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ISBN: 0191622435 1280758732 0191518689 1429421282 9781429421287 0198206151 9780198206156 Year: 2005 Publisher: Oxford New York Oxford University Press

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Taking in events as diverse as the Scottish assertion of independence at the end of the thirteenth century, the Union of the Crowns, and devolution, the contributors trace Scottish history from pre-1100 to the twentieth century, and show that Scotland was a remarkably successful, thriving, and important kingdom of international renown. - ;Scotland has long had a romantic appeal which has tended to be focused on a few over-dramatized personalities or events, notably Mary Queen of Scots, Bonnie Prince Charlie, the Highland Clearances-the failures and the sad - though more positively, William Wal

Punishment and power in the making of modern Japan
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ISBN: 0691114919 1400849292 0691130302 1299988105 9781400849291 9780691114910 9780691130309 Year: 2005 Publisher: Princeton

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The kinds of punishment used in a society have long been considered an important criterion in judging whether a society is civilized or barbaric, advanced or backward, modern or premodern. Focusing on Japan, and the dramatic revolution in punishments that occurred after the Meiji Restoration, Daniel Botsman asks how such distinctions have affected our understanding of the past and contributed, in turn, to the proliferation of new kinds of barbarity in the modern world. While there is no denying the ferocity of many of the penal practices in use during the Tokugawa period (1600-1868), this book begins by showing that these formed part of a sophisticated system of order that did have its limits. Botsman then demonstrates that although significant innovations occurred later in the period, they did not fit smoothly into the "modernization" process. Instead, he argues, the Western powers forced a break with the past by using the specter of Oriental barbarism to justify their own aggressive expansion into East Asia. The ensuing changes were not simply imposed from outside, however. The Meiji regime soon realized that the modern prison could serve not only as a symbol of Japan's international progress but also as a powerful domestic tool. The first English-language study of the history of punishment in Japan, the book concludes by examining how modern ideas about progress and civilization shaped penal practices in Japan's own colonial empire.

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Punishment --- History. --- Japan --- History

Time and mind : the history of a philosophical problem
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ISBN: 9004141529 9786610867295 1429429232 9047406575 1280867299 1433706571 9781429429238 9789004141520 9781433706578 9789047406570 9781280867293 6610867291 Year: 2005 Publisher: Leiden ; Boston : Brill,

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This book deals with the history of a central problem in the philosophy of time: Can time exist without mind or consciousness, and if not, in what respects? Aristotle was the first to formulate this problem, and it has been intensively discussed ever since. This book analyses the answers and arguments and sets them in their historical context. Although there have been very different approaches, the book shows important continuities as well. Besides being a specialist monograph, it can be used in courses on the philosophy of time in general, or on the realism/idealism debate.

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Time --- History --- History.

Peculiar liaisons : in war, espionage, and terrorism in the twentieth century
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ISBN: 0875863337 9781417584610 1417584610 9781417584611 0875863310 9780875863313 0875863329 9780875863320 9780875863337 Year: 2005 Publisher: New York : Algora Pub.,

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Presenting famous and infamous individuals and events that have shaped the current Western civilization, this book illustrates how America has arrived at our present dilemma of a unique "war on terror."John Craig details the unusual and often profound con

A little history of the world
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ISBN: 0300132077 9780300132076 0300108834 9780300108835 Year: 2005 Publisher: New Haven : Yale University Press,

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E. H. Gombrich's bestselling history of the world for young readers tells the story of mankind from the Stone Age to the atomic bomb, focusing not on small detail but on the sweep of human experience, the extent of human achievement, and the depth of its frailty. The product of a generous and humane sensibility, this timeless account makes intelligible the full span of human history. In forty concise chapters, Gombrich tells the story of man from the stone age to the atomic bomb. In between emerges a colorful picture of wars and conquests, grand works of art, and the spread and limitations of science. This is a text dominated not by dates and facts, but by the sweep of mankind's experience across the centuries, a guide to humanity's achievements and an acute witness to its frailties.

The enchantments of technology
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ISBN: 1283097419 9786613097415 0252090446 9780252090448 0252029852 0252072324 9781283097413 9780252072321 9780252029851 0252072324 Year: 2005 Publisher: Urbana : University of Illinois Press,

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Technology --- History. --- History --- Inventions


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History of the Jews in Russia and Poland.
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Year: 2005 Publisher: [Place of publication not identified] : Perlego,

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Jews --- Jews --- History. --- History.


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Ports maritimes et ports fluviaux au Moyen Âge : XXXVe Congrès de la SHMES (La Rochelle, 5 et 6 juin 2004)
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Year: 2005 Publisher: Paris : Éditions de la Sorbonne,

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Le Moyen Âge apparaît, à bien des égards, comme un âge d'or des ports. Et d'abord parce qu'il fut une grande époque de navigation. La mer et le fleuve génèrent en effet des déplacements, des passages, des échanges en des sites soigneusement choisis et construits par l'homme. Ce sont ces sites maritimes et fluviaux, désignés par des termes issus du vieux nordique hofn ou du latin portus, qui font l'objet des études rassemblées ici. Répondant à l'invitation de la jeune université de La Rochelle, la Société des historiens médiévistes de l'Enseignement supérieur public y a tenu son XXXVe congrès en juin 2004. Comme il se devait dans un port atlantique et un lieu hautement symbolique, le thème retenu, Ports maritimes et ports fluviaux au Moyen Âge, touchait aux déplacements par voie d'eau. Les actes de la rencontre traitent donc de la navigation, mais aussi de toutes les activités qui lui étaient liées et des hommes qui s'y consacraient ou qui en dépendaient. Des rives de l'Atlantique à celle de la mer Noire et de la Baltique, en passant par la Méditerranée, et sans oublier les grands fleuves, les études que l'on va lire tirent parti des progrès de l'archéologie et d'une attention critique aux sources écrites pour reconstituer la topographie des sites portuaires, la variété des activités et des métiers liés aux fonctions des ports, les configurations des réseaux d'échanges construits ou non, ainsi que les mécanismes de prélèvement fiscaux et de contrôle des activités de ces lieux singuliers. Elles mettent ainsi en lumière les systèmes portuaires reliant les fleuves aux bassins maritimes, ainsi que les changements intervenus au cours des dix siècles médiévaux, en particulier de part et d'autre de la césure du xiiie siècle.

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Navigation --- Harbors --- History --- History


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Leeuw van Vlaanderen : Of de Slag der Gulden Sporen
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Year: 2005 Publisher: [Place of publication not identified] : Project Gutenberg,

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Europe --- Netherlands --- History --- History.


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夢溪筆談.
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Year: 2005 Publisher: [Place of publication not identified] : Project Gutenberg,

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History. --- China --- History

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