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  • 1
    UID:
    b3kat_BV046631013
    Format: 1 Online-Ressource (311 Seiten)
    Edition: 1st edition
    ISBN: 9783896658791
    Series Statement: Academia philosophical studies 66
    Content: Dieses Buch entwickelt ein umfassendes Konzept zur humanitären Theorie und Praxis, welche die Subjektivität und Handlungsfähigkeit der Opfer von Katastrophen in den Mittelpunkt rückt. Während traditionelle humanitäre Ansätze ihr Handeln grundsätzlich auf die Politik des Mitleids stützen, indem sie Opfer als passive Empfänger von Hilfe, als Gegenstände des Mitleids und als Begünstigte externer Hilfe betrachten, zeigt dieses Buch, dass ein solcher Ansatz den Opfern von Katastrophen nicht gerecht wird. Es demonstriert deshalb die Notwendigkeit, über diese traditionellen Ansätze der humanitären Hilfe hinauszugehen und die Würde der Opfer in den Mittelpunkt der humanitären Diskurse und Praktiken zu stellen
    Content: This book provides an insightful view in the philosophical foundation of one the most crucial global practices, namely humanitarian action, in view of current developments in international ethics. Indeed, in a globalized world, the suffering of many people has become more tangible than ever, and therefore also a philosophical and global political puzzle. Since the first phases of the globalization, which include the founding of the Red Cross, humanitarian action in the form of various assistance and support services, emerged as a cross-border concern. After the Second World War, humanitarian actors have significantly expanded their activities and also increased in size. Along with the emergence of this humanitarian practice, an evolving humanitarian theory has emerged which intended to provide the foundations for this commitment and to determine its principles. From a philosophical point of view, it is crucial to investigate which forms of ethical foundations and normative goals underlie this development and how, in view of various philosophical traditions, these developments are to be interpreted
    Note: Dissertation Universität München 2016
    Additional Edition: Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe ISBN 978-3-89665-878-4
    Language: English
    Subjects: Philosophy
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    Keywords: Humanitarismus ; Menschenwürde ; Gerechtigkeit ; Globalisierung ; Humanitäre Hilfe ; Menschenwürde ; Weltbürgertum ; Gerechtigkeit ; Globalisierung ; Sozialethik ; Humanitarismus ; Gerechtigkeit ; Weltbürgertum ; Hochschulschrift ; Hochschulschrift
    URL: Volltext  (URL des Erstveröffentlichers)
    Author information: Kizito, Yves Menanga
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  • 2
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    Manchester : Manchester University Press
    UID:
    b3kat_BV045198982
    Format: 1 Online-Ressource (xi, 206 Seiten)
    ISBN: 9781526131409
    Series Statement: Studies in Imperialism
    Content: "This is the first exploration of Britain's plans for industrial development in its Caribbean colonies. Historians have often denied that Britain ever had such hopes, but this book shows that, following revelations of serious deprivation during the 1930s, the Colonial Office launched a scheme to revitalise the region by using cane sugar as the raw material for making fuels, plastics and drugs. This volume shows the practical and political importance of scientific research and expert advice for the creation and implementation of Britain's colonial development plans after 1940.Laboratory research into finding industrial uses for sugar offered a means for the Colonial Office to intervene in the development of the Caribbean with minimal disturbance to market forces. Once knowledge had been produced, decisions about the commercial production of sugar-based compounds could be left to business. This vision of industrial development rejected state planning and control, and was far more liberal in character than the large, rational and highly regimented schemes that were often promoted for colonial Africa. Colonial Office attempts to persuade the colonies to take up its preferred route to industrialisation were made difficult however, by the growing autonomy of Caribbean governments as they approached independence. Additionally, American experts attached to the Caribbean Commission offered an alternative model of industrial development, based on the work of Puerto Rico's development corporation. This book illustrates the competition between Britain and America to shape the future of the Caribbean region, in which the provision of information and expert advice assumed a crucial role. It brings to light forgotten ideas of sugar as an industrial raw material, and shows the importance of science in the colonies in the post-war period" --Back cover
    Note: Erscheint als Open Access bei De Gruyter , Introduction --1. New uses for sugar --2. Scientific research and colonial development after 1940 --3. 'Men, money and advice' for Caribbean development --4. Laboratory science, laissez-faire economics and modernity --5. An industrialisation programme for Trinidad --6. Bringing research 'down from the skies' --7. Conclusion: Science and industrial development: lessons from Britain's imperial past --Bibliography --Index
    Additional Edition: Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe, Festeinband ISBN 978-1-5261-3138-6
    Language: English
    Subjects: History
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    Keywords: Karibik ; Großbritannien ; Kolonie ; Wissenschaft ; Industrialisierung ; Geschichte 1940-1962
    URL: Volltext  (kostenfrei)
    URL: Volltext  (kostenfrei)
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  • 3
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    Book
    Princeton, N.J. ; Oxford : Princeton University Press
    UID:
    b3kat_BV013684435
    Format: X, 261 Seite , Ill.
    ISBN: 0691086672
    Uniform Title: Sąsiedzi
    Content: One summer day in 1941, half of the Polish town of Jedwabne murdered the other half, 1,600 men, women, and children, all but seven of the town's Jews. Neighbors tells their story. Jan Gross pieces together eyewitness accounts and other evidence into a reconstruction of the horrific July day remembered well by locals but forgotten by history. His investigation reads like a detective story, and its unfolding yields wider truths about Jewish-Polish relations, the Holocaust, and human responses to occupation and totalitarianism. It is a story of surprises: The newly occupying German army did not compel the massacre, and Jedwabne's Jews and Christians had previously enjoyed cordial relations. After the war, the nearby family who saved Jedwabne's surviving Jews was derided and driven from the area. The single Jew offered mercy by the town declined it. Most arresting is the sinking realization that Jedwabne's Jews were clubbed, drowned, gutted, and burned not by faceless Nazis, but by people whose features and names they knew well: their former schoolmates and those who sold them food, bought their milk, and chatted with them in the street. As much as such a question can ever be answered, Neighbors tells us why.
    Note: Originally published: Sasiedzi. historia zagłady żydowskiego miasteczka , Aus dem Poln. übers.
    Additional Edition: Übersetzt als Gross, Jan Tomasz, 1947- Nachbarn
    Additional Edition: Übersetzung von Gross, Jan Tomasz, 1947- Sąsiedzi
    Language: English
    Subjects: History
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    Keywords: Jedwabne ; Judenvernichtung ; Geschichte 1941 ; Jedwabne ; Pogrom ; Juden ; Geschichte 1941
    Author information: Gross, Jan Tomasz 1947-
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  • 4
    UID:
    b3kat_BV045560515
    Format: xiv, 251 Seiten , Illustrationen
    ISBN: 9781108482639
    Content: The young Helmut Schmidt and British-German relations, 1945-74 -- Harold Wilson, 1974-76 -- James Callaghan, 1976-79 -- Margaret Thatcher, 1979-82
    Content: "In light of Britain's impending departure from the European Union [EU], Helmut Schmidt's damning verdict on British attitudes towards post-war Europe seems as potent today as when the former West German Chancellor first uttered these words in a public lecture at Yale more than thirty years ago. Ever since the late 1940s, tensions over European integration have overshadowed an otherwise flourishing post-war relationship between Britain and the Federal Republic of Germany. After Britain's initial refusal in the 1950s to join the emerging European institutions such as the European Coal and Steel Community [ECSC] or the European Economic Community [EEC] from the outset, Germany's subsequent reluctance to back Britain's two membership applications in 1961-3 and 1967 against French resistance foreshadowed many of the dynamics that cloud the bilateral relationship to this day. Though Britain eventually did join the European Communities [EC] in 1973, its open scepticism towards new European initiatives such as direct elections to the European Parliament or the European Monetary System [EMS] continued to compromise British-German relations during much of Schmidt's chancellorship in the 1970s; developments that were not helped by Britain's attempts to renegotiate its terms of membership in 1974-75, or by its fight to reduce its EC budget contributions from the late 1970s onwards. The 1990s then saw British-German tensions over Europe reach new heights"--
    Language: English
    Subjects: History , Political Science
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    Keywords: Schmidt, Helmut 1918-2015 ; Deutschland ; Großbritannien ; Außenpolitik ; Festschrift
    Author information: Haeussler, Mathias 1988-
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  • 5
    Book
    Book
    Ithaca ; London : Cornell University Press
    UID:
    b3kat_BV013400310
    Format: XV, 195 Seiten , Illustrationen
    Edition: 1. publ.
    ISBN: 0801437520
    Content: "This book challenges long-held assumptions about the nature of historical consciousness in Germany. Susan A. Crane argues that the ever-more-elaborate preservation of the historical may actually reduce the likelihood that history can be experienced with the freshness and individuality characteristic of the early collectors and preservationists. Her book is both a study of the emergence in late eighteenth and early nineteenth-century Germany of a distinctively modern conception of historical consciousness and a meditation on what was lost as historical thought became institutionalized and professionalized." "Familiar public forms of remembering the past, such as historical museums and historical preservation, have surprisingly recent origins. In Germany, caring about the past took on these distinctive new forms after the Napoleonic wars. The Brothers Grimm gathered fairy tales and researched the origins of the German language. Historical preservationists collected documents and artifacts and organized the conservation of cathedrals and other historic buildings. Collectors formed historical societies and created Germany's historical museums. No single national consciousness emerged; instead, many groups used similar means to make different claims about what it meant to have a German past."--BOOK JACKET.
    Note: Dissertation Chicago University 1992
    Language: English
    Subjects: History
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    Keywords: Deutschland ; Geschichtsbewusstsein ; Sammeln ; Geschichte 1800-1850 ; Hochschulschrift
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  • 6
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    Book
    London ; New York ; Oxford ; New Delhi ; Sydney : Bloomsbury Academic
    UID:
    b3kat_BV047249012
    Format: ix, 463 Seiten , Karten , 24 cm
    ISBN: 9781472508614 , 9781472510365
    Content: "Why is Eastern Europe still different from Western Europe, more than a quarter-century after the collapse of Communism? A History of Eastern Europe 1918 to the Present shows how the roots of this difference are based in Eastern Europe's tortured 20th century. Eastern Europe emerged in 1918 as the 'lands between', new states whose weakness vis-à-vis Germany and Soviet Russia soon became obvious. The region was the main killing-field of the Second World War, which visited unimaginable horrors on its inhabitants before their 'liberation' by the Soviets in 1945. The imposition of Communist dictatorships on the region, ironically, only deepened Eastern Europe's backwardness. Even in the post-Communist period, its problems continue to make it a fertile breeding-ground for nationalism and political extremism. A History of Eastern Europe 1918 to the Present explores the comparative backwardness of Eastern Europe and how this has driven strategies of modernisation; it looks at the ways in which the region has served as a giant test-tube for political experimentation and, in particular, at the enduring strength of nationalism, which since 1989 has re-emerged more virulent than ever. Complete with a useful chronology, maps and a helpful glossary, this book in the essential textbook for any student of 20th-century Eastern Europe."
    Note: Literaturverzeichnis Seite 413-437 , The Making of "Eastern Europe" -- Melting-Pot: Eastern Europe in the First World War -- A New Europe? The Peace Settlement 1918-23 -- Problems of the Interwar Period -- Test-Tube of Ideologies: Communism -- Test-Tube of Ideologies: Conservative Authoritarianism -- Test-Tube of Ideologies: Fascism -- The East European Origins of the Second World War -- Hell's Kitchen: Eastern Europe in the Second World War -- War as Revolution: Political Consequences of the Second World War -- Great Leap Backwards: The Imposition of Communism 1944-48 -- National Communism vs. Stalinism -- The Perils of De-Stalinisation: Poland and Hungary in 1956 -- Last-Chance Saloon? The Prague Spring of -- Absurdistan, or 'Real Existing Socialism' 1968-1980s -- The Solidarity Phenomenon in Poland 1980-89 -- The Bear Vanishes: Gorbachev and the Roots of Revolution 1985-89 -- The Power of the Powerless: The Velvet Revolutions of 1989 -- The Wages of Nationalism: Soviet, Yugoslav and Czech-Slovak Break-Up -- Eastern Europe in the 21st Century: Post-Communist Modernisation -- Eastern Europe in the 21st Century: Nationalism and Geopolitics -- Conclusion: Retirement of a Concept?
    Additional Edition: Erscheint auch als Online-Ausgabe, PDF ISBN 978-1-4725-1197-3
    Additional Edition: Erscheint auch als Online-Ausgabe ISBN 978-1-4725-0865-2
    Former: Fortsetzung von Armour, Ian D. A history of Eastern Europe 1740-1918
    Language: English
    Subjects: History , Slavic Studies
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    Keywords: Osteuropa ; Politik ; Nationalismus ; Geschichte 1918-2020 ; Historische Darstellung
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  • 7
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    Book
    New York u.a. : Oxford Univ. Press
    UID:
    b3kat_BV009869966
    Format: XXVIII, 369 S.
    ISBN: 0195037804
    Content: Is antisemitism on the rise in America? A glance at the daily newspapers suggests a resurgence of animosity yet Leonard Dinnerstein, in this provocative and in-depth study, categorically states that there is less bigotry in this country than ever before. He also argues in this provocative analysis that Jews have never been more at home in America. What we are seeing today, he writes, is media hype. A long tradition of prejudice, suspicion, and hatred against the Jews, the direct product of Christian teachings, has, in fact, finally begun to wane. In Antisemitism in America, Dinnerstein provides a landmark work - the first comprehensive history of prejudice against Jews in the United States, ranging from its foundations in European Christian culture to the present day
    Content: Dinnerstein's richly detailed and thoroughly documented book reveals how Christians carried their religious prejudices with them to the New World and how they manifested themselves, albeit in muted form, in the colonial wilderness and in the developing American society thereafter. Jews could not vote, for example, in Rhode Island or New Hampshire until 1842, and in North Carolina until 1868. The Civil War witnessed the first major wave of publicly displayed American antisemitism as individuals in both the North and the South assumed that Jews sided with the enemy. The decades that followed marked the emergence of a full-fledged antisemitic society as Christians excluded Jews from their social circles and wove fantasies for themselves as they pictured what "Jews were really like." Antisemitic fervor mixed with racism at the beginning of the twentieth century, accelerated by the views of eugenicists, fears of Bolshevism, and the rantings of Henry Ford
    Content: During the Depression hostility toward Jews accelerated as Americans vented their frustrations upon minorities because of the economic crises of the decade. Christians of all stripes called upon Jews to accept the divinity of Jesus Christ, and Father Charles Coughlin emerged as one of the most beloved priests in all of American history as he excoriated Jews and sympathized with Nazis over the airwaves and in his journal, Social Justice. Ironically, Dinnerstein writes, as Americans fought in World War II to make the world safe for democracy, public opinion polls noted a huge increase in American animosity toward Jews. Not until after the war ended did this enmity subside. While fresh economic opportunities and, heightened sensitivities to the effects of bigotry resulted in the decline of all prejudices in this country, including antisemitism, it nevertheless still cropped up in the highest ranks of government. especially during Richard Nixon's presidency
    Language: English
    Subjects: History
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    Keywords: USA ; Antisemitismus ; Geschichte 1607-1992 ; Gesellschaft ; Ethnische Gruppe ; Geschichte ; Historische Darstellung
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  • 8
    UID:
    gbv_1669443892
    Format: 1 Online-Ressource (XII, 399 Seiten)
    ISBN: 9789004273689
    Series Statement: The early Americas: history and culture volume 9
    Content: Material encounters and indigenous transformations in the early colonial Americas / Floris W.M. Keehnen, Corinne L. Hofman and Andrzej T. Antczak -- Colonial encounters in Lucayan contexts / Mary Jane Berman and Perry L. Gnivecki -- Treating 'trifles': the indigenous adoption of European material goods in early colonial Hispaniola (1492-1550) / Floris W.M. Keehnen -- Contact and colonial impact in Jamaica: comparative material culture and diet at Sevilla la Nueva and the Taino village of Maima / Shea Henry and Robyn Woodward -- European material culture in indigenous sites in northeastern Cuba / Roberto Valcarcel Rojas -- Breaking and making identities: transformations of ceramic repertoires in early colonial Hispaniola / Marlieke Ernst and Corinne L. Hofman -- Rancherias: historical archaeology of early colonial campsites on Margarita and Coche Islands, Venezuela / Andrzej T. Antczak, Ma. Magdalena Antczak and Oliver Antczak -- Santa Maria de la Antigua del Darien: the aftermath of colonial settlement / Alberto Sarcina -- Material encounters and indigenous transformations in early colonial El Salvador / William R. Fowler and Jeb J. Card -- Hybrid cultures: the visibility of the European invasion of Caribbean Honduras in the sixteenth century / Russell N. Sheptak and Rosemary A. Joyce -- Exotics for the lords and gods: Lowland Maya consumption of European goods along a Spanish colonial frontier / Jaime J. Awe and Christophe Helmke -- Resignification as fourth narrative: power and the colonial religious experience in Tula, Hidalgo / Shannon Dugan Iverson -- Indigenous pottery technology of Central Mexico during early colonial times / Gilda Hernandez Sanchez -- War and peace in the sixteenth-century Southwest: objected-oriented approaches to native-European encounters and trajectories / Clay Mathers -- 'Beyond the falls': Amerindian stance towards new encounters along the wild coast (AD 1595-1627) / Martijn M. Bel van den and Gerard Collomb -- Colonial encounters in the Southern Lesser Antilles: indigenous resistance, material transformations, and diversity in an ever-globalizing world / Corinne L. Hofman, Menno L.P. Hoogland, Arie Boomert and John Angus Martin -- Epilogue: situating colonial interaction and materials: scale, context, theory / Maxine Oland.
    Content: "Material Encounters and Indigenous Transformations in the Early Colonial Americas brings together 15 case studies focusing on the early colonial history and archaeology of indigenous cultural persistence and change in the Caribbean and its surrounding mainland(s) after AD 1492. With a special emphasis on material culture and by foregrounding indigenous agency in shaping the diverse outcomes of colonial encounters, this volume offers new perspectives on early modern cultural interactions in the first regions of the 'New World' that were impacted by European colonization. The volume contributors specifically investigate how foreign goods were differentially employed, adopted, and valued across time, space, and scale, and what implications such material encounters had for indigenous social, political, and economic structures Contributors are: Andrzej T. Antczak, Ma. M. Antczak, Oliver Antczak, Jaime J. Awe, Martijn van den Bel, Mary Jane Berman, Arie Boomert, Jeb J. Card, Charles R. Cobb, Gérard Collomb, Shannon Dugan Iverson, Marlieke Ernst, William R. Fowler, Perry L. Gnivecki, Christophe Helmke, Shea Henry, Gilda Hernández Sánchez, Corinne L. Hofman, Menno L.P. Hoogland, Rosemary A. Joyce, Floris W.M. Keehnen, J. Angus Martin, Clay Mathers, Maxine Oland, Alberto Sarcina, Russell N. Sheptak, Roberto Valcárcel Rojas, Robyn Woodward"--
    Note: Includes bibliographical references and index
    Additional Edition: ISBN 9789004392458
    Additional Edition: Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe Material encounters and indigenous transformations in the early colonial Americas Leiden : Brill, 2019 ISBN 9789004392458
    Language: English
    Subjects: History , Ethnology
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    Keywords: Karibik ; Indigenes Volk ; Sachkultur ; Archäologie
    URL: Volltext  (kostenfrei)
    URL: DOI
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  • 9
    UID:
    b3kat_BV046032638
    Format: viii, 627 Seiten , Illustrationen, Karte
    Edition: First edition
    ISBN: 9780465096664
    Content: "The principles of the French Revolution remain the only possible basis for a just society -- even if, after more than two hundred years, they are more contested than ever before. In A New World Begins, Jeremy D. Popkin offers a riveting account of the revolution that puts the reader in the thick of the debates and the violence that led to the overthrow of the monarchy and the establishment of a new society. We meet Mirabeau, Robespierre, and Danton, in all of their brilliance and vengefulness; we witness the failed escape and execution of Louis XVI; we see women demanding equal rights and black slaves wresting freedom from revolutionaries who hesitated to act on their own principles; and we follow the rise of Napoleon out of the ashes of the Reign of Terror. Based on decades of scholarship."
    Additional Edition: Erscheint auch als Online-Ausgabe, ebk ISBN 978-0-4650-9667-1
    Language: English
    Subjects: History
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    Keywords: Frankreich ; Französische Revolution ; Geschichte
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  • 10
    UID:
    gbv_76715407X
    Format: XVI, 733 S. , Ill., Kt.
    ISBN: 9789042929586
    Series Statement: Studia hellenistica 53
    Content: After conquering one of the biggest empires the world has ever seen, Alexander the Great died prematurely in 323 B.C., without leaving a suitable heir to the throne. During the next decades his generals, thenceforth known as the Diadochoi; or Successors, unremittingly fought over the king's inheritance. The balance of power which ultimately resulted from their struggle would determine the course of events in the eastern Mediterranean for centuries to come. Despite its historical importance many aspects of the age of the Successors remain underexplored. Written by leading international specialists, the 24 contributions to this book help in remedying that situation by addressing new issues or shedding fresh light on old questions. They not only explore the written and material evidence for the epoch, the Successors' armies and military campaigns, their political ambitions and relationships with Greek cities, but they also address several social, economic, religious, numismatic, art-historical and urbanistic issues. They will significantly enhance our knowledge of the creation of the Hellenistic kingdoms as well as on the then prevailing dynastic ideas and practices
    Content: After conquering one of the biggest empires the world has ever seen, Alexander the Great died prematurely in 323 B.C., without leaving a suitable heir to the throne. During the next decades his generals, thenceforth known as the Diadochoi; or Successors, unremittingly fought over the king's inheritance. The balance of power which ultimately resulted from their struggle would determine the course of events in the eastern Mediterranean for centuries to come. Despite its historical importance many aspects of the age of the Successors remain underexplored. Written by leading international specialists, the 24 contributions to this book help in remedying that situation by addressing new issues or shedding fresh light on old questions. They not only explore the written and material evidence for the epoch, the Successors' armies and military campaigns, their political ambitions and relationships with Greek cities, but they also address several social, economic, religious, numismatic, art-historical and urbanistic issues. They will significantly enhance our knowledge of the creation of the Hellenistic kingdoms as well as on the then prevailing dynastic ideas and practices
    Note: Literaturverz. S. [631] - 690 , Beitr. teilw. engl., teilw. dt., teilw. franz , Literary Sources for the History of the SuccessorsArchaeology, Art and Numismatics -- The Ambitions of the Successors -- Legitimation, State-Building and the Native Peoples -- War and the Military -- Social and Religious Aspects of the Age of the Successors -- The Successors and the Cities
    Language: English
    Subjects: History
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    Keywords: Diadochen ; Geschichte 323 v. Chr.-276 v. Chr. ; Konferenzschrift
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