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Scottish Witches and Witch-Hun...This book brings together twelve studies that collectively provide an overview... This book brings together twelve studies that collectively provide an overview of the main issues of live interest in Scottish witchcraft. As well as fresh studies of the well-established topic of witch-hunting, the book also launches an explorati more
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State Responses to Crimes of G...At the time of drafting the UN Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of ... At the time of drafting the UN Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide (Genocide Convention), the drafters were hopeful that the document will be the response needed to ensure that the world would never again witness s more
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The Palgrave Macmillan Diction...Indispensable for students of diplomacy and junior members of diplomatic servi... Indispensable for students of diplomacy and junior members of diplomatic services, this dictionary not only covers diplomacy's jargon but also includes entries on legal terms, political events, international organizations, e-Diplomacy, and major f more
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Reading the Salem Witch Child:...This book discusses the role of children in the Salem witch trials through a c... This book discusses the role of children in the Salem witch trials through a close reading of the many and varied narratives of the trials, including court records, contemporary and historical documents, fiction, drama, and poetry. Taking a critic more
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Demons of Urban Reform: Early ...A comparative analysis of early witch trials in Lucerne, Nuremberg and Basel, ... A comparative analysis of early witch trials in Lucerne, Nuremberg and Basel, within the context of criminal justice and social control. The case of Lucerne presents a fascinating interplay between witch trials and a transformation in the city's c more
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Anna of Denmark and Henrietta ...This book examines how early Stuart queens navigated their roles as political ... This book examines how early Stuart queens navigated their roles as political players and artistic patrons in a culture deeply conflicted about the legitimacy of female authority. Anna of Denmark and Henrietta Maria both employed powerful female a more
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Sources from the Dawn of the G...This book provides an annotated source edition of the only two extant document... This book provides an annotated source edition of the only two extant documents related to the sorcery trial brought against Pes de Guoythie and Condesse de Beheythie in Lower Navarre, in 1370. It provides full transcriptions of both documents, an more
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Styrian Witches in European Pe...The book provides a comprehensive exploration of witchcraft beliefs and practi... The book provides a comprehensive exploration of witchcraft beliefs and practices in the rural region of Eastern Slovenia. Based on field research conducted at the beginning of the twenty-first century, it examines witchcraft in the region from fo more
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Premodern Beliefs and Witch Tr...This book examines the worldview and perceptions of reality that formed the se... This book examines the worldview and perceptions of reality that formed the setting for the witch trials held in the Swedish province of Bohuslän in 1669-1672. The first part of the book explores the conduct of the trials and provides, among other more
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The Transformation of Kurdish ...This book analyzes the transformation of ethnic and religious political partie... This book analyzes the transformation of ethnic and religious political parties in Turkey with special focus on their role in the country's democratization and regime changes. Turkey went through a process of autocratization under the rule of the more
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Automation and Autonomy: Labou...This book argues that Marxist theory is essential for understanding the contem... This book argues that Marxist theory is essential for understanding the contemporary industrialization of the form of artificial intelligence (AI) called machine learning. It includes a political economic history of AI, tracking how it went from a more
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Aviation in the Literature and...Aviation in the Literature and Culture of Interwar Britain looks at the impact... Aviation in the Literature and Culture of Interwar Britain looks at the impact of aviation in Britain and beyond through the 1920s and 1930s. This book considers how in this period flying went from a weapon of war to an extensive industry more
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The Transformation of the Medi...The book focuses on the changes that the media system in Turkey went through s... The book focuses on the changes that the media system in Turkey went through since early 2000s. Its perspective considers sociology of citizenship and focuses on processes such as Europeanization, de-Europeanization, authoritarianism on the one ha more
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The New Atheism, Myth, and His...This book examines the misuse of history in New Atheism and militant anti-reli... This book examines the misuse of history in New Atheism and militant anti-religion. It looks at how episodes such as the Witch-hunt, the Inquisition, and the Holocaust are mythologized to present religion as inescapably prone to violence and discr more
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Witchcraft in Early Modern Pol...This comprehensive study examines Polish demonology in relation to witchcraft ... This comprehensive study examines Polish demonology in relation to witchcraft trials in Wielkopolska, revealing the witch as a force for both good and evil. It explores the use of witchcraft, the nature of accusations and the role of gender. more
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Fifty Years of Bangladesh, 197...This book, the first historical sociology of its kind concerning Bangladesh, e... This book, the first historical sociology of its kind concerning Bangladesh, examines the country's what-went-wrong-syndrome during the first fifty years of its existence, 1971-2021. The work is an exception to the traditional studies on modern an more
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Witchcraft and Folk Belief in ...Taking an interdisciplinary perspective, Witchcraft and Folk Belief in the Age... Taking an interdisciplinary perspective, Witchcraft and Folk Belief in the Age of Enlightenment represents the first in-depth investigation of Scottish witchcraft and witch belief post-1662, the period of supposed decline of such beliefs, an age w more
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The Hojjatiyeh Society in Iran...This book analyzes the evolution of the Hojjatiyeh movement in Iran a semi-cla... This book analyzes the evolution of the Hojjatiyeh movement in Iran a semi-clandestine movement which emerged in the 1950s as an anti-Baha'i movement went underground in the 1960s and re-emerged openly after Iran's 1979 revolution with its members... more
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Witchcraft and Demonology in S...Using south-western England as a focus for considering the continued place of ... Using south-western England as a focus for considering the continued place of witchcraft and demonology in provincial culture in the period between the English and French revolutions, Barry shows how witch-beliefs were intricately woven into the f more
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Sharecropper's Troubadour: Joh...Folk singer and labor organizer John Handcox was born to illiterate sharecropp... Folk singer and labor organizer John Handcox was born to illiterate sharecroppers, but went on to become one of the most beloved folk singers of the prewar labor movement. This beautifully told oral history gives us Handcox in his own words, recou more
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