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Getting to grips with the overlapping geopolitical, economic, and political crises faced by Western democratic societies in the 2020s.
The 21st century has brought a powerful tide of geopolitical, economic, and democratic shocks. Their fallout has led central banks...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2022-02-24
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Getting to grips with the overlapping geopolitical, economic, and political crises faced by Western democratic societies in the 2020s.
The 21st century has brought a powerful tide of geopolitical, economic, and democratic shocks. Their fallout has led central banks...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2022-02-24
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This book uses popular culture to highlight the intersections and interplay between ideologies, technological advancement and mobilities as they shape contemporary Irish identities. Marshalling case studies drawn from a wide spectrum of popular culture, including the...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2022-02-23
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An "incredibly timely" global history journeys from the Ukrainian steppe to the American prairie to show how grain built and toppled the world's largest empires (Financial Times). To understand the rise and fall of empires, we must follow the...
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Basic Books
Parution :
2022-02-22
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The end of three decades of dictatorship, a decade of war and revolution, and the establishment of a constitutional republic hardly quelled political dissent among the Mexican population. To the contrary, the first decade after the Mexican Revolution of 1910-1920 saw...
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Oxford University Press
Parution :
2022-02-21
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As the hazards of carbon emissions increase and governments around the world seek to reduce reliance on fossil fuels, the search for clean and affordable alternate energies has become an increasing priority in the twenty-first century. However, one nation has already...
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Oxford University Press
Parution :
2022-02-21
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This volume presents a selection of David Gauthier's writings on Thomas Hobbes (1588-1679) and the theory of political contractarianism. The eight essays on Hobbes, written over four decades, represent the author's changing understanding of the moral and political...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2022-02-18
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This volume presents a selection of David Gauthier's writings on Thomas Hobbes (1588-1679) and the theory of political contractarianism. The eight essays on Hobbes, written over four decades, represent the author's changing understanding of the moral and political...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2022-02-18
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This book, based on a fresh understanding of Scottish governmental records rooted in extensive archival research, offers the first study of these important institutions in a period of revived royal authority. The regime which emerges from these records is one which...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2022-02-17
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Many have viewed Kaiser Wilhelm II as having personally ruled Germany, dominating its politics, and choreographing its ambitious leap to global power. But how accurate is this picture?
As The Kaiser and the Colonies shows, Wilhelm II was a constitutional monarch like...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2022-02-17
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Many have viewed Kaiser Wilhelm II as having personally ruled Germany, dominating its politics, and choreographing its ambitious leap to global power. But how accurate is this picture?
As The Kaiser and the Colonies shows, Wilhelm II was a constitutional monarch like...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2022-02-17
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England is well known as the only Protestant state not to introduce divorce in the sixteenth-century Reformation. Only at the end of the seventeenth century did divorce by private act of parliament become available for a select few men and only in 1857 did the Divorce...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2022-02-17
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England is well known as the only Protestant state not to introduce divorce in the sixteenth-century Reformation. Only at the end of the seventeenth century did divorce by private act of parliament become available for a select few men and only in 1857 did the Divorce...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2022-02-17
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The Ottoman Empire ruled the near East, dominated the Mediterranean, and terrorized Europe for centuries. However, its origins are obscure.The Beginnings of the Ottoman Empire illuminates the founding of the Empire, drawing on Turkish, Greek, Arabic, and Latin sources...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2022-02-17
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The Ottoman Empire ruled the near East, dominated the Mediterranean, and terrorized Europe for centuries. However, its origins are obscure.The Beginnings of the Ottoman Empire illuminates the founding of the Empire, drawing on Turkish, Greek, Arabic, and Latin sources...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2022-02-17
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This book examines life in the homes inhabited by the working class over the long nineteenth century. These working-class homes are often imagined as distinctly unhomely spaces, which the inhabitants struggled to fill with even the most basic of furniture, let...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2022-02-17
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This book analyses the emergence of modern parties in nineteenth-century Europe and explores their connection with the slowly developing institution of democracy. The close relationship between party and democracy was established by the founders of the first modern...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2022-02-15
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Beginning in 1955, West Germany recruited millions of people as guest workers from Yugoslavia, Italy, Greece, Spain, Portugal, and especially Turkey. This labor force was essential to creating the postwar German economic miracle. Employers fantasized that foreign "guest...
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Oxford University Press
Parution :
2022-02-11
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The entrancing historical read perfect for readers of Hamnet and The Manningtree Witches ***Don't miss the exquisite new novel of obsession, betrayal and ambition from Joanne Burn - THE BONE HUNTERS is available now***'Vivid and poetic' JENNIFER SAINT 'Mesmerizing'...
Editeur :
Sphere
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2022-02-10
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Hong Kong has been caught between empires ever since the First Opium War (1839-1842). As a result, the study ofHong Kong history has been subjected to the influence of the empires that controlled or laid claims over it. The historical experience of the Hongkongers...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2022-02-10
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