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Fashion, history, museums
The last decade has seen the growing popularity and visibility of fashion as a cultural product, including its growing presence in museum exhibitions. This book explores the history of fashion curating and exhibitions, highlighting the continuity of past and present curatorial practices. Comparing and contrasting exhibitions from different museums and decades – from the Paris Exposition Unive…
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- 9781350048997
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- 746.92 PET f
Totalitarian Communication: Hierarchies, Codes and Messages
By using history and theory of communication as an integrative methodological device, this book reaches out to those properties of totalitarian society which appear to be beyond the grasp of specific disciplines. Furthermore, this functional approach allows to extend the analysis of communicative practices commonly associated with fascist Italy, Nazi Germany and Soviet Union, to other locations…
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- 9783839413937
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- 316p.: ill.
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- 320.53 TOT t
Methods in world history : a critical approach
"Interest in world history has never been greater—both among historians and the reading public. Globalization has coaxed historians out of their fixation on all things national, which has characterized historical research since the nineteenth century. But with this new global field of research has come new methodological problems. It is high time that these problems were tackled, if only to d…
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- 9789188168481
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- 254 p.
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- 907.2 JAR m
Emerging states and economies : their origins, drivers, and challenges ahead
This open access book asks why and how some of the developing countries have “emerged” under a set of similar global conditions, what led individual countries to choose the particular paths that led to their “emergence,” and what challenges confront them. If we are to understand the nature of major risks and uncertainties in the world, we must look squarely at the political and economic…
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- 9789811326349
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- x, 177p. : ill.
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- 338.9 EME e
Developmental state building : the politics of emerging economies
This open access book modifies and revitalizes the concept of the ‘developmental state’ to understand the politics of emerging economy through nuanced analysis on the roles of human agency in the context of structural transformation. In other words, there is a revived interest in the ‘developmental state’ concept. The nature of the ‘emerging state’ is characterized by its attitude t…
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- 9789811329043
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- xiv, 185p. : ill.
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- 338.9 DEV d
People and place: The West Coast of New Zealand's South Island in history and…
"This book traces the enduring relationship between history, people and place that has shaped the character of a single region in a manner perhaps unique within the New Zealand experience. It explores the evolution of a distinctive regional literature that both shaped and was shaped by the physical and historical environment that inspired it. Looking westwards towards Australia and long shut of…
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- 9781760463458
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- ix, 205p.: ill.
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- 993 RIC p
Islam and the making of the nation: Kartosuwiryo and political Islam in twent…
For decades, scholars of Indonesia have rejected the religious claims of the Darul Islam movement, interpreting the antagonism between the Islamic state and Soekarno’s republic as a fight for power, self-assertion, or land rights. Recently Kartosuwiryo and the Darul Islam have become heroic symbols of the local Islamist struggle, offering an alternative vision of this politician. The author l…
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- 9789067183864
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- XVII, 244 p.
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- Verhandelingen van het Koninklijk Instituut voor Taal-, Land- en Volkenkunde
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- 959.803 FOR i
Principled pragmatism : VOC interaction with Makassar 1637-68 and the Nature …
In this study of the Dutch East India Company the author uses the Company’s seventeenth century diplomatic interaction with the trading Sultanate of Macassar, on the southwestern tip of present day Sulawesi, as a case in cross cultural diplomacy. The author argues that the outlook of the Company’s agents both home and overseas was pragmatic, as was the nature of the solutions to the problem…
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- 9788202566609
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- 375 p.
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- 959.8 FRE p
Cultural Crossroads in the Middle East
The region of the Middle East has been called the cradle of mankind. This volume studies historical, cultural, religious, social and political legacies, which play a central role in obstructing intercultural dialogue in the Middle East. The region became home to numerous cultures, religions and ethnicities with long experience of living together in a multicultural environment and has an immense…
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- 9789949031764
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- 349 p.
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- Studia Orientalia Tartuensia. Series Nova
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- 200 CUL c
Materiality of writing in early Mesopotamia
This volume presents recent research on the relationship between the material format of text-bearing artefacts, the texts they carry, and their genre. The essays cover a vast period, from the counting stones of the late 4th millennium BCE to the time of the Great Hittite Kingdom in the 2nd millennium BCE. The breadth of substantive focus allows new insights of relevance to scholars in both Anci…
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- 9783110459630
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- VI, 301 p.
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- Materiale Textkulturen
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- 411.7 BAL m
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