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A prize-winning historian reveals how Stalin—not Hitler—was the animating force of World War II in this major new history.World War II endures in the popular imagination as a heroic struggle between good and evil, with villainous Hitler driving its events....
Editeur :
Basic Books
Parution :
2021-04-20
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Go deeper than the Black History you may think you know! Black American History For Dummies reveals the terrors and struggles and celebrates the triumphs of Black Americans. This handy book goes way beyond what you may have studied in school, digging into the...
Editeur :
For Dummies
Parution :
2021-04-19
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Larinum, a pre-Roman town in the modern region of Molise, underwent a unique transition from independence to municipal status when it received Roman citizenship in the 80s BCE shortly after the Social War. Its trajectory during this period illuminates complex processes...
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Oxford University Press
Parution :
2021-04-18
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In April 1917, Lenin arrived at Petrograd's Finland Station and set foot on Russian soil for the first time in over a decade. For most of the past seventeen years, the Bolshevik leader had lived in exile, moving between Europe's many "Russian colonies"--large and...
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Oxford University Press
Parution :
2021-04-16
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This book presents a rough sketch of Dr. Yat-sen Sun’s (1866-1925) requirements for modernizing China and elaborates on Sun’s desire for the then China to implement a sweeping wave of economic reconstruction and development reforms concerning its railroads and highways,...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2021-04-16
Collection :
China Academic Library
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One of the most important untold stories of World War II, The Light of Days is a soaring landmark history that brings to light the extraordinary accomplishments of brave Jewish women who inspired Poland's Jewish youth groups to resist the Nazis. Witnesses to the brutal...
Editeur :
Virago
Parution :
2021-04-15
Collection :
Language Acts and Worldmaking
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Making the most of the longest days of the year.Summer is a season of sun, heat and daylight that brings activity to all corners of life, from plants bearing fruit to animals and birds feeding their young. It also brings people together in the open air, whether on...
Editeur :
OH
Parution :
2021-04-15
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Latin Poetry in the Ancient Greek Novels establishes and explores connections between Greek imperial literature andLatin poetry. This work challenges conventional thinking about literary and cultural interaction of the period, which assumes that imperial Greeks were not...
Editeur :
OUP Oxford
Parution :
2021-04-15
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Latin Poetry in the Ancient Greek Novels establishes and explores connections between Greek imperial literature andLatin poetry. This work challenges conventional thinking about literary and cultural interaction of the period, which assumes that imperial Greeks were not...
Editeur :
OUP Oxford
Parution :
2021-04-15
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'The definitive back story of Mount Everest' Stewart Weaver, co-author of Fallen Giants 'Craig Storti has given us the Everest book that we've needed all along' Scott Ellsworth, author of The World Beneath Their FeetThe seventy-one-year quest to find the world's...
Editeur :
John Murray
Parution :
2021-04-15
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During the years of the Early Republic, prominent Native leaders regularly traveled to American cities--Albany, Boston, Charleston, Philadelphia, Montreal, Quebec, New York, and New Orleans--primarily on diplomatic or trade business, but also from curiosity and...
Editeur :
Oxford University Press
Parution :
2021-04-13
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An update of a popular work that takes on the myths of the Spanish Conquest of the Americas, featuring a new afterword.
Seven Myths of the Spanish Conquest reveals how the Spanish invasions in the Americas have been conceived and presented, misrepresented and...
Editeur :
Oxford University Press
Parution :
2021-04-13
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This book presents seven diplomats, seven Slovaks. Milan Rastislav Štefánik, Štefan Osuský, Vladimír S. Hurban, Vladimír M. Palic, Juraj Slávik, Ivan Krno and Ján Papánek. They were also authors, poets, soldiers, politicians, and international lawyers. They represent a...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2021-04-12
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Archives brought from Egypt to southern France in the early 19th century fell into the hands of a secret group whose own archives were confiscated by Occupation authorities during World War II. In 1942 some of these confiscated documents were appropriated by a young...
Editeur :
P.I.E-Peter Lang S.A., Éditions Scientifiques Internationales
Parution :
2021-04-12
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This book investigates the representation of the Axis War – the wars of aggression that Fascist Italy fought in North Africa, Greece, the Soviet Union, and the Balkans, from 1940 to 1943 – in three decades of Italian literature. Building on an innovative and...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2021-04-11
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An exploration of the hidden history of camping in American life that connects a familiar recreational pastime to camps for functional needs and political purposes.
Camping appears to be a simple proposition, a time-honored way of getting away from it all. Pack up the...
Editeur :
Oxford University Press
Parution :
2021-04-11
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What can century-old advice columns tell us about the Internet today? This book reveals the little-known history of advice columns in American newspapers and the virtual communities they created among their readers.
Imagine a community of people who had never met...
Editeur :
Oxford University Press
Parution :
2021-04-09
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The book reflects upon the Russian Revolution of 1917 and the ensuing developments in Russia, the rest of the former Soviet Union, Central and Eastern Europe and elsewhere in the world. It discusses the impact of the legacies of the Russian Revolution on political...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2021-04-07
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Policing Prostitution examines the complex world of commercial sex in the late Russian Empire. From the 1840s until 1917, prostitution was legally tolerated across the Russian Empire under a system known as regulation. Medical police were in charge of compiling...
Editeur :
OUP Oxford
Parution :
2021-04-07
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Policing Prostitution examines the complex world of commercial sex in the late Russian Empire. From the 1840s until 1917, prostitution was legally tolerated across the Russian Empire under a system known as regulation. Medical police were in charge of compiling...
Editeur :
OUP Oxford
Parution :
2021-04-07
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