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Resistant Islands offers an overview of Okinawan history, focusing on the colonization by Japan, its fate during World War II, and its status as a US military base. This new edition includes an analysis of events since the book first published, including the deployment of MV-22 Ospreys, the approval of the new base, and the all-Okinawa movement.

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Resistant Islands offers an overview of Okinawan history, focusing on the colonization by Japan, its fate during World War II, and its status as a US military base. This new edition includes an analysis of events since the book first published, including the deployment of MV-22 Ospreys, the approval of the new base, and the all-Okinawa movement.

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Nineteenth-century European thought, especially in Germany, was increasingly dominated by a historicist impulse to situate every event, person, or text in its particular context. This title examines the backlash against historicism, focusing on four Jewish thinkers, Hermann Cohen, Franz Rosenzweig, Leo Strauss, and Isaac Breuer.

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Resisting History examines the unexpected origins of our modern notion of the subconscious. Written in a fresh and entertaining style, this concise volume argues that this fundamental tenet of psychological thought derives from the attempts of theologians, historians and psychologists to contain supernatural experience. -- .

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This text focuses on the resistance to the Holocaust from the perspective of the victims, almost all Jewish, in some cases female. Their resistance embraces a variety of actions and movements, passive and active, performed by individuals, groups and nations.

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Focussing on his term as Prime Minister from 2001-06, this volume provides an assessment of how the neo-conservative values attributed to Silvio Berlusconi were contested and resisted by a variety of groups. It is suitable for those who have an interest in Italy, in politics, in culture and cultural studies.

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In a period marked by a number of great diarists, England after the Civil War was a place of pleasure and drama. This book offers insights into the real, daily lives of those living in the period: work that was done, food that was eaten and leisure activities that were pursued.

Beginning with the Restoration of the monarchy after the Civil War, this book traces the fate of the monarchy from Charles II's triumphant accession in 1660 to the discontent of the 1680s. This book looks beyond the popular image of Restoration England, and reconstructs the human tragedy of Restoration politics.

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This book offers an overview of the origins, growth, and influence of chivalry and courtly love, casting new light on the importance of these medieval ideals for understanding world history and culture to the present day.

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"Rethinking Heritage" brings together leading writers and thinkers to examine the ways in which ingrained assumptions about heritage are being challenged today. It explores key questions that surround heritage as a pressing political issue, such as how does history become heritage

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An eminent cast of scholars analyse and explain, rather than merely narrate, developments of modern war.

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Analyses and explains developments of modern war. This book deals with three of the most important themes of historical studies: the way history is or ought to be written, the nature of dictatorships, and the nature of wars. It focuses on modern Europe, as well as on the First and Second World Wars and totalitarian dictatorships.

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This volume on Norman Italy (southern Italy and Sicily, c. 10001200) honours the pioneering scholarship of Graham A. Loud. An international group of scholars reassesses the paradigm by which Norman Italy has been understood, addressing subjects across four key themes: historiographies, identities and communities, religion and Church, and conquest.

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This volume on Norman Italy (southern Italy and Sicily, c. 10001200) honours the pioneering scholarship of Graham A. Loud. An international group of scholars reassesses the paradigm by which Norman Italy has been understood, addressing subjects across four key themes: historiographies, identities and communities, religion and Church, and conquest.

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This collection provides a multidisciplinary study of postwar and contemporary Okinawa. The contributors analyze the unique social and cultural transformations that have occurred outside the context of American military control or USJapan relations.

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Focuses on the long history of contact between indigenous peoples and the white colonial communities who settled in Australia, Aotearoa New Zealand, Canada and South Africa. Looks at how histories of colonial settlement have been mythologised, narrated and embodied in these countries in the twentieth century.

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This book sets out to challenge current interpretations of Carolingian culture, and especially its perceived correctio (correction), reform or renaissance. When we consider authors who operated outside the direct sphere of influence of the court, a much more dynamic image of Carolingian culture comes into view.

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This book sets out to challenge current interpretations of Carolingian culture, and especially its perceived correctio (correction), reform or renaissance. When we consider authors who operated outside the direct sphere of influence of the court, a much more dynamic image of Carolingian culture comes into view.

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Rethinking the Enlightenment connects new work in intellectual history with fresh understandings of Continental philosophy and political theory. The collection bridges the disciplinary divides between the Enlightenment as understood in history, philosophy, and politics and moves towards a critical self-understanding of the present.