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5161) Imagining India in Modern China: Literary Decolonization and the Imperial Unconscious, 1895–1962
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Beginning in the late Qing era, Chinese writers and intellectuals looked to India in search of new literary possibilities and anticolonial solidarity. In their view, India and China shared both an illustrious past of cultural and religious exchange and a present experience of colonial aggression. These writers imagined India as an alternative to Western imperialism-a Pan-Asian ideal that could help chart an escape route from colonialism and its brutal...
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Detrás de los retratos de Frida Kahlo se ocultan tanto la historia de su vida como la de su obra. Es precisamente esta combinación lo que cautiva al espectador. La obra de Frida es un testimonio de su vida. Pocas veces se puede aprender tanto acerca de un artista con solo contemplar lo que inscribe dentro del marco de sus cuadros. Frida Kahlo es sin lugar a dudas la ofrenda de México a la historia del arte. Tenía apenas dieciocho años cuando...
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The Franco-War of 1870 marked an absolute watershed: France had been the military and cultural centre-point of mainland Europe for some centuries, its fashion copied, its armies feared and its language the language of diplomacy and the highest circles. Growing in power, prestige and ambition, the states of Germany stood in opposition to this hegemony, a newborn power with much to prove. Its dominant driving force was Prussia, under the determined...
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"Shortlisted for the Scottish Research Book of the Year, The Saltire Society" Richard Whatmore is professor of modern history and codirector of the Institute of Intellectual History at the University of St Andrews. He is the author of What Is Intellectual History?, Against War and Empire, and Republicanism and the French Revolution.
A bloody episode that epitomised the political dilemmas of the eighteenth century
In 1798, members of the United...
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In Cursed, Joanna Tokarska-Bakir investigates the July 4, 1946, Kielce pogrom, a milestone in the periodization of the Jewish diaspora. This massacre compelled thousands of Polish Jews who survived the Holocaust to flee postwar Poland. It remains a negative reference point in the Polish historical narrative and represents a lack of reckoning with the role of antisemitism in postwar Polish society and identity politics.
Tokarska-Bakir weaves together...
5167) Dada
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Dada shocked the world between the years 1916 and 1922. Dada was not an art movement in the normal sense. It was a storm that broke over the art scene of the time, as the war upon the peoples. They consciously staged anti-art events. According to Max Ernst, it was the 'outbreak of anger and zest for life' at the same time. The indignation about the monstrous genocide during World War I was great and equally at the 'civilization that had brought it...
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Sir John Fortescue holds a pre-eminent place amongst British military historians, his enduring fame and legacy resting mainly on his life's work "The History of the British Army", issued in 20 volumes, which took him some 30 years to complete. In scope and breadth it is such that no modern scholar has attempted to cover such a large and diverse subject in its entirety; but Sir John did so and with aplomb, leading to a readable and comprehensive study....
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The eBook "Postmodern Architecture Characteristics: A Quick Introduction" provides a succinct yet informative analysis of the distinguishing characteristics and continuing influence of postmodernism in architecture. This book gives readers a thorough understanding of the main ideas and traits that set postmodern architecture apart from its modernist forebears. The eBook starts out by underlining postmodernism's critical reaction to the dogmatic ideologies...
5170) Teutonic Knights
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The Teutonic Knights were powerful and ferocious advocates of holy war. Their history is suffused with crusading, campaigning and struggle. Feared by their enemies but respected by medieval Christendom, the knights and their Order maintained a firm hold over the Baltic and northern Germany and established a formidable regime which flourished across Central Europe for 300 years.
This major new book surveys the gripping history of the knights and their...
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[Illustrated with over one hundred maps, photos and portraits, of the battles, individuals and places involved in the Indian Mutiny]. Originally published anonymously as by a "Staff Officer", Captain Thomas Wilson's memoirs are as gripping and vivid as any that a British officer wrote of the Famous Siege of Lucknow. During the Indian Mutiny of 1857 many towns and cities were laid waste by riotous elements of the Indian Army. Many Europeans, having...
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Los proyectiles no pueden esparcirse por todo el término de la ciudad. Así es que miramos líneas principales de comunicación y vías de escape. También dónde arda bien. Y usted sabe perfectamente igual que nosotros dónde está eso en una ciudad antigua. Nosotros no somos medievalistas, pero aun así también hemos oído que una ciudad como esa data del año 800 después de Cristo. Partiendo de eso, los lanzamientos tienen que concentrarse en...
5173) El Caso Dreyfus
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La madrugada del lunes 14 de octubre de 1894, un joven oficial judío, el capitán Alfred Dreyfus, es detenido y acusado de haber entregado información a Alemania. Unas semanas más tarde es condenado a deportación perpetua a la isla del Diablo por un consejo de guerra. Poco a poco, se comprueba que el juicio ha sido absolutamente parcial y que el capitán Dreyfus ha sido condenado a la ligera. Los escándalos se suceden, desde la inculpación de...
5174) La guerre froide, un combat de longue haleine: Quand l'URSS et les États-Unis se partagent le monde
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Découvrez enfin tout ce qu'il faut savoir sur la guerre froide en moins d'une heure!
1945. Au lendemain de la Seconde Guerre mondiale, l'Europe est exsangue. Deux pays sortent pourtant gagnants du conflit: les États-Unis et l'URSS. Or, ces deux superpuissances défendent des valeurs diamétralement opposées, non seulement sur le plan idéologique, mais aussi économique. S'ensuit un affrontement inévitable, dont les conséquences pourraient faire...
5175) The Zika Virus
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The Zika Virus covers the Zika outbreak that began in 2015, discusses the history of the virus and its discovery, examines how the virus spreads and how it affects the infected, and looks at how the medical community is fighting it. Aligned to Common Core Standards and correlated to state standards.
5176) The Jena Campaign - 1806
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This ebook is purpose built and is proof-read and re-type set from the original to provide an outstanding experience of reflowing text for an ebook reader. Prussia had sat on the sidelines in 1805 whilst Napoleon hammered the Austrian and Russian armies in a dazzling series of victories culminating at the battle of Austerlitz. As the court of Frederick William III awaited a favourable moment to intervene, they looked on their army with a misplaced...
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Illustrated with over one hundred maps, photos and portraits, of the battles of the Indian Mutiny. By 1857, British power in India had been largely undisputed for almost fifty years, however, the armies of the East India Company were largely recruited from the native people of India. This inherent weakness would be exposed during the events of the Indian Mutiny of 1857-1858, as the Sepoy soldiers turned against their erstwhile British employers. The...
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A woman walks through a virtual reconstruction of the destroyed streets where she and her lover used to live. A young man trades away his youth, and something of himself, in the plasma extracted from his blood. A clone addresses her dead, doubled 'self' as she tries to understand her personal history. In these uncanny stories of virtual reality, biotech, data surveillance and communications technology, Black Mirror meets M.R. James: unsettling perspectives...
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Pablo Picasso (Málaga, 1881 — Mougins, 1973). Picasso naquit en Espagne et l'on dit même qu'il commença à dessiner avant de savoir parler. Enfant, il fut nstinctivement attiré par les instruments de l'artiste. Il pouvait passer des heures de joyeuse concentration à dessiner des spirales pourvues d'un sens qu'il était seul à connaître. Fuyant les jeux d'enfants, il traça ses premiers tableaux dans le sable. Cette manière précoce de s'exprimer...
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