presents an innovative transregional study of Napoleonic governance in the often-overlooked northern periphery of the Empire. This book carefully examines the Empire’s administrative structure in the north, focusing on the heterogeneous community of prefects and subprefects as ‘tools of incorporation’, binding the regions to the central state. His rich comparative analysis…
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- 9783030666583
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Russia, The European Union And NATO; Is A “New Normal” Possible?
Russia, the European Union, and NATO still share some important common interests that need to be given greater attention. A return to strategic partnership is not conceivable without resolving the Ukraine confl ict, but prudent management of the antagonism in order to keep open the prospect of a peaceful new normal is crucial. At the same time, it is important to keep in mind that the persisten…
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- 9783847421771
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- Knowledge Unlatched (KU)
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The Springs Of Democracy : National and Transnational Debates on Constitution…
During the First World War, conflicts between the people’s sacrifices and their political participation led to crises of parliamentary legitimacy. This volume compares British, German, Swedish and Finnish debates on revolution, rule by the people, democracy and parliamentarism and their transnational links. The British reform, although more about winning the war than advancing democracy, rest…
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- 9789522229281
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- 590 p.
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- 940.5 SPR P
Deciding about design quality : value judgements and decision making in the s…
In the past few years the image of tender procedures in which Dutch public clients selected an architect has been dominated by distressing newspaper headlines. Architects fear that the current tender culture will harm the quality of our built environment due to a potential lack of diversity, creativity and innovation in architectural design. Clients often allow legal requirements to overrule th…
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- edision 12
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- 9789088900532
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- xi. ;342 p. :ill.
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- 343.49207872. DEC l
Sacred rivals : Catholic missions and the making of Islam in nineteenth-centu…
In , Abbé Jacques Suchet arrived in the Algerian city of Constantine, an important North African crossroads and citadel dating back to the days of the Roman Empire. The city, perched on a rock and surrounded by cliffs on three sides, had been conquered with much bloodshed only two years before, in colo-nial France’s first successful foray into the Algerian interior. Suchet …
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- 2
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- 9780197605295
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- xi, 304p.
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- 266.20965 SAC p
Digital constitutionalism in Europe : reframing rights and powers in the algo…
This book is about rights and powers in the digital age. It is an attempt to reframe the role of constitutional democracies in the algorithmic society. By focusing on the European constitutional framework as a lodestar, this book examines the rise and consolidation of digital constitutionalism as a reaction to digital capitalism. The primary goal is to examine how European digital constitutiona…
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- 9781009071215
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- xv, 355p.
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- 342.4085 DEG d
Henry James's Europe : heritage and transfer
As an American author who chose to live in Europe, Henry James frequently wrote about cultural differences between the Old and New World. The plight of bewildered Americans adrift on a sea of European sophistication became a regular theme in his fiction. This collection of twenty-four papers from some of the world’s leading James scholars offers a comprehensive picture of the author’s cross…
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- 9781906924386
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- xxiv, 271p. ; ill.
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- 813.4 TRE h
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