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The Rise and Propagation of Historical Professionalism

by Rolf Torstendahl ...

Series series Routledge Approaches to History
This book examines the evolution of historical professionalism, with the development of an international community that shares a set of values regarding both methodological minimum demands and what constitutes new results. Historical professionalism is not a fixed set of skills, but a concept with varying import and meaning at different times depending on changing norms. Torstendahl covers the ... Read more

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This book examines the evolution of historical professionalism, with the development of an international community that shares a set of values regarding both methodological minimum demands and what constitutes new results. Historical professionalism is not a fixed set of skills, but a concept with varying import and meaning at different times depending on changing norms. Torstendahl covers the
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Theoretical Schools and Circles in the Twentieth-Century Humanities

Literary Theory, History, Philosophy

Edited by Marina Grishakova, Silvi Salupere ...

Series series Routledge Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Literature
Schools and circles have been a major force in twentieth-century intellectual movements. They fostered circulation of ideas within and between disciplines, thus altering the shape of intellectual inquiry. This volume offers a new perspective on theoretical schools in the humanities, both as generators of conceptual knowledge and as cultural phenomena. The structuralist, semiotic, phenomenological, ... Read more

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Schools and circles have been a major force in twentieth-century intellectual movements. They fostered circulation of ideas within and between disciplines, thus altering the shape of intellectual inquiry. This volume offers a new perspective on theoretical schools in the humanities, both as generators of conceptual knowledge and as cultural phenomena. The structuralist, semiotic, phenomenological,
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From Here to There

The Staughton Lynd Reader

by Staughton Lynd ...

From Here to There collects unpublished talks and hard-to-find essays from legendary activist historian Staughton Lynd.The first section of the Reader collects reminiscences and analyses of the 1960s. A second section offers a vision of how historians might immerse themselves in popular movements while maintaining their obligation to tell the truth. In the last section Lynd explores what ... Read more

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From Here to There collects unpublished talks and hard-to-find essays from legendary activist historian Staughton Lynd.The first section of the Reader collects reminiscences and analyses of the 1960s. A second section offers a vision of how historians might immerse themselves in popular movements while maintaining their obligation to tell the truth. In the last section Lynd explores what
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Discursos y escritos polémicos de la política colombiana

Historia de Colombia, #88

by Jorge Orduz Rico ...

Series Book 88 - Historia de Colombia
Valioso trabajo de recopilación de las páginas más famosas, y de otras no por menos conocidas menos meritorias, de la elocuencia de nuestros pensadores políticos, ya en el ataque, ya en la defensa de sus ideales y de síntesis biográfica de cada uno de los autores comprendidos en este volumen, es el que ha hecho Jorge Orduz Rico.Pocas personalidades como Jorge Orduz Rico podían realizar este ... Read more

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Valioso trabajo de recopilación de las páginas más famosas, y de otras no por menos conocidas menos meritorias, de la elocuencia de nuestros pensadores políticos, ya en el ataque, ya en la defensa de sus ideales y de síntesis biográfica de cada uno de los autores comprendidos en este volumen, es el que ha hecho Jorge Orduz Rico.Pocas personalidades como Jorge Orduz Rico podían realizar este
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Mental Libraries

The Reception of the Arts of Memory in Literature and Culture

Edited by Julia Domínguez ...

Series series Routledge Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Literature
Mental Libraries: The Reception of the Arts of Memory in Literature and Culture explores the enduring legacy of mnemonic systems across literature, visual arts, pedagogy, and cultural production.Centered on the metaphor of the “mental library,” this collection reveals how memory practices functioned as tools for knowledge storage as well as generative frameworks for creativity and invention. The ... Read more

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Mental Libraries: The Reception of the Arts of Memory in Literature and Culture explores the enduring legacy of mnemonic systems across literature, visual arts, pedagogy, and cultural production.Centered on the metaphor of the “mental library,” this collection reveals how memory practices functioned as tools for knowledge storage as well as generative frameworks for creativity and invention. The
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Michael Faraday

Biographies of Inventors

by Hourly History ...

Series series Biographies of Inventors
Michael Faraday is regarded as one of the founding fathers of modern physics. His work in the field of electromagnetism revolutionized society, leading to new avenues of study and developments of technology that would leave the world changed forever. Without Faraday's discoveries, there would be no electronics or electrical power. There would be no technology as we recognize it, or at the very ... Read more

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Michael Faraday is regarded as one of the founding fathers of modern physics. His work in the field of electromagnetism revolutionized society, leading to new avenues of study and developments of technology that would leave the world changed forever. Without Faraday's discoveries, there would be no electronics or electrical power. There would be no technology as we recognize it, or at the very
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SOBERANÍA DE ORO Y SANGRE: Tracia y Dacia Antiguas

CULTURAS DEL MUNDO

by Cristina Lobo, Manuel Rodsua ...

Series series CULTURAS DEL MUNDO
¿Y si la historia de los pueblos que desafiaron a Roma hubiera sido distorsionada por la propaganda de sus conquistadores? Al levantar el velo del mito bárbaro, emerge un ecosistema fascinante donde la religión, el secreto de la metalurgia y la soberanía dinástica operaban como una avanzada maquinaria de ordenación social en los límites de Europa Oriental.En Soberanía de Oro y Sangre, Cristina ... Read more

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¿Y si la historia de los pueblos que desafiaron a Roma hubiera sido distorsionada por la propaganda de sus conquistadores? Al levantar el velo del mito bárbaro, emerge un ecosistema fascinante donde la religión, el secreto de la metalurgia y la soberanía dinástica operaban como una avanzada maquinaria de ordenación social en los límites de Europa Oriental.En Soberanía de Oro y Sangre, Cristina
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A History of France

Easy-to-Read Layout

by H.E Marshall ...

Covering nearly two thousand years of French history in a single volume, this classic work tells history as a story, bringing the past to life through anecdotes, vivid characters, and dramatic battle narratives. Written for younger readers but enjoyed by adults as well, it combines engaging storytelling with striking portraits of kings, queens, saints, soldiers, and revolutionaries who shaped the ... Read more

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Covering nearly two thousand years of French history in a single volume, this classic work tells history as a story, bringing the past to life through anecdotes, vivid characters, and dramatic battle narratives. Written for younger readers but enjoyed by adults as well, it combines engaging storytelling with striking portraits of kings, queens, saints, soldiers, and revolutionaries who shaped the
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The Holocaust and Historical Methodology

Edited by Dan Stone ...

Series Book 16 - Making Sense of History
In the last two decades our empirical knowledge of the Holocaust has been vastly expanded. Yet this empirical blossoming has not been accompanied by much theoretical reflection on the historiography. This volume argues that reflection on the historical process of (re)constructing the past is as important for understanding the Holocaust—and, by extension, any past event—as is archival research. It ... Read more

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In the last two decades our empirical knowledge of the Holocaust has been vastly expanded. Yet this empirical blossoming has not been accompanied by much theoretical reflection on the historiography. This volume argues that reflection on the historical process of (re)constructing the past is as important for understanding the Holocaust—and, by extension, any past event—as is archival research. It
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The Bloomsbury Handbook of Microhistory

Origins, Present State and Prospects

Edited by Professor Sigurður Gylfi Magnússon, Professor Deivy Carneiro, Thomas V. Cohen ...

Series series Bloomsbury Handbooks
***The***Bloomsbury Handbook of Microhistory provides the first detailed examination of a field which has rapidly expanded in the last three decades. Characterised by a focus on the very small, an obsessive thoroughness of investigation and an inventiveness of exposition, microhistory has matured significantly as an approach amongst historical researchers and practitioners over the past five ... Read more

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***The***Bloomsbury Handbook of Microhistory provides the first detailed examination of a field which has rapidly expanded in the last three decades. Characterised by a focus on the very small, an obsessive thoroughness of investigation and an inventiveness of exposition, microhistory has matured significantly as an approach amongst historical researchers and practitioners over the past five
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Rodin

A l’Hotel de Biron et a Meudon ( Edition intégrale ) illustré - annoté

by Gustave Coquiot, Auguste Rodin ...

Series series Oeuvres de Gustave Coquiot
COMME DE NOTRE TEMPS.—UN FRISE-TOUPET HEUREUX. L’HISTOIRE D’UN HOTEL CÉLÈBRE.LE XVIIIe siècle ressemble étrangement, par ses filous, au siècle que nous avons le malheur d’entamer. C’est pourquoi le XVIIIe siècle nous est si cher! A vrai dire, je crois même que de notre temps les voleurs pullulent et purulent plus excessivement; mais enfin, rendons grâce à un siècle qui va nous permettre de ... Read more

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COMME DE NOTRE TEMPS.—UN FRISE-TOUPET HEUREUX. L’HISTOIRE D’UN HOTEL CÉLÈBRE.LE XVIIIe siècle ressemble étrangement, par ses filous, au siècle que nous avons le malheur d’entamer. C’est pourquoi le XVIIIe siècle nous est si cher! A vrai dire, je crois même que de notre temps les voleurs pullulent et purulent plus excessivement; mais enfin, rendons grâce à un siècle qui va nous permettre de
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Un chef de chantier à l’isthme de Suez

Suivi d’une campagne en Kabylie ( Edition intégrale ) annoté

by Erckmann-Chatrian ...

Series series Oeuvres de Erckmann-Chatrian
Fin 1872, Émile Erckmann, contre qui un mandat d’arrêt a été émis par les Prussiens qui occupent l’Alsace et la Moselle, s’installe à St-Dié. L’été précédent, il a fait la connaissance à Paris d’un Lorrain, entrepreneur de travaux publics, qui avait longtemps travaillé en Égypte à la construction du canal de Suez, Alban Montézuma Goguel, qui possède une propriété dans sa ville natale de St-Dié, l ... Read more

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Fin 1872, Émile Erckmann, contre qui un mandat d’arrêt a été émis par les Prussiens qui occupent l’Alsace et la Moselle, s’installe à St-Dié. L’été précédent, il a fait la connaissance à Paris d’un Lorrain, entrepreneur de travaux publics, qui avait longtemps travaillé en Égypte à la construction du canal de Suez, Alban Montézuma Goguel, qui possède une propriété dans sa ville natale de St-Dié, l
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Los usos de la historia de vida en las ciencias sociales. II

Edited by Thierry Lulle, Pilar Vargas, Lucero Zamudio ...

Series series Travaux de l'IFEA
El seminario internacional «El uso de las historias de vida en ciencias sociales: teorías, metodologías y prácticas» tuvo lugar en la ciudad de Villa de Leyva (Colombia) del 17 al 20 de marzo de 1992. Se reunieron investigadores de distintas disciplinas académicas y de varios países de América latina como de Europa y Norteamérica, reconocidos por su trabajo en el uso de las historias de vida. El ... Read more

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El seminario internacional «El uso de las historias de vida en ciencias sociales: teorías, metodologías y prácticas» tuvo lugar en la ciudad de Villa de Leyva (Colombia) del 17 al 20 de marzo de 1992. Se reunieron investigadores de distintas disciplinas académicas y de varios países de América latina como de Europa y Norteamérica, reconocidos por su trabajo en el uso de las historias de vida. El
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Campagne de Bonaparte en Égypte et en Syrie

Par un officier de la 32e demi-brigade ( Edition intégrale ) annoté

by J. Chanut ...

Series series Oeuvres de J. Chanut
Extrait: Une nouvelle carrière de triomphes et de gloire va s’ouvrir devant Bonaparte. Mes vieux compagnons, vous l’avez tous vu grandir et s’illustrer à la tête de l’armée française ; plus tard vous l’avez vu sur un trône auquel l’avaient appelé la reconnaissance nationale et l’intérêt de la patrie. Mais ce qu’il faut rappeler aujourd’hui, ce sont les commencements de sa haute fortune, les ... Read more

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Extrait: Une nouvelle carrière de triomphes et de gloire va s’ouvrir devant Bonaparte. Mes vieux compagnons, vous l’avez tous vu grandir et s’illustrer à la tête de l’armée française ; plus tard vous l’avez vu sur un trône auquel l’avaient appelé la reconnaissance nationale et l’intérêt de la patrie. Mais ce qu’il faut rappeler aujourd’hui, ce sont les commencements de sa haute fortune, les
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La poésie

Etudes sur les chefs-d'oeuvre des poètes de tous les temps et de tous les pays ( Edition intégrale ) annoté

by Paul Albert ...

Series series Oeuvres de Paul Albert
DE LA MÉTHODEExposition de la méthode. — La méthode artificielle. — Ses procédés, ses inconvénients. — La théorie du poëme épique d’après le Père Le Bossu. — Conséquences de cette théorie dans l’appréciation des poëmes homériques. — La méthode historique. — Ses avantages. — Le beau. — L’idéal.S’il y a un si grand nombre de personnes qui ne possèdent en littérature que des notions vagues ou fausses ... Read more

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DE LA MÉTHODEExposition de la méthode. — La méthode artificielle. — Ses procédés, ses inconvénients. — La théorie du poëme épique d’après le Père Le Bossu. — Conséquences de cette théorie dans l’appréciation des poëmes homériques. — La méthode historique. — Ses avantages. — Le beau. — L’idéal.S’il y a un si grand nombre de personnes qui ne possèdent en littérature que des notions vagues ou fausses
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La décomposition de l’armée et du pouvoir

Février – Septembre 1917 ( Edition intégrale ) annoté

by Anton Ivanovitch Dénikine ...

Series series Oeuvres de Anton Ivanovitch Dénikine
Anton Ivanovitch Dénikine (en russe : Антон Иванович Деникин) est un général russe, chef d’état-major dans les armées de la Russie impériale pendant la Première Guerre mondiale, commandant en chef de l’armée des volontaires pendant la guerre civile russe.Lors de la révolution de Février 1917, il se trouvait sur le front roumain. En mars 1917, il fut rappelé à Pétrograd par le ministre de la guerre ... Read more

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Anton Ivanovitch Dénikine (en russe : Антон Иванович Деникин) est un général russe, chef d’état-major dans les armées de la Russie impériale pendant la Première Guerre mondiale, commandant en chef de l’armée des volontaires pendant la guerre civile russe.Lors de la révolution de Février 1917, il se trouvait sur le front roumain. En mars 1917, il fut rappelé à Pétrograd par le ministre de la guerre
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Diogo de Vasconcelos

O ofício do historiador

by Adriana Romeiro, Marco Antonio Silveira ...

Este volume apresenta um conjunto de reflexões e pesquisas acadêmicas sobre importantes contribuições historiográficas de Diogo de Vasconcelos – autor considerado pioneiro e de grande relevância para os estudos históricos mineiros. Jornalista combativo e atuante em periódicos como A Província de Minas e o Jornal de Minas, Diogo foi deputado, senador e agente executivo de Ouro Preto, além de ser um ... Read more

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Este volume apresenta um conjunto de reflexões e pesquisas acadêmicas sobre importantes contribuições historiográficas de Diogo de Vasconcelos – autor considerado pioneiro e de grande relevância para os estudos históricos mineiros. Jornalista combativo e atuante em periódicos como A Província de Minas e o Jornal de Minas, Diogo foi deputado, senador e agente executivo de Ouro Preto, além de ser um
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Microhistories of the Holocaust

Edited by Claire Zalc, Tal Bruttmann ...

Series Book 24 - War and Genocide
How does scale affect our understanding of the Holocaust? In the vastness of its implementation and the sheer amount of death and suffering it produced, the genocide of Europe’s Jews presents special challenges for historians, who have responded with work ranging in scope from the world-historical to the intimate. In particular, recent scholarship has demonstrated a willingness to study the ... Read more

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How does scale affect our understanding of the Holocaust? In the vastness of its implementation and the sheer amount of death and suffering it produced, the genocide of Europe’s Jews presents special challenges for historians, who have responded with work ranging in scope from the world-historical to the intimate. In particular, recent scholarship has demonstrated a willingness to study the
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Klimawandel und der Untergang von Hochkulturen

Was lehrt uns die Geschichte?

by Gerhard Gerold ...

Series series Life Science and Basic Disciplines (German Language)
Globale Klimaveränderung und Klimakollaps sind in Medien und Gesellschaft ein inzwischen viel beachtetes Thema geworden. Der Zusammenbruch alter Hochkulturen wird dabei in Verbindung mit plötzlichen Klimaveränderungen gebracht.Anhand neuester Forschungsergebnisse gibt das Buch Antworten auf die Rolle von Klimaveränderung für den Kollaps alter Hochkulturen zu unterschiedlichen Zeiten und ... Read more

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Globale Klimaveränderung und Klimakollaps sind in Medien und Gesellschaft ein inzwischen viel beachtetes Thema geworden. Der Zusammenbruch alter Hochkulturen wird dabei in Verbindung mit plötzlichen Klimaveränderungen gebracht.Anhand neuester Forschungsergebnisse gibt das Buch Antworten auf die Rolle von Klimaveränderung für den Kollaps alter Hochkulturen zu unterschiedlichen Zeiten und
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梁启超与晚清“今文学”运动：以梁著清学史三种为中心的研究

by 张勇著 ...

本书从梁启超三种关键的清学史著述（即《清代学术概论》《中国近三百年学术史》以及《论中国学术思想变迁之大势》的第八章《近世之学术》）入手，还原梁氏前后叙述的不同语境，澄清其在晚清“今文学”运动中的角色，将梁氏及谭嗣同、夏曾佑等人的“今文学”言论加以历史的解析，呈现出一个逐渐生成和变化着的过程。 ... Read more

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本书从梁启超三种关键的清学史著述（即《清代学术概论》《中国近三百年学术史》以及《论中国学术思想变迁之大势》的第八章《近世之学术》）入手，还原梁氏前后叙述的不同语境，澄清其在晚清“今文学”运动中的角色，将梁氏及谭嗣同、夏曾佑等人的“今文学”言论加以历史的解析，呈现出一个逐渐生成和变化着的过程。
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Commemorating the Children of World War II in Poland

Combative Remembrance

by Ewa Stańczyk ...

Series series History (R0)
This book explores contemporary debates surrounding Poland’s 'war children', that is the young victims, participants and survivors of the Second World War. It focuses on the period after 2001, which saw the emergence of the two main political parties that were to dictate the tone of the politics of memory for more than a decade. The book shows that 2001 marked a caesura in Poland’s post-Communist ... Read more

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This book explores contemporary debates surrounding Poland’s 'war children', that is the young victims, participants and survivors of the Second World War. It focuses on the period after 2001, which saw the emergence of the two main political parties that were to dictate the tone of the politics of memory for more than a decade. The book shows that 2001 marked a caesura in Poland’s post-Communist
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Religious Tolerance from Renaissance to Enlightenment

Atheist’s Progress

by Eric MacPhail ...

Series series Routledge Research in Early Modern History
This new study examines the relationship of atheism to religious tolerance from the Renaissance to the Enlightenment in a broad array of literary texts and political and religious controversies written in Latin and the vernacular primarily in France, the Netherlands, and Switzerland. The main authors featured are Desiderius Erasmus, Sebastian Castellio, Jean Bodin, Michel de Montaigne, Dirck ... Read more

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This new study examines the relationship of atheism to religious tolerance from the Renaissance to the Enlightenment in a broad array of literary texts and political and religious controversies written in Latin and the vernacular primarily in France, the Netherlands, and Switzerland. The main authors featured are Desiderius Erasmus, Sebastian Castellio, Jean Bodin, Michel de Montaigne, Dirck
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Modern Historiography in the Making

The German Sense of the Past, 1700-1900

by Dr Kasper Risbjerg Eskildsen ...

At the end of the 19th century, German historical scholarship had grown to great prominence. Academics around the world imitated their German colleagues. Intellectuals described historical scholarship as a foundation of the modern worldview. To many, the modern age was an 'age of history'. This book investigates how German historical scholarship acquired this status.Modern Historiography in the ... Read more

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At the end of the 19th century, German historical scholarship had grown to great prominence. Academics around the world imitated their German colleagues. Intellectuals described historical scholarship as a foundation of the modern worldview. To many, the modern age was an 'age of history'. This book investigates how German historical scholarship acquired this status.Modern Historiography in the
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Home, Memory and Belonging in Italian Postcolonial Literature

by Chiara Giuliani ...

Series series Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
This book examines the meaning of home through the investigation of a series of public and private spaces recurrent in Italian postcolonial literature. The chapters, by respectively considering Termini train station in Rome, phone centres, the condominium, and the private spaces of the bathroom and the bedroom, investigate how migrant characters inhabit those places and turn them into familiar ... Read more

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This book examines the meaning of home through the investigation of a series of public and private spaces recurrent in Italian postcolonial literature. The chapters, by respectively considering Termini train station in Rome, phone centres, the condominium, and the private spaces of the bathroom and the bedroom, investigate how migrant characters inhabit those places and turn them into familiar
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