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In the third century BCE, Macedon dominated mainland Greece, but was rapidly descending into chaos. One of the consequences was a massive invasion of Celts, who ravaged and plundered Macedon and northern Greece for several years. Antigonus Gonatas, son of one of...
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OUP Oxford
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2021-09-23
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The vibrant, sprawling saga of Empress Maria Theresa—one of the most renowned women rulers in history—and three of her extraordinary daughters, including Marie Antoinette, the doomed queen of France.Out of the thrilling and tempestuous eighteenth century...
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Little, Brown and Company
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2021-09-21
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We make sense of love with fantasies, stories that shape feelings that are otherwise too overwhelming, incoherent, and wayward to be tamed. For love is a complex, bewildering, and ecstatic emotion covering a welter of different feelings and moral judgments. Drawing on...
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Polity
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2021-09-21
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Das Buch befasst sich mit der 1889 gegründeten Bewegung Action Française und der gleichnamigen Zeitschrift, die in erster Linie für die Durchsetzung eines «integralen Nationalismus» als Voraussetzung von Frankreichs Wiedergeburt nach der Niederlage 1870/71 kämpfte.Das...
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Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
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2021-09-20
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This book demonstrates that the common belief that humanity is naturally disposed to religion did not disappear with the emergence of the Enlightenment. Going beyond a narrow focus on John Locke’s empiricism, this vivid analysis reconstructs the vociferous, multivocal...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2021-09-20
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This book examines a diverse set of civic war memorials in North East England commemorating three clusters of conflicts: the Crimean War and Indian Rebellion in the 1850s; the ‘small wars’ of the 1880s; and the Boer War from 1899 to 1902. Encompassing a protracted...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2021-09-17
Collection :
Britain and the World
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An intimate history of an ordinary Parisian citizen and his neighbors that reflects on the origins and radicalization of the French Revolution.
What was it like to live through one of the most transformational periods in world history? In The Glory and the Sorrow,...
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Oxford University Press
Parution :
2021-09-17
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Wang Fuzhi (1619-1692), a Ming loyalist, was forced to find solutions for both cultural and political crises of his time. In this book Mingran Tan provides a comprehensive review ofWang Fuzhi’s understanding of historical events and his interpretation of the Confucian...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2021-09-17
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ONE WOMAN, THE SECRETS OF A SMALL TOWN, AND A QUEST FOR JUSTICE THAT ROCKED A NATION. Catherine Corless could not have known where her interest in local history would lead her, as she began researching the Tuam Mother and Baby Home in Galway in 2010. Uncovering no less...
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Hachette Books Ireland
Parution :
2021-09-16
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'It wasn't easy being a Churchill child - and only Mary managed it with serenity and aplomb, as her diary of wartime ATS service shows' ANNE DE COURCY, SUNDAY TELEGRAPH'Mary's affectionately intimate and emotionally volatile diaries [...] are an informal record that...
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John Murray
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2021-09-16
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This book, part media history and part group biography, tells the story of the BBC’s attempts to reach out to listeners in Nazi Germany at a time when Anglo-German relations were particularly strained. Who were the individuals behind the microphone, whose names...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2021-09-16
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This is the first in-depth study of the foreign and defence policies of the Coalition, a government that saw the Conservatives restored to power for the first time since the Iraq War and the Liberal Democrats enter government for the first time. It explores the idea of...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2021-09-15
Collection :
Britain and the World
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This is the first book to examine the partially hidden history of metal music scenes within the city of Liverpool and the surrounding region of Merseyside in the North-West of England. It reveals that while Liverpool has historically been portrayed as a certain kind of...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2021-09-14
Collection :
Palgrave Studies in the History of Subcultures and Popular Music
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THE BOOK
West New Guinea, the Indonesian neighbour of Papua New Guinea is little known to both the academic and scientific, and indeed the world at large, as the Indonesian government jealously guards awarding permits to researchers and foreign journalists.
Explorers...
Editeur :
Galda Verlag
Parution :
2021-09-14
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The first comprehensive narrative of racism in America's World War II military and the resistance to it.
America's World War II military was a force of unalloyed good. While saving the world from Nazism, it also managed to unify a famously fractious American people. At...
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Oxford University Press
Parution :
2021-09-14
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What is Latin American History? surveys the development of this vibrant and dynamic field of study in North America, Latin America, and Europe. After briefly sketching the growth of the topic up to the 1960s, Marshall Eakin focuses on the past half-century, from the...
Editeur :
Polity
Parution :
2021-09-13
Collection :
What is History?
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November 9th 1938 is widely seen as a violent turning point in Nazi Germany’s assault on the Jews. An estimated 400 Jews lost their lives in the anti-Semitic pogrom and more than 30,000 were imprisoned or sent to concentration camps, where many were brutally...
Editeur :
Polity
Parution :
2021-09-11
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Nordic slavery is an elusive phenomenon, with few similarities to the systematic exploitation of slaves in households, mines, and amphitheaters in the ancient Mediterranean or the widespread slavery at American plantations during the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries....
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Oxford University Press
Parution :
2021-09-10
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This book redresses popular interpretations of concealed objects, enigmatically discovered within the fabric of post-medieval buildings. A wide variety of objects have been found up chimneybreasts, bricked up in walls, and concealed within recesses: old shoes, mummified...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2021-09-10
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This book analyses the Korean film industry emergence and development in a global business and economic perspective. This is one of the first books to compare the film policies and industries of the world’s six largest film industries – featuring Korea as the...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2021-09-10
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