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Detta är en bok om de strider regering och statsapparat, arbetsgivare och fackföreningsrörelse, riksdagsmän och riksdagskvinnor, kvinnorörelsen,...
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Roman Law in Context
Roman Law in Context explains how Roman law worked for those who lived by it, by viewing it in the light of the society and economy in which it...
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Printing, Writers and Readers in Renaissance Italy
The spread of printing to Renaissance Italy had a dramatic impact on all users of books. As works came to be diffused more widely and cheaply, so...
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Banking and Business in the Roman World
In the first century BC lending and borrowing by the senators was the talk of Rome and even provoked political crises. During this same period, the...
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Food and Society in Classical Antiquity
This is the first study of food in classical antiquity that treats it as both a biological and a cultural phenomenon. The variables of food quantity,...
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Monsters and Revolutionaries
In Monsters and Revolutionaries Françoise Vergès analyzes the complex relationship between the colonizer and colonized on the Indian...
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Lessons and Legacies III
The process of looking back on the Holocaust is one of a double nature: it can bring both enlightenment and a paralyzing pain, particularly for its...
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Roman Law in Context
Roman Law in Context explains how Roman law worked for those who lived by it, by viewing it in the light of the society and economy in which it...
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The Country of Lost Children
The figure of the lost child has haunted the Australian imagination. Peter Pierce’s original and sometimes shocking study The Country of Lost...
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Banking and Business in the Roman World
In the first century BC lending and borrowing by the senators was the talk of Rome and even provoked political crises. During this same period, the...
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The Royal Image
1999 marks the 350th anniversary of the execution of Charles I, and this volume deals with the crisis the execution provoked in the representation of...
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Food and Society in Classical Antiquity
This is the first study of food in classical antiquity that treats it as both a biological and a cultural phenomenon. The variables of food quantity,...
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The Literary and Cultural Spaces of Restoration London
In September 1666 the Great Fire destroyed four-fifths of the ancient City of London within three days. All that had been familiar, settled, known,...
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Literate Education in the Hellenistic and Roman Worlds
This book offers an assessment of the content, structures and significance of education in Greek and Roman society. Drawing on a wide range of...
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Political Culture in the Reign of Elizabeth I
In this major contribution to Ideas in Context Anne McLaren explores the consequences for English political culture when, with the accession of...
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Literary Copyright Reform in Early Victorian England
Talfourd’s first Copyright Bill was presented in 1837, and the public and Parliamentary controversy it provoked is reflected in contemporary...
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Ælfric’s Letter to the Monks of Eynsham
Though best known today for his Old English homilies, the Anglo-Saxon scholar Ælfric also composed a Latin ‘letter’ to his fellow monks at...
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Performance Culture and Athenian Democracy
These new and specially-commissioned essays discuss the ways in which performance is central to the practice and ideology of democracy in classical...
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The Apocryphal Gospels of Mary in Anglo-Saxon England
This book provides an edition, with a facing translation and detailed commentary, of the three apocryphal gospels of Mary written in Old English. The...
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The Intellectual Foundations of the English Benedictine Reform
This book explores the foundations of the intellectual renaissance in tenth-century England, including both the English Benedictine reform and the...
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The Burden of Responsibility
Leon Blum, Albert Camus, and Raymond Aron might seem an unlikely combination. Blum was a fin-de-siecle aesthete who became the spiritual and...
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Doldahavsrullarna
De romerska kejsarna tävlade med sina föregångare om att stifta nya, stora offentliga bibliotek. Alla böcker och bibliotek sorterade under...
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Love Between Women
Love Between Women examines female homoeroticism and the role of women in the ancient Roman world. Employing an unparalleled range of cultural...
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Järnvägsresandets historia
Wolfgang Schivelbusch tar i Järnvägsresandets historia läsaren med på en ständigt överraskande färd genom det nya samhälle som...
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