154 Ergebnisse für: _studies
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Ritualizing on the Boundaries: Continuity and Innovation in the Tamil Diaspora - Fred W. Clothey - Google Books
https://books.google.de/books?id=uRxAOJWnyEwC
In his comparative study of four Tamil resettlements, Clothey examines the rituals that have traveled with these South Indian communities - Hindu, Muslim, and Christian - and how these practices perpetuate or modify the heritages these groups claim for…
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Preparation for a Revolution: The Young Turks, 1902-1908 - M. Sukru Hanioglu - Google Books
https://books.google.de/books?id=nNdKQfEdyvgC
This book will completely transform the standard interpretation of the Young Turk Revolution of 1908, a watershed event in the late Ottoman Empire and a key to the emergence of the modern nation-states in the Middle East and Balkans. Preparation for a…
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Johann Christoph Gottsched (1700-1766): Harbinger of German Classicism - P. M. Mitchell, Phillip Marshall Mitchell - Google Books
https://books.google.de/books?id=aS5EqlBjLHgC&dq=mitchell+gottsched
Gottsched (1700-66) filled all these lacunae and gained a position of eminence from about 1720 to - in many fields - until his death, but with regard to the drama only until 1758 when he was knocked from his pedestal, so to speak, by the young G. E.…
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Redemption and the Merchant God: Dostoevsky's Economy of Salvation and ... - Susan McReynolds, Susan McReynolds Oddo - Google Books
https://books.google.de/books?id=QnGOISncKfMC
Dostoevsky’s Russian chauvinism and anti-Semitism have long posed problems for his readers and critics. How could the author of The Brothers Karamazov also be the source of the slurs against Jews in Diary of a Writer? And where is the celebrated Christian…
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Social Relations in the Estate Villages of Mecklenburg c.1880–1924 - Simon Constantine - Google Books
https://books.google.de/books?id=kRyoDQAAQBAJ&lpg=PT26
Research on late nineteenth and early twentieth century German society has concentrated overwhelmingly on life in the cities. By contrast, and despite the fact that almost one third of Germans were still working in agriculture as late as 1914, Germany's…
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Into New Territory: American Historians and the Concept of US Imperialism - James G. Morgan - Google Books
https://books.google.de/books?id=vey6AwAAQBAJ
The idea that the United States—a nation founded after a war of independence—operates as an imperialist power on the world stage has gained considerable traction since the turn of the twenty-first century. But just a few decades earlier, this position was…
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Word and Object - Willard van Orman Quine - Google Books
http://books.google.de/books/about/Word_and_Object.html?id=sVH3YlIZK5QC
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The Imperial Harem: Women and Sovereignty in the Ottoman Empire - Leslie P. Peirce - Google Books
https://books.google.de/books?id=L6-VRgVzRcUC
The unprecedented political power of the Ottoman imperial harem in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries is widely viewed as illegitimate and corrupting. This book examines the sources of royal women's power and assesses the reactions of contemporaries,…
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Lessons in Being Chinese: Minority Education and Ethnic Identity in ... - Mette Halskov Hansen - Google Books
https://books.google.de/books?id=tgq1miGno-4C
Two very different ethnic minority communities—the Naxi of the Lijiang area in northern Yunnan and the Tai (Dai) of Sipsong Panna (Xishuangbanna), along Yunnan’s border with Burma and Laos—are featured in this comparative study of the implementation and…