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This book offers the first in-depth intellectual and cultural history of British subversive propaganda during the Second World War. Focussing on the Political Warfare Executive (PWE), it tells the story of British efforts to undermine German morale and promote...
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2021-08-11
Collection :
Britain and the World
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This book analyzes Byzantine examples of witness literature, a genre that focuses on eyewitness accounts written by slaves, prisoners, refugees, and other victims of historical atrocity. It focuses on such episodes in three nonfictional texts – John Kaminiates’...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2021-08-06
Collection :
New Approaches to Byzantine History and Culture
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This book offers a history of post-Independence Trinidad and Tobago. It explores how culture and politics have operated in tandem to shape the society. Drawing on a wide range of sources, including literature, government reports, official statistics, the...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2021-08-06
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The Book Goodbye America: Fifty Years of American-Jewish Women’s Immigration to Israel, a Collective Autobiography (1967-2017), is composed of 18 autobiographical essays written by American-Jewish women who made aliyah between 1967 and 2017. Each essay traces the...
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Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
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2021-08-06
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First Words, Last Words charts an intense "pamphlet war" that took place in sixteenth-century South India. Yigal Bronner and Lawrence McCrea explore this controversy as a case study in the dynamics of innovation in early modern India, a time of great intellectual...
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Oxford University Press
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2021-08-06
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A boldly revisionist history of the first disputes in nineteenth-century Britain over the role of economists in society
Economics now so dominates our understanding of how the world works that some of the field's most influential concepts seem akin to natural laws....
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Oxford University Press
Parution :
2021-08-05
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'A remarkable novel' Allan Massie, The Scotsman'A rich, lyrical, rackety, colourful read' Daily MailEmbra, winter of 1574. Queen Mary has fled Scotland, to raise an army from the French. Her son and heir, Jamie is held under protection in Stirling Castle. John Knox is...
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Riverrun
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2021-08-05
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'Engaging, smart and wise, Mini-Philosophy is a diverse taster menu of ideas on life, the mind and the world. Nutritious, bite-sized portions of philosophy that whet the appetite for more' - David Mitchell, author of Cloud Atlas and The Bone Clocks Why do people enjoy...
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Wildfire
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2021-08-05
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'A wonderful, inspiring story told with scholarship, passion and wit' – Miriam Margolyes'A must-read' – Independent on SundayWith an introduction by Dr Helen Pankhurst.An illuminating and riveting exploration of the women's movement in Britain, and the extraordinary...
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Welbeck
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2021-08-05
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Everyday Zionism examines Zionist activism in East-Central Europe during the years of war, occupation, revolution, the collapse of empires, and the formation of nation states in the years 1914 to 1920. Against the backdrop of the Great War—its brutal aftermath and...
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OUP Oxford
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2021-08-05
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Everyday Zionism examines Zionist activism in East-Central Europe during the years of war, occupation, revolution, the collapse of empires, and the formation of nation states in the years 1914 to 1920. Against the backdrop of the Great War—its brutal aftermath and...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2021-08-05
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Never before had any century in history known the continually accelerating rate and scope of change experienced in the twentieth century -- with its revolutionary discoveries, technological inventions, political upheaval, and scientific advances, radical transformation...
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Oxford University Press
Parution :
2021-08-04
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The epic life story of a schoolteacher and preacher in Missouri, guerrilla fighter in the Civil War, Congressman, freethinking lecturer and author, and anarchist.
A former Methodist preacher and Missouri schoolteacher, John R. Kelso served as a Union Army foot soldier,...
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Oxford University Press
Parution :
2021-08-04
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A commemoration of the 20th anniversary of 9/11 as told through stories and photographs from The Associated Press—covering everything from the events of that tragic day to the rebuilding of the World Trade Center and beyond.This important and comprehensive...
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Union Square & Co.
Parution :
2021-08-03
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New York Times bestseller and Pulitzer Prize-winning author Gordon S. Wood elucidates the debates over the founding documents of the United States.
The half century extending from the imperial crisis between Britain and its colonies in the 1760s to the early decades of...
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Oxford University Press
Parution :
2021-08-02
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From Gilbert and Sullivan to Andrew Lloyd Webber, from Julie Andrews to Hugh Jackman, from Half a Sixpence to Matilda, Pick a Pocket Or Two is the story of the British musical: where it began and how it developed.
In Pick a Pocket Or Two, acclaimed author Ethan...
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Oxford University Press
Parution :
2021-08-02
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Fulvia is the first full-length biography in English focused solely on Fulvia, who is best known as the wife of Marcus Antonius (Mark Antony). Born into a less prestigious branch of an aristocratic Roman clan in the last decades of the Roman Republic,Fulvia first rose...
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Oxford University Press
Parution :
2021-07-30
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Explore how the peoples of America understood and changed their natural environments, remaking their politics, culture, and societies In this newly revised Second Edition of American Environmental History, celebrated environmental historian and author Louis S. Warren...
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Wiley-Blackwell
Parution :
2021-07-30
Collection :
Wiley Blackwell Readers in American Social and Cultural History
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THE EXTRAORDINARY STORY OFTHE LONGEST-HELD AL QAEDA CAPTIVE INTHE WORLDStephen McGown was en route from London to South Africa, on a once-in-a-lifetime trip by motorbike, returning home to Johannesburg. He had reached Timbuktu, in Mali, when he was captured, along with...
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Robinson
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2021-07-29
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Britain's Levantine Empire, 1914-1923 explains the rise and decline and nature and extent of British military rule in the urban eastern Mediterranean during the course of the First World War and its aftermath. Combining novel case studies and theoretical approaches, the...
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OUP Oxford
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2021-07-29
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