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This is the first world history of empire, reaching from the third millennium BCE to the present. By combining synthetic surveys, thematic comparative essays, and numerous chapters on specific empires, its two volumes provide unparalleled coverage of imperialism...
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Oxford University Press
Parution :
2020-12-02
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Cet ouvrage réunit une série de travaux portant sur la préhistoire et la protohis-toire de la Grèce et des régions avoisinantes. Présentés le temps d’une journée à l’Université de Genève, ils ont pour but d’illustrer toute la diversité des études égéennes, que ce soit...
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Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2020-12-02
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The Norman Conquest in English History, Volume 1: A Broken Chain? pursues a central theme in English historical thinking over seven centuries. Covering more than half a millennium, this first volume explains how and why the experience of the Norman Conquest prompted...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2020-12-02
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The Norman Conquest in English History, Volume 1: A Broken Chain? pursues a central theme in English historical thinking over seven centuries. Covering more than half a millennium, this first volume explains how and why the experience of the Norman Conquest prompted...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2020-12-02
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This book endeavours to understand the seemingly direct link between utopianism and the USA, discussing novels that have never been brought together in this combination before, even though they all revolve around intentional communities: Imlay’s The Emigrants (1793),...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2020-12-01
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During the middle decades of the twentieth century, the production of America's consumer culture was centralized in midtown Manhattan to an extent unparalleled in the history of the modern United States. Within a few square miles of skyscrapers were the headquarters of...
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Oxford University Press
Parution :
2020-12-01
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From the TIME 100 author of the Sunday Times and number 1 New York Times bestseller So You Want to Talk About Race, a subversive history of white male American identity -- now with a new preface.'One of the most admired writers and "internet yellers" around... [Mediocre...
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Basic Books
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2020-12-01
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Stories of non-US citizens caught in the jaws of the immigration bureaucracy and subject to indefinite detention are in the headlines daily. These men, women, and children remain almost completely without rights, unprotected by law and the Constitution, and their status...
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Oxford University Press
Parution :
2020-12-01
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This book examines Britain and Norway in Europe from 1945 through to the former's departure from the European Union in 2020. It compares their European relations and investigates their bilateral relationship within the contexts of security, trade and, above all,...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2020-12-01
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This open access book investigates the transnationally connected history of Arab Christian communities in Palestine during the British Mandate (1918-1948) through the lens of the birth of cultural diplomacy. Relying predominantly on unpublished sources, it examines the...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2020-11-30
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“Reframing Postcolonial Studies addresses the urgent issues that Black Lives Matter has raised with respect to everyday material practices and the frameworks in which our knowledge and cultural heritage are conceptualized and stored. Thebook points urgently to...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2020-11-30
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This book investigates the memory of the Holocaust in Sweden and concentrates on early initiatives to document and disseminate information about the genocide during the late 1940s until the early 1960s. As the first collection of testimonies and efforts to acknowledge...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2020-11-30
Collection :
The Holocaust and its Contexts
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What is land and how is it made? In this path-breaking study of sites in western, eastern, and southern India, Nikita Sud argues that land is not simply the solid surface of the earth. It is best understood as a materially and conceptually dynamic realm, intimately tied...
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OUP India
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2020-11-30
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This book interleaves the history of post-Independence archaeology in India with the life and times of Madhukar Narhar Deshpande (1920-2008), a leading Indian archaeologist who went on to become the director-general of the Archaeological Survey of India. Spanning nearly...
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OUP India
Parution :
2020-11-30
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The Oxford Handbook of Contemporary Middle-Eastern and North African History critically examines the defining processes and structures of historical developments in North Africa and the Middle East over the past two centuries.The Handbook pays particular attention to...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2020-11-30
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The Oxford Handbook of Contemporary Middle-Eastern and North African History critically examines the defining processes and structures of historical developments in North Africa and the Middle East over the past two centuries.The Handbook pays particular attention to...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2020-11-30
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This book is the first monograph to study the processes of establishing and reconstructing the academician system, and the landmark events in the history of science and technology in 20th century China. It also provides new insights to help us understand the...
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Springer
Parution :
2020-11-30
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This book offers a complete narrative of the development of Nordicism, from its roots in the National Romantic movement of the late eighteenth century, through to its most notorious manifestation in Nazi Germany, and finally to the fragmented forms that still remain in...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2020-11-28
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This book addresses the changing relationships among political participation, political representation, and popular mobilization in Spain from the 1766 protest in Madrid against the early Bourbon reforms until the citizen revolution of 1868 that first introduced...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2020-11-27
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'Engrossing and powerful . . . rich and thought-provoking'Fara Dabhoiwala, Guardian'Path-breaking . . . a major rewriting of history'Mihir Bose, Irish Times'Slave Empire is lucid, elegant and forensic. It deals with appalling horrors in cool and convincing prose.'The...
Editeur :
Robinson
Parution :
2020-11-26
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