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  • The Empty Showcase Syndrome

    Tough Questions about Cultural Heritage from Colonial Regions

    by Jos Beurden ...
    European countries, including the Netherlands, are increasingly more willing to return looted art to their former colonies. In doing so, however, they are confronted with hard choices. In The Empty Showcase Syndrome, Jos van Beurden explores three of the toughest questions that countries and governments face. First, former colonial powers often hesitate to relinquish control over the provenance ... Read more

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  • Inconvenient Heritage

    Colonial Collections and Restitution in the Netherlands and Belgium

    by Jos Beurden ...
    The discussion about objects, ancestral remains and archives from former colonial territories is becoming increasingly heated. Over the centuries, a multitude of items – including a cannon of the King of Kandy, power-objects from DR Congo, Benin bronzes, Javanese temple statues, Maori heads and strategic documents – has ended up in museums and private collections in Belgium and the Netherlands by ... Read more

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    Series series New Oxford World History
    The City: A World History tells the story of the rise and development of urban centers from ancient times to the twenty-first century. It begins with the establishment of the first cities in the Near East in the fourth millennium BCE, and goes on to examine urban growth in the Indus River Valley in India, as well as Egypt and areas that bordered the Mediterranean Sea. Athens, Alexandria, and Rome ... Read more

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  • The Making of the Greek Crisis

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    by James Pettifer ...
    Series series Penguin Specials
    Penguin Specials are designed to fill a gap. Written to be read over a long commute or a short journey, they are original and exclusively in digital form.The financial and social crisis in Greece has deep roots in the country's society and history. In this newly revised edition James Pettifer, the leading Balkan commentator and Oxford University historian brings us up to date with recent events in ... Read more

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  • Migrations

    A History of Where We All Come From

    by DK ...
    Discover how the migration of peoples has shaped the modern world.This beautifully illustrated ebook details the movement of people and cultures around the world - from the early migrations of Homo erectus out of Africa 50,000 years ago to modern refugee movements and migrations.Through vibrant photographs, illustrations, and maps, Migrations explores famous (and infamous) movements in history, ... Read more

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  • Segregation

    A Global History of Divided Cities

    by Carl H. Nightingale ...
    Series series Historical Studies of Urban America
    When we think of segregation, what often comes to mind is apartheid South Africa, or the American South in the age of Jim Crow—two societies fundamentally premised on the concept of the separation of the races. But as Carl H. Nightingale shows us in this magisterial history, segregation is everywhere, deforming cities and societies worldwide.Starting with segregation's ancient roots, and what the ... Read more

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  • Capital Cities around the World

    An Encyclopedia of Geography, History, and Culture

    by Roman Adrian Cybriwsky ...
    This informative resource is a fascinating compilation of the history, politics, and culture of every capital city from around the world, making this the only singular reference on the subject of its kind.Every country, even the world's youngest nations, has a capital city—a centralized location which houses the seat of government and acts as the hub of culture and history. But, what role do ... Read more

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  • Orange Sky, Rising Water

    The Remarkable Past and Uncertain Future of the Netherlands

    by Nicholas Walton ...
    From unpromising marshy beginnings, the Netherlands grew into a maritime, cultural, economic, scientific, agricultural and footballing superpower. How did it get there? Journalist Nicholas Walton paints a vivid portrait of one of the world's most remarkable countries. Drawing on interviews, his own life in the Netherlands, Dutch history and popular culture, he tells a story of floods and riots, ... Read more

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  • Architecture, Power and National Identity

    by Lawrence Vale ...
    The first edition of Architecture, Power, and National Identity, published in 1992, has become a classic, winning the prestigious Spiro Kostof award for the best book in architecture and urbanism. Lawrence Vale fully has fully updated the book, which focuses on the relationship between the design of national capitals across the world and the formation of national identity in modernity. Tied to ... Read more

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  • Micronations

    For Those Who Are Tired of Existing Incompetent Governments and Are Longing for Something New and Refreshing

    by Mohhammad Bahareth ...
    What is a Micro Nation?A micro nation can actually be referred to as new country project or a model country. The definition of a micro nation is thus rendered:“An entity that resembles a nation or a state, but which for the most part exists only on paper, on the Internet, or in the mind of its creator.”Also referred to as:“Model countries and new country projects -- are entities that claim to be ... Read more

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  • Earthopolis

    A Biography of Our Urban Planet

    by Carl H. Nightingale ...
    This is a biography of Earthopolis, the only Urban Planet we know of. It is a history of how cities gave humans immense power over Earth, for good and for ill. Carl Nightingale takes readers on a sweeping six-continent, six-millennia tour of the world's cities, culminating in the last 250 years, when we vastly accelerated our planetary realms of action, habitat, and impact, courting dangerous new ... Read more

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  • A History of Tourism in Africa

    Exoticization, Exploitation, and Enrichment

    by Todd Cleveland ...
    Series series Africa in World History
    An engaging social history of foreign tourists’ dreams, the African tourism industry’s efforts to fulfill them, and how both sides affect each other.Since the nineteenth century, foreign tourists and resident tourism workers in Africa have mutually relied upon notions of exoticism, but from vastly different perspectives. Many of the countless tourists who have traveled to the African continent ... Read more

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